Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris — 25th edition

From October 11 to 15, 2023, the Collectif Jeune Cinéma, which distributes and promotes experimental image and film practices, is organizing the 25th edition of the Festival International des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris at the Cinéma Le Grand Action. 

The Festival is already 25 years old. A whole history as a quest and a desire for curious, inventive, surprising cinema, inspired by abstraction or reality, form and the explosion of narrative devices. 

For this year’s international competition, we received over 1,200 films and videos made in 2022/2023. 

33 proposals emerged, presented during 6 screenings in the presence of the filmmakers. Opportunities for exchange and encounters, as during the jury’s public deliberation. 

We’ve also added 5 themed screenings on the theme of sport, with 3 focuses coordinated by Maxime Hot, Yves-Marie Mahé and Julien Bibard, an invitation from Raphaëlle Giaretto to the Nux Vomica poetic collective, and a carte blanche for Federico Rossin’s Polish-style sporting exploits. 

A screening for young audiences, based on films in the CJC catalog, by Alma-Lïa Masson-Lacroix and Simon Le Gloan from our transmission department. An afternoon concocted by young selectors, dedicated to the call for films to filmmakers under 15 and from 15 to 17.9 years old, offered since 2015.

An anniversary, lots of films, competition, gesture and effort, invention and poetry, in a fairplay atmosphere, of course, but what would the rules be if they weren’t turned upside down? Experimental is the name of the game. 5 days of cinematic discovery, together, in theaters and in public, with filmmakers and team members. 

Good game.