05/03/2024 - The travelling event is unspooling between 6 and 19 March, showcasing 14 feature films (ten of which screening in competition), one medium-length film and five shorts

Documentaries are definitely taking centre stage in France, given that the crowning of Mati Diop’s Dahomey [+see also:
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Boasting Iranian filmmaker Mehran Tamadon as its ambassador, this travelling festival will offer up 10 films chosen from amongst the best documentaries released over the past year. Each participating cinema will show at least three films from the selection, with filmmakers and other speakers set to accompany these screenings. A jury of high school students (in partnership with the film education programme "Cinema, A Hundred Years of Youth) will award a Choice Award, with three feature films showing in premières, two unseen titles, and five short films also rounding off the agenda.

The line-up features La Rivière by Dominique Marchais (awarded the Louis Delluc Prize in 2023 and nominated for this year’s Best Documentary Lumière), Our Body [+see also:
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interview: Mona Achache
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Also gracing the showcase are In the Rearview [+see also:
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Show-stealing premières include Averroès & Rosa Parks [+see also:
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interview: Nicolas Philibert
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interview: Lea Glob
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interview: Mehran Tamadon
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(Translated from French)