The Cinémed festival is preparing to “
rumble the Mediterranean ” in Montpellier, where the controversial director Abdellatif Kechiche, Éric Cantona, the young guard of Georgian cinema and the sequel to the muscular success of Netflix
Lost Ball
are expected at the end of the month
.
"
Cinémed mixes the magic of cinema and the soul of the Mediterranean, with its contradictions between machismo and the rights of women, Jews and Muslims, the issues of migration, youth, clandestinity
", said the president of the festival. , the former mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando, during the presentation on Wednesday of its 44th edition, which will take place from October 21 to 29.
"
The Mediterranean rumbles.
Like a dormant volcano, it is uncompromising, excessive in its excesses, rebellious...
”, notes, in the presentation file, the director of the festival, Christophe Leparc.
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at Cannes in 2019, never released in theaters, the Franco-Tunisian director Adbellatif Kechiche will be present "
for 24 or 48 hours
, ”said Christophe Leparc on Wednesday.
The only certainty is that the director of
La Vie d'Adèle,
Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, which will be the subject of a retrospective, will host a "
master-class
" open to the public on Friday October 28 at 5 p.m.
"
For the rest, we don't know if he will be present at screenings
," added Christophe Leparc.
"
For an audience that may not be used to
“, according to its director, the festival will present on the big screen
Lost Bullet 2
, a few days before its release on Netflix.
In 2020, the first part of this muscular French feature film had accumulated more than 37 million views worldwide after its first month of operation.
The official competition jury will be chaired by ex-Manchester United star and film and theater actor Éric Cantona, born in Marseille, and his wife, actress and director Rachida Brakni, born to Algerian parents.
Documentalist Simone Bitton, who has been exploring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for over 30 years, will also be a guest at the festival.
The Spanish actress and director Icíar Bollaín will present her new film
The Repentants
(
Maixabel
in VO), inspired by a true story between the widow of a politician assassinated by ETA and two of his assassins.
The "
young guard
" of a Georgian cinema with a rich heritage will be honoured, as will the
The Mattei Affair
), who would have turned 100 this year.