ARTE France Cinéma is putting coin towards four new future film projects set up for production later this year. At the top of the list we find Andrey Zvyagintsev moving into his fifth feature and no it is not Jupiter (the tale of the Russian oligarch outside his homeland) but rather Minotaure – which falls somewhere between a crime thriller and a classic tragedy. Co-written with Simon Liashenko, this is about Gleb, a Russian company director about to lay off his employees, discovers his wife is having an affair. This intimate drama, filmed in exile, is set in contemporary Russia. Production will take place in Riga from September to November. They are currently casting. Is a Cannes Film Festival premiere feasible in 2026?
In the works, Mikhaël Hers (The Passengers of the Night) is also moving into his fifth feature film with Alba Rohrwacher and Bastien Bouillon toplining. Une autre histoire follows the story of Simona, a forty-something who grew up in the south of England. For several years, she has been a teacher in Annecy, where she lives with her husband and daughter. As the summer holidays approach, she receives an unexpected message. A past she thought she had erased resurfaces, questioning and jeopardizing the balance of her new life. Hers co-wrote the project with Maud Ameline (this is their third time out in a row with 2018’s Amanda). Filming takes place this coming August in France and the United Kingdom.
Kosovar Albanian filmmaker Blerta Basholli who broke out big with Hive (2021) is lining up her sophomore film Dua which draws on her own experience, depicting the daily life of a teenage girl and her family in Pristina in the late 1990s. Kosovo is on the brink of civil war, and 13-year-old Dua must choose between the dictates of her classmates and her own desires. Ethnic tensions are brewing, and danger is looming near her family. Starring Luana Bajrami and Arben Bajraktaraj, this was co-written along with Nicole Borgeat and will be filmed in October in Pristina, Kosovo.
Using the working title of Le sens de la vie, Elise Girard (Sidonie au Japon – read review) is setting up her fourth feature to be filmed in Paris, Normandy and Bavaria in October, this is the portrait of Emma Doucet, who is raising her son Oscar alone. Her life is divided between her work, her volunteer work as a public writer, her lover, and her son. The latter gradually sinks into melancholy, his existential questions strangely echoing what his mother is going through. Toplining are Vicky Krieps and Alex Lutz.
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