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NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH \/<\/strong> Ni le ciel, ni la terre<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518205765076{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n
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West Coast Premiere \u2022 War\/Thriller\/Fantasy \u2022 France, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 100 min<\/p>\n

Directed by<\/strong>: Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore
\nWritten by<\/strong>: Thomas Bidegain, Maxime Caperan, Julia Ducournau, Nadja Dumouchel, Fabien Gorgeart, Britta Krause, Franz Rodenkirchen, Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore
\nCinematography<\/strong>: Sylvain Verdet
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Isabelle Manquillet
\nOriginal Score:\u00a0<\/strong>Eric Bentz, Fran\u00e7ois-Eudes Chanfrault
\n<\/strong>Produced by<\/strong>: Jean-Christophe Reymond, Amaury Ovise (Kazak Productions)
\nCast<\/strong>: J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Renier (Capitaine Antar\u00e8s Bonassieu), Swann Arlaud (J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Lernowski), Marc Robert (Jean-Baptiste Frering), K\u00e9vin Aza\u00efs (William Denis), Finnegan Oldfield (Patrick Mercier)
\n<\/strong>International Sales<\/strong>: Indie Sales\u00a0<\/strong>\u2022 indiesales.eu
\nU.S. Distributor<\/strong>: Film Movement \u2022 filmmovement.com
\nU.S. Release Date<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n

War-torn Afghanistan becomes a metaphysical netherworld in this evocatively eerie genre bender. No-nonsense Captain Antar\u00e8s Bonassieu and 12 French NATO soldiers patrol a badland of endless dust and rock in search of a Taliban warlord called \u201cSultan\u201d. The unit is on high alert, relations with the villagers are fraught, and the Taliban are everywhere and nowhere. One night, while observing what appears to be some kind of ritual involving a tethered goat, two of his men disappear. Initially Bonassieu maintains a firm command on the situation. He believes he knows who took the men, and where they might be located. But as certainties begin to fall away, Bonassieu\u2019s grunts \u2013 hardened fighters to a man \u2013 are consumed with primal fear. Whatever is happening out there is bigger than the war on terror, and far more mysterious.<\/p>\n

The French Union of Critics voted\u00a0Neither Heaven nor Earth<\/em>\u00a02015\u2019s Best French Debut Feature, marking writer\/director\u00a0Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore<\/strong>\u00a0as a filmmaker to watch. Cogitore was able to attract a strong cast including K\u00e9vin Aza\u00efs, who signed on to the project before\u00a0Love at First Fight<\/em>(COLCOA 2015) made him a rising star. Cogitore, an established contemporary artist with multimedia installations in exhibitions throughout the world, brought a bold visual approach to the film, even shooting extended sequences directly through the lens of night-vision goggles. He has made half a dozen shorts, including the docu-short,\u00a0Bielutine \u2013 In The Garden Of Time,<\/em>\u00a0selected for Director\u2019s Fortnight at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Cogitore\u2019s principal collaborator on the screenplay, Thomas Bidegain, has won multiple awards for his collaborations on such notable screenplays as\u00a0A Prophet<\/em>\u00a0(2009),\u00a0Rust and Bone<\/em>\u00a0(2012), and\u00a0Dheepan<\/em>(2015).<\/p>\n

QUOTES:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026an incredibly ambitious and daring work\u2026intellectually stimulating and indefinably weird.\u201d
\n\u2013 James Travers,\u00a0Films De France<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026haunting and original.\u201d
\n\u2013 John Bleasdale,\u00a0CineVue<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026an existential trip.\u201d
\n\u2013 Kent Turner,\u00a0Film Forward<\/em><\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518207181770{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH \/ Ni le ciel, ni la terre [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518205765076{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] West Coast Premiere \u2022 War\/Thriller\/Fantasy \u2022 France, 2015 DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 100 min Directed by: Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore Written by: Thomas Bidegain, Maxime Caperan, Julia Ducournau, Nadja Dumouchel, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317","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=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317\/revisions\/1329"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}