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EXCLUSIVA: Meryem Benm'Barek rueda Derrière les palmiers

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- Sara Giraudeau, Driss Ramdi, Carole Bouquet y Olivier Rabourdin protagonizan el segundo largometraje de la cineasta premiada en Cannes en 2018, que produce Tessalit y vende Pyramide

EXCLUSIVA: Meryem Benm'Barek rueda Derrière les palmiers
La actriz Sara Giraudeau (© Julien Vallon) y el actor Driss Ramdi

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Awarded the Un Certain Regard trophy for Best Screenplay in 2018 thanks to Sofia [+lee también:
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, Meryem Benm'Barek has been in Tanger shooting her second opus, Behind the Palm Trees, since 16 September.

Leading the cast of the movie are Sara Giraudeau (awarded 2018’s Best Supporting Role César for Bloody Milk [+lee también:
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, famous worldwide for the series The Bureau [+lee también:
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, starring in Jim’s Story [+lee también:
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and Sur un fil this year, which is hitting French cinemas on 30 October) and Driss Ramdi (recently acclaimed in Escape from Raqqa [+lee también:
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and A Decent Man [+lee también:
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).

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They’re joined by Carole Bouquet (awarded the Best Actress César in 1990 via Trop belle pour toi and recently at her best in the series La maison), Olivier Rabourdin (nominated for 2011’s Best Supporting Role César thanks to Of Gods and Men [+lee también:
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, and recently well-received in Last Summer [+lee también:
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entrevista: Catherine Breillat
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and The Other Laurens [+lee también:
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entrevista: Claude Schmitz
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), Rachel O’Meara (recently glimpsed in the British series Insomnia) and Nadia Kounda (Volubilis [+lee también:
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).

Written by the director herself, the story follows Mehdi who leads an exemplary life with his family and his new girlfriend, Selma. Everything is going wonderfully for the young couple, until Mehdi makes the acquaintance of Marie, a French expat who enjoys a high-society lifestyle… According to the filmmaker, the story "presents itself as a romance but slowly slides into a psychological thriller with a crepuscular atmosphere", because "wider history", speaking to the relationships of domination which still exist between Morocco and France, also plays its part.

Behind the Palm Trees is produced by Jean Bréhat on behalf of Parisian firm Tessalit Productions in co-production with French outfits Furyo Films (Emma Binet – who’s also in charge of executive production) and Chi-Fou-Mi, alongside Moroccan firm Agora Films (Souad Lamriki), Belgium’s Novak Prod (Olivier Dubois) and UK's The Bureau (Tristan Goligher). The movie has been pre-purchased by Ciné+ and TV5, and is further supported by The Moroccan Film Centre, the Fonds Image de la Francophonie, the British Film Institute (BFI) and Global Screen Fund, to name but four . It will be shot in Tanger until 16 October with Belgian Son Doan (Sofia, Viet and Nam [+lee también:
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) heading up photography. International sales and distribution in France are entrusted to Pyramide.

For the record, Tessalit recently co-produced Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays [+lee también:
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(awarded the Orizzonti Prize for Best Screenplay in Venice and which Nour Films are due to release in French cinemas next year), they’re overseeing post-production on Sylvain Estibal’s Papamobile and they’re due to shoot Bruno Dumont’s Les Roches Rouges next year, alongside Ziad Doueiri’s Ghost Element (working title).

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