The film forum of European countries "Scanorama" strengthens its long-standing cooperation with the French Institute in Lithuania and announces the first news of this year - in the autumn "Scanorama" will be supplemented by the French film program "Ziemos ekranai", which will replace the 2005-2023. held festival. This program is part of the Lithuanian cultural season in France and its echo in Lithuania.
Each year, Scanorama pays special attention to French cinema, which pays respect to the best traditions of film art and reflects the processes of European culture. In different years, in the festival program, we presented the names of classics who shaped the history of cinema, such as Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard, invited us to discover modern French cinema and look at the portraits of actors that testify to the timeless mastery. I am happy that we will continue this francophone tradition, having joined forces with our long-time partner and friend, the French Institute in Lithuania, symbolically marking Lithuania's season in France with such a connection", - the festival's founder and artistic director Gražina Arlickaitė presents the program changes.
Bright faces of French cinema
French director Bruno Dumont's apocalyptic science fiction film "Empire" will be one of the highlights of this year's fall cinema, participating in the competitive program of the prestigious Berlin Film Festival starting today. "Scanorama" became the distributor of this film in the Baltic countries.
French director Quentin Dupieux's film Janikas, which outlines the contours of the new French comedy, will be released in theaters in March. In April, the audience can look forward to the intriguing costume drama "Rozali" by the French director Stéphanie Di Giusto with the expressive duet of actors Nadia Tereshkevic and Benoît Magimel. The audience can still see the talented Benoît Magimel in the French production of the Catalan director Alberto Serra distributed by Scanorama, "Silence of the Islands", the film is available on home cinema platforms.
The repertoire of cinemas will be supplemented by "Barbara" by Bertrand Mandic, which creates a cinephilic and theatrical interpretation of "Divine Comedy" for fans of genre cinema. The French-Austrian production of Hungarian-Lebanese director Patric Chiha's Beast in the Jungle will take you on a romantic and euphoric journey to the beat of all-time favorite dancefloor hits.
The Francophone direction was also represented by the bands that opened festivals in recent years. Last year, Vietnamese-born French director Tran Anh Hung's homage to the art of life and cinema, "Gourmet Passion", with the duo of actors Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, was the opening film, which was awarded for best director at the Cannes Film Festival. In the anniversary year, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer's film "Corsage" about the legendary Empress Sisi stylishly provoked the audience, which won the "Special Look" award at the Cannes Film Festival for the actress who played the main role, Vicky Krieps. The Aussie-French co-production drew packed houses at the festival and is still one of the most watched films on home cinema platforms. In previous years, Mia Hansen-Løve's "Bergman Island", which follows the Bergmanian tradition close to the festival, invited the opening guests to the festival, which was presented in the competition program of the Cannes Film Festival.
French cinema classics and the present
In different programs, the festival introduced the audience to pages of the history of French cinema that reveal a memorable artistic diversity. in 2013 organized a retrospective dedicated to the director Robert Bresson, successively presented the work of Jean-Luc Godard, known as the philosopher of cinema, in the thematic program organized in the anniversary year "China and his sidekick" showed the film "King Lear", an original interpretation of William Shakespeare's work, last year organized a program of his short films "Godard vs. Godard" and presented the director's last work - an experimental biographical film "The Movie That Will Never Be Trailer : "Shallow Wars".
Every year, Scanorama invites you not only to get acquainted with the history of French cinema, but also to follow the work of contemporary directors. Mia Hansen-Løve, who established herself on the big screen with her subtle visual language and psychologically nuanced portraits of women, could be called the longtime director of Scanorama. The film "Future" with Isabelle Huppert explores the theme of freedom from a woman's point of view, and "One Beautiful Morning", recognized as the best film of the "Two Directors' Week" program of the Cannes Film Festival, reveals anew the acting possibilities of Léo Seydoux, well known to the audience. Unconventional French film anthropologists Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor pay homage to the beauty and horror of the human body discovered by anatomist André Vésale in De Humani Corporis Fabrica, while last year's Quentin Dupieux comedy Daaaaaali! creates a biography worthy of the iconic surrealist .
The French films "Silence of the Islands" (dir. Albert Serra), "Corsage" (dir. Marie Kreutzer), "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" (dir. Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor), " Bergman's Island" (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve) can currently be viewed on the home cinema platforms "ŽMONĖS CINEMA" or "Telia Play".
This year, the Scanorama film festival will take place from November 7 to21 days In Vilnius, Beautiful, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Panevėžys, Alytus and Visaginas.
