20/01/2023 - From 21 to 29 January, the festival will continue to highlight first European films and will also pay tribute to Mia Hansen-Løve and Rodrigo Sorogoyen

François Ozon's The Crime is Mine [+see also:
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The ten feature films competing in the international competition will be judged by a jury chaired by French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve (with the support of Rebecca Marder, Mikhaël Hers, Félix Moati and Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, aka Para One). Two films unveiled at the Cannes Critics' Week are also in the running: Aftersun [+see also:
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interview: Simon Rieth
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interview: Mikel Gurrea
film profile] by Mikel Gurrea, Spare Keys [+see also:
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film profile] by the French duo Jeanne Aslan- Paul Saintillan, which won New Directors, and the Franco-German-Italian-Iranian co-production A Tale of Shemroon [+see also:
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film profile] by Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi), one in Locarno (Valentina Maurel's Belgian-French-Costa Rica production I Have Electric Dreams [+see also:
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interview: Valentina Maurel
film profile], which won three prizes), one in Berlin (Annika Pinske's Talking About the Weather [+see also:
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interview: Annika Pinske
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interview: Andrea Bagney
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film profile] by Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Durand and Day of the Tiger [+see also:
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interview: Andrei Tănase
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The Diagonale competitive section, which focuses on particularly daring works (and whose jury will be chaired by Samir Guesmi), includes, among others, the feature films Astrakan [+see also:
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interview: Cyril Schäublin
film profile] by Swiss director Cyril Schäublin (Best Director Encounters prize in Berlin) and the documentaries How To Save A Dead Friend [+see also:
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film profile] by Russian exile Marusya Syroechkovskaya (special mention at Visions du réel and screened at ACID Cannes) and Fragile Memory [+see also:
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interview: Igor Ivanko
film profile] by Igor Ivanko (special prize at Sarajevo).

In addition to the various competitions for short films (with a main jury chaired by French director Vincent Le Pors), school films, animated works and titles for young audiences, the Angevin festival, which will close with Noémie Lvovsky's The Great Magic [+see also:
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interview: Kristine Kujath Thorp
interview: Kristoffer Borgli
film profile] by Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli, Attachment [+see also:
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film profile] by Danish director Gabriel Bier Gislason, El doble (the episode by Rodrigo Sorogoyen of the mini-series Historias para no dormir [+see also:
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interview: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
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Finally, the programme also includes tributes and retrospectives (dedicated to Mia Hansen-Løve, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Jeanne Moreau, Sandrine Kiberlain and animation today in Central Europe), a day with the animation filmmaker Florence Miailhe (The Crossing [+see also:
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interview: Pauline Seigland
film profile], Winter in Sokcho by Koya Kamura and Big Sky by Akihiro Hata), not forgetting the Ateliers d'Angers residency with five selected projects, which Cineuropa will discuss in detail later.

(Translated from French)