Having previously revealed its programme (read our article), the Co-Production Village’s 18-strong selection of projects (news) and the eight promising newcomers gracing the Talent Village (news), the Les Arcs Film Festival (whose 17th edition runs 13 – 20 December) has now unveiled the ever-hotly anticipated list of 12 films in post-production gracing its Work in Progress (WiP) event, unspooling on 14 December.

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An incredibly popular gathering for international sales agents and selectors from major festivals, Les Arcs is once again demonstrating its undeniable relevance, since the festival recently revealed first images from Sound of Falling [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mascha Schilinski
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intervista: Janicke Askevold
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intervista: Alexandra Makarová
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intervista: Jaume Claret Muxart
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intervista: Stefan Đorđević
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intervista: Urška Djukić
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intervista: Lukas Dhont
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intervista: Nora Fingscheidt
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intervista: Saulė Bliuvaitė
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intervista: Valdimar Jóhannsson
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intervista: Valentyn Vasyanovych
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intervista: Laura Samani
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intervista: Levan Akin
intervista: Levan Gelbakhiani
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intervista: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel S…
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intervista: Rungano Nyoni
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This year, the selection concocted by Frédéric Boyer (the Les Arcs Film Festival’s artistic director) will consist of 12 films in post-production, lengthy excerpts of which (eight minutes overall) are set to be introduced by filmmakers and their producers to international sales agents, distributors and festival programmers who’ve made their way to the Savoyard resort. Jostling among these 12 titles (chosen from among 163 submissions) hailing from 20 countries are eight first fiction feature films, two second feature films and two films by established directors.

Stealing focus in the showcase is the 3rd feature film by Johannes Nyholm (awarded the 2016 Special Jury Prize in San Sebastian thanks to The Giant [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Johannes Nyholm
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intervista: Johannes Nyholm
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intervista: Jacqueline Lentzou
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The agenda also boasts first fiction feature films by Macedonia’s Tamara Kotevska (highly acclaimed for her documentaries, especially Honeyland [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara …
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scheda film], which scooped Sundance’s 2019 Grand Prize and was Oscar-nominated in 2020, and The Tale of Silyan [+leggi anche:
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Equally mention-worthy is the second fiction feature by German-Vietnamese director Alison Kuhn (revealed in 2020 by way of her documentary The Case You [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alison Kuhn
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Three trophies are up for grabs on this occasion: the TitraFilm Prize (consisting of 10,000 euros in image and sound post-production services) will be awarded by a jury composed of Bettina Brokemper (Heimat Films), Elisha Karmitz (MK2+) and Jonah Rabb (WME Agency); the Alphapanda Audience Engagement Prize (rewarding films’ digital marketing strategy and consisting of 7,000 euros) by Ioanna Stais (Heretic), Joanna Solecka (Alphapanda) and Eleni Oulani (Alphapanda), and the 22D Prize (10,000 euros geared towards funding a musical composition) by Margot Hervé (Totem Films), composer Chloé Thevenin and Emmanuel Delétang.

Last but not least, this year’s Best New Film Music Composer (organised by Les Arcs Film Festival, Sacem and Le Lab Femmes de Cinéma) will go to Léonie Pernet whose recent filmography notably includes Cyprien Vial’s Magma.

The full selection is as follows:

Work in Progress

The Difficult Bride - Rubaiyat Hossain
Producers: Les Films de l’Après-Midi (France), Khona Talkies (Bangladesh), Midas Filmes (Portugal), Tandem Production (Germany), Barentsfilm (Norway)

Man vs Flock - Tamara Kotevska
Producers: Video Studio Petkovski (North Macedonia), asterisk* (Greece), Nukleus Film (Croatia), Filmoskopija (Serbia), Cine Planet (Montenegro), Zeynofilm (Turkey)

Barefoot Bull - Petar Krumov
Producers: Klas Film (Bulgaria), Harald House (Belgium)

The Matriarch - Alison Kuhn
Producers: Schiwago Film GmbH (Germany), Tidewater Pictures GmbH (Germany)

A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra - Jacqueline Lentzou
Producers: Avion Films (Greece), Atalante Productions (Greece), Kelek Film UG (Germany), 4 A 4 Productions (France)

Oasis - Jannis Lenz
Producers: Zeitgeist Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), Wega Film (Austria), Third Picture GbR (Germany)

A Happy Family - Jan-Eric Mack
Producer: C-Films AG (Switzerland)

Until The Day Ends - Jelena Maksimović
Producers: Taurunum Film (Serbia), Staragara (Slovenia), PREMIERstudio (Bulgaria), Meander Film (Montenegro)
Presented in collaboration with TorinoFilmLab as part of the “TFL Coming Soon” initiative

The First Week of August - Filip Mojzeš
Producer: Wolfgang & Dolly (Croatia)

Luzia - Leonor Noivo
Producers: Laranja Azul (Portugal), Terratreme Films (Portugal), Enquadramento Produções (Brazil), Norte Productions (France)

Weird Elliot - Johannes Nyholm
Producers: Hobab (Sweden), Baldr Film (the Netherlands)

Girl Beast - Selma Sunniva
Producer: Manna Film (Denmark)