Films

“There’s often a tendency that when coincidences appear within a story, storytelling almost tends to fail. But Rohmer taught me, in fact, with his films that coincidence also allows you to add risk to storytelling. I think those kinds of risks allow for emotion—and for something moving to happen as well.” Hamaguchi for Slant Magazine

"There’s often a tendency that when coincidences appear within a story, storytelling almost tends to fail. But Rohmer taught me, in fact, with his films that coincidence also allows you to add risk to storytelling. I think those kinds of risks allow for emotion—and for something moving to happen as well." Hamaguchi for Slant Magazine

Special screening proposed by EFAD – European Film Agency Directors…

Closing film of the festival.

"A bombed-out Ukraine of the near future takes first steps toward postwar recovery in Valentyn Vasyanovych's strikingly austere Venice prize winner." Variety

A kaleidoscopic family film blending documentary and auto-fiction, This Little Father Obsession sees the complexity of Lebanese society confronted with the personal aspirations of an individual, and the weight of patriarchal tradition with the desire for emancipation.

Au Programme Topologie d’une absence, Rami el Sabbagh & Sharif…

Programme Manivelle, the man of Tomorrow, Fadi Baki, 29′, VOstEN…

Immersed in the drama of dispossession, this amazing documentary is based on exceptional archives: 20 years of the filmmaker's family videos.

Once censored by the Lebanese government, this award-winning auteur is now embraced as a cultural ambassador and a voice of conscience in her homeland.

“With each fragment of Civil War, it’s as if Soueid is attempting to start a new film—to approach the subject from yet another new perspective.” IDFA

“It is indeed a perfect marriage that the French filmmaker achieves by uniting a highly original, inventive and creatively beautiful form of animation - oil painting on glass - and a story - a screenplay by the director with Marie Desplechin - on the right borderline between harsh realism and the classical roots of storytelling.” Cineuropa

"Without it being the center of the story, [there is] this idea that once something is “on” it has a kind of consciousness, regardless of whether we define them as human—as if that’s the only way in which there is merit. Once you’re on, whether you’re a human or a clone or an AI or an animal or a tree, there is some significance to being off. That is in the background of the film." Kogonada for Sloan Science and Film

"The lonely, uncanny and sometimes unthinkingly violent world of childhood is explored with chilling candor and exceptional skill in writer-director Eskil Vogt’s arthouse horror feature The Innocents." The Hollywood Reporter

"What Imbert has done here, some years down the line, may solidify The Summit of the Gods, a work of fiction, as one of the greatest Everest films ever made. If nothing else it’s the Everest film that respects the mountain best." The Playlist

“Doherty may be leading us along a familiar path but it is one marked by inventive humour, engaging characters and some unexpected detours.” Screen Daily

“What I discovered making the film is how very proud I am to be Irish [...] We come from an incredible group of survivors – people who have suffered and been oppressed but have triumphed, through working hard and living. In a way, the film does have that joy in it, the characters in it are quite heroic. Also, the immersion in the language is cathartic in a way, even if you’re not a fluent speaker. It feels authentic.” Ó Súilleabháin for Hot Press

"With characters who say the unsayable and a plot which takes a sudden swerve and gleefully shows the unspeakable, this is a bracing provocation of a film." Screen International

The lonely, uncanny and sometimes unthinkingly violent world of childhood is explored with chilling candor and exceptional skill in writer-director Eskil Vogt’s arthouse horror feature The Innocents. The Hollywood Reporter

"A brilliantly acted drama that quietly draws you in." The Guardian

Cowboy, Indien et Cheval n’ont pas changé d’un iota, c’est bien l’univers génial, loufoque, décalé et inclassable de Panique au village !