Mon fils, ma bataille by Roch Stéphanik for the Ile-de-France region

by Fabien Lemercier

20/11/2013 - The next films by Bertrand Bonello, Sylvie Ohayon and Frédéric Tellier are also amongst the projects selected by the region

Roch Stéphanik

Nominated for the César 2001 for Best First Film with Stand-by which owed a Best Actress of the Year award to Dominique Blanc, Roch Stéphanik stands out with his second opus, Mon fils, ma bataille, amongst the seven feature film projects selected by the 4^th session of the Fund for the support of the cinematographic and audiovisual industries of the Ile-de-France region.

Written by Roch Stéphanik and Yves Sarda, the screenplay of Mon fils, ma bataille focuses on Vincent with whom his partner Laura suddenly breaks up. The latter takes their five-year-old son, hoping to get custody. A psychological and judicial battle, pushed to the limit and made worse by third parties, begins between Vincent and Laura, who behave like the worst enemies, with the child caught in the middle.

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Produced by Emmanuel Jacquelin for Ista Films, Mon fils, ma bataille will be coproduced by Dialogue Films and should benefit from a 3.9 M€ budget including 540,000 euros from the Ile-de-France region where 55 of the 70 days of filming will take place. The provisional cast so far includes Roschdy Zem (who already played in Stand-by).

Amongst the other projects selected by the Ile-de-France region, we find the highly anticipated Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello (read the news) currently in filming with its brilliant cast (Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier, Léa Seydoux, Olga Kurylenko, Louis Garrel, Amira Casar, Willem Dafoe, Amelyne Valade, Helmut Berger, Jasmine Trinca, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Dominique Sanda) for a theatrical release scheduled for May 14, 2014 (production Mandarin Cinéma - budget 8.5 M€ - backing 480,000 euros).

The Ile-de-France region will also back four first features: Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone by Sylvie Ohayon (read the article - production The Film - backing 430,000 euros), the Franco-Italian coproduction Sur parole by Olivier Bouffard (production Fabio Conversi for Babe Films - backing 430,000 euros), SK1, la traque de Guy Georges by Frédéric Tellier (article - with Raphaël Personnaz, Olivier Gourmet and Nathalie Baye - production Labyrinthe Films – 480,000 euros) and Le voyageur by Lebanese-Belgian filmmaker Hadi Gandour (production Androma Pictures - backing 310,000 euros). Finally, it is worth noting the selection of a feature-length documentary for cinema: C'est quoi ce travail by duo Luc Joulé - Sébastien Jousse (production Shellac Sud – backing 85,000 euros).