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YOU WILL BE MINE
A NEW ICE AGE
by Sophie Laloy
by Darielle Tillon
Marie leaves her family and moves to Lyon to study piano at the conservatory there. For economic reasons, she shares her apartment with Emma,
a childhood friend, who has lived alone since her father’s death and her
mother’s desertion. Marie submits to the rules and regulations imposed
by her roommate which become ever more oppressive as time goes
by. Emma fascinates, dominates and devastates Marie as she struggles
between her desire for Emma and the urge to escape. The obsession
drains her energy, and she loses her focus for the music…
David and Eric, two brothers in their twenties, run «The Ranch», the snack
bar of a campsite lost among the dunes of a huge Normandy beach. It’s the
end of the season, with the surfers and tourists becoming rare. Overcome
by the general «inertia», David and Bouclette (the pony-club instructor) slowly
try to envisage the off-season and the months to come. However, Eric, the
older brother, seems tormented and torn. He is already «elsewhere». One
day, he vanishes for good...
FRANCE / 2008 / FEATURE FILM / FRENCH / 96’
WITH ISILD LE BESCO, JUDITH DAVIS, JOHAN LIBERAU
FRANCE / 2008 / FEATURE FILM / FRENCH / 101’
WITH MÉLAINE LEBRETON, MICKAEL REBOUILLAU, MARTHE SEBILLE, ANNA PICCO
SCREENING SUNDAY 8 FEBRUARY AT 09:30 CINEMAXX STUDIO 14
SCREENING TUESDAY 10 FEBRUARY AT 11:00 CINEMAXX STUDIO 13
SCREENING MONDAY 9 FEBRUARY AT 11:00 MARRIOTT 3
CHINA IS STILL FAR
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by Malek Bensmaïl
Season by season, throughout the school year, this is a chronicle of Ghassira, a
village nestled in the Aurès Mountains, which, more than 50 years ago, became
“the cradle of the Algerian Revolution.” The Algerian heartlands, larger than
life, rich, poignant, confronted with its future.
FRANCE - ALGERIA / 2008 / DOCUMENTARY / 120’
SCREENING MONDAY 9 FEBRUARY AT 17:00 MARRIOTT 1
PELLEAS AND MELISANDE
by Philippe Bézia
The opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, first performed in Paris in 1902, had never
been staged in Russia. In June 2007, director Olivier Py and conductor
Marc Minkowski produced Claude Debussy’s opera in Moscow for the
first time, with a Franco-Russian cast. To spectators unfamiliar with Pelléas
et Mélisande, Debussy, or even opera, we wanted to create a sensory,
imaginary space that they could make their own, without partiality or
preconceived notions. “We never see but the reverse side of fate, even
of our own,” the old King Arkel sings. On screen, the shimmering world
of the theatre becomes an allegorical cave of the world, peopled with
Claude Debussy, Maurice Maeterlinck, Olivier Py, Marc Minkowski, as well
as young Russian singers, technicians, extras, an entire brotherhood of
beings
who are
“mysterious
like everyone.
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LOVEBIRDS
by Christine Dory
Boris and Sandra meet and right away love each other with passion.
A passion that is strong enough to fight the worst enemy to their love:
dependency. Boris’ to drugs, Sandra’s to Boris. Bound together, hanging
to each other, recluse but alive, they will attempt, out of necessity, to
live their love in a closed circuit. In doing so, each will discover within
an unsuspected strength and humanity.
FRANCE / 2008 / DOCUMENTARY / FRENCH / 110’
FRANCE / 2008 / FEATURE FILM / FRENCH / 100’
WITH GUILLAUME DEPARDIEU, MARIE VIALLE
KATANGA BUSINESS
Z32
by Thierry Michel
by Avi Mograbil
The province of Katanga, located in the southeast corner of the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is one of the world’s richest areas
in mineral resources. Through the portrait of key players in Katanga’s
new industrial revolution, this film will show how the leading multinational
companies exploit this wealth. It will also fallow the lives of traditional
miners and their redeployment in the mining industry.
An Israeli ex-soldier who participated in a revenge operation where
two Palestinian policemen were murdered seeks forgiveness for what
he has done. His girlfriend does not think it is that simple, she raises
issues he is yet not ready to address. The soldier willingly testifies for
camera as long as his identity is no exposed. While the filmmaker keeps
looking for the proper solution for concealing the soldier’s identity he
questions his own political and artistic conduct.
FRANCE-BELGIUM / 2008 / DOCUMENTARY / FRENCH / 120’
FRANCE-ISRAEL / 2008 / DOCUMENTARY / HEBREW / 81’
FAR FROM THE VILLAGE
by Olivier Zuchuat
THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN
by Dilip Mehta
April 2006. 13 000 members of the Dajo ethnic group have taken refuge
on the plain of Gouroukoun in eastern Chad. They are all survivors of
the Darfour conflict. Secluded in the camp they have constructed, they
create their own way of life and means of survival. The filmmaker joins
the refugees in this prison without walls. His lingering images convey the
interminable waiting and an impression of life in slow motion, unfolding
moment by moment in a non-place of destitution. Yet this film contains
no images of war. Instead, refugees relate at lenght their experiences,
children draw scenes of battle, little girls hum songs of combat.
The Forgotten Woman is a documentary set in India which aims to
understand the destitution and marginalization of many of the millions
of widows in India today who are forced by age-old traditions to live out
their remaining years isolated from and shunned by the society at large.
The film explores how these widows, coerced by their families to give
up their possessions, become non-entities in society. The Forgotten
Woman captures these women in their new lives in Ashrams and in
the streets where they wander, seeking solace and greater dignity by
devoting themselves to religious practices which were established centuries ago, as a way to atone for their sins which, it is believed, caused
their husbands’ deaths.
FRANCE - SWITZERLAND / 2008 / DOCUMENTARY / 76’
CANADA / 2008 / DOCUMENTARY / BENGALI-HINDI-ENGLISH / 90’
DIOSES
SLEEP FURIOUSLY
by Josué Méndez
by Gideon Koppel
Before beginning their university studies, Diego and his sister Andrea
spend the summer in the family villa on the Peruvian coast together
with their father, a wealthy business man and his new young girlfriend.
Torn between the extreme love for his sister and the difficult relationship
with his father, spending days and nights together with his friends
going from party to party where alcohol, drugs and money are not a
problem, Diego struggles to find a place in this upper-class society
where all characters behave as gods: beyond rules, beyond morality
and beyond belief.
Sleep furiously is set in a small farming community in mid Wales, about
50 miles north of Dylan Thomas’ fictional village of Llareggub - and there
is a sense in which this is a film ‘for’ Dylan Thomas, if not a contemporary
translation of ‘Under Milk Wood’. This is a place where Koppel’s parents
- both refugees - found a home. It is a landscape and population that
is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the
generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Much
influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the film
maker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of
endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire. Allied
to a soundtrack by the revered electronic musician Aphex Twin sleep
furiously is lyrical film making at its best.
PERU-ARGENTINA-GERMANY-FRANCE / 2008 / SPANISH / 91’
WITH SERGIO GJURINOVIC, ANAHÍ DE CÁRDENAS, MARICIELO EFFIO, EDGAR SABA
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION // LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL
UK - FRANCE / 2008 / DOCUMENTARY / ENGLISH / 94’
LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL / INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
KOMMUNALKA
LA VIE AILLEURS
“Kommunalka” observes life in a communal flat in Saint Petersburg. This mode
of life that is so closely linked to Russia’s Soviet past nonetheless remains a
common phenomenon. Nowadays, some 90,000 flats are shared due to the
ongoing economic crisis. This is more than just communal life – it is life at close
quarters. By focusing on the different inhabitants, the film takes a look at everyday
life in this type of flat and at the particular human relationships that develop in
such living conditions. A communal flat is a space people share only because
they have no other choice. A place in which people generally know nothing
about each other; a sealed-off space that serves as a backdrop against which
the contradictions of the human condition and those within Russian culture and
society in these times of great change are exposed andexplode.
Villejuif, Bobigny, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, on the outskirts of the Parisian agglomeration: all familiar names, often synonymous with unrest. Names that, in
French, have become the incarnation of the «banlieue» (suburb) and its negative
connotations. Somewhere between documentary and fiction, La vie ailleurs
charts the boyhood memories of a man, as he recalls his life spent in a tower
block on a housing estate, his dreams of escape to the nearby city, and his
father when he arrived from Algeria and had to overcome homesickness so
he could start a new life. David Teboul takes his camera into the apartments in
these areas, fastens on the dreams of those who live there, the floral wallpaper,
the paintings of flaming roses, the posters of endless forests.
FRANCE - RUSSIE / 2008 / DOCUMENTARY / 90’
FRANCE / 2008 / DOCUMENTARY / FRENCH / 72’
LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL / ICI ET AILLEURS
ROOFTOPS IN PARIS
SEXE, OKRA AND SALTED BUTTER
Beneath the rooftops of Paris... The song is no longer the same. Beneath
the rooftops of Paris today, it’s sweltering... Above all, when one is very old,
or very poor ... Dying slowly in servants’ quarters, little by little. But embracing
too.... Even now. Hiner Saleem, is a Kurd who casts his eye - poetic, tender
and scathing - over our comfortable West. For him, even misery and death
feed the desire to live.
Hortense, a 40-year old nurse originally coming from the Ivory Coast, leaves
her family for her lover, Jean-Paul, an oyster farmer in the area of Bordeaux.
Malik, her husband, a macho and a very traditional man, sees his whole world
turn upside down. He suddelny has to take care on his own of the two smaller
children, and, on the top, discovers that his third son, a handsome young man,
is homosexual. The arrival of beautiful Amina, the lonely neighbor, and of Malik’s
sisters in law from Adidjan, provokes quite a few surprising turn.
by Françoise Huguier
by Hiner Saleem
FRANCE / 2008 / FEATURE FILM / FRENCH / 98’
WITH MICHEL PICCOLI, MYLÈNE DEMONGEOT, MAURICE BÉNICHOU
SHOOTING NOW
HARRAGAS
by Merzak Allouache
ALGERIA-FRANCE / 2009 / FEATURE FILM
by David Teboul
by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
FRANCE / 2008 / FEATURE FILM / 81’
WITH LORELLA CRAVOTTA, MATA GABIN, ANDREW ISAR, DIOUC KOMA, AÏSSA MAÏGA, MARIEPHILOMÈNE NGA, CLAUDIA TAGBO, MARIUS YELOLO
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