The Fifth Shot of La Jetée

Dir. Dominique Cabrera. 2024, 104 min. France. DCP. In French with English subtitles. Because images imprint themselves on our consciousness, movies can and do belong to us. And few films have been held historically dearer than Chris Marker’s 1962 La Jetée, a minimalist masterpiece often grouped among the greatest and most influential of all. But as acclaimed director Dominique Cabrera belatedly discovers in her latest feature, Marker’s sci-fi photomontage might also be an inadvertent historical document of her own family. La Jetée was made the same year that Algeria gained independence from French colonial rule, and when hundreds of thousands of French people with roots in Algeria, such as Cabrera’s family, retreated to Paris via Orly airport. Six decades later, the director’s cousin becomes convinced that it’s him in the film’s fifth image, standing with his parents as they welcome relatives at the airport. What ensues is a detective story that manages to uncover evidence about their family, French colonialism, Marker, and film itself. Winner of the Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig 2024. North American premiere 

Preceded by
Common Pear
Dir. Gregor Bozic. 2025, 15 mins. Slovenia. In a not-too-distant future ravaged by climate disasters, a team of scientists develops new technology that transmits true emotions from humans on screens to those who watch them. North American premiere

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About the filmmakers:

Gregor Božič is a Slovenian director, scriptwriter, and cinematographer. After graduating from film schools in Ljubljana and DFFB in Germany, Gregor enrolled in the postgraduate program at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. His debut fiction feature Stories from the Chestnut Woods premiered at TIFF in 2019 and screened at festivals all across the world. Common Pear, his first short film after graduation, premiered in Tiger Shorts Competition at IFFR in 2025. Since 2008, in addition to working on film, Gregor has also been passionately researching old and endemic fruit varieties. Collaborating with farmers from the Italo-Slovene borderland, in 2013 he planted a gene-bank orchard in Goriška Brda and wrote a book on the cultural heritage of the found varieties of the Slovene-Italian borderland.

Dominique Cabrera was born in Algeria. His film L’Autre Côté de la Mer was shown in the Cinemas in France section at the Cannes Film Festival as well as Nadia et les Hippopotames in Un Certain Regard, Demain et Encore Demain and Grandir in the ACID selection. His fiction and documentary films have also been selected at international festivals in Berlin, Toronto, Vienna, Locarno, Rotterdam, and New York among others. She taught cinema at La Fémis, Harvard, and Panthéon-Sorbonne University.