"Festival de la Fiction", La Rochelle 2025, 27th edition

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"The Festival de la Fiction", now in its 27th year, will be held in La Rochelle city, from Tuesday, September 16 to Sunday, September 21, 2025. Each year, "The Fiction Festival" offers the opportunity to discover around fifty new works, including Competitions (French and international French-speaking), Fiction events, and Special screenings. Five of these have been shot by members of the AFC.

The jury for the French Competition will be chaired by novelist Virginie Grimaldi and composed of screenwriter Alice Chegaray-Breugnot, actor and screenwriter Yannick Choirat, actress, singer-songwriter Sofia Essaïdi, director Louis Farge, producer Juliette Sol, and composer Clément Tery. The jury for the International Francophone Competition will be composed of director and producer Angela Aquereburu-Rabatel, producer Arnaud de Crémiers, and director Pierre Monnard. The Unifrance Foreign Press Jury will be composed of journalists Philippe Congiusti, Cassie Jo Panayis, and Cédric Petit.

Among the selected fiction films
Single-Episode Competition
- Monsieur, directed by Méliane Marcaggi and photographed by Pierric Gantelmi D’Ille, AFC
- Prisonnière, directed by Valentin Vincent and photographed by Philip Lozano, AFC.

52’ Series
- “Les Saisons” (episodes 1 and 2), directed by Nicolas Maury and photographed by Laurent Brunet, AFC.

Event Fiction
- “Les Sentinelles” (episodes 1 and 2), directed by Thierry Poiraud and Edouard Salier, photographed by Matias Boucard, AFC, and Mathieu Plainfossé, AFC
- “Merteuil” (episodes 1 and 2), directed by Jessica Palud and photographed by Sébastien Buchmann, AFC.

It should be noted that the CNC is one of the Institutional partners, and TSF, as a Technical Industry partner of the Fiction Festival.