Synopsis - Bac Films

FALL 2013
COMPLETED
The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
Post-production
El Ardor, Pablo Fendrik
Human Capital, Paolo Virzì
Fúsi, Dagur Kári
The Quiet Roar, Henrik Hellström
Shooting
Fool Circle, Vincent Mariette
The Great Man… Who Didn’t Want to Die, Sarah Leonor
Run, Philippe Lacôte
LIBRARY
C o m p l e t e d
THE STRANGE COLOUR
OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS
Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
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The new film by the directors of modern giallo «Amer»
COMPLETED
Synopsis
A woman vanishes.
Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance.
Did she leave him? Is she dead?
As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (« L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps »)
Thriller, 102 min – France/Belgium/Luxembourg
Produced by Eve Commenge (Anonymes Films) and François Cognard (TOBINA FILM)
Coproduced by ​Eurydice Gysel and Koen Mortier (EPIDEMIC) and Jeanne Geiben,
Pol Cruchten and Gilles Chanial (RED LION) and MOLLYWOOD
Casting • Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk, Sylvia Camarda, Sam Louwyck
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PO S T - p r o d u c t i o n
EL ARDOR
Pablo Fendrik
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Director of «Blood Appears», «The Mugger»
post-production
Synopsis
Gael García Bernal portrays a mysterious man who emerges from the Argentinean rainforest to rescue the kidnapped
daughter (Alice Braga) of a poor farmer after mercenaries murder her father and take over his property.
El Ardor
Thriller, in post-production - France / Argentina / Brazil / Mexico
Produced by Juan Pablo Gugliotta (Magma Cine)
In Coproduction with Participant Media, Canana, Telefe, Bananeira Filmes, Manny Films
Casting • Gael García Bernal, Alice Braga
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HUMAN CAPITAL
Paolo Virzì
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By the director of « La Prima Cosa Bella / The First Beautiful Thing »
Based on the novel «Human Capital» by Stephen Amidon
post-production
Synopsis
Milano, Italy, A cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve. What happened that night ?
How will this accident change the destiny of the rich Bernaschi family and the Rovelli family on the edge of bankruptcy ?
Human Capital (« Il Capitale Umano »)
Drama, in post-production - France / Italy
Produced by Indiana Production with Rai Cinema
In Coproduction with Manny Films
In association with B MEDIA EXPORT – BACKUP MEDIA
Casting • Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Fabrizio Gifuni,
Matilde Gioli
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FÚSI
Dagur Kári
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By the director of « Noi Albinoi » and « Dark Horse »
post-production
Synopsis
Fúsi is in his forties and yet to find courage to enter the adult world.
He sleepwalks through everyday life, where routine is key.
When a bubbly woman and an 8-year old girl unexpectedly enter his life, he is forced to take a leap.
Fúsi
Drama, in post-production - Iceland / Denmark
Produced by Baltasar Kormákur, Agnes Johansen (BlueEyes Productions)
Coproduced by Bo Ehrhardt, Mikkel Jersin (Nimbus Films)
Casting • Gunnar Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir
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THE QUIET ROAR
Henrik Hellström
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By the director of the award winning first feature « Burrowing »
post-production
Synopsis
Marianne (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease.
Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor,
Eva (Hanna Schygulla).
Through this she is transferred to her subconscious, where she meets and confronts her 25-year old self and her former
husband.
The Quiet Roar
Drama, in post-production - Sweden / Norway
Produced by Erika Wasserman (Idyll)
Coproduced by Jessica Ask (i Väst), Gunnar Carlsson (svt), Maria Ekerhovd (Mer Film),
Sjur Paulsen (Filmkraft Rogaland), Helena Sandermark (Dagsljus)
Casting • Evabritt Strandberg, Hanna Schygulla, Joni Francéen, Jörgen Svensson
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S H OOTIN G
Fool Circle
Vincent Mariette
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A threesome colorful adventure
shooting
Synopsis
It’s only because one day Leon, a failed pro-tennis player on the brink of divorce calls his brother Bruno, a CEO suffering
from a nervous disorder, with news that their estranged father Arthur has passed away that they return to the small
town of their youth. In front of the crematorium : no sign of a funeral but they meet Chloé, a mysterious young woman
claiming to be their step-sister.
They soon learn that Arthur has not in fact died but vanished into thin air. Leon and Bruno agree to join Chloé’s search
and so begins a colourful adventure as the three take off in a red Porsche.
Fool Circle (« Tristesse Club»)
Comedy, in shooting - France
Produced by KAZAK PRODUCTIONS (Amaury Ovise and Jean-Christophe Reymond)
Casting • Ludivine Sagnier, Vincent Macaigne, Laurent Lafitte, Noémie Lvovsky
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The Great man... Who Didn’t Want To Die
Sarah Leonor
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An emotionally wrenching drama starring Jérémie Renier (« The Kid With the Bike », « Potiche »)
shooting
Synopsis
Hamilton and Markov are about to finish five-years of service in the Foreign Legion, and a six-month posting in Afghanistan.
During an unauthorised expedition they’re suddenly ambushed by enemy fire and Hamilton is seriously wounded. Markov
is dishonourably discharged, despite having saved Hamilton’s life. Later, both end up in Paris. Whilst Hamilton remains
in the Foreign Legion, Markov ekes out a meager existence as an illegal immigrant, trying to provide for his young son
Khadji. When Markov is killed in an accident, Hamilton feels almost dead but there is Khadji who is very much alive…
The Great Man... Who Didn’t Want to Die (« Le Grand Homme (qui ne voulait pas mourir) »)
Drama, in shooting – France
Produced by Les Films Hatari
Casting • Jérémie Renier, Surho Sugaipov, Ramzan Idiev
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run
Philippe Lacôte
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A breathless time-trial starring Isaac de Bankolé (Ghost Dog, Miami Vice, The Limits of Control…)
shooting
Synopsis
RUN is a runaway who has just killed the Prime Minister of his homeland. Disguised as a lunatic, he begins wandering
across the city. He remembers his past through flashbacks: his childhood with Master Tourou when he was dreaming of
becoming a rain-maker, his adventures with Gladys the eating champion and finally as a soldier at the heart of a political
and military conflict in the Ivory Coast. This is how RUN earned his name. He never chose any of these lives; he just
manages to escape from one to the other.
Run
Drama, in shooting – France / Ivory Coast
Produced by Banshee Films / Wassakara Productions
Coproduced by Diam Production / Arte France Cinéma
Casting • Isaach de Bankolé, Abdoul Karim Konaté, Rasmane Ouedraogo
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l i b r a r y
THE DEEP
Baltasar Kormákur
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Special Presentations
AFTER LUCIA
Michel Franco
On a cold night in March 1984, a few miles off the south
coast of Iceland, a fishing boat sank with all its men. One
of the crew members miraculously survived. After six
hours in the ocean, the exhausted young hulk washed
ashore, only to find himself on a deadly lava field.
Six months after the death of his wife in a car accident,
Roberto and his teenage daughter Alejandra set off from
Vallarta for a fresh start in Mexico City. Alejandra finds
her feet more easily than Roberto but before long, she has
aroused the baser instincts in her classmates. Ashamed
and unable to tell her father about the escalating bullying
at school, Ale’s silence ultimately takes a dreadful toll.
Drama, 95 min, 2012 - Iceland / Norway
Starring • Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson,
Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir
Drama, 103 min, 2012 - Mexico
Starring • Hernán Mendoza, Tessa Ia, Gonzalo Vega Sisto,
Tamara Yazbek Bernal
library
SHELL
AMERICANO
Shell lives with her father Pete in their remote petrol
station in the Scottish Highlands. Just the two of them
fighting the elements, and their impossible love for each
other. As Pete withdraws into the solitude, Shell acts as
a siren who attracts passers-by. Although she does not
know it yet, this winter will be her last one at the fuel
stop…
Martin lives in Paris with Claire. Their relationship has hit
a dead end. When he loses his mother back in California,
Martin must return to the city of his childhood to deal with
the formalities surrounding his inheritance. In Los Angeles,
Martin refuses to face up to the death of his mother. Troubled
by his childhood memories, he wanders to Tijuana on the
trail of Lola, a Mexican woman he used to know, and who
held a special place in his mother’s life. He finds her at the
Americano, a club where she dances every night… But to
make his own peace, Martin will have to delve into his past.
Scott Graham
Drama, 90 min, 2012 - UK
Starring • Chloe Pirrie, Joseph Mawle
Mathieu Demy
Drama, 105 min, 2011 – France
Starring • Mathieu Demy, Salma Hayek, Géraldine Chaplin,
Chiara Mastroianni, Carlos Bardem, Jean-Pierre Mocky
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SLEEPLESS NIGHT
THE INVADER
Vincent is meant to be one of the best cops in town. But
during a police operation he steals a big bag of cocaine
from the drug dealers he was tracking. They counterattack
by kidnapping his son and threaten to kill him if Vincent
doesn’t return the bag. As Vincent meets them at their
headquarters in a big nightclub in the outskirts of Paris, he
soon gets caught into a spiral of madness. Lost in the dark
corridors of that gigantic club, Vincent will have to fight
against some enemies he never knew. The night to come
might not only be the longest but also the last one of his life.
Amadou, a strong and charismatic African man, is washed
up on a beach in southern Europe. Fate leads him to
Brussels where, full of optimism, he tries to make a better
life for himself. Exploited by traffickers, his daily life is
slowly drained of hope, until he meets Agnès, a beautiful
and brilliant businesswoman. She is seduced by his charm
and force of character, while he projects all his hope and
dreams onto her. The illusion quickly shatters, and Agnès
breaks all contact with Amadou, who little by little sinks into
destructive violence, struggling with his inner demons.
Action Thriller, 98min, 2011 – France/Belgium/Luxembourg
Starring • Tomer Sisley, Joey Starr, Serge Riaboukine
Julien Boisselier, Birol Ünel
Drama, 95min, 2011 - Belgium/Sweden
Starring • Issaka Sawadogo, Stefania Rocca, Serge Riaboukine,
Dieudonne Kabongo, Tibo Vandenborre, Hannelore Knuts
Frédéric Jardin
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Nicolas Provost
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MEMORIES CORNER
BLIND VALLEY
Japan - January 2010
Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to
cover the memorial ceremonies of the big earthquake in
1995. 15 years after the disaster the city’s wounds have
finally disappeared but the former victims continue to
suffer. Among them is Kenji whose past is hiding a secret
that only Ada is willing to hear...
Two opposite teens, Stan and Wilson, share a passion for
the beautiful Deborah. While fighting for her love, Stan
realizes they already met and they share the same secret
from back then. A secret that Officer Descharnes, a weird
policeman who follows them everywhere, wants to shut
up forever.
Drama, 80min, 2011 - France/Canada
Starring • Déborah François, Hidetoshi Nishijima,
Hiroshi Abe
Thriller, 96min, 2011 - France
Starring • Jean-Hugues Anglade
Marie-Ange Casta, Gilles Lellouche
Audrey Fouché
Tristan Aurouet
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BORDERLINE
Alexandre Coffre
David has got everything you would dream about. In his
forties, he is a married man and father of two beautiful
children, lives in a nice suburb, and works as a lawyer
in a renowned law firm. But that’s not how he would see
things, really: his wife doesn’t acknowledge him, his
children hardly talk to him, his job has become boring and
his colleagues make fun of him. His whole life is just not
the one he had dreamt of. So when one night he finds a
suitcase filled with cocaine together with a phone ringing,
he seizes the opportunity to live something else...
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Comedy, 89min, 2010 – France
Starring • François Damiens, Pascale Arbillot
THE SANDMAN AND THE
LOST SAND OF DREAMS
Jesper Møller & Sinem Sakaoglu
Somnia is the dreamland where all our dreams live on once
we wake up and the home of the Sandman who brings us
the sweetest dreams night after night. But Somnia is in
danger. The nightmares and their leader Habumar plan to
take over Somnia. Knowing he cannot defeat Habumar alone,
the Sandman sends the counting sheep Nepomuk down to
earth to get help from the famous Captain Scheerbart. When
Nepomuk mistakes his grandson Miko for the real Captain, the
little boy finds himself in the middle of a fantastic adventure.
Animation, 84min, 2010 – Germany/France
Produced by Jan Bonath (Scopas Medien AG)
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LIVING ON LOVE ALONE
AMER
Julie Bataille, 23 years old, an A+ graduate, lots of casual
work. She’s had enough. She’s looking for a real job. During
a job interview, she crosses paths with Ben. He’s decided
to live from day to day on his wits and petty crime. He
proposes that she come and spend the summer with him
in the south. Julie refuses, then, one day, on an impulse,
she dumps everything and heads away to join him.
Ana is confronted to Body and Desire at three key moments
of her life. Her carnal search sways between reality and
colored fantasies is becoming more and more oppressive.
Where will this chaotic and carnivorous journey leave her?
Isabelle Czajka
Drama, 89min, 2010 – France
Starring • Anaïs Demoustier, Pio Marmaï
Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
Thriller, 90min, 2009 – France/ Belgium
Starring • Bianca Maria D’Amato, Marie Bos, Charlotte Eugène
Guibbaud, Cassandra Forêt, Harry Cleven
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HIDDEN DIARY
Julie Lopes Curval
Audrey is an independent and single woman who lives in
Canada. She is pregnant. Her parents still live in France
in the small town she grew up in. While visiting them for
holidays, she discovers her grand-mother’s hidden story,
a woman who gave up her home and family in the fifties
and never came back.
Audrey will try to learn more about it and this investigation
will force her own mother to reveal a deeply buried secret.
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Drama, 109min, 2009 – France
Starring • Catherine Deneuve, Marina Hands,
Marie-Josée Croze
ROUND DA WAY
Albert P. Lazaro
& Emmanuel Klotz
It’s summer in the hood. As every year, there are those
who stay, those who leave, and... those who should have
left. Some, like Joe Piswater, work « under the table »
in the rich neighborhoods and fall head over heels for a
pretty girl. Some, like Tony Pepperoni, play businessmen
and spend the summer fleeing a local gang leader and a
psychopathic girlfriend. Some, like Sammy and Harvey,
pretend to have left. Tropics are far for the homies… and
summer promises to be very hot!
Animation/Comedy, 97min, 2009 – France
With the voices of Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger
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HE’S MY GIRL
JASPER
The successful musician Simon Eskénazy is unable to
finish his record. His sick mother absolutely wants to move
into his apartment, clearly too big and too empty for one
man. But she’s not the only one making his life difficult.
There are also his ex-wife and their 10-year-old son, his
musicians and his insistent agent, and his current lover.
But most importantly, there is the amazing Mohamed, a
young Arab who, at night, becomes Rose, a waitress at the
“Paradise” cabaret. Mohamed is both fragile and violent,
loving, funny, proud, arrogant and provocative...
Jasper, a curious penguin, together with his little brother
Junior and her friend Emma, will foil the diabolical plan of
Doctor Block and save the rare Kakapo birds’ eggs.
Taking us from the southern to northern hemisphere,
JASPER is an extraordinary adventure to discover and to
share with the whole family.
Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
Romantic comedy, 90min, 2009 – France
Starring • Antoine de Caunes, Elsa Zylberstein, Mehdi Dehbi
Eckart Fingberg
Animation, 86min, 2009 – Germany/France
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BLACKOUT
Festival du film
de Locarno
Jean-Christophe Klotz
Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives
is making a report on westerners who have been repatriated
from Rwanda, fleeing the massacres. He meets Clément,
a student of Hutu origin whose Tutsi fiancée Alice hasn’t
been able to leave Rwanda. Antoine convinces Clément to
go back with him to look for Alice, and to let Antoine film his
journey. Their pact soon becomes untenable as they find
themselves thrown into chaos. This is a journey through
horror during which a young man’s first world illusions
are stripped away as he wakes up to human tragedy.
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Drama, 92min, 2009 – France
Starring • Jalil Lespert, Cyril Gueï, Peter Hudson
DEVIL’S RAIN
Philippe Cosson
In Laos, nature is beautiful and seems peaceful. No one
can imagine the violence that hides here, lurking in the
grass. Even though, from time to time, an explosion can be
heard in the distance, it is almost absorbed, as if choked
in so much beauty and serenity.
This happens one day in the Savannakhet region, 500
kilometres south from Vientiane, Laos’ capital city. A child
dies handling a cluster bomb. Who killed this child?
Documentary, 87min, 2009 – France
library
LEGAL AID
JOURNEY TO SATURN
Antoine Lahoud is a criminal defense lawyer disillusioned
by his profession. When he gets noticed by the big-shot
criminal lawyer Henry Marsac who has a shady reputation,
Marsac takes Lahoud under his wing introducing him to a
life of luxury, easy money and the kind of sensational cases
he has been dreaming of since he was sworn in. But one
day, Marsac spills the beans: he didn’t take Lahoud on for
his legal skills, but because of his uncanny resemblance
to one of his clients, Sellem, a notorious criminal locked
up for organized crime...
A businessman finances an expedition to Saturn but the mission
is doomed from the start. Not only is the spaceship run by a
Trabant engine, the crew consists of Per the lovesick navigator
with little self-esteem and a weak stomach for flight, Arne the
paranoid sergeant with shell shock, Jamil the foreigner who
hopes for Danish citizenship and Ole the porno fixated beer
drinking slob. The crew’s journey takes a surprising turn when
they land on Saturn and discover that aliens have claimed it
before them. The crew is captured and this will lead the aliens
to focus on a new goal: TO INVADE EARTH!
Hannelore Cayre
Thriller, 91min, 2009 – France
Starring • Rochdy Zem, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Sophie Guillemin
Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen & Thorjorn
Animation, 90min, 2008 – Denmark
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SILENT WEDDING
EAST OF ME
Romania, 1953. In a small village, a young couple is about
to get married. Guests arrive, the banquet is ready and
everything is prepared for the ceremony. Unexpectedly,
the Russian army shows up. Stalin is dead, a national
mourning is declared, they have one hour to break up. They
finally decide to celebrate anyway against all expectations
and to make it silent…
This is a modern-day tale of a young woman who sets out by
train across the former Eastern Bloc towards Moscow. It is a
city that haunts her and without it, she would never have left her
country, back when there were still tanks and when freedom was
elsewhere – in the West. In the early 1980s, Marta left Prague
for Paris. It was the age of the Palace nightclub and drugs, a
time when it was OK to do a little stripping or a few favours,
for cash to make ends meet. In the new East, everybody talks
about people leaving, especially the girls. But Marta isn’t here
anymore. Those who left before have no place in this new East.
Horatiu Malaele
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Comedy/Drama, 87min, 2008 – Romania
Starring • Luminata Gheorghiu, Alexandru Potocean
Bojena Horackovak
Drama, 87min, 2008 – France
Starring • Patricia Chraskova, Carole Deffit,
Laëtitia Spigarelli
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BACK SOON
LA INFLUENCIA
Anna Hallgrimsdottir lives in Reykjavik with her two sons. Fed
up with the coldness of Iceland, she decides to sell her business
to be able to move out of the country. Her business, selling dope,
is prosperous, she wants a good price out of it... the dealer
whom she’ll hand it over to (as well as her mobile : that’s how
her customers reach her and order the amount they need) tells
her he’ll have the money within 48 hours. Meanwhile, Anna gets
involved in all kinds of «Icelandic familial adventures» and her
kitchen fills up with customers/friends, partying, while waiting
for her to come back to sell them their daily grass.
A story of a disoriented and vulnerable woman, overburdened with
life’s daily problems and more: her belongings are impounded, her
cosmetics shop has been closed down and her children’s future
is unknown. The children’s vitality draws a sharp contrast against
the apathy shown by their mother, who plunges slowly into a
depression. The kids, becoming aware that she lacks the necessary
strength and maturity to effectively face these problems, are
forced to adopt adult attitudes. Life goes on, and things change.
Sometimes changes are slow and unnoticeable, sometimes they
are sharp and tangible, and everything is transformed, always.
Comedy Drama, 95min, 2008 – Iceland/France
Starring • Didda Jonsdottir, Julien Cottereau
Drama, 83min, 2007 – Spain/Mexico
Starring • Paloma Morales Aguado,
Romeo Manzaneado Morales, Jimena Jiménez Morales
Solveig Anspach
Pedro Aguilera
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EDEN LOG
SILENT LIGHT
A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has
no memory of how he came here nor of what happened to the
man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious
creature, he has no other choice but to continue through this
strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other
option to reach the surface than to use Rezo Zero, secret
observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine. He
embarks upon this journey guided by the roots of a plant. During
his search for the surface, Tolbiac must uncover the secret of
what once lived in this world; but has this “mystery” truly left?
Johan and his family live in the north of Mexico. Against
the law of God and men, Johan falls in love with another
woman. He must now either betray his wife he has loved
so much or sacrifice his true love.
Franck Vestiel
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Science Fiction, 94min, 2007 – France
Starring • Clovis Cornillac, Vimala Pons
Carlos Reygadas
Drama, 136min, 2007 – Mexico/France
Starring • Cornelio Wall Fehr, Miriam Toews,
Maria Pankratz
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MELODY’s SMILE
SCORPION
In the dead of night, in the middle of an isolated wind farm, two
out-of-work computer programmers run a man over, killing him.
Next to his body they find a bag stuffed with cash. Bank robber?
Drug dealer? Who cares? Two million euros staring you in the face.
No witnesses. What would you do? Call the cops or cash in on
your good luck? Vigo and Sylvain don’t take long to make up their
minds. The following day, a blind girl is found dead in a warehouse
near the scene of the accident. What if the money was destined to
pay her ransom? Then another girl is kidnapped, and worse, she’s
a diabetic. The clock is ticking and the police start to panic.
There exists an underground combat sport, forbidden
because it leaves no respite, no chance for a man on the
ground.
Only a handful of gladiators confront each other for
money, revenge and sometimes honour...
Alfred Lot
Thriller, 112min, 2007 – France
Starring • Mélanie Laurent, Eric Caravaca, Gilles Lellouche
Julien Seri
Action, 98min, 2007 – France
Starring • Clovis Cornillac, Jérôme Le Bannier,
Karole Rocher, Olivier Marchal
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PREMONITION
Venise 2006
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Charles Benesteau breaks off with the upper class
bourgeoisie to which he belongs. He leaves his wife, family
and friends to live in a working class area of Paris, alone
and anonymous. But his desire to become another man,
the man of his dreams, to disentangle himself from society
soon leads him to discover some unexpected facts of life...
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Drama, 100min, 2005 – France
Starring • Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valérie Stroh,
Didier Bezace, Hyppolite Girardot
THE YACOUBIAN
BUILDING
Official Selection
in Berlin
2006
Marwan Hamed
A record budget, an all-star cast, a script based on a best
seller: Most 28-year-old novices aren’t handed this kind
of project, especially in Egypt, where the novel’s subjects
– government corruption, Islamic fundamentalism,
homosexuality – are taboo on screen.
But the gamble pays off in this sprawling and compelling
epic set in a downtown Cairo building that is a symbol of
modern Egypt.
Drama, 172min, 2005 – Egypt
Starring • Adel Imam, Yousra, Nour El Sherif,
Issad Younis, Ahmed Bedeir, Hind Sabry
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THE WHITE PLANET
LATE GRADUATES
The Arctic is a world apart, ruled by the cold and shaped
by ice and wind. A world of frozen seas, the pack ice,
immense plains, tundra, mountains and glaciers,
inhabited by unique fauna that has managed to adapt to
conditions at the very limits of survival.
From the beginning of the winter to the triumphant return
of the sun, the White Planet sets out to discover this
fragile and threatened world...
Not easy when you find yourself newly unemployed at 40
years without even a high school diploma to your name!
Despite their solid professional backgrounds, Michel and
Gérard bitterly face facts: no diploma, no job. Because they
have to “start over from scratch”, they decide to go back to
school and get their diplomas. This wild gamble arouses
incomprehension amongst close friends and family, while
sparking off ironic reactions from neighbours.
Yet above all, their adventure will help them rediscover
the most important arm of all: self-confidence!
Thierry Ragobert & Thierry Piantanida
Documentary, 78min, 2006 – France/Canada
Renaud Bertrand
Comedy, 105min, 2005 – France
Starring • Jacques Gamblin, Kad Merad, Rufus, Anne Brochet
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FREE ZONE
ZIM AND CO
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem
for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement.
She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna
is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large
sum of money that “the American”, her husband’s partner,
owes them. Rebecca persuades Hanna to take her along.
When they reach the Free Zone, Leila, a Palestinian,
explains that the American isn’t there and that the money
has vanished...
Following a trivial scooter accident, Zim, 20, must find
a real job to avoid prison. Zim’s not the lazy kind, so he
anxiously checks the classifieds. But the only job he finds
requires him to report ten days later, with a car… and a
driver’s licence! And of course, he has neither. But Zim
is streetsmart, and so are his buddies: Cheb, Arthur and
Safia, who will stop at nothing to keep him away from the
joint!
Drama, 93min, 2005 – Israel/France/USA
Starring • Natalie Portman, Hana Laszlo,
Hiam Abbass
Comedy Drama, 90min, 2004 – France
Starring • Adrien Jolivet, Mhamed Arezki, Yannick Nasso,
Naidra Ayadi, Nathalie Richard
Amos Gitaï
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Pierre Jolivet
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MARISCOS BEACH
Official Selection
in Berlin
2005
Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau
It’s summertime. Marc takes his wife and their two kids to
the Mediterranean coast. The summer heat awakens their
desires. Laura, their daughter, soon disappears with her
biker boyfriend. Their son Charly waits for his best friend
Martin, who has a crush on him. His mother, sensing the
vibe between the two teenagers, suspects her son is gay.
Not particularly bothered, she discusses it with her husband
who seems more affected by the news. When Mathieu, the
mother’s lover arrives, things get more complicated. The
summer holidays turn out to be more eventful than expected.
Comedy, 93min, 2004 – France
Starring • Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi, Gilbert Melki,
Jean-Marc Barr, Jacques Bonnaffe
TURTLES
CAN FLY
Bahman Ghobadi
In a village in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the border between Iran
and Turkey, the villagers desperately seek for a satellite
dish antenna in order to keep updated on the impending
attack of the Americans in Iraq… Coming from another
village with his younger sister and her child, a mutilated
boy has a foreboding: the war is getting closer and closer…
Drama, 95min, 2003 – Irak/Iran
Starring • Soran Ebrahim, Hirsh Feyssal, Avaz Latif
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DUCK UGLY
Deane Taylor & Emmanuel Klotz
Some heroes are born great, others have greatness thrust
upon them and some are just different from the start.
Just like Duck Ugly who knew he was different from the
moment he hatched. Separated from his family at birth,
Duck Ugly heads off in search of the legendary Crooked
Man, who rumour has it, will give him the necessary
powers to get his family back. Can this Duck Ugly really
be the Great protector... only time will tell.
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Animation, 70min, 2002 – France
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