33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINOFILMLAB 2015

NI LE CIEL NI LA TERRE

THE WAKHAN FRONT
by Clément Cogitore
Country: France, Belgium
Year: 2015
Duration: 100'


Afghanistan, 2014. As the withdrawal of the troops draws closer, the captain of the French Army Antarès Bonassieu and his team are assigned a patrol mission in a remote valley of Wakhan, on the border with Pakistan. A normal surveillance mission, nothing more. But the operation turns into a living nightmare when his men start to mysteriously vanish one after the other.

Biography

film director

Clément Cogitore

Clément Cogitore (Colmar, France, 1983) lives and works between Paris and Rome where he’s a resident of the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici for the year 2012. He is represented by Gallery Whiteprojects, Paris. After studying at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs of Strasbourg, and at the Fresnoy-National Studio of Contemporary Arts, he developed an artistic practice halfway between cinema and contemporary art. His films have been selected for international festivals (Cannes Director’s Fortnight, Locarno, Lisbon, Montreal and Torino, where he presented in 2014 the short Sans titre) and won several awards. His work has also been presented at Palais de Tokyo and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Fine Arts of Boston and MAMCS in Strasbourg. His first feature film, Ni le ciel ni la terre (2015), was selected at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes and was screened at Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Chroniques (cm, 2006), Visités (cm, 2007), Un archipel (cm, 2011), Parmi nous (mm, 2011), Bielutine - Dans le jardin du temps (doc., 2011), Sans titre (cm, 2014), Elegies (cm, 2014), Ni le ciel ni la terre (2015), Braguino (mm, 2017).

Declaration

film director

“I decided to set the film in a war context because that is where men face death directly. I wanted to represent the art of war nowadays and its new technologies used to gain absolute control over the body and the environment, a form of control that is often exercised through images. How is it possible to disappear with those devices in circulation? What kind of implications does it raise? The way we carry out wars also reveals who we are.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Clément Cogitore
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Clément Cogitore, Thomas Bidegain
fotografia/cinematography
Sylvain Verdet
montaggio/film editing
Isabelle Manquillet
scenografia/production design
Olivier Meidinger
musica/music
Eric Bentz, François-Eudes Chanfrault
suono/sound
Fabrice Osinski, Julie Brenta, Vincent Cosson
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jérémie Rénier (Antarès Bonassieu), Kévin Azaïs (William Dennis), Swann Arlaud (Jérémie Lernowski), Marc Robert (Jean-Baptiste Frering), Finnegan Oldfield (Patrick Mercier), Clément Bresson (Etienne Baxer), Sâm Mirhosseini (Khalil Khan)
produttore/producer
Jean-Christophe Reymond
produzione/production
Kazak Productions
coproduttori/coproducers
Joseph Rouschop, Valérie Bournonville-Tarantula


contatti/contacts
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