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Good fortune smiles on Tengri – le bleu du ciel

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A French/German co-production between L Films (64%) and Cine Dok Filmproduktion (36%), Tengri – le bleu du ciel (lit. “Tengri: The Blue Sky”) by Marie Jaoul de Poncheville continues to secure financing.

On Friday, the film received backing of €200,000 from the Eurimages fund. This comes after co-production and pre-sales financing from Arte France Cinéma and €270,000 as part of the mini-treaty of support to French-German co-productions. The European funding means that the nomadic love story set at the heart of current-day central Asia will have a six-week shoot in Kirghizstan in spring 2007.

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Director of the documentary Lung Ta: The Forgotten Tibet – set in Tibet after the bloody repression of the Lhassa riots in 1989 – de Poncheville went on to make two other docu-fictions in Mongolia (1992's Molom and 2003's Yönden) about the life of a young child who then becomes a 17 year-old teenager.

At the core of Tengri – le bleu du ciel lies an eventful experience, one whose meaning the director explains by pointing out that "Westerners tend to believe that their sense of time is universal, that their rhythm of life is like that of others. In this film, we come across other people, other places, other interests, other preoccupations in a world that seems so far-removed from our own. But, after all, are we really strangers to each other? We start to see a little of the other in ourselves and ourselves in our brother or sister on the other end of the world ...and we hang on to that .... We also begin to believe again in the absolute necessity of tenderness, loyalty, exchange".

Produced by Emmanuel Schlumberger for L Films, the film – a discovery of a country through a love story – is slated for a 2008 release. Distribution in France and international sales are still under negotiation.

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(Translated from French)

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