As of 23 October, Boris Lojkine has been filming L’histoire de Souleymane [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Boris Lojkine
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intervista: Iris Kaltenbäck
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Written by Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut (Inchallah A Boy [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Annarita Zambrano
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L’histoire de Souleymane is produced by Bruno Nahon on behalf of Unité and has been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+. Also backed by the CNC (via an advance on receipts and the Images de la Diversité fund), as well as the SOFICA companies Indéfilms, La Banque Postale Image and SofiTVciné, the feature film will be shot over 40 days, wrapping on 16 December in the Paris region, with Tristan Galand heading up photography. Distribution in France and international sales are both entrusted to Pyramide.

For the record, Unité recently co-produced Achilles [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Delphine Deloget
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