The Arras Film Festival (headed up by Nadia Paschetto and Éric Miot) has unveiled the nine feature films, all as-yet unreleased in France, vying for the Golden Atlas to be handed out at the closing ceremony of the event’s 26th edition (7-16 November). The jury will be presided over by French filmmaker Stéphane Demoustier (whose latest film, The Great Arch [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Stéphane Demoustier
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Dedicated to European cinema, the competition will pit nine features against one another, including three recently unveiled at Venice: Mother [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Teona Strugar Mitevska
scheda film] by Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska (premiered in Venice Orizzonti and winner of the Arras Days Pitching Award in 2022), Silent Rebellion [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Stephan Komandarev
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Also on show will be Renovation [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gabrielė Urbonaitė
scheda film] by Lithuanian director Gabrielė Urbonaitė (unveiled in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition), The Altar Boys by Poland’s Piotr Domalewski (Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Editing and Audience Award at the Gdynia Polish Film Festival), Una figlia [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ivano De Matteo
scheda film] by Italian filmmaker Ivano De Matteo, Solitary by Irish director Eamonn Murphy (crowned Best Independent Film in his home country, at Galway), I Swear by Brit Kirk Jones (screened in Toronto Centrepiece) and L’Âge mûr by Belgian filmmaker Jean-Benoît Ugeux.

The rest of the sprawling line-up of the 26th Arras Film Festival (whose guest of honour will be actress Léa Drucker, who was on especially fine form this year in Case 137 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dominik Moll
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intervista: Laura Wandel
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