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Samsa Film

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The new season for films from Luxembourg has got off to an excellent start, and there’s a particularly strong showing for Jani Thiltges’s go-getting production company, Samsa Film.
In fact, its recent production, J’ai toujours voulu être une sainte by Geneviève Mersch, has just won a Golden Zenith at the Montréal World Film Festival. The prize given to first works was assigned by a jury whose members included Samira Makhmalbaf, and it was awarded for the film’s “style and emotional subtlety”. The film will be presented at Aubagne in October and at Mannheim-Heidelberg in November.

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Samsa Film has two further productions set to be released in cinemas in Luxembourg in September:
Le Tango des Rashevski is the first feature length film by Sam Garbaski, produced in collaboration with the Belgium company, Entre Chien et Loup, and it will be out on September 19. It stars Hippolyte Girardot, Tania Garbarski, Ludmila Mikael, Michel Jonasz and Daniel Mesguich. The story is about a series of misfortunes affecting a Jewish family after the death of the grandmother. The second film being released, this time on September 26, is Twin Sisters by Ben Sombogaart, a co-production with the Dutch firm, IdfV. This film has already had a successful showing in Holland, registering audience figures of around 625,000. It is inspired by the book by Tessa de Loo, and the film stars Nadja Uhl and Thekla Reuten, It’s the story of two twin sisters who are separated by the death of their parents, and who are only finally reunited during the Second World War.
But Samsa Film isn’t stopping here. It has a film in preparation in Luxembourg, called Madame Edouard, which will be directed by Nadine Monfils, and will star Michel Blanc, Josiane Balasko and Bouli Lanners. And it is also involved in another co-production, this time with the Belgium company, Artemis Production, for the new film by Frédéric Fonteyne (A Pornographic Affair), called La femme de Gilles.

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(Translated from French)

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