OFF Encounters

Sony has been our exclusive technical partner for broadcast capture for 15 years now. Thanks to them, Lab participants can work with state-of-the-art equipment, test the latest cameras and even get advice on the best solutions for each project. The Sony teams present, as they do every year, their new products, their vision of the evolution of audiovisual production and the strategy implemented by the brand.

To highlight the directors in the selection, Louise Gerbelle and Gino Civiero will conduct short interviews with them each day of the festival. Recorded live from the public reception, at the salle de la plage, next to the Casino.

A good way to go listen and see what they have to say and to exchange a little with them!

You won’t be there on the day? Keep an eye on our social networks to discover the capsules!

Friendly foosball competition at the village

The directors of the selection invite you to a nice cocktail, with the friendly atmosphere well known of Off-Courts, without any pretention, around a drink, to simply meet.

In addition to making great films, they will also be bartender for a quick amount of the time, because yes, they will be the ones behind the bar to offer you a drink and to discuss with the public! Live from the new Village OFF, it’s an appointment not to be missed!

Illustrator, cartoonist, art director, and filmmaker, Carnior is a jack-of-all-trades who has been in the independent production business for over twenty years. From his early days as co-creator of the TV series Phylactery Cola, he has become a master of flamboyant, ingenious and inexpensive visual effects. A child of the Kino movement and a great prince of DIY, Carnior favors recycling domestic objects as a basis for his work. Welcome to all the Kinoïsts, movie lovers and curious people.

To highlight the directors in the selection, Louise Gerbelle and Gino Civiero will conduct short interviews with them each day of the festival. Recorded live from the public reception, at the salle de la plage, next to the Casino.

A good way to go listen and see what they have to say and to exchange a little with them!

You won’t be there on the day? Keep an eye on our social networks to discover the capsules!

It is the atypical path of a filmmaker who went directly from short films in Kino labs to feature films that we wish to discover by inviting Eric Gravel. Atypical also because this Quebecer has often made his kino films with French people or even in France before coming to settle here to make his two feature films. No doubt, Eric is a man that borders, whether physical or technological, do not concern.

Presentation of their job by four casting directors from ARDA accompanied by directors talking about their experience of this exercise on their own films.

To highlight the directors in the selection, Louise Gerbelle and Gino Civiero will conduct short interviews with them each day of the festival. Recorded live from the public reception, at the salle de la plage, next to the Casino.

A good way to go listen and see what they have to say and to exchange a little with them!

You won’t be there on the day? Keep an eye on our social networks to discover the capsules!

To highlight the directors in the selection, Louise Gerbelle and Gino Civiero will conduct short interviews with them each day of the festival. Recorded live from the public reception, at the salle de la plage, next to the Casino.

A good way to go listen and see what they have to say and to exchange a little with them!

You won’t be there on the day? Keep an eye on our social networks to discover the capsules!

Presentation of the France Télévisions Young Producer Award, accompanied by a grant of 30,000 euros, intended to help the development of a young production company which has a maximum of six years of activity and whose film has been selected for Off-Courts during the 2021 edition, followed by a cocktail.

*by invitation

Moment of meetings and exchanges between students of Laniméa, La Sorbonne nouvelle, and Brassart. After discussing their various training in cinema, the students will then be able to collect the testimonies of established professionals and different universes on their own experience and transition from studies to professionalization.

Theater, short films, feature films, television and even a one-man show, Grégory Montel is an actor who needs no introduction since his strong and striking role in the successful series Call my agent!. It is thus especially about acting that we will talk about during the meeting that we propose to you with this actor who knew how to remain simple in his relationship with the other.

It is nevertheless interesting to know that Gregory is also the artistic director of a music festival organized with a group of friends in his hometown. We are dealing here with an open-minded artist who is attached to his territory.

No doubt, it is more than one point in common with the Off-Courts state of mind that will feed the exchange!

At the initiative of UniFrance, this round table will be an opportunity to draw up an inventory of festival distribution as well as commercial distribution in various French-speaking countries.

Dialogue between the directors of the Carte blanche UniFrance screening the same day at 2 pm.

To highlight the directors in the selection, Louise Gerbelle and Gino Civiero will conduct short interviews with them each day of the festival. Recorded live from the public reception, at the salle de la plage, next to the Casino.

A good way to go listen and see what they have to say and to exchange a little with them!

You won’t be there on the day? Keep an eye on our social networks to discover the capsules!

In 2019, he was in Trouville to present the short film Amor Maman.  In the same year, the general public discovered him in Les crevettes pailletées. However, it was already many years that Roland Menou was part of the cultural landscape as a more than active member.

Author, actor, director, there are almost 30 years that he went up on the boards before, also, passing by the long, the short, the television… And even set photography!

Here is another meeting that promises to be rich in experience and enriching for the audience.

To highlight the directors in the selection, Louise Gerbelle and Gino Civiero will conduct short interviews with them each day of the festival. Recorded live from the public reception, at the salle de la plage, next to the Casino.

A good way to go listen and see what they have to say and to exchange a little with them!

You won’t be there on the day? Keep an eye on our social networks to discover the capsules!

“Do well with nothing, do better with little, but do it now.” the motto of the Kinos, perfectly sums up the manufacturing process of the latter. This round table will be an opportunity to address the distribution opportunities arising after the creation of this form of short films particularly appreciated at Off-Courts.

French and Quebecers face each other for a “friendly” match.

Dear French friends, it is time to take your revenge! If we have a little pity… we will perhaps make mixed teams to avoid humiliation!

It’s a joke of course… well for almost all of us!

In collaboration with the Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma, a jury composed of 3 critics, Esther Brejon, Corentin Destefanis Dupin et Gauthier Jurgensen, is renewed this year. The deliberation will take place in front of an audience, in the cinema as an introduction to the closing night. You are all invited to discover, in real time, the winner of the French Film Critics’ Award of this 23rd edition. 

Debate moderated by Claude Duty