Four projects have been selected in the first 2022 session of the CNC’s second advance on receipts committee (for second and third feature films). Standing tall among them is Spirit of Ectasy [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (well-received in the 2012 Berlinale’s Panorama section, and awarded the Jean Vigo Award and the Grand Prize at the Angers European First Film Festival). The cast is rumoured to star the singer Pomme, alongside Denis Ménochet, Niels Schneider, Anna Mouglalis and Fianso.

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Written by the director together with Noé Debré and Emily Barnett, the story of Spirit of Ectasy unfolds in present-day Corbeil-Essonnes. Jeanne Francoeur is 24 years old. She lives in a dilapidated gendarmerie barracks. The daughter of a gendarme who has been beaten by life and the eldest of three children for whom she herself is responsible, Jeanne has banked on making a living in the world of finance, not for glory’s sake or for a life of luxury, but because it has helped her to escape the shackles of her background and to win her freedom… Production is entrusted to Justin Taurand on behalf of Les Films du Bélier.

An advance on receipts is likewise winging its way to A Wonderful Girl [+leggi anche:
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An animated film project also features among the lucky few to receive support, going by the name of Flow, by Latvia’s Gints Zilbalodis. Pitched last month at Cartoon Movie (news) and steered by France’s Sacrebleu Productions in league with Latvia’s Dream Well Studio and Germany’s Cine-Litte Productions, this will be the director’s second feature film after Away [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], which triumphed in Annecy’s Contrechamp competition in 2019.

Tant qu’ils se tuent entre eux - the second feature film by documentary-makers Jean-Robert Viallet and Alice Odiot after Des hommes [+leggi anche:
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