Les nouveaux alchimistes Screening with filmmaker Christian von Borries in attendance Can artificial intelligence shape reality? Or rather: doesn’t the current world already seem designed by a generative AI? This is the starting point of the new work by German filmmaker Christian von Borries, working under the name Cricri sora ren – a duo he […]
Histoire(s) du cinéma For his new found footage documentary, Radu Jude, the most offbeat of Romanian filmmakers, has taken on an incredible challenge: to expose the psyche of his country through… advertising! Rocambolesque and often hilarious, Eight Postcards from Utopia collects and reworks hundreds of promotional images produced from the end of the socialist era […]
Temps 0 The setting: Earth in the near future. Humanity is no more and the world now belongs to the animals. When artifacts of humanity’s past resurface, it sets the stage for a history lesson about our parasitic, destructive and suicidal species as seen by the other mammals. Auteur/writer/director extraordinaire Rithy Panh pursues his quest […]
Les nouveaux alchimistes section In the depths of the woods, a moose senses imminent danger. An arrow pierces its belly and it collapses. As the days and seasons go by, its remains are left out like an open-air buffet: one by one, foxes, racoons, insects, bears and carrion birds come to eat their fill of […]
National Competition section In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Victor, a successful underground drag queen, and Tarzan, a homeless teen, take refuge in a half-built tower block in downtown Tbilissi. An homage to the resilience of the Georgian capital’s queer community, this meditative ramble portrays with stunning insight the despair of two young people […]
Temps 0 HARMONY Section Céline Gailleurd, Olivier Bohler France | 2022 | 26 min | French Lalou (Anthony Bajon, excellent in the Boukherma brothers’ Teddy and soon to star in Athena by Romain Gavras) is a shepherd who lives in the mountains. He works with his friend Clara, who’s come to take care of the […]
Les nouveaux alchimistes Spain, 2027. In the heart of the Andalusian countryside, a geologist on an internship at a paleontological museum takes in a strangely injured shepherd. She sets off to explore the villages that are the remains of civilizations that have now disappeared. Mysterious events are worrying the inhabitants of these isolated communities and […]
Nouveaux Alchimistes Ida, an inveterate wanderer, lives on a sailboat with a crew of five men. While anchored off Marseille, she hears of the French Foreign Legion and its former headquarters in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria. She immediately charts a course for this new destination, a place as much about colonial history as it is […]
Special Presentations section Aya left Japan to study medicine in Paris. She’s haunted by the painful memory of her best friend Miki, killed in a crush some years previously. When she meets a young Frenchman, the trauma of the past surges back… La Japonaise, a screenplay written by celebrated novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet in 1961, was […]
National Competition Imbued with a minimalist and enigmatic aesthetic, the lives of three artistic friends in open relationships intertwine in subtle and complex ways. The intimacy of daily life blends with their creative work to offer a reinterpretation of Aladdin’s story, another transformation of this multi-layered work, true to Pereda’s unique signature. The Mexican-Canadian filmmaker […]