Welcoming each year nearly a thousand professionals and attracting a large audience (over 27,000 viewers last year), the Marseille Music & Cinema Festival (MCM) will celebrate its 25th edition from 1-6 April 2024 and will open with the Canadian-French production Temporaries [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Pier-Philippe Chevigny (with an original score by Félicia Atkinson).

Standing out among the ten feature films (all of them first, second, or third features) competing for the 2024 Grand Prix dedicated to the best original score (which will be handed out by a jury composed of directors Mounia Meddour and Blandine Lenoir and composers Selma Mutal and Audrey Ismaël), are Elbow [+lee también:
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entrevista: Aslı Özarslan
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entrevista: Katalin Moldovai
ficha de la película] by Hungary’s Katalin Moldovai (which played in Toronto, original score by Cári Tibor), Slow [+lee también:
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entrevista: Marija Kavtaradze
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entrevista: Ninna Pálmadóttir
ficha de la película] by Iceland’s Ninna Pálmadóttir (unveiled in Toronto, score by Petur Thor Benediktsson).

Also in competition are The Land Within [+lee también:
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entrevista: Fisnik Maxville
ficha de la película] by Kosovo’s Fisnik Maxville (Best Debut Feature in Tallinn, score by Nicolas Rabaeus), Belgian production Katika Bluu [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Stéphane Vuillet and Stéphane Xhroüet (score by Thomas Faure), Jour de Merde by Canada’s Kévin T Landry (score by Éloi Ragot) and the documentaries Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano [+lee también:
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entrevista: Cyril Aris
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ficha de la película] by France’s Nicolas Peduzzi (which played in Cannes’ ACID competition, score by Gaël Rakotondrabe).

There will also be a competition of 65 short films (12 animated, 6 documentaries and 47 fiction films) from 31 countries and, among the guests of honour (given carte blanche) are Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen (who will be delivering a masterclass), French conductor Zahia Ziouani (whose journey is retraced in a fictional mode in Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar’s Divertimento [+lee también:
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In the Duets programme, which highlights pairs of composers and directors, we find Audrey Ismaël and Vanessa Filho with Consent [+lee también:
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entrevista: Zeno Graton
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The They Are Back section will offer The Dreamer [+lee también:
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entrevista: Anaïs Tellenne
ficha de la película] by Anaïs Tellenne (score by Amaury Chabauty) and premieres of Nouveau monde by Vincent Cappello (score by Matthieu Di Stefano), The Fantastic Three by Michaël Dichter (score by Hugo Gonzalez-Pioli) and Six Feet Over by Karim Bensalah (score by Adrien Casalis). 

The MCM’s Favorites section of this edition will be dedicated to Jérémy Clapin (with Meanwhile on Earth [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni
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entrevista: Erwan Le Duc
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Beyond multiple cartes blanches (dedicated to the Thessaloniki, Tallinn Black Nights, and Geneva festivals), conferences, roundtables, a family programme and film-concerts, the programme will also include a Workshop in Musical Composition for Cinema directed this year by Pablo Pico.

Finally, the International Market for Musical Composition for Cinema will take place on 4 and 5 April.