BUGONIA, the shrinking man, the foreigner … The program of the La Roche-sur-Yon International Festival
Luxury programming for the Vendée festival, which will take place from October 13 to 19.
The La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival returns from October 13 to 19, 2025 for a 16th edition rich in discoveries and meetings. True to its editorial line turned towards contemporary cinema and the exploration of new forms, the event will offer this year nearly 80 unpublished films, in previews or in the French first, divided into competitions and thematic sections. More than 100 guests, filmmakers, comedians and professionals in the sector will come to meet the public.
Among the expected personalities, actress Camille Cottin, who will be in the spotlight with a retrospective of six films in her career and a meeting with the spectators on Saturday October 18. Quebec director Chloé Robichaud will also benefit from a focus around her work and preview her new comedy Two golden women. The public will also be able to interact with filmmakers like Ildikó Enyedi (Silent Friend), Pietro Marcello (Eleonora Duse) or Pierre Mazingarbe who will open the festival with The worst mother in the worldalongside Muriel Robin.
The festival promises to be eclectic with projections of long -awaited films like Bugonia de Yórgos lánthimos, Hamnet from Chloé Zhao, Blue Moon by Richard Linklater or Foreigner by François Ozon. Genre cinema lovers will find the variety section, in particular with Good boy from Ben Leonberg or Rabbit Trap de Bryn Chainey, while heritage enthusiasts will rediscover classics on the big screen like Back to the future by Robert Zemeckis or The teeth of the sea by Steven Spielberg. The festival will also offer a tribute to great cinema figures, from Claudia Cardinale to Robert Redford, via Émilie Dequenne, Souleymane Cissé and Terence Stamp.
Music will also be present with an Etienne de Crécy concert on Saturday October 18 at the Quai M. The youngest spectators will benefit from a large young audience, with short films and film-contained programs.
Here is the complete program:
International competition
Two golden women from Chloé Robichaud
Eleonora Duse of Pietro Marcello
The trips of Tereza (O último Azul) by Gabriel Mascaro
Omaha De Cole Webley
Pompei, sotto the naked of Gianfranco Rosi
Silent Friend of Ildikó Enyedi
Where The Wind Comes from Amel Guellaty
Special sessions
Blue Moon by Richard Linklater
Bugonia de Yórgos Lánthimos
Franz K. de Agnieszka Holland
Ghost Elephants by Werner Herzog
Hamnet by Chloé Zhao
The foreigner of François Ozon
Kaouther Ben Hania’s Hind Rajab voice
The Ugly from Yeon Sang-Ho
Yalla Parkour by Areeb Zuaiter
New waves competition
Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries de Massimo d’Anolfi & Martina Parenti
Blue Heron by Sophy Romvari
Bouchra de Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani
How to be normal and the oddness of the other world by Florian Pochlatko
Fabrice Aragno Lake
The seasons of Maureen Fazendeiro
The Botanist by Jing Yi
The New West of Kate Beecroft
Program of short films: Arca de Lorenzo Quagliozzi, Flowering and Fading by Andro Eradze, Letters to my friend Yohei Yamakado from his native country of Olivier Cheval, the black eye of Yohanne Lamoulère
Prospects
Hen de György Pálfi
If you are afraid you put your heart into your mouth and smile by Marie Luise Lehner
Khartoum de Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed & Phil Cox
Marielle, the girl who knew too much of Frédéric Hambalek
Rental Family – In the life of others of Hikari
Julien Elie Shifting Baselines
An Italian year of Laura Samani
Variety
Four’s a crowd of Alex de la Iglesia
Good Boy from Ben Leonberg
Obex by Albert Birney
Rabbit Trap from Bryn Chainey
TOSHIAKI TOYODA Transcending Dimensions
Music Hall
Yesterday’s clip: Complete retrospective Quentin Dupieux
Today’s clips: a story of the year 2025
Nova ’78 by Aaron Brookner & Rodrigo Areias
Springsteen: Delive me from Nowhere of Scott Cooper
Continuity
Apocalypse love of Anne Emond
Ancestral Visions of the Future by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
The love we have left of Hlynur Pálmason
Magellan of Lav Diaz
Among the mountains and streams of Jean-François Lesage
Alejo Muguillansky Fartie pine
The Mastermind of Kelly Reichardt
The Mastermind: Thief!
The American friend of Wim Wenders
The Red Circle of Jean-Pierre Melville
The Mastermind of Kelly Reichardt
A cop by Jean-Pierre Melville
Past / Present
The Englishman and the Duke of Éric Rohmer
Marcel Carné’s Quai des Mists
Steven Spielberg sea teeth
Richard’s Goonies give
Back to the future of Robert Zemeckis
Jury movies
Like the fire of Philippe Lesage
L’He de Bas Devos
The sparrow in the chimney of Ramon Zürcher
Invitation to Camille Cottin
Connasse, princess of the hearts of Noémie Saglio & Éloïse Lang
Langed Lang Eloïse
The country of arto of Tamara Stepanyan
Children are well from Nathan Ambrosioni
My Rachel Lang Legionnaire
Such mother, such a daughter of Noémie Saglio
Focus Chloé Robichaud
Chloé Robichaud
Delphine de Chloé Robichaud
The happy days of Chloé Robichaud
Country of Chloé Robichaud
Sarah prefers the race of Chloé Robichaud
Tributes to
Claudia Cardinale: The daughter at the Valerio Zurlini suitcase
David Lynch: David Lynch, The Art Life From Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm & Rick Barnes
Émilie Dequenne: Rosetta de Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Gene Hackman: Mississippi Burning of Alan Parker, French Connection by William Friedkin, Secret conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
Marisa Paredes: All about my mother of Pedro Almodóvar
Robert Redford: Out of Africa from Sydney Pollack, People like the others by Robert Redford
Souleymane Cissé: Yeelen by Souleymane Cissé
Terence Stamp: Pier Paolo Pasolini Theorem
White cards
At the Cinémathèque de Vendée: Children of the secret by Jean-Luc Gunst, The voices of freedom by Franck Faivre
To the animation nave: The boy and the world bencour
At the Philhar: The neighbor of Malec by Buster Keaton, Nice and friendly by Charlie Chaplin
Young audience
ARCO DE UGO Bienvenue
The secret of Antoine Lanciaux’s chickadees
The tales of Jean Claude Rozec, Patrik Pass, Léon Vidmar & David Sukup
Olivia de Irene Iborra Rizo
Cinema “stories are seeds”
Program of short films by director Elena Wolf
“Mille & a Leaves” short films program
“Life box” short films program
“Super-Natures” short films program
Quai M
Etienne de Crécy concert
Opening & fence
Opening : The worst mother in the world of Pierre Mazingarbe
Fence : The man who narrows Jan Kounen
