The CINEMANIA French Film Festival has unveiled new titles for its 28th edition, which runs from November 2 to 13 in Montreal. In keeping with its tradition, CINEMANIA will be premiering a number of highly anticipated French-language films that have made their mark at internationally renowned festivals this year, including the Cannes Festival and the Venice Film Festival. Among the first titles announced are:
L’ORIGINE DU MAL by Sébastien Marnier
With Laure Calamy, Doria Tillier, Jacques Weber, Dominique Blanc and Suzanne Clément
In a luxurious seaside villa, a modest young woman finds a strange family: an unknown and very rich father, his whimsical wife, his daughter, an ambitious businesswoman, a rebellious teenager and a disturbing maid. Someone is lying. Between suspicions and lies, the mystery takes hold and evil spreads…
Distributed by Maison 4:3, THE ORIGIN OF EVIL will be released in 2023.
CLOSE by Lukas Dhont
With Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne and Léa Drucker
Léo and Rémi, two 13 years olds, have been friends forever. Until an unthinkable event separates them. Léo then approaches Sophie, Rémi’s mother, to try to understand…
Distributed by Sphère Films, CLOSE will be released in 2023.
FRÈRE ET SOEUR by Arnaud Desplechin
With Marion Cotillard, Melvil Poupaud and Golshifteh Farahani
A brother and sister on the verge of fifty… Alice is an actress, Louis was a teacher and poet. Alice has hated her brother for over twenty years. They haven’t seen each other in all that time – when Louis would bump into her sister in the street, she wouldn’t greet him and would run away… The brother and sister are forced to meet again when their parents die.
Distributed by Axia Films, FRÈRE ET SOEUR will be released in November.
LES ANNÉES SUPER-8 by Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot
“When I reviewed our Super-8 films taken between 1972 and 1981, I realized that they were not only a family archive but also a testimony to the tastes, leisure activities, lifestyle and aspirations of a social class in the decade following 1968. I wanted to integrate these silent images into a narrative at the crossroads of history, the social and also the intimate, using my personal diary from those years.”- Annie Ernaux
AS BESTAS by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
With Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They have a farm and are restoring abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic, but a serious conflict with their neighbours escalates the tension to the point of irreparability…
LES AMANDIERS by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
With Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Louis Garrel, Vassili Schneider and Sofiane Bennacer
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Etienne, Adèle and the whole troupe are twenty years old. They take the entrance exam for the famous school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Amandiers theatre in Nanterre.
A few weeks ago, CINEMANIA announced that the feature film CHIEN BLANC, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, will open its 28th edition on November 2 at the Cinéma Impérial in the presence of the film crew. This year, Luxembourg will be the country honoured by the Francophone Film Festival. In this context, CINEMANIA will welcome an important Luxembourg delegation made up of artistic, institutional and political representatives to Montreal.
Pre-sales of discounted passports will be launched on September 13. The complete program will be unveiled on October 20, 2022.
