Five projects have been selected during the first 2022 session of the CNC’s third advance on receipts committee (for fourth feature films onwards).

Standing tall among them is The Plough [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which will be the 28th fiction feature film by Philippe Garrel who has been selected to compete six times in Venice (scooping the Silver Lion in 1991 and 2005), once in Berlin (with The Salt of Tears [+lee también:
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entrevista: Souheila Yacoub
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An advance on receipts is also winging its way to Pourquoi tu souris by Chad Chenouga and Christine Paillard (who co-wrote her co-director’s two most recent opuses). This will be the former’s 4th feature film after Mes Fantômes (screened in Locarno’s Cinéastes du Présent section in 2001), Do It Right [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (honoured with a Best Newcomer nomination at the 2018 Lumière Awards) and Le Principal (currently in post-production – read our article). TS Productions are managing the project.

The CNC is also throwing its weight behind Borgo, Stéphane Demoustier’s 4th feature film after 40-Love [+lee también:
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Last but not least, two documentary projects jostle among the lucky few awarded an advance on receipts: Ricardo and Painting [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Barbet Schroeder (produced by Charles Gillibert on behalf of Les Films du Losange) and Les Vieux by Claus Drexel (shortlisted for the Louis-Delluc Prize in 2014 thanks to Au bord du monde [+lee también:
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