We Believe You [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Arnaud Dufeys e Charlotte …
scheda film] by Belgians Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers (awarded a Special Mention in Berlin’s Perspectives section – music by Lolita Del Pino) will be the opening film at the 26th edition of the International Music & Cinema Festival Marseille (MCM). Focused on young creation and unspooling between 24 and 29 March, this unmissable event for film and film music professionals is set to present a rich programme notably including 350 films hailing from 70 countries, as well as masterclasses, guests of honour (French director Boris Lojkine, British composer Jocelyn Pook and her Icelandic peer Atli Örvarsson) and an incredibly effective European Market for Film Music Composition (where 80% of projects find a composer).

Stealing focus among the 11 feature films (exclusively first, second or third films) battling it out for the 2025 Grand Prize for Best Original Score - besides the opening movie - are Toxic [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Directors Talks @ European…
intervista: Saulė Bliuvaitė
scheda film] by Lithuania’s Saulė Bliuvaitė (victorious in Locarno – music by Gediminas Jakubka), Peacock [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bernhard Wenger
scheda film] by Austria’s Bernhard Wenger (screened in Venice’s Critics’ Week – music by Lukas Lauermann), Hanami [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Denise Fernandes
scheda film] by Swiss-Cape Verdean Denise Fernandes (earning the filmmaker Best Emerging Director in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente section – music by Rahel Zimmermann), No Dogs Allowed [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Germany’s Steve Bache (named Best First Film in Tallin – music by Andreas Pfeiffer) and Panopticon [+leggi anche:
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intervista: George Sikharulidze
scheda film] by Georgia’s George Sikharulidze (well-received in competition in Karlovy Vary – music by Chiara Costanza).

Jostling alongside them are Lioness [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Estonia’s Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo (music by Nils Kacirek), Cassandre by French director Hélène Merlin (released in cinemas on 2 April – music by Delphine Malausséna), The Weeping Walk [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Belgium’s Dimitri Verhulst (in competition in Tallin – music by Peter Vermeersch), Mexico 86 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: César Díaz
scheda film] by Belgian-Guatemalan director César Diaz (discovered on Locarno’s Piazza Grande – music by Rémi Boubal) and Family Therapy [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Sonja Prosenc
scheda film] by Slovenia’s Sonja Prosenc (discovered in competition in Tribeca – music by Primož Hladnik and Boris Benko).

The "Duets" line-up focusing on the composition-mise en scène combination has selected Pascal Sangla and Jeanne Herry, who worked together on the latter’s three feature films (Elle l’adore [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]), while the "They’re Back" section will foreground Clovis Schneider, who penned the music for In the Nguyen Kitchen [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Stéphane Ly-Cuong
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Other attractions include the competition consisting of 64 short films, a Cartes Blanches section (whose films will notably screen in the Riga, Diagonale and In-Edit festivals), a Family line-up (including Baya Kasmi’s Mikado [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Baya Kasmi, Félix Moati
scheda film]), an MCM’s Favourites section (involving Winter in Sokcho [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Koya Kamura
scheda film] by Koya Kamura, Our Wildest Days [+leggi anche:
intervista: Vasilis Kekatos
scheda film] by Vasilis Kekatos, Oxana [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Charlène Favier, Bertrand Hagenmüller’s documentary Les esprits libres, Pascal Tessaud’s Dans la peau, and Fotogenico [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Marcia Romano and Benoît Sabatier) and an array of conferences (primarily revolving around AI challenges within creative processes ranging from musical composition to sound post-production).