29/03/2024 - The unmissable rendezvous for film and cinematic music professionals will take place in Marseille from 1-6 April

Welcoming each year nearly a thousand professionals and attracting a large audience (over 27,000 viewers last year), the Marseille Music & Cinema Festival (MCM) will celebrate its 25th edition from 1-6 April 2024 and will open with the Canadian-French production Temporaries [+see also:
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Standing out among the ten feature films (all of them first, second, or third features) competing for the 2024 Grand Prix dedicated to the best original score (which will be handed out by a jury composed of directors Mounia Meddour and Blandine Lenoir and composers Selma Mutal and Audrey Ismaël), are Elbow [+see also:
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interview: Aslı Özarslan
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interview: Katalin Moldovai
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interview: Marija Kavtaradze
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interview: Ninna Pálmadóttir
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Also in competition are The Land Within [+see also:
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interview: Fisnik Maxville
film profile] by Kosovo’s Fisnik Maxville (Best Debut Feature in Tallinn, score by Nicolas Rabaeus), Belgian production Katika Bluu [+see also:
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interview: Cyril Aris
film profile] by Lebanese filmmaker Cyril Aris (special mention in Karlovy Vary, score by Anthony Sahyoun) and On the Edge [+see also:
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There will also be a competition of 65 short films (12 animated, 6 documentaries and 47 fiction films) from 31 countries and, among the guests of honour (given carte blanche) are Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen (who will be delivering a masterclass), French conductor Zahia Ziouani (whose journey is retraced in a fictional mode in Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar’s Divertimento [+see also:
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In the Duets programme, which highlights pairs of composers and directors, we find Audrey Ismaël and Vanessa Filho with Consent [+see also:
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interview: Zeno Graton
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The They Are Back section will offer The Dreamer [+see also:
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interview: Anaïs Tellenne
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The MCM’s Favorites section of this edition will be dedicated to Jérémy Clapin (with Meanwhile on Earth [+see also:
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interview: Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni
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interview: Erwan Le Duc
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Beyond multiple cartes blanches (dedicated to the Thessaloniki, Tallinn Black Nights, and Geneva festivals), conferences, roundtables, a family programme and film-concerts, the programme will also include a Workshop in Musical Composition for Cinema directed this year by Pablo Pico.

Finally, the International Market for Musical Composition for Cinema will take place on 4 and 5 April. 

(Translated from French)