Rendez-Vous, Festival del nuovo cinema francese, will open on 4 April in Rome with Custody [+lee también:
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entrevista: Xavier Legrand
ficha de la película], the debut feature film by Xavier Legrand, winner of a Golden Lion for Best Director and the Lion of the Future award for Best Debut Performance at the 74^th Venice Film Festival. Now in its eighth edition, the festival promoted by the French Embassy and organised by the Institut Francais - Centre Saint Louis, includes more than 30 titles, four focuses, a documentary section, masterclasses and premieres. The festival is due to commence in Rome (until April 10) and will also be stopping off in Turin, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Florence and Bologna on a journey that will span the length of Italy over the course of a month. 

This edition of the festival is dedicated to Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, in the name of great auteur cinema and the artistic bond between France and Italy. Valeria will be holding a masterclass at the Casa del Cinema on 4 April, followed by two special screenings of Like Crazy [+lee también:
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Q&A: Paolo Virzì
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ficha de la película] by Romain Goupil. On 5 April, the actress and director will meet the public at the Cinema Nuovo Sacher (directed by Nanni Moretti) to present the documentary A Young Girl in Her Nineties [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] alongside co-director Yann Coridian. 

The long list of directors in attendance at the event includes Arnaud Desplechin, who will be meeting the public in Rome on 9 and 10 April at the Cinema Nuovo Sacher, where a special focus has been scheduled with the title: “Ici et ailleurs: il cinema come romanzo,” which will include a masterclass and five titles, among which is Ismael's Ghosts [+lee también:
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Q&A: Arnaud Desplechin
ficha de la película], which opened Cannes Film Festival in 2017 (in Italian cinemas from 19 April). Desplechin will present the film to the public along with the actors Alba Rohrwacher and Louis Garrell. Robert Guédiguian will also be in Rome to present The House by the Sea [+lee también:
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entrevista: Robert Guédiguian
ficha de la película] along with Ariane Ascaride – in Competition at the 74^th Venice Film Festival. Returning to Rome is Bruno Dumont with Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc [+lee también:
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entrevista: Bruno Dumont
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ficha de la película] to Rome, the opening film at the 49^th Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, where it received the SACD Award (tied with Lover for a Day [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Philippe Garrel), distributed in Italy by Cinema, as well François Ozon, who will be in attendance with the erotic thriller The Double Lover [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (distributed by Academy Two).

Among the new French directors to be discovered are Léonor Serraille with Montparnasse Bienvenüe [+lee también:
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entrevista: Léonor Serraille
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There is also a section dedicated to documentaries, with two titles to be screened alongside the documentary by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Yann Coridian:No Man Is an Island [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Dominique Marchais, and Makala [+lee también:
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entrevista: Emmanuel Gras
ficha de la película] by Emmanuel Gras.