SPHINX Gardiens de l’ordre Festival Selection: French Film Festival in Japan (2010) North American Premiere Crime/Thriller/Drama France, 2010 In French with English subtitles 35mm/1.85/Color/Dolby SR/SRD/105 min Directed by: Nicolas Boukhrief Written by: Dan Sasson, Nicolas Boukhrief Cinematography by: Dominique Colin Editing by: Lydia Decobert Music by: Nicolas Baby Produced by: Sylvie Pialat Production Company: Les Films du Worso Coproduction: Gaumont, Entre Chien et Loup International Sales: Gaumont 30 avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine France Phone: +33 1.46.43.20.00 www.gaumont.com Cast: Cécile De France (Julie), Fred Testot (Simon), Julien Boisselier (Marc), Nicolas Marié (Le commissaire principal), Stéphan Wojtowicz (Gilbert), Nanou Garcia (Sandrine), Stéphane Jobert (Roland), Jean-Michel Noirey (Rudy), Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus (Christian), Foued Nassah (Joseph), Anthony Decadi (Stan) During a routine night patrol, police officers Julie (Cécile De France, Hereafter, Mesrine (COL•COA 2009), The Russian Dolls) and Simon (Fred Testot, Round Da Way (COL•COA 2010), The Whistler, Omar et Fred) accidentally wound the son of a deputy who, in a state of stupor, violently killed one of their colleagues for no apparent reason. Wrongly accused of police brutality, facing disciplinary action, they receive no support from their superiors when they report finding a strange drug at the young man’s house. They decide to investigate on their own and discover a trafficking network manufacturing a new illegal drug, the Sphinx. Writer-director NICOLAS BOUKHRIEF started his career as a journalist and co-founded the fantasy/horror film magazine Starfix in 1982. He started writing for film in 1993 with Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents, directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, then wrote and directed his first feature Va Mourire in 1995. He won critical acclaim for the screenplay of Assassin(s) in 1997, co-written with Mathieu Kassovitz, who also directed the film. The film was presented in official selection at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. He then turned to comedy for his second feature as writer-director, Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences), co-written with Dan Sasson, starring Vincent Cassel and Mathieu Kassovitz. He followed with two critically acclaimed thrillers, which he co-wrote and directed: Cash Truck (COL•COA 2004) and Cortex (COL•COA 2008). He is also co-founder of the production company Eskwad, which produced Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) and Irreversible (2002).