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Selected actors will vie for five coveted spots in each of the most promising actor and actress categories.

France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, which runs the prestigious César awards, has unveiled its annual Revelations shortlist of local rising stars. They will vie for five coveted spots in each of the most promising actor and actress categories that will make the official nominees selection ahead of the 48th annual Cesars ceremony in Paris on February 24.

Among this year’s breakout stars are Saint Omer actresses Guslagie Malanda and Kayije Kagame, Cannes’ title Forever Young stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Clara Bretheau and Sofiane Bennacer,...

Queer romantic comedy “Three Nights a Week,” set amid the Parisian drag queen scene, will open the Venice Film Festival’s Critics’ Week which has unveiled its lineup of nine titles, all of which are world premiers.

The section’s out-of-competition opener is directed by Florent Gouëlou who, besides having a master’s degree in cinema from La Sorbonne, is also a committed drag queen who performs every month on the Flèche d’Or stage in Paris.

Touted as the first European film on the glittering world of drag queens, “Three Nights” is the tale of 29-year-old Baptiste who is in a heterosexual relationship when he meets Cookie Kunty, a young drag queen from the Parisian scene who immediately mesmerizes him. Initially motivated by the idea of a photography project revolving around Cookie, he immerses himself into this world, eventually embarking upon a relationship with Quentin, the young man behind the drag queen.

Pablo Pauly, Hafsia Herzi and Romain Eck star in the cast of Florent Gouëlou’s first feature film, a Yukunkun production set to be sold by Pyramide. 15 February will see Florent Gouëlou commence filming in Paris on his new feature-length movie Trois nuits par semaine. A graduate of La Fémis’s directing faculty who has previously turned heads with short films such as Un homme mon fils (which won the Best Actor award at Clermont-Ferrand 2018) and Beauty Boys, the filmmaker has gathered together a cast composed of Pablo Pauly (nominated for the Best New Hope César and the Lumières Acting Revelation award in 2018 for Step By Step, similarly well-received in Head Above Water and Three Days and a Life, to name just two, and...