at Lumière

PostED ON OCTOBER 20.10.2022

Filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski on his movie, Barrier

"Most of the scenes were improvised. I was commissioned to write the screenplay for a new filmmaker who left the set after eleven days. The producer said to me, 'You wrote the script, you're going to replace him.’ Except that I replied that I hadn't written it for myself. To which he said, "See what you can direct with the remaining budget and do what you want". I hired a new team, other actors and after four days we were shooting. I hired an actress – a girl who had turned down every guy trying to pick her up at school. She became my wife!"

© Léa Rener

"Who has already seen the film?" asks actor-director Vincent Pérez. At the Woman-Mother-Child Hospital in Bron, young and old alike discovered ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ by the 2022 Lumière Award honouree, Tim Burton. In partnership with the association Rêve de cinéma, the screening brought together some forty viewers. Among them, Yanine, 15, and her mother Bouchra: "It's great to have the cinema in the hospital, it's like being in a real movie theatre! And I've never seen this film, I think I'll like it," says the young patient. For Bouchra: "It gets us out of the hospital room, which is good for us.”

© Olivier Chassignole

Michèle Halberstadt is awarded the Fabienne Vonier Prize for a woman in the film industry.

"Fabienne Vonier was a great lady of cinema and also a friend. I am very proud to receive this award in a festival that is about the love of cinema and sharing, two words that perfectly define the distributor's profession."

© Jean Luc Mège Photography