A dozen French talents will accompany their films during the IFFR's 2023 edition: Sophie Letourneur (in the Big Screen Competition with her latest film Voyages en Italie), Léonor Serraille and Alice Diop (whose films will be presented in the Limelight strand), along with Albert Serra, Emmanuelle Nicot, Lucile Chaufour, Guillaume Nicloux, and Matthias Luthardt in Harbour. And the majority-French production Birdland, by Leila Kilani, will represent France in the festival's main competition the Tiger Awards.

Actors Ariane Labed, Philippe Katerine, Niels Schneider, and Benoît Magimel will also attend.

Lastly, Unifrance has partnered the Rotterdam Lab program by sending a delegation of three French producers (Romain Bent for Protest Studios, Coralie Dias for Inter Spinas Films, and Tristan Bergé for Kalpa Films). They will participate in workshops on film industry innovation, international co-production and post-production, sales, financing, and project development

French films at the 52nd IFFR

Tiger Awards Competition

• Birdland by Leila Kilani
• Le Spectre de Boko Haram by Cyrielle Raingou (French co-production shares not specified)
• Mannvirki by Gústav Geir Bollason (French co-production shares not specified)
• Geology of Separation by Yosr Gasmi and Mauro Mazzochi (French co-production shares not specified)

Bright Future

• La Mala Familia by Nacho A. Villar and Luis Rojo (French co-production shares not specified)

Limelight

• Saint Omer by Alice Diop
• Blind Willows, Sleeping Woman by Pierre Földes
• Mother and Son by Léonor Serraille
• No Dogs or Italians Allowed by Alain Ughetto
• The Blue Caftan by Maryam Touzani

• Nostalgia by Mario Martone (minority-French co-production)
• Burning Days by Emin Alper (minority-French co-production)
• Mediterranean Fever by Maha Haj (minority-French co-production)
• Godland by Hlynur Pálmason (minority-French co-production)
• Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh (minority-French co-production)

Regained

• Haramuya by Drissa Touré
• Young Cinema by Yves-Marie Mahé
• Mange ta soupe by Mathieu Amalric

Big Screen Competition

• Before We Collapse by Alice Zeniter and Benoît Zeniter
• Voyages en Italie by Sophie Letourneur

• Four Little Adults by Selma Vilhunen (French co-production shares not specified)

Harbour

• Pacifiction by Albert Serra
• Love According to Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot
• Lockdown Tower by Guillaume Nicloux
• Love & Crashes by Lucile Chaufour
• Luise by Matthias Luthardt

• We Had the Day Bonsoir by Narimane Mari (French co-production shares not specified)
• Arnold Is a Model Student by Sorayos Prapapan (French co-production shares not specified)
• Will-O'-the-Wisp by João Pedro Rodrigues (minority-French co-production)
• Pamfir by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (minority-French co-production)
• Silent Witnesses by Luis Ospina, Jeronimo Atehortúa (French co-production shares not specified)
• When the Waves Are Gone by Lav Diaz (French co-production shares not specified)
• It Is Night in America by Ana Vaz (French co-production shares not specified)

Short films - Tiger Awards

• Phalène by Sarah-Anaïs Desbenoit
• Last Days of Summer by Stenzin Tankong
• The Great Arc by Camille Authouart

Short films - Special Programs

• Onfim by Damien Tran
• Marinaleda by Louis Séguin
• Lingua morta by Jean-Claude Ruggirello
• One Day When I Was Lost by Soufiane Adel
• Blank Photograph by Che-Yu Hsu
• Euridice, Euridice by Lora Mure-Ravaud

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