04/04/2022 - The only event in Europe wholly dedicated to film music and young creation is unfolding in its new home in the French city between 4 and 9 April

Previously unspooling in Aubagne, the 23rd Music & Cinema Festival (and its European market for cinematic musical compositions) is set to unfold in Marseille for the very first time between 4 and 9 April. Wholly dedicated to film music and the promotion of young creation, the event steered by General Delegate Gaëlle Rodeville will gather together upwards of 700 professionals hailing from all over the world (filmmakers and film music composers, screenwriters, actors, producers...). The festival will be opened out of competition, today, by Cannes Caméra d’Or winner Murina [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
interview: Gracija Filipovic
film profile] directed by Croatia’s Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic (composers: Evgueni and Sacha Galperine).

The programme includes an international competition comprising ten feature films. These include Clara sola [+see also:
film review
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interview: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén
film profile] by Costa Rican and Swedish director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (composer: Ruben De Gheselle), Now/Here [+see also:
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interview: Peter Monsaert
film profile] by Belgium’s Peter Monsaert (composer: Demusmaker), German movie Toubab [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Florian Dietrich (Jacob Vetter), Belgian-French production Dark Heart of the Forest [+see also:
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interview: Serge Mirzabekiantz
film profile] by Serge Mirzabekiantz (Cyrille de Haes, Margaret Hermant and Manuel Roland), The Hive [+see also:
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interview: Christophe Hermans
film profile] by Christophe Hermans (Fabian Fiorini), animated film My Sunny Maad [+see also:
film review
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interview: Michaela Pavlátová
film profile] by Czech director Michaela Pavlátová (Evgueni and Sacha Galperine), French documentary Ghost Song [+see also:
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film profile] by Nicolas Peduzzi (Jimmy Whoo), the multi-award-winning movie Hive [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Blerta Basholli
interview: Yllka Gashi
film profile] by Kosovo’s Blerta Basholli (Julien Painot), Wild Roots [+see also:
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film profile] by Hungary’s Hajni Kis (Oleg Borsos) and My Darling by Canada’s Phil Connell (Harry Knazan). The section will be assessed by a jury composed of director Audrey Estrougo (whose last two opuses Authentik [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and À la folie are also set to be screened), producer Delphine Schmit, composer Delphine Mantoulet and director-journalist Thierry Jousse.

The event’s guests of honour this year are French actress Dominique Blanc, her compatriot the musician and singer of Comorian origin Imany, and British composer Nainita Desai (notably responsible for music in For Sama [+see also:
film review
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interview: Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
film profile] and in American Murder).

In addition to a short film competition, Music & Cinema will also be hosting various conferences, including the “Accords en Duo" [“Duos”] programme, which will see filmmakers and composers such as Emmanuelle Bercot and Éric Neveux, and Tony Gatlif and Delphine Mantoulet, discussing the movie’s they’ve worked on together.

For its part, the line-up entitled "Elles et ils repasseront par-là" [“They’ll come this way again”] is set to pay tribute to composers who have worked on films benefitting from the festival’s various support schemes, including Stephen Warbeck (The Man in the Hat), Rémi Boubal (Bigger Than Us [+see also:
trailer
film profile]), The Penelopes (SpaceBoy [+see also:
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interview: Olivier Pairoux
film profile]) and Ronan Maillard (Les Héritières).

Likewise worth a mention is a conference on musical publication and synchronisation, and a focus on the Emergence music residency, featuring footage developed for L’idéaliste by Martin Drouot (original score by Francesco Neglia), Lumière Noire by Karim Bensalah (Adrien Casalis), L’Espèce Explosive by Sarah Arnold (Émile Sornin and Philippe Deschamps), Passeuse by Stéphane Marchetti (Adrien Casalis) and La nouvelle femme [+see also:
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film profile] by Léa Todorov (Émile Sornin).

Rounding off the festival’s rich line-up is a Carte Blanche section for the Vilnius International Short Film Festival, comprising a selection of shorts foregrounding young Portuguese women directors (in league with FEST - New Directors in Espinho, as part of the France-Portugal season), a night of feature films, a masterclass delivered by Marie-Jeanne Serero, and a line-up for children and families.

(Translated from French)