François Ozon's The Crime is Mine [+leggi anche:
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intervista: François Ozon
scheda film] will open tomorrow as the out-of-competition premiere of the 35th Premiers Plans Festival in Angers (21-29 January), directed by Claude-Eric Poiroux. A sanctuary for the best young European talent, the event will, as usual, offer a very rich programme reflecting the diversity and quality of European cinema, whose diversity, quality and talent are constantly being renewed.

The ten feature films competing in the international competition will be judged by a jury chaired by French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve (with the support of Rebecca Marder, Mikhaël Hers, Félix Moati and Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, aka Para One). Two films unveiled at the Cannes Critics' Week are also in the running: Aftersun [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Scotland's Charlotte Wells and Simon Rieth's Summer Scars [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Simon Rieth
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intervista: Mikel Gurrea
scheda film] by Mikel Gurrea, Spare Keys [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by the French duo Jeanne Aslan- Paul Saintillan, which won New Directors, and the Franco-German-Italian-Iranian co-production A Tale of Shemroon [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi), one in Locarno (Valentina Maurel's Belgian-French-Costa Rica production I Have Electric Dreams [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Valentina Maurel
scheda film], which won three prizes), one in Berlin (Annika Pinske's Talking About the Weather [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Annika Pinske
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intervista: Andrea Bagney
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intervista: Andrei Tănase
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The Diagonale competitive section, which focuses on particularly daring works (and whose jury will be chaired by Samir Guesmi), includes, among others, the feature films Astrakan [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Cyril Schäublin
scheda film] by Swiss director Cyril Schäublin (Best Director Encounters prize in Berlin) and the documentaries How To Save A Dead Friend [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Russian exile Marusya Syroechkovskaya (special mention at Visions du réel and screened at ACID Cannes) and Fragile Memory [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Igor Ivanko
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In addition to the various competitions for short films (with a main jury chaired by French director Vincent Le Pors), school films, animated works and titles for young audiences, the Angevin festival, which will close with Noémie Lvovsky's The Great Magic [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kristine Kujath Thorp
intervista: Kristoffer Borgli
scheda film] by Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli, Attachment [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
scheda film] by French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic.


Finally, the programme also includes tributes and retrospectives (dedicated to Mia Hansen-Løve, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Jeanne Moreau, Sandrine Kiberlain and animation today in Central Europe), a day with the animation filmmaker Florence Miailhe (The Crossing [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jonathan Millet
intervista: Pauline Seigland
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intervista: Koya Kamura
scheda film] by Koya Kamura and Grand ciel [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Akihiro Hata
scheda film] by Akihiro Hata), not forgetting the Ateliers d'Angers residency with five selected projects, which Cineuropa will discuss in detail later.