The Competition Films

The Com­pe­ti­tion Films

Time for Cinema

When adults motor­ize children’s toys, think­ing they’re going faster with­out think­ing faster, they don’t improve the result, as only art resists or plays with time. The Deauville Fes­ti­val fol­lows the hum­ble obser­va­tion that we serve cin­e­ma by cir­cu­lat­ing works that are open to all. Always on the search for the tal­ent of tomor­row already enjoy­ing suc­cess today, the strong com­pe­ti­tion of nine first films and eight films by female direc­tors gives hope for the future of inde­pen­dent cinema.

Through the 14 films on offer, the theme remains affir­ma­tion through under­stand­ing the dif­fer­ences among peo­ple, adults or ado­les­cents, seek­ing to become them­selves, to echo the quote by Pin­dar, the 5^th-cen­tu­ry B.C. poet, “become who you are,” often wrong­ly attrib­uted to Nietzsche.

It’s been said before that screens are mir­rors to film­mak­ers’ world­views, and that through their work, they memo­ri­al­ize his­to­ry. Name­ly today’s: vio­lent, anx­ious, nos­tal­gic, rebel­lious, hop­ing to trans­form lead into gold.

To dis­cov­er them we need­ed adven­tur­ers of desire, and it is by design that this edition’s jurors embody the pow­er of the present and the expec­ta­tions of tomor­row. The palette of their tal­ents, rivaled only by their man­i­fest gen­eros­i­ty toward cin­e­ma, will ensure, we have no doubt, the prop­er winners.

Bruno Barde, Fes­ti­val Director

The list of films in competition

ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE by Aitch Alberto
BLOOD FOR DUST by Rod Blackhurst
COLD COPY by Rox­ine Helberg
FREMONT by Babak Jalali
I.S.S. by Gabriela Cowperthwaite
THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED by Joan­na Arrow
LAROY by Shane Atkinson
MANODROME by John Trengove
PAST LIVES by Celine Song
RUNNER by Mar­i­an Mathias
SUMMER SOLSTICE by Noah Schamus
THE GRADUATES by Han­nah Peterson
THE SWEET EAST by Sean Price Williams
WAYWARD by Jacque­lyn Frohlich