22/08/2022 - With its 10-title competition at the top of an XXL programme very rich in premieres, the new edition of the Francophone Film Festival will unfold from 23 to 28 August

The world premiere of Driving Madeleine [+see also:
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film profile] by Louis Garrel and offers a very dense programme including a competition of ten titles evaluated by a jury presided over by André Dussollier (assisted by among others Verle Baetens, Leyla Bouzid, Joséphine Japy and Isabelle Kabano).

In the running for the 2022 Valois d’Or are, in particular, two titles revealed in Cannes, namely The Worst Ones [+see also:
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interview: Romane Gueret and Lise Akoka
film profile] by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (winner of Un Certain Regard) and The Blue Caftan [+see also:
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film profile] by Maryam Touzani, but also Houria [+see also:
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film profile] by Mounia Meddour, Angry Annie [+see also:
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film profile] by Blandine Lenoir (discovered recently in Locarno), Eloïse's Journey [+see also:
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film profile] by Murielle Magellan, White Paradise [+see also:
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film profile] by Guillaume Renusson, The Sixth Child [+see also:
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film profile] by Léopold Legrand, Habib, la grande aventure [+see also:
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interview: Benoît Mariage
film profile] by Belgian filmmaker Benoît Mariage, and two Canadian features.

24 films feature in the premiere programme, amongst which the Cannes competitor Forever Young [+see also:
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interview: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
film profile] by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, A Woman by Jean-Paul Civeyrac (unveiled in Locarno), The (in) famous Youssef Salem by Baya Kasmi, Two Tickets to Greece by Marc Fitoussi, A Love Story [+see also:
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film profile] by Jean-Marc Peyrefitte, Le prix du passage [+see also:
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film profile] by Thierry Binisti, Citoyen d’honneur by Mohamed Hamidi, Grand Expectations [+see also:
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film profile] by Sylvain Desclous, Maria into Life [+see also:
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film profile] by Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller, The Nannies [+see also:
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film profile] by Julien Rambaldi, Ride Above [+see also:
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film profile] by Christian Duguay, as well as Simone, a Woman of the Century by Olivier Dahan.

The section Les Flamboyants will present Sixteen [+see also:
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film profile] by Rachid Bouchareb, the Berlin titles The Line [+see also:
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interview: Ursula Meier
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interview: Laurent Larivière
film profile] by Laurent Larivière, and the animated feature My Father’s Secrets [+see also:
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film profile] by Véra Belmont.

In the Premiers rendez-vous section are notable La passagère [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuelle Nicot
interview: Emmanuelle Nicot, Julie Esp…
film profile] by Emmanuelle Nicot, while the Nouveaux Regards programme includes The Astronaut [+see also:
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film profile] by Nicolas Giraud, Amore Mio [+see also:
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film profile] by Guillaume Gouix, L’enfant du paradis [+see also:
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To note as well the Coups de coeur titles Lie With Me [+see also:
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film profile] by Olivier Peyon and Slumlord [+see also:
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film profile] by Steve Achiepo.

The rest of the very rich programme includes an homage (in films) to Pathé, a section celebrating the 15 years of Orange Studio, some cinema-concerts, a retrospective of previous editions of the festival and a tribute to William Hurt.

(Translated from French)