09/04/2025 - Ten fiction features battling it out for the Sauvage Prize and nine documentaries fighting for the Present Prize will be included in the Parisian line-up between 15 and 29 April

The Swedish Torpedo [+see also:
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interview: Frida Kempff
film profile] by Sweden’s Frida Kempff (discovered in Toronto’s Centrepiece section, victorious in Mons and due for release in France on 13 August by Nour Films) will open the 20th edition of "L'Europe autour de l'Europe" on 15 April. Also presenting itself as the Paris European Film Festival from hereon in, the event founded and steered by Irena Bilic will unspool across various venues in the French capital (notably at Les 7 Parnassiens, Le Studio des Ursulines, the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation, Le Pathé les Fauvettes, The Polish Library in Paris, The Serbian Cultural Centre and the National Institute of Eastern Languages and Civilisations) until 29 April.

Three competitions steal focus on the agenda, the main one of which will award the Sauvage Prize and will consist of ten feature films. Standing tall among these are On Falling [+see also:
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interview: Laura Carreira
film profile] by Portugal’s Laura Carreira (unveiled in Toronto, awarded the Best Director Prize in San Sebastián and similarly successful in Dublin and Angers) and Loveable [+see also:
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interview: Lilja Ingolfsdottir
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Joining them in the line-up are Jahia’s Summer [+see also:
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film profile] by Belgium’s Olivier Meys, Sun Never Again [+see also:
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interview: David Jovanović
film profile] by Serbia’s David Jovanović (acclaimed in Tallin’s Black Nights Festival), Les intrus by Iran’s Reza Serkanian (a production bringing together France, Germany and the Czech Republic), My Late Summer [+see also:
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film profile] by Bosnia’s Danis Tanović, Maret [+see also:
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film profile] by Luxembourg’s Laura Schroeder, Nebelkind – The End of Silence by Czech-Austrian director Teresa Kotyk, and two medium-length movies: Quiet Nights by English director Harry Batty and Dutch filmmaker Misja Pekel’s documentary The Insides of our Lives.

Dedicated to documentaries, the Present Competition will offer up nine titles, including the feature films At The Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking [+see also:
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interview: Maja Novaković
film profile] by Bosnia’s Maja Novaković (triumphant in Sheffield), Objeto de estudio by Spain’s Raúl Alaejos (awarded the Jury Prize in MajorDocs), The Trail Left by Time [+see also:
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film profile] by fellow Spaniards Luis "Soto" Muñoz and Alfredo Picazo (victorious in Seville and Gijón), Nonkonform by Germany’s Arne Körner, the Ukrainian production And They Will Talk About Us by Italy’s Sieva Diamantakos, Immémorial, chants de la grande nuit by French director Béatrice Kordon, and the medium-length films First Milk by Greece’s Panagiotis Papafragkos and Graziano - A Hermit's Story by Germany’s Jozefien Van der Aelst.

Equally noteworthy in this anniversary edition of "L'Europe autour de l'Europe" is a competition comprising 26 short films, a line-up entitled "Visages d’hommes, visages d’histoire" and, in terms of encounters-events, Sleeping with a Tiger [+see also:
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interview: Anja Salomonowitz
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(Translated from French)