Cartes Blanches

Each year, the students of La SATIS, public film school of University of Aix-Marseille, produce around one hundred films, ranging from fiction to documentary, photographic narrative, experimental film, and sound fiction.

An eclectic selection of films from the year 2023 is offered in this program.

Since its creation in 2015, Films Grand Huit has been producing works to move, thrill, amuse, imagine, dream or even scream. Immerse yourself in the world of Films Grand Huit as you revel in six short films that have traveled the globe.

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In this brand new season, the wild animals of Athleticus take a little vacation and discover the joys of water sports. From diving to synchronized swimming, from paragliding to wing foiling, they react according to their personalities and the peculiarities of their anatomy, creating comic or poetic situations that are always offbeat.

Watch the premiere of the fourth season of Athleticus, created and directed by Nicolas Deveaux, and attend a privileged behind-the-scenes meeting after the screening.

In the meantime, watch the first three seasons on arte.tv.

As part of the Regards Croisés program, the MCM, in collaboration with La SATIS, école supérieure publique de cinéma, welcomes the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria), the University of Gothenburg, the Academy of Music and Drama (Sweden), the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (Lillhamer, Norway) and the MCSN Film Music Festivals Academy for a residency in music composition for the image.

On April 3, the short films showcasing the work of the students participating in the program will be screened.

For the past ten years in Marseille, Transversarts has been promoting social mediation through images, enabling everyone to take their first steps in audiovisual creation. On the occasion of the MCM, Transversarts invites you to discover six fiction films, written and directed by young local filmmakers with the help of over fifty local residents. Come and meet these budding filmmakers and chat with the teams during a convivial evening.

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival is Greece's biggest cinematic institution. Based on one of the most emblematic Greek novels of all time, the film has a powerful feminist aspect, with Dimitris Papadimitriou's score proving essential to the narrative.

The Master Doc program, which teaches documentary film design and production, is pleased to present four personal films imagined, written and produced as part of the Documentary Writing program at Aix-Marseille University. Four first cinematographic gestures, testifying to the students' desire to tell the story of the world through their own eyes, in forms conceived in their singularity.

Based in Estonia, PÖFF Shorts is the biggest short film and animation festival in the Baltics. Come and discover the diversity of Estonian films - many of which have won awards at PÖFF Shorts - that push the boundaries and demonstrate unbridled inventiveness. Estonia may be a relatively small country, but its talent pool is immense.

ARTE and MCM present an evening dedicated to Juliette Armanet. On the program? The short film Partir un jour by Amélie Bonnin, in which she stars, followed by the broadcast of a Soirée de Poche, where Juliette Armanet finds herself shoulder to shoulder with an ecstatic audience.

A suspended moment between humor and passion.