John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma

Guest of honor at the 31st edition of FID Marseille, German director Angela Schanelec gave a master class this summer, hosted by editor Marie Hermann and critic Cyril Neyrat. It was an opportunity to discover the work of this filmmaker from the German New Wave.

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as Atatürk, the Father of the Turks, founder of the modern state, and the current president Recep Tayyıp Erdoğan, who apparently wants Turkey to regain the political and military pre-eminence it had as an empire under the Ottoman dynasty.

Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. "Mummy" is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER baby and will remain HERS for ever, encouraged in her "crusade" by her bovine husband and barely thwarted by the more courageous interventions of Suzanne, Julien's sympathetic big sister.

Dark matter fills the cosmos, and yet its identity is still unknown. For the first time, a film portrays the wild scientific quest find out what it is. This breath-taking thriller leads us to the dawn of a scientific and metaphysical revolution, akin to Copernic's or Galileo's. It could totally change the way we perceive our world.

An interview with filmmaker Wim Wenders on the occasion of the retrospective dedicated to him in 2018 at the Cinémathèque Française. One of the leading figures of New German Cinema looked back on his career, from Paris, Texas (1984) to the documentary Pina (2011), via Wings of Desire (1987). In six chapters: Early films, New German Cinema, Places and screenplays, The death of cinema, The future of cinema, Questions from the audience.