Founded last year, Biarritz Film Festival, which focuses on youth, opened this Wednesday with prestigious guests.
Biarritz hosts a new edition of its Nouvelles Vagues festival. On Wednesday 18th June, the Gare du Midi was decked out in its finest red carpet to welcome the Group 2 judges and guests.e the release of his film meeting dedicated to young people. So we were able to see Noah Abita, Louise Bourgoin, Vincent Perez and Lucas Bravo, Alain Chabat having fun with the photographers, or even Felix Moat, William Lebgill and Sofia Zerman answering the journalists. But Dianna Agron also gives a warm welcome to Carla Sofia Gascon, the Spanish actress who just won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival (a first for a transgender actress).
A photo call then greeted the judges. Chaired by Lea Missius, it is composed of Kitty Chicha, Zoe Deutsch, Kim Higelin, Arash Khaksari, Vincent Lacoste, Manu Rios, and Margaret Zhang. This week, these under-35s will have to decide between 8 international films competing for the Grand Prix. And the competition started strongly yesterday with a demonstration The night drags on Michel Blanchard’s first film, starring Jonathan Feltre and Romain Duris, received a long standing ovation from the director and his cast after the screening.
Youth, at the heart of the news
As guests took their seats in the great room at the Gare du Midi, Ana Girardo took the stage (awesomely) to assume her role as Mistress of Ceremonies. After paying tribute to Anouk Aimee, who died the same day, the actress marked an important moment by declaring in these politically troubled times: This youth that is rightfully in the news. More than ever, the greatest hope we have in this world is in these youth, because they know how to raise their voices and be heard, they know how to shout their rebellion and demand a fairer world by showing their nonsense. He knows that we must never remain silent or amorphous in the face of a climate of fear. She is driven by fierce determination and a spirit of rebellion that makes her bravely stand up to oppression and discrimination. It is he who should be followed, listened to, noted. That’s the world he aspires to, that I want to live in and I hope we live in.” The festival president and jurors then joined Ana Girardot on stage to each take turns and in their own language to announce the opening of Nouvelles Vagues, the second edition of the Biarritz Film Festival.
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Alex Lutz, Elis Diop, Matt Dillon were expected
after the screening of The night drags on, festival-goers were invited to board the city’s small tourist train to the Hôtel du Palais, where Chanel, the festival’s official partner, hosted a grand dinner. While the photocall at the entrance welcomed a few latecomers, most guests ended up on the venue’s terrace, where, facing the sea, they were happy to meet and discuss the evening’s film and their projects. It was followed by a dinner organized by the hotel’s chef, as well as a piano-vocal concert by Silly Boy Blue. At the end of the evening, Jerome Pulis and Sandrine Brower, the festival’s president and chief delegate respectively, welcomed their guests before starting the rest of the week’s program; exhibitions, master classes, as well as meetings, “gazterias” (“youth”, in Basque), with Matt Dillon, Alice Diop, James Franco and Alex Lutz. And the youth festival obliges. at 2:30 am the last night owls weren’t ready for bed.
Source: Le Figaro
