Yesterday, The Last Night of Amore [+lee también:
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entrevista: Andrea Di Stefano
ficha de la película] by Andrea di Stefano (which will be released in France on 7 July) opened the third Reims Polar crime-film festival (4-9 April), as part of the wider homage paid to Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino (who also stars in the programmed titles The Traitor [+lee también:
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Q&A: Marco Bellocchio
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entrevista: Mario Martone
entrevista: Pierfrancesco Favino
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entrevista: Stefano Sollima
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entrevista: Stefano Sollima
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Standing out on the menu at the Champagne-based event are 56 features and one series hailing from 19 countries, including nine films in the main competition, which will be weighed up by a jury comprising Patricia Mazuy, Cédric Jimenez, Émilie Dequenne, Alexis Manenti, Caroline Proust, Yannick Renier and Pierre Rochefort. Also locking horns are Lost & Found [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Spaniard Jorge Dorado, Upon Entry [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alejandro Rojas y Juan Seb…
ficha de la película] by Spanish-based Venezuelan directors Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez (first screened at Tallinn Black Nights), and The Bone Breakers [+lee también:
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entrevista: Vincenzo Pirrotta
ficha de la película] by Italy’s Vincenzo Pirrotta.

The competing titles also include the award-festooned Brighton 4th [+lee también:
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entrevista: Levan Koguashvili
ficha de la película] by Georgia’s Levan Koguashvili, Goliath by Kazakh helmer Adilkhan Yerzhanov, the Brazilian flick Property by Daniel Bandeira, and three Asian titles (About Kim Sohee by July Jung, Limbo by Soi Cheang and Beyond the Wall by Vahid Jalilvand).

The competitive Sang Neuf (lit. “New Blood”) section will pit six titles against each other (including the European features Inside [+lee también:
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entrevista: Vasilis Katsoupis
ficha de la película] by Greece’s Vasilis Katsoupis and Burning Hearts [+lee también:
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entrevista: Pippo Mezzapesa
ficha de la película] by Italy’s Pippo Mezzapesa), and they will be judged by a jury chaired by novelist Maxime Chattam, flanked by Cédric Kahn, Laurent Stocker, Tracy Gotoas and Anne Azoulay.

Of note among the out-of-competition films are Darkland: The Return by Denmark’s Fenar Ahmad, The Daughter of Albino Rodrigue by French director Christine Dory (see the article), Killing Blues by her fellow countrywoman Cécilia Rouaud and Prison 77 [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Spaniard Alberto Rodriguez, as well as the latest outings by Paul Schrader and Lav Diaz.

Also on the programme are the first three episodes of the series Grace of Heaven, which has just earned Margot Bancilhon an acting award at Series Mania.

Tribute will be paid to French crime films, with the festival welcoming as its special guests Dominik Moll, Vincent Lindon, Thierry de Peretti, Sébastien Marnier (who will pick up the 2023 Claude Chabrol Award), Yann Gozlan, Olivier Marchal, Olivier Megaton and Frédéric Tellier. They will each present a title from their filmographies, as will jury members Cédric Kahn and Patricia Mazuy. For his part, Olivier Assayas will give a “film class”, while Elsa Zylberstein will dispense an “acting lesson”. Also worth noting is a programme called “Nod to Bertrand Tavernier”.

Lastly, this year, Reims Polar will dedicate a special programme to Scandinavia through six films (The Guilty [+lee también:
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entrevista: Gustav Möller
ficha de la película] by Gustav Möller, The Nile Hilton Incident [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tarik Saleh
ficha de la película] by Tarik Saleh, A Hijacking [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tobias Lindholm
ficha de la película] by Tobias Lindholm, Let the Right One In [+lee también:
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entrevista: John Nordling
entrevista: Tomas Alfredson
ficha de la película] by Tomas Alfredson, With Blood on My Hands – Pusher II [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Nicolas Winding Refn and The Keeper of Lost Causes [+lee también:
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entrevista: Eugenio Mira
ficha de la película] by Mikkel Norgaard), and will organise a tribute to Warner Bros Studios (in partnership with the Cinémathèque française) plus a section devoted to restored films.