The Competition

Streaming video - 2016

La Fémis is one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals and accepting only forty students per year from hundreds of applicants. This Wiseman-esque documentary observes the process whereby those lucky forty are selected—a process which is revealed to be highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of taste and personal prejudice. THE COMPETITION offers not only a unique opportunity to see the inner workings of an institution at the very heart of the French film industry, but an invitation to look at the assumptions and roadblocks that shape any national film industry, and higher education in general. Winner, Best Documentary on Cinema at the **Venice Film Fest...ival** Nominated for Best Documentary at the **London Film Festival**. *"A film which was put together with warm simplicity and is utterly captivating." - Fabien Lemercier, **Cineuropa***

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Genres
Documentary films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Metrograph 2016.
2019.
Language
French
Other Authors
Claire Simon (film director), Cyril Holtz (actor), Emmanuel Chaumet, Laetitia Masson, Olivier Ducastel, Patricia Mazuy, Sabrina Seyvecou, Sophie Fillieres
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Item Description
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).