12/03/2018 - The film, a Les Films du Poisson production with Versus and Bidibul, set to be sold by Elle Driver, is toplined by Olga Kurylenko and Kevin Janssens

The first clapperboard is due to slam in April for The Room [+see also:
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interview: Christian Volckman
film profile] (victorious at Annecy in 2006, screened at festivals like Toronto, nominated for the Louis-Delluc Prize for Best Debut Film). Toplining his new feature are French actress of Ukrainian descent Olga Kurylenko (who rose to fame in Quantum of Solace [+see also:
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film profile], and will grace screens in Just a Breath Away in April and in L’Empereur de Paris in December) and Belgium’s Kevin Janssens (a European Film Promotion Shooting Star in 2007, Ensor Award for Best Actor in 2016 for The Ardennes [+see also:
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Written by Eric Forestier (The Third Part of the World [+see also:
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Produced by Yaël Fogiel and Laetitia Gonzalez for Les Films du Poisson, The Room will be co-produced by Belgian outfit Versus Production and Luxembourg’s Bidibul Productions. Having been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, the feature has also secured backing from such sources as Wallimage, the Groupe Ouest and the Procirep. The shoot will continue until mid-May in Belgium and Luxembourg. The international sales are being handled by Elle Driver.

As a reminder, Les Films du Poisson, which recently enjoyed a highly positive audience and festival reception for Memoir of Pain [+see also:
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film profile] by Emmanuel Finkiel and Carré 35 [+see also:
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(Translated from French)