Monday 15 September will see a nine-week film shoot kick off in Morocco on Tu me diras, Radu Mihaileanu’s 7th feature film after Trahir (awarded the Grand Prix des Amériques in 1993), Train de vie (unveiled in Venice’s Perspective section in 1998 and the recipient of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999), Live and Become [+leggi anche:
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Rising star Pierre Lottin (awarded Best Supporting Role in San Sebastian last year and nominated for this year’s Best Newcomer Lumière via When Fall Is Coming [+leggi anche:
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Written by Radu Mihaileanu himself, together with Alain-Michel Blanc (a duo awarded the 2006 Best Original Screenplay César for Live and Become and further nominated in 2010 for The Concert), the story takes us to Afghanistan on 15 August 2021 when the Taliban are entering Kabul. Michael Le Guen, an NCO working for the French tactical unit responsible for security at the French Embassy, decides to risk everything to save a little Afghan girl whose parents have been killed.

Tu me diras is being produced by Denis Carot on behalf of Elzévir Films (his 4th film with the director) and by the director himself on behalf of Oï Oï Oï Productions, in co-production with France 3 Cinéma, Vent d’Est (Ruxandra Serban) and Morocco’s Agora Films. Pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+/OCS and France Télévisions, the feature film enjoys support in the form of an advance on receipts from the CNC as well as backing from Procirep/Angoa. The film will be shot in its entirety in Morocco until 15 November, with Laurent Dailland (nominated for the 2006 and 2010 Césars in his speciality) heading up cinematography. World sales are steered by France tv distribution while distribution in French cinemas falls to ARP Sélection.

For the record, Elzévir Films claimed this year’s Best Documentary César thanks to Gilles Perret’s La ferme des Bertrand.