NOTHINGWOOD
2017 Films
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1h 26m
About a hundred kilometers away from Kabul, Salim Shaheen, the most popular and prolific actor-director-producer in Afghanistan, comes to show some of his 110 films and to shoot the 111th in the process.
He has brought with him his regular troupe of actors, each more eccentric and out of control than the next. That trip is an opportunity for us to get to know Shaheen, a real movie buff who has been making Z movies tirelessly for more than thirty years in a country at war. Nothingwood is the story of a man who spends his life making his childhood dreams come true.
Direction: Sonia Kronlund
Script: Sonia Kronlund
Production: Laurent Lavolé, Melanie Andernach, Laurent Lavolé
Cinematography: Alexander Nanau, Eric Guichard
Editing: Sophie Brunet
Original Title: NOTHINGWOOD
Original Languages: French, Persian
Film Production Countries: France, Germany
Website: http://inter.pyramidefilms.com/pyramidefilms-international-catalogue/the-prince-of-nothingwood.html
Biography of the Director/s
The daughter of a French mother and a Swedish father, a former student
of the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure and a literature graduate,
Sonia Kronlund has taken part in the writing of many scripts, has directed
documentaries and run several collections for television. After writing in Les Cahiers du Cinéma for a short time, she started working on French public radio station France Inter in 1995. Since 2002, she has been producing the daily documentary program Les Pieds sur Terre on France Culture radio station.
For some reason, she has taken an immoderate interest in Iran and
Afghanistan, two countries which she has visited on a regular basis for the past fifteen years. She has made several television and radio documentaries there, for Arte television network and France Culture. In 2012, her collection of stories, Nouvelles du réel, was published by Actes Sud. Nothingwood is her first feature film.
World Sales:
Pyramide
Eric Lagesse
5, rue du Chevalier de Saint George
Paris, 75008, France
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +33 1 4296 0220
Website: http://inter.pyramidefilms.com/pyramide-international-contact.html
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