As part of the Year of the Documentary, Unifrance, in partnership with La Scam, is strengthening its support for French documentary filmmakers and exploring new horizons, extending its support to documentary festivals in Asia for the first time, and enabling French documentary filmmakers to promote their films there.
First up, the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival in South Korea, which took place from September 14 through 21, which Dominique Cabrera (Hi Mister Comolli, photo below), Quentin L’Helgoualc’h (Knit’s Island, illustration photo), and Sylvain George (Obscure night - Goodbye here, anywhere),attended. This was followed by the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, which opened on October 5 and continues through until October 12 in Japan, and where various filmmakers will present their work: Maya Abdul-Malak (Un cœur perdu et autres rêves de Beiruth), Guilhem Causse (Knit’s Island), Raphaël Grisey (Crossing Voices), and Damien Manivel (L'Île), among others.
French documentaries presented at the DMZ
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French documentaries presented at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
International Competition
- Anhell69 by Theo Montoya
- Knit’s Island by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’Helgoualc’h
- Notes for a Film by Ignacio Agüero
- Tales of the Purple House by Abbas Fahdel
- The Island by Julien Pujol
- A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia
- Crossing Voices by Bouba Touré, Raphaël Grisey
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