In competition
Feature Films Competition
"I’d missed that image." These words have stood as the common thread running through this year's programme. Coming from seven countries, with very different subjects, these films find their complementarity in their ability to put images on new representations. We had definitely missed that very way of seeing cinema.
— Natacha Seweryn
€15000, offered by Ciné +, will be awarded to the distributor of the winning film. A €3000 grant, offered by the Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, will be awarded by the director of the winning film. €1000, offered by the SACEM, will be awarded to the best French film music composer.
Compétition Contrebande
Produced outside of conventional funding schemes, each of these films responds to the necessary and urgent nature of creation in its own way. Inventing stories is also inventing a way to produce and direct them. Four feature films and seven shorts make up this year's selection.
— Natacha Seweryn
€1500 €, offered by Agnès B, will be awarded to the director of the winning film. In addition, the later will be awarded a stay at the writing residence organised by la Métive (an international residence place for pluridisciplinary artistic creation).
Programme 1
Programme 2
Programme 3
Programme 4
Programme 5
Short Films Competition
This year’s eight short films were obvious to us. They deal with desire, dogs, risk-taking and love. Each of these unique universes more importantly makes way for strong film personalities.
— Natacha Seweryn
€1500, offered by the Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, will be awarded to the director of the winning film. €1000, offered by the SACEM, will be awarded to the best film music composer. In addition, the director of the winning film will be awarded a stay at the writing residence organised by la Métive (an international residence place for pluridisciplinary artistic creation).
Programme 1
Programme 2
Out of Competition
Opening ceremony / Closing ceremony
Premieres and shorts
This is a motley selection guided by the beating hearts of our programmers. After a particular year darkened by you-know-what, we wanted to use the festival’s energy to accompany films we adored. From directors’ first steps to more identified filmmakers, fun and style are to be found in each of these works.
— Natacha Seweryn
Programme of short films
Birthday Screenings
Through their films, these directors have marked and built the festival’s identity over 10 years. What do we dream of at ten? Certainly a party with our friends and girl/boyfriends. On our birthday, we offer our audience brand new films from not-so-old directors served with candles for dessert. From the first Contrebande laureate, who has since then participated in the Directors’ Fortnight, to the directors of the FIFIB trailers with their latest films, we wish ourselves a very happy birthday!
— Johanna Caraire
Programme of short films
Musique et cinéma
The sacred sound
Close your eyelids, bring your hands together
and say: One
Observe what happens.
If you prefer saying Rone or Para One, indulge yourself.
You are in the right place.
Para One and Rone meet in harmony and that's such
a good thing. They will be our Music & Cinema selection’s
special guests, the programme that opens the
most reluctant chakras
and breaks the cinephile fever.
Screenings, concerts, masterclasses...
A comprehensive fitness program.
— Johanna Caraire
Masterclass Jacques Audiard & Rone
Carte blanche à l'ACID
The ACID was created in 1992 and started tackling issues related to the distribution of films, as well as their inequalities in exposure and access very early on. The organisation’s members champion the inclusion of independent cinema in local cultural actions. The FIFIB supports the action of the ACID by showing three films from this year’s Cannes selection.
— Natacha Seweryn
Séance spéciale
FIFIB Création - NAFW
Retrospectives & Focus
Focus John Sayles
For four decades, John Sayles has been building a major body of work, deeply American and political in the topics it tackles - the relationship to identities and history, the border as well as the representation of minorities. His universe is always attentive to the dynamics of class, gender and race, without ever being a caricature of progressive cinema. A brilliant author and an actor, Sayles also edits his own films. He's the quintessence of the independent filmmaker.
– Nathan Reneaud
Masterclass Maggie Renzi / John Sayles + Emilie Lesclaux / Kleber Mendonça Filho
Masterclass Maggie Renzi / John Sayles + Emilie Lesclaux / Kleber Mendonça Filho
Rétrospective Barbet Schroeder
Initially an actor for his friend Eric Rohmer, he founded Les Films du Losange with him and produced the first episodes of “Six Moral Tales”. He soon got interested in directing and his first feature film, “More” (1969), can now be seen as part of a body of work of rare density and eclecticism. Barbet Schroeder has never ceased to alternate committed documentary proposals (“Terror’s Advocate”) and dynamited fictions (“Maîtresse”), thus witnessing an independence in both tone and genre.
– Pierre Guidez
Focus Laura Mulvey
A theorist, an academic and a director, known for the concept of “male gaze”, her reflections constitute a considerable contribution to the history of cinema. The screening of the films she directed with Peter Wollen and of a pivotal film for her will be an opportunity to explore the multiple facets of her work. This program will be mirrored by a “carte blanche” given to the magazine Another Gaze.
– Natacha Seweryn
Created in 2016, Another Gaze magazine deals with feminism and cinema. Another Screen, a streaming platform that offers rare films in several languages, was born from this initiative last March. The work of Cecilia Mangini, an Italian filmmaker and documentary maker whose films have only recently begun to be restored and shown, was particularly highlighted on the platform. This selection, featuring titles ranging from 1960 to 1974, includes some of the filmmaker's collaborators, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini and Egisto Macchi, as well as her favorite subjects: endangered rituals, the fate of young people and the left behind, but also the proletariat.
– Natacha Seweryn & Daniella Shreir
Programme of short films
Carte blanche à Another Gaze
Kids Screenings
Jeune Public
No more cruel tales and heavy morals, no more formatted stories from cartoon tycoons. The three films we chose for our dear toddlers bring sweetness and assertiveness while promising us beautiful friendships.
— Aurélie Oria-Badoc
Les Nuits et le Village
An iconic place of the festival, the Village is where cinema lovers meet to debate after a screening, a shelter where they can have a drink and enjoy some food. At daytime, pros meet up and various workshops are offered. When night comes, a musical and visual programme takes over.
— Aurélie Oria-Badoc
→ HAPPY HOURS
Free wine tasting from October 14th to 17th, from 7 to 8PM, Cour Mably
→ FOOD & BAR
Every day during the festival
* To enter the Village, visitors are asked to produce a "Pass sanitaire".
Les Nuits
Remember your nights, transformed into intimate spaces, where music echoed between our ears and our walls. The time has come for it to fill the Cour Mably and possess its audience once again.
— Aurélie Oria-Badoc
Soirée ouverture – Rouge Neon Records - 13 octobre
Soirée Dumbhill - 14 octobre
Plateau Warrior Amor à Mort (Warriorecords) - 15 octobre
Soirée Forever Ten - 16 octobre
Soirée Kloudbox - 17 octobre
Soirée clôture infiné - 18 octobre
FIFIB Youth
Séance spéciale
Dans le ventre de –
Plein air
Focus Jabulile Nadia Newman
Focus
