10/11/2020 - The Co-Productions Village will unspool on 17 and 18 January in the French capital and online, with 18 projects in the offing, including works by Måns Månsson, Basil Da Cunha and Nathalie Biancheri

The health crisis and current state of lockdown in France (in place until 1 December for now, but extensions are possible) have left the team of the Les Arcs Film Festival with no choice but to reinvent the celebration. As such, the 12th edition of the festival (whose programme will be revealed at a later date) will unspool online between 12 and 19 December 2020 (with screenings set to take place in the Bourg-Saint-Maurice Valley as soon as French cinemas reopen). The professional Industry Village segment, meanwhile, will unfold in two forms: both in person, in Paris, on 17 and 18 January and online, immediately afterwards, on 20 and 21 January.

18 projects in development (including 12 debut feature films) have been selected for this year’s very special edition of the Co-Productions Village, while the Talent Village will gather eight young filmmakers and four composers in its folds. As for the content of the ever-highly-anticipated Work in Progress section, unfolding in Paris on Sunday 17 January, these details are set to be announced in early 2021.

Two particularly eye-catching projects among those chosen for the Co-Productions Village (where the ArteKino International Award worth €6,000 is up for grabs) are England Made Me by Sweden’s Måns Månsson (in competition in Berlin 2018 with The Real Estate [+see also:
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Stealing similar focus within the showcase is the French animated project Sheba by Alexis Ducord (well-received for Zombillenium [+see also:
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interview: Henri Magalon
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Last but not least, the Distributors/Exhibitors Summit is set to unfold online from 17 November to 18 December, with five films and a conference-workshop gracing the agenda each week (20 films in all).

The full list of selected projects/participants is as follows:

Co-Productions Village

Bandeira - Joao Paulo Miranda Maria
Production: Les Valseurs (France)

Chain Reaction - Attila Hartung
Production: Filmteam (Hungary)

England Made Me - Måns Månsson
Production: Fasad Production (Sweden)

The Fire This Time - Mehdi Fikri
Production: Topshot Films (France)

Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
Production: Dream Well Studio (Latvia)

The Hypnosis [+see also:
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Production: Garagefilm International (Sweden)

The Last One Turns Off The Light - Michal Hogenauer
Production: Xova Film (Czech Republic)

Quitter la nuit [+see also:
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Production: Versus Production (Belgium)

Ma vie avec Violeta - Lucía Cedrón
Production: Tu Vas Voir (France), Iris Productions (Luxembourg)

O jacare - Basil Da Cunha
Production: Akka Films (Switzerland)

Our Wildest Days - Vasilis Kekatos
Production: Blackbird Production (Greece), Tripode Productions (France)

Poussière Rouge - Moussa Touré
Production: A_Bahn (Luxembourg)

The Remains of You - Gala Gracia
Production: Potenza Producciones (Spain)

The Rock - Olga Chajdas
Production: Film Produkcja (Poland)

Sheba - Alexis Ducord, Benjamin Massoubre
Production: Maybe Movies (France)

So, Perfect - Nathalie Biancheri
Production: Feline Films (Ireland)

Those Who Fight - Antoine Russbach
Production: Box Productions (Switzerland)

Time of The Monsters - Florian Hoffmann
Production: Chromosom Film (Germany)

Talent Village

Filmmakers

Pascal Reinmann (Switzerland)
Aurélie Reinhorn (France)
Dorian Jespers (Belgium)
Sabine Ehrl (Germany)
Chloé Léonil (France)
Alba Pino (Spain)
Aline Magrez (Belgium)
Özgür Anil (Austria)

Composers

Antoine Duchêne (France)
Marie Laroche (France)
Irina Prieto (France)
Nicolas Worms (France)

(Translated from French)