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34th Cinemed 2012 - 26 October-3 November 2012 The best recent Mediterranean productions: over 100 previously unshown films Pre-release showings, competitions and panoramas • Previews showing what is happening in Mediterranean film before public releases in the fourth quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013. • Full-length features competition and panorama sections • Short films competition and panorama sections • Documentaries competition section • Eperimental films (and videos) panorama section Pre-release shows, films selected—full programme by 9 Octobre 2012. Opening evening with Costa-Gavras’ latest film Opening evening, an exceptional pre-release showing: Le Capital A film by Costa-Gavras with Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Natacha Régnier, Céline Salette, Liya Kebede, Hippolyte Girardot. Friday 26 October at 8.30 pm, Le Corum. The film team will be present. Tributes - Retrospectives Italy: Roberto Rossellini retrospective In cinema history, Roberto Rossellini is considered as one of the founders of neorealism, having made Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City) and Paisà. The thunderclap that started in Italy after the war echoed until the 1960s with the wave of new cinemas. But Rossellini was also a precursor of modern cinema with Viaggio in Italia with Ingrid Bergman incarnating the anguish of couples - a clinical observation that generated a following. Finally, in the 1960s, Rossellini abandoned the cinema for television that he saw as a site for invention and a promise of an essential didactic approach. This resulted in a cycle on the history of Humanity and of remarkable figures (The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, Blaise Pascal etc.). We are presenting his work as a whole this year in the presence of Renzo Rossellini. France : a tribute to Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras has crossed many trails while continuing his own since his first success in 1965 with The Sleeping Car Murders. He was then a Greek filmmaker, which was not really the case when Z was released in 69. He took French nationality in 1968—which turned out to be a good year for someone who has fairly consistently set his fictions in political, economic and social settings. His work is strong, singular and often condemns, without limiting this to the national territory. From Stalinian trials to Pinochet, from an American-style taking of hostages to the guilty silences of the pope during World War 2 and now the heart of world finance, although he does not abandoned the romanesque, he paints an accurate picture of the great disorders that affect human societies. France: a tribute to Jalil Lespert Jalil Lespert was still a teenager when he went to a casting session with his father, an actor. By good fortune the director, Laurent Cantet, was looking for two men to play father and son. The two were taken on for Jeux de plage (1995). Everything fell into place for the young man and he abandoned his law studies to go into cinema. He first gained the tools of a true character actor in films that often addressed the theme of filiation. His already abundant filmography includes two major films, Ressources humaines (2000), again by Laurent Cantet, and Le Promeneur du Champ-de-Mars (2005) by Robert Guédiguian. Together with this, he did not wait years before going into directing. His first feature film, 24 mesures, was presented in Venice in 2007, and he made a second film, Des vents contraires, in 2011, with Benoît Magimel again. France-Algeria: entwined destinies With this section the Festival is to illustrate the entwined destinies of the two countries by a cycle of films examining the different aspects of this period and the repercussions for France. The programme will consist of a selection of fiction and documentary films forming a plural approach to several centuries of relations between the two shores of the Mediterranean. In particular, the addition of historical and artistic approaches opens the way to better understanding of this complex history. This reflection intended to be calm and promising for the future is accompanied by an exhibition by Jean-Robert Henry, a lecture and a round table discussion with guests. A Night in Hell: a tribute to Christopher Lee A special event for lovers of horror and fantasy, the 2012 Night in Hell will be a tribute to Sir Christopher Carandini Lee. Christopher Lee is a cinema legend, like Bela Lugosi and Boris Karlof. A tall man, his height was a handicap until he found his pathway in 1957 in The Curse of Frankenstein, directed by the great Terence Fisher. This was followed by the cult films made by Hammer Film Productions in which he fixed an unforgettable image of Dracula in our unconscious. Cultivated and speaking several languages, he did not keep to foggy London but extended his reign to Italy (Mario Bava's The Whip and the Body) and Spain. His long career took him to Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and even Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. And unlike Bela Lugosi who was forgotten in the last part of his life, Christopher Lee smashed the curse of great B-picture actors by becoming Commandeur des Arts et Lettres in December 2011… The Montpellier festival is revisiting his immense filmography and showing a selection of his horrific appearances in the 1960s and 1970s. Films in the region • A selection of productions made in Languedoc-Roussillon in 2011-2012: fiction features and shorts, documentaries, animated films. Screenings and previews of films that have received production grants from the Region. • Month of the documentary opening. 34th Festival Special • The 60th Anniversary of Positif –The Mediterranean on the front page (films, exhibition) Continuing the tribute started in April by Ciné-club Jean-Vigo to Positif, whose 60th Anniversary is in 2012, the Festival is showing a series of Mediterranean films that were featured on the front cover of the magazine. In addition to Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother), Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Climates) and Abdellatif Kechiche (The Secret of the Grain), this will be an opportunity to make a tribute to Theo Angelopoulos, whose recent death is much regretted, with Eternity and a Day and the sublime The Weeping Meadow. It will also be an occasion for talking about shared tastes and choices with critics who are friends of a magazine that has made a substantial contribution to our reflection of the evolution of the history of cinema. The programme with be accompanied by an exhibition of photos by Nicolas Guérin. • INA, mémoires méditerranéennes • Exhibition: Travels in Italy, Part 3, photos of sets and shootings, 1990-2010 After showing the first two parts of this exhibition in 2010 and 2011, Travels in Italy, Part 3 shows urban and country sets chosen for shooting films from 1990 to today. (In collaboration with I Dilettanti, Centro cinema di Cesena, Institut culturel italien de Marseille.) • Script Day. The guest of the eighth Script Day is Bruno Podalydès, filmmaker and screenwriter. A reading workshop and a public discussion on the subject of 'Writing for actors, the construction of characters'. This will be followed by the showing of one of his films. The session is open to the public. (In collaboration with Le Studio du scénario.) (Monday 29 October.) Cinema-audiovisual training for lycée classes: To Be or Not to Be • As every year, the Montpellier Festival will host more than 400 lycée pupils who are to take a cinema-audiovisual baccalauréat. They come from more than 20 schools all over France. The programme is devoted to Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be, chosen for the baccalauréat in 2013. The film will be studied during a three-day course with many other participants. • Festival of high school films As part of "The Stage Classes L" the Montpellier Festival organizes a "festival of high school films". This festival includes a selection of ten short films made by high school students during the 2011-2012 year. It will take place in one session, Friday, Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. at Le Corum. Conferences for professionnals - 2012 Professional meetings, 29 October-2 November 2012 SEE DETAILED PROFESSIONAL OFFER in Professionals. > Zoom on IFCIC: More information about the Institut pour le financement du cinéma et des industries culturelles (IFCIC). (Monday 29 October at 14.30.) > Aid for world cinemas: Presentation and analysis six months after its launching of this new facility devoted to international coproduction. (Monday 29 October at 17.00.) > PROGRAMME - PRODUCING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION EUROMED Audiovisual and DOCmed: Presentation of the Euromed Audiovisual programme, the DOCmed training programme, and the 10 documentary projects of the DOCmed participants 2012. (Monday 29 October 2012 at 18.30.) Coproduction breakfasts: Reserved to the DOCmed participants and to the producers from the Languedoc-Roussillon Region. (For registration: please contact Sandrine Courouble - Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma sandrine@languedoc-roussillon-cinema.fr) (Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 October from 9.00 to 10.15) Presentation of television editorial lines and Mediterranean funds Moderators: Serge Lalou, producer, Les Films d’ici, and Jacques Bidou, producer, JBA Production (Tuesday 30 October from 10.30 to 13.00.) Coproduction round table discussions Presentation of the 12 selected projects to the commissioning editors invited. Call for projects: www.eurodoc-net.com/med. (Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 October from 14.30 to 18.00.) The conference: Producing in the Mediterranean Region. Moderators: Serge Lalou, producer, Les Films d’ici, and Jacques Mandelbaum, journalist and cinema critic for the French newspaper Le Monde. (Wednesday 31 October from 10.30 to 13.00.) Coproduction: screenings and case studies After the film screenings, case study of the production and financing process with the filmmaker and the producer (at 10.00 pm). (Screenings: Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 October at 20.00.) And also: > Conference: Cinema Criticism On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the launching of Positif, Cinemed is organising reflection on critical writing. (Tuesday 30 October from 14.30 to 17.00.) 22nd session of the Development Aid Grant Since 1991, the Montpellier Festival has awarded a grant to directors who have made at least one fiction short and are presenting a project for a full-length film at the screenplay stage. -The 22nd session of the Development Aid Grant is to be held this year and 15 to 20 full-length film projects will be examined by a jury. Several grants of €3,000 to €7,000 will be awarded (funded by the CNC, the Organisation internationale de la francophonie, the Languedoc-Roussillon Region, Association Beaumarchais and Éclair Group). A writing residency is also offered by the Cinema Writing Center Le Moulin d’Andé. (Thursday 1 and Friday 2 November.) |
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