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intervista: Eden Dambrine
intervista: Lukas Dhont
intervista: Lukas Dhont
scheda film] by Lukas Dhont (nominated for the 2023 Oscar award for Best International Feature Film), Tiger Stripes [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Amanda Nell Eu
scheda film] by Amanda Nell Eu (Grand Prix winner in Critics’ Week in Cannes), The Dreamer [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anaïs Tellenne
scheda film] by Anaïs Tellenne (revealed in Orizzonti Extra in Venice), All To Play For [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Delphine Deloget
scheda film] by Delphine Deloget (unveiled in Cannes in Un Certain Regard), the beautiful surprise Junkyard Dog [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jean-Baptiste Durand and Time Out [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Eve Duchemin
scheda film] by Eve Duchemin: the projects that have been through the programmes of Le Groupe Ouest, particularly the Annual Selection (read our article about the 2023 promotion), have once again made the headlines this past year. 

Every year, the Annual Selection, the writing coaching scheme of Le Groupe Ouest (directed by Charlotte Le Vallégan and Antoine Le Bos) follows eight fiction projects (live action or animation), carried by French-speaking screenwriters and filmmakers. The happy few who are selected will participate in four collective work sessions between March and December 2024, in residency by the seaside in Plounéour-Brignogan-Plages (Finistère), under the supervision of screenwriter-consultants.

Standing out among the projects selected in previous editions are Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Massoud Bakhshi
scheda film] by Massoud Bakhshi (winner at Sundance in 2020), Akelarre [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Pablo Agüero
scheda film] by Pablo Agüero (in competition in San Sebastián in 2020), three films appreciated in the 2021 and 2020 editions of Critics’ Week in Cannes (A Tale of Love and Desire [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Leyla Bouzid, Skies of Lebanon [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Chloé Mazlo, and Beasts [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Naël Marandin), as well as Cuties [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maïmouna Doucouré
scheda film] by Maïmouna Doucouré, Divines [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Houda Benyamina
scheda film] by Houda Benyamina, and My Life as a Courgette [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Claude Barras
scheda film] by Claude Barras, other films recently shot (Les Fantômes [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jonathan Millet
intervista: Pauline Seigland
scheda film] by Jonathan Millet, Little Jaffna by Lawrence Valin — read the article) and set to be ready in the winter (La Tour de Glace by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and L'Engloutie by Louise Hémon).

The call for projects for the 2024 Annual Selection is open until 22 November 2023.