Official Selection - Feature Films
19 films in the international competition

Official Selection - Short Films
12 films in the international competition

The Parallel Selections

Regards croisés
The Regards Croisés selection brings together 15 films in which the strength of the subject makes for natural choices. These works, in the form of major event coverage, admirably illustrate the demanding productions made by television networks for their "documentary" programming.

Marseille Mediterranean
In the context of the festivities for the 26th centennial of the city of Marseilles, the Festival is dedicating a special selection to Marseilles, which will also serve as a point of departure toward other Mediterranean cities. The program is composed of archival films (including sequence shots by the Lumière brothers of the surprisingly bustling Canebière in 1898) as well as French and foreign documentaries from throughout the century, calling forth Marseilles, Algiers, Barcelona, Genova, Istanbul…

Mediterranean Film Schools
Within its Marseilles-Mediterranean programming, the Festival has created a selection this year for film students from around the Mediterranean basin. A meeting place for the invited students, it will also be an exhibition space for new points of view-the Festival's work in progress.

Strip-Tease, documentary series
Broadcast on France 3 Television for the last few years, the documentary series Strip-Tease has known how to renew the genre with humor and intelligence. As a tribute to the art of "filmer juste" the Festival is dedicating an entire program to Strip-Tease.

Rétrospective: Humphrey Jennings (1907-1950)
For the first time ever, it will be possible to see all of Jennings's films (34). A friend of the French surrealists (Eluard, Breton, Péret) and founder of the English surrealist movement, his work is centered around the Second World War. Stimulating the war effort, but marked by a subtle humanism, Humphrey Jennings's films are visual and acoustic mosaics, marking the apogee of the 'edited documentary.' "The only national poet of the British screen," according to Lindsay Anderson, Jennings engendered both the Free Cinema and the realist school represented today by Ken Loach, Kevin Bronlow, and Mike Leigh.