A small independent film project we’ll keeping tabs on, Cineuropa reports that Marie Rosselet-Ruiz commenced production a couple of week back ago on her directorial debut L’une des leurs. Formerly titled Authentiks, Céleste Brunnquell (who toplines), Veerle Baetens and Camille Rutherford we already attached, and now Paul Beaurepaire, Louis Memmi and Mamadou Sidibé have been added to the main cast. Production will continue until the end of this month. Souleymane’s Story‘s cinematographer Tristan Galand is onboard. Take Shelter’s Margaux Juvénal and Alexis Genauzeau are producing. If you ask me, Cannes selections committees will have this on their radars.
Written Ruiz & Vincent Mariette in collaboration with Virginie Legeay, L’une des leurs centres on Audrey, a young woman from Lens who dreams of escaping her fate when she meets the Authentiks, a group of Ultra supporters. With them, she will discover the fervour of a new world and will progressively change her outlook on herself and her surroundings, in a way she never could have imagined…