(Paris) A feminist duo performed by French actresses Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi, the return of American independent cinema or Argentinian and Palestinian films: the Filmmakers’ Fortnight, one of the parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival, announced on Tuesday its 56e selection.
Non-competitive, this section is dedicated to the discovery of new filmmakers but has included a few recognized authors in its selection.
On the French side, coach Julien Rejl announced at the opening My life, my facethe posthumous film by Sophie Fillières, a figure of auteur cinema who died last year, with Agnès Jaoui.
The Corsican Thierry de Peretti continues to explore the political history of his island (As his look), while Plastic gunsby Jean-Christophe Meurice, promises to revisit a news item in a humorous way trash with Jonathan Cohen, Nora Hamzawi, Vincent Dedienne, Thomas VDB or Aymeric Lompret.
Hafsia Herzi and Isabelle Huppert play a feminist duo in Patricia Mazuy (The prisoner of Bordeaux).
American independent cinema is back, with a film bringing together Michael Cera and descendants of Hollywood legends, Francesca Scorsese and Sawyer Spielberg (Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point by Tyler Taormina).
This parallel section, led by the Society of Film Directors (SRF), chose several films from countries where making cinema is a struggle.
Among them, the Argentinian Hernan Rosselli, “a worthy representative of a cinematography in danger” due to the policies of the ultraliberal Javier Milei, according to Julien Rejl, as well as a first Palestinian fiction by Mahdi Fleifel (To a land unknown), about two Palestinian cousins stuck in Athens who are looking for a scheme to reach Germany.
Also note an Egyptian film, East of Noon, signed Hala Elkoussy. Julien Rejl praised “the courage of this filmmaker because Egyptian censorship has never been so fierce against authors”.