Three projects were selected during the first 2026 edition of the third session of the CNC’s advance on receipts programme (fourth feature films and above).

Among them is the fantasy drama The Third Hand, which will be the tenth feature film by Michel Hazanavicius, who won five Oscars in 2012 for The Artist [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (including Best Picture and Best Director) and was unveiled in competition at Cannes (where it won the Best Actor award), as well as The Search [+lee también:
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Q&A: Michel Hazanavicius
ficha de la película] in 2014, Redoubtable [+lee también:
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Q&A: Michel Hazanavicius
ficha de la película] in 2017 and the animated film The Most Precious of Cargoes [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] in 2024. On the Croisette, the filmmaker also presented Final Cut [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] at the opening of the 2022 festival. Written by Michel Hazanavicius and Thomas Cailley (The Animal Kingdom [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]) based on the eponymous novel by Arthur Dreyfus, the screenplay for The Third Hand plunges us into the midst of the First World War, where a 14-year-old boy is caught in the crossfire. Wounded, he wakes up in the cellar of his ‘savior,’ a mad scientist who performs abominable transplants. Soon, the young man discovers a protrusion coming out of his navel... A hand! Production is being handled by Les Compagnons du cinéma, and StudioCanal will handle international sales and distribution in France.

The CNC will also support La Foudre, the 10th feature film by brothers Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu (in competition at Cannes in 2005 with To Paint or Make Love [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]), who are once again adapting a novel by Pierric Bailly, as they did with their last film, Jim's Story [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (unveiled at Cannes Première in 2024). The cast of their new opus is expected to include Hafsia Herzi and Arieh Worthalter. Production is being handled by Pierre Guyard for Nord-Ouest Films.

An advance on receipts will also go to La vie gourmande, which will bring together director Lucie Borleteau (who made her debut in competition at Locarno in 2014 with Fidelio, l'Odyssée d'Alice [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] and also attracted attention with Perfect Nanny [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] in 2019) and Chloé Mazlo (discovered at the 2020 Cannes Critics' Week with Skies of Lebanon [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]). The script centres on a thirty-something comic book artist who leads a gourmet lifestyle, but cancer invades her body and disrupts her relationship with taste, with others, and with herself. A new world then emerges, embellished with unexpected recipes...  Production is handled by Marine Arrighi De Casanova for Apsara Films.