The Giornate degli Autori folks will be celebrating the twentieth edition of the section and a pair of auteurs in Céline Sciamma and Teona Strugar Mitevska will be gifting them with specially made (insubordination-friendly) new cinema. The spirit and memory of Quebecois filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée will be honored with a special screening of C.R.A.Z.Y and we’ve got some buzz-worthy titles in the shape of Élise Girard (Isabelle Huppert is front and center in Sidonie au Japon), Delphine Girard‘s Quitter la nuit (with Selma Alaoui and Veerle Baetens), Chong Keat Aun‘s Snow in Midsummer, and sticking with the French Canadian theme we got Ariane Louis-Seize‘s feature debut coming-of-ager comedy Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant among the dozen plus features (ten comp films) and trimmings — including world cinema’s new shinning filmmaker stars in Lila Avilés and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović packing their MIU MIU WOMEN’S TALES shorts. Here are the selections:
Competition: Los océanos son los verdaderos continentes – Tommaso Santambrogio Sidonie au Japon – Élise Girard Following the Sound – Kyoshi Sugita Melk – Stefanie Kolk Quitter la nuit – Delphine Girard Sobre todo de noche – Víctor Iriarte Snow in Midsummer – Chong Keat Aun Backstage – Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane The Summer with Carmen – Zacharias Mavroeidis Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant – Ariane Louis-Seize
Out of Competition:
Coup! – Austin Stark, Joseph Schuman CLOSING FILM
Special Events:
Photophobia – Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík
L’expérience Zola – Gianluca Matarrese
Bye Bye Tibériade – Lina Soualem
L’avamposto – Edoardo Morabito
This is How a Child Becomes a Poet – Céline Sciamma
21 Days Until the End of the World – Teona Strugar Mitevska
MIU MIU WOMEN’S TALES
#25 EYE TWO TIMES MOUTH – Lila Avilés
#26 STANE – Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
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).
