12/03/2026 - The French centre will also support upcoming films by brothers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu and Lucie Borleteau and Chloé Mazlo

Director Michel Hazanavicius (© 2024 Fabrizio de Gennaro for Cineuropa - fadege.it, @fadege.it)

Three projects were selected during the first 2026 edition of the third session of the CNC’s advance on receipts programme (fourth feature films and above).

Among them is the fantasy drama The Third Hand, which will be the tenth feature film by Michel Hazanavicius, who won five Oscars in 2012 for The Artist [+see also:
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Q&A: Michel Hazanavicius
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film profile] in 2024. On the Croisette, the filmmaker also presented Final Cut [+see also:
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film profile] at the opening of the 2022 festival. Written by Michel Hazanavicius and Thomas Cailley (The Animal Kingdom [+see also:
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film profile]) based on the eponymous novel by Arthur Dreyfus, the screenplay for The Third Hand plunges us into the midst of the First World War, where a 14-year-old boy is caught in the crossfire. Wounded, he wakes up in the cellar of his ‘savior,’ a mad scientist who performs abominable transplants. Soon, the young man discovers a protrusion coming out of his navel... A hand! Production is being handled by Les Compagnons du cinéma, and StudioCanal will handle international sales and distribution in France.

The CNC will also support La Foudre, the 10th feature film by brothers Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu (in competition at Cannes in 2005 with To Paint or Make Love [+see also:
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An advance on receipts will also go to La vie gourmande, which will bring together director Lucie Borleteau (who made her debut in competition at Locarno in 2014 with Fidelio, l'Odyssée d'Alice [+see also:
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(Translated from French)