29th edition. Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival from January 26 to 30, 2022

« Return to Earth, at the frontiers of reality »

The Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival Association chaired by Pierre Sachot will be happy to meet its spectators and its public in flesh and blood in its usual cinemas, on the very tangible lands of the Vosges mountains, on occasion. of this 29th edition which will take place from January 26 to 30, 2022 and for which a new visual identity in the image of this poster has been unveiled. This new 2022 edition should, as usual, explore the fantastic as a zone of passage and light.

« In Gérardmer, the worlds of cinema look at each other, intersect and unravel in the light of an artistic promise that is renewed each year …. according to Bruno Barde, director of the festival. »

Julie Gayet appointed President of the Feature Films Jury

Yes, Gérardmer will have a fantastic President …
Choosing Julie Gayet is to salute daring, curiosity, talent but also the ability to push back the limits, virtues that make you the president of the Gérardmer Festival … Bruno Barde, director of the festival.

Actress, director, producer, director, theater, cinema, television, feature films, medium-length films, short films … what we elsewhere qualify as eclecticism here is intelligence and discernment of talent, always in search of going beyond.

Julie Gayet is committed in her choices and in her desire for justice, but humble in the service of her art. With more than seventy films as an actress, she has worked alongside renowned filmmakers: Krzysztof Kieślowski, Agnès Varda, Michel Deville, Bertrand Tavernier, Benoît Jacquot, Josée Dayan, Patrice Leconte …

It has also supported the development of directors such as Sébastien Bailly, Nicolas Boukhrief, Ilan Duran Cohen, Jean-Pierre Limosin, Merzak Allouache, Xabi Molia, Mathieu Bonzon, Manon Briand and Emmanuel Mouret.

Producer, with around twenty films to her credit, including Grave by Julia Ducournau, Grand Prix of the Gérardmer Festival 2017 or L’Insulte, a magnificent film by Ziad Doueiri. Julie Gayet has the experience of the grand juries of the Festival de Cannes at the Festival de
Deauville. In 2020, she herself created a festival: Soeurs Jumelles – The Meeting of Music and Image.

Detailed biographical reminder

Julie Gayet studied lyric singing at the age of eight and developed an early passion for acting. She moved to London at the age of 17 to take lessons with Jack Waltzer, a member of the Actors Studio. She was revealed in 1994 by Agnès Varda who gave her an important role in the feature film Les Cents et Une Nuits. Two years later, she played a junkie in Select Hotel by Laurent Bouhnik and appeared in the romantic comedy Delphine 1, Yvan 0 by Dominique Farrugia, compositions for which she won the Romy Schneider Prize. Praised for her naturalness, Julie Gayet likes to change her pace and navigate from one register to another, from comedy (Clara et moi by Arnaud Viard (2004), A kiss please Emmanuel Mouret (2007) or Quai d’Orsay by Bertrand Tavernier, for which she was nominated in 2014 for the Césars for Best Actress in a Supporting Role) to experimental drama (Carré Blanc by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti, 2011), via the family film (Poly by Nicolas Vanier, 2020).

In 2007, she created the production company Rouge International with Nadia Turincev. The first film started is Eight Times Standing by Xabi Molia (2009), in which she also plays the lead role.

She then produced more than thirty films, including Grave by Julia Ducournau, Grand Prix of the Gérardmer Festival 2017, Faces Villages by JR and Agnès Varda, presented at the Cannes Film Festival 2017, L’Insulte by Ziad Doueiri, nominated for the  » Oscar for best foreign language film in 2018, or more recently the documentary Les Joueuses by Stéphanie Gillard (2020), on the Olympique Lyonnais women’s football team. Also a director, in 2013 she co-signed with Mathieu Busson the documentary Cinéast (e) s in which more than 20 directors talk about their profession and the place of women in cinema. Julie Gayet will soon star in Sébastien Bailly’s first fantasy film, Comme une actrice, alongside Benjamin Biolay and Agathe Bonitzer.

Resumption of the selection at the Cinémathèque française

From February 2 to 7, 2022 in Paris as part of the Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival’s continued collaboration with the Cinémathèque French woman who will also offer, in Gérardmer, a special screening around the film Les Yeux sans visage, heralding his Georges Franju retrospective in March 2022.

And for all fans who will not have been able to come to the Vosges festival in Gérardmer, the Cinémathèque française will host the films from the competition in Paris from February 2 to 7, 2022, immediately after their presentation in Gérardmer.

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