Friday, Nov. 1

THE COMPETITION

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The French film school La Fémis, which accepts only around 1 percent of applicants to its directing program, has a well-earned reputation as one of the most exclusive institutions of its kind. It promises world-class instruction and facilities to budding filmmakers, provided they speak near-fluent French and can pass its notoriously grueling, capricious, and competitive undergraduate admissions cycle - which, even for the lucky fraction who advance to the third and final round, usually ends in rejection. Claire Simon's documentary The Competition offers a close look at this process.