French actress Emmanuelle Béart will co-chair the jury of the Cinemania Francophone Film Festival with Quebec filmmaker Philippe Falardeau, we have learned The Press. The duo will chair the Visages de la francophonie competition, which will open with Cédric Kahn’s film, The Goldman trial.
The other members of the jury for the Visages de la francophonie competition are actresses Anne-Élisabeth Bossé and Sophie Mousel, directors Manon Barbeau and Geneviève Albert, as well as screenwriter and director Éric K. Boulianne.
The co-presidency of the jury is a rule at Cinemania, recalls the general director of the festival, Guilhem Caillard. “Cinémania is here to create and maintain the permanent link that must exist between Quebec and another country of the French-speaking world, in this case France. »
Emmanuelle Béart and Philippe Falardeau succeed Cédric Klapisch and Pascale Bussières, who co-chaired the jury last year.
At the end of the festival, which will take place from 1er on November 12, they will present four prizes: the TV5 Québec-Canada prize for best film, the Marc-André Lussier jury prize which rewards the cinematographic and cinephilic qualities represented by a work, the Sofitel Montréal prize for best interpretation and the prize SACD for best screenplay.
PHOTO ALAIN ROBERGE, LA PRESSE ARCHIVES
Philippe Falardeau
Was Emmanuelle Béart difficult to convince? “We had wanted to invite him for several years, but there was a gap in his schedule,” replies Guilhem Caillard. She came in 2000 to accompany Olivier Assayas’ film Sentimental destinies, and I am very happy that she accepted our invitation. She is a great public figure and a lover of Quebec. »
Revealed in the film Manon of the sourcesby Claude Berri, released in 1986, Emmanuelle Béart has appeared in many successful films, including A heart in Winter (Claude Sautet), I don’t kiss (André Téchiné), Impossible mission (Brian De Palma), hell (Claude Chabrol), Eight women (François Ozon) or even Repetition (Catherine Corsini), to name just a few.
The pairing of the French star with Philippe Falardeau is not a coincidence, Guilhem Caillard tells us.
“Emmanuelle is very involved in humanitarian projects, in causes, she is an activist, she was a UNICEF ambassador for ten years, she spoke about the scourge of incest in a documentary that she co-directed, A silence so loud ; and in his own way, Philippe Falardeau is also someone committed, with his series Mégantichis movies The Good Lie Or The time of raspberries, which talks about foreign workers. »
Cédric Kahn in Montreal
The general director of Cinemania emphasizes the committed nature of the co-presidents of the jury to talk about the opening film of the festival, The Goldman trialby Cédric Kahn, which tells the story of the second trial of Pierre Goldman – brother of the singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman –, an activist figure of the French left in the 1970s, arrested, then tried, for robberies of banks.
“When I took over as director of Cinemania in 2011, Cédric Kahn was the first guest I received,” Guilhem Caillard tells us. It was for the movie A better life, produced by Denise Robert, with Guillaume Canet, which Cédric had directed. So 12 years later, he returned to Quebec with The Goldman trial, which is really excellent. »
PHOTO GABRIEL BOUYS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ARCHIVES
French director Cédric Kahn, photographed at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, will be in Montreal to accompany his film The Goldman trial.
Cédric Kahn’s film, which is released in theaters in France this Wednesday, was presented last May at the opening of the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. It will have its North American premiere at Cinemania on 1er November, in the presence of the director.
It’s a great trial film, on a somewhat forgotten story of this activist associated with the radical left, who had a trial in 1975 that became quite political, against a backdrop of anti-Semitism.
Guilhem Caillard, general director of the Cinemania festival
“We are on the eve of the creation of the National Front, there is a lot of racism in France, and Pierre Goldman has proclaimed his innocence since the beginning of the affair and defended himself very eloquently,” he adds. .
The film will be released in theaters in Quebec on November 3 – the film is distributed here by Funfilm Distribution –, Guilhem Caillard confirms.
Alongside the Visages de la francophonie competition, which is the international component of the festival, eight films will compete in the Films du Québec competition. The jury for this section will be revealed on October 18, but we already know which films will be presented. Among them, we note You’ll never knowby Robin Aubert; The successorby Xavier Legrand, with Marc-André Grondin and Yves Jacques; Sweet Sixteen, by Alexa-Jeanne Dubé; And Kanavalby Henri Pardo.
A new “transversal” prize encompassing both competitions will be awarded to a woman. This will be the director’s prize Elle Quebec.