The Jean Rouch International Festival

By Nantenaina Lova (Madagascar, 2023, 1h43) – VOSTFR This is the story of the misadventures of Ly, a farmer from Madagascar’s capital who lives next to the airport and a military camp… at “Site à bombes” (Sitabaomba). The rice fields surrounding his village are coveted by two presidential projects, a colonel, generals and foreign investors. Here, political promises and peasant oratory clash, and when the crocodiles go, the caimans take their place. Official selection 2024:...

By Marie Lusson and Émilien De Bortoli (France, 2023, 1h13) – VOSTFR In midsummer, a group of friends set off down a river in a makeshift raft. The physical and living obstacles they encounter bear witness to the transformations and alterations humans have made to the waterways. Blending road trip and scientific discourse, the film weaves links between submerged and submerged worlds, whose multiple prisms engage a restorative encounter between humans and non-humans. Official selection...

A film by Claire Second (France, 2023, 59 min) – VOSTFR The inhabitants of the village of Tomave grow quinoa and raise llamas in the Bolivian highlands. They dress up, sing and laugh to call for rain, and throw firecrackers and confetti for Mother Earth. But agronomic engineers from the city are prowling around the village, their arms full of agricultural technologies, determined to rationalize practices. This is the prelude to a strange masquerade. Official selection 2024:...

By Marta Anatra (France, 2023, 1h03) – VOSTFR In Portoscuso, a small village in southern Sardinia, great promises were made in the late 1960s. Decades later, the metallurgical industrial complex has almost ceased operations, and unemployment is very high. With no possibility of returning to an agro-pastoral economy due to contamination of the land and sea, the inhabitants do their best to maintain a link with the place where they live. “I film this land full of ghosts, and I film...

By Shu Aiello and Catherine Catella (France/Italy, 2023, 1h37) – VOSTFR After 20 years of harmony, the Calabrian village of Riace, a model of welcome for migrants, becomes the target of the populist wave consuming Italy. The venom has spread. Domenico Lucano, the mayor of Riace, faces 13 years and 2 months in prison and a 500,000 euro fine. Riace has emerged from this long nightmare with a dilemma: resist or disappear. Official selection 2024: International competition

By Guillermo Quintero (Colombia/France, 2023, 1h10) – VOSTFR In the north of the Colombian Amazon flows a mythical river called Río Rojo. Once preserved by the conflict with FARC, it is now a victim of its own beauty and threatened with extinction by the arrival of new visitors… Official selection 2024: International competition

By Karine Birgé (France/Belgium, 2023, 54 min) – VOSTFR “She was 102 years old. It was late summer 2018. My grandmother had made the choice to leave France and come to Belgium to die. The choice of a ‘sweet and easy’ death – euthanasia in Greek. I look back at what preceded her short-lived exile and my memories of this difficult crossing. Using the sound traces I’ve kept, I summon up a small theater of dolls and objects, bring together my relatives and...

  By Gilles Le Mao (France, 1h) L’Ethnologie en héritage is a heritage collection of filmed interviews with leading figures in French ethnology, who tell how they became ethnologists and helped shape French anthropology in all its theoretical, thematic and geographical diversity. They evoke their first field experiences, unfold their itineraries, and retrace the milestones of their careers. To mark the twentieth anniversary of the collection, initiated and directed by Alain Morel (former...

By Eluned Zoë Aiano and Alesandra Tatić (Serbia, 2023, 1h07) – VOSTFR In Majdanpek, in eastern Serbia, a strong industrial and mining heritage coexists with an ancient tradition of relating to the invisible entities of the forest. In this town, a family embracing this dual identity is striving to preserve its traditions and ensure the future for generations to come. Dragan Markovic, a miner all his life, is the last in a line of dragon hunters, while his sister Desa, the widow of a trade...