14/03/2024 - The film centre is also backing Hubert Charuel, Dominique Cabrera, Patric Chiha, Mariana Otero and Elsa Amiel, as well as three animated feature films and four first films

12 projects have been selected in the CNC’s first advance on receipts session for 2024. Stealing focus among the four titles chosen by the CNC’s third committee (for 4th feature films and beyond) is Nouvelle Vague by American director Richard Linklater (who earned six nominations at the 2015 Oscars - notably Best Film – thanks to Boyhood, which walked away with Berlin’s Silver Bear for Best Director the previous year; whose movies Fast Food Nation and Waking Life were respectively screened in competition in Cannes in 2006 and in Venice in 2001; and who has previously worked in Europe by way of Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight [+see also:
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The CNC will also be throwing its weight behind Des femmes comme les autres by Dominique Cabrera (nominated for 1998’s Best First Film César via The Other Shore, selected in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 1999 thanks to Nadia et les hippopotames, and screened in competition in Locarno 2001 by way of The Milk of Human Kindness), which is rumoured to star Hélène Vincent and Yolande Moreau, and which is produced by Everybody On Deck and Ad Libitum.

Rounding off the third committee’s selection are two documentary projects: Une jeunesse russe by Patric Chiha (selected for Venice’s International Critics’ Week via Domaine [+see also:
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Standing tall amongst the four projects chosen by the second committee (for 2nd and 3rd works) is Meteors by Hubert Charuel, whose debut feature film Bloody Milk [+see also:
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Two animation projects likewise feature among the lucky few selected by the second committee - Mu Yi et le beau général by Julien Chheng (produced by Studio La Cachette) and Happy End by Marie Amachoukeli (known in the fiction world for Party Girl [+see also:
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Last but not least, the first committee, which is dedicated to first feature films, also selected four projects, three of which are works of fiction - J’étais le même by Soufiane Adel (produced by Société Acéphale), Nino by Pauline Loquès (Blue Monday Productions) and Laurent dans le vent by Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture and Mattéo Eustachon (produced by Mabel Films) – with the fourth being an animated project entitled Ogresse by Cécile McLorin Salvant and Lia Bertels (steered by Miyu Productions).

(Translated from French)