Today, last talk of the Forum at 4pm (FID Lounge, 3rd floor of the Artplexe Canebière) and Tête-à-tête with Isabel Pagliai at 6pm (BLUM Brasserie).

For its 36th edition, FIDMarseille remains true to its mission: to spotlight independent cinema that is attentive to the echoes of the contemporary world and to the stories that reveal its fractures, both intimate and collective.

The Audience Award is open for voting until Sunday noon: among the competing films, choose your favorite!

To end this 36th edition on a high note, join us at the Petit Théâtre of La Friche la Belle de Mai from 10:30 p.m. - and until 4 a.m. - this Sunday for the Grand Closing Party!

Today, last talk of the Forum at 4pm (FID Lounge, 3rd floor of the Artplexe Canebière) and Tête-à-tête with Isabel Pagliai at 6pm (BLUM Brasserie).

For its 36th edition, FIDMarseille remains true to its mission: to spotlight independent cinema that is attentive to the echoes of the contemporary world and to the stories that reveal its fractures, both intimate and collective.

The Audience Award is open for voting until Sunday noon: among the competing films, choose your favorite!

To end this 36th edition on a high note, join us at the Petit Théâtre of La Friche la Belle de Mai from 10:30 p.m. - and until 4 a.m. - this Sunday for the Grand Closing Party!

Some strings, Some strings

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Some Strings is a collection of unprecedented cinematic gestures. It finds its origin in what stains the screens of History: in Palestine, where poet and professor Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike along with seven members of his family on December 6, 2023. His final poem, If I Must Die, written between earth and sky five weeks before his death, calls for the creation of a kite from bits of string. The kite has become an object of resistance, its strings now held by artists and filmmakers around the world—each offering a perspective on one of the darkest moments of the 21st century.

In 2024, FID unveiled the very first films from this project. Since then, Some Strings has been shown in over 50 countries. This year, FID presents the complete collection of works created by more than 100 artists and filmmakers from a wide range of geographical, artistic, and social backgrounds.

These films do not stop the disappearance of the other, do not ease hunger, do not heal the wounded, do not feed the children—but they contribute to reshaping our understanding.

Programme of 11.07

PABLO SIGG - 2024 - nueva germania, elisabeth nietzsche’s aryan colony in the paraguayan jungle, 2019
APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL - 2017-2024<
IGNIACIO AGÜERO - 2024 « jenny » - escuela escritora marcela paz, santiago de chile - taller de cine para nińos de alicia vega, agosto de 2013
BEN RIVERS - 2025 - « Theses on the Philosophy of History » - Walter Benjamin (1940)
BANI KHOSHNOUDI - montreuil, 2024 - archival photo: personal collection, date unknown
DORA GARCIA - ciudad de mexico, 2024 « amor rojo para gaza » adapted fragment of the film « (revolution, fulfill your promise) red love »
NADIA GHANEM - 2024 - the battle of algiers,g. pontecorvo, je vous salue, sarajevo,jl godard, if i muste die, r. alareer, lipstick to void, mica levi
KHRISTINE GILLARD, MOHAMMAD HAMMASH & FILIP MOMIKJ - brussels, 2024 « sketching session stripping architecture / sketching gaza »
AXELLE POISSON - romainville - 2008-2024
KYOSHI SUGITA - tokyo, april 2024 « saitama »
MICHAËL ANDRIANALY - tanandava, toamasina, madagascar, mai 2024 - avec ludo, lijo, esman, rado, hoby, gedio
AUDE FOUREL - lyon, mai 2024 - avec la voix de monica maurer - rushes non utilisés de tar el zaatar de j. chamoune & mustafa abu ali
ANNE PENDERS - belgique, 2011-2024 - voice improvised song claire buffet
JERÓNIMO ATEHORTÚA ARTEAGA - bogotá, april 2024 « convertirse en piedra »
IDIT ELIA NATHAN may 2024 « connecting the dots n°1 » - inspired by and with thanks to hannah arendt’s « the freedom to be free »

Some strings

Alain Gomis, Alain Kassanda, Alexia Roux & Saad Chakali, Ali Arkady, Ali Cherri, Alice Brygo, Amel Alzakout, Amie Barouh, Anhar Salem, Anne Penders, Annik Leroy & Julie Morel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Aude Fourel, Axelle Poisson, Bahia Bencheikh El Fegoun, Basma Al-Sharif, Baya Medhaffar, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, Bani Khoshnoudi, Bo Wang, Bruce Clarke, Charlie Shackleton, Christophe Clavert, Claire Fontaine, Collectif Hawaf, Corinne Castel, Dalila Mahdjoub, Dania Reymond, Daniela Ortiz, Declan Clarke, Djamel Kerkar, Diego Mondaca, Douglas Gordon, Dora García, Elena López Riera & Philippe Azoury, Eléonore Weber, Ellie Ga, Eric Baudelaire & Claire Atherton, Marius Atherton, Eva Giolo, Eyal Sivan, Fernanda Pessoa, Francis Alÿs, Franssou Prenant, Génesis Scarlet Valenzuela Valdez, Ghassan Salhab, Hassen Ferhani, Idit Nathan, Ignacio Agüero, Ismaïl Bahri, Jayce Salloum, Jeremiah Mosese, Jerónimo Atehortúa, Jilani Saadi, Julie Courel, Juruna Mallon, Kamal Aljafari, Khaled Abdulwahed, Kiswendsida Parfait Kaboré, Khristine Gillard & Mohammad Hammash, Filip Momikj, Kyoshi Sugita, Lana Daher, Laura Huertas Millán, Lav Diaz, Léandre Bernard Brunel, Lene Berg, Leos Carax, Lucy  Kerr, M’hand Abadou Djezairi & Marcel Mrejen, Mali Arun, Maria Aparicio, Marielle Chabal, Marwa Arsanios

Artists

Maryam Tafakory, Mehdi Meklat avec Badroudine Saïd Abdallah, Michaël Andrianaly, Mira Adoumier, Misha Zavalniy, Mitra Farahani, Mohamed Bourouissa, Mohanad Yaqubi, Monica Maurer, Muriel Modr, Nadia Ghanem, Narimane Mari, Niles Atallah, Newton, Ifeanyi Aduaka, Onyeka Igwe, Pablo Sigg, Philip Rizk, Philippe Parreno, Pierre Creton, Primo Mauridi, Raman Djafari, Renée Nader Messora & João Salaviza, Saif Fradj & Mahshid Mahboubifar, Safia Benhaim, Samir Guesmi, Sarah Beddington, Sarah Wood, Sepideh Farsi, Serge Garcia, Sharon Lockhart, Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson, Simplice Herman Ganou, Soumeya Ait Ahmed & Nadir Bouhmouch, Suneil Sanzgiri, Tariq Teguia, Taysir Batniji, Ugo Rodinone, Valentin Noujaïm, Valérie Massadian, Valérie Osouf & Cromix Onana, Victor Missud, Vincent Guilbert, Virgil Vernier, Wendelien Van Oldenborgh & Cathleen Schuster, Marcel Dickhage, Wiame Haddad, Wilmarc Val, Yann Gonzales & Alain Garcia Vergara, Yannick Kergoat, Yohei Yamakado, Yosr Gasmi & Mauro Mazzocchi, Youssef Chebbi  (More Strings To Come)