The third selection committee organised for 2022 by Arte France Cinéma (steered by Olivier Père) has opted to co-produce and pre-purchase four projects.

Standing tall among these is À son image, Thierry de Peretti’s fourth feature film after Les Apaches [+lee también:
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Arte France Cinéma is also throwing its weight behind Lost Country [+lee también:
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Arte France Cinéma are also backing two first feature films: Rabia by Mareike Engelhardt (a production involving French firm Films Grand Huit and Germany’s Starhaus Filmproduktion, on which filming is due to unfold in November and December) and Paradise by Jérémy Comte (co-written by Will Navia, produced by France’s Constellation Productions and Cinenovo alongside Canada’s Elevation Pictures, and due to be shot in autumn next year).

Equally noteworthy is the network’s selection of three films within the framework of Arte’s French-German Grand Accord: La disparition by Kirill Serebrennikov, Apathie by Alexandros Avranas and Das Geträumte Abenteuer by Valeska Grisebach.

For the record, Arte France Cinéma are also supporting upcoming films by Alice Rohrwacher, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bertrand Bonello, Miguel Gomes, Philippe Garrel, Abderrahmane Sissako, Lisandro Alonso, Walter Salles, Jonas Trueba, Patricia Mazuy, André Téchiné, Emmanuel Finkiel, Sophie Letourneur, Justyna Tafel, Johanna Pyykkö, Payal Kapadia, Diego Céspedes, Karim Moussaoui, Stephan Castang, Sofia Alaoui, Momoko Seto and Ramata-Toulaye Sy, as well as by the directorial duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.