It is the most important cinematographic event in the Dordogne which opens this Tuesday, November 5. The 33rd edition of the Sarlat film festival stands out this year, more for its daring selection than for the list of guests present in Périgord Noir. For a week, high school students and film buffs from Périgord will watch one after the other before awarding the festival’s famous golden salamanders.
Cultivating the sensitivity of young filmmakers
“Less artifice, but more cinema” argues Christelle Oscar, festival programmer. Indeed, few stars of the 7th art will be traveling to Dordogne this year. The assumed choice of a selection which must bridge the gap between 2 different audiences: high school students and loyal movie buffs of Sarladan cinema. The 6 films in the official selection could shake up the public’s habits.
A total of 43 films will be offered in preview, a chance for the 600 high school students present on site to develop their audiovisual culture and to discuss alongside numerous professionals and specialists. This year again, some students come from very far away: Guadeloupe, Reunion Island or Ottawa.
Who will succeed La Nouvelle femme and Bâtiment 5?
In 2023, festival-goers voted for The New Womanthe biopic on Maria Montessori directed by Léa Todorov while the high school vote had turned towards Building 5 by Ladj Ly, 4-time César winner with Les Misérables.
The 33rd edition will open with the feature film by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma Their children after them with Paul Kircher, Angelina Woreth, Gilles Lellouche and Ludivine Sagnier. A film adapted from the novel by Nicolas Mathieu, winner of the Goncourt Prize in 2018, which immerses the viewer in the lives of adolescents in the mid-90s, divided between love story and boredom in a lost valley in Eastern France .
Their Children After Them | Official trailer | Paul Kircher, Angelina Woreth, Gilles Lellouche
Special broadcast from November 5 to 9 live from the Rex cinema in Sarlat
France Bleu Périgord, partner of the festival, will meet you every day from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. live from the Rex cinema lobby. Marie Ottoz and Julien Pelé will receive live all the teams from the films in competition:
- Tuesday November 5 (5 p.m.-7 p.m.): Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma for the film Their children after them with actors Angelina Woreth and Sayyid El Alami (opening film)
- Wednesday November 6 (5 p.m.-7 p.m.): Aude Léa Rapin director of the film Planet B
- Thursday November 7 (5 p.m.-7 p.m.): Alexis Langlois director of the film Drama Queens with the actresses Louiza Aura and Gio Ventura + Mareike Engelhart director of the film Rabia
- Friday November 8 (5 p.m.-7 p.m.): Benjamin Voisin and Stefan Crepon in the casting of the film Play with fire
- Saturday November 9 (4 p.m.-7 p.m.): Judith Davis, director of the film Hello asylum (closing film)
A special show to experience live on France Bleu Périgord with every day a look back at the high school students’ day but also behind the scenes of the festival and meetings with different professionals and speakers: film critic, screenwriting specialist or cultural mediator. Saturday November 9, find our special show from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. to relive the highlights of this 33rd edition just before the announcement of the winners.
