À l'Affiche also looks back on the essential "Nomadland" by Chloé Zhao, Golden Lion in Venice in September 2020 and three times Oscar winner in April. In this film, the actress Frances McDormand goes to meet these Americans downgraded after the subprime crisis and who have chosen to live on the road. "Nomadland" is inspired by the book by journalist Jessica Bruder and it was Frances McDormand who asked the Chinese director to ask her to adapt it on the big screen. Halfway between documentary and fictional work, the film plays the card of modesty and the great outdoors of South Dakota, but perhaps does not sufficiently examine the darkness of a world in crisis.
Finally with "200 meters", the Palestinian director Ameen Nayfeh signs his first feature film.
It tells the story of a Palestinian family who live in two houses two hundred meters apart but separated by the wall erected in 2002 between Israel and the West Bank.
This political drama necessarily resonates with the news but it also slips towards the thriller.
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