Oleh Sentsov was not present on Wednesday in Reims to present Rhino, his second film, selected for the second International Crime Film Festival. And for good reason. The day after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the filmmaker, after having sheltered his family, pledged to […]
The women have achieved the grand slam this season at major international film festivals. After Julia Ducournau in Cannes with Titaniumwho won the Palme d’Or then Audrey Diwan whose The Event won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, it’s the turn of the […]
It was in a black turtleneck and from her home in Paris that Isabelle Huppert appeared on the screen at the Berlinale Palace on Tuesday evening. The French actress should have been in the flesh on this same stage to receive the Golden Bear of […]
Cinema reflects society. It is its echo, vibration, even premonition. Louis-Julien Petit, the director of invisible who knew how to combine successful popular comedies and social issues, understood this well. While his new feature film Squad released in theaters on March 23, he decided to […]
The Croire au cinema prize was awarded on Wednesday 2 February to The Land of Men, a bitter and endearing film by Naël Marandin on power and power games in the peasant world, against a backdrop of male domination. It features Constance (Diane Rouxel), a […]
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 […]
