The best of French-speaking cinema is back in Barcelona with the celebration of the fifth edition of the Ohlalà! Festival, co-directed by Mélody Brechet-Gleizes and Ana-Belén Fernández. From March 1 to 8, the Institut français and the Girona cinemas will host a program made up of 22 titles from different French-speaking countries such as France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and Morocco, which will address the genres of science fiction, documentary and animation .
The film critic, director and general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Fremaux, will come to the Catalan capital as a guest of honor and will present on the 2nd the silent film Dans la nuit (1929) by Charles Vanel, chosen for the 'carta' section white'. In addition, he will offer a master class where he will explain how he has experienced the mutations of cinema in the 21st century over the course of two decades (digital, the rise of platforms, the
The festival will dedicate a retrospective to Xavier Dolan, enfant terrible of Québec cinema, with the screening of three of his films in Girona cinemas: Tom à la fermé, previously unreleased in Spain; Mommy, about a widow who must take care of her and Laurence's troubled son Anyways, the brilliant story of a literature teacher and trans woman who faces her new life on a path of rejection and stigma that threatens to blow up the life of her she.
Brechet-Gleizes assures that most of the films have "social themes or that can generate debate, with the exception of the opening and closing films, which are more commercial". L'innocent, directed, written and starring Louis Garrel, a family chronicle with a police and comedy theme that has won two César awards and was presented out of competition at the last Cannes festival, will open the competition and the unclassifiable Quentin Dupieux will be in charge of the closing with the black comedy Incroyable mais vrai, awarded as best script in Sitges.
The official section is made up of ten films that have been recognized at various festivals and ceremonies. Thus, titles such as La nuit du 12, brand new winner of six César awards, including film and direction for Dominik Moll, will be screened. The Moroccan Haut et fort, by Nabil Ayouch; the animated film La traversée, by Florence Miailhe, with which there will be a discussion afterwards; Viking, by Stéphane Lafleur, Mon Légionnaire, directed by Rachel Lang or Un beau matin, the new from Mia Hansen-Løve with Léa Seydoux in the cast. The Le prix du passage section is completed in a session with a discussion with the director Thierry Binisti and Nos Frangins, which will feature the intervention of the director Rachid Bouchareb and the actor Samir Guesmi.
On the other hand, the section Ohlalà! Ópera Prima offers new perspectives on French-speaking cinema, while Ohlalà! Familia includes a selection for the youngest and, in collaboration with FILMETS Badalona Film Festival, has programmed six fiction and animation shorts.
