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Original name: L' Empire
English name: The Empire
Year: 2024
Run time: 110 minutes
Language: French
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal
Director: Bruno Dumont
Producer: Jean Bréhat, Bertrand Faivre
Cast: Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei, Camille Cottin, Fabrice Luchini, Brandon Vlieghe, Julien Manier
Screenplay: Bruno Dumont
Cinematographer: David Chambille
Editor: Bruno Dumont, Desideria Rayner
Sound Designer: Jeremy Hassid, Romain Ozanne
Costume Designer: Simon Livet, Barbara Kreuzer
Production Designer: Erwan Le Gal, Célia Marolleau, Peppie Biller
Production Company: Tessalit Productions
World Sales: Memento
Born in Bailleul, Nord in France in 1958, he directed his debut feature film Life of Jesus in 1997; the film was selected for the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes. His feature films Humanity and Flanders both won the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes while Slack Bay and, most recently, the satire France, starring Lea Seydoux as a famous journalist, also screened in competition at the festival. His biopic Camille Claudel 1915 starring Juliette Binoche was invited to the Berlinale Competition in 2013.
Opal Coast, Northern France. In a quiet and picturesque fishing village, something finally happens: a special baby is born. A child so unique and peculiar that it unleashes a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil.
