Evenings and concerts

Launch of the festivities with opening speech and presentation of the official jury of the 23rd edition

Paulownia is a special project broken down into 3 parts. The making of the Paulownia (music) album telling the story of Ash, a young boy trying to find peace after falling into a coma. The creation of the animated film (animated image + sound) recounting the story of Ash as well as the music from the Paulownia album. The film lasts 24 minutes, which is as long as the album. The setting up of Ciné-concerts in Normandy and throughout France to tell the story of Paulownia.

After releasing a first noticed title “Fruits Of My Life” a few months ago, Le Douze finally delivers its first album “California Nebula”, dedicated to femininity, to the California sun… a music freed from constraints of genres or formats. Le Douze, through their songs, tell a story largely inspired by the life of the three musicians on the road, during their tours. The lyrics make us discover the City of Angels. An introspective album about reconnecting with the world to find inner peace. Their music reveals a stellar album sailing beyond codes. As the songs follow one another, the voices of David (Drums) and Frédéric (Keyboards) mingle with the vocal harmonies of guitarist Maxime, such as Crosby – Stills & Nash, or the Eagles (Living it up), with a musicality reminiscent of the funk rock of Phoenix (Turn your light on & California Nebula), or the flights of Air and Pink Floyd (Venus – Le Douze & Star to Star), magnified by powerful progressive rock ( Was it was, The Call, Au dessus de l’abysse).

Oli Féra is a wild pansy that slowly reveals the color of its petals. Inspired by human encounters and cinematic story-telling, this singer-songwriter performs with nuance a smoky, emotional and theatrical indie-rock that transports us into an author’s film full of adventures. Electric guitar in hand, she paints musical landscapes strewn with poetry and complex human relationships. A graduate of the École nationale de la chanson (Granby, QC) in 2021, winner of the Ma Première Place des Arts contest in 2017 and winner of the same contest in 2022, Oli Féra is an artist with a versatile voice, a big heart and an infectious laugh that will hypnotize you through authentic, engaging and revealing emotional theater.

Photo credit: ©Annick Fluet Photographe & Alpha Art Numérique

Etaj is a metamorphic creature oozing from piece to piece, times curves, distorted waves and oscillatory crackles. Fruit of an assiduous and shared practice of improvisation, the beast is structured in drawer harmonies, intermingling the multiple influences of which its 4 members nourish: the spleen of Léo Ferré, the aggressiveness of Casey, the madness of Charlie Mingus and Pink Floyd. (Keyboards, texts: Édouard PONS Guitar: Thomas Rank Bass Clarinet: Jules Fromonteil Drums: Arnold Zeilig)

Crédit photo : ©Diane Photographie

Screenings of films shot and made in the laboratories during the festival. At the village, come and meet the directors from all over the world and let yourself be entertained by sometimes really surprising films! Renowned for their energized atmosphere, Kino Kabaret evenings will surprise you!

Dj Ordoeuvre, virtuoso of turntablism (World champion 2021 COTT, 3X Vice world champion DMC/IDA, 3X French DMC champion) sets the turntables on fire and pushes back the horizons of the usual DJ set by incorporating incisive scratches and other technical figures into his vintage rock selections. He invented the Cut’n’roll! He also excels in a Jazz / groove repertoire as shown in the video “Home sweet soul” which consecrated him Clash of the Titans (Jazz edition) world champion in 2021.

Screenings of films shot and made in the laboratories during the festival. At the village, come and meet the directors from all over the world and let yourself be entertained by sometimes really surprising films! Renowned for their energized atmosphere, Kino Kabaret evenings will surprise you!

A friendly competition evening that will allow you to once again test your musical and cinematic culture during a festive and warm evening. Revise your classics and form your teams, the referees, Zaza, Vivi, Lili will be merciless so that the good mood always ends victorious.

This year, we gave a Carte Blanche to Normandie Animation. They are presenting the program «La crème de la crème du cinéma d’animation». It is a program – annual and itinerant – of animated short films. It is the result of a close partnership between MaCaO 7e Art and Normandie Animation, two networks of professionals wishing to promote the distribution of high-standard animated shorts in all corners of Normandy.

Le Cluster Ensemble est un collectif de jeunes artistes pluridisciplinaires, basé à Tours, réuni par Raphaël Guattari autour d’une volonté simple : célébrer la convivialité. Autour d’une table : treize convives – un percussionniste, une clarinettiste, deux chanteurs, trois guitaristes et six choristes – jouent des adaptations et réécritures en français de chansons emblématiques, allant de Michel Fugain à 50 cent, du Flamenco à la Samba, du Chaâbi au Baile Funk.

Screenings of films shot and made in the laboratories during the festival. At the village, come and meet the directors from all over the world and let yourself be entertained by sometimes really surprising films! Renowned for their energized atmosphere, Kino Kabaret evenings will surprise you!

Accompanied by jazz musicians Antonin-Tri Hoang and Matteo Bortone, singer-performer Hatice Özer invites us to dive into oriental trance. Surrounded by drums, piano, Syrian keyboard, saxophone, clarinet, and double bass, KOUDOUR pays homage to the troubadours and fakirs of Turkey, to those who seek trance through poetry, to those who return villages, to those who ignite marriages. The spoken parts are in French, and the song lyrics in Romani, Turkish, and Arabic. KOUDOUR is a communion, a state of joy to dance and mingle. There are in Turkey, in Rumania and in Bulgaria, men and women who are, it seems, dead of desire. KUDOUR — in the Romani Turkic language — means to die of desire. KOUDOUR is an attempt at collective elevation. KOUDOUR is a refrain that repeats itself ad infinitum.

The evening will begin at the cinema with the traditional presentation of the 2022 Awards. An important moment for cinema artisans! Also the opportunity to screen the music videos made during the week and some special projects.

Barbara Rivage propels us, from the first listen, into a universe mixing electro and psychedelic pop. Roxane’s dark, intense and sensitive voice, comes to support texts in French and obscure melodies which will quickly plunge the audience into a deep and exalted trance. Then begins a passionate duel between the tortured riffs of Vivien on the guitar and the aerial sounds of Roxane on the keyboard. From the first notes, Barbara Rivage sets the scene and navigates with astonishing ease between power and sensitivity. Couple in the city as they are on the stage: the shadow of the Rita hovers over Barbara Rivage, for a cold-pop and melancholic rewrite.