12/07/2019 - The CNC is also throwing its weight behind films helmed by Julia Ducournau, Emmanuelle Bercot, Xavier Beauvois, Thierry de Peretti, Jean-Paul Civeyrac and Mehran Tamadon

Seven projects have been accepted during the third 2019 session of the CNC’s second advance on receipts committee. Standing out among them is Nobody’s Hero [+see also:
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A young female filmmaker is also among the batch of directors selected, as the CNC will also be throwing its weight behind Titane by Julia Ducournau, which will be staged by Kazak and will be the second feature by the helmer, who provided the star attraction of the Critics’ Week at Cannes in 2016 with Raw [+see also:
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Another advance on receipts will go to Peaceful [+see also:
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Also among the titles lucky enough to be selected is Drift Away [+see also:
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Yet another advance on receipts has gone to Les Années 10 [+see also:
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The CNC is also backing Une femme de notre temps by Jean-Paul Civeyrac. Produced by Moby Dick Films, this will be the tenth feature by the filmmaker, who rose to fame at Venice in 1996 with Neither Eve Nor Adam, was selected in the Berlinale Panorama in 2018 (with A Paris Education [+see also:
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Lastly, one documentary feature is also benefiting from an advance on receipts: Mon pire ennemi [+see also:
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film profile] by Mehran Tamadon (produced by L’atelier documentaire), a director who turned heads with movies such as Bassidji in 2009 and Iranian [+see also:
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(Translated from French)