As part of its industry initiatives, the Poitiers Film Festival develops partnerships with artistic residency programs in order to offer invited filmmakers the opportunity to continue to develop their projects in an ideal context.
International Film Writing Residencies (ALCA)
As part of its international residencies, the ALCA (“Agence Livre Cinéma & Audiovisuel en Nouvelle-Aquitaine”) invites two foreign filmmakers for a 3-week writing residency each year. These filmmakers hail from the Poitiers Film Festival’s Jump In workshops and the Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine’s Bal Lab. They are integrated into the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region’s residency network: Villa Valmont (Lormont) and Chalet Mauriac (Saint-Symphorien), which is taking over from Villa Bloch.
- 2024 – Sophia Mocorrea (Argentina, Germany) with Marriage by Abduction
- 2023 – Olivér Rudolf (Hungary) with My Mother, the Monster
- 2022 – Meltse Van Coillie (Belgium) with Torpor
- 2021 – Sasha Stelchenko (Belarus) with The Thirty-Seventh Kilometre
- 2020 – Orkhan Aghazadeh (Azerbaijan) with The Prisoner
- 2019 – Federico Montero (Costa Rica) with Los hombres morimos antes
Villa Bloch – Multidisciplinary Artistic Residency
In 2019, the city of Poitiers inaugurated Villa Bloch, a new site to welcome artists, in harmony with the values of its former owner, Jean-Richard Bloch. A writer, journalist, humanist, and committed intellectual, he fought throughout his life to defend the rights to freedom of expression and artistic creation. Each year, Villa Bloch welcomes French-speaking filmmakers who participated in the Jump In workshops as they continue to write their first feature films. Each 30-day residency is supervised by a screenplay consultant.
- 2024 – Karim Nasr (Lebanon) with Were You There?
- 2023 – Kahina Le Querrec (France) with Les Grandes Marées and Olivér Rudolf (Hungary) with My Mother, the Monster
- 2022 – Yoro Mbaye (Senegal) with Fagadaga and Adam Hegazy (France) with Pris au tas
- 2021 – Mireille Niyonsaba (Burundi) with Tam Tam and Janloup Bernard (France) with Sud
- 2020 – Kahina Le Querrec (France) with Contre la nuit and Firoza Zahir Houssen (Madagascar) with Elina
- 2019 – Marie Rosselet-Ruiz (France) with Authentiks and Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) with Wakat
Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen
Dreamt up by Matthieu Darras (Tatino Films), the Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen is an international program that aims to support and accompany the writing, development, and post-production of 6 feature films with close ties to the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France. The Lab is intended for emerging talents as well as seasoned filmmakers, with French or international projects. It draws on the local festival and residency ecosystem, including the clos-FIFIB, the Biarritz Bal Lab, and the Poitiers Film Festival’s Jump In workshops, and encourages synergy between filmmakers and producers who are active in the region. Since this program was launched in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in 2021, several filmmakers who participated in the Jump In workshops have been selected.
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2024 – Kahina Le Querrec (France) with Les Grandes Marées
- 2023 – Olivér Rudolf (Hungary) with My Mother, the Monster
- 2022 – Borbála Nagy (Hungary) with The Origin of the World
- 2021 – Sasha Stelchenko (Belarus) with The Thirty-Seventh Kilometre
