La Bête dans la jungle

Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between the performing arts and cinema, created in collaboration with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily gathering of film screenings, at the end of which the public meets and exchanges with theater artists, choreographers, filmmakers, activists, critics and journalists invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships these guests maintain between disciplines and with the world. It's a place where we can take a closer look, both large and small, at the themes brought to the stage, the territories of the guest language, and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

The Beast in the Jungle

By Patric Chiha // France // 2023 // 1h43

It all starts with a novel by Henry James, which chronicles the relationship between two people who are attracted to each other but doomed never to realize their love... Patric Chiha has transposed this plot to a nightclub, while retaining the principle of the passage of time over more than twenty years.

Screening followed by a meeting with Patric Chiha,
Moderated by Marjorie Bertin, journalist with RFI and Courrier de l'Atlas.