The pilots of the Industry Village at the Arcs Festival are very satisfied because eight titles shown at the 74th Cannes Film Festival (6 to 17 July) have passed through the very popular professional Savoy gathering which today launches its call for projects for its next edition in December. 

Five feature films on the 2021 Cannes programme were discovered at the Work in Progress (WIP) of the Arcs: Lamb [+lee también:
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entrevista: Valdimar Jóhannsson
ficha de la película] by Icelandic director Valdimar Jóhannsson (presented at the 2019 WIP) which will have its world premiere in Official Selection (in Un Certain Regard), Clara Sola [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
ficha de la película] from the Swedish-Costa Rican director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (winner of the TitraFilm prize at the 2020 WIP) and The Hill Where Lionesses Roar [+lee también:
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entrevista: Luana Bajrami
ficha de la película] from French filmmaker of Kosovar origin Luàna Bajrami (Alphapanda Audience Engagement Award at the 2019 WIP) will all be revealed in Directors’ Fortnight, and two films selected in Critics’ Week: Small Body [+lee también:
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entrevista: Laura Samani
ficha de la película] from Italian director Laura Samani (WIP 2020) and The Gravedigger’s Wife [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] from Finnish filmmaker of Somalian origin Kadhar Ayderus Ahmed (WIP 2019).

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To this beautiful quintet of young talent are added three titles that had been selected at the Coproduction Village of the Arcs Film Festival: The Story of my Wife [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ildikó Enyedi
ficha de la película] by Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi (Coproduction Village 2016) which will compete for the 2021 Palme d’Or, Magnetic Beats [+lee también:
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entrevista: Vincent Maël Cardona
ficha de la película] by French filmmaker Vincent Maël Cardona (Coproduction Village 2018) which will have its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight, and Amparo [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] from Colombian director Simón Mesa Soto (who had participated in the 2017 Paris Coproduction Village organised by the Arcs team) which will compete in Critics’ Week. 

This Cannes spotlight on the excellent springboard (which in the past also benefited Laszlo Nemes, Alice Rohrwacher, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Carla Simón, Clément Cogitore, Juris Kurietis, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Grimur Hakonarsonn, Dalibor Matanic, Daniel Sandu and many others) that is Les Arcs for the biggest international festivals is all the more topical as today opens the call for projects for the Coproduction Village (11 to 14 December 2021) of the 13th Les Arcs Film Festival (11 to 18 December). 

Applications are to be submitted until 8 September 2021 and the 20 selected european projects in development will compete for the ArteKino International prize.

To note that in 2021 and 2022, the Industry Village will propose a 2-year focus, presenting projects at different stages of development and production from Switzerland, Austria and the alpine regions of Italy and France. This Focus is organised in partnership with Swiss Films, Zürcher FilmStiftung, Austrian Films, Torino Piemonte Film Commission, Film Commission Vallée d’Aoste, Veneto Film Commission, Trentino Film Commission, IDM-Südtirol Alto Adige and the Auvergne-Rhône Alpes region.