Il Forum Alentours seleziona 22 progetti
- L'evento organizzato a Strasburgo dal 2 al 4 giugno annuncia la sua selezione, che comprende il nuovo film di Benoît Volnais
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A springboard for cross-border co-operation between Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg, the Alentours Forum – Rhinesh Co-Production Meetings are unspooling between 2 and 4 July in Strasbourg, showcasing 22 selected projects (nine fiction feature films and one animated fiction feature film, eight documentaries, and three fiction series and one animated series) which are all in need of partners.
One especially eye-catching work among the projects set to be pitched to 300 accredited French- and German-speaking professionals is Cora dans la spirale, which will be Benoît Volnais’ second feature film after Before We Collapse [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (directed alongside Alice Zeniter and acclaimed in the IFFR’s Big Screen competition last year). This time round, the filmmaker has adapted Vincent Message’s novel of the same name in league with the writer himself. The story follows Cora Salme who has a little girl and who lives in Montreuil with her partner Jonas, whom she met in Berlin ten years earlier. In autumn 2010, she goes back to working for an insurance company called Borélia. But the financial crisis is just around the corner… When it finally hits, the firm is forced to embark on a brutal restructuring which jeopardises Cora’s equilibrium, her family life and her choices, especially those relating to her dream of becoming a photographer in Berlin.
According to Benoît Volnais, "Cora represents all those people who have never put themselves out here, who live half-lives, and who try to convince themselves that they’re happy, when actually they aspire to far more. It ties in with the tradition of female portraits, but the novel also wrangles with the service industry world. There’s a real need to represent that world, because it’s the major theatre of life for millions of people, a place where they spend most of their time and into which they invest their energy". The film - whose screenplay is now in its final form - is due to be shot over the spring and summer of 2025, and is seeking out a German co-production partner.
Likewise worth a mention among the projects pitched in Strasbourg is the German series DarkSky, set to be directed by Finland’s Timo Vuorensola (revealed in the 2012 Berlinale’s Panorama section by way of Iron Sky [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]). Penned by Peter Koller, this thriller which is still at the treatment stage revolves around Priya, a brilliant ex-hacker of Indian origin who’s head of security in a CERN lab in Switzerland.
Equally noteworthy on the agenda of the Alentours Forum is another pitching session showcasing seven projects which will all be battling it out for the CinEuro Prize (aimed at encouraging the emergence of films exploring histories, characters and settings which speak of links between the partner regions), the usual One to One meetings and a number of round tables and workshops.
The selection is as follows:
Camarades – Olivier Patté (animation)
Production: Blick Productions (France)
Chercheurs – Aurélien Peilloux
Production: Melocoton Films and Delante Productions (France)
Cora dans la spirale – Benoît Volnais
Production: Elzévir Films (France)
Das Badefloss – Georg Isenmann
Production: Cineworx Filmproduktion (Switzerland)
DarkSky – Timo Vuorensola (series)
Production: 27 Films Production (Germany)
De l’autre côté de l’été – Julie Gourdain
Production: Offshore (France)
Droits de la Nature, une révolution planétaire – Léa Ducré (documentary)
Production: Seppia (France)
Eve – Rudi Gaul
Production: Westside Film (Germany)
Hélène Huby – Wettlauf ins All – Lena Leonhardt (documentary)
Production: Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion (Germany)
Juvenia – Frederike Migom
Production: Scope Pictures (Belgium)
Lämmer – Gottfried Mentor (animated series)
Production: Studio Film Bilder (Germany)
L’Ecran Blanc – Tristan Thil and Anthony Rescigno (documentary)
Production: Look at Sciences (France)
Les Neuf anneaux du Nil – Pauline Coste (documentary)
Production: Enfant Sauvage Production (France)
Les Ruines Imaginaires – Jacques Loeuille (documentary)
Production: Météores Films (France)
Refusing to Overcome – Ibrahim Quraishi (documentary)
Production: Tama Filmproduktion (Germany)
Beyond Hunger – Christiane Schwarz et Alexandra Hardorf (documentary)
Production: Dmfilm & tv produktion (Germany)
Sans Sommeil – Marion Jhöaner
Production: Furyo Films (France)
Sereti – The Female Search For Love – Carlotta Piccinini (documentary)
Production: First Hand Films (Switzerland)
Tamim – Anna-Lena Theobald and Simon Schneckenburger (series)
Production: Achtung Panda! and Oma Inge Film (Germany)
The Darkness – Eric Lamhène (series)
Production: Samsa Film (Luxembourg)
Tout s’oublie – Pascal Thiebaux
Production: Skill Lab (Luxembourg)
Trotz Allem – Karin Heberlein
Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (Switzerland)
Projects in the running for the CinEuro Prize
Legenda – Julien Kartheuser (documentary)
Production: Backes Production (Belgium)
Capitale(s) Europe, la bataille des sièges – Donato Rotunno (documentary)
Production: Tarantula Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and Cerigo Film (France)
Les danseurs de Strasbourg – Zoé Labasse
Production: Avenue B Productions and Kapla Films (France)
Helter Skelter – Paul Vincent de Lestrade
Production: Need Productions (Belgium)
Comment je m’appelle – Frank Beauvais
Production: Les Films du Bélier and Les Films Hatari (France)
Le météorologue – Clyde Gates and Gabriel Sanson
Production: L’heure d’été (France)
Schweizer Kühe – Matthias Dinter
Production: FFL Film- und Fernseh-Labor Ludwigsburg (Germany)
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