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Champs-Élysées Film Festival returns for its 12th edition at the end of June in Paris. The festival, dedicated to American and French independent cinema, promises more surprises from June 20 to 27, 2023!Film festivals are a vital link in the chain of global film culture. We spoke to the participants in the Independent Cinema Office’s Developing Your Film Festival programme (now in its sixth year of helping film festivals reach new heights, and supported by Creative Europe and British Council, in association with Motovun Film Festival and Vilnius International Film Festival) what they thought film festivals existed for and what their festival did that was unique.