Paris Celebrates The Nouvelles Vagues – Biarritz International Film Festival
This captivating event, first launched this summer of 2023, has an ambitious vision at its core: to put young people in the spotlight through a programme that embodies the powerful narrative of their generation. The Nouvelles Vagues Festival aims to provide a platform for emerging talent, while inspiring and captivating those who are hungry for new cinematic discoveries.
The festival brings together several juries: an international jury made up of passionate artists under the age of 35, another composed of film school students representing the future of the industry, and a jury of young Culture Pass beneficiaries – thus representing the Festival’s diversity of viewpoints and experiences. Together, they immersed themselves in a rich cinematic experience, featuring indoor and outdoor screenings, fascinating encounters and captivating exhibitions.
Before its return for the summer of 2024, which will take place from 18 to 23 June, this Friday 6 October was an opportunity to preview Molly Manning Walker’s “How to have Sex” in the French capital. The screening took place at Silencio des Prés and was followed by a cocktail event and a DJ set by Corine. The film won the Jury Prize and the Audience Prize at the Biarritz International Film Festival, as well as the “Un Certain Regard” Prize at Cannes Film Festival. The event was presided over by Jérôme Pulis and general delegate Sandrine Brauer, who welcomed figures of the field like Ana Girardot, Anne-Florence Schmitt, Rosalie Varda, César Domboy, Laura Smet, Cécile Cassel, Audrey Azoulay and many others.
This is a festival designed to plunge you into a truly exceptional cinematic experience, where the New Waves of Cinema will once again break on the Biarritz coast, leaving behind them a renewed passion for the seventh art.
Photos: Jean Picon
