WATERVILLE — Acclaimed French actress Dominique Sanda will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award next month at the 21st annual Maine International Film Festival. Sanda, known as “La Sanda,” is best known for her role in the 1971 Academy Award-winning film “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,” which was named Best Foreign Language Film. She has enjoyed an illustrious career, having worked with the industry’s most celebrated directors, including Vittorio de Sica, who directed “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis”; Bernardo Bertolucci, director of “The Conformist” and “1900”; Robert Bresson, director of “Une Femme Douce”; and John Huston, who directed “The Mackintosh Man.” Sanda will be presented the award at the Waterville Opera House during the festival, which runs July 13-22 at Railroad Square Cinema and the Waterville Opera House.