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. 

There is no open call for submissions for the Talent Village selection. The selection is curated by the Industry Village team from short films scouting.  

TALENT VILLAGE 2022

UniversCiné Talent Village Award

The award is a €2,000 award granted by UniversCiné to support the development of a project from the Talent Village selection. The jury was composed of Julie Billy, producer at June Films (France), and Georges Goldenstern, former director of the Cannes Cinéfondation (France). The award is granted to the project Not Coming Out by Pascal Schuh.

The jury’s motivation for this grant is the following:

“We were seduced by the singularity of one particular project. We were moved by the way the director is telling the story and by the very modern way he looks at an unknown historical moment of our European history. Through this film we discovered how homosexuality was considered in East Germany before the fall of the wall and the complex emotions that the LGBTQI+ community faced while the unification was starting. This film is intimate and political and we would like to reward its great ambition.”

Talent Village Special Mention

A special mention is attributed to the project The Shame of the Borbély Family by Kálmán Nagy with the jury’s motivation:
“We would like to give a special mention to a first feature project that striked us in its very mature and tense writing. The director showed in his previous film his ability to dissect the complexity of the human soul and his first feature will be a strong family tragedy.”

Talent village ambassador: Juho Kuosmanen

Juho Kuosmanen will be present in Les Arcs to meet with the selected talents.

Juho is Helsinki based filmmaker. He graduated from ELO Helsinki Film School of Aalto University in 2014. His first debut film The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki won Prix Un Certain Regard and second feature Compartment no. 6 won Grand Prix in Cannes Film Festival. Besides making award-winning films, he has directed opera and theater. He also makes silent short films with live music and foleys. Kuosmanen is the co-founder and artistic director of a small film festival in his birth town Kokkola.

Latest ambassadors were :
–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.

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.

For more information, please get in touch :
industry@lesarcs-filmfest.com / +33 (0)1 82 28 50 10

2022 EDITION : SELECTION

ANGELIKA ABRAMOVITCH

Sweden
Director of the short film Catcave Hysteria (Clermont-Ferrand IFF)

ALICA BEDNARIKOVA

Slovakia
Director of the short film Liquid Bread (La Cinef, Karlovy Vary IFF)

GHIATH AL MHITAWI

Germany
Director of the short films Return (Brest European FF, Max Ophuls) and Paein

SIIRI HALKO

Finland
Director of the short films Nesting (Clermont-Ferrand IFF) and Katharsis Oy (Helsinki FF)

LORA MURE-RAVAUD

Switzerland
director of the short films Euridice, Euridice (Locarno FF) et Valet Noir (Karlovy Vary IFF, Palm Spring FF)

KALMAN NAGY

Hungary
Director of the short films Things Like (Palm Spring FF) and The Other End of The Streets

JOB ANTONI SCHELLEKENS

The Netherlands
Director of the short film A memori

PASCAL SCHUH

Germany
Director of short films des courts-métrages Songs of a Caretaker (Students Academy Award Longlist) and Answering Eternity

Before participating in the Industry Village one-to-one meetings sessions of the Coproduction Village, the directors will benefit from 3 days of workshops in Les Arcs, where they will be able to meet and exchange around their projects with their tutors, all A-class industry professionals :

• Katrin Pors, producer at Snowglobe (Denmark)
• Olivier Barbier, Head of Acquisitions at mk2 Films (France)
• Mathilde Henrot, programmer at Locarno Film Festival and co-founder of Festival Scope (France)
• Martin Caraux, music supervisor from Bande Originale (France).

THE 4 film composers

DOUGAL KEMP

LÉONIE FLORET

SERGIO BACHELET

ISIS PRAGER

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. In this impulse towards the making of a feature-length film, the original music composition for the projects is encouraged, during workshops between the filmmakers and composers.

CONTACT

Nina Benoit
Talent Village Coordinator
nbenoit@lesarcs-filmfest.com

Lison Hervé
Industry Village Projects Coordinator
lherve@lesarcs-filmfest.com

Jérémy Zelnik  
Head of Industry
jzeknik@lesarcs-filmfest.com

Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin
CEO