14/04/2014 - Discovered in 2009 at the Venice International Critics’ Week, Patric Chiha is now in post-production putting the finishing touches to his second feature, an Aurora Films production

In amongst the dizzying summits, you can make out waiters in lederhosen and the ghost of a punk rocker… Coming to fame at the 2009 Venice International Critics’ Week with Domaine [+see also:
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Written by the director together with Nicolas Ducray and Raphaël Bouvet, the story recounts the misadventures of three gay, restless, neurotic thirty-year-old friends from Paris, who end up lost in the Austrian mountains. In amongst the dizzying peaks and plunging chasms, it may be the perfect time to take stock of their lives, loves and friendship…

Produced by Charlotte Vincent for Aurora Films, Boys Like Us is being co-produced by Austrian company WILDart Films and by Epicentre Films, which will handle distribution in French theatres. The feature film is also benefitting from backing by the MEDIA Programme (Slate Funding - Development), the CNC and ANGOA; post-production support from the Ile-de-France region; and backing from Sofica Cinémage.

An outfit specialising in discovering young filmmakers, Aurora Films has also produced The Wound [+see also:
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(Translated from French)