Leila Hatami, Iranian actress, silver bear in Berlin for A Separation by Ashgar Faradhi, an Iranian film with one million admissions in France, will be the president of the international Jury. The other members are: Suha Arraf, director (Palestine), Zig Dulay, director (Philippines), Yerlan Nurmukhambetov, director (Kazakhstan), Tran Bich Quan, distributor-producer (France).
Koji Fukada, the rising star of Japanese directors, will present all of his films in world premiere.
Both will receive a Cyclo d’or d’honneur for their entire career or their work during the opening ceremony on February 1, 2022.
Moshen Makhmalbaf, multi-award-winning Iranian director, and Atiq Rahimi, Afghan director, Goncourt Prize 2008, signatories of the appeal of July 29, 2021 “let’s save Afghan artists! », will present several films during the Afghan Day.
A tribute will be paid to filmmaker Marc Haaz, technical director of FICA, who died tragically, at the age of 33, on July 30, 2021.
The complete films of Xei Fei, leader of the fourth generation of Chinese directors, Berlin Golden Bear 1993 and Vesoul Audience Award 1999, will be presented.
Labeled by UNESCO, a Look at the cinemas of the Silk Roads will invite you to travel, in these times of confinement, to the delight of festival-goers eager to escape.
The fiction and documentary competitions offer 17 films unseen in France, competing for the Cyclo d’or:
FICTION: Bangladesh: No Land’s Man by Mostafa Sarwar Farooki – French premiere; China: The Coffin Painter by Da Fei – European premiere; China: Yanagawa by Zhang Lu – French premiere; Korea: Aloners by Hong Sung-eun – French premiere; Iran: No choice by Reza Dormishian – French premiere; Japan-Vietnam: Along the Sea by Fujimoto Akio – French premiere; Uzbekistan: 2000 Songs of Farida by Yolkin Tuychiev – European premiere; Philippines: Gensan Punch by Brillante Ma Mendoza – European premiere; Taiwan: The Falls by Chung Mong-hong – French premiere;
DOCUMENTARY: Bangladesh: Why Not by Shekh al Mamun – international premiere; Cambodia: Side by Sideby Polen Ly – French premiere; India: Indian Space Dreams by Sue Sudbury – unpublished; Iran: Asho by Jafar Najafi – French premiere; Israel: Holding it In by Chen Rotem and Omer Yefman – European premiere; Laos – France: Breaking the silence by Isabelle Vang and Lisiak Pawel – unpublished – Myanmar: February 1 by Leila Macaire and Mo Mo – European premiere – Palestine:Gaza, ball at the foot of Iyad Alasttal – unpublished
During the professional day, the films in Previews (Iran:Hit the Road by Panah Panahi; Japan: The Asada Family by Ryota Nakano; Turkey: Between two Dawns by Selman Nacar) or Out of Competition (Cambodia: White Building by Kavich Neang) will be the subject of particular attention by operators.
The films on the theme “History as a backdrop”, far from the controversies over the rewriting of history by unbolting statues, will illustrate the phrase of the great historian Marc Bloch “Men are more like their time than their fathers”.
“Family Afternoon”; NETPAC panel; Jury Marc Haaz; Critics’ Jury; Inalco Jury; High school jury; Youth Jury; audience award; Debate around Korea with Georges Arsenijevic, essayist; Cinephile meal; Orange Evening; Vesoul on Asian time; Exhibitions: paintings, books, film posters; Decentralized sessions in Haute-Saône: Gray, Dampierre-sur-Salon, Lure, Luxeuil-les-Bains; Awareness actions; Revival of award-winning films at Inalco in Paris; will complete the many facets of the festival for the greatest pleasure of all! Long live the cinema! Culture is a combat sport, round 28!
