Last but not least in the field of fiction, there’s Yamabuki, Juichiro Yamasaki’s third feature film, which is a French-Japanese co-production previously unveiled (online) in the last Rotterdam Film Festival’s Tiger competition. Two French first fiction features also stand tall in the selection, namely Luca Delangle’s The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou and Martin Jauvat’s Grand Paris, which charts the misadventures of two suburban youngsters who discover a mysterious artefact responsible for strange phenomena. The winner of the Eurimages Lab Project Award within the Work in Progress section of the 12th Les Arcs Film Festival, this new opus starring the famous American choreographer Elsa Wolliaston in its lead role revisits the road walked by Mary Magdalene following Jesus’s death.Įqually eye-catching on the agenda is 99 Moons, which is the second feature film put forth by Switzerland’s Jan Gassmann after Off Beat (selected in the 2011 Berlinale’s Panorama section) and his fifth feature film overall, given that the director also has three documentaries under his belt: Chrigu (Berlinale Forum 2007), Karma Shadub (walking away with the Grand Prize at the 2013 Visions du Réel Festival) and Europe, She Loves (gracing the 2016 Berlinale’s Panorama Dokumente line-up). It’s the 5th feature film offered up by the fascinating French director who previously gave us A Young Poet (awarded a Special Mention in Locarno’s Cinéastes du Présent section in 2014), The Park (gracing Cannes’ ACID selection in 2016), The Night I Swam (Venice’s Orizzonti line-up in 2017) and Isadora’s Children (which scooped the Leopard for Best Direction in Locarno 2019 and a Zabaltegi Tabakalera Special Mention in San Sebastián).
Film profile] by Damien Manivel steals particular focus within the showcase.
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