Young Cinema
Jeune Cinéma- FRANCE / 2023 / French / Color, B&W / Digital File / 72 min
Director, Script: Yves-Marie Mahé
Editing: Nathalie Vignères, Yves-Marie Mahé
Sound Design: Antonin Dalmasso Mixing: Mathieu Nappez Music: Thierry Müller Appearances: Chantal Akerman, Léos Carax, Claude Chabrol, Guy Gilles, Bernadette Lafont, Bulle Ogier, Marguerite Duras, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Claude Lelouch, Philippe Garrel
Producer: Nicolas Brevière
Production Company, World Sales: Local Films
An archival documentary about the legendary film festival held in Hyères, southern France from 1965 to 1983 but largely forgotten today. The title of this film is the name of the festival, in addition to being a reference to the spirit that sustained it. The festival played an important role in France along with Cannes, often screening the first and second cutting-edge films of French and foreign filmmakers such as Guy Gilles, Philippe Garrel, Chantal Akerman, Leos Carax, and Werner Schroeter, and etching their names in film history. However, it gradually distanced itself from the public, lost sight of its founding principles, and disappeared abruptly, pushed aside by the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. Through footage of filmmakers, journalists, and chaotic audiences who passed through the festival, the film attempts to recount a tale of lost dreams, while weaving threads of history out of oblivion. It confronts our own film festival with a question: What is the future of YIDFF?
Yves-Marie MahéBorn in Morlaix, 1972, he makes works that mainly employ archival footage and has produced more than eighty short films including Vivre vite (2009) and Patrick Dewaere . . . l’autre (2019), as well as podcast documentaries for Arte Radio and France Culture. He has been a programmer for Collectif Jeune Cinéma, a cooperative for the distribution and dissemination of experimental films and videos since 1991. His recent works include Le rock expérimental des Instants Chavirés (ou comment en finir avec le jazz) (2018) and Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français (2019).
The Film You are About to See
Le film que vous allez voir- FRANCE / 2023 / No Dialogue (English Subtitled Version) / Color, B&W / Digital File / 11 min
Director, Script, Editing, Research: Maxime Martinot
Graphic Design: Catarina Boieiro
Color Grading: Thibault Solinhac
Production Company, Distribution: Don Quichotte Films (Quentin Brayer, Yannick Beauquis, Elora Bertrand), Maxime Martinot
This film is based on excerpts from the disclaimers and warnings we often see at the beginning of films. Piracy controls, disclaimers about sexist or racist expressions—they demonstrate not only the collusion between art and industry, but also the boundaries that separate cinema from the outside, such as the conflict of interest between free expression and the law. Film is an illusion of desire for us but it detests its own disreputability and even imposes restrictions on itself, revealing its pure and impure aspects.
Maxime MartinotMaxime Martinot is a French director, editor and writer. Since studying cinema at Paris 8, he has been working between Brittany, Nantes, Paris and Lisbon. His first feature film, Trois contes de Borges (2014), won two prizes at FIDMarseille and was released in French theaters in 2018. His short essay film Histoire de la revolution (2019) won the Best Short Film Award at Entrevues Belfort. In 2022, Antelopes was nominated for the César Awards, in the Best Documentary Short Film category.