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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have shared their new track ‘Les Cerfs’ – you can hear the composition below.The track is taken from the pair’s original score to the forthcoming film La Panthère Des Neiges (also known as The Velvet Queen).Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier’s film is set in the Tibetan highlands, and follows nature photographer Munier as he guides the writer Sylvain Tesson “on his quest to document the infamously elusive snow leopard”.The score for La Panthère Des Neiges will be released via Invada Records and Lakeshore Records digitally on Friday (December 17), and is described as “one of Ellis and Cave’s most heartfelt and haunting film projects”.Having shared the single ‘We Are Not Alone’ last month, Cave and Ellis have today

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The Bureau Sales has teamed with French production banner Paprika and filmmaker Vincent Munier on “Whispering in the Woods,” a documentary that will be teased to buyers at the Cannes Film Market. “Whispering in the Woods” marks Munier’s follow-up to “The Velvet Queen” (co-directed by Marie Amiguet), a critically acclaimed documentary that competed for a Golden Eye Award at the Cannes Film Festival and won a Cesar prize in 2022. The doc is currently filming across different locations, from the Vosges mountains to Tibet, and is expected to be delivered by next spring.

Guy Lodge Film CriticA svelte, slinky figure in spotted silvery blond, the snow leopard is one of the great haughty glamazons of the animal kingdom — a status suitably acknowledged in the English-language title of “The Velvet Queen,” French docmaker Marie Amiguet’s lovely, unexpected screen ode to the little-seen feline. (The original French title is the rather more prosaic “La panthère des neiges.”) Yet if the title implies the naturalist’s equivalent of diva worship, the film’s approach surprises us, fixating less on the furry dazzle of the snow leopard in her natural Tibetan habitat than on the very act of looking at nature in the first place.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have announced plans to score French documentary La Panthère Des Neiges.The pair have teamed for the soundtrack, which will be released digitally on December 17 on Invada Records. As a taster they have shared the first track ‘We Are Not Alone’, which you can listen to below.The film by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier will be released in the US on December 22.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) added 65 titles to its lineup Tuesday, unveiling the non-competitive program sections Best of Fests, Masters and Paradocs. The 34th edition of IDFA takes place from Nov.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“The Velvet Queen” (“La Panthere des neiges”), Marie Amiguet’s lushly-lensed documentary which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Cinema for the Climate section, has lured buyers in major territories, including the U.S. Represented in international markets by London-based banner Le Bureau Sales, “The Velvet Queen” follows award-winning nature photographer Vincent Munier and writer Sylvain Tesson on a journey across the Tibetan highlands to document the infamously elusive snow leopard.