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FRENCH FEATURE FILM COMPETITION:
The filmmakers celebrated in this competition seem to be driven by a common force: RESISTANCE.
AMERICAN FEATURE FILM COMPETITION:
This year, the selected American feature films embody the spirit of an America seeking balance in a chaotic world. They cling to the nostalgia of the 90s with its pop culture, the expansion of the internet, and communication tools, while exploring the quest for a unique community as the foundation of a new society.
OPENING FILM: 2024 Champs Élysées Film Festival
Sasquatch Sunset by David et Nathan Zellner
SYNOPSIS
For a year, we follow a family of four bigfoots in a North American forest. Their life flows with their needs, but in nature, dangers abound.
With Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, and Nathan Zellner
2024 Champs Élysées Film Festival: Wednesday
Habibi, chanson pour mes ami.e.s, Florent Gouëlou
FRENCH FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS For the past 3 years, La Flèche d’Or, a community and cultural space in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, has been offering performances and solidarity activities.
Each month, artists from the Habibi Evenings perform drag shows with a cinema theme. Habibi, Song for My Friendsfollows the preparation of the last cabaret of the season.
From costume making to collective rehearsals, the film portrays five drag artists and how their commitment resonates with that of La Flèche d’Or. Both the troupe and the volunteers are driven by the question of welcome and community. Until the grand finale, an engaged, festive, and convivial drag show.
With Javel Habibi/Florent Gouëlou, Sara Forever/Matthieu Barbin, Ruby on the Nail/Maxime Der Nahabédian, Tuna Mess/Clovis Nix, Kiara Bolt/Mathias Jamain Houngnikpo.
Between the temples, Nathan Silver
AMERICAN FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS A cantor in the midst of a crisis of faith (Jason Schwartzman) has his world turned upside down when his elementary school music teacher re-enters his life as a Bat Mitzvah student.
With Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Dolly de Leon, Caroline Aaron, Robert Smigel
2024 Champs Élysées Film Festival: Wednesday
Camping du lac, Éléonore Saintagnan
FRENCH FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS Éléonore drives westward. She breaks down in the middle of Brittany. Forced to stay for a while as the new carburetor for her car never seems to arrive, she settles into one of the mobile homes at Camping du Lac. A lake where a monster is said to live. She starts observing the inhabitants, all singular, and soon the tourists, who arrive in droves. Mostly, she waits to glimpse the beast. What might it look like? And after all, is that really what Éléonore is waiting for?
With Éléonore Saintagnan, Anna Turluc’h, Jean-Benoit Ugeux, Étienne Siberil, Wayne Standley, Rosemary Standley
The Dells, Nellie Kluz
AMERICAN FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS THE DELLS observes the clash between imagination and reality faced by foreign students working in Wisconsin Dells, the self-proclaimed “Waterpark Capital of the World.”
2024 Champs Élysées Film Festival Friday
Musique, dance & cinema
GUEST OF HONOR PROGRAM: LA HORDE
Since 2019, LA HORDE has been leading the CCN Ballet national de Marseille. Since 2013, the artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel have explored the political reach of dance through films and performances (Novaciéries (2015), Cloud Chasers (2016), The Master’s Tools (2017), Cultes (2019), Room With A View (2020), Ghosts (2021)), and choreographic pieces (Night Owl (2016), To Da Bone (2017), Marry Me in Bassiani (2019)). They map the choreographic forms of popular uprising, from raves to traditional dances and jumpstyle.
Le procès du chien, Laetitia Dosch
FRENCH FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS Avril, a lawyer accustomed to lost causes, made herself a promise: she will win her next case! But when Dariuch, a client as desperate as his cause, asks her to defend his faithful companion Cosmos, Avril’s convictions resurface. Thus begins an unexpected and agitated trial: the dog’s trial.
With Lætitia Dosch, François Damiens, Jean-Pascal Zadi, and Anne Dorval
2024 Champs Élysées Film Festival: Saturday
AMERICAN SHORT FILMS
LES RAYONS GAMMA, Henry Bernadet
HAPPY HOURS: A LOOK AT QUEBEC AND CANADIAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA
SYNOPSIS There is Abdel, whose quiet life is disrupted by the arrival of his outgoing cousin he hosts for the summer; Fatima, who aspires to a more stable existence and tries to distance herself from bad influences; Toussaint, who finds a washed-up bottle with a message inside while fishing.
There are also Naïma, Maya, Ayoub, and others, there is a remote-controlled car, a pastel castle by the highway, electric cicadas, a monolith, and very powerful rays. Blending fiction and documentary, Gamma Rays is a dramatic comedy filmed with young people from the St-Michel neighborhood in Montreal.
GUEST OF HONOR PROGRAM CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES FILM FESTIVAL 2024 – PREMIERE
LE COEUR QUI BAT, Vincent Delerm
SYNOPSIS
A few years after I Don’t Know If It’s Everybody, Vincent Delerm extends in a second film his sensitive and documentary exploration of feelings, this time tackling the most vibrant of all: love.
I SAW THE TV GLOW, Jane Schoenbrun
AMERICAN FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS Owen is just a teenager barely surviving his suburban American life when his classmate shows him a mysterious late-night TV show; a vision of a supernatural world below theirs. Bathed in the pale light of the TV screen, the line between reality and fiction begins to blur.
With Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine
Diaries from Lebanon, Myriam El Hajj
FRENCH FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS Weapons, ballots, or the streets.
Such is the choice for Georges, Joumana, and Perla Joe. Three destinies, one desire to change a sick country: Lebanon.
How to keep dreaming when everything around us is collapsing?
With Joumana Haddad, Georges Moufarej, Perla Joe Maalouli
2024 Champs Élysées Film Festival: Sunday
Didi, Sean Wang
AMERICAN FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS In 2008, a month before starting high school, a very impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family cannot teach him: how to skateboard, how to flirt, and how to love his mother.
With Izaac Wang, Joan Chen
La Pampa, Antoine Chevrollier
FRENCH FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS Willy and Jojo are childhood friends who are inseparable. To kill time, they train at La Pampa, a motocross track. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo’s secret.
With Sayyid El Alami, Amaury Foucher, Damien Bonnard, Artus Solaro
HAPPY HOURS: A LOOK AT QUEBEC AND CANADIAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA
COMME LE FEU, Philippe Lesage
SYNOPSIS Jeff, 17, is secretly in love with Aliocha.
Both admire the mysterious Blake, an old friend of the girl’s father, who invites them to spend a few days at his hunting lodge in the Canadian wilderness. There, in the heart of nature, the two teenagers confront a world of childish adults, ready to ignite.
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS MICHEL LEGRAND, David Hertzog Dessites
PREMIERE
SYNOPSIS A dive into the career and intimacy of Michel Legrand, a famous jazz musician and extraordinary composer who left a mark on cinema history. Through unseen archives and testimonies, the film revisits the incredible richness of a life dedicated to music. We are dazzled by the journey of a man who, until the end, masterfully served his art.
2024 Champs Élysées Film Festival: MONDAY
MAMAN DÉCHIRE, Émilie Brisavoine
PREMIERE
SYNOPSIS Émilie makes a film to try to understand the greatest mystery of the universe: her mother Meaud. A brilliant grandmother, a broken child, a punk mother, a spontaneous feminist, she fascinates as much as she anguishes. Dive into an intimate odyssey, an intergalactic journey into the psyche.
EAT THE NIGHT de Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
FRENCH FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS Pablo and his sister Apolline escape their daily lives by playing Darknoon, a video game that has grown up with them. One day, Pablo meets Night, whom he introduces to his small schemes, distancing himself from Apolline. As the game’s end approaches, the two boys provoke the anger of a rival gang.
With Théo Cholbi, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Lila Gueneau
GOOD ONE d’India Donaldson
AMERICAN FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
SYNOPSIS Sam, 17, would prefer to spend the weekend with her friends, but she agrees to join her father Chris in the Catskills region of New York. A paradisiacal place where Matt, Chris’s lifelong friend, is also invited.
With Lily Collias, James Le Gros, Danny McCarthy
CLOSING FILM ON TUESDAY
MERCY, Alain Guiraudie
SYNOPSIS Jérémie returns to Saint-Martial for the funeral of his former baker boss. He stays a few days with Martine, the widow. But between a mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and a priest with strange intentions, his short stay in the village takes an unexpected turn…
This is the 7th feature film by director and screenwriter Alain Guiraudie, who notably won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard section) in 2013 for Stranger by the Lake.
Cast: With Catherine Frot, Félix Kysyl, Jacques Develay, David Alaya, and Jean-Baptiste Durand, president of our Short Formats Jury!
