The 3 Continents Festival, which has been exploring the lesser-known territories of world cinematography for more than forty years, opens this November 19 in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) with the obvious pleasure for its organizers of finding their way back to the dark rooms. . Last year, […]
Somali director Ahmed Khadar won the Yennenga Gold Standard on Saturday 23 Octobere Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco) for his first feature film The Gravedigger’s Wife. The young 40-year-old director, also of Finnish nationality and whose film is shot in Djibouti in […]
The cross : When and how did you agree to take on this responsibility? Irene Jacob : I have often come to this festival. I presented films there. I have Lyon ties. My grandparents lived in Lyon, my father grew up here. The board of […]
A few weeks before the broadcast on Netflix (and not on the big screen) of his new film, God’s hand, autobiographical and nostalgic evocation of his childhood in Naples, marked by the arrival of Maradona in the club of his hometown and the accidental death […]
It was Bertrand (1941-2021). From the appearance, with this caption, of a huge photo of the filmmaker, seized in front of the Lumière Institute, which he had chaired since 1982, the Lyon public spontaneously stood up. A very long standing ovation saluted the memory of […]
Light, film stories Saturday, October 9 at 10:25 p.m. on OCS No one believed it. Think about it: a festival of “old films” lasting ten days, without competition, without glamor (although…), nor red carpet (although…). When, with Bertrand Tavernier, Thierry Frémaux, director of the Lumière […]
Of course, in Venice, as in Cannes or Berlin, parity remains a wishful thinking, an objective that is still unattainable, especially when it comes to selecting films, the majority still directed by men. So the organizers try to compensate for this imbalance by the composition […]
Latin America is in the spotlight this week in Biarritz, where the festival which is annually dedicated to it opens on Monday, September 27. Three competitions for feature films, short films, and documentaries are on the menu, with prizes awarded on October 3. But this […]
Blue bayou ** by Justin Chon American movie, 1 h 58 To potential employers, Antonio LeBlanc explains in a few words his birth in Korea, his adoption in Louisiana and his talent to fix everything. But that his wife soon gives birth to their child […]
” Where are the women ? “, once sang the singer Patrick Juvet. In film festivals, the year 2021 brings a dazzling response. They are everywhere now, and they are taking everything. Palme d’Or in Cannes, Lion d’Or in Venice and, Saturday September 25, the […]
