Reda Kateb, Costa-Gavras, Alexandra Lamy, Rodrigo Sorogoyen: Cinemed is going to give us a real treat

Oulava Amamra dans “Animale” d’Emma Benestan, projeté en avant-première. JUNE FILMS – FRAKAS PRODUCTIONS – FRANCE 3 CINÉMA – WILD BUNCH – RTBF

Guests, previews, tributes, selections… the 46th edition of the International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema (Cinemed), in Montpellier from October 18 to 25, promises to be a great vintage.

1 – Alba Rohrwacher, the face of the poster

Honor to Alba Rohwacher, the actress whose (sublime) face adorns the poster (idem) of the 46th edition of Cinemed. Appreciated in the series Il miracolo by Niccolò Ammaniti, and the films Sous le ciel d’Alice by Chloé Mazlo, Les Merveilles or La Chimère by her sister Alice Rohrwacher and, last year in Hors-saisonby Stéphane Brizé, the Italian actress shines on both sides of the Alps, and beyond, in all registers. We will see thirteen of her films and she will be there on October 22.

2 – Reda Kateb, our beautiful face

“His popularity is due, I think, to the fact that he really corresponds to what he gives off: he is someone deeply generous, human, honest.” The director of Cinemed, Christophe Leparc, is full of praise for his guest of honor, Reda Kateb. Better than a good-looking guy, a good-looking face, a classy elegance and a nice modernity. We will review ten of his films and present a preview of his first feature film as a director, Sur un fil, sur les clowns d’hôpital on October 24.

3 – Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the gifted madrilène

Since his first film, Stockholm, presented at Cinemed in 2013, the Madrid director Rodrigo Sorogoyen does not fail to dazzle with the virtuosity of his staging but also (and as much) with the acuity of his point of view. By chaining the dark polar Que dios nos perdone (2016), the political farceEl reino (2018), the intimate drama Madre (2019) and the rural thriller As bestas (2022), he has established himself as one of the most important filmmakers of today. We're waiting for it (so much!) on October 24 and 25.

4 – Luigi Comencini, the misunderstood ?

"Comencini's unclassifiable character, his propensity to be at ease in all genres may have harmed his reputation, depriving him of being considered a master of Italian cinema like Fellini or Visconti", asks Christophe Leparc. One of the vocations of Cinemed being to open our eyes to our cinephilia, it invites us this time to rediscover – and reevaluate – the work of Luigi Comencini (1916-2007) thanks to a retrospective of 24 of his thirty feature films, including… l'oh so remarkable L’misunderstood (1967). Besides, it’s Prima la vita, the new film by his daughter Francesca Comencini, in which she pays a direct homage to him, which opens the festival on October 18.

5 – The next generation of Moroccan cinema

"This year, it seemed important to us to look at the new generation of Moroccan filmmakers, who are quite iconoclastic and who have managed to free themselves from a form of self-censorship, and who in doing so have not necessarily been well regarded by the old barons of cinema in their country,”, argues Christophe Leparc. Cinemed will present the next generation of cinematographers from the Cherifian kingdom in six short and seven excellent recent feature films, plus two films by Faouzi Bensaïdi, the elder and model of these audacious filmmakers, and La mer au loin by Saïd Benlarbi as a preview. The round table on October 23 promises!

6 – Costa-Gavras has to breath

At 91, Costa-Gavras continues to bring the iron to the wound of reality! With The last breath< /em>, he adapts with Kad Merad and Denys Podalydes, the eponymous work by Régis Debray and Claude Grange on the end of life. In addition to the preview of this film, he and his wife Michèle Ray-Gavras will be attending the screening of three episodes of a documentary portrait of him by Yannick Kergoat and Edwy Plenel.