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Le Pacte Boards Cannes Animation Day Title ‘Conference of the Birds’ Featuring Voice Actors Golshifteh Farahani, Louis Garrel (EXCLUSIVE)
The 2D-animated feature project is adapted from Farid al-Din Attar's 900-year-old Persian poem of the same name.
Rahimi is a French-Afghan writer and filmmaker who in 2008 won France’s prestigious literary prize, the 105-year-old Prix Goncourt, for “Syngué Sabour.” In 2012, he directed the feature adaptation of his novel from a screenplay co-written with Jean-Claude Carrière. “Conference of the Birds” is produced by Gilles Podesta at Diabolo Film, Stéphane Sorlat at Mondex et Cie, Christel Hénon at Bidibul Productions, and now Jean Labadie at Le Pacte. “Bringing this masterpiece to the cinema became an obsession and, happily, after meeting Nahal Tajadod, one of the world’s biggest connoisseurs of Farid Al-Din Attar, and thanks to my friends Gilles Podesta and Stephane Sorlat, the project could start.”
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