A dozen 12 projects have been selected as part of the second 2023 session of the CNC’s advance on receipts committee and floating at the top of the list we find the next works for Leyla Bouzid, Marjane Satrapi and a sophomore feature for Noémie Merlant, who co-wrote with Céline Sciamma. Merlant’s Les femmes au balcon focuses on three women in a Marseille apartment during a heatwave. Facing them is their mysterious neighbour, the object of all their fantasies. But the women soon find themselves stuck in a terrifying and wild scenario, with freedom their only goal. Merlant cast herself alongside Souheila Yacoub and Sandra Codreanu. This will be produced by Nord-Ouest Films’ Pierre Guyard. The Cineuropa folks give a run down here. Here are the other projects in bullet form:
À voix basse – Leyla Bouzid
Production Co: Unité
Animale – Emma Benestan
Production Co: June Films / Frakas
La mer au loin – Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
Production Co: Barney Production.
Paris Paradis – Marjane Satrapi
Production Co: Vito Films
La petite vadrouille – Bruno Podalydès
Production Co: Why Not Productions
Tout recommencera – Jérôme Bonnell
Production Co: Diaphana Films
Barbès d’or – Hassan Guerrar
Production Co: East Films / 24 25 Films
Des preuves d’amour – Alice Douard
Production Co: Apsara Films
Zion – Nelson Foix
Production Co: De l’Autre Côté du Périph / Kissfilms
Camera Obscura – Yann Rabanier
Production Co: Gladys Glover Films
Imago – Déni Oumar Pitsaev
Production Co: Tryptique Films
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
