THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER now in production
In Production August 2016
- VENT DU NORD by Walid Mattar, co-producers: EAVE graduate Julie Esparbes and PUENTES graduate Anthony Rey is in production. Written by Leyla Bouzid, Claude Le Pape and Walid Mattar, the story kicks off in northern France, as the factory where Hervé works gets relocated. He is the only worker to resign himself to his fate, as he has other plans in mind: to become a fisherman and pass on this passion to his son. Meanwhile, the factory has been relocated to the suburbs of Tunis, and in it unemployed Foued sees the chance to take care of his mother and, above all, woo a girl he likes. The paths of Hervé and Foued start to mirror each other and intertwine. Produced by Saïd Hamich for Barney Production, Vent du Nord is co-produced by Hélicotronc and Tunisian firm Propaganda. The feature is also being backed by the CNC’s advance on receipts, Pictanovo, Eurimages, the Tunisian Ministry of Culture’s production support and the Doha Film Institute. Shooting started on August 1 and will continue until September 30.
- LE SEMEUR by Marine Francen, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart is filming. This voyage to the heart of the mid-19th-century French countryside gets under way in 1852. Violette Ailhaud is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican uprising of December 1851. For the next two years, the village is completely cut off. The women swear an oath that if a man should come, he will become their shared husband, so that life may continue to flourish in each of their wombs. Produced by Les Films du Worso, the co- is pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, backed by the CNC’s advance on receipts, the Languedoc-Roussillon region, and the Cinémage, Indéfilms and Cinéventure Soficas. Shooting takes place in Lozère and finishes in October.
- THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney is filming. Principal photographyhas commenced in Cincinnati, US. Co-written by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou, the film features Colin Farrell as a charismatic surgeon forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behaviour of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister. Nicole Kidman stars as the wife of Farrell’s character. The UK’s Film4 and New Sparta Films and the Irish Film Board are financing the film.
- SOLDIERS. A STORY FROM FERENTARI by Ivana Mladenovic, producer: EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon is shooting. The contemporary gay love story set in the poorest neighborhood of Bucharest tells the story of Adi, a young anthropologist, recently dumped by his girlfriend, who moves to Ferentari with the desire of writing a study on manele (the pop music of Roma community). While researching his subject, he meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict who promises to help him. Soon, the two men start a love affair and what seems for Adi at the beginning a simple matter of having fun becomes little by little a nightmare, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile, and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't know. Ivana Mladenovic and Adrian Schiop wrote the script. The film is based on Adrian Schiop’s novel of the same name. Adrian Schiop and Vasile Pave play the leads. The film is co-produced by Serbia’s Film House Bas Celik and Liège-based FRAKAS Productions. The project is supported by the Romanian Film Centre, the Serbian Film Fund, Tax Shelter Belgium and Eurimages. Shooting started in August and will wrap in mid-September.
- DOVYDO AKMUO by Shaunas Barkas, co-producers: EAVE graduates Janja Kralj and Olena Yershova is in production. The main character of the drama about love, hate and hope is a young man who undertakes a long journey and meets various people at the Ukrainian border. The film also compares the struggle for independence of both Lithuania and Ukraine in different periods of time. DOVYDO AKMUO is produced by Studio Kinema in co-production with France‘s Kino Elektron and Ukraine‘s TatoFilm. The project is supported by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and the Lithuanian Film Centre. Shooting takes place in Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland, and is expected to wrap in December 2016.
- LITTLE COMRADES by Monika Siimets, producer: EAVE graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos is in production. The film tells the story of six-year-old Leelo whose mother Helmes is sent to a Siberian prison camp during the Stalinist repressions of 1950. As the little girl waits for her mother to come back, she has to learn how to stay true to herself despite the dark times and sometimes tragicomic events taking place in her homeland. LITTLE COMRADES became the first Estonian project selected for the Berlin Film Festival Co-Production Market, where it received the Special Mention Prize from the Eurimages Jury in 2016. The premiere is set for 2018, on the occasion of the 100 years celebration of the Republic of Estonia. The total of 45 shooting days will wrap in June 2017.
- Ties That Bind project THE PROMISE, produced and directed by Ties That Bind graduate Kyoko Miyake, co-producer: Ties That Bind graduate Freddy Olsson, received support by CINEMAS DU MONDE.
http://www.tiesthatbind.eu/portfolio/the-promise-2/
Page published 30 August 2016. Updated 15 June 2017.
