The second selection committee of the year 2022 of Arte France Cinéma (headed by Olivier Père) has chosen to commit to co-production and pre-purchase on four projects.

Among them is Patricia Mazuy's Portraits trompeurs, which reunites her with Isabelle Huppert 22 years after The King’s Daughters (Un Certain Regard in Cannes in 2000 and eight nominations at the César Awards in 2001). The sixth feature film by the director, whose filmography also includes Peaux de vaches (Un Certain Regard Cannes 1989), Of Women and Horses [+lee también:
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Arte France Cinéma will also support Emmanuel Finkiel's La chambre de Mariana, which will reunite the filmmaker with Mélanie Thierry in the lead role after Memoir of War [+lee también:
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Arte France Cinéma has also selected two projects scheduled to shoot in the first quarter of 2023: Je suis encore là by Brazilian multi-award winner Walter Salles (an adaptation of Marcelo Rubens Paiva's book of the same name, about a mother fighting the military dictatorship in the 1970s, which is being helmed by Paris-based MACT Productions with Brazilian companies Videofilmes and RT Features) and All We Imagine as Light by India's Payal Kapadia (her first feature-length drama after the multi-award winning documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing [+lee también:
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For the record, Arte France Cinéma is supporting the next films by Alice Rohrwacher, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bertrand Bonello, Miguel Gomes, Philippe Garrel, Abderrahmane Sissako, Lisandro Alonso, Jonas Trueba, André Téchiné, Alice Diop, Alexandros Avranas, Noémie Lvovsky, Sophie Letourneur, Justyna Tafel, Johanna Pyykkö, Diego Céspedes, Karim Moussaoui, Dinara Droukarova, Stephan Castang, Sofia Alaoui, Momoko Seto, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, and the duo Caroline Poggi - Jonathan Vinel.