Cinema at the Festival d'Avignon... It is not an entirely new thing as in 1967, Jean-Luc Godard, at Jean Vilar's request, screened The Chinese Woman in the Cour d'honneur. The strong cinematographic presence at the Festival this year fulfils our desire to have the stage and screen hold a dialogue on questions relating to narrative and memory, fiction and non-fiction, which runs through this edition. Apart from the film directors already invited with shows or visual installations, and the directors or actors in the programme who also express themselves through cinema, we have asked film-makers, known or to be discovered, who through their films recount in their own way the territories visited by this Festival, from Quebec to the Near East. Many screenings will be followed by a meeting with the film director. We also hope to propose several new films to you by the film-makers present.
A selection of films by Danielle Arbid, Pippo Delbono, Ronit Elkabetz, Ari Folman, Amos Gitai, Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige, Christophe Honoré, Rodrigue Jean, Michel Khleifi et Eyal Sivan, Jan Lauwers, Federico León et Marco Martínez, Avi Mograbi, Ghassan Salhab, Elia Suleiman, Agnès Varda.
Distribution
In collaboration with Antoine de Baecque
no reservations: tickets purchased at the Utopia cinema:
definitive programme in the Utopia Gazette and the Spectator's Guide available at the beginning of July or on www.cinemas-utopia.org and www.festival-avignon.com
