Celebrating the rich contribution of women film directors to the cinematic oeuvre of France, a two-week-long French Film Festival concluded at India Habitat Centre here on Monday.
Organized by the Embassy of France in India and the French Institute in India (IFI), the film festival titled “Women Directors from France” saw screening of five films by women filmmakers.
With an impressive selection of both established and up-and-coming directors, the festival showcased the diverse and talented voices of women in the film industry.
From thought-provoking documentaries to heart-wrenching dramas, the lineup included a wide range of genres and styles. Films like Real Love / C'est ça l'amour by director Claire Burger; Atlantics / Atlantique by Mati Diop; A Radiant Girl / Une Jeune Fille Qui Va Bien by Sandrine Kiberlain; and , animation film The Crossing / La Traversée, were screened at the festival
Till Sunday. The fifth film Skies of Lebanon / Sous le ciel d'Alice by Chloé Mazlo was the last of the movies screened on Monday.
The movie is set in the 1950s, when a young Alice leaves Switzerland for Lebanon, a sunny and exuberant country, where she falls in love with Joseph, a mischievous astrophysicist who dreams of sending the first Lebanese into space.
The film Skies of Lebanon was selected at Semaine de la Critique at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. A poetic blending of the personal and the political, “Skies of Lebanon” combines live action with animation to create a vivid picture of Lebanon, inspired by the family history of the director.
Using stories told to her by her grandmother on life during the Lebanese Civil War, Mazlo crafts a touching and heart-breaking story of love during wartime. All movies were screened in French with English subtitles.