Jeune Cinéma

Program:

Documentary competition

Year:

2024

Country:

France

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

73’

Jeune Cinéma is an archive documentary about a mythical and forgotten film festival that took place in Hyères between 1965 and 1983. At the time, it was the most important festival in France after Cannes. A place of senseless polemics and improbable encounters, the festival got lost in the meanders of a cinema and disappeared, undermined by internal quarrels, political reversals and by the competition of Cannes, which created a sudden hemorrhage of directors.

Schedule

Yves-Marie Mahé

Works mainly on archival film footages. He has directed multiple podcast documentaries for Arte Radio or France Culture and more than 80 short films released in the experimental cinema network. He is also programmer for the Collectif Jeune Cinéma since 1991. In 2023, he directed his first feature-length documentary, Jeune cinéma, which premiered at Rotterdam Film Festival.

Filmography: Touche moi pas! (2011), Marseille (2015), Sigma 1967 (2015)

Creative team

Director

Yves-Marie Mahé

Screenplay

Yves-Marie Mahé

Editing

Yves-Marie Mahé, Nathalie Vignères

Music

Thierry Müller

Producer

Nicolas Brevière