Directors' Fornight

Pablo and his teenage sister, Apolline, have grown up together playing Darknoon, an online heroic fantasy video game. Darknoon announces the imminent disappearance of its universe, while Pablo's relationship with a man called Night takes on increasing importance, and not just because they make and deal party drugs together. Part-thriller, part-romance, between digital and desiring bodies, a film about the loss of childhood innocence: Ready Player Love.

A love and ghost story.

Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes up in the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by what surrounds him, he camps out alone high in the mountains and leaves behind his everyday life. Up there he meets Léa, a chef of an alpine restaurant, while mysterious glows glitter in the deep mountains…

"En revoyant nos films super huit pris entre 1972 et 1981, il m’est apparu que ceux-ci constituaient non seulement une archive familiale mais aussi un témoignage sur les goûts, les loisirs, le style de vie et les aspirations d’une classe sociale, au cours de la décennie qui suit 1968. Ces images muettes, j’ai eu envie de les intégrer dans un récit au croisement de l’histoire, du social et aussi de l’intime, en utilisant mon journal personnel de ces années-là."- Annie Ernaux

One Saturday evening in autumn, Mia is caught in a terrorist attack on a Parisian bistro. Three months later, still unable to pick her life back up, and remembering only fragments of that night, Mia decides to investigate her memories to find a way back to happiness.

Through the text of Didier Eribon interpreted by Adèle Haenel, Retour à Reims [Fragments] tells in archives an intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.

Angélique, 13, is the eldest child of a large family living in the suburbs of Valenciennes. One day at school, she is asked to audition for a film.