An unmissable event for young and high-quality European cinema, which is once again teasing a jam-packed and highly diverse showcase of works, the 34th Angers Premiers Plans Festival (running 24 – 30 January) is set to kick off on Monday under the aegis of Claude-Eric Poiroux.

The ten feature films battling it out in the international competition will be picked apart by a jury presided over by French actor Melvil Poupaud (flanked by Daphnée Patakia, Fanny Burdino, Manele Labidi and Antoine Barraud). Five films unveiled in Cannes are included in the line-up, namely Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Vincent Le Port
scheda film] by French director Vincent Le Port, Libertad [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Clara Roquet
scheda film] by Spain’s Clara Roquet, Unclenching the Fists [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Russia’s Kira Kovalenko, Moneyboys [+leggi anche:
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intervista: C.B. Yi
scheda film] by Chinese-Austrian director C. B. Yi and Women Do Cry [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
scheda film] by Bulgarian duo Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova. Three titles which turned countless heads in Berlin are also in on the act, entitled What Do We See When We Look at the Sky [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alexandre Koberidze
scheda film] by Georgia’s Alexandre Koberidze, Ninjababy [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kristine Kujath Thorp
intervista: Yngvild Sve Flikke
scheda film] by Norway’s Yngvild Sve Flikke and The World After Us [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas
scheda film] by France’s Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas, and rounding off the line-up, we find the multi-award-winning animated documentary Flee [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
scheda film] by Denmark’s Jonas Poher Rasmussen (which is opening the festival) and Broadway [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Greek director Christos Massalas.

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The competitive Diagonale section, dedicated to especially audacious works (with a jury led by Anaïs Volpé), will screen two films presented at Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (Romanian film Immaculate [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Monica Stan, George Chiper…
scheda film] by Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark, and the documentary Three Minutes - A Lengthening [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bianca Stigter
scheda film] by Holland’s Bianca Stiegter), alongside Our Eternal Summer [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Émilie Aussel
scheda film] by French director Émilie Aussel (which won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente section), Moon, 66 Questions [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jacqueline Lentzou
scheda film] by Greece’s Jacqueline Lentzou (unveiled on the Berlinale’s Encounters agenda) and Laure Portier’s French-Belgian documentary Soy Libre [+leggi anche:
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In addition to the various short film competitions (featuring a main jury presided over by French filmmaker Chloé Mazlo), film schools, animated works and titles for younger audiences, the Angers-based festival - set to be closed by Éric Gravel’s Venice-endorsed work Full Time [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Eric Gravel
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intervista: Eskil Vogt
scheda film] by Norway’s Eskil Vogt, After Blue [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Bertrand Mandico (unveiled in competition in Locarno) and Hatching [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Hanna Bergholm
scheda film] by Finland’s Hanna Bergholm (currently showcasing at the Sundance Film Festival).

Four Cannes titles stand out in the realm of premières (Zero Fucks Given [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Emmanuel Marre e Julie Lec…
scheda film] by the duo Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre, Softie [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Samuel Theis
scheda film] by Samuel Theis, Robust [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Constance Meyer
scheda film] by Constance Meyer and The Braves [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Souheila Yacoub
scheda film] by Anaïs Volpé), alongside Alice Diop’s documentary We [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alice Diop
scheda film] (which won multiple trophies in Berlin), Petite Solange [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Axelle Ropert
scheda film] by Axelle Ropert (discovered in competition in Locarno), The Young Lovers [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Carine Tardieu, L’horizon [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Émilie Carpentier, Faithful [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Hélier Cisterne, Icarus and the Minotaur by Carlo Vogele and South Sentinel [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mathieu Gérault
scheda film] by Mathieu Gérault.

Last but not least, the line-up also includes (among a raft of other events) retrospectives dedicated to the German filmmaker Christian Petzold, his Italian counterpart Jonas Carpignano (notably involving A Chiara [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jonas Carpignano
scheda film]) and to Portuguese animation names Regina Pessoa and Abi Feijó; a Q&A session with French actress Laure Calamy, showcasing three works from her back catalogue; the usual script-readings, which this year will include the feature films Faire feu by Lucas Gloppe, Lumière noire by Karim Bensalah and Les tempêtes by Dania Reymond-Boughenou; and the Angers Workshops’ residency involving five selected projects, which Cineuropa will come back to in greater detail at a later date.