Non-competitive, the Filmmakers’ Fortnight is dedicated to the discovery of new artists but has also included a few recognized authors in its 2024 selection.
On the French side, the selector Julien Rejl announced at the opening “My life, my face”, the posthumous film by Sophie Fillières, a figure of auteur cinema who died last year, with Agnès Jaoui.
The Corsican Thierry de Peretti continues to explore the political history of his island (“In his image”), while “The plastic guns”, by Jean-Christophe Meurice, promises to revisit a news item in a trashy humor way with Jonathan Cohen, Nora Hamzawi, Vincent Dedienne, Thomas VDB or Aymeric Lompret.
Hafsia Herzi and Isabelle Huppert play a feminist duo in Patricia Mazuy (“The Prisoner of Bordeaux”).
American independent cinema is back, notably with a film bringing together Michael Cera and descendants of Hollywood legends, Francesca Scorsese and Sawyer Spielberg (“Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point” by Tyler Taormina) for a Christmas meal.
This parallel section, led by the Society of Film Directors (SRF), chose several films from countries where making cinema is a struggle.
Among them, the Argentinian Hernan Rosselli, “worthy representative of a cinematography in danger” due to the policies of the ultraliberal Javier Milei, according to Julien Rejl, as well as a first Palestinian fiction by Mahdi Fleifel (“To a land unknown”), about two Palestinian cousins stuck in Athens who are looking for a scheme to reach Germany.