Festival La Rochelle Cinéma - FEMA

Since 1973, the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma (Fema) has been a major cinema festival at the start of summer. Today, Fema remains non-competitive, with a large and loyal audience, and films past and present from all over the world. It's a meeting place for filmmakers, prestigious actors and actresses, professionals, journalists and students from France and all over the world.

Fema presents some 200 films from the silent era to today's cinema, with retrospectives devoted to filmmakers who have marked the history of the 7th art and tributes to contemporary directors, actresses and actors.

For this 53rd edition :
Edward Yang retrospective
Edward Yang, who passed away 18 years ago (June 29, 2007), was one of the greatest Asian filmmakers of the end of the last century. His 7 films, strongly influenced by the new European waves and American cinema, also bear witness to the evolution of Chinese cinema and the transformation of Taiwan in the 80s and 90s.
The Cinémathèque française will then offer a complete selection from July 9 to 14. On July 16, Carlotta Films will release two films never before seen in France: Confusion chez Confucius and Mahjong.
This retrospective will be accompanied by actress Virginie Ledoyen, critic Jean-Michel Frodon, whose book on the filmmaker will be reissued, and two filmmakers who admire Edward Yang's work, Olivier Assayas and Arthur Harari (to be confirmed).

Full program: https://festival-larochelle.org/