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The parallel section is now in its 34th year and has become known for discovering filmmakers near the start of their career. It previously showcased the early work of directors including Kaouther Ben Hania's The Blade Of Tunis, Radu Jude's The Happiest Girl In The World and Justine Triet's Age Of Panic.
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Among the international selection is Karim Lakzadeh's Living Twice, Dying Thrice, about three miners who pretend they have died in a mine collapse so their families can gain compensation. Fellow Iranian-born director Mahsa Karampour brings personal documentary Dans La Gueule De L’ogre (which translates as In The Ogre's Mouth), which considers what it means to live in exile.
Karampour's film is one of three documentaries in the line-up, alongside French filmmaker Tom Fotenille's A Secret Heart, whose equally personal story considers his father's transition to life as a 64-year-old grandmother following the death of Fotenille's mother. Guillaume Massart's Detention meanwhile considers life at the French prison officers academy.
There is one animation in the line-up, Blaise by Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue, which follows the ups and downs of Sauvage family.
The full line-up is below:
● A Secret Heart (Cœur Secret), France, Dir: Tom Fontenille
● Blaise, France, Dir: Dimitri Planchon & Jean-Paul Guigue
● Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile), France, Dirs: Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier
● Dans La Gueule de L’Ogre, France, Mahsa Karampour
● Detention (La Détention), France, Dir: Guillaume Massart
● Living Twice, Dying Thrice, Iran, Dir: Karim Lakzadeh
● Promised Spaces, France, Germany, Serbia, Cambodia, Dir: Ivan Marković
● Rewind Barcelona (Barça Zou), France, Dir: Paul Nouhet
● Summer Drift (Virages), Switzerland, France, Dir: Céline Carridroit & Aline Suter
