Cinemed, the Festival of Mediterranean Film in Montpellier, will celebrate its 40th anniversary from October 19th to 27th, chaired by Marseille director Robert Guédiguian, who will also be the subject of a retrospective. The festival will open with the screening of the first two episodes of the TV series Il Miracolo, as yet unseen in France, starring Guido Caprino and Alba Rohrwacher. The following day the festival audience will have the chance to meet French actress Clotide Courau, this year’s guest of honour. It will also be an opportunity for festival-goers to watch five of her films, including Jacques Doillon’s Le petit criminel and Guillaume Nicloux’s Le Poulpe.
Fourteen films will be previewed in the presence of their director, like Pierre Salvadori’s much awaited En Liberté!, or Tunisian film-maker Mohamed Ben Attia’s Mon cher enfant. Spanish cinema will not be outdone, with the Cinemed audience able to attend a discussion with the unclassifiable Spanish director José Luis Guérin and view five of his films. The festival’s 40th edition will also offer a chance to see masterpieces of Mediterranean cinema on the big screen, giving pride of place to such Italian classics as Visconti’s The Leopard, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and Pasolini’s Accatone. And since Cinemed is resolutely turned towards the future, the festival will also showcase the young Lebanese cinema through screenings and a discussion.
Troppa Grazia, a comedy directed by Italian film-maker Gianni Zanasi and presented for the first time during the Directors’ Fortnight at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will close the festival. Those unable to be at the screening will have to wait until December 26th to see it in a cinema.
Sources: France Inter, Médiapart
