16/10/2025 - The French body will also support ten other projects, including the upcoming films by Christophe Honoré, Philippe Faucon, Joël Karekezi and Charlotte Le Bon

Eleven projects have been selected in the fourth 2025 session of the CNC’s advance on receipts scheme.

Standing out among the three titles chosen by the third committee (for fourth features and beyond) is L’enragé, which will be the seventh feature by Emmanuelle Bercot, a filmmaker familiar with major festivals such as Cannes (Standing Tall [+see also:
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An advance on receipts also goes to Mariage au goût d’orange, which will be Christophe Honoré’s 16th fiction feature. The director has presented seven films at Cannes, including Love Songs [+see also:
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Also among the successful applicants is Philippe Faucon with Fille de…, the filmmaker’s 11th feature. He has proven popular, among other places, in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2015 with Fatima [+see also:
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Dedicated to second and third features, the second committee of the advance on receipts has notably selected the project Capitaine Mbaye by Joël Karekezi (who rose to fame at Toronto in 2018 with The Mercy of the Jungle [+see also:
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Another advance on receipts will go to La symphonie du sens, the second feature by Charlotte Le Bon, after Falcon Lake [+see also:
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The CNC will likewise back the documentary A Road Less Travelled by Alexander Murphy (whose debut, Goodbye Sisters, is due for release in French cinemas on 18 February), a sophomore feature that will be staged by Goodseed Productions.

Finally, the CNC has selected four debut features for an advance on receipts: La tempête by Victoria Lafaurie and Hector Albouker (produced by Odessa Productions and Cinefrance Studios), 16 mesures by Yvan Georges-Dit-Soudril (steered by Leto Films), Pour toi je reviendrai by Cyrielle Raingou (produced by Artisan du Film) and the animated project Bergeronnette by Lucrèce Andreae (backed by Miyu Productions).

(Translated from French)