À vendredi, Robinson by Mitra Farahani (GNCR Competition, already presented at the Berlinale and Visions du Réel) documents a long exchange of emails between Jean-Luc Godard (from Rolle) and Ebrahim Golestan (from Sussex). This correspondence, initiated by Farahani, quickly becomes a wacky dialogue of the deaf, which allows Farahani to paint a close portrait of the Iranian director while at the same time directing the Swiss filmmaker from a distance. Although the film is presented as a correspondence between the…

An ascetic film, full of humour and beauty, Pierre Voland’s Signal GPS Perdu (Mention spéciale du Prix national Georges de Beauregard) is a spiritual quest that intersects with a quest for love in a dark forest populated sometimes by wandering knights, sometimes by the notifications of a gay dating app. It took the filmmaker seven years to make his longest and most mature film. Seven years, not only to shoot the fascinating images proposed (of hikes through subjective camera, in…