PREVIEW / CHIME

Chime by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2024 / Japan / 45’

Tashiro hears a chime that no one else hears. The chime sounds. He claims a machine has grafted itself to his brain. The chime sounds. Again. Matsuoka, his cooking teacher, tries to help him. The chime sounds. Louder. Tashiro grabs a knife.

Wednesday, April 9 – 8.45 pm 

Cinéma Rex – Salle 1


COLLEGES & HIGH SCHOOLS

Since its inception, the festival has been working closely with Les Yeux Verts, the image education centre for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
In addition to a rich programme of events for children and young people, workshops, meetings and masterclasses are on offer this year.


College - from 6e

A programme of 8 short films on the theme of travel, in partnership with the CINÉFIL film and puppet festival.


College - from 4e

Partie de campagne!

Screening of Jean Renoir’s Partie de campagne followed by a discussion on the place and status of women, desire and seduction, literary adaptation… in the presence of festival guests.

Wednesday, April 9 – 8.15 am

Screening open to the public


High school - from the second year

Comedy!

Masterclass on acting, with Bertrand Bossard, film and theatre actor.


PRE-SCHOOL & ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Since its inception, the festival has been working closely with Les Yeux Verts, the image education centre for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.

In addition to a rich programme aimed at children and young people, practical workshops, meetings and masterclasses are on offer this year.


Nursery school - from pre-school to kindergarten

Tous en fête !

1960-2022 / Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Uruguay / 37′ / From age 3

An original programme of 6 short films on the theme of joy and celebration offered in partnership with the association Enfances au cinéma.

Celebrations are a time for sharing, whatever our differences. These six musical, visual and often slapstick stories tell the story of how each of us finds our own way to indulge in the pleasures of celebration. Come and enjoy!


Primary schools - CP to CM2

Maya, give me a title

Michel Gondry / 2024 / France / Animation / 61′

Funny, poetic adventures narrated by Pierre Niney.

Maya and her dad live in two different countries. To keep in touch with his daughter and continue telling her stories, her dad asks her every night ‘Maya, give me a title’. He then uses the title to create a cartoon for her to star in.

STOP MOTION WORKSHOP

Make a paper cut-out animation film in the style of Michel Gondry, with Brive-based artist and director Raphaële Raffort. This film will be shown as the first part of the Maya, give me a title screenings.


SPECIAL SESSION

Preview of Virgil Vernier’s latest film, to be released in autumn.

Friday, April 11  – 6.45 pm

Imperial Princess by Virgil Vernier
2024 / France / Documentary / 48′

Iulia has been living alone in Monaco since her father left to return to Russia because of the sanctions against his country. She no longer goes to school. She feels increasingly alone and threatened.


FAMILY CINEMA

A programme specially designed for family audiences. Through these adventures narrated by Pierre Niney, Michel Gondry brings to life a poetic and amusing journey that will have the little ones dreaming… and the grown-ups smiling.

Saturday, April 12 – 4 pm

Maya, donne-moi un titre by Michel Gondry
2024 / France / Animation / 61′
With the voice of Pierre Niney

Maya and her dad live in two different countries. To keep in touch with her daughter and continue telling her stories, her dad asks her every night ‘Maya, give me a title’. He then uses this title to create a cartoon for her, with Maya as the heroine.

Special price: 1 child ticket = 1 free adult ticket


CINEMATHEQUE SESSION

Thursday, April 10 – 6.30 pm

A session on transvestism in cinema, presented by Émilie Cauquy, from the Cinémathèque Française. In the presence of Hélier Cisterne.

In partnership with

L’Avventura galante di un provinciale by Luca Comerio
1908 / Italy / Fiction / 4′

A man meets a woman in town and takes her to his hotel.

Je ne voudrais pas être un homme by Ernst Lubitsch
1918 / Germany / Fiction / 45′

Deciding to experiment with male freedom, a young woman cross-dresses and goes out for a night of adventures. An avant-garde and subversive Lubitsch that mischievously explores gender norms.

Les Paradis Perdus by Hélier Cisterne
2008 / France / Fiction / 30′

One night in May 68, Isabelle, a young schoolgirl, returns home in a state of shock. Her parents, overwhelmed, decide to take her to the countryside to escape the unrest in Paris. The next day, Isabelle had only one thing on her mind. To go back to Paris. Little did she know that she was heading in a completely different direction.


SESSION RÉGION NOUVELLE-AQUITAINE

Screening organised with ALCA Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Les Yeux Verts

Saturday, April 12 – 2pm

Des jeunes filles enterrent leur vie by Maïté Sonnet
2022 / France / Fiction / 30′

Axelle is having the worst day of her life: recovering from a break-up, she has to attend her sister’s hen party in a ghostly mountain spa.

Grande Stellaire by Alex Pou
2024 / France / Fiction / 40′

In the middle of his life, Sharif, a gardener isolated on a country estate, takes in a strangely mute being. As time goes by, this creature will lead him into a phantasmatic world of plants.


SESSION AGENCE DU COURT MÉTRAGE

Wednesday, April 9 – 2.15 pm

Session presented by Amélie Depardon

In partnership with

Hôtel des Acacias by Chantal Akerman and Michèle Blondeel
1982 / Belgium / Fiction / 40′

Two women arrive at a hotel where the owner is ready to fall in love with the first woman who comes along, but the staff and other guests want to stop him.

Le Déménagement by Chantal Akerman
1992 / France / Fiction / 39′

A man, alone in a modern flat, has just moved in. He remembers his previous flat and wonders if he made the right choice.