Toulouse (AFP)
A crazy cultural event in Toulouse, the International Festival of Groland Film (FIFIGROT) will hold its 8th edition from September 16 to 22, under the presidency of the "dictator" Jean Dujardin.
The Oscar-winning actor "accepted this charge with enthusiasm, and, I believe, with a certain amount of sadism," congratulates one of the Festival's founders, director Benoît Delépine, on the event's website.
"Dictator of the jury" which he will be the only member, Jean Dujardin will decide between the six films in competition on the basis of his only "whim" to award the Golden Amphora.
A modality in sync with the character of this satirical and iconoclastic festival that celebrates the gritty humor of Canal +'s "Groland" show.
This distinction, the most prestigious of the Festival, was won in 2018 by Pig of the Iranian Mani Haghighi, the People's Amphora, public prize, going to the film Les Invisibles by Louis-Julien Petit.
In addition to short films and documentaries, some fifty feature-length films will be presented for this 8th edition, which will also pay homage to the late comedian Pierre Desproges.
Among the themes selected, that of "Dictators crazy" or how to treat "human ignominy with irony", a "eulogy of ethylism" or "The nothing". The Nazisploitation will also access the Toulouse screens for a special evening "Nazis in the retro".
As in previous years, the heart of the festival will beat in the "Grovillage" located near Capitol Square.
The festivities will open Monday night with a milito-grolando-processionary march in the city center, before the screening of the French-Palestinian film "It must be heaven" by Elia Suleiman, who received this year's Cannes special jury.
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