Future Critics

For the first time since 2019, the Marché du Film - a major event in the global film industry calendar, which is kicking off today as part of the 75th Cannes Film Festival – is returning to its usual May timings and to its full physical form (more than 10,000 badge-holders are expected to attend). Highly active throughout the year and now playing on home territory on the Croisette, French international sales agents are primed and ready for high business volumes, boasting line-ups full-to-bursting with titles selected for the various Cannes showcases. Having previously detailed the various trump cards brandished by Wild Bunch International (article), Charades (news), mk2 Films (article), Les Films du Losange (news), Memento International (article), Elle Driver (news), Pyramide Internatio...

Over the next three years, “Exploring, Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse!” is set to be evaluated as an Erasmus+ project, led by a consortium of cultural institutions and schools from Germany, France, Bulgaria and Portugal, as well as the universities Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris and the University of Bremen. The programme, for which the Cinémathèque française has been responsible for 25 years, has been supported since 2021 by the association Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse! (CCAJ) as well as by the institutions Documentaire sur grand écran, Ciné 104, Pantin and the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. The project has demonstrated how love for cinema can unite children and young people from many countries of the world, “from Japan to Lithuania, and from Brazil to France”. For an entire...