(Screening ends at 10:45 am)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663820268400{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\nPresented in Association with:
\n<\/span>Federation Entertainment<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/free-sn-rsvp-1.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661362442004{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Premiere<\/b><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0TV Series |France\u00a0|\u00a02022\u00a0|\u00a0Drama, War\u00a0|\u00a07 x 52\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0Episodes 1 & 2 | In French with English subtitles
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\n<\/span>Directed by: <\/b>Jean-Philippe Amar<\/span>
\n<\/span>Created by<\/b>: Thibaut Valetoux, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Krivine
\n<\/span>Written by<\/b>: Thibaut Valetoux, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Krivine
\n<\/b>Produced by<\/b>: Antoine Szymalka, Emmanuel Dauc\u00e9 (Tetra Media), Orange Studios
\nCinematography<\/b>: <\/span>Emmanuel de Fleury, St\u00e9phane Aupetit<\/span>
\n<\/b>Film Editing<\/b>: Rapha\u00ebl P\u00e9aud, Olga P\u00e9not<\/span>
\n<\/span>Original Score<\/b>: Eric Neveux<\/span>
\n<\/span>Cast<\/b>: <\/span>Pauline Parigot (Ana\u00efs Collet), Louis Peres (Julien Ravalet), Birane Ba (Martial Mendy), Yannick Choirat (Philippe Lefort), Samir Seghir (Djibril Saadi), Vanessa Fonte (Elise Schiffman), Rapha\u00eblle Rousseau (Marie Labille)
\n<\/span>International Sales: <\/b>Federation Entertainment<\/span>
\n<\/span>Original Broadcast<\/b>: OCS, April 2022<\/span><\/p>\nSoldiers<\/i><\/b> plunges us into the daily lives of a platoon of dedicated French soldiers simply trying to do their jobs \u2014 against almost impossible odds \u2014 in Mali.\u00a0 Lieutenant Ana\u00efs Collet, a highly disciplined officer with an uncompromising moral code, and her unit have been deployed as part of Operation Barkhane, an anti-insurgent military campaign to quell Islamist extremists in Africa’s Sahel region.\u00a0 But tracking down terrorists, bolstering practically nonexistent local governments and simply protecting the lives of innocent villagers turns out to be an extremely complex assignment.\u00a0 The tactical balancing act it requires and the emotional toll it takes on these young men and women pushes them to their very limits.\u00a0 Yet the series offers a touching portrait of their commitment, their inner struggles, and their palpable courage at every turn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nJean-Philippe Amar<\/b>, director of all seven episodes of <\/span>Soldiers<\/i><\/b>, is an accomplished television director of the hit TV series <\/span>Spiral<\/span><\/i> (10 episodes, 2019-2020), <\/span>Un village fran\u00e7ais<\/span><\/i> (23 episodes, 2013-2017), and the documentary series <\/span>Les Nouveaux explorateurs<\/span><\/i> (4 episodes, 2008-2014).\u00a0 Co-showrunner <\/span>Thibaut Valetoux <\/b>wrote the screenplay for the feature film <\/span>Le Sens de la famille<\/span><\/i> (2017), and has written scripts for various series, including <\/span>Paris Police 1900<\/span><\/i> (2018), <\/span>Totems<\/span><\/i> (2020-2022) and <\/span>Black Mambas<\/span><\/i> (2021).\u00a0 His co-showrunner <\/span>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Krivine<\/b> has written scripts for numerous shorts, TV movies, mini-series and for the series <\/span>Une belle histoire<\/span><\/i> (2020). He was previously showrunner on <\/span>P.J<\/span><\/i>. (94 episodes, 1997-2009) and <\/span>Un village fran\u00e7ais<\/span><\/i> (65 episodes, 2009-2017).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/soldiers_poster1px-anais-mazoyer.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1667259370123{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] SOLDIERS (SENTINELLES) (Season 1) [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663684260081{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] MELVILLE THEATRE TV SERIES \/ DRAMA, WAR Focus on a score film composer: Eric Neveux [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664383333838{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Tuesday, October 11 – 8:00 pm Presented by Eric Neveux (Screening ends at 9:45 pm) Wednesday, October 12 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11457","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11457"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13170,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11457\/revisions\/13170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}