La Rochelle Cinema celebrates its 50th birthday in style

06/30/2022 – From July 1 to 10, the Fema will present more than 200 films including 47 recent favorites from around the world. Also on the menu, tributes to Joanna Hogg, Jonás Trueba and Alain Delon

Now chaired by the producer Sylvie Pialatthe La Rochelle Cinema Festival (Fema)much appreciated for the quality and diversity of its programming, its public success (86,492 admissions in 2019) and its strictly non-competitive identity, will celebrate its 50th anniversary from July 1 to 10 with more than 200 films on display.

In the showcase of tributes stand out the mythical Alain Delon (21 films on the bill) and two rising stars (which will travel to La Rochelle) of European auteur cinema: the Englishwoman Joanna Hogg (in 5 feature films, his next opus having a very good chance of participating in the next Venetian competition) and the Spaniard Jonas Trueba (with his six feature films including come to see [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jonás Trueba
fiche film]recently released in Spain and which will participate in the official competition of the Karlovy Vary Festival which will start on Friday).

In the radius of the retrospectives shines an integral Pier Paolo Pasolinia Bulgarian filmmaker zoom Binka Zhelyazkova (who started his career in 1957 and four of his nine films were censored in his own country) and a focus on Audrey Hepburnwhile the Discovery program will be dedicated to New Ukrainian Cinema (notably with the recent Youth on borrowed time [+lire aussi :
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interview : Kateryna Gornostai
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interview : Maryna Er Gorbach
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interview : Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
fiche film] of Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk). Also noteworthy is a music lesson aroundEnnio Morricone (in the presence of Marco Morricone and Marco Tullio Giordana and with the projection of Ennio [+lire aussi :
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All without forgetting the menu of 26 films constituting A History of Portuguese Cinema (including Cannes titles Will-o’-the-wisp [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] of Cristele Alves Meira), the 21 heritage works making up the From Yesterday to Today section, a program celebrating the 30th anniversary of the ACID (with among others the Cannes opening film Jacky Pebble [+lire aussi :
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A very vast panorama punctuated by the favorites of the year from the Here and Elsewhere program: 47 feature films from all over the world, including a good twenty directly from Cannes, including the Palme d’Or Saged filter [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ruben Östlund
interview : Ruben Östlund
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interview : Tarik Saleh
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interview : Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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interview : Albert Serra
fiche film] from the Spanish Albert Serra and NMR [+lire aussi :
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interview : Lise Akoka et Romane Gueret
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