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CANNES 2021

Les Arcs Film Festival in the spotlight in Cannes

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- Five films that went through the Work in Progress and three through the Coproduction Village of the Savoy festival are featured in the Cannes selections, and the new call to projects is launched

Les Arcs Film Festival in the spotlight in Cannes
Lamb by Valdimar Jóhannsson

The pilots of the Industry Village at the Arcs Festival are very satisfied because eight titles shown at the 74th Cannes Film Festival (6 to 17 July) have passed through the very popular professional Savoy gathering which today launches its call for projects for its next edition in December. 

Five feature films on the 2021 Cannes programme were discovered at the Work in Progress (WIP) of the Arcs: Lamb [+see also:
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interview: Valdimar Jóhannsson
film profile
]
by Icelandic director Valdimar Jóhannsson (presented at the 2019 WIP) which will have its world premiere in Official Selection (in Un Certain Regard), Clara Sola [+see also:
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interview: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
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from the Swedish-Costa Rican director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (winner of the TitraFilm prize at the 2020 WIP) and The Hill Where Lionesses Roar [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Luana Bajrami
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from French filmmaker of Kosovar origin Luàna Bajrami (Alphapanda Audience Engagement Award at the 2019 WIP) will all be revealed in Directors’ Fortnight, and two films selected in Critics’ Week: Small Body [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Laura Samani
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from Italian director Laura Samani (WIP 2020) and The Gravedigger’s Wife [+see also:
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from Finnish filmmaker of Somalian origin Kadhar Ayderus Ahmed (WIP 2019).

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To this beautiful quintet of young talent are added three titles that had been selected at the Coproduction Village of the Arcs Film Festival: The Story of my Wife [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ildikó Enyedi
film profile
]
by Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi (Coproduction Village 2016) which will compete for the 2021 Palme d’Or, Magnetic Beats [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Vincent Maël Cardona
film profile
]
by French filmmaker Vincent Maël Cardona (Coproduction Village 2018) which will have its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight, and Amparo [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
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from Colombian director Simón Mesa Soto (who had participated in the 2017 Paris Coproduction Village organised by the Arcs team) which will compete in Critics’ Week. 

This Cannes spotlight on the excellent springboard (which in the past also benefited Laszlo Nemes, Alice Rohrwacher, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Carla Simón, Clément Cogitore, Juris Kurietis, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Grimur Hakonarsonn, Dalibor Matanic, Daniel Sandu and many others) that is Les Arcs for the biggest international festivals is all the more topical as today opens the call for projects for the Coproduction Village (11 to 14 December 2021) of the 13th Les Arcs Film Festival (11 to 18 December). 

Applications are to be submitted until 8 September 2021 and the 20 selected european projects in development will compete for the ArteKino International prize.

To note that in 2021 and 2022, the Industry Village will propose a 2-year focus, presenting projects at different stages of development and production from Switzerland, Austria and the alpine regions of Italy and France. This Focus is organised in partnership with Swiss Films, Zürcher FilmStiftung, Austrian Films, Torino Piemonte Film Commission, Film Commission Vallée d’Aoste, Veneto Film Commission, Trentino Film Commission, IDM-Südtirol Alto Adige and the Auvergne-Rhône Alpes region.

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(Translated from French by Manuela Lazic)

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