Music & Cinema Marseille: Everything you need to know about the festival

The 26th edition hosts renowned cinema professionals such as Boris Lojkine, Jocelyn Pook, or Alti Örvarsson.

The festival has been set up since 2022 in Marseillemore specifically within Canebière artplexe. Centered on musical composition for image and on the Promotion of young cinematographic creation,, “Its artistic policy revolves around four complementary and inseparable actions: supporting the international dissemination of first works, offering a training space, promoting cultural diversity and being a place of image education”. Of March 24 to 29a rich and diverse programming is offered: projections of short and feature films (350 films in all!), Cine-concerts, DJ-Sets, Masterclasses and Conferences are planned throughout the week.

Like every year, Music & Cinema Marseille will award several prizes, including two for the best original music, at Films presented in competition. The members of the jury for the category of feature films are Olivia Merilahti, Jérôme Rebotier, Emma Luchini and Raphaël Balboni. The courts category is evaluated by Benjamin Bonnet, Clémentine Charge, Erwann Chandon and Agnès boss.

In addition to these professionals in the cinema, the festival will welcome Boris Lojkinedirector of Souleymane’s storyrecently sacred of Four Caesar. With him, film music composers Jocelyn Pook (Eyes Wide Shut, the Venice merchant) And Atli Örvarsson (Caribbean pirates, rams) Complete the list of honors guests. Everyone will present a carte blanche About one or more films in their career.

Ticketing and the full program are accessible on The official websitewhere you can discover the different animations, as well as the projections. Here is the list of 11 feature films In competition:

• Hanami de Denise Fernandes – Original music by Rahel Zimmermann

• Toxic from Saulė Bliuitė – Original music by Gediminas Jakubka

• Mexico de César Diaz – Original music by Rémi Boubal

• Lioness by Liina Triškina -Vanhatalo – Original music by Nils Kacirek

• Family Therapy de Sonja Profession – Original music by Primoz Hladnik & Boris Benko

• Cassandre by Hélène Merlin – Original music by Delphine Malausséna

• Peacock by Bernhard Wenger – Original music by Lukas Lauermann

• No Dogs Allowed by Steve Bache – Original music by Andreas Pfeiffer

• Panopticon by George Sikharulidze – Original music by Chiara Costanza

• The Week Walk De Dimitri Verhulst – Original music by Peter Vermeersch

• We believe you by Arnaud Dufeys & Charlotte Devillers – Original music by Lolita del Pino