On the heels of the festival itself in December (see the awards news) and the Distributors/Exhibitors Summit (which enjoyed a very high level of participation), it’s now time for the Industry Village of the 12^th Les Arcs Film Festival to make the leap almost entirely online because of the health crisis. The event will take place from 20-22 January (professional accreditations, which are free of charge, can be applied for until 13 January).

On the menu are a raft of events: the Coproduction Village market (boasting 18 projects in development – see the article), the Talent Village (sponsored by French director Laurent Cantet, with physical, in-person workshops in Paris that will be led by Katrin Pors, Jean-Christophe Simon, Paolo Moretti and Rebecca Delannet, and featuring an award that will be handed out to one of the eight projects by a jury including Florence Gastaud, Cécile Salin and Amos Geva), the Music Village and the always eagerly awaited Work in Progress (WiP), previous editions of which lifted the lid on Girl [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lukas Dhont
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intervista: Nora Fingscheidt
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intervista: Anders Ølholm e Frederik L…
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intervista: Alex Camilleri
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intervista: Levan Akin
intervista: Levan Gelbakhiani
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intervista: Johannes Nyholm
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intervista: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel S…
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intervista: Anja Kofmel
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intervista: Ulrich Köhler
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intervista: Axel Petersén e Måns Månsson
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intervista: Rungano Nyoni
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intervista: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon …
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This year, the Work in Progress selection rustled up by Frédéric Boyer (the artistic director of the Les Arcs Film Festival) will comprise 17 films in post-production (without sales agents attached), lengthy excerpts of which (a total of eight minutes, introduced by the filmmakers and their producers) will be uploaded and made available for accredited international sales agents, distributors and festival programmers to view between Wednesday 20 and Friday 22 January. Standing out among them are a clutch of established filmmakers such as Slovenia’s Olmo Omerzu, Slovakia’s Juraj Lehotský, France’s Damien Manivel and Ukraine’s Valentyn Vasyanovych, as well as five projects by female directors and nine feature debuts. Six titles will be duking it out for the Eurimages Lab Project Award, endowed with €50,000 in cash, and the others for the TitraFilm Award (€10,000 in image and/or sound post-production services). The jury will be made up of the Czech Republic’s Karel Och (artistic director of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival), French director Claire Burger (Party Girl [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire …
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intervista: Claire Burger
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Here is the full selection:

Work in Progress

Applause - Juraj Lehotský
Production : Arytmia (Slovakia), Black Balance (Czech Republic), Harine Films (Poland), Kaleidoscope (Slovakia), Radio and Television Slovakia (Slovakia) (see the news)

Clara Sola [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
scheda film] - Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (feature debut)
Production : Hobab (Sweden), Laidak Films (France/Germany), Need Productions (Belgium), Pacifica Grey (Costa Rica), Resolve Media (USA)

Gerda - Natalia Kudryashova (feature debut)
Production : Russian Resurrection (Russia) and Central Partnership Llc (Russia)

Human Flowers of Flesh [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Helena Wittmann
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Production : Fünferfilm Ug (Germany) and Tita Productions (France) (see the news)

The Salamander [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Alex Carvalho
Production : Cinenovo (France), High Sea (France), N Filmes (Brazil), San Cinema (Germany), Scope Pictures (Belgium)

Let It Be - Łukasz Grzegorzek
Production : Koskino (Poland) and Lower Silesia Film Centre (Poland)

Magdala [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Damien Manivel
scheda film] - Damien Manivel
Production : Mld Films (France)

Man and Dog [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ştefan Constantinescu
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Production : Microfilm (Romania), Doppelganger (Sweden), Klas Film (Bulgaria), Pandora Film Produktion (Germany) (see the news)

Patchwork [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Janine Teerling e Petros C…
scheda film] - Petros Charalambous and Janine Teerling (feature debut)
Production : Amp Filmworks (Cyprus) and Transfax (Israel)

Reflection - Valentyn Vasyanovych (second feature)
Production : Forefilms (Ukraine)

Si tu es un homme - Simon Panay (feature debut)
Production : Loull Production (France), Acacia Productions (Burkina Faso), Moteur S’il Vous Plaît (France)

Small Body [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laura Samani
scheda film] - Laura Samani
Production : Nefertiti Film (Italy), Tomsa Films (France), Vertigo (Slovenia)

Summerlight and Then Comes the Night [+leggi anche:
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Production : Berserk Films (Iceland), Pegasus Pictures (Iceland), Polar Bear (Belgium), Vilda Bomben Film AB (Sweden) (see the news)

Bird Atlas [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Olmo Omerzu
scheda film] - Olmo Omerzu
Production : Endorfilm (Czech Republic), Cvinger Film (Slovenia), Melocoton Films (France), Punkchart Films (Slovakia) (see the news)

The Legionnaire [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Hleb Papou
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Production : Clemart (Italy) and Mact Productions (France)

The Scars of Ali Boulala [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Max Eriksson (feature debut)
Production : Sisyfos Film Production Ab (Sweden), Folk Film (Norway)

A Flower in the Mouth [+leggi anche:
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Production : Les Films Du Worso (France), Flaneur Films (Germany), Poulet-Malassis Films (France)