01/03/2022 - The French film centre will also support upcoming features by the directorial duo Chad Chenouga and Christine Paillard, as well as by Stéphane Demoustier, Barbet Schroeder and Claus Drexel

Five projects have been selected during the first 2022 session of the CNC’s third advance on receipts committee (for fourth feature films onwards).

Standing tall among them is The Plough [+see also:
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film profile] in 2020), and once in Cannes (in 2008), as well as appearing a further five times in the latter’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar (with In The Shadow of Women [+see also:
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An advance on receipts is also winging its way to Pourquoi tu souris by Chad Chenouga and Christine Paillard (who co-wrote her co-director’s two most recent opuses). This will be the former’s 4th feature film after Mes Fantômes (screened in Locarno’s Cinéastes du Présent section in 2001), Do It Right [+see also:
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The CNC is also throwing its weight behind Borgo, Stéphane Demoustier’s 4th feature film after 40-Love [+see also:
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Last but not least, two documentary projects jostle among the lucky few awarded an advance on receipts: Ricardo and Painting [+see also:
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(Translated from French)