Eight projects were selected during the 5th and final 2020 session of the CNC’s second committee for pre-production advances on receipts. Stealing focus amongst these projects we find Forever Young [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
scheda film], which will be the 5th fiction feature directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi following on from It’s Easier For A Camel [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (the winner of the 2003 Louis Delluc Best First Film Award), The Summer House [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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scheda film] (gracing the Un Certain Regard section in 2007) and A Castle in Italy [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
scheda film] (in competition in 2013). Her new work will plunge us back into the universe of the Nanterre-Amandiers Theatre, as helmed by Patrice Chéreau at the beginning of the 1990s, training young actors at the time of AIDS and generalised crisis. Production is in the hands of Ad Vitam and Agat Films.

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An advance on receipts has also been granted to Sons of Ramses [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Clément Cogitore
scheda film], which will be the second fiction feature film to come courtesy of Clément Cogitore who was the great revelation of Cannes’ Critics’ Week 2015 through his work The Wakhan Front [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]. Written by the director together with Camille Lugan, the screenplay stars a medium as its protagonist, supposedly played by Karim Leklou. The project is steered by Kazak Productions.

The CNC will similarly support The (in)famous Youssef Salem, the second full-length film directed by Baya Kasmi following on from I’m All Yours [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (2015). For the record, the filmmaker previously walked away with 2011’s Best Original Screenplay César for The Names of Love [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] and was nominated in the same category the following year for Hippocrates [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Thomas Lilti
scheda film]. Production of her latest opus will be overseen by Domino Films.

A full-length documentary project likewise graces the list of the lucky few, namely Sur l’Adaman by the very well-known Nicolas Philibert who notably directed To Be and To Have (nominated for 2003’s Best Film César), Back to Normandie [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Berlinale Forum 2010), La Maison de la radio [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Berlin’s 2013 Panorama Dokumente) and Each and Every Moment [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (screened out of competition in Locarno 2018).

An advance has also been pledged to Ma vie ma gueule, which will mark Sophie Fillières’ 7th feature film after Ouch (screened out of competition in Locarno 2000), Nice Girl (gracing Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema line-up in 2005), Pardon My French [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (appearing in the Berlinale Forum in 2009) and If You Don’t, I Will [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (selected for the Berlinale’s Panorama section in 2014), to name a few. Production is in the hands of Christmas in July.

Father & Soldier [+leggi anche:
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Another project shining bright among the CNC’s selected works is Thick and Thin [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], and again in 2018 with Ulysses & Mona [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], and who also spent time in Cannes’ ACID showcase in 2013 and 2016 wielding 2 Autumns 3 Winters [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Frédéric Dubreuil
scheda film] respectively. The project is steered by Envie de Tempête Productions.

Last but not least, the CNC will also lend its support to The Falling Star [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dominique Abel & Fiona Gor…
scheda film], which will be the 5th feature film offered up by the duo composed of Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, following on from L’Iceberg [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (discovered in San Sebastian’s New Directors line-up in 2005), Rumba [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Charles Gillibert
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scheda film] (Cannes’ Critics’ Week 2008), The Fairy [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
scheda film] (Directors’ Fortnight 2011) and Lost in Paris [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
scheda film] (2016). The story unfolds in modern-day Brussels where bartender Boris has been living illegally for 35 years, following his involvement in a terrorist attack gone wrong. His past drifts back up to the surface when a victim tracks him down and decides to take revenge. The appearance of Dom, a depressive man who’s also the mirror image of Boris, provides the ex-activist with the perfect means to evade justice. Boris and his wife Kayoko weave a fatal web around Dom, helped by their doorman Tim. But unbeknownst to them, Dom has an ex-wife, Fiona, who just happens to be a private detective… Production is in the hands of French firm Moteur S’il Vous Plaît Production and Belgian group Courage mon amour.