Tuesday 5 July will see local-born director Emmanuel Mouret opening the 33rd Marseille International Film Festival – FIDMarseille (now directed by Tsveta Dobreva) out of competition by way of Diary of a Fleeting Affair [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Emmanuel Mouret
scheda film] (a movie well-received in Cannes). Staying true to its exacting artistic line and open to all genres and formats, the event will offer up 123 films (hailing from 37 countries) in the run up to 11 July, of which 49 will be world premieres and two international premieres across five competition sections. And stealing focus among the countless attractions on the agenda (over 200 professionals from the field of the 7th art will be making the journey to Marseille) is a retrospective dedicated to Spanish director Albert Serra (including the winning work Pacifiction [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], unveiled in competition in Cannes), as well as a wild card section dedicated to Mathieu Amalric (including his latest films: Zorn III and Maîtres anciens), among other events.

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Standing tall among the 14 titles (including 13 in world premieres) which are taking part in the international competition (evaluated by a jury led by Mati Diop and notably including João Pedro Rodrigues, Ted Fendt and Bani Khoshnoudi) are eight feature films, in the form of Aftersun [+leggi anche:
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In terms of the French competition (whose jury will be presided over by Dounia Sichov and which further includes Patric Chiha), 11 world premieres are on the cards, of which six are feature films: X14 by Delphine Kreuter, Smalltown Boys [+leggi anche:
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Three additional competitive sections are also on the FIDMarseille agenda: the first films line-up will notably showcase Christina [+leggi anche:
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The 2022 FIDMarseille programme likewise consists of a Ukrainian Youth line-up (2014-2022), including Mariupolis 2 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], and the Others Gems section, showcasing (among other feature films) Declan Clarke’s German production What Are The Wild Waves Saying? and French titles The Opponents by Pauline Bastard, By The Window by Jean-Christian Riff and Pierre Guyotat, le don de soi by Jacques Kebadian. All without forgetting the professional FIDLab sidebar, which Cineuropa will come back to in greater detail in due course.