17/10/2023 - Taking place between 18 and 23 October, the festival's 12th edition will host competitions, retrospectives and Focus for Monia Chokri, Joachim Lafosse and Dominique Marchais

The Nature of Love by Monia Chokri

After its world premiere in Toronto, After the Fire [+see also:
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interview: Monia Chokri
film profile] closing the festival), Belgian director Joachim Lafosse through a Focus (including amongst others A Silence [+see also:
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interview: Joachim Lafosse
film profile] and a conversation with Pierre Salvadori) and French documentarian Dominique Marchais (retrospective including his latest film, La Rivière), as well as many cartes blanches such as the one dedicated to production outfit Kidam.

In the international feature competition, the jury, consisting of actress Camélia Jordana and three filmmakers (Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu and the French Lola Quivoron and Thomas Cailley) will have to choose between nine titles: The Hypnosis [+see also:
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interview: Asta Kamma August
interview: Ernst De Geer
film profile] by Swedish filmmaker Ernst de Geer (Best Actor award and Europa Cinemas label in Karlovy Vary), Milk [+see also:
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interview: Stefanie Kolk
film profile] by Dutch director Stefanie Kolk (discovered in Giornate degli Autori), Spirit of Ecstasy [+see also:
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interview: Héléna Klotz
film profile] by French filmmaker Héléna Klotz (Platform competition in Toronto), The Vourdalak [+see also:
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interview: Adrien Beau
film profile] by her fellow countryman Adrien Beau (International Critics’ Week in Venice), Toll [+see also:
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film profile] by Brazilian director Carolina Markowicz (appreciated in Toronto) and four documentaries: Keeping Mum [+see also:
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interview: Emilie Brisavoine
film profile] by French filmmaker Émilie Brisavoine (discovered in Karlovy Vary), Samsara [+see also:
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interview: Lois Patiño
film profile] by Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño (Special Encounters Jury prize in Berlin), My Worst Enemy [+see also:
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interview: Mehran Tamadon
film profile] by Iranian director Mehran Tamadon (also unveiled in Encounters) and Nome [+see also:
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film profile] by Bissau-Guinean filmmaker Sana Na N’Hada (selected in ACID Cannes).

Open to all formats and exclusive to films made outside classic financial schemes, the Contrebande competition will also present nine films, including two French features: After [+see also:
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interview: Anthony Lapia
film profile] by Anthony Lapia (discovered in the Panorama section in Berlin) and Personne n’a rien vu by Clothilde Leclercq. Also noteworthy in the festival’s programme are a short film competition, premieres for The Beast [+see also:
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interview: Bertrand Bonello
film profile] by Bertrand Bonello, La Chimera [+see also:
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film profile] by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher, and No Love Lost [+see also:
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interview: Erwan Le Duc
film profile] by Erwan Le Duc, and a rich documentary selection: Madame Hoffman by Sébastien Lifshitz, Orlando, My Political Biography [+see also:
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interview: Paul B Preciado
film profile] by Spanish director Paul B. Preciado, the French-Colombian co-production Nuestra Película by Diana Bustamante, Ici Brazza by Antoine Boutet, On the Edge [+see also:
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film profile] by Nicolas Peduzzi and Little Girl Blue [+see also:
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interview: Mona Achache
film profile] by Mona Achache.

(Translated from French)