12/10/2022 - The French institution will also support upcoming films from Alain Guiraudie, Thierry de Peretti, Alain Gomis, Claire Burger, Aude Léa Rapin and Judith Davis

Seven projects have been selected during the third 2022 session of the third (for fourth feature films and beyond) and the second advance on receipts committee (for sophomore films and third features) of the CNC.

Standing out among them is Les Indésirables [+see also:
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Among the fourth feature films and beyond, we find Miséricorde by Alain Guiraudie, which will be produced by CG Cinéma. This will be the filmmaker’s seventh feature film after No Rest for The Brave [+see also:
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film profile] (2009 Directors’ Fortnight), Stranger by the Lake [+see also:
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The CNC will also support À son image by Thierry de Peretti (which will be the filmmaker’s fourth feature film and is already in co-production with Arte France Cinéma - read the news), produced by Les Films Velvet.

Another project selected is Dao by Alain Gomis, who has not made a fiction feature since Félicité [+see also:
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film profile] (Grand Prix winner at the 2017 Berlinale). The new film from the filmmaker — who was first revealed in Locarno in 2001 with L’Afrance (winner of the Leopard for Best Debut Feature), before appearing at the 2007 Venice Days with Andalucia [+see also:
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The second advance on receipts committee has also selected Foreign Tongue [+see also:
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(Translated from French)