After devoting a day to Brad Pitt in 2022 and to Nicole Kidman in 2023, we’ll be honoring an actor from the British Isles at the 52nd edition of FEMA (Friday June 28 through Sunday July 7). His magnetic charisma, his perfectionism and his spellbinding charm have profoundly marked his roles and established him as… Read more »
This year, FEMA is delighted to host one of the most promising young Argentine filmmakers of his generation. Born in 1986 in Buenos Aires, Benjamín Naishtat studied at the University of San Telmo, Buenos Aires, then art school in Le Fresnoy, France. After several noted short subjects, his feature film History of Fear introduced him… Read more »
Happy New Year from Fema La Rochelle! We’re looking forward to a French retrospective for our 52nd edition. The whole team and association of the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma wish you the happiest of new years and hope to welcome you to La Rochelle for the 52nd Fema, held June 28 to July 7, 2024…. Read more »
We are delighted to announce the remaining filmmaker tributes featured at the 51st FEMA (Friday, June 30 – Sunday, July 9), as well as the opening of online ticket sales and accreditation requests. FEMA pays tribute to Kaouther Ben Hania, the talented Tunisian director of The Man Who Sold His Skin, who returns to present… Read more »
For its 51st edition, FEMA is happy to welcome an eccentric actor and filmmaker, heir to the clowning tradition, star since the 1970s and still inseparable today from the unforgettable dreamy, blundering characters he created. He is Distracted but also The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe. He is the wonderful Pierre Richard! A… Read more »
We are delighted to reveal the poster for the 51st edition of the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma and the retrospective that inspired this painting by Stanislas Bouvier. “Known for her steely character, her rages, and her legendary whims, Bette Davis was by turns ‘Jezebel’, ‘Dangerous’, viper, thief, ambitious, and the unforgettable Margo Channing of Mankiewicz’s… Read more »
FEMA is happy to pay tribute to a fascinating and prolific young filmmaker who, for the past several years, has been the figurehead of the renewal of Kazakh cinema on the international scene: Adilkhan Yerzhanov. First noticed for his third feature film, The Owners, shown at the Festival de Cannes in 2014, he achieved glory… Read more »
For this 51st edition, FEMA gives the place of honor to an Australian actress who, under the porcelain surface of a Hollywood stunner with the air of an ice queen — To Die For directed by Gus Van Sant, unforgettable in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady —… Read more »
A tireless creator, author of a vast body of theatrical work, the filmmaker Sacha Guitry will be in the spotlight at the 51st Fema with a selection of 12 films demonstrating his modernity, directorial prowess, textual artistry, and fascination with actors. Among the scheduled films: Good Luck, Let’s Make a Dream, Confessions of a Cheat,… Read more »
From June 30 to July 9, the 51st Festival La Rochelle Cinéma will celebrate the career of one of the greatest European filmmakers, Lars von Trier. He had a profound impact on the cinema of the 1990s, launching the Dogme 95 movement with film director Thomas Vinterberg, then winning the Grand Prix at the 1996… Read more »