The industry program at France’s Les Arcs Film Festival has selected eight up-and-coming international directors for its Talent Village initiative, to be held from December 12 to 16, and named Spanish director Oliver Lux as its 2025 ambassador.
The directors, all of whom have produced short films that have been screened at major film festivals, are Irish filmmaker Ruairi Bradley, Britain’s Chloe Calpin, Lithuania’s Dovidas Draxas, Spanish director duo Fran Moreno Blanco and Santi Puyol Amat, Romania’s Zandra Popescu, France’s Hélio Pou and Xin Wang, and Austria’s Reza Rasoulli.
The Talent Village consists of five days of workshops, one-on-one meetings, and mentorship sessions designed to help filmmakers transition from short to feature projects and interact with industry professionals before joining the co-production village market.
In recent years, it has become an important incubator for emerging European filmmakers making the leap to feature films.
Alumni whose films screened at the 2025 festival include works by Dorian Jespers Loins With Lauri-Matti Palpay at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight a light that never goes out ACID, Kukla in Cannes fantasy Bernhard Wenger of Locarno peacock This is Austria’s Oscar submission.
“This year’s selections are very much in line with the bold voices of this new generation in European cinema, and we are sure they will be an inspiration to our participants,” said Industrial Village Director Lison Hervé and Festival Co-Founder and Head of Professional Events Jeremy Zelnik.
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One of the eight selected talents will receive a Talent Village prize worth €5,000, awarded by the CICLIC Center – Val de Loire agency. The workshop will be led by executives including Lemming film producer Eric Gries, Lucky Number co-founder and sales agent Olivier Barbier, Cannes Critics Weekly’s Thomas Rosso, and music supervisor Laura Bell.
Filmmakers will also have the opportunity to work with four emerging film composers selected for the Parallel Music Village in partnership with Sacem, encouraging them to create feature film music within their productions. Composers of the year 2025 include Gregorios Eleftheriou from Greece and Lolita del Pino, Min Le Boutin and Emil Sana from France.
Lux, who directed the feature film. You are the captain, Mimosa. and fire is comingstands by as a mentor to up-and-coming talent to share his experience and vision. filmmaker’s latest movies Silat The film was first screened at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize, and since its release in September, it has been an arthouse success, attracting approximately 700,000 admissions in France. He will discuss the film’s original score during a conversation at the festival’s Industry Village.
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