14/05/2025 - The Croisette is showcasing five feature films previously singled out by the Alpine festival, whose next edition will unspool between 13 and 20 December with Greek cinema stealing the limelight

Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski

The Industry Village hosted by the Les Arcs Film Festival is set for the spotlight in the 78th Cannes Film Festival, since five feature film projects screened within the Alpine resort are now scheduled to world premiere within the various selections and showcases on the Croisette. Three of these works were unveiled in Les Arcs’ Work in Progress section (Sound of Falling [+see also:
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film profile] by Germany’s Mascha Schilinski, which will battle it out for the 2025 Palme d’Or, Reedland [+see also:
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film profile] by the Netherlands’ Sven Bresser, which is competing in Critics’ Week, and A Light That Never Goes Out by Finland’s Lauri-Matti Parppei, which is screening in the ACID line-up), while the other two were presented in the Co-Production Village (The Girl in the Snow [+see also:
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interview: Louise Hémon
film profile] by French director Louise Hémon and The Girls We Want by the equally French Prïncia Car, which are both selected for the Directors’ Fortnight). They’ll be treading in the tracks of other successful films which have followed the same Les Arcs – Cannes trajectory in the past, more recently Flow [+see also:
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interview: Gints Zilbalodis
interview: Red Carpet @ European Film …
film profile] by Gints Zilbalodis and Armand [+see also:
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interview: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
interview: Renate Reinsve
film profile] by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, as well as the first and second features by Laetitia Dosch, Lukas Dhont, Laszlo Nemes and Alice Rohrwacher.

The 17th edition of the Les Arcs Film Festival will unfold between 13 and 20 December and will shine a light on Greek cinema, a focus organised in partnership with the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center - Creative Greece.

The Co-Production Village call for submissions will open in May, running until 29 July, while the Work in Progress call will open in August with a deadline of 15 October.

(Translated from French)