On the occasion of the 2022 France – Portugal Season, the 50th Festival La Rochelle Cinéma offers a wide-ranging retrospective of 24 Portuguese feature films and 2 short subjects, going from silent cinema to the filmmakers of today. This is an opportunity to revisit the history of one of Europe’s most extraordinary cinema cultures, with… Read more »
This year, Fema pays tribute to the composer of 500 soundtracks, whose themes are unforgettable and whose unique style is immediately identifiable: Ennio Morricone. Throughout his life he made the great stylistic stretch between experimental and popular music, between his taste for dissonance and formal daring and piercing melodies. Launched by his legendary and close… Read more »
To celebrate its 50th edition in 2022, the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma (Fema) will pay tribute to a legendary actor of unearthly beauty, ALAIN DELON. This extraordinary performer has worked with the greatest filmmakers: René Clément, Luchino Visconti, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, and many others. Our poster design, painted, as every… Read more »
After announcing retrospectives dedicated to Audrey Hepburn and Pier Paolo Pasolini, we now would like to reveal the name of a young Spanish filmmaker whom we discovered with the release in France, by Arizona Distribution, of his film The August Virgin. A delicate summer stroll through the streets of Madrid, whose preview screening we were… Read more »
On Thursday, February 24, the world was shocked by Russia’s military attack upon Ukraine. Since then, Putin’s Russia has waged outright war there. Europe is more united than ever in the face of this offensive; new and heavier sanctions are being imposed. In Ukraine itself, families flee as best they can or remain to bravely… Read more »
The 50th Festival La Rochelle Cinéma will celebrate the Golden Age of Hollywood—all singing, all dancing, all enchanting! Through her greatest roles and finest collaborations with William Wyler, Billy Wilder, George Cukor, Stanley Donen, and Blake Edwards, Fema will celebrate a legendary actress, timelessly glamorous, now an icon in fashion and pop culture. For 10… Read more »
The 50th Festival La Rochelle Cinéma will celebrate a filmmaker-poet who left a lasting mark in the history of cinema and whose modernity continues to inspire the directors of today: Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose 100th birth anniversary falls on March 5, 2022. For this centennial, we will present, from July 1 to 10, not only… Read more »
For the 50th edition of the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma, which will take place July 1–10, 2022, the association and staff of Fema are delighted to announce the name of the Festival President: Sylvie Pialat. This outstanding screenwriter and producer founded her company, Les Films du Worso, in 2003. She comes to the Festival regularly… Read more »
Dear friends, The Festival La Rochelle Cinéma came to a close on July 4th with the screening of the new restoration of Cinema Paradiso and a moving ceremony honoring Ennio Morricone, in the company of Gabriel Yared and Stéphane Lerouge. This very special 49th edition brought us together in La Rochelle’s theaters and screening rooms… Read more »
