The meeting in 1997 with Pierre-Henri Deleau, founder of the « Directors' Fortnight » at the Cannes Film Festival, led to the creation of a unique concept. Scores written for the « Octuor de France » to illustrate masterpieces of the silent cinema, are played "live" and in perfect synchronisation with the film. This form of presentation by the « Octuor de France » is currently found nowhere else in the world.