Festival des Arcs 2023: the program and juries revealed

The Les Arcs European Film Festival is in the starting blocks, with Asghar Farhadi and Mona Achache as jury presidents.

The 15th edition of the European Film Festival will be held from December 16 to 23, has just announced the composition of its two main juries: the feature film jury chaired by the director Asghar Farhadi will reunite the musician Irene Dreselthe author Christine Angotand the actors Rebecca Marder And Vincent Lacoste. For short films, the director Mona Achache (Little Girl Blue with Marion Cotillardin theaters on November 15) will chair the jury made up of actors Victor Belmondo, Lucie Debay, Fanny Sidney, of the author Patrick Fabreand the director Mees Peijnenburg.

The 2023 edition will shine a special light on Dutch cinema. The nine films in feature film competition come from France, with (all chauvinism aside) in preview a new feature by Xavier Legrand (To the hilt) The successor, but also from Greece, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Lithuania… The full program is on the festival website.

As for guests of honor, the actress Bérénice Bejo (directed by Asghar Farhadi in The past) And Ruben Ostlund : the director with two Palmes d’Or for The Square And Without filter will also be a sponsor of the Industry Village and will give a masterclass. The Women of Cinema thinktank will reward another Cannes filmmaker, the Italian director Alice Rohrwacher (his last feature The Chimera was in competition at Cannes 2023 and will be released on December 6).