After last year, which saw no less than four of their titles selected to compete in Cannes (Annette [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Catherine Corsini
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intervista: Mia Hansen-Løve
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intervista: Nadav Lapid
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Jostling among the 15 films in their line-up are some markedly diverse post-production aces, including the animated title Arthur Malediction by Barthélémy Grossmann, which was produced and written by Luc Besson in a reboot of the franchise previously consisting of Arthur and the Invisibles [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Luc Besson
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Pre-sales are also set to kick off on Yasmine Benkiran’s first fiction feature Queens [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]. Currently in post-production with completion due for the spring, the film opens in Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women are being chased by the police. This will be the beginning of a long time spent on the run for our protagonists, whose flight takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Atlas Mountains, before finally leading them to the Atlantic coast… Produced by Jean des Forêts and Amélie Jacquis on behalf of French firm Petit Films, the feature also involves Deuxième Ligne Films, Morocco’s Mont Fleuri, Belgium’s Need Productions and the Netherlands’ KeyFilm. The film’s release in France will be steered by Tandem Films.

Another work joining the Kinology line-up is The Medium, directed by and starring Manu Laskar (read our article – supported by cast-members Louise Bourgoin, Noémie Lvovsky and Maud Wyler), which now graces a post-production film slate still boasting Diary of a Fleeting Affair [+leggi anche:
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The EFM will also see Kinology pursuing presales on David Alaux’s animated film in pre-production Argonuts [+leggi anche:
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