23/04/2018 - The 22nd edition of the COLCOA (City of Lights, City of Angels) festival is unspooling in Los Angeles from 23-30 April

Today, Promise at Dawn [+see also:
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The movie competition will have 37 films and documentaries on offer, including The Prayer [+see also:
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interview: Cédric Kahn
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film profile] by Albert Dupontel, Barbara [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Beauvois
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interview: Emmanuel Finkiel
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film profile] by Christian Carion, Le Brio [+see also:
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film profile] by Yvan Attal, Dog [+see also:
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film profile] by Nicolas Vannier and Plonger [+see also:
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Young French cinema will be particularly well represented at the gathering by titles such as Custody [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Legrand
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interview: Hubert Charuel
film profile] by Hubert Charuel, Montparnasse Bienvenüe [+see also:
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interview: Léonor Serraille
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interview: Marie Garel-Weiss
film profile] by Marie Garel-Weiss, The Night Eats the World [+see also:
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film profile] by Dominique Rocher, Luna [+see also:
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film profile] by Elsa Diringer, Some Like It Veiled [+see also:
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film profile] by Sou Abadi, Château [+see also:
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film profile] by Modi Barry and Cédric Ido, Burn Out [+see also:
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film profile] by Yann Gozlan and Let the Girls Play [+see also:
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A clutch of comedies will also be on the menu, with movies such as La Ch’tite famille [+see also:
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film profile] by Laurent Tirard, Christmas & Co [+see also:
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film profile] by Alain Chabat, Normandie nue [+see also:
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film profile] by Philippe Le Guay, Stand-up Girl! [+see also:
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interview: Nawell Madani
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film profile] by Daniel Auteuil. COLCOA will also be organising a number of programmes dedicated to series, TV films, virtual reality, web series, classics, short films, focuses on female-directed debut films, documentaries, French co-productions, the women who make history (with the international premiere of The Lady in the Portrait by Charles de Meaux) and another focus on composer Laurent Perez del Mar, in addition to meetings and talks by myriad artists who have been invited to Los Angeles, such as Mélanie Laurent, Camélia Jordana, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Samuel Benchetrit, Dany Boon, Alain Chabat, Vanessa Paradis, Melvil Poupaud, Christian Carion, Philippe Le Guay, Anthony Bajon, Nawell Madani, Sou Abadi, Xavier Legrand, Eric Barbier, Modi Barry, Cédric Ido and Elsa Diringer, to name but a few.

(Translated from French)