Arte France Cinema is also backing the project.
and Cannes-winning Stars at Noon with Arte France Cinema is also backing the project.
Denis is following her Berlin-winning Both Sides Of The Blade and Cannes-winning Stars at Noon with this adaptation of Bernard-Marie Koltes’ play Black Battles With Dogs (Combat de Negres et Chiens) written by Denis, Suzanne Lindon and Andrew Litvack.
The story spans one night near a vast construction site in sub-Saharan Africa where a master builder and an engineer and the former’s companion are confronted by a man who refuses to leave until they return the body of his brother who had been killed on the premises in a work-related accident.
The film – whose title means The Cry of the Guards in English – is set to shoot in January and February 2025 in Senegal. Arte France Cinema’s slate includes the
Cri Des Gardes, which has been backed by Arte France Cinema. The film also stars Francois Civil in a story of impossible love that combines romance and music. Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Charlotte Rampling and Hippolyte Girardot co-star in the film set in Lyon that is now in pre-produciton.
It is produced by France’s Why Not Productions. Yann Gonzalez’s third feature J’Oublierai Ton Nom starring VanessaParadis is also on Arte France Cinema’s slate. Paradis will play a schoolteacher in a small mountain town whose life is upended when she falls in love with a man that leads her into a disturbing fantasy. Arte France Cinema also supports Zou Jing’s first feature
A girl Unknown,
a coming of age story about identity which follows the journey a young Chinese woman from childhood to adulthood while living with three different families. Maneki Films is producing the film with Yan Wang’s China France production house Memoria Films, and China’s Pure Light Films. It will be shot in China in early 2025.
