''The Wakhan Front'' (french: Ni le ciel ni la terre) is a 2015 French war thriller

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Clément Cogitore Clément Cogitore (born 27 August 1983) is a French Contemporary art, contemporary artist and filmmaker. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, Cogitore questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own image ...

. It was screened in the

International Critics' Week The International Critics' Week (french: Semaine de la Critique) was founded in 1962 and is organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. It was created following the showing of '' The Connection'' directed by Shirley Clarke which had been ...

section at the

2015 Cannes Film Festival The 68th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 2015. Joel and Ethan Coen were the Presidents of the Jury for the main competition. It was the first time that two people chaired the jury. Since the Coen brothers each received a separate ...

Cast

Jérémie Renier (; born 6 January 1981) is a Belgian actor. His film debut was in the critically praised (1996), directed by the Dardenne brothers. He became better known to worldwide audiences in ''Brotherhood of the Wolf'' (2001) and (2005). The latter ...

as Antares Bonnassieu * Swann Arlaud as Jérémie Lernowski * Marc Robert as Jean Baptiste Frering *

Kévin Azaïs Kévin Azaïs (born 1992) is a French actor. He is best known for his performance in the film ''Love at First Fight (film), Love at First Fight'' (''Les Combattants''), for which he won a César Award for Most Promising Actor and a Lumières Awar ...

as William Denis *

Finnegan Oldfield Finnegan Oldfield (born 10 January 1991) is a French-British actor, who has appeared in more than thirty films since 2003. Background Career In 2005, age 14, Oldfield landed the lead role in the TV film '' L'Île Atlantique''. He dropped out ...

as Patrick Mercier * Clément Bresson as Étienne Baxer * Sâm Mirhosseini as Khalil Khan * Christophe Tek as Stéphane Tek * Steve Tientcheu as Oscar Varennes * Patrick Ligardes as Officer Armenet *

Hamid Reza Javdan Hamid refers to two different but related Arabic given names, both of which come from the Arabic triconsonantal root of Ḥ-M-D (ِِح-م-د): # (Arabic: حَامِد ''ḥāmid'') also spelled Haamed, Hamid or Hamed, and in Turkish Hamit; it ...

as Sultan * Michaël Vander-Meiren as Philippe Le Thieur * Kamal Ait Taleb as Basile Delcourt

Production

The film was shot in the

Atlas Mountains The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa. It separates the Sahara Desert from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the name "Atlantic" is derived from the mountain range. It stretches around through Moroc ...

in Morocco.

Accolades

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wakhan Front, The 2015 films 2015 directorial debut films 2015 drama films 2015 thriller drama films Belgian thriller drama films French thriller drama films 2010s French-language films Films set in Afghanistan Films with screenplays by Thomas Bidegain French-language Belgian films 2010s French films