12 projects have been selected as part of the second 2023 session of the CNC’s advance on receipts committee.

Among them are four second or third features, including Les femmes au balcon [+lee también:
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entrevista: Noémie Merlant
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ficha de la película] (Special Screening in Cannes’ Official Selection in 2021). Written by the director in collaboration with Céline Sciamma, the film — described as a bloody comedy that mixes genres — will focus on three women in a Marseille apartment during a heatwave. Facing them is their mysterious neighbour, the object of all their fantasies. But the women soon find themselves stuck in a terrifying and wild scenario, with freedom their only goal… The director will also be in the cast, alongside Souheila Yacoub and Sandra Codreanu, and the film should begin filming next summer under the leadership of Pierre Guyard for Nord-Ouest Films.

An advance on receipts will also go to À voix basse by Leyla Bouzid (well received in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori in 2015 with As I Open My Eyes [+lee también:
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entrevista: Leyla Bouzid
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entrevista: Emma Benestan
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entrevista: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
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Among the ranks of well-established filmmakers, the CNC will support Paris Paradis [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Marjane Satrapi (produced by Vito Films), Love Boat by Bruno Podalydès (Why Not Productions) and Tout recommencera by Jérôme Bonnell (freely inspired by the novel Amours by Leonor de Recondo, and set to be produced by Diaphana Films).

Finally, also worth signalling are five feature debuts that will also benefit from an advance on receipts,s and which are Barbès d’or by Hassan Guerrar (produced by East Films and 24 25 Films, filming this summer), Des preuves d’amour by Alice Douard (produced by Apsara Films), Zion by Nelson Foix (produced by De l’Autre Côté du Périph’ and Kissfilms), Camera Obscura by Yann Rabanier (produced by Gladys Glover Films) and the documentary Imago by Déni Oumar Pitsaev (Tryptique Films).