– Paulina García shines as the headliner of the second feature by the winner of the 2015 Camera d’or. An Inercia Films and Ciné-Sud Promotion production
Actress Paulina García (© Milton Martínez/Secretaría de Cultura CDMX)
Attraction of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival where his first feature film earth and shadow [+lire aussi :
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Written by the director, the screenplay centers on a mother and her son, two ghosts who search for the missing father. A physical and spiritual journey through a world ravaged by war. After enormous sacrifices, they will mend the fragile ties that unite them and perhaps find redemption…
Produced by Paola Andrea Perez Nieto for the Colombian company Inercia Films and by Thierry Lenouvel for the French structure Cine-Sud Promotion, Horizon is co-produced by the Luxembourgers of Tarantulathe Chileans of Quijote Films and the Germans of UnaFilmwith the support of FDC – Proimagenes, IbermediaAid to World Cinemas (managed by the CNC and the French Institute), the Hubert Bals Fund, the Film Fund Luxembourg and NRW. International sales are still in negotiations, and the film’s premiere is scheduled for 2024.
For the record, Ciné-Sud Promotion currently has in post-production Boardinghouse (yurt) from Turkish Nehir Tunaa feature debut centered on a 14-year-old teenager forced to leave the comfort of his middle class life at the behest of his father and sent to a religious boarding school for boys where he must juggle family expectations, his religious obligations and the childhood to which he clings desperately… The production is ensured by the Turks of TN Yapım, the Germans of Red Balloon Film and Ciné-Sud Promotion.
Ciné-Sud Promotion is also associate producer on another Turkish title in post-production, Suddenly (Suddenly) of Melisa Onelwhich is being piloted by Aniden Film (Turkey), Zischlemann Films (Germany) and DigitalKraft (Serbia) with the support in particular ofEurimages.
Finally, in the department of development projects of the French production company, The Blue Flamingo from the Brazilian Beatriz Seigner (appreciated at the 2018 Fortnight with The silences [+lire aussi :
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