Pourquoi on se bat Booking possible – Camille ÉTIENNE – Solal MOISAN – 14:40 (France) Filmmaker in Attendance
Special screening
Le Coeur d'Or 1
Camille is a climate and social justice activist. With her two best friends, she is going to take to the sea. She, who has been fighting for several years to raise public awareness of the climate emergency, is going to film the source of her commitment: the melting ice.
Summertime in a small village in southeastern Spain. A storm threatens to cause the river crossing it to overflow again. Throughout the village, an old popular belief is repeated like a litany, claiming that some women are predestined to disappear with each new flood, because they were born with «the water inside».
Local teenagers try to survive the weariness of a summer in the village, smoking cigarettes, dancing and drinking. In this electric atmosphere that precedes the storm, Ana, who dreams of fleeing this village that stinks of death, and José will live a story of summer love.
The screening will be preceded by the short film in Competition Claudio's Songby Andreas Nilsson.
6:00 PM
Ghost Night Booking possible – Fulvio RISULEO – 19:28 (Italy)
Official Competition
Le Coeur d'Or 1
Tarek and his friends have their Saturday evening all planned out: PlayStation, junk food, and a few joints to go with it. When he pops by the park to buy some weed, a policeman who's been eyeing him from inside his car approaches him. The man has a mysterious air about him. He's gentle yet menacing and somewhat conspiring. Rather than taking him to the precinct, the cop takes Tarek on an adventurous night of brawls, chases, and escapes.
The screening will be preceded by the short film in Competition One F*cking Wishde Piotr Jasinski.
6:30 PM
En plein feu Booking possible – Quentin REYNAUD – 20:25 (France) Filmmaker in Attendance
Preview
Salle Bernard Taillefer
Grâce à l'application TWAVOX, cette séance est également disponible en audio-description et avec un sous-titrage pour sourds et malentendants.
As a forest fire ravages the region for weeks, Simon and his father Joseph must leave their home and hit the road following evacuation alerts. Trapped in their vehicle in a forest transformed into a giant blaze, will Simon and Joseph manage to escape?
Empire of Light – Sam MENDES – 21:19 (United Kingdom)
SummitPlaytime
Salle des festivals
Hilary is a cinema manager struggling with her mental health, and Stephen is a new employee longing to escape the provincial town where he faces daily adversity. Together they find a sense of belonging and experience the healing power of music, cinema, and community.
The screening will be preceded by the short film in Competition The Garbage Man by Laura Gonçalves.
8:45 PM
Toi non plus tu n'as rien vu Booking possible – Béatrice POLLET – 22:43 (France) Filmmaker in Attendance
Preview
Salle Bernard Taillefer
Claire and Sophie studied together. They are both lawyers. Claire is going to be charged with attempted homicide of a child under 15. Sophie will take on her defence. How did Claire, already a mother of two, neither see nor feel that she was pregnant again?
