Il futuro del cinema europeo in mostra a Premiers Plans
- Incentrata sui giovani talenti, la 37ma edizione del festival di Angers si terrà dal 18 al 26 gennaio e renderà omaggio a Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Philibert e Juho Kuosmanen

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Screening out of competition this coming Saturday 18 January, The Ties That Bind Us [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Carine Tardieu
scheda film] by Carine Tardieu is set to open the 37th Angers European First Film Festival (running 18 – 26 January), an event which has, since its earliest editions, always favoured the emergence of young talent hailing from the Old Continent, many of whom have now become masters within the European arthouse cinema landscape.
The 10 feature films battling it out in this year’s international competition will be assessed by a jury under the aegis of director and actress Nicole Garcia (supported by Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Anna Novion and Boris Lojkine). These movies include the Venice Jury’s Grand Prize-winner Vermiglio, The Mountain Bride [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maura Delpero
scheda film] by Italy’s Maura Delpero, On Falling [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laura Carreira
scheda film] by Portugal’s Laura Carreira (discovered in Toronto’s Discovery section and awarded Best Director in San Sebastián), Kneecap [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Red Carpet @ European Film…
scheda film] by English filmmaker Rich Peppiat (the winner of the NEXT Audience Award at Sundance, screened in Tribeca and triumphant at Les Arcs) and the multi-award-winner To A Land Unknown [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mahdi Fleifel
scheda film] by Danish-Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel (unveiled in the Directors’ Fortnight).
Likewise in on the action are Block Pass [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Antoine Chevrollier
scheda film] by France’s Antoine Chevrollier (well-received in Cannes’ Critics’ Week), Little Jaffna [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lawrence Valin
scheda film] by fellow Frenchman Lawrence Valin (unveiled in Venice’s Critics’ Week), September & July [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ariane Labed
scheda film] by French-Greek director Ariane Labed (which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section), the animated title Pelikan Blue [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Laszló Csaki
scheda film] by Hungary’s László Csáki (screened in Tallin and Annecy Contrechamp) and two films discovered in Toronto’s Centrepiece section: The Exiles [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Spain’s Belén Funes and Under The Volcano [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Damian Kocur
scheda film] by Poland’s Damian Kocur.
The competitive Diagonales section, revolving around markedly audacious works, will notably showcase the feature films Trans Memoria [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Victoria Verseau
scheda film] by Sweden’s Victoria Verseau, Intercepted [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Ukraine’s Oksana Karpovych, and Maxime Jean-Baptiste’s Belgian-French documentary essay Listen to the Voices [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maxime Jean-Baptiste
scheda film] (awarded the Special Jury Prize in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente line-up).
Stealing focus among the French premieres on the agenda are In the Nguyen Kitchen by Stéphane Ly-Cuong, Les Règles de l’art by Dominique Baumard (which is set to close the festival), Last Breath [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Costa-Gavras
scheda film] by Costa-Gavras, and the documentaries Elementary [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Claire Simon and Ce n’est qu’un au revoir [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Guillaume Brac.
The line-up also includes tributes and retrospectives (dedicated to actress Jeanne Balibar, to the documentary master Nicolas Philibert who’ll be delivering a masterclass, to Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen and to the legendary Italian director Federico Fellini in partnership with Cinecittà), among other events, alongside short film competitions, a celebration of the Angers Workshops’ 20-year anniversary (notably involving filmmakers Lukas Dhont, Guillaume Senez, Cristèle Alves Meira and Delphine Gleize, together with producer Frédéric Jouve), a Neighbours section boasting 20 titles, another entitled Animation and Ecology (consisting of five feature films and three short film sections) and the usual screenplay readings (this year featuring the full-length movies Corps étranger by Zoé Cauwet, Hôtel Saga by Clara Lemaire Anspach and Le courage des oiseaux by Mathilde Profit).
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