Vivarais Cinema Festival

Scheduled Times

The detailed session-by-session schedule has not yet been released; the organizer notes on its website that the program is still being finalized. The sessions announced so far at the Salle de la Grand Font in Joyeuse are:

• 6:30 PM — Short films in competition, two 105-minute sessions on Thursday and Friday (Joyeuse Town Hall)
• 7:00 PM — Feature film screenings (Joyeuse Town Hall)
• October 1st — "Un miroir inversé," a documentary by Yves Legrain Crist, screened in the presence of the director (Joyeuse Town Hall)
• Saturday, October 3rd — Tribute to Robert Enrico: "La rivière du hibou" (Robert Enrico, 1962, 28 min), followed by the documentary directed by Jérôme Enrico about his father, presented by the director. The Joyeuse town hall also announced the screening of "Les Grandes Gueules."

"Searching for Tomorrow's Talents" Short Film Competition — 20 films

A professional jury chaired by Yves Legrain Crist will award the Épée d'or for Best Direction and the Claude Pinoteau Prize for Best Performance. The Audience Award will be decided by the viewers. All four series are free to attend, with donations accepted at the door.

Series 1

• Le cri de la sonnette — R. Charlier · 10 min · Belgium · One evening in a suburban villa, Fred and Marie, a couple in their forties, are finishing dinner when the doorbell rings...
• La nuit nuit — C. Olivieri, E. Servera · 15 min 25 · France · After their father's cremation, siblings reunite in their childhood home, facing the question of what to do with the ashes.
• Le poids du vide — T. Giraudeau · 14 min · France · Mia has lost her smile to be lighter at any cost, consumed by anorexia.
• 1247 pas — S. Roignant · 10 min · France · On a summer night in Lyon, Romain and Elsa leave a cinema. Romain walks her to her door, unable to confess his feelings...
• Linnud läinud — A. L. Tuttelberg · 11 min · Estonia, Lithuania · A winter poem about Nordic nature. The sun moves low in the sky and the days grow shorter.

Series 2

• Au fil de l'eau — M. Meertens · 19 min 59 · France · Axel, a young man with borderline personality disorder, tries to survive after his mother was a victim of femicide when he was a child.
• Habibi — A. Evstigneev · 15 min · France · Kazakhstan. Laura and Daur live in an isolated village in the high mountains. Today, Laura must go to the city to give birth.
• La maîtresse en maillot de bain — F. Galula · 13 min · France · Myriam is a teacher and director of a small nursery school. She must cope with increasingly difficult working conditions...
• Mémoria colectiva — C. Colmenares, M-A Monteagudo · 14 min 59 · Peru, France, Colombia · In 1983, during the darkest years of the "Years of Lead" in Peru, masked soldiers enter Adelina's house...
• Ceinture — T. Martin · 18 min 47 · France · Drawn by the window of a leather goods workshop, Albert enters the shop and discovers a passionate designer...

Series 3

• L'escalator — T. Cardo · 15 min 1 · France · Leaving work, a man finds himself stuck on a broken escalator. He calls "central" to be released.
• Fort comme un lion — N. Villanneau · 14 min · France · Léonard is a victim of bullying; a storm prevents him from taking his bike and forces him to board the school bus...
• 43 rue des boulets — M. Le Cam · 5 min · France · Inspired by a true story. Nicolas is having lunch with Julie; everything seems perfect in the best of worlds, but...
• Geekette en détresse — R. Parra · 11 min 47 · France · Glued to her screen, Eva is an inveterate geek, much to the dismay of Koki, her faithful gerbil.

Series 4

• Regarde-moi — F. Garcia-Carpintero · 10 min · France · Célian is a 6-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder. He shares his time between a dull reality and a rich imagination.
• La crèche de Noël (Presépio) — F. Bibian · 18 min · Brazil · At Christmas, Dejair tries to convince his family of the absurdity of giving a child a weapon.
• Trim — K. Nasr · 14 min 50 · Lebanon, France · Marwan has just been hired by the Lebanese TV channel E-News as a report editor. Disillusionment sets in quickly...
• Y a pas de problème ! — J. de Loriol · 9 min 56 · France · When construction work begins, trouble often follows.
• Ce que l'on garde — J. Budria, A. Cavagna · 18 min 48 · France · May 1972. Mariette Audras, a promising writer, is in denial of her pregnancy.
• The child — T. Minana · 3 min 6 · France · A joyful and luminous being finds itself confronted with the gray and lifeless zones of our modern society.