Cnap Competition
2022 Programme“The following is a story that is somewhat true, I present it as it happened, with adornment.” This phrase, which is the cornerstone of A Woman Escapes, by Audrey Benac is a twist on the famous...
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February 24, 2022: Russian troops are flooding into Ukraine. After the initial shock, how do you respond? For Marine Hugonnier, it was by using her own weapons – film and images - driven by what...
En savoir +Teresa Silva Enjoy the Weather as a choreographic research run by Teresa Silva, the Portuguese choreographer and dancer, during a residency in Marseille (at Montevideo). Today it is a film which...
En savoir +Danielle Arbid works at the heart of feelings, from one film to the next, the most recent Simple Passion (2021) based on Annie Ernaux embodies the quintessence of this. Less well-known is a more...
En savoir +Roee Rosen’s take on The Metamorphosis delivers Kafka in explosive form. We remember his Dust Channel (FID 2016), which combined Buñuel’s Andalusian Dog with Dyson hoovers in a gritty political...
En savoir +Marie Voignier In I Like Politics too, Marie Voignier continues her attentive exploration of countries where imaginary worlds, layers of history and present-day issues are intertwined - from...
En savoir +"Obsada" means "film crew" in Polish, but can also mean "task force". The crew here is dual purpose. First the film crew, in front of and behind the camera, who are all women – art and film...
En savoir +Narimane Mari An act of love, the portrait of a painter, an ode to life... We had the day bonsoir is all these things. “It’s in the sound of an ending that the music of the living is played, of...
En savoir +Liv Schulman enjoys working with figures who become alter egos of sorts. After the investigator in her metaphysical detective series Control, she introduces us to a new avatar. The point here is to...
En savoir +What should be done with the stones extracted from quarries? They can be used to erect massive monuments to power and glory, like the one Salazar erected along the Tagus River to celebrate the...
En savoir +Continuing his research into European canon, its concepts, history and grey areas, (Daphne and Thomas, FID 2019), Assaf Gruber is our tour guide. Rude Witness – after Transient Witness- takes us in...
En savoir +“I saw a deer”, says a male voice at the beginning of the film. The tone of the voice and the crunch of steps in the snow set the person in a wintry landscape, walking tensely towards the animal....
En savoir +Hushed voices announce a girl’s death. Kneeling around the corpse, the teenage girls stare at her. Again, they whisper, chanting in unison “light as a feather, stiff as a board”, a magic...
En savoir +In Spilliaert, we joyfully rediscover a taste for the interwoven mix of genres that captivated us in N.P (FID 2020). Lisa Spilliaert uses the pretext of an investigation into her potentially shared...
En savoir +Minia Biabiany’s work (films, installations, sculptures) is informed by her experience as a Guadeloupean woman, she is unapologetic about her work being inseparable from her homeland. Here, water...
En savoir +A prospective wish is announced at the very beginning: “Imagine a land without ownership”. Ownership? Since when? How? Where? With which implications? This is what Marwa Arsanios endeavours to...
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