French competition
2020 programNine young women and men, including eight from five different countries in Latin America and one from France, are invited to share a week-long theatre residency at the director and his cat...
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The emergence of a new fiction film director is not a common thing anymore in France, and it hasn’t been in a long time. So, what exactly is a fiction film director? It is someone who has an...
En savoir +Conakry, Guinea. On 28 September, 2009, the day of the first round of the presidential election, the elite praetorian guard carried out a massacre at the Stade du 28 Septembre. In 2010, a day before...
En savoir +The opening of Forensickness is set under the auspices of Gombrowicz’s Cosmos: « And I was so good at deciphering still life that, despite myself, I examined, studied, and researched as if there...
En savoir +Here it is: Cergy-Pontoise, a town in the Parisian suburbs built in the Seventies, theatre of Régis Sauder’s last opus. If, by evoking the native East of his Retour à Forbach / Back to Forbach...
En savoir +“What is there left of emotions, dreams, desires when we are gone?” The film opens with this sentence, written over a silent backwash, against the light. These words are to irrigate the quest and...
En savoir +For her third and gratifying movie presented at the FID, Julie Chaffort takes us on a variation of the themes addressed in her earlier films. Légendes is a gallery of scenes, a series of still...
En savoir +Based on the poems the Naples painter Adriana Pignatelli Mangoni wrote to her dead daughter, Alessandra Celesia lovingly expresses the intimacy of an unbearable bereavement. What words are there in...
En savoir +The media hype didn’t do any good for the Calais Jungle. Far from such echoes, Christophe Clavert’s concern is to come back to the sites - afterwards, otherwise. Beginning with clarifications as...
En savoir +Here is a beautifully crafted film, seemingly simple as ABC. It involves no tall tales, only modest work – we listen to Robert Schumann’s lieder at home or in the car, we eat, we wash, we...
En savoir +We all remember Broken Leg (FID2011) and Black Diamond (2014), in which Samir Ramdani played with codes as a virtuoso and easily threaded his way through the urban spaces of the American west coast....
En savoir +Nathan Nicholovitch likes to hold his ambitions regarding fiction up against the constraints of a reality that tends to elude it. After the suburbs of Phnom Penh, haunted by the Khmer Rouge genocide...
En savoir +http://www.lechkowalski.com Lech Kowalski has gotten us used to movements for a long time now. Movements of the street, of punks, of fetishists, of his mother, of Polish farmers, of strikers: the...
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