26/10/2012 - This year, Haneke, Audiard, Carax, Assayas, Jacquot, Belvaux, Faucon, and Noémie Lvosky are vying for the prestigious award.

Eight features are vying for the prestigious Louis-Delluc Award, to be handed out on December 14 by a jury of film critics and personalities presided by Gilles Jacob. Among them are four titles unveiled at the last Cannes Film Festival: Austrian director Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner Love [+see also:
film review
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interview: Michael Haneke
film profile], Leos Carax's Holy Motors [+see also:
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interview: Leos Carax
film profile] and Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone [+see also:
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interview: Jacques Audiard
interview: Jacques Audiard
film profile], two films from the Cannes competion, and Noémie Lvovsky's Camille Rewinds [+see also:
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film profile] that was screened at the festival's Directors' Fortnight.

They are to be joined by two titles that went to Venice: Olivier Assayas's Something in the Air [+see also:
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interview: Olivier Assayas
film profile] (Best Screenplay this year in Venice) and Philippe Faucon's La désintégration [+see also:
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film profile] (photo - selected out of competition last year in Venice). Other contenders include Benoît Jacquot's Berlinale competitor Farewell, My Queen [+see also:
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interview: Benoît Jacquot
film profile] and Belgian director Lucas Belvaux's One Night [+see also:
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film profile] (which opened the 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival).

(Translated from French)