Robert Bresson wrote that cinema draws from a common fund. He added: "The cinematographer is on a journey of discovery on an unknown planet." Suddenly, the phrase, between the lighting and the echo, takes on a strange resonance in the middle of a pandemic. Perhaps that is why the proposal launched by the New York Tribeca Festival makes more sense than ever and will be active from Friday 29 to June 10 on YouTube . They are ten days of celebration and consolation. With Cannes and all the great events that should come after or suspended or on the tightrope, this unprecedented event involving up to 21 world festivals including Cannes itself, Berlin, Venice, Sundance, Toronto, ourSan Sebastián, BFI London, Karlovy Vary, Locarno and more seems to be necessary. Even essential. Everything is for that common fund and that always unknown planet.
There will be more than 100 films that include 13 world premieres , 31 online premieres, 23 fiction feature films, 8 documentaries, 72 short films and a collection of virtual talks in their evident reality (15 are from the archive and 4 exclusive for the sample ) with a poster that includes Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Soderbergh, Bong Joon-ho, Guillermo del Toro, Janes Campion, Claire Denis or our Albert Serra alongside John Waters. The total number of countries represented, cited or alluded to reaches 35.
Among the plethora of movies, we offer a short selection of movies and quotes. Up to 10 and their encores.
1. 'Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records' (May 29)
To start a documentary. And music. And deeply enjoyable. The FBI London selects this walk between cultures in which the Jamaican and British sounds mix and contradict each other in the 1960s thanks to labels such as Trojan Records. Director Nicoas Jack mixes footage and interviews without being overwhelmed by the routine of the busts they remember.
2. Eeb Allay Ooo (May 30)
A story about a professional monkey repellent. As it is. The title makes reference to its working instrument: the screams it should give and the film comes from the duly awarded Mumbai Festival. It is cinema that rises from the absurdity of its approach to the faithful reconstruction of all the doubts of a simian society. Ours. The director Prateek Vats signs it , it arrives indicated by the critics and it is premiere 'online'.
2 bis, Meeting Claire Denis and Olivier Assayas (May 30)
The director of the recent masterpiece 'High life ' and the head of ' Journey to Sils Maria ' or ' Carlos ' face each other in French, which is undoubtedly the best way to never reproach yourself. They will talk, they say, about the state of cinema today. The subject is too general, but very appropriate.
3. Guillermo del Toro speaks (May 31)
Little more to say.
3. bis. Bridges of Sarajevo (May 31)
An old classic from 2014. A total of 13 directors (Jean-Luc Godard among them) delve into the always open wound of Sarajevo and of the whole of Europe. It is time to recover what crises smell, hurt and taste like.
4. Meeting Alejandro Iñárritu and Marina Abramovic (May 31)
The second interview, the first, responds. You have to propose it, but it is achieved.
4. Cerulia (May 1)
It is a ' stop-motion' short film . What follows is a tour of the wounds of memory that deserves a stop. It is signed by the Mexican Sofía Carrillo.
5. Sisterhood (June 2)
Recommended by the Macao Festival, you should let yourself go. Two friends meet again after so many years. In between, a secret that supports the enigmatic future of an entire city. Tracy Choi, the director, arrives from the burning Hong Kong city.
5 bis. Coppola spoke with Steven Soderbergh. (June 2nd)
The two speak of ' Apocalypse now ' and there is no more to say. Essential.
6. Volubilis. (3 of June)
Coming from the Marrakech Festival, Faouzi Bensaïdi's fifth feature film is the chronicle of a couple arm in arm against harsh reality. A fable of love in a desperate time. The last sentence is from the director and there is no way to contradict him.
7. Untitled (Letter to Serra) (June 4)
The Argentine Lisandro Alonso is always a reason for the celebration. Now he returns to the scene of his first film ' Freedom' to simply compose a 23-minute dream.
7a. Dantza (June 4)
Our San Sebastián Festival turns the celebration of the rhythm and the bodies of Telmo Esnal into an offering for which it is but a celebration.
8. The double steps (June 5)
Isaki Lacuesta is another of the proposals of the San Sebastian contest. Not in vain, the Catalan filmmaker is assisted by two gold shells: the one he got for it and the one obtained for 'Between two waters '. The life between the fabulation and the dream of François Augieras is the excuse for a game of magnetic and voracious unfolding. In the background, Miquel Barceló .
8a. Ang Lee and Hirokazu Kore-eda Meeting (June 5)
They talk like the ones above about the state of cinema today. Topical issue without a doubt.
9. Air conditioner (June 6)
True to itself, the Rotterdam Festival proposes an atmospheric, feverish and unclassifiable piece: a kind of Symphony of a City in Luanda. The director Fradique makes his protagonist see, between the noise and his shadow, how the air conditioners fall. It is sleep and it is suffocation.
9a. Meeting Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg (June 6)
They talk about them and the cinema that unites them. Of all this and of ' Crash '.
10. Atlantique (June 7)
Director Mati Diop approaches the whole world with the film that dazzled in Cannes carrying the flag of being the first black woman to appear in the competition. The film locates a love story in a Dakar suburb. But sad. In reality, and viewed in a relaxed way, this film also talks about precarious jobs, families that resist and vain hopes. Of that and of an essentially unjust world that places an entire ocean between rich and poor. Diop's proposal is as irregular as it is fascinating. The director wants to portray the burden of a doomed youth either poverty or an impossible flight. Far from the rules and conventions of the cinema that she denounces, the director breathes each sequence of a rare lyricism that moves through ghost cinema as well as through social portraiture. There are moments of a rare magnetism that both excite and intrigue.
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