Industry
Talent Village
EIGHT EMERGING TALENTS PARTICIPATE IN 3 DAYS OF WORKSHOP WITH INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS BEFORE PRESENTING THEIR FIRST FEATURE PROJECT AT THE COPRODUCTION VILLAGE
TALENT VILLAGE
The Talent Village aims at encouraging the rise of a new generation of daring and ambitious film directors, as well as accompanying them in the journey of their first feature film.
The selected talents have the opportunity of attending a 3-day workshop and presenting their first feature project to industry professionnals within the frame of the Coproduction Village at Les Arcs Film Festival.
Every year, a renowned figure of the European cinema is invited to be the Ambassador of the Talent Village. This year, the Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is honoring us with being the Ambassador of this edition of the Talent Village.
There is no open call for submissions for the Talent Village selection. The Talent Village is entirely curated by the Industry Village team.
The selection process involves European film schools and short films from different film festivals.
Through our partnership with T-Port, all T-Port Lighthouse Selection filmmakers are eligible for consideration for the Talent Village.
For more information, please get in touch : industry@lesarcs-filmfest.com
2024 TALENT VILLAGE SELECTION
The 2024 talents selected to present their first feature film project are :
Ivar Aase - Norway
director of the short films Reservations (Norwegian Short FF), Complications (Palm Springs IFF, Clermont-Ferrand FF) and Transactions (Norwegian Short FF).
Michał Edelman - Poland
director of the short films Performance (Krakow FF), Service (Warsaw FF)
Lukas Kacinauskas - Lithuania
director of the short film Happy Next year! (Lithuanian Film Award)
Anna Llargués - Spain
director of the short film Trenc d’alba (Cinéf Cannes)
Eglé Razumaité - Lithuania
director of the short films Ootid (Cannes IFF), The Fall (Lithuanian Short)
Titouan Ropert - France
director of the short film The Song of the Beasts (Clermont-Ferrand IFF, Pantin FF)
Selma Sunniva - Denmark
director of the short film An Example (Clermont-Ferrand IFF)DA
Lorenzo Tardella - Italy
director of the short film Le Variabili Dipendenti (Berlin IFF, BFI London FF)
TALENT VILLAGE COMPOSERS 2024
This year again, the directors of the Talent Village will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with four emerging film music composers, selected in the frame of the Music Village, and in partnership with la Sacem.
The music composers 2024 selected are:
- Célyne Baudino - France
- Electra Drossos - France
- Lillo Morreale - Italy
- Jonas Vogler - Germany
2024 TALENT VILLAGE AMBASSADOR: ILDIKO ENYEDI
This year, the Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is honoring us with being the Ambassador of this edition of the Talent Village, to share her experience during privileged moments and accompany the filmmakers during this program. She directed her first feature film in 1989, My 20th Century, which received a Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival, and notably directed in 2017 with On Body and Soul, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale. Her latest film, The Story of my Wife, was presented in 2021 in competition in Cannes after having participated in Les Arcs Coproduction Village in 2016.
Latest ambassadors were :
- Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness, The Square, Snow Therapy)
- Juho Kuosmanen (Compartment no.6, The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki) in 2022,
- Nadav Lapid (Ahed's Knee, Synonyms, The Kindergarten Teacher, Policeman) in 2021,
- French actress Isabelle Huppert in 2019,
- Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg (Festen,The Hunt, Kursk, Drunk) in 2018.
AWARD & JURY 2024
Ciclic Talent Village Award
The award is a €5000 award given by Ciclic to support the development of a project from the Talent Village selection.
The award is granted to the project Made in Mud by Anna Llargues (Spain), produced by Astra Pictures (Spain).
The jury was composed of Jérôme Parlange, Head of the Live Action Ciclic Film Fund (France), and Margaux Juvénal, producer at Take Shelter (France).
Talent Village Special Mention
A special mention is attributed to the project Silk by Selma Sunniva (Denmark), produced by Isaac (Denmark).
The jury’s motivation for this special mention is the following:
“For the quality of the previous impactful short film ; its universal character looking for a place in its family and in the world ; its promise of a very unique first feature playing with a certain form of radicality and with genre elements, we decided to give the Talent Village Special Mention to Selma Sunniva for her project Silk”.
CONTACT
Nina Benoit
Talent Village Coordinator
nbenoit@lesarcs-filmfest.com
Lison Hervé
Industry Village Program Manager
lherve@lesarcs-filmfest.com
Jérémy Zelnik
Head of Industry
jzelnik@lesarcs-filmfest.com
Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin
CEO
