MEET US IN CANNES
This year, the Festival de Cannes will happen from May 12 to 23. And behind the scenes, many artists that the Festival international Music & Cinema Marseille knows well. This year again, we went through the selections to spot the ones we've been following from Marseille. There are quite a few.
But MCM doesn't come to Cannes as a spectator. It's here as a player, with two professional programmes that bring to the Croisette what gets built every year in Marseille: spotting projects early, connecting directors and composers, supporting screenwriting before the camera even rolls.
Two professional events not to miss
The Short Film Corner (May 17–20) will be the occasion for MCM to award the Music & Cinema grant to one of the projects selected for Focus SCRIPT. The winner receives an automatic selection to the international market for film music composition at the next edition of the Festival.
The Résidence du Sud celebrates its 6th edition. This screenwriting programme for short fiction films — run by Héliotrope, Regard Indépendant, Les Rencontres Cinématographiques d'Aix-en-Provence and Alcimé — travels each year across the Sud region. Its launch takes place on Sunday May 17 at 11:30am at the Région Sud stand, followed by the presentation of the 26th edition of Un Festival C'est Trop Court!
A short film born at the Market, now at the Quinzaine
At Film Fest Ghent in 2024, the 3e Personnage Hors-les-Murs programme of the international market for film music composition brought together directors Wannes Vanspauwen and Pol De Plecker and composer Matthias Dewilde. Two years later, Pithead is selected at the Quinzaine des cinéastes, with an original score by Vertige, Matthias Dewilde and Elias Devolder.
The pitch? A woman braves a blizzard, pushes open the door of a Black Metal bar, and finds a penguin stranded in a nearby tree, separated from its colony.
MCM WATCHLIST
Among the films selected this year, many carry the signature of composers who have passed through the international market for film music composition. We watched them work in Marseille. We find them again in Cannes.
Official Competition
- Coward by Lukas Dhont — music by Valentin Hadjadj
- Histoires de la nuit by Léa Mysius — music by Florencia Di Concilio
- Moulin by László Nemes — music by Laetitia Pansanel-Garric
- Minotaure by Andrey Zvyagintsev — music by Evgueni & Sacha Galperine
- Garance by Jeanne Herry — music by Pascal Sangla
Un Certain Regard
- Les Éléphants dans la brume by Abinash Bikram Shah — music by Frederic Alvarez
Séance de minuit
- Roma Elastica by Bertrand Mandico — music by Pierre Desprats
Séances spéciales
- Les Survivants du Che by Christophe Dimitri Réveille — music by Gilles Alonzo, Matteo Di Stefano & Julien Schickel
- Le Triangle d'Or by Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz — music by Maxence Dussère
- Les matins merveilleux by Avril Besson — music by Thomas Krameyer
- L'Affaire Marie-Claire by Lauriane Escaffre et Yvo Muller — music by Clémence Ducreux
Semaine de la critique
- Dua by Blerta Basholli — music by Audrey Ismaël
- La Deuxième fille by Zou Jing — music by Valentin Hadjadj
- La Frappe by Julien Gaspar-Oliveri — music by Delphine Malausséna
Quinzaine des cinéastes
- Butterfly Jam by Kantemir Balagov — music by Evgueni & Sacha Galperine
- Carmen, l'oiseau rebelle by Sébastien Laudenbach — music by Amine Bouhafa
- Gabin by Maxence Voiseux — music by Nicolas Rabaeus
- L'Espèce explosive by Sarah Arnold — music by Florencia Di Concilio
- Pithead by Wannes Vanspauwen & Pol De Plecker — music by Vertige, Matthias Dewilde & Elias Devolder (short film)
ACID
- Blaise by Dimitri Planchon & Jean-Paul Guigue — music by Alexis Pécharman & Denis Vautrin