Names such as Miguel Gomes, Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher, Matías Piñeiro, Eddie Alcazar and even a Panahi in Jafar Panahi’s son, Panah Panahi are some of the eye-brow raisers in Directors’ Fortnight topper Paolo Moretti selections for the 2021 line-up but some of the more anticipated items are Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II, Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava, Radu Muntean‘s Intregaldeand Jonas Carpignano’s A Chiara. The 53rd edition will open with a Nomadland type experience in Emmanuel Carrère’s Between Two Worlds which stars Juliette Binoche exploring pockets of the U.S.
Between Two Worlds – Emmanuel Carrère / OPENING FILM
Our Men – Rachel Lang / CLOSING FILM
The Souvenir – Joanna Hogg / SPECIAL SCREENING
FEATURES
A Chiara – Jonas Carpignano
Ali & Ava – Clio Barnard
Clara Sola – Nathalie Álvarez Mesen *
De Bas Etages (A Brighter Tomorrow), dir: Yassine Qnia *
The Tsugua Diaries – Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro
The Employer and the Employee – Manuel Nieto Zas
Entre Les Vagues – Anaïs Volpé
Europa – Haider Rashid
Futura – Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher & Francesco Munzi
Hit the Road – Panah Panahi *
Intregalde – Radu Muntean
The Hill Where Lionesses Roar – Luàna Bajrami *
Les Magnétiques – Vincent Maël Cardona *
Medusa – Anita Rocha da Silveira
Murina – Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović *
Neptune Frost – Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman
A Night Of Knowing Nothing – Payal Kapadia *
The Tale Of King Crab – Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis
Retour A Reims – Jean-Gabriel Périot
Ripples Of Life – Shujun Wei
The Sea Ahead – Ely Daghe *
The Souvenir Part II – Joanna Hogg
SHORT FILMS
Anxious Body, dir: Yoriko Mizushiri
El Espacio Sideral (The Sidereal Space), dir: Sebastián Schjaer
Simone Est Partie (Simone Is Gone), dir: Mathilde Chavanne
Sycorax, dirs: Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro
The Parents’ Room (La Chambre Des Parents), dir: Diego Marcon
The Vandal, dir: Eddie Alcazar
The Windshield Wiper, dir: Alberto Mielgo
Train Again, dir: Peter Tscherkassky
When Night Meets Dawn (Quand La Nuit rencontre l’Aube), dir: Andreea Cristina Borțun
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
