The world premiere of Driving Madeleine [+leggi anche:
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In the running for the 2022 Valois d’Or are, in particular, two titles revealed in Cannes, namely The Worst Ones [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Romane Gueret e Lise Akoka
scheda film] by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (winner of Un Certain Regard) and The Blue Caftan [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Maryam Touzani, but also Houria [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Mounia Meddour, Angry Annie [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Blandine Lenoir (discovered recently in Locarno), Eloïse's Journey [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Guillaume Renusson, The Sixth Child [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Léopold Legrand, Habib, la grande aventure [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Benoît Mariage
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24 films feature in the premiere programme, amongst which the Cannes competitor Forever Young [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
scheda film] by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, A Woman by Jean-Paul Civeyrac (unveiled in Locarno), The (in) famous Youssef Salem by Baya Kasmi, Two Tickets to Greece by Marc Fitoussi, A Love Story [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Alexis Michalik, The Vanished President [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jean-Marc Peyrefitte, Le prix du passage [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Thierry Binisti, Citoyen d’honneur by Mohamed Hamidi, Grand Expectations [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Sylvain Desclous, Maria into Life [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller, The Nannies [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Julien Rambaldi, Ride Above [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Christian Duguay, as well as Simone, a Woman of the Century by Olivier Dahan.

The section Les Flamboyants will present Sixteen [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Rachid Bouchareb, the Berlin titles The Line [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ursula Meier
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intervista: Laurent Larivière
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scheda film] by Véra Belmont.

In the Premiers rendez-vous section are notable La passagère [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Héloïse Pelloquet, Vacations by Béatrice Sebbah de Staël and Léo Wolfenstein, C’est mon homme by Guillaume Bureau and the Cannes title Love According to Dalva [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Emmanuelle Nicot
intervista: Emmanuelle Nicot, Julie Es…
scheda film] by Emmanuelle Nicot, while the Nouveaux Regards programme includes The Astronaut [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Nicolas Giraud, Amore Mio [+leggi anche:
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To note as well the Coups de coeur titles Lie With Me [+leggi anche:
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The rest of the very rich programme includes an homage (in films) to Pathé, a section celebrating the 15 years of Orange Studio, some cinema-concerts, a retrospective of previous editions of the festival and a tribute to William Hurt.