After first revealing its program (read the article), the selection of 18 projects taking part in the Co-Production Villages (news) and the eight participants of its Talent Village, Les Arcs Film Festival (whose 13^th edition will unfold from 11 to 18 December) has unveiled the list of 15 films currently in post-production selected for the Work in Progress (WiP) section of its Industry Village, which will take place on Sunday 12 December. It is a highly anticipated event, since previous editions unveiled the first images of, among others, five titles selected this year in Cannes (Lamb [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Valdimar Jóhannsson
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intervista: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
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intervista: Luana Bajrami
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intervista: Laura Samani
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intervista: Valentyn Vasyanovych
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intervista: Alex Camilleri
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intervista: Anders Ølholm e Frederik L…
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intervista: Ivan Ikic
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intervista: Nora Fingscheidt
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intervista: Levan Akin
intervista: Levan Gelbakhiani
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intervista: Johannes Nyholm
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intervista: Lukas Dhont
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intervista: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel S…
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intervista: Rungano Nyoni
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This year, the selection put together by Frédéric Boyer (artistic director of Les Arcs Film Festival) will feature 15 films (eight of which are directed by women) currently in post-production, of which long clips (eight minutes in total) will be introduced by the filmmakers and their producers to international sales agents, distributors and festival programmed present in the Savoyard resort. Among these 15 titles (selected from among 164 candidates and coming from 18 countries) feature seven feature debuts and five sophomore feature films.

Standing out, among others, is Dutch director Sacha Polak (who competed at Sundance and opened the 2019 Rotterdam film festival with her latest film, Dirty God [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Tobias Nölle
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intervista: Ardalan Esmaili
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intervista: Veerle Baetens
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Three awards are up for grabs this year. The TitraFilm award (€10,000 in image and/or sound post-production services) will be handed out by a jury composed of Kathrin Kohlstedde (program director of the Hamburg Film Festival), Kevin Chan (co-head of acquisitions at MUBI) and Mimi Plauché (artistic director of the Chicago Film Festival), while the Alphapanda Audience Engagement award (focused on the film’s digital marketing and worth €5,000) will be given by Didar Domehri (Maneki Films), Mathias Noschis and Joanna Solecka. The winner of the brand new 22D Music award (€10,000 to finance the production of an original score) will be chosen by Emmanuel Delétang and composer Amine Bouhafa.

The Work in Progress selection:

Dogborn [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Isabella Carbonell
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Produced by Momento Film (Sweden)

Eismayer [+leggi anche:
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intervista: David Wagner
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Produced by Golden Girls Film (Austria)

Embryo Larva Butterfly [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kyros Papavassiliou
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Produced by AMP Filmworks (Cyprus) and Graal SA (Greece)

January [+leggi anche:
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Produced by Mistrus Media (Latvia), Artbox (Lithuania) and Staron Film (Poland)

Krzyk (Losing Control) [+leggi anche:
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Produced by Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin (Germany)

Matadero [+leggi anche:
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Produced by 4A4 Productions, El Viaje Films (Spain), Magoya Films (Argentina), Nina Films (Spain) and Prisma Cine (Argentina)

Nika - Vasilisa Kuzmina
Produced by Vodorod (Russia) and Art Pictures Studio (Russia)

Opponent [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Milad Alami
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Produced by Tangy (Sweden) and Ape&Bjørn (Norway)

Preparations For a Miracle - Tobias Nölle
Produced by Hugofilm Features (Switzerland) and Flare Film (Germany)

Silver Haze [+leggi anche:
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Produced by Viking Film (The Netherlands) and Emu Films (United Kingdom)

Peter Doherty: Stranger in my Own Skin [+leggi anche:
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Produced by Wendy Production (United Kingdom)

Summer To Come - György Mór Kárpáti
Produced by Proton Cinema (Hungary) and Café Film (Hungary)

The Mecanics of Things - Alessandra Celesia
Produced by Films de Force Majeure (France) and Dirk Manthey Film UG (Germany)

The Ordinaries [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sophie Linnenbaum
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Produced by Bandenfilm (Germany) and Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany)

When It Melts [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Veerle Baetens
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Produced by Savage Film (Belgium), PRPL (The Netherlands) and Versus Production (Belgium)
(Out of competition, in partnership with Flanders Image - VAF)