Country: France
Year: 2022
Duration: 73'
A footage film documentary about the famous yet forgotten Hyères Film Festival which took place from 1965 to 1983. At that time it was the most important one in France just after the glamorous Cannes Film Festival and a friendly place to discover young directors such as Guy Gilles, Philippe Garrel, Chantal Akerman, Helma Sanders, Werner Schroeter or Leos Carax (among others) before they became a legend for the art-house film amateurs. Hyères was a vivid space for passionate debates, incredible polemics and, above all, surprising rendezvous. In a nutshell, it was the place to be for all the cinephiles.
Biography
film director
Yves-Marie Mahé
(Moralix, France, 1972) works mainly on archival film footages. He has directed multiple podcast documentaries for Arte Radio or France Culture and more than 80 short films released in the experimental cinema network. He is also programmer for the Collectif Jeune Cinéma since 1991. In 2023, he directed his first feature-length documentary, Jeune cinéma, which premiered at Rotterdam.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fuck (cm, doc., 1999), La Siège (cm, doc.,1999), Va te faire enculer (cm, doc., 1999), C’est bon pour la morale (cm, doc., 2007), Vivre vite (cm, doc., 2009), Gnikaeps uoy raeh ot kcis em sekam ti (cm, doc., 2011), Touche moi pas! (cm, doc., 2011), Marseille (cm, doc., 2015), Sigma 1967 (cm, doc., 2015), Jeune cinéma (doc., 2023).
Declaration
film director
“Jeune cinéma is an emotional trip to renew with the archaeology of our film culture through the footages of the festival with its multiple upheavals, errors or luminous successes. It is a way to point out where we come from, what heritage we have to assume but also analyze the artistic and economic failures that led to its inevitable disappearance. It is also for me a deep immersion in an extraordinary collective history.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Yves-Marie Mahé. EDITING: Yves-Marie Mahé, Nathalie Vignères. MUSIC: Thierry Müller. SOUND: Antonin Dalmasso, Mathieu Nappez. PRODUCER: Nicolas Brevière. PRODUCTION: Local Films, Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC).
CONTACT: Local Films (Nicolas Brevière) bureau.localfilms@yahoo.fr
