Six projects were selected as part of the second college’s fifth 2018 session for an advance on earnings from the CNC. Among them is Mathieu Amalric's Serre moi fort [+leggi anche:
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The CNC will also be supporting the Franco-Belgian co-production Home Front [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lucas Belvaux
scheda film], Lucas Belvaux's 11^th feature (in competition at Cannes in 2006 with The Right of the Weakest [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], having previously opened Rotterdam Film Festival in 2012 with 38 Witnesses (One Night) [+leggi anche:
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Also due to receive an advance on earnings is Les Cris, the sixth feature film by Raoul Peck, adirector accustomed to major festivals (in competition at Locarno in 1988, Cannes in 1993, Berlin in 2005, the Directors' Fortnight in 2000, the Berlinale Special in 2010, the Panorama in 2014 and out of competition at Berlin in 2017 with The Young Karl Marx [+leggi anche:
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The CNC has selected two second feature film projects: the French-Belgian co-production Our Men [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rachel Lang
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intervista: Samuel Theis
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Also on the list is the animated project The Siren [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Sepideh Farsi and a documentary project entitled La Très Grande Évasion by Denis Robert (a famous investigative journalist who covered the Clearstream affair, which went onto inspire The Clearstream Affair [+leggi anche:
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The results of the first college of 2018’s final session were also announced, with five first feature film projects selected: Garçon chiffon [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Nicolas Maury, Le Grand Marin by the Russian actress Dinara Droukarova (screenplay by Raphaëlle Desplechin and Gilles Taurand - produced by Rouge International), The Third War [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Giovanni Aloi
scheda film] by Giovanni Aloi (co-written by Dominique Baumard - produced by Capricci Films and Bien ou Bien Productions), Vacations by Béatrice de Staël and Julien Léo Wolfenstein (produced by Films Grand Huit and RNB! Films) and Mémoire pour Anne Grandjean qui changea d’habit, de nom et de sexe by Jean-Claude Monod (production: Les Films d’Ici).

Lastly, the CNC has unveiled the first list of projects selected under the new funding scheme for genre films. Targeting fantasy, science fiction and horror, the 2018 selection (the 2019 edition will focus on musicals) has awarded funding of up to €500,000 to The Swarm [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Just Philippot
scheda film] by Just Philippot (screenplay by Jérôme Genevray and Franck Victor – production: Capricci Production and The Joker Films), Ogre [+leggi anche:
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