Yesterday, The Last Night of Amore [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Andrea Di Stefano
scheda film] by Andrea di Stefano (which will be released in France on 7 July) opened the third Reims Polar crime-film festival (4-9 April), as part of the wider homage paid to Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino (who also stars in the programmed titles The Traitor [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: Marco Bellocchio
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intervista: Mario Martone
intervista: Pierfrancesco Favino
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intervista: Stefano Sollima
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intervista: Stefano Sollima
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Standing out on the menu at the Champagne-based event are 56 features and one series hailing from 19 countries, including nine films in the main competition, which will be weighed up by a jury comprising Patricia Mazuy, Cédric Jimenez, Émilie Dequenne, Alexis Manenti, Caroline Proust, Yannick Renier and Pierre Rochefort. Also locking horns are Lost & Found [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Spaniard Jorge Dorado, Upon Entry [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alejandro Rojas e Juan Seb…
scheda film] by Spanish-based Venezuelan directors Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez (first screened at Tallinn Black Nights), and The Bone Breakers [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Vincenzo Pirrotta
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The competing titles also include the award-festooned Brighton 4th [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Levan Koguashvili
scheda film] by Georgia’s Levan Koguashvili, Goliath by Kazakh helmer Adilkhan Yerzhanov, the Brazilian flick Property by Daniel Bandeira, and three Asian titles (About Kim Sohee by July Jung, Limbo by Soi Cheang and Beyond the Wall by Vahid Jalilvand).

The competitive Sang Neuf (lit. “New Blood”) section will pit six titles against each other (including the European features Inside [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Vasilis Katsoupis
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intervista: Pippo Mezzapesa
scheda film] by Italy’s Pippo Mezzapesa), and they will be judged by a jury chaired by novelist Maxime Chattam, flanked by Cédric Kahn, Laurent Stocker, Tracy Gotoas and Anne Azoulay.

Of note among the out-of-competition films are Darkland: The Return by Denmark’s Fenar Ahmad, The Daughter of Albino Rodrigue by French director Christine Dory (see the article), Killing Blues by her fellow countrywoman Cécilia Rouaud and Prison 77 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Spaniard Alberto Rodriguez, as well as the latest outings by Paul Schrader and Lav Diaz.

Also on the programme are the first three episodes of the series Grace of Heaven, which has just earned Margot Bancilhon an acting award at Series Mania.

Tribute will be paid to French crime films, with the festival welcoming as its special guests Dominik Moll, Vincent Lindon, Thierry de Peretti, Sébastien Marnier (who will pick up the 2023 Claude Chabrol Award), Yann Gozlan, Olivier Marchal, Olivier Megaton and Frédéric Tellier. They will each present a title from their filmographies, as will jury members Cédric Kahn and Patricia Mazuy. For his part, Olivier Assayas will give a “film class”, while Elsa Zylberstein will dispense an “acting lesson”. Also worth noting is a programme called “Nod to Bertrand Tavernier”.

Lastly, this year, Reims Polar will dedicate a special programme to Scandinavia through six films (The Guilty [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gustav Möller
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intervista: Tarik Saleh
scheda film] by Tarik Saleh, A Hijacking [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Tobias Lindholm
scheda film] by Tobias Lindholm, Let the Right One In [+leggi anche:
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intervista: John Nordling
intervista: Tomas Alfredson
scheda film] by Tomas Alfredson, With Blood on My Hands – Pusher II [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Nicolas Winding Refn and The Keeper of Lost Causes [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Eugenio Mira
scheda film] by Mikkel Norgaard), and will organise a tribute to Warner Bros Studios (in partnership with the Cinémathèque française) plus a section devoted to restored films.