28/03/2014 - The French Academy in Rome presents the section “French Cinema Today” devoted to the new generation of promising French filmmakers

From 2-6 April 2014, Rendez-vous avec le nouveau cinéma français (Appointment with New French Cinema) hosts its fourth edition scheduled by the Institut Français Italia in collaboration with the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici and with the support of Unifrance.

As in the previous editions, the French Academy in Rome is presenting the section “Cinéastes d’aujourd’hui” (“French Cinema Today”) devoted to the new generation of promising French filmmakers. For the 2014 edition, the Roman audiences will discover for the first time six feature films which have been chosen from emerging directors’ first or second works. This selection confirms the will of the French Academy in Rome to support the creativity of French cinema in order to promote first-rate films.

For this edition of Rendez-vous, “Cinéastes d’aujourd’hui” offers a focus on the actor Vincent Macaigne, who successfully started out in 2011 with Un monde sans femmes [+see also:
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film profile] by Guillaume Brac. In 2013, he was highly popular with audiences at the Cannes International Film Festival and considered a true revelation by French critics. Macaigne plays the lead character in three films at the festival, two of which - 2 Autumns 3 Winters [+see also:
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film profile] by Sébastien Betbeder and La Bataille de Solférino [+see also:
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film profile] by Justine Triet - will be presented in this section.

“Cinéastes d’aujourd’hui” also features Rebecca Zlotowski‘s film Grand Central [+see also:
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interview: Rebecca Zlotowski
film profile], which was presented in the official Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2013. This film, which is still to be released in Italy, stars Léa Seydoux, who made her debut in Belle Épine [+see also:
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film profile], directed by Ziotowski. Another interesting “second opus” is the film directed by Axelle Ropert, Tirez la langue, mademoiselle [+see also:
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film profile], a love story full of emotion and recounted without any demagoguery.

Among the debut works selected is Des étoiles, directed by the Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye and starring Italian actress Maya Sansa, and Ma belle gosse by Shalimar Preuss, a moving personal portrait of childhood.

The section “Cinéastes d’aujourd’hui”, which the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici scheduled as part of the Rendez-vous festival, will give the public an opportunity to discover the most recent trends in French cinema with films that have never been shown in Italy and works that, in addition to having participated in the most prestigious European festivals, have been held in high esteem by the public as well as by international critics.

(Translated from Italian)