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IN COMPETITION

Opening Film
Olivier DAHAN	GRACE DE MONACO             Out of Competition	1h43
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Olivier ASSAYAS	CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA	2h03
Bertrand BONELLO	SAINT LAURENT	2h15
Nuri Bilge CEYLAN	WINTER SLEEP	3h16
David CRONENBERG	MAPS TO THE STARS	1h51
Jean-Pierre DARDENNE,  Luc DARDENNE	DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT	1h35
Xavier DOLAN	MOMMY	2h14
Atom EGOYAN	CAPTIVES	1h53
Jean-Luc GODARD	ADIEU AU LANGAGE	1h10
Michel HAZANAVICIUS	THE SEARCH	2h29
Tommy Lee JONES	THE HOMESMAN	2h02
Naomi KAWASE	FUTATSUME NO MADO (Still the water)	1h50
Mike LEIGH	MR. TURNER	2h29
Ken LOACH	JIMMY’S HALL	1h46
Bennett MILLER	FOXCATCHER	2h10
Alice ROHRWACHER	LE MERAVIGLIE	1h50
Abderrahmane SISSAKO	TIMBUKTU	1h40
Damian SZIFRON	RELATOS SALVAJES (Wild Tales)	1h55
Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV	LEVIATHAN	2h21

 

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Opening Film
Marie AMACHOUKELI, Claire BURGER, Samuel THEIS	PARTY GIRL 1st film	1h35
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Lisandro ALONSO	JAUJA (Land of Plenty)	1h41
Mathieu AMALRIC	LA CHAMBRE BLEUE	1h15
Asia ARGENTO	INCOMPRESA	1h43
Kanu BEHL	TITLI 1st film	2h04
Ned BENSON	ELEANOR RIGBY 1st film	1h59
Pascale FERRAN	BIRD PEOPLE	2h07
Ryan GOSLING	LOST RIVER 1st film	1h45
Jessica HAUSNER	AMOUR FOU	1h36
Rolf de HEER	CHARLIE’S COUNTRY	1h48
Andrew HULME	SNOW IN PARADISE 1st film	1h48
July JUNG	DOHEE-YA (A Girl at my Door) 1st film	1h59
Panos KOUTRAS	XENIA	2h03
Philippe LACÔTE	RUN 1er film	1h40
Ruben ÖSTLUND	TURIST	2h
Jaime ROSALES	HERMOSA JUVENTUD	1h43
WANG Chao	FANTASIA	1h25
Wim WENDERS Juliano RIBEIRO SALGADO	THE SALT OF THE EARTH	1h40
Keren YEDAYA	LOIN DE SON ABSENCE (Away From His Absence)	1h35

 

OUT OF COMPETITION

Dean DEBLOIS	DRAGONS 2	1h45
ZHANG Yimou	GUI LAI (Coming Home)	1h51

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

CHANG	PYO JEOK  (The Target)	1h39
Kristian LEVRING	THE SALVATION	1h30
David MICHOD	THE ROVER	1h40

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Aida BEGIC, Leonardo DI COSTANZO, Jean-Luc GODARD, Kamen KALEV, Isild LE BESCO, Sergei LOZNITSA, Vincenzo MARRA, Ursula MEIER, Vladimir PERISIC, Cristi PUIU, Marc RECHA, Angela SCHANELEC, Teresa VILLAVERDE	LES PONTS DE SARAJEVO (Bridges of Sarajevo)	1h50
Gabe POLSKY	RED ARMY	1h25
Sergei LOZNITSA	MAÏDAN	2h
Ossama MOHAMMED	EAU ARGENTEE, SYRIE AUTOPORTRAIT (Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait)	1h50
Stéphanie VALLOATTO	CARICATURISTES - FANTASSINS DE LA DÉMOCRATIE  (Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers Of Democracy)	1h46

70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF LE MONDE NEWSPAPER:

Yves JEULAND

LES GENS DU MONDE

1h22

Transnational

They Will not represent themselves ... 2012

In a transnational approach, the opposition between “Centre” and “Periphery” is not really geographic. The Orient for Saïd “is not an inert fact of nature”, and the same is Occident. The same idea can be translated in Achille Mbembe’s words about the “... globalization as central fact of our epoch, the generalized expansion of the form-merchandise and its grip on the totality of natural resources, of human productions, briefly on the whole living7“. This is to say that criticism, as a lucid thought, is a permanent process of resistance to the malefic will looking for dividing the world in order to reign. Against this crawling beast, the postcolonial studies suggest a serious effort of “de- compartmentalization” against all kinds of forces of differentiation trying to elevate walls of intolerance. Only constructive trans- nationalism is able to theorize the principals of sharing and multiculturalism as fate of the human being. Only this kind of creative criticism can show how the idea of “partitioning” and dividing is absurd. In such an approach, it is not possible anymore to say: “I am the only one who is worth. But I am worth, as I, only if the others, as They, are not worth”. That’s how someone like Dipesch Chakrabarty wants to “provincialize8” Europe by deconstructing the mental schemas of what she calls the “advanced societies” which have nothing else to offer but imperialism, xenophobia, ethnocentrism ...

I could not not think to what Haile Gerima told me about how he feels himself naturally linked to the marginalized persons. The same goes for Abdellatif Kechiche who sees himself in the fight of Sarah Baartman. The first one felt a spontaneous solidarity with the black Americans not so much because they have an African connection but mainly because they were, like him, denied their rights to be considered as equal. The other saw in the story of the Black Hottentot his own frustration. When he started his career as a director, he was refused the ability to be considered like anybody else from the North. I see the intellectual project of the two filmmakers as a demystification of the absurd gap established, against any bon sense, between a so called centre and periphery. Therefore someone like Achille Mbembe is very pertinent. He calls for a re-writing of History as a space of plurality putting together and simultaneously Here and There, because the former is part of the latter and vice versa. This is how he identifies the frame according to which one could look at themes like Integration, Nation, Identity, Citizenship, Emigration, etc9. This was already the idea of Edward Saïd for whom human reality is undividable and its hybridity and heterogeneity is a concrete fact non depending from any political will neither slogan. He emphasizes “... that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other10“.

In this book I want to point to the work of misrepresentation or misinterpretation of the World order producing what Karamchand Gandhi11 called the seductive fable (fable séduisante) whose touchstone is the idea of division, separation... I believe in this process of creativity described by Edward Saïd as unlearning the spontaneous spirit of domination. That’s why I emphasize the work of artists who are fighting against the spread of stereotypes and the loss of authenticity standing against any kind of fatality disabling them of using cinema to represent themselves.