27/10/2023 - The 2024 call for projects for the successful residential writing coaching scheme aimed at French-speaking screenwriters and filmmakers closes on 22 November

The auteurs of the Annual Selection walking on the northern beaches of Finistère (© Brigitte Bouillot/Le Groupe Ouest)

Close [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Eden Dambrine
interview: Lukas Dhont
interview: Lukas Dhont
film profile] by Lukas Dhont (nominated for the 2023 Oscar award for Best International Feature Film), Tiger Stripes [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Amanda Nell Eu
film profile] by Amanda Nell Eu (Grand Prix winner in Critics’ Week in Cannes), The Dreamer [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Anaïs Tellenne
film profile] by Anaïs Tellenne (revealed in Orizzonti Extra in Venice), All To Play For [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Delphine Deloget
film profile] by Delphine Deloget (unveiled in Cannes in Un Certain Regard), the beautiful surprise Junkyard Dog [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Jean-Baptiste Durand and Time Out [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Eve Duchemin
film profile] by Eve Duchemin: the projects that have been through the programmes of Le Groupe Ouest, particularly the Annual Selection (read our article about the 2023 promotion), have once again made the headlines this past year. 

Every year, the Annual Selection, the writing coaching scheme of Le Groupe Ouest (directed by Charlotte Le Vallégan and Antoine Le Bos) follows eight fiction projects (live action or animation), carried by French-speaking screenwriters and filmmakers. The happy few who are selected will participate in four collective work sessions between March and December 2024, in residency by the seaside in Plounéour-Brignogan-Plages (Finistère), under the supervision of screenwriter-consultants.

Standing out among the projects selected in previous editions are Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Massoud Bakhshi
film profile] by Massoud Bakhshi (winner at Sundance in 2020), Akelarre [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pablo Agüero
film profile] by Pablo Agüero (in competition in San Sebastián in 2020), three films appreciated in the 2021 and 2020 editions of Critics’ Week in Cannes (A Tale of Love and Desire [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Leyla Bouzid, Skies of Lebanon [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Chloé Mazlo, and Beasts [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Naël Marandin), as well as Cuties [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Maïmouna Doucouré
film profile] by Maïmouna Doucouré, Divines [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Houda Benyamina
film profile] by Houda Benyamina, and My Life as a Courgette [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Claude Barras
film profile] by Claude Barras, other films recently shot (Les Fantômes [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jonathan Millet
interview: Pauline Seigland
film profile] by Jonathan Millet, Little Jaffna by Lawrence Valin — read the article) and set to be ready in the winter (La Tour de Glace by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and L'Engloutie by Louise Hémon).

The call for projects for the 2024 Annual Selection is open until 22 November 2023.

(Translated from French)