Madame de Sévigné by Isabelle Brocard will today open the 14th La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival (headed by Charlotte Serrand) which will take place from 16 to 22 October and feature many talents, with encounters organised with Emmanuelle Devos (present with The Dreamer [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anaïs Tellenne
scheda film] by Anaïs Tellenne and A Silence [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Joachim Lafosse
scheda film] by Joachim Lafosse, among other films), Damien Bonnard (for the world premiere of Splendid Hotel [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Pedro Aguilera), Barbet Schroeder (Ricardo and Painting [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]). Also worth noting are tributes to the recently departed Kenneth Anger, Jane Birkin, Sophie Fillières, William Friedkin, Jacques Rozier and Ryūichi Sakamoto.

In International Competition, the jury (composed of French director and casting director Antoinette Boulat, French actress Maud Wyler and Swiss-Italian programmer Giovanni Marchini Camia) will have to decide between ten titles, two of which were in Competition in Venice (the Golden Lion Poor Things [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Suzy Bemba
Q&A: Yorgos Lanthimos
scheda film] by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, and the fascinating The Beast [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bertrand Bonello
scheda film] by France’s Bertrand Bonello), Puan [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Benjamín Naishtat e María …
scheda film] by Argentina’s María Alché and Benjamin Naishtat (winner of two awards in San Sebastián) and a Berlin competition title (the Chinese animated film Art College 1994 by Liu Jian). Also competing are three titles first unveiled in Sundance (When It Melts [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Veerle Baetens
scheda film] by Belgium’s Veerle Baetens, The Fishbowl [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Puerto Rican director Glorimar Marrero Sánchez, and Drift [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Singapore’s Anthony Chen), the documentary The Echo [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Mexican-Salvadoran filmmaker Tatiana Huezo (winner of the Encounters award for Best Director) and two films discovered in Giornate degli Autori in Venice: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person by Canadian director Ariane Louis-Seize (winner of the Best Director award) and Sidonie in Japan [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Élise Girard
scheda film] by French director Elise Girard.

Among the feature films in the Nouvelles Vagues competition (whose jury includes French filmmaker Nathan Ambrosioni, Belgian programmer Juliette Duret and Spanish director of photography Artur Tort Pujol), we can mention the French premieres of Camping du Lac [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Éléonore Saintagnan - Reg…
scheda film] by Belgium’s Eléonore Saintagnan, Knit’s Island [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by France’s Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’helgoualc’h, Foremost by Night [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Víctor Iriarte
scheda film] by Spain’s Víctor Iriarte, of the documentary In Ukraine [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Piotr Pawlus, Tomasz Wolski
scheda film] by Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski, and of The Human Surge 3 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Argentine director Eduardo Williams.

Dedicated to singular and accessible isions, the Perspectives section will offer the French premieres of Maret [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Luxembourg’s Laura Schroeder, Bitten [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Romain de Saint-Blanquat
scheda film] by Romain de Saint-Blanquat, and of the documentary Songs of Earth [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Norway’s Margeth Olin, but also The Girls Are Alright [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Itsaso Arana
scheda film] by Spain’s Itsaso Arana and Scrapper [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by British director Charlotte Regan among other films.

Standing out in the Variété section (which focuses on films closer to genre cinema and fantasy) are The Invisible Fight by Estonian filmmaker Rainer Sarnet and Polite Society by British director Nida Manzoor. Worth mentioning, too, are the Special Screenings (which include Me Captain [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Italy’s Matteo Garrone and Green Border [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Polish director Agnieszka Holland, among others) and the programmes Music Hall and En Famille ! (with animation titles such as Chicken for Linda! [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach).