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Join Telegram ChannelA majority of first films will clash. Jean-Pascal Zadi, Melha Bedia, Benjamin Lavernhe, Laura Felpin and Benjamin Tranié will be present at the foot of the slopes.
After the announcement of the jury chaired by Elsa Zylberstein, the Alpe d'Huez Festival unveiled this Friday the selection for its 2025 edition. And the renewal observed last year at the foot of the slopes is intensifying: of the eight comedies in competition, there are no less than five first films. And half are directed or co-directed by women. With an eclectic proposition that promises to be refreshing.
Obviously, we will find Festival essentials, such as Valérie Bonneton, Michèle Laroque, Sabrina Ouazani, Clovis Cornillac who will be the headliners of the first feature film by Elsa Bennett & Hippolyte Dard, Better days. The story of an alcoholic mother who loses custody of her children after a car accident.
15 years after presenting People's Names at the Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival, Michel Leclerc will discover Alpe d'Huez with his new film, The mix of genresa police comedy about a cop with conservative ideas infiltrated into a feminist collective. With the cast: Léa Drucker, Benjamin Lavernhe, Melha Bedia, Vincent Elbaz, Julia Piaton, Judith Chemla….
Yohann Gloaguen, the co-writer of Blood orangeswill also be in competition with his first film, Prosper. Jean-Pascal Zadi plays an Uber driver inhabited by the spirit of the gangster who died in his car after being shot. Together, they will investigate to unmask the assassin.
Comedian and novelist Mourad Winter also makes his directorial debut by adapting his own book, Love is overratedwith a lovely cast (Hakim Jemili, Laura Felpin, Benjamin Tranié, François Damiens, Clotilde Courau…) brought together for an irreverent romantic comedy about a single man diagnosed as “bad with girls” who will finally find love.
Enya Baroux, the daughter of Olivier Baroux, a regular at the Festival, also went behind the camera. The star of the series Blue Flower directed by Hélène Vincent In We will go. The story of an 80-year-old woman who invents an inheritance story to go to be euthanized in Switzerland, accompanied by her son (Pierre Lottin) and her granddaughter (Juliette Gasquet, the brilliant intern of Fiasco).
Another first: With or without childrensigned Elsa Blayau (notably known for the documentary Gabart, when winning is no longer enough). A marriage goes wrong when a group of friends decide to defy the instructions and come with their kids. Bertrand Usclat, Rayane Bensetti, Tiphaine Daviot and Joséphine Draï will be there.
Fabienne Godet will talk about her experience. The 60-year-old director, nominated for a César in 2009 for her documentary Don't set me free, I'll take care of itwill represent the author's comedy with The Responder. The pitch? A discreet writer (Denis Podalydès) hires an impersonator (Salif Cissé) who must pretend to be him on the phone but will take his role a little too seriously. Aure Atika and Clara Bretheau complete the cast.
Screenwriter Dominique Baumard co-directed The Bad Guys with Mouloud Achour, but Rules of the art will be his first solo film. With his experience as a screenwriter who touches everything (Ride youth, The third war, The young imam), it will offer a detective comedy about a luxury watch expert (Melvil Poupaud) who gets into trouble with a fence and crook Sofiane Zermani). Also with Steve Tientcheu and Julia Piaton.