Paris-based sales agent Luxbox has backed Erige Sehiri’s next feature, “Marie & Jolie.”
Written by Sehiri, Anna Ciennik and Malika Cécile Louati, and produced by Henia Production and Didar Domehri of Maneki Films, the drama explores the quiet Christian communities in the predominantly Muslim metropolis of Tunis. Pathé Afrique and Jour2Fête have boarded as respective Tunisian and French distributors, while production is now underway.
Actors Aïssa Maïga (“Bamako”) and Laetitia Ky (“Night of the Kings,” “Disco Boy”) join newcomer Deborah Naney as women sharing a house that hides an Evangelical church. Upon taking in a child migrant who survived a shipwreck, each member of this makeshift family must
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