As is the case every year, September is a month packed with travel for French artists who attend film festivals in Venice, Venice, San Sebastian, and Namur, to mention just a few. The director and actors of Les Misérables continue zipping round the planet (from Russia to the United States, with stops in Canada and Spain), as do those of Portrait of a Lady on Fire. And Alice Winocour and her vessel Proxima set out on their orbit with TIFF and San Sebastian. May the winds of space speed them on their way!
FESTIVALS
Filmfest Hamburg - Festival International de Hambourg (September 26 - October 5)
Festival International du film Francophone de Namur (September 27 - October 4)
- The entire French delegation can be found on the UniFrance file for the festival's 2019 edition.
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) (September 5 - 15)
- Isabelle Huppert and Ira Sachs for Frankie
- Thomas Balmès for Sing Me a Song
- Ladj Ly for Les Misérables
- Rabah Ameur-Zaïmèche for South Terminal
- Albert Serra for Liberté
- Barbara Sukowa and Filippo Meneghetti for Two of Us
- Elia Suleiman for It Must Be Heaven
- Justine Triet for Sibyl
- Rebecca Zlotowski for Les Sauvages series
- Manele Labidi for Arab Blues
- Atiq Rahimi for Our Lady of the Nile
- Mati Diop for Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story
- Adèle Haenel, Céline Sciamma, and Noémie Merlant for Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Amjad Abu Alala for You Will Die at 20
- Hind Meddeb for Paris Stalingrad
- Olivier Assayas for Cuban Network
- Alice Winocour for Proxima
- Éric Baudelaire for Un film dramatique
- Nadav Lapid for Synonyms
- Rubaiyat Hossain for Made in Bangladesh
- Doria Tillier and Nicolas Bedos for La Belle Epoque
- Hirokazu Kore-eda for The Truth
Fiesta del Cine Francés en Colombia (September 18 - October 16)
- Tom Volf for Maria by Callas
- Félix Maritaud for Sauvage
Festival International du Film de San Sebastian (September 20 - 28)
- Ladj Ly for Les Misérables
- Alice Winocour, Eva Green, and Zélie Boulant-Lemesle for Proxima
- Bertrand Bonello for Zombi Child
- Jean-Gabriel Périot for Our Defeats
- Costa Gavras and Valeria Golino for Adults in the Room
- Michel Houellebecq and Guillaume Nicloux for Thalasso
- Juliette Binoche and Hirokazu Kore-eda for The Truth
- Alice Isaaz, Anthony Marciano, and Max Boublil for Play
- Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, and Reda Kateb for The Specials
- Penélope Cruz, Olivier Assayas, and Édgar Ramírez for Cuban Network
- Callisto Mc Nulty for Delphine and Carole
- Damien Manivel for Isadora's Children
- Nicolas Pariser for Alice and the Mayor
Athens International Film Festival (September 18 - 29)
Mostra Internationale de Cinéma de Venise (August 28 - September 7)
- Jessica Palud, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Niels Schneider for Back Home
- Laure Calamy, Bastien Bouillon, Denis Ménochet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Damien Bonnard, and Dominik Moll for Only the Animals
- Cécile de France and Fabienne Berthaud for A Bigger World
- Robert Guédiguian, Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, and Anaïs Demoustier for Gloria Mundi
- Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand for Woman
- Golshifteh Farahani and Manele Labidi for Arab Blues
- Roman Polanski, Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel et Emmanuelle Seigner pour An Officer and a Spy
- Costa Gavras pour Adults in the Room
- Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve, and Hirokazu Kore-eda for The Truth
- Bartabas for Time of the Untamed
- Vincent Lacoste and Antoine de Bary for My Days of Glory
- Penélope Cruz, Édgar Ramírez, and Olivier Assayas for Cuban Network
- Amjad Abu Alala for You Will Die at 20
Festival International du Film de Bergen (September 25 - October 3)
Pacific Meridian International film Festival (Vladivostok) (September 13 - 15)
- Christophe Lambert as guest of honor
Message to Man (Saint Petersburg) (September 14 - 21)
Festival du Film Français d'Helvétie - Bienne (FFFH) (September 11 - 15)
- Lyna Khoudri for Papicha
- Vincent Macaigne and Cédric Kahn for Happy Birthday
- Alice Pol and Jalil Lespert for The Fool
- Cécile de France and Fabienne Berthaud for A Bigger World
- Géraldine Nakache for I'll Go Where You Go
- Arnaud Desplechin for Oh Mercy!
- Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec for The Swallows of Kabul
- Cécile Denjean for Le Cercle des petits philosophes
- Éric Caravaca and Sarah Suco for The Dazzled
- Kacey Mottet Klein for Farewell to the Night
- Mélanie Auffret for Roxane
CoLCoA French Film Festival (September 23 - 28)
- Hélène Giraud and Thomas Szabo for Minuscule - Mandibles from Far Away
- Anastasia Mikova for Woman
- Damien Bonnard, Djebril Zonga, and Ladj Ly for Les Misérables
- Jeanne Herry for In Safe Hands
- Xavier Gens and Mounia Meddour for Papicha
- Jérémy Clapin for I Lost My Body
- Eric Metayer and Grégory Montel for Little Tickles
- Michèle Ray Gavras and Costa Gavras for Adults in the Room
- Nicolas Bedos, Doria Tillier, and François Kraus for La Belle Epoque
- Alexis Michalik and Vanessa Djian for Edmond
- Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
- Vincent Lacoste for Amanda
- Claire Burger for Real Love
- Gilles de Maistre for Forward
- Anaïs Tellenne
- Baya Kasmi
- Ludovic Bernard for In Your Hands
- Pablo Pauly for Three Days And a Life
- Cathy Verney
Festival du Film de Telluride (August 31 - September 3)
Festival du film de New York (NYFF) (September 28 - October 14)
- Rosalie Varda for Varda by Agnès
- Albert Serra and Montse Triola for Liberté
- Mame Binta Sane, Mati Diop, Omar Sall, Amadou Mbow, Judith Lou Lévy, and Ibrahima Traoré for Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story
- Olivier Assayas, Penélope Cruz, Édgar Ramírez, Gael García Bernal, Edgar Moura for Cuban Network
- Céline Sciamma and Adèle Haenel for Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Abbas Fahdel
- Justine Triet and David Thion for Sibyl
- Bertrand Bonello for Zombi Child
- Montse Triola for Liberté
- Jean-Pierre Dardenne for Young Ahmed
- Arnaud Desplechin for Oh Mercy!
- Éric Baudelaire for Un film dramatique
- Nadav Lapid for Synonyms
FILM RELEASES
- Lorenzo Mattotti for The Bears' Famous Invasion in Brussels
- The creative team for Dindon in Brussels
- Cédric Kahn for Happy Birthday, radio interview for RTBF and television interview for LN24
- Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano for The Specials in Brussels
- Edouard Bergeon, Guillaume Canet, Anthony Bajon for In the Name of the Land in Brussels
- Céline Sciamma for Portrait of a Lady on Fire in Brussels and Liège
- Mohamed Hamidi for New Biz in the Hood ! in Madrid
- Gaspar Noé for Climax in Tokyo
- Claude Lelouch for The Best Years of a Life in Rotterdam
- The creative crew of Dindon
- Céline Sciamma for Portrait of a Lady on Fire in Geneva
OTHER EVENTS
Yves Hinant and Anne Gruwez in London for a screening of So Help Me God at the Ciné Lumiere as part of a cycle on the theme of justice organized by the Institut Français.
