Given the French film industry’s current focus on attracting a new generation of viewers in light of the drop in cinema attendance on the part of 15-24-year-olds and certain regions’ recent criticism of national film education programmes for schools, the Sarlat Film Festival is understandably finding itself thrust centre stage.

It is, in fact, the only festival in France aimed at passing on a passion for film to youngsters (essentially high schoolers vis-a-vis the movie and audiovisual sectors). Between 5 and 9 November, on the occasion of the event’s 33rd edition, 600 young people hailing from all corners of France and, in some cases, from abroad will travel to the Perigord town, obviously to discover films but primarily to take part in a 5-day pedagogical programme focusing on the "Bac film" (this year centred on works by Olivier Assayas) and also on film careers by way of conferences and workshops led by sector professionals.

Stealing focus among the film screenings on this year’s agenda are six feature films gracing the Official Selection: Venetian competitors And Their Children After Them [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma and The Quiet Son [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Delphine e Muriel Coulin
scheda film] by Delphine and Muriel Coulin, Rabia [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mareike Engelhardt
scheda film] by Mareike Engelhardt, Queens of Drama [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Alexis Langlois, Planet B [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Aude Léa Rapin
scheda film] by Aude Léa Rapin and Bonjour l’asile [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Judith Davis.

The Jeunes Regards section will offer up nine titles: the Cannes attractions Wild Diamond [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Agathe Riedinger
scheda film] by Agathe Riedinger, Holy Cow [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Louise Courvoisier
scheda film] by Louise Courvoisier, Block Pass [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Antoine Chevrollier
scheda film] by Antoine Chevrollier, Across the Sea [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
scheda film] by Saïd Hamich Benlarbi and Animale [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Emma Benestan
scheda film] by Emma Benestan, and the Venice-screened movies The Mohican [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Frédéric Farrucci
scheda film] by Frédéric Farrucci and Little Jaffna [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lawrence Valin
scheda film] by Lawrence Valin, as well as Else [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Thibault Emin (discovered in Toronto) and Un monde merveilleux [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Giulio Callegari.

21 feature films stand tall in the Tour du monde line-up, including Armand [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
intervista: Renate Reinsve
scheda film] by Norway’s Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, Winter in Sokcho [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Koya Kamura
scheda film] by French-Japanese director Koya Kamura, three Italian films in the form of Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maura Delpero
scheda film] by Maura Delpero, The Damned [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Roberto Minervini and My Summer with Irene [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Carlo Sironi
scheda film] by Carlo Sironi), I’m Still Here [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Brazil’s Walter Salles, The Village Next to Paradise [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Somalian-Austrian director Mo Harawe, From Hilde, With Love [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Andreas Dresen
scheda film] by Germany’s Andreas Dresen, Mexico 86 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: César Díaz
scheda film] by Belgian-Guatemalan director César Díaz, In the Land of Brothers [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Raha Amirfazli, Alireza Gh…
scheda film] by Iranians Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi, Aïcha [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Tunisia’s Mehdi M. Barsaoui, The Fourth Wall [+leggi anche:
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intervista: David Oelhoffen
scheda film] by French filmmaker David Oelhoffen, and Haitian director Raoul Peck’s documentary Ernest Cole, Lost and Found [+leggi anche:
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This copious line-up is rounded off by a programme of special screenings (The Most Precious of Cargoes [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Michel Hazanavicius
scheda film] by Michel Hazanavicius, The Marching Band [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Emmanuel Courcol
scheda film] by Emmanuel Courcol, The Ties that Bind Us [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Carine Tardieu
scheda film] by Carine Tardieu and Magma by Cyprien Vial), a Young Audience section (showcasing animated movies A Boat in the Garden [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jean-François Laguionie and Hola Frida by André Kadi and Karine Vézina), and 13 short films.