Official Selection
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International Competition - Feature Films
"Among the eight feature-length films selected in competition are Czech, Chilean or French productions. Drama, film noir and comedies as wellas a bildungsroman-like documentary will be screened. These films - which we found fascinating - were staged by women and men maneuvering in different universes. It's your call now and may the best win!"
- Édouard Waintrop
French Competition - Feature Films
"Devoted to avant-garde features, this French competition is forever meandering: it looks for gaps and fresh ways to grasp the world around us. Yet laughter isn’t set aside, for the selection sports three comedies. Whether these films get you laughing by displaying the distance they take from the world we’re living in or the absurdity triggered by what the latter is becoming, or whether they get you depressed about it, know that we’re in this immobile cinematic adventure together so as to share our opinions, emotions and visions. Paths - as surprising and invigorating as possible - are appearing, or so I hope!"
- Natacha Seweryn
Contrebandes Competition
"A set of films that rub the audience up the wrong way, stroking the mind in new directions - sometimes contrary yet always stimulant. These pictures were made far from the classic financing schemes and embrace - each in its own way - an emergency, a necessity."
- Natacha Seweryn
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French competition - Short films
"Cinema is bound to illuminate reality. That very gesture is essential since alternatives are being invented to overcome a mistreated reality. The films from this competition thus renew the exploration of reality. They embrace the responsibility faced by any artist: pointing out how to live in reality and be inhabited by it, reaffirming the latter’s obvious elements, redefining its outlines so as to create a common ground from which no one can be excluded and where everybody can claim their space."
- Sébastien Jounel
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Out of Competition
Out of Competition - Feature Films
"While building our “competitive” selection, we’ve encountered a few gems that we really want to share with you. These two films are different in tone, style and meaning. We’re screening a Belgian feature from Fabrice Du Welz (who directed “Calvaire”) and a really strange American film which was a hit at Tribeca Film Festival 2019."
- Édouard Waintrop
"Douce France" Selection
"In 1986, Carte de séjour, a band featuring singer Rachid Taha, got successful on the radio thanks to a raï version of Charles Trénet’s “Douce France”. The latter was telling of these artists’ will to claim ownership of their culture as they were born to foreign parents. Cinema did allow some directors to follow that direction…"
- Édouard Waintrop
Short Films
Guest of honor - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"Since 1968 (there’s no such thing as chance), with “Fando y Lis”, Alejandro Jodorowsky has shaken cinema from the inside. When that very film, now world-famous, was screened in Acapulco, it triggered a lot of blasphemy and praise, and received both hatred and love… Since then, each of his films has led to strong reactions. We are thus proud of presenting you with his pre-”Danza de la Realidad” feature-length films as well as the breathtaking and jarring “Psychomagic” with which Jodorowsky is making his grand return."
- Édouard Waintrop
Guest of honor - James Gray
"New Yorker director James Gray was only 25 years old when he entered our fantasies with the surprising “Little Odessa”, a truly dark film noir. He hasn’t left since then, offering us, among others, the gloomy “We Own the Night”, the melancholic “Two Lovers”… and “Ad Astra”, his latest work that send Brad Pitt into space and was praised by the press at the Mostra."
- Édouard Waintrop
FIFIB Formation
FIFIB Formation
Le Pavillon des Virtuelles Réalités
We’re introducing a new section at the FIFIB this year! From VR films to artists working around the virtual aspect of social media, this selection focuses on immersive pieces. The entrance - a creation by Bruit du Frigo-sets the tone with its organic and winding tunnel. What’s at the end of it?
Light, of course!
Le Pavillon des Virtuelles Réalités
We’re introducing a new section at the FIFIB this year! From VR films to artists working around the virtual aspect of social media, this selection focuses on immersive pieces. The entrance - a creation by Bruit du Frigo - sets the tone with its organic and winding tunnel. What’s at the end of it?
Light, of course!
