11/10/2024 - Abel and Gordon will preside over the competition jury of the 25th edition of the French event, which will unfold from 8-17 November

The Arras Film Festival (piloted by Nadia Paschetto and Éric Miot) has unveiled the nine feature films, exclusive in France, running for the 2024 Golden Atlas which will be given at the end of the 25th edition of the event (from 8 to 17 November). The jury will be presided over by the whimsical filmmaking duo Abel and Gordon (L’Iceberg [+see also:
trailer
film profile], Rumba [+see also:
film review
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interview: Charles Gillibert
interview: Dominique Abel and Fiona Go…
film profile], The Fairy [+see also:
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interview: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
film profile], Lost in Paris [+see also:
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interview: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
film profile]) who will be supported by director Sébastien Betbeder, actress Lou de Laâge and director Suzanne de Baecque.

Dedicated to European cinema, the competition will pit against one another The New Year That Never Came [+see also:
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interview: Bogdan Mureşanu
film profile] by Romanian director Bogdan Mureșanu (winner in the Orizzonti competition and of the FIPRESCI prize in Venice), Marco [+see also:
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interview: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño
film profile] by Spanish filmmakers Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño (also unveiled in Orizzonti in Venice), Andrea Gets a Divorce [+see also:
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film profile] by Austrian director Josef Hader (appreciated in the Panorama section in Berlin) and Gülizar [+see also:
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interview: Belkıs Bayrak and Bekir Beh…
film profile] by Turkish filmmaker Belkis Bayrak (unveiled in Toronto Discovery and in the New Directors competition in San Sebastián).

Also screening are Waves [+see also:
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interview: Jiří Mádl
film profile] by Czech filmmaker Jiří Mádl (Audience award in Karlovy Vary), White Courage [+see also:
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interview: Marcin Koszałka
film profile] by Polish director Marcin Koszałka (crowned Best Director in Gdynia last month), Dwelling Among the Gods [+see also:
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interview: Vuk Ršumović and Fereshteh …
film profile] by Serbian filmmaker Vuk Rsumovic (discovered in competition in Sarajevo), Honeymoon [+see also:
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interview: Zhanna Ozirna
film profile] by Ukrainian director Zhanna Ozirna (who went through the Biennale College Cinema of the Venice Film Festival) and The Hunt for Meral O. [+see also:
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interview: Stijn Bouma
film profile] by Dutch filmmaker Stijn Bouma (nominated in the Best Film and Best Director categories at the 2024 Golden Caves, the annual cinema awards in the Netherlands).

The rest of the very vast programme of the 25th Arras Film Festival will be decrypted later.

(Translated from French)