Persepolis
A screening that leaves room for the unexpected: the programming team saves this slot to present a film chosen at shorter notice, in response to current events, to seize an opportunity, or simply on a whim.
Winner of the Jury Prize, 2007 Cannes Film Festival
Tehran 1978: An eight year old Marjane, dreams of being a future prophet, intent on saving the world. Cherished by her modern and cultivated parents and adored by her grandmother, she avidly follows the events that lead to the downfall of the Shah’s brutal regime. The introduction of the new Islamic Republic heralds the era of the ‘Guardians of the Revolution’ who control how people should dress and act. Marjane, who must now wear the veil, dreams of being a revolutionary.
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi is a Franco-Iranian artist best known as a graphic novelist and film director. She rose to fame with Persepolis, a four-volume autobiographical graphic novel in which she recounts her childhood and youth between the Iran of the Islamic Revolution and the Europe of the 1980s and 1990s. The series sold over a million copies in France, was translated into many languages, and won awards around the world. Right after, she published two graphic novels set in Iran, Embroideries and Chicken with Plums. Her first two films, co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud, are adaptations of her works: the animated feature Persepolis, which won awards at Cannes in 2007 and the Césars in 2008, and the 2011 film Chicken with Plums. Her film The Voices (2014), not adapted from one of her work, was followed by the Marie Curie biopic Radioactive (2019), and the ensemble film Paradis Paris (2024).
Vincent Paronnaud
Vincent Paronnaud is a French comics artist and filmmaker. He published his first pages in the fanzine Les aventures de Miguel in 1995. He is a collaborator on Ferraille magazine, which he took over with his friend Cizo. In 2007, he and Marjane Satrapi were awarded the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Persepolis, which went on to win two Césars the following year for Best First Film and Best Adaptation. The film was also nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2008 Academy Awards. In 2008, he received the Fauve d'or for best comic book at the Angoulême Festival for his Pinocchio. In 2016, he was awarded the Pépite d'or at the Montreuil Children's Book Fair for Dans la forêt sombre et mystérieuse, a children's graphic novel.
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