Kafard Film

Selected for the Marseilles FID Festival, the documentary directed by Caroline Champetier on Bruno Nuytten was screened on 5 July. Director and cinematographer Caroline Champetier, AFC, discusses this sensitive portrait of a legendary cinematographer who brutally decided to end his career after twelve continuous years of work on some of the greatest French films of the 1980s. (FR)

Rima Abdul-Malak, ministre de la Culture, a réformé, par un arrêté paru au Journal officiel le 27 juillet 2022, la composition de la commission qui sera désormais chargée de choisir le film candidat de la France dans la catégorie "Meilleur Film International", lors de la cérémonie des Oscars.

Le réalisateur français Jacques Audiard a remporté la Palme d’or lors de la 68^e cérémonie annuelle du Festival de Cannes pour son film Dheepan, dont la photographie est signée Eponine Momenceau.

Glynn Speeckaert shares his time between feature-length French-language and English-language films, but he also shoots many advertisements all over the world. Amongst his best-known films are his collaboration with Xavier Giannoli (A l’origine and soon-to-be-released, Marguerite), Koen Mortier (Ex drummer) and Guillaume Galienne on the comedy that won the 2014 César award for best film (Me, Myself, and Mum). His name will soon be on the film posters of Fred Grivois’ Through the Air, starring Reda Kateb and Ludivine Sagnier, as well as Moonwalkers, the first feature-length film of advertisement director Antoine Bardou Jacquet. (FR)

“Taking pictures was always a passion that I had. For me the best job on a film crew has always been operating a camera. I adore operating, I love the challenges. Capturing images that you hope and pray people will enjoy looking at gives me great satisfaction. It gives a feeling of joy looking through the viewfinder. I’ve been so lucky.”

A graduate of the Ecole nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière with a major in Cinema, Sébastien Buchmann, AFC, has been working on both documentaries and fiction films ever since. He has worked a number of times with Dominique Marchais, who is a director of activist documentaries (La ligne de partage des eaux, Nul homme n’est une île). On the fiction side, he is the faithful associate of Valérie Donzelli, La guerre est déclarée, Mickhaël Hers, Amanda, and Nicolas Pariser, alongside whom he has just completed a new philosophic-political opus entitled Alice et le Maire (Alice and the Mayor), in selection at the Directors’ Fortnight.

In late 2018, the AFC, with ENS Louis-Lumière Film School, performed a comparative test of sixty-six lenses from thirty-three different spherical and anamorphic series. We are organizing a blind screening of the results on Tuesday 12 November at 16:00 at the Cinema City, Screening Room N° 12, and Friday 15 November at 13:30 at the Cinema City, Screening Room N° 6.

Julien Colonna, pour son premier long métrage, Le Royaume, désire retracer l’histoire d’une jeune fille qui découvre la véritable nature de son père et qui va tenter de l’aimer à tout prix. La relation ainsi tissée ressemble à un parcours initiatique sur les routes de l’île de Beauté. Un film avec des Corses, tourné en Corse, par un cinéaste corse. C’est avec le chef opérateur Antoine Cormier que nous allons nous immerger dans la fabrication de ce thriller à double facette. Après avoir enchaîné des tournages comme assistant caméra pendant trois ans, Antoine Cormier éclaire des courts métrages, des clips et des publicités. Sa passion : tourner en argentique. Lorsqu’il rencontre Julien Colonna sur une pub, ils partagent cette passion et le talent de faire "bien avec peu". Le Royaume est en Sélection officielle à Un Certain Regard au 77^e Festival de Cannes. (BB)

For his latest film, director Roman Polanski decided to create an extremely historically accurate adaptation of a major event of the late 19th century : the Dreyfus Affair. Despite the very large number of characters and the frequent shifts between different time periods, the Franco-Polish filmmaker shows his excellence as a director and editor with this simple and captivating story. At the camera, once again, his Polish countryman Paweł Edelman officiates (his sixth film with Polanski, starting with The Pianist in 2002). A film in glacial tones, shot in large part in the authentic locations of the story. This film will open the new EnergaCamerimage 2019 Festival in Toruń. (FR)