The internet is abuzz with an alleged leak from the Cannes Film Festival that saw a list of 24 films apparently making up its official 2012 competition listed on the official Cannes site and then quickly removed…
The 2012 programme of the International Documentary Festival Cinéma du Réel (22 March - 3rd April) is out now!
Besides the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, TRIBUTES AND WORKSHOP (John Gianvito, Dick Fontaine, Susana de Sousa Dias, Mario Ruspoli and Raúl Ruiz), the section COMBATANTS (a tribute to the filmmakers who have fought and continue to fight on liberation fronts), RIPRENDIAMOCI LA VITA (with works by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio de Seta, Alberto Grifi, Marco Bellocchio and the Collettivo femminista), ARRESTED CINEMA (a yearly space to give regular news updates for a cinema confined to resistance) and much much more.
Check out the website for updated news!
In the 2012 Horse Pistes programme the Centre Pompidou presents a special focus on Flatform, an Italian collective of artists and filmmaker which focuses on the analysis of the moving image, and that has been selected for the 2009 competition of Milano Film Festival. A selection of their works will be presented on Saturday 11th February in Paris.
The whole Horse Pistes programme is here.
The 22nd Marseille International Film Festival is going on from 6 to 11 July. The International, French and First Film Competition will present forty films, of all formats, diverse styles, from all over the world, documentaries and fictions films, for the most part in their world or international premiere.
What is at stake is daring to defend the cinema that is being made today, a cinema that is both demanding and vital.
The complete programme is on the website
Waiting to watch the selected films, here are some trailers. See you on the croisette!
The italian documentary “Palazzo delle Aquile” by Stefano Savona, Alessia Porto and Ester Sparatore won the 33rd edition of Cinéma du réel international documentary film festival.
The occupation of Palermo city hall by 18 families stands as a saga chronicling the right to housing and democracy as expressed in words.
Waiting to see it soon in Italy, congratulations to the filmmakers!
The Centre Pompidou in Paris dedicates a retrospective and a carte blanche to Michel Gondry, starting on the 16th February.
The complete programme is available here.
After being chosen as the opening film of Milano Film Festival 2010, the french road-movie Robert Mitchum est mort by Olivier Babinet and Fred Kihn has been announced to be released in France on April 13rd. Congratulations!
Check out our festival review here.
online French magazine created in 2009. Unfortunately, it’s just in French!
LES BARBARES is the latest short movie by French director Jean-Gabriel Périot, screening now in various festivals around the world.
If politics were to come back, it could only be from its savage and disreputable fringe. Then, a muffled rumor shall arise whence that roar is heard: “We are scum! We are barbarian!” (Alain Brossat)
