The tempting program of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival 2024 is revealed
On the program: independent gems, feminine hemoglobin, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Quebec films.
After seeing films such as Atlantic Bar, Rodeo, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once or Vincent must die And The Dream Life of Miss Fran in its previous editions, the Champ Elysées Film Festival, which each year promotes a selection of French and American independent films, is reopening.
This year, the event organized by Sophie Dulac will take place from June 18 to 25. As usual, he presents a double official selection. Some of the films have already been screened at the biggest international festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Locarno and Berlin. Here is the official selection of the 13th edition of the CEFF:
French side:
Lake campsiteby Eléonore Saintagnan (Locarno Festival 2023)
Diaries from Lebanonby Myriam El Hajj (Panorama Berlinale 2024)
Eat the Nightby Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (Quinzaine des filmmakers 2024)
Habibiby Florent Gouëlou
The Pampasby Antoine Chevrollier (Critics’ Week 2024)
The Trial of the Dogby Laetitia Dosch (Un certain regard 2024)
American side:
Between the templesby Nathan Silver (Sundance & Berlinale 2024)
The Dellsby Nellie Kluz (Visions of Reality 2024)
Didiby Sean Wang (Sundance Audience Award 2024)
Good Oneby India Donaldson (Sundance & Filmmakers’ Fortnight 2024)
I Saw the TV Glowby Jane Schoenbrun (Sundance & Berlinale 2024)
It Doesn't Matterby Josh Mond (Acid-Cannes 2024)
The CEFF press release also announces a thematic section entitled “The Slayers” and subtitled “Fantasy, mythologies and empowerment, who are these rebels?”. Justine Lévêque, the artistic director of the festival, suggests:
“A selection of short and feature films where the possessed, the mothers, the bloodthirsty, the witches, the jealous, the lovers, the teenagers coexist. A celebration of powerful female characters through cult and timeless films to be urgently (re)discovered. The creation of a space for meetings, discussions and flashes around these women, these fascinating, bewitching, consoling, terrifying heroines.”
Here is the selection for this thematic section:
On the feature film side:
Chromosome IIIby David Cronenberg (1979)
Beautiful to die forby Michael Patrick Jann (1999)
Ginger Snapsby John Fawcette (2000)
Fatal Gamesby Michael Lehmann (1988)
The predatorsby Tony Scott (1983)
When we were witchesby Nietzchka Keene (1990)
The Love Witchby Anna Billr (2016)
Possessionby Andrej Żuławski (1980)
Short film side:
Blue girls, white fearby Marie Jacotey and lola Halifa-Legrand (2020)
The killerby Jocelyn Saab (1988)
The Wartby Sarah Lasry (2021)
Vulvine queen of ecstasyby Mary Yanko, Théo Guyot, ming Chieh Chang, Nawel Bahamou and Clémence André (2022)
The projection of When we were witches will be done in partnership with the Ciné Club Gaze, the film club of this “review of female perspectives” as the press release explains. This is the first year of collaboration between the festival and Gaze. Rebecca Zlotowski, President of the Feature Film Jury, and Clarence Edgard-Rosa, Founder of Gaze magazine, will take advantage of this opportunity to organize an exchange around Nietzchka Keene's film.
This parallel section will also be entitled to a round table entitled “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Best Slayer”. It will bring together the journalist and writer Marion Olité, the journalist and channel manager Demoiselle d'Horreur, the filmmaker Alexis Langlois, the essayist and radio voice Taous Merakchi and the director and screenwriter Julia Kowalski. To moderate the debate, journalist Perrine Quennesson.
This year, the CEFF is also innovating by establishing a partnership with the Quebec Cinémania festival and Air Canada. This new section dedicated to independent Quebec and Canadian cinema bears the name of “Happy hours”. The program includes the screening of five films:
Like fireby Philippe Lesage (in the presence of actor Arieh Worthalter)
Gamma Raysby Henry Bernadet (in the presence of the filmmaker)
Soloby Sophie Dupuis (in the presence of the filmmaker)
Summer 2000by Virginie Nolin and Laurence Olivier (short film)
Hello Strangerby Amélie Hardy (short film)
Finally, after the presentation of Drama queensby Alexis Langlois at Critics’ Week 2024, and that of Red Castleby Hélène Milano at ACID 2024, the Champs-Elysées Film Festival invites you to discover these two films in preview, in the presence of the film team for the first (subject to reservation), and the director for the second .
More information on the Champ Elysées Film Festival website
