Four projects have been selected following the second 2025 session held by the first committee (dedicated to feature debuts) of the CNC’s advance on receipts.

Standing out among the four titles being backed is Les princes du BTP by Antoine Giorgini, who turned heads with his short films Bandits (which won an award at Angers in 2014), Réplique (rewarded in the national competition at Clermont-Ferrand and winner of the Unifrance Grand Prix Special Jury Prize in 2016), Air comprimé and Good Evening (which were presented in the national competition at Clermont-Ferrand in 2019 and 2023, respectively).

Among the cast are Anthony Bajon (Best Actor Award at Berlin in 2018 for The Prayer [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Fabrice Du Welz
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intervista: Delphine e Muriel Coulin
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intervista: Alain Guiraudie
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The story, written by Antoine Giorgini, revolves around three bricklayers who find a chest full of gold Louis coins on a building site. Instead of informing the property owner about it and sharing the trove with him, as the law obliges, they decide to claim that they found it at one of their houses. Produced by Marie Dubas for Deuxième Ligne Films (which has staged all of the director’s short films) and by Jean des Forêts for Petit Film, Les princes du BTP has been pre-purchased by Canal+ and Ciné+, and will be distributed in French theatres by Zinc. The shoot will take place in July and August.

Two other fiction feature debuts have secured an advance on receipts: Tu feras tomber les rois by Maïté Sonnet (staged by Ethan Selcer for Quartett Production and already supported by the Gan Foundation for Cinema – see the news) and Jupiter by Alexandre Smia (the screenwriter of titles such as In the Hell of Kabul: 13 Days, 13 Nights), who has teamed up with Thomas Finkielkraut to co-write the script for this "political thriller set against the backdrop of a nuclear crisis", as described by producer Hugo Sélignac (of Chi-Fou-Mi Productions).

Lastly, the CNC will also be backing the feature-length documentary project Salle 206 by Michaël Sztanke, produced by Babel Production.

Interestingly, and of more topical relevance, five films announced yesterday for the Cannes Official Selection (see the article) benefited from an advance on receipts from the CNC: the competition entry Nouvelle vague by Richard Linklater, Vie privée by Rebecca Zlotowski (which will be unveiled out of competition), Dites-lui que je l’aime by Romane Bohringer (selected as a Special Screening) and two titles that will have their world premieres in Un Certain Regard: L’inconnu de la Grande Arche by Stéphane Demoustier (see the article) and Meteors by Hubert Charuel (see the article).