Thunderbirds, dir. Léa Mysius,
from La Fémis archives

As every year, EnergaCAMERIMAGE Film Festival will include in its program a review of short films, focusing on a selected film school. This year our choice fell on the prestigious Parisian institution La Fémis. The festival audience will have the opportunity to watch early films by such artists as Emmanuel Mouret, François Ozon, Léa Mysius and Emmanuelle Bercot.

Founded in 1986 and headed by director Michel Hazanavicius, La Fémis trains more than 50 students each year in 10 filmmaking skills: directing, writing, producing, editing, DoP, sound engineering, production design, continuity supervision, distribution and exhibition. Each year, La Fémis produces approximately 260 short films, 60 of which are selected and awarded at 100 national and international film festivals.

La Fémis has become a filmmaking benchmark in France and abroad, providing an excellent level of training, based on high filmmaking standards, continuous collaboration between different departments and in general, courses balanced between artistic research, professional development and technical training.

Since La Fémis was founded, its students have directed more than 2.800 short films, feature films and documentaries. Many of these films are more than mere exercises, some of them are true works of art, containing the seeds of new talent, and which have been selected and awarded at many festivals.

Rojda, dir. Céline Baril,
from La Fémis archives

Graduates who have gone on to become directors include: Emmanuelle Bercot, Claire Burger, Thomas Cailley, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Samuel Collardey, Antony Cordier, Émilie Deleuze, Arnaud des Pallières, Ariane Doublet, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Noémie Lvovsky, Laetitia Masson, Léa Mysius, François Ozon, Céline Sciamma, Marina de Van, Rebecca Zlotowski and many others.

Participants of this year's edition of EnergaCAMERIMAGE will have the opportunity to watch 12 short films by former La Fémis students, carefully chosen by the festival's selection team. The program will include: Dis-moi oui, dis-moi non (dir. Noémie Lvovsky), Diagonale du vide (dir. Hubert Charuel), Par amour (dir. Solveig Anspach), Victor (dir. François Ozon), Il n 'y a pas de mal (dir. Emmanuel Mouret), Les Vacances (dir. Emmanuelle Bercot), Forbach (dir. Claire Burger), Bir Damla Su (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven), Les Oiseaux-tonnerre (dir. Léa Mysius) ), Rojda (dir. Céline Baril), La ravaudeuse (dir. Simon Filliot) and La terre où je me noie (dir. Negin Khazaee).

As part of the review, there will also be a seminar on the art of cinematography with a special guest, a graduate of the Parisian school.