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The Com­pe­ti­tion Films

As the Deauville Amer­i­can Film Fes­ti­val cel­e­brates its fifti­eth anniver­sary, the com­pe­ti­tion joins the fes­tiv­i­ties to nour­ish an edi­tion which already promis­es to be rich in emo­tions. Faith­ful to the Fes­ti­val’s require­ment to sup­port and pro­mote con­tem­po­rary inde­pen­dent Amer­i­can cin­e­ma, the selec­tion brings togeth­er 14 fea­ture films, includ­ing 8 first films, where the jolts of time and the con­cerns of film­mak­ers con­verge to bet­ter high­light the anx­i­eties of our cur­rent societies.

If cer­tain fea­tures like to seize codes to revis­it cin­e­mato­graph­ic gen­res, the major­i­ty of the films in com­pe­ti­tion tend to ques­tion the world around us by being par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in sub­jects linked to her­itage, fil­i­a­tion and trans­mis­sion; these intra-fam­i­ly and inter­gen­er­a­tional links which push us to approach the future with this ques­tion: what are we going to leave to our children?

As the Fes­ti­val pre­pares to cel­e­brate its 50th edi­tion, the films in com­pe­ti­tion remind us that it is not enough to cel­e­brate the past, but that it is essen­tial to pre­pare for the future and reflect on the val­ues​that we want to transmit.

The Com­pe­ti­tion Films

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