French actress Emmanuelle Béart will co-chair the jury of the Cinemania Francophone Film Festival alongside Quebec filmmaker Philippe Falardeau, La Presse has learned. The duo will lead the “Visages de la francophonie” competition, which opens with Cédric Kahn’s film “The Goldman Trial”.
Published at 1:25 am. Updated at 8:00 a.m.
Other members of the jury for the “Visages de la francophonie” competition are the actresses Anne-Élisabeth Bossé and Sophie Mousel, the directors Manon Barbeau and Geneviève Albert and the screenwriter and director Éric K. Boulianne.
Co-chairing the jury is a rule at Cinemania, recalls the festival’s general director, Guilhem Caillard. “Cinémania is here to establish and maintain the lasting connection that must exist between Quebec and another country in the French-speaking world, in this case France. »
Emmanuelle Béart and Philippe Falardeau succeed Cédric Klapisch and Pascale Bussières, who co-chaired the jury last year.
At the end of the festival, which takes place from November 1 to 12, four prizes will be awarded: the TV5 Québec-Canada Prize for Best Film and the Marc André Lussier Jury Prize, which recognizes the cinematographic and filmphile qualities of a film Werks Represents, the Sofitel Montréal Prize for Best Performance and the SACD Prize for Best Screenplay.
PHOTO ALAIN ROBERGE, LA PRESS ARCHIVE
Philippe Falardeau
Was Emmanuelle Béart difficult to convince? “We have wanted to invite him for several years, but there was a gap in his schedule,” replies Guilhem Caillard. She came in 2000 to accompany Olivier Assayas’ film Les destines sentimentales and I am very happy that she accepted our invitation. She is a great public figure and a lover of Quebec. »
Emmanuelle Béart was revealed in the 1986 film Manon des Sources by Claude Berri and appeared in many successful films including A Heart in Winter (Claude Sautet), I Don’t Kiss (André Téchiné), Mission Impossible ( Brian De Palma), Hell (Claude Chabrol), Eight Women (François Ozon) and The Rehearsal (Catherine Corsini), to name just a few.
The French star’s pairing with Philippe Falardeau was no coincidence, Guilhem Caillard tells us.
“Emmanuelle is very committed to humanitarian projects and charities, she is an activist, she was a UNICEF ambassador for ten years, she spoke about the scourge of incest in a documentary that she co-directed. Such a loud silence; And in his own way, Philippe Falardeau is also a committed person, with his series Mégantic, his films The Good Lie and Le temps des framboises, which are about foreign workers. »
Cedric Kahn in Montreal
The general director of Cinemania highlights the commitment of the co-presidents of the jury to talk about the opening film of the festival, The Goldman Trial, by Cédric Kahn, which tells the story of the second trial of Pierre Goldman – the brother of Pierre Goldman, songwriter and Interpreter Jean-Jacques Goldman – militant figure of the French left in the 1970s, arrested and then tried for bank robberies.
“When I took over the management of Cinemania in 2011, Cédric Kahn was the first guest I received,” Guilhem Caillard tells us. It was the film A Better Life, produced by Denise Robert with Guillaume Canet and directed by Cédric. So he returned to Quebec 12 years later with The Goldman Trial, which is really excellent. »
PHOTO GABRIEL BOUYS, AGENCE FRANCE PRESS ARCHIVE
French director Cédric Kahn, who was photographed at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, will be in Montreal to support his film The Goldman Trial.
Cédric Kahn’s film, which hits cinemas in France this Wednesday, was presented last May at the opening of the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. The North American premiere will take place on November 1st at Cinemania in the presence of the director.
It’s a great trial film about a somewhat forgotten story of this radical left activist who had a trial in 1975 that became quite political against the backdrop of anti-Semitism.
Guilhem Caillard, General Director of the Cinemania Festival
“We are on the verge of founding the National Front, there is a lot of racism in France, and Pierre Goldman has maintained his innocence and defended himself very eloquently since the beginning of the affair,” he added.
The film will be released in Quebec on November 3rd – the film is distributed here by Funfilm Distribution – confirms Guilhem Caillard.
In addition to the “Visages de la francophonie” competition, which represents the international component of the festival, eight films will compete against each other in the “Films du Québec” competition. The jury for this section will be announced on October 18th, but we already know which films will be presented. Consider, among others, “You will never know” by Robin Aubert; The successor to Xavier Legrand with Marc-André Grondin and Yves Jacques; Sucré Seize, by Alexa-Jeanne Dubé; and Kanaval by Henri Pardo.
A new “Transversal Prize” encompassing both competitions will be awarded to a woman. This will be the Elle Québec directing award.