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SUMMARY
SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................................... 2
CANNES 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION................................................................................................................... 7
SEANCE SPECIALE ............................................................................................................................................. 7
THE LAST RESORT........................................................................................................................................... 7
FOCUS ON FRENCH CINEMA ............................................................................................................................. 8
THE GRADUATION ......................................................................................................................................... 8
WE’LL BE ALRIGHT ......................................................................................................................................... 9
WORLD PREMIERE COMING SOON ................................................................................................................. 10
EXODUS........................................................................................................................................................ 10
FRIZ LANG .................................................................................................................................................... 11
HITLER’S HOLLYWOOD................................................................................................................................. 12
THE NATURE OF THINGS .............................................................................................................................. 13
LAST ACQUISITION : CURRENT AFFAIRS.......................................................................................................... 14
WHOSE COUNTRY ........................................................................................................................................ 14
WORLD PREMIERE TRIBECA - SPOTLIGHT ....................................................................................................... 15
SHADOW WORLD ........................................................................................................................................ 15
DIRECTLY FROM BERLIN 2016 ......................................................................................................................... 16
LES SAUTEURS (Those Who Jump) ............................................................................................................... 16
YOUNG WRESTLERS ..................................................................................................................................... 17
WHO IS ODA JAUNE ..................................................................................................................................... 18
HIGHLIGHTS ................................................................................................................................................... 19
CHEER UP ..................................................................................................................................................... 19
PORNO E LIBERTÁ ........................................................................................................................................ 20
IN COMPLETION - DELIVERY 2017 ................................................................................................................... 21
RENZO PIANO, AN ARCHITECT FOR SANTANDER ......................................................................................... 21
I AM MAX: Life and Death of Max Linder .................................................................................................... 22
DCP & HD – Poland/France - 2016 – approx. 90 & 52 min – ....................................................................... 22
IN PRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................... 22
Directed by Edward Porembny .................................................................................................................... 22
Original language French ............................................................................................................................ 22
Produced by AMP Polska, Ladybirds Films, ARTE ........................................................................................ 22
ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE ........................................................................................................... 23
MASTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: IN PRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 23
LOOKING FOR PRESALES................................................................................................................................. 23
APOLONIA APOLONIA .................................................................................................................................. 24
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD ............................................................................................................................. 25
DANIEL RAIM COLLECTION ............................................................................................................................. 25
HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY ................................................................................... 25
SOMETHING’S GONNA LIVE ......................................................................................................................... 26
THE MAN ON LINCOLN’S NOSE .................................................................................................................... 27
CINEMA HISTORY ........................................................................................................................................... 28
FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER .......................................................................................................................... 28
PAINTING ....................................................................................................................................................... 29
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MAN FALLING .............................................................................................................................................. 29
ELISABETH VIGEE LE BRUN: A Touch of Grace ............................................................................................. 30
TANGO ........................................................................................................................................................... 31
OUR LAST TANGO ........................................................................................................................................ 31
FOOD & CINEMA ............................................................................................................................................ 32
COOKING AT THE WORLD’S END (Cocinando En El fin del Mundo) ............................................................. 32
FINDING GASTON (Buscando a Gaston) ...................................................................................................... 32
MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY ......................................................................................................................... 33
KOUDELKA, SHOOTING HOLY LAND............................................................................................................. 33
Forty years after capturing the Soviet invasion of Prague, the Czech photographer Joseph Koudelka
(Magnum agency), goes to Israel and Palestine. ......................................................................................... 33
Mr G ............................................................................................................................................................. 34
LAST ART & CULTURE ACQUISITIONS ............................................................................................................. 35
Maiko: Dancing Child ................................................................................................................................... 35
The Man Who Saved the Louvre .................................................................................................................. 35
BEST SELLERS .................................................................................................................................................. 36
The Circle ..................................................................................................................................................... 36
The Great Museum ...................................................................................................................................... 37
Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation ............................................................................................................... 37
Ballet Boys ................................................................................................................................................... 38
FOCUS ON CINEMA ........................................................................................................................................ 39
FEATURES ............................................................................................................................................................ 39
Ain’t Misbehavin…A Marcel Ophuls Journey ............................................................................................... 39
Tony Curtis: Driven to stardom .................................................................................................................... 39
Milos Forman: what doesn’t kill you… ......................................................................................................... 40
Through Korean Cinema: A historical journey into Korean cinema ............................................................. 40
TV LENGTH ........................................................................................................................................................ 41
The Territories of Western Movies .............................................................................................................. 41
Vietnamese Cinema ..................................................................................................................................... 41
Out of Frame ................................................................................................................................................ 42
Les enfants terribles du cinéma ................................................................................................................... 42
Bergman and Magnani: The War of the Volcanoes..................................................................................... 42
The Divine Joe Sarno (La magnifique obsession de Joe Sarno) .................................................................... 43
King Hu ........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Through Japanese Cinema ........................................................................................................................... 43
Roma Fantastica .......................................................................................................................................... 44
Warsaw, the Fortified Forest (Varsovie, la Forêt forteresse) ....................................................................... 44
Johnnie Got His Gun! ................................................................................................................................... 44
Return to Manila – Filipino Cinema ............................................................................................................. 45
Chinese Cinema, Yesterday and Today (Le Cinéma chinois, hier et aujourd'hui) ......................................... 45
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema (Les Renaissances du cinéma) ................................................................ 45
Thai Cinema, Yesterday and Today (Le Temps du cinéma thaïlandais) ....................................................... 46
Indian Cinemas (Les Cinémas indiens, du nord au sud) ............................................................................... 46
CLASSICS.............................................................................................................................................................. 47
La Femme Spectacle .................................................................................................................................... 47
Tournage à la campagne ............................................................................................................................. 47
Lumière ........................................................................................................................................................ 47
La Direction d’acteur ................................................................................................................................... 47
ART & CULTURE .............................................................................................................................................. 48
FEATURE FORMATS ................................................................................................................................................ 48
Avant ........................................................................................................................................................... 48
Agnès Letestu: a shining star ....................................................................................................................... 48
O Gringo....................................................................................................................................................... 49
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Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance ........................................................................................................ 49
A Life for Ballet (Une Vie de Ballets) ............................................................................................................ 49
Dancing Across Borders ............................................................................................................................... 50
Like a Dream (Comme un rêve).................................................................................................................... 50
Ballerina ....................................................................................................................................................... 50
Megunica ..................................................................................................................................................... 51
Day After Day (Jour après jour) ................................................................................................................... 51
America as seen by a Frenchman (L’Amérique Insolite) .............................................................................. 51
Avec André Gide........................................................................................................................................... 51
TV LENGTH .......................................................................................................................................................... 52
Marvel 14: Super heroes vs. censorship ....................................................................................................... 52
Scratch Music............................................................................................................................................... 52
On the wall................................................................................................................................................... 53
Mireille Nègre: A devoted dancer ................................................................................................................ 53
Flight of Eagle Spirit, Larrio Ekson ............................................................................................................... 53
Views of a Principle Dance (Regards sur une étoile) .................................................................................... 53
Megunica ..................................................................................................................................................... 54
Break Hit ...................................................................................................................................................... 54
26 MIN FORMAT ................................................................................................................................................... 54
Othello’s Dream (Le Rêve d’Othello) ............................................................................................................ 54
LIFE STYLE....................................................................................................................................................... 55
SERIES ................................................................................................................................................................. 55
French Delicatessen, Season 3 (Last Season) ............................................................................................... 55
French Delicatessen, Season 1 & 2 .............................................................................................................. 56
Paris Style Architecture, Season 3 (Last Season) ......................................................................................... 57
Paris Style Architecture, Saison 1 & 2 .......................................................................................................... 58
Luxe Factory ................................................................................................................................................. 59
Craving Asia, Luxury and Ecology (Envie d’Asie) .......................................................................................... 59
ONE-OFFS ......................................................................................................................................................... 60
Montmartre ................................................................................................................................................. 60
High Parisian Jewelry ................................................................................................................................... 60
Guy Martin, Portrait of a Great Chef (Guy Martin, Portrait d’un grand chef) ............................................. 60
CURRENT AFFAIRS .......................................................................................................................................... 61
FEATURES ............................................................................................................................................................ 61
Nuclear Nation II .......................................................................................................................................... 61
A Turning Tide in the Life of Men ................................................................................................................. 62
Champ of the Camp ..................................................................................................................................... 62
Plot for Peace ............................................................................................................................................... 63
All of us Guinea-Pigs Now? .......................................................................................................................... 63
Nuclear Nation............................................................................................................................................. 64
Open Sky (À Ciel ouvert) .............................................................................................................................. 64
Cara a Muerte - La Vida Loca ...................................................................................................................... 65
TV LENGTH .......................................................................................................................................................... 66
Nuclear Nation II .......................................................................................................................................... 66
BIG FISH SMALL FISH.................................................................................................................................... 67
Champ of the Camp ..................................................................................................................................... 67
Plot for Peace ............................................................................................................................................... 68
Nuclear Nation............................................................................................................................................. 68
Open Sky (À Ciel ouvert) .............................................................................................................................. 69
Cara a Muerte - La Vida Loca ...................................................................................................................... 69
HISTORY AND ARCHIVES ................................................................................................................................ 71
FEATURE FORMAT ................................................................................................................................................. 71
This ain’t California ...................................................................................................................................... 71
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 ......................................................................................................... 71
The First Rasta (Le Premier Rasta) ............................................................................................................... 72
Mai 68, La Belle Ouvrage ............................................................................................................................. 72
The Journey, the Greek American Dream .................................................................................................... 72
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My Country (Il mio paese) ............................................................................................................................ 73
Angry Monk: Reflection on Tibet ................................................................................................................. 73
Le Temps du ghetto ..................................................................................................................................... 73
Paris 1900 .................................................................................................................................................... 73
52 MIN FORMAT ................................................................................................................................................... 74
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 ......................................................................................................... 74
A French Diplomate in Santiago (Un diplomate français à Santiago (1973-1976) ...................................... 75
Mai 68, La Belle Ouvrage ............................................................................................................................. 75
Angry Monk: Reflection on Tibet ................................................................................................................. 75
HUMAN STORIES & SOCIAL ISSUES ................................................................................................................. 76
FEATURE FORMAT ................................................................................................................................................. 76
Anna’s Gate ................................................................................................................................................. 76
3 Minutes (3 Minutos) ................................................................................................................................. 76
The Special Need.......................................................................................................................................... 77
Death Metal Angola .................................................................................................................................... 78
New Life ....................................................................................................................................................... 78
In My Mother’s Arms ................................................................................................................................... 78
Crulic – The Path to beyond (Crulic - drumul spre dincolo) .......................................................................... 79
Honk! ........................................................................................................................................................... 79
Scena del Crimine......................................................................................................................................... 80
Severn, The Voice of our Children (Severn, la voix de nos enfants).............................................................. 80
Mine, My Life behind the Scenes (Mine, de fil en aiguille) ........................................................................... 80
Journey’s End (La Belle Visite) ...................................................................................................................... 81
That Should Not Be (Nos enfants nous accuseront)..................................................................................... 81
Victoire Terminus ......................................................................................................................................... 81
Her Name Is Sabine (Elle s’appelle Sabine) .................................................................................................. 82
Substitute ..................................................................................................................................................... 82
Czech Swan .................................................................................................................................................. 83
Key to The Castle ......................................................................................................................................... 83
Matthieu Ricard, On the Path to Compassion ............................................................................................. 83
In My Mother’s Arms ................................................................................................................................... 84
Biblioburro, The Donkey Library .................................................................................................................. 84
Wrong Side of the Bus ................................................................................................................................. 84
LGBT ............................................................................................................................................................... 85
Misfits .......................................................................................................................................................... 85
Before You Know It ...................................................................................................................................... 85
The Circle ..................................................................................................................................................... 86
Meanwhile in Beirut..................................................................................................................................... 86
Hello Stranger .............................................................................................................................................. 86
MUSIC BOX .................................................................................................................................................... 87
FEATURE FORMAT ................................................................................................................................................. 87
We always lie to strangers........................................................................................................................... 87
Bajari ........................................................................................................................................................... 87
Children of Flamenco ................................................................................................................................... 88
Death Metal Angola .................................................................................................................................... 88
My father and the man in black .................................................................................................................. 89
Sons of the wind .......................................................................................................................................... 89
Tropicalia ..................................................................................................................................................... 89
South Coast .................................................................................................................................................. 90
Redemption Song......................................................................................................................................... 90
Youssou N’Dour: Return to Goree (Retour à Gorée) .................................................................................... 90
Sonic Mirror ................................................................................................................................................. 91
Brasileirinho ................................................................................................................................................. 91
Moro No Brasil ............................................................................................................................................. 91
52 MINUTES FORMAT ....................................................................................................................................... 92
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Scratch Music............................................................................................................................................... 92
South Coast .................................................................................................................................................. 93
Immaterial Treasure .................................................................................................................................... 93
Brasileirinho ................................................................................................................................................. 93
SELF-DISCOVERY ............................................................................................................................................. 94
Slow ............................................................................................................................................................. 94
RELIGION / ESOTERICISM ............................................................................................................................... 95
FEATURE FORMAT ................................................................................................................................................. 95
Voodoo – The Power of Healing .................................................................................................................. 95
Vaudou ........................................................................................................................................................ 95
La Vie de Jésus ............................................................................................................................................. 95
52 MIN FORMAT ................................................................................................................................................... 96
Evangelic Immigration ................................................................................................................................. 96
26 MIN FORMAT ................................................................................................................................................... 96
To Talendon ................................................................................................................................................. 96
Under The Smart Star (Sous la belle étoile) ................................................................................................. 96
ALAIN RESNAIS ............................................................................................................................................... 97
Le Chant du Styrène ..................................................................................................................................... 97
Toute la mémoire du monde........................................................................................................................ 97
Gauguin Paul ............................................................................................................................................... 97
Guernica ...................................................................................................................................................... 97
Van Gogh ..................................................................................................................................................... 98
JEAN ROUCH .................................................................................................................................................. 98
Tambours d’avant ........................................................................................................................................ 98
Petit à petit .................................................................................................................................................. 98
Jaguar .......................................................................................................................................................... 98
La Chasse au lion à l’arc............................................................................................................................... 99
La Goumbé des jeunes noceurs.................................................................................................................... 99
La Pyramide humaine .................................................................................................................................. 99
Moi, un Noir [1x72’] .................................................................................................................................... 99
Mammy Water .......................................................................................................................................... 100
Les Maitres fous ......................................................................................................................................... 100
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CANNES 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION
SÉANCE SPECIALE
THE LAST RESORT
A tragicomedy on human nature.
DCP / HD - 2016 – ITALY /
GREECE / FRANCE - 135 min
Directed by: Thanos Anastopoulos
and Davide Del Degan
Produced by : Nicoletta Romeo,
Stella Theodorakis, Guillaume de
Seille, Thanos Anastopoulos
In collaboration with : Rai Cinema
Supported by : Friuli Venezia
Giulia Film Commission, Fondo
Audiovisivo del Friuli Venezia Giulia,
Greek Film Centre, Centre National
du Cinéma et de l'image animéeAide à la coproduction d'oeuvres
cinématographiques francogrecques
THE LAST RESORT describes the lives stories of beach-goers revolving
around a very popular beach located in Trieste, in the Northeast of Italy,
where a wall still separates men from women.
A film about boundaries, identities and discrimination.
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FOCUS ON FRENCH CINEMA
THE GRADUATION
DCP – HD – France – 2016 – 115 min
Directed by Claire Simon
Original language French
Produced by Andolfi
With THE WHIZ KIDS the director will delve into the daily life of the Parisian cinema school, la Fémis, where a
specific Republican ideal of excellence is practiced and entry into which can be summed up as follows:
"everyone’s equal, but only the best get in…"
Through the admission process, the hard work all year and the graduation exams, THE WHIZ KIDS will establish
a portrait of our relationship to excellence in the Art world and of one of the most prestigious art school in France.
A place of culture where generations intermingle.
Claire Simon has been selected three times in Cannes (including twice at Directors’ Fortnight in 2006 and 2008
with On Fire and God's Offices) and was recently competing in Locarno with Gare du Nord.
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WE’LL BE ALRIGHT
Crazy institutions, blooming generation.
DCP - HD - 2016 - France - 77 min
Directed by: Alexander Kuznetsov
Original language: Russian
Produced by: Petit à Petit Production (Rebecca
Houzel)
In Siberia, Russia, Alexander Kuznetsov follows
Yulia & Katia who went from an orphanage to a
neuropsychiatric
institution.
Deprived of freedom, work and family, they had
no say in it and getting those fundamental rights
back is a long and painful bureaucratic process.
WE'LL BE ALRIGHT is their path to freedom.
AWARDS:
FESTIVALS:
Visions du Réel 2016
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WORLD PREMIERE COMING SOON
EXODUS
Where I come from is disappearing.
DCP - HD - 2016 – Brazil/Germany –
105/90/52 min
Directed by: Hank Levine
Original language: Arabic, English, BrazilianPortuguese, German
Produced by: O2 FILMES (Fernando
MEIRELLES, Fernando SAPELLI) & Hank
Levine Film
EXODUS tells intimate refugees stories from different parts of the world and follows their personal journey for two
years.
Napuli, a political activist, had to flee South Sudan to Germany, where she is fighting for the right to stay.
Tarcha, born in Western Sahara, escaped to Algeria in 1975 because of the Moroccan invasion and lived in refugee
camps ever since.
Born in Syria, Dana arrived in Brazil via Turkey and is desperate to reunite her family in Canada.
Nizar, a Palestinian-Syrian, is on his journey from Brazil via Cuba to Europe, where he is hoping to find refuge and
bring his family.
Bruno, from Togo, spent 9 years in German camps, until he legalized and now helps refugees.
Lahtow and Mahka from Kachin, Myanmar, left due to the ongoing military conflict and even though located in a war
zone, Mahka visits his abandoned home with his family.
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FRIZ LANG
The real thrilling story behind the creation of M.
DCP / HD - 2016 – 104 min –
GERMANY – Docudrama
Directed by: Gordian Maugg
Original Language: German
Produced by: BELLE EPOQUE
FILMS GMBH
Co-produced by: Gordian Maugg
Film, ZDF/ ARTE
With the support of: Film-und
Medienstiftung NRW, BKM, DFFF,
Filmförderung Hamburg / SchleswigHolstein, Nordmedia, Filmförderung
Hessen
Fritz Lang. He was regarded a genius, an egocentric sex maniac and a sadist.
Violence and love became subjects that would not let go of Fritz Lang for the rest of his life. In Vienna, as the son of
a violent father, under whom his much-loved Jewish mother suffered. As a soldier in Galicia, where he experienced
the horrors of the First World War. And finally as a young director in Berlin, accused of murdering his own wife.
Fritz Lang researches the "Evil" in all of us and in himself.
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HITLER’S HOLLYWOOD
DCP & HD – 2016 – Germany – 100 & 2x52’
Delivery: SUMMER 2016
Directed by: Rüdiger Suchsland
Original Language: German
Produced by: LOOKS Filmproduktionen GmbH in
collaboration with The Murnau-Foundation, Arte/ZDF and
funded by Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg and Hessische
Filmförderung.
Hitler’s Hollywood tells the story of one of the most important and dramatic period in the German
cinema history.
Once again, what does cinema know that we don’t know?
The Third Reich cinema was a heavily censored industry and at the same time, longed to be a German dream
factory. It produced, among others, the Nazi blockbuster "Münchhausen", at the request of Joseph Goebbels. It
established its own celebrity star system and used the latest marketing tools.
About 1000 feature films were produced in Germany between 1933 and 1945 and only a few were openly Nazi
propaganda films and even fewer could be considered harmless entertainment.
We look at these films and the people behind them. How stereotypes of the “enemy” and values of love and hate
managed to be planted, into the viewers’ minds, through the screens.
THE SECOND CHAPTER AFTER FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER!
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THE NATURE OF THINGS
A journey through the human soul where the present
merges with the past and the future.
DCP - HD - 2016 – Italy – 70 min
Delivery: SUMMER 2016
Directed by: Laura Viezzoli
Original language: Italian
Produced by: ladoc.it (Lorenzo
Cioffi) in collaboration with
con Home Movies – National Family
Archives
With the Support of: Fondazione
Marche Cinema Multimedia,
Crowdfunding Eppela, Milano Film
Network
Laura Viezolli met Angelo Santagostino for the first time in July 2013 when he was already seriously ill with ALS. A
man trapped in his own body except his moving eyes, so intelligent, lively and eager to communicate. Letter by
letter, time after time, with the fundamental help of the eye-pointer translating their movements, he sharpened and
transmitted his thoughts to his loved ones.
Up until June 2014, Angelo answered questions and allowed us an emotional immersion towards his own mortality.
In those precious moments, through a whole year of meetings and conversations between the young female
filmmaker and the main protagonist, we explore the vibrant mobility of the brain with a hypnotic visual style.
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LAST ACQUISITION : CURRENT AFFAIRS
WHOSE COUNTRY
DCP- HD - 2016 – 57 min –EGYPT –
FRANCE - USA
Directed by: Mohamed Siam
Original Language: Arabic & English (with
English subtitles)
Produced by: Linked Productions Ltd &
ArtKhana Egypt
With the participation of: ITVS
With the support of: IDFA Bertha Found,
Sundance Institute, Hot Docs Blue Ice Group
Documentary Production Fund, Fonds Image
de la Francophonie, Arab Fund for Arts &
Culture (AFAC), Screen Institute Beirut
Spanning the period from the outbreak of the Egyptian revolution in 2011 until the ouster or ex-President Morsi
three years later, Whose Country? is a first-person account of one Cairo-based filmmaker’s interactions with an
Egyptian policeman, Abou H, who experienced the brutality and the violence of his superiors towards the civilians
just after the revolution- the kind of security personnel who had become notorious in Egypt for widespread
corruption and abuses of civilians.
Through verité footage and in one-on-one interviews, Abou H reveal the ways in which the security forces abused
his role in society. Abou is torn between his convictions and the risk to lose his job. He hopes to change the system,
speaking directly to the director, who at the same time, grapples with issues of guilt and morality and the memory of
his father, a former criminal investigator.
FESTIVALS:
Hot Docs 2016 - COMMAND + CONTROL Section – WORLD PREMIERE
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WORLD PREMIERE TRIBECA - SPOTLIGHT
SHADOW WORLD
DCP – HD – 2016 - 100 min (TV Version
90 min
A JOHAN GRIMONPREZ FILM
A DILLYWOOD and LOUVERTURE FILMS
production
Co-produced by ONOMATOPEE FILMS,
FINAL CUT FOR REAL
In
association
with
BERTHA
FOUNDATION, FORK FILMS, VITAL
PROJECTS
FUND,
ITVS,
RTBF
TELEVISION
BELGEUNITE
DOCUMENTAIRES, BRITDOC CIRCLE
ZAP-O-MATIK
Directed by Johan Grimonprez and based on Andrew Feinstein's globally acclaimed book The Shadow World:
Inside the Global Arms Trade, the film SHADOW WORLD reveals how the international trade in weapons - with
the complicity of governments and intelligence agencies, investigative and prosecutorial bodies, weapons
manufacturers, dealers and agents - fosters corruption, determines economic and foreign policies, undermines
democracy and creates widespread suffering. SHADOW WORLD posits alternative perspectives through the
experience of a peace activist and war correspondent, as well as through the provocative stories of Eduardo
Galeano; but ultimately the film reveals the real costs of war, the way the arms trade drives it, how the weapons of
war are now being turned against the citizens of liberal democracies, and how the 'shadow world' is taking over. In
shedding light on how our realities are being constructed, the film offers a way for audiences to see through this
horror, in the hopes of creating a better future.
Based on the book THE SHADOW WORLD by ANDREW FEINSTEIN
Stories written and read by EDUARDO GALEANO
Directed by JOHAN GRIMONPREZ
Story by JOHAN GRIMONPREZ, ANDREW FEINSTEIN
Director of photography NICOLE MACKINLAY HAHN
Edited by PER K. KIRKEGAARD, PEDRO COLLANTES DE TERAN BAYONS, DIETER DIEPENDAELE
Original music by KARSTEN FUNDAL
Produced by JOSLYN BARNES, ANADIL HOSSAIN
Executive producers BERTHA FOUNDATION, ABIGAIL DISNEY, DANNY GLOVER, DRISS BENYAKLEF
Executive producer for ITVS SALLY JO FIFER
Responsable co-productions documentaires RTBF WILBUR LEGUEBE
Co-executive producers DAVID MENSCHEL, VITAL PROJECTS FUND, MICHAEL J. ZAK, DONALD RUBIN, JODIE EVANS,
MATTHEW PALEVSKY, SUSAN ROCKEFELLER
Co-producers SIGNE BYRGE SØRENSEN, EMMY OOST
Broadcasters DR, RTBF, RTS, SBS, SVT, VRT/CANVAS, YES DBS
Major funding support provided by FLANDERS AUDIOVISUAL FUND, VITAL ADVISED FUND, VITAL PROJECTS FUND,
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE DOCUMENTARY FILM PROGRAM, SUNDANCE INSTITUTE CATALYST INITIATIVE, CINEREACH,
GUCCI TRIBECA DOCUMENTARY FUND, WALLACE ACTION FUND OF TIDES FOUNDATION, DANISH FILM INSTITUTE –
FILM COMMISSIONER HELLE HANSEN, THRESHOLD FOUNDATION’S HIGH IMPACT DOCUMENTARY FUND, CODEPINK
Pitching forums GOOD PITCH EUROPE, IDFA FORUM, CPH: DOX FORUM, SUNDANCE CATALYST INITIATIVE,
SHEFFIELD DOCFEST MEETMARKET
FESTIVALS:
Tribeca International Film Festival 2016 - Spotlight - WORLD PREMIERE
San Francisco International Film Festival - Official Selection
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DIRECTLY FROM BERLIN 2016
LES SAUTEURS (Those Who Jump)
DCP & HD – 2016 – Denmark - 82 min
Directed by Moritz Siebert & Estephan Wagner
Co-Directed by Abou Bakar Sidibé
Original languages French and Bambara
Produced by Final Cut for Real (Heidi Elise
Christensen & Signe Byrge Sorensen)
Produced with the support of Danida,
The Danish Film Institute / Film Workshop by Film Consultant
Christina Rosendahl, BMU Foundation
Produced in collaboration with DR
By the producers of Academy Award Nominees
THE LOOK OF SILENCE and THE ACT OF KILLING
THOSE WHO JUMP, ultimately a film about making a Film, is Abou's portrayal of the human struggle for
dignity and freedom on one of the World's most militarized frontiers.
In northern Morocco, lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above, live over
a thousand hopeful African migrants, watching the fence separating Morocco and Spain. Abou from Mali is one of
them – the protagonist in front of the camera, as well as the person behind it. For over a year, he has ceaselessly
attempted to jump the fence.
At the fence, they have to overcome the razor-wire, automatic pepper spray and brutal authorities. After every failed
attempt, they return to Mount Gurugú, scouring for food in the nearby villages, trying to uphold some sort of order in
the camp and building up their confidence again. Some give up and return home, others never return.
Through the lens, Abou gradually finds expression and meaning in his situation. "When filming I feel that I exist".
But after 16 months on the mountain, Abou is close to a tragic accident. Returning to Mali is not an option for him
and he becomes more determined than ever to pursue his dream of a better life in Europe.
AWARD:
BERLINALE 2016 – FORUM SECTION – Winner Ecumenical Jury Award
FESTIVALS:
Hong Kong International Film Festival – Documentary competition
True False Film Festival
Crossing Europe – Documentary competition
Dok Fest Munchen – Dok Horizonte competition
Docaviv – Panorama
Docs Against Gravity – Borderlines
VIMEO LINK AVAILABLE ON DEMAND
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YOUNG WRESTLERS
Living, Learning and Suffering for their passion.
DCP & HD - 2016 – The Netherlands,
Turkey – 90 min
Directed by Mete Gümürhan
Original languages Turkish
Produced by Kaliber Film, Filmaltı
With the support of Turkish Culture
and Tourism Ministry’s General
Directorate of Cinema, Netherlands
Film Fund
The 26 boys living at the sports academy in the Turkish province of Amasya will endure a lot to realize their
wrestling dream. In Young Wrestlers (Genç Pehlivanlar) they face the usual challenges of adolescence in a male
dominated environment and contradictory contemporary Turkey.
The camera remains observational and discreet while still allowing us to experience their everyday life at close
range – somewhere between camaraderie and competition.
AWARD:
BERLINALE 2016 – GENERATION K+ SECTION
Special mention from the International Jury
FESTIVALS:
Dok Fest Munchen - Panorama
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WHO IS ODA JAUNE
Speaking softly but painting loud.
DCP & HD – 2016 – Germany - 75 min
Directed by Kamilla Pfeffer
Original languages German and French
Produced by Gebrueder beetz filmproduktion
In coproduction with Kunsthochschule für
Medien Köln (KHM)
Funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
Oda Jaune paints mutilated and disfigured, naked and sexless bodies. Disturbing paintings, painful paintings. And
she paints faces radiating happiness, people in paradise, people who can fly. Tender, touching paintings.
Originally from Bulgaria, Oda Jaune studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, becomes a master scholar of Jörg
Immendorff and she becomes his wife. After Immendorff’s death in 2007, she leaves Germany to move to Paris.
Getting in touch with her there is a challenge. Almost two years pass before she agrees to being in this film. The
plan seems simple: over the course of several weeks the director and her cinematographer will join her in the studio
and capture the process of creating new paintings for an upcoming exhibition.
FESTIVALS:
BERLINALE 2016 – Perspective Deutsches Kino
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HIGHLIGHTS
CHEER UP
DCP & HD – 2016 –
Finland/Canada 6
75min/52mi
Directed by Christy Garland
Original language Finnish &
English
Produced by Napafilms
Miia, the ambitious coach of Finland’s worst competitive cheerleading team, is sick of losing and stuck in
Rovaniemi, on the Arctic Circle. So she takes a trip to the motherland, Texas, where she’s inspired by the American
mindset and focus of the world’s best cheerleaders. Returning to Finland a tougher coach, she pushes her girls to
the breaking point… but is that what the team really wants?
For Aino and Patricia, the team’s success is the least of their concerns as they struggle to fight painful battles in
their teenage lives. For them, the cheerleaders are like another family, a stepping stone and a source of support
along the path of life. Miia thinks a winning team is all she needs, until life steps in and surprises her.
Cheer Up takes us into the teenage lives of a team of losing cheerleaders who try their best to get better and look
perfect doing it, while really, life just sucks. For Patricia, Aino and Miia, finding out who they are, where they
belong and what family means is much more important than any trophy.
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PORNO E LIBERTÁ
"A free and civilised society should be judged by
its willingness to accept porn."
Salman Rushdie
DCP – HD – 2015 – Italy - 78 min
Directed by Carmine Amoroso
Written by Carmine Amoroso
Produced by Zut Film
PORNO E LIBERTA is the first documentary giving an insight
on the Italian 70’s and tracing porn’s incredible genesis from
the first magazines, photoshoots, censorship issues to its
political and social repercussions — such as the election of
Porn-star Ilona Staller (Cicciolina), the first to become
parliament’s member.
It also offers food for thought about the 70’s & 80’s periods,
years of transformations in which, pornography became a
tool of protest and liberation, a real language.
The documentary brings to light a wide range of exclusive
materials and interviews – pornographers, porn stars, writers,
intellectuals, philosophers and feminists, from Lasse Braun to
Riccardo Schicchi, from Marco Pannella to Ilona Staller, from
Helena Velena to Judith Malina – who recall and recount
what deserves to be defined as the most important sexual
revolution in decades.
FESTIVAL:
IFFR ROTTERDAM 2016 – World Premiere – Community Cameras Section
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IN COMPLETION - DELIVERY 2017
RENZO PIANO, AN ARCHITECT FOR SANTANDER
DCP & HD – 2016 – Spain - 80 & 52 min TBC
Directed by Carlos Saura
Original language Spanish and English
Produced by Morena Films (Alvaro Longoria)
A very special building, the Botín Center of Arts
and Culture, from its conception to its inauguration
in the Santander Bay, in the North of Spain.
The architect, a contemporary genius, Renzo
Piano.
The director, another contemporary genius, Carlos
Saura.
Carlos Saura and Renzo Piano will unfold their view on the relationship between architecture and cinema and
show us the magic surrounding this gigantic building as imagined by Renzo Piano.
The Botin Center, through time, will modify the soul of the city forever.
By the director of Argentina and Flamenco Flamenco!
By the architect who designed Paris’ Pompidou Center, Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz and the New York Times
building!
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I AM MAX: Life and Death of Max Linder
Can we think about Buster Keaton without
Charlie Chaplin?
Can we think about Charlie Chaplin without Max
Linder?
DCP & HD – Poland/France - 2016 – approx. 90 & 52 min –
IN PRODUCTION
Directed by Edward Porembny
Original language French
Produced by AMP Polska, Ladybirds Films, ARTE
Only a few people, passionate of cinema’s history, know who Max Linder was.
The only monument named after him is the beautiful Parisian cinema called Max Linder Panorama.
However, Max Linder was the first international movie star, earning fortunes in Europe and in America, venerated
by millions of fans on both continents.
It was on the basis of Linder’s created character – a resourceful and gallant boulevardier finding his way out of
every situation – that Charlie Chaplin started his career.
Why didn’t he survive his predecessor’s fame?
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MASTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: IN PRODUCTION
LOOKING FOR PRESALES
ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE
DCP & HD – 2017 – USA - 75 & 52 min
Directed by: Sasha Waters Freyer
Original language: English
Produced by: Pieshake Pictures LLC
All Things Are Photographable is the first
documentary film on the life and work of acclaimed
photographer Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) –
the epic storyteller of America across three
turbulent decades.
Photo Copyright John F. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, 1960
His artistry encompassed the heartbreak, violence, hope and turmoil of postwar America, from the frenzy of its
urban core to the alienation of its emergent suburbs. Thirty years on, his most well-known photos – of
Marilyn Monroe, her skirt blown askew on the set of The Seven Year Itch; Norman Mailer’s 50th birthday party;
tourists at Dealy Plaza in Dallas following the Kennedy assassination and among hundreds of others –
remain unforgettable. He also captured city streets teeming with women newly liberated from the repressive
1950’s; rowdy Texas rodeos, political conventions and angry protests, zoos, parades and celebrity balls.
His camera seized upon the spectacle of a massive social upheaval – that age when our now-global mania for selfpromotion and exhibitionism was beginning.
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APOLONIA APOLONIA
DCP & HD - 2017 - DENMARK - approx. 75
Directed by Lea Glob
Original language Danish, French, English
Produced by Sidsel Lønvig Siersted (Danish
Documentary Production)
Apolonia, Apolonia is an existential voyage into the mind of a young woman's thoughts on sexuality, art, idealism
and love as she lives and rethinks them through her twenties.
The film follows Apolonia as she leaves Denmark - to move back to her birthplace, to become a painter in Paris.
Underground rebels meet money and High-Society in the art-scenes of the world.
With Bohemian Paris, New York and Los Angeles as backdrops, this coming-of-age story portrays a female
painter’s personal and artistic development; from the maturing of a talent to the leap into the commercial art
scene.
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HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD
DANIEL RAIM COLLECTION
HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE
STORY
DCP- HD – 2015- USA- 96’
Directed by: Daniel Raim
Original Language: English
Produced by: Adama Films
From the Oscar® Nominated
Director Daniel Raim and Executive
Producer Danny DeVito
FEATURING
Harold and Lillian Michelson
Mel Brooks
Francis Ford Coppola
Danny DeVito
HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY is a fascinating and humanistic account of the romantic
and creative partnership of storyboard artist Harold Michelson and his wife, film researcher Lillian Michelson—a
talented couple once considered “the heart of Hollywood.” Harold and Lillian worked on hundreds of iconic films
during Hollywood’s golden age including The Ten Commandments, The Apartment, The Birds, Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf? The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby, Fiddler On the Roof, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Scarface, Full
Metal Jacket and more. Although the couple was responsible for some of Hollywood’s most iconic examples of
visual storytelling, their contributions remain largely uncredited. Through an engaging mix of love letters, film clips
and candid conversations with Harold and Lillian, Danny, DeVito, Mel Brooks, Francis Coppola and others, this
deeply moving documentary chronicles their remarkable relationship and two extraordinary careers spanning six
decades of movie-making history.
FESTIVALS:
Cannes Classic 2015 - Official Selection – World Premiere
IFFR 2016 – Official selection
Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Section Global Hollywood
Audience Award at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
BAFICI 2016 - Panorama / Cinefilias
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SOMETHING’S GONNA LIVE
An intimate portrait of six Grandmasters from the
Golden Age of Hollywood
DCP- HD- 2016- USA – 78’
The Los Angeles Times Critics’ Pick SOMETHING'S GONNA LIVE is an intimate portrait of life, death, friendship
and the movies, as recalled by some of Hollywood's greatest cinema artists.
The film captures the late life coming together of renowned production designers Robert Boyle (North by
Northwest, The Birds), Henry Bumstead (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting) and Albert Nozaki (The War of the
Worlds, The Ten Commandments), storyboard artist and production designer Harold Michelson (The Graduate,
Star Trek: The Motion Picture), and master cinematographers Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
Medium Cool) and Conrad Hall (In Cold Blood, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). These prolific artists have
worked on a total of 400 films, garnering 25 Academy Award® nominations and 8 wins.
From snapshots, sketches, and vintage footage interwoven with interviews and contemporary footage of these
artists visiting former studios and locations, we get a behind-the-scenes look at moviemaking in the golden age of
cinema. As we watch iconic scenes of our collective imaginations emerge from their drawings, models, matte
paintings, and sets, we hear tales of Mae West, "Hitch," and DeMille, and experience their longing for the sense of
community that made working on these films so great.
Not a nostalgia piece, but an exploration of the artist's moral obligation to truthfully portray the human condition,
SOMETHING'S GONNA LIVE is a thought-provoking and "deeply moving" (LA Times) celebration of the human
stories behind the glamorous edifice of Hollywood.
“A revelation! ... An eye-opening tribute to one of the least understood or appreciated aspects of
filmmaking, and a challenge to filmmakers to believe in what they do!”
Chicago Sun-times
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THE MAN ON LINCOLN’S NOSE
DCP – HD - 2001 – USA- 40’
Production design has always been a key part of the
Hollywood filmmaking process, but until recently the field
received very little critical attention. But thanks to Daniel
Raim’s lucid and concise Oscar nominated documentary
about Robert Boyle, one of Hollywood’s best art directors, a
general audience now has a chance to savour what these
masters of their craft have contributed.
Boyle tells stories about working on everything from
Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest,” “The Birds” and “Marnie”
to “Fiddler on the Roof.” Boyle is quite eloquent and witty in
explaining his craft, and others, including fellow art director
Henry Bumstead, are also interviewed.
Raim has done an imaginative job of editing production
storyboards and sketches with photographs and film
segments so that we ‘get’ what the production designer
actually does. The detailed segment on constructing Mt.
Rushmore in the studio (thus the film’s title!) is fascinating,
as we learn more about how actual photos of a location can
be skilfully blended with a constructed set.
A special highlight is Raim’s coverage of “The Birds,” in which Raim has Boyle revisit the actual location as film
footage from Hitchcock’s memorable film is intercut with continuity sketches drawn for Boyle by his draftsman,
Harold Michelson. We see a black-and-white line drawing of Tippi Hedren with a bird attacking her, which then
becomes that actual shot in the film.
Raim’s film is a welcome gift to everyone anywhere who wants to know more about what has and continues to
make Hollywood.
Academy Award®--‐ Nominated Documentary Short Subject
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CINEMA HISTORY
FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER
What does Cinema know, that we don’t know?
DCP- HD – 2014 - 118 min – GERMANY
Directed by: Rüdiger Suchsland
Original language: German
Produced by: LOOKS Filmproduktionen GmbH
In Collaboration with: Arte/ZDF
The film tells the story of German Cinema in the Twenties between Expressionism and New Sobriety. This was the
most important period of German Cinema, a time full of wonders and invention. The aesthetic foundations were laid
for the "seventh art".
FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER is the first feature documentary ever on German Cinema of the Twenties. It shows
well known films, but furthermore forgotten, never shown or totally unknown material.
This is an entertaining rollercoaster-trip to the best period of German Cinema and into the abyss of subconsciousness.
FESTIVALS:
Venice Classics- World Premiere
Vienna International Film Festival
IDFA 2014 - Best of Fest
Goteborg International Film Festival – Goteborg Classics
Hong Kong International Film Festival - Filmmakers and Filmmaking
Istanbul Film Festival
BAFICI – Secret Story of Weimar Cinema
IndieLisboa – Director’s Cut Section
Shanghai International Film Festival – Documentary Section
Jerusalem International Film Festival - Cinemania section
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PAINTING
MAN FALLING
Falling apart in a blink of an eye
Awakening with passion.
DCP - HD – 2015 – 105 min – Denmark
Directed by: Anne Wivel
Original Language: Danish
Produced by: Danish Documentary Production (Sigrid Dyekjær)
A brain injury after a fall forces Per Kirkeby - one of Denmark's most famous artists - to stop painting. In an instant,
Kirkeby loses his life's foundation as well as his ability to work. No longer able to see colors, he cannot orient
himself in the large canvases that made him a figurehead for Danish and international contemporary art.
"Man Falling" is the story about Per Kirkeby’ s universe - marked by deep melancholy as well as astounding beauty;
a story about a personal struggle for life and work, a return to the universal language of painting that has been his
way to get his visual and emotional impulses out. Per Kirkeby is one of Denmark's greatest and most famous
painters worldwide. He has an unusual and extremely rare linguistic gift.
The film contains a continuous series of registrations and reflections on what human life means; a passion for
leaving a mark and being present until the end.
FESTIVALS:
CPH DOX 2015 – Opening film
IDFA 2015 – Sounds real section
Dok Fest Munchen 2016
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ELISABETH VIGEE LE BRUN: A Touch of
Grace
“Painting and living have always been one and
the same thing for me”
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
DCP - HD – 2015 – 90 min – France
Directed by Arnaud Xainte
Original Language French
Produced by Illégitime Défense
« Between two centuries as at the confluence of two rivers». These words of
Chateaubriand seem to be written for Louise-Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
Born in 1755 and died in 1842, Louise-Elisabeth lived numerous and various periods
of time, thanks to her exceptional longevity.
Official painter of Marie Antoinette, whose portrait she painted 30 times, she knew
eight political systems, two revolutions, painted more than 660 portrayals, and
received in her salon the whole political and artistic intelligentsia of the late 18th
century until 1840.
She fled the revolution in October 1789, for a 13-year long exile, going through Italia,
Russia, Austria, England, and Switzerland. Everywhere, she was received by all the
greatest courts of Europe and, besides posterity, was paid the highest fees of her
time.
The freedom of Louise Elisabeth, nonetheless an 18th century woman, echoes
strongly with today’s women struggle, being the first French female painter to be
recognized around the world.
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The embodiment of the character by fiction appeared to us as the right choice
obviously.
Interviews of speakers are mixed with fictional scenes. These moments are an
evocation of times and places when and where Louise Elisabeth lived, enlightening
personal and historical events.
In order to make the spectators feel the modernity of this character, the director used
also some special effects: we zoom into the canvas so that we understand in a better
way the meaning and the structure; engravings are animated; matte paintings remind
us the poetry of the artist’s travels; several sequences mix fiction and painting.
EVL used fresh & bright colors and always painted her models in a graceful way,
contrasting with the heavy settings usually employed at the time and the film pays
homage to her unusual technique at the time.
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TANGO
OUR LAST TANGO
Maria Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes.
Divided by life, united by Tango
DCP - HD – 2015 – 85 min – Germany, Argentina
Directed by: German Kral
Produced by: German Kral Filmproduktion, Lailaps
Pictures
Original Language: Spanish
Co-producer: Birgit Rothörl, Josef Brandmaier
From executive Producers: Wim Wenders
Rodrigo Furth, Jakob Abrahamsson
With the participation of: Schubert International
Filmproduktions, Monogatari Films, Mateina
Producciones
Our Last Tango is above all a love story. A story of love between the two most famous dancers in tango’s history.
And the story of their tremendous love of tango.
María Nieves Rego (80) and Juan Carlos Copes (83) met when they were 14 and 17, and they danced together for
nearly fifty years. In all those years they loved and hated each other and went through several painful separations
but always got back together. No other man danced like Juan and no other woman danced like María!
Eventually, he left her for good for a woman 20 years younger with whom he fathered two children.
Now, Juan and María are willing to open up about their love, their hatred, and their passion.
In Our Last Tango Juan and María tell their story to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from
Buenos Aires, who transform the most beautiful, moving and dramatic moments of Juan and Maria’s lives into
incredible tango-choreographies. These beautifully-shot choreographies compliment the soul-searching interviews
and documentary moments of the film to make this an unforgettable journey into the heart of the tango.
Starring the famous dancer Pablo Verón from Sally Potter’s film TANGO LESSON and Sexteto Mayor, the
most famous Tango Orchestra in the world who brought Tango to Broadway
FESTIVALS:
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 – TIFF DOCS
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2015 – International Competition
Magnificent 7 Festival 2016 - Serbia
Epos 7 FilmArtFestival – Israël
Beijing International Film Festival 2016
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FOOD & CINEMA
COOKING AT THE WORLD’S END (Cocinando
En El fin del Mundo)
A journey through Galicia’s nouvelle cuisine
DCP - HD – 2015 - 90 min – Spain
Directed by Alberto Baamonde Bello
Produced by Esmerarte Servicios Artisticos
Original Language Spanish
In 2003, nine young chefs joined their forces and their knowledge to transform the
cuisine of their land: in Galicia, Grupo Nove was born.
Culinary revolution already emerged in other Spanish regions but Galicia remained
known for its excellent products, not for its cooking techniques or for its chefs’ talent.
Something had to change!
Along with a new generation of producers and farmers, the Grupo Nove developed
an idea of gastronomy grounded in traditions, attached to the land and the product,
though using radically new techniques.
Grupo Nove is now composed of twenty chefs, the veterans training the new
generation. In a short period of time, Galicia multiplied its international recognition: 8
Michelin stars, 19 Repsol soles earned by names such as Pepe Solla, Xosé Cannas,
Yayo Daporta, Beatriz Sotelo, Javier Olleros…
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This is a silent revolution through gastronomy, between tradition and modernity, in a
land full of contrasts.
FESTIVAL:
San Sebastian IFF 2015 – Culinary Zinema Section
FINDING GASTON (Buscando a Gaston)
Can a chef change a nation?
DCP & HD – 78 min – Peru - 2014
Directed by: Patricia Perez
Original language: Spanish, English, Quechua, Swedish, Italian and Portuguese
Produced by: CHIWAKE FILMS
There are many great chefs around the world.
Only one is considered to be a National hero.
Meet chef Gaston Acurio and follow him in a journey to find out the stories, the
inspirations and dreams behind the man that has taken his cuisine outside the
kitchen on a mission to change his country.
Because the people that are passionate enough to believe they can make a
difference, are actually the ones who do. FINIDING GASTON takes you to the world
of Gaston and along with him into discovering the stories behind Peruvian food, its
people, Its dreams. Are you ready to meet them?
LET THE JOURNEY BEGIN…
AWARDS:
Best Culinary Film in San Sebastian by the Tokyo Gohan Film Festival
2014
Douro Film Harvest 2014: Best Food Film
FESTIVAL:
BERLIN 2015 – CULINARY SECTION
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MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
KOUDELKA, SHOOTING HOLY LAND
Forty years after capturing the Soviet invasion of
Prague, the Czech photographer Joseph Koudelka
(Magnum agency), goes to Israel and Palestine.
DCP & HD – 2015 – Czech Republic & Germany - 72 min - COMPLETED
Directed by
Original language English, Hebrew
Produced by Nowhere Films & Produkce Radim Prochazka
The film follows Koudelka and his journey photographing the Holy Land from one enigmatic and visually
spectacular location to the next. In each location - soon to become a new “Koudelka” photo - a new scene unfolds,
gradually introducing us to Koudelka’s method of working and his perception of the world he is documenting as
well as the people he encounters.
A fascinating dialogue emerges between the moving images Baram creates and Koudelka’s still photographs, as
Baram places the photographer in his own breathtaking compositions. Austere images of landscape divided by
concrete walls and barbed wire reveal the horrifying absurdity of the infamous conflict.
Baram’s long-term documentation of the photographer on-field together with the exclusive use of Koudelka’s
photographic archive result in a unique record that offers a rich and intimate look into the solitary creative process
of one of photography’s greatest living masters.
FESTIVAL
Jihlava International Film Festival 2015 - Opus Bonum & First Lights
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Mr G
Monsieur Hulot meets Gilbert Garçin
HD – 52min – France - 2016
Directed by Ryan Kampfe
Original language French, English
Produced by Scotto Productions
Gilbert Garcin, now in his eighties, is an internationally recognized
photographer.
Born in Marseille, he led a quiet life as a shopkeeper for 40 years, making and
selling lights when in 1993, at an age where most people think about retirement,
he found his vocation.
At 65, he reveals his true nature and discovers himself. He then becomes an
ageless man through his double “Mister G”, a truly unclassifiable personality.
The film follows this “young” artist for 5 years and for the first time, the
photographer reveals his methods and talks about his atypical journey. Through
his photographs, Mr G is telling stories and illustrating his dreams.
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LAST ART & CULTURE ACQUISITIONS
Maiko: Dancing Child
Life as a prima ballerina over 30 is tough enough for
Maiko when she decides to start a family....
DCP – HD – Norway – 70 min – 2015
Directed by: ÅSE SVENHEIM DRIVENES
Original language: English, Norwegian and Japanese
Produced by: Sant & Usant
Maiko's destiny was decided before she was born. Her name Maiko means dancing
child. Her mother, the driving force behind her career, sold their house and car to
send 14-year-old Maiko to the most prestigious dancing schools in Europe. She knew
she couldn't return to Japan as a failure.
Today Maiko is 32 on top of her career as a prima ballerina at the Norwegian
National Ballet. Maiko is not a young dancer anymore and talented newcomers are
longing for her position. Competition is getting tougher when Maiko decides to start a
family...
We follow Maiko at a breaking point in her life, where she is forced to make decisions
that might jeopardize everything she has worked for.
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FESTIVALS:
Los Angeles Film Festival 2015 – Documentary Competition
Jecheon Intl Music & Film Festival – Theme & Variations
Sarajevo Film Festival – Operation Kino On Tour
The Man Who Saved the Louvre
We don’t choose our enemy, but we pick our fight.
Jacques Jaujard (1895-1967)
HD – France – 60 min
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Devillers & Pierre Pochard
Original language: French & ENGLISH DUBBED VERSION
Produced by : Ladybird Films
Synopsis: At the dawn of World War II, a group of resistance and arts lovers
organizes an incredible exfiltration of masterpieces of the Louvre Museum in order to
save it off the Nazis’ hands. The man leading the operation is Jacques Jaujard, the
Louvre Museum’s director. Jaujard is a man who made a mark in his time by his
extraordinary personality, love and passion for the arts. Although he was a high
officer and devoted servant to the State, he put his knowledge of the system,
strategic and incredible audacity to serve a universal cause: to save the national
heritage.
With the French voice-over of Award winning actor and director Mathieu
Amalric.
Co-produced with France Television
AWARD:
International Emmy® Award 2015 – Winner Art Programming
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BEST SELLERS
Love ain’t a crime.
The Circle
DCP - HD - Germany - 2014 – 101 min
Directed by: Stefan Haupt
Produced by: Contrast film
Co-produced by: Schweizer Fernsehen SRF / SRG SSR
Synopsis: Zürich in the mid 50's: The young shy teacher Ernst Ostertag becomes a
member of the gay organization DER KREIS. There he gets to know the
transvestite star Röbi Rapp – and immediately falls head over heels in love with
him.
Röbi and Ernst live through the high point and the eventual decline of the
organization, which, in the whole Europe, is seen as the symbol of gay
emancipation. Ernst finds himself torn between his "bourgeois" existence and his
commitment to homosexuality, for Röbi it is about his first serious love relationship.
A relationship which will last a lifetime.
From the present, the film looks back to the time when the “Mother” of all European
homosexual organizations had its high point until it fell apart.
Awards:
Berlin 2014: TEDDY AWARD - Best Documentary/ Essay Film
Berlin 2014: PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD
Boston LGBT 2014: Audience Award for Best Documentary
Torino TGLFF – Best Feature Film
30. Schwule Filmwoche 2014 – Audience Award
Festroia Intl Film Festival - PRIZE MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
Outfest - Los Angeles 2014: Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature
Film
Audience Award for Best Documentary - Perlen Queer Film Fest Hannover (ex
aequo with “Kein Zickenfox“)
Pittsburgh LGBT Film Festival 2014: Audience Award for Best Documentary
(ex aequo with “Out in the Night “)
Avanca Film Festival – Portugal – Best Trailer in Motion Prize
Swiss Film Award 2015: Best Feature Film / Best Screenplay / Best Actor /
Best Performance in a Supporting Role.
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A unique look behind the scenes
The Great Museum
DCP - HD - Austria - 2014 - 94 min
Directed by: Johannes Holzhausen
Produced by: Navigator Film
With the participation of: Austrian Film Institute, Film Fund Vienna, ORF
(Film/Fernseh -Abkommen), FISA
Synopsis: This feature documentary portrays one of the most important museums
in the world: Vienna’s Museum of Art History or the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Wien.
It presents a unique look behind the scenes of this fascinating institution and
encounters a number of charismatic protagonists and their working fields unfolding
the museum’s special world – as an art institution as well as a vehicle for stately
representation.
About the Museum:
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna’s Museum of Fine Arts) opened in 1891
and, as opposed to most of the prestigious European museums which were palaces
beforehand, this one has always been a museum.
Commissioned by the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary to find a suitable
shelter for the Habsburgs' formidable art collection and make it accessible to the
general public, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, originally and nowadays, regroups
prestigious masterpieces.
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Award:
Berlin 2014: FORUM SECTION - CALIGARI FILM PRIZE
Diagonale Festival 2014: Best Artistic Editing and Best Cinematography for a
Documentary
Perpignan FILAF 2014: Silver Filaf
Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation
The Mystery behind Gaudi’s masterpiece
HD - Switzerland - 2013 – 90 & 52 min
Original language: Spanish, Catalan, English, German, French
Produced by: Fontana Film GmbH
Synopsis: The “Sagrada Família” in Barcelona is a unique and fascinating building.
It is the brainchild of the architect Antoni Gaudí, a once controversial genius, and the
work of an army of laborers. The edifice has a history with many highs and lows and
raises a multitude of questions.
We normally experience a cathedral or church in its finished form, as the witness of
a period long gone. By contrast, the construction of the Sagrada Família is anything
but complete. We can see with our own eyes how the edifice is growing and
evolving, even today, as it has done for the past 130 years.
SAGRADA is a film about the mysterious process of artistic creation, revolving
around the question of our human creative power and how we want to use it.
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Ballet Boys
Being a teenage isn’t easy, being a ballet boy even less!
DCP - HD - Norway - 2014 - 73 min & 58 min
Directed by: Kenneth Elvebakk
Original language: Norwegian
Produced by: Carsten Aanonsen (Indie Film)
Synopsis:
Lukas, Syvert and Torgeir experience some very important years in the beginning
of their ballet careers. But how do they deal with pressure from parents and
teachers?
They face new challenges in ballet competitions throughout France and Sweden
and the most important is the audition to enter the Norwegian Ballet Academy.
Out of the blue, Lukas is offered a try-out in the final audition at the Royal Ballet
School in London, despite not having even applied! This may be his opportunity of
a lifetime to secure his career.
During the course of four years we see those boys become young men, and
friends being seperated. These kids sacrifice parties and friendships for school to
fulfill their dreams, as admission to a ballet academy means everything to them.
Ballet Boys takes you through disappointments, victories, forging of friendship, first
loves, doubt, faith, growing apart from each other, finding your own way and own
ambitions, all mixed with the beautiful expression of ballet.
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Award:
Chicago International Children’s film festival - 2nd Prize for the Documentary
Feature Film, Children’s Jury
Oulu International Childrens and Youth Film Festival – The For Tomorrow
Award – Best Film
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FOCUS ON CINEMA
Features
Ain’t Misbehavin…A Marcel Ophuls Journey
HD – DCP – 106 min – France
Directed by: Marcel Opuls
Original language: French
Produced by: The Factory – ARTE – IN THE MOOD… - RTS
Synopsis:
The director of The Sorrow and the Pity, shares his memories with us, stories incredibly
rich and fascinating, making of AIN’T MISBEHAVIN a cheerful and bittersweet trip in
Cinema history.
Son of the great Max Ophuls, Marcel can be a generous man and an admirer. Marcel
talks with and about personalities like Jeanne Moreau, Bertold Brecht, Ernst Lubitsch,
Otto Preminger, Woody Allen, Stanlely Kubrick and, of course, his friend François
Truffaut.
A filmmaker without memory doesn't exist, here is Marcel Ophuls's “memorabilia store”.
With: Elliott ERWITT, Hamilton FISH, Jeanne MOREAU, Madeleine
MORGENSTERN-TRUFFAUT, John SIMPSON, Frederick WISEMAN, Paul HAMANN
Tony Curtis: Driven to stardom
HD - 2012 – France – 96 & 55 min – Black & White / Color
Directed by Ian Ayres
Produced by FRENCH CONNECTION FILMS
Synopsis: Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean, was
one of the very first teen idols and one of the last real movie stars. From his difficult
upbringing in the Bronx, where he was born Bernie Schwartz, to his unprecedented fame
and infamous way with women. TONY CURTIS: DRIVEN TO STARDOM explores the
man's rebellious demeanor, his struggle as a Jew in Hollywood, his difficult childhood,
the brief love affair with Marilyn Monroe and his failed marriages to actresses Janet
Leigh and Christine Kaufman, his courageous stance to break the color barrier with The
Defiant Ones (the film that earned him an Oscar Nomination), and his entire six decade
career.
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Milos Forman: what doesn’t kill you…
HD – 2011 – Czech Republic – 100 min & 4x56 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Miloslav SMIDMAJER
Original language: Czech & English
Produced by BIO ILLUSION / PLUTO FILM & VIDEO
Synopsis: In the last fifteen years Milos Forman’s life has gone through a lot of big
changes and he has even had certain reversals in his professional career. Filming over
the course of five years, he has even managed to shed light on a few of the intimate
corners of Forman’s life which continue to give him inspiration for creating films with
unusual depth unexpected coherence. In addition to meeting Milos Forman, his friends
and family, this documentary offers up insiders’ points of view from a host of famous
personalities.
Through Korean Cinema: A historical journey into Korean cinema
HD - 2011 – Italy – 70 min
Directed by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso
Original language: Korean & English
Produced by BLUE FILMS
Synopsis: The history of Korean cinema, narrated by a new Italian director through
interviews with five of the most representative directors of the country: Im Kwon-taek, Park
Gwang-soo, Lee Hyun-sae, Lee Chang-dong, and Park Chan-wook.
A chronological journey through the history of the Korean events: the Japanese invasion,
the Korea war, the economic development, the censures, the political repressions, up to
our days.
Festival:
Pusan International Film Festival - Wide Angle - Documentary Showcase
Sam Peckinpah (Sam Peckinpah, un portrait)
2008 – France/Italy – 78 min
Directed by Michelangelo DALTO & Umberto BERLENGHINI
Original languages: English, French
Produced by LES FILMS DU TAMARIN, EOS COMM, FILMOBLIC
Synopsis: Director Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) is one of the most famous, passionate
and inspiring American western movie icons. Filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, John
Woo or Oliver Stone were influenced by “the Peckinpah’s touch” made out of violence
and sense of the epic in master pieces like Major Dundee, Straw Dogs, Bring Me the
Head of Alfredo Garcia and of course The Wild Bunch.
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TV LENGTH
The Territories of Western Movies
HD - 2014 – France – 52 min
Directed by Linda Tahir Meriau
Original language: French & English
Produced by Rose Night
Synopsis: A road trip documentary to discover three symbolic territories, each fitting a
particular moment of the western movie genre: Monument Valley, Utah, the place of epic
dreams; Cathedral Rock, Arizona, the place of culpability and doubt; Almeria, Andalusia,
the place of smashed ideals. All along this journey, we will meet three remarkable
characters: Ofelia, professor at the University of Arizona and specialized in American
Indians Studies, Roy, a veteran cowboy and stuntman at the Old Tucson Studio, and
Jesus, stuntman at Fort Bravo, Almeria.
Vietnamese Cinema
HDV - 2014 – France – 52min
Directed by Hubert Niogret
Produced by LES FILMS DU TAMARIN
Synopsis: The documentary attempts to retrace the major political and industrial aesthetic
phases of Vietnamese cinema, through its wars, regime changes, ideological
developments, and focuses primarily on the current situation where there are large
questions:
What relationship creators maintain with the central government? What is the freedom of
expression of the creators always cut by censorship? How to go from being nationalized
cinema to a private cinema, therefore being subject to the rules of profitability? How to
adapt to widespread globalization, whose effects are felt in the Vietnamese cinemas with
the dominant influx of Hollywood movies "blockbusters’’, leaving small room for
Vietnamese movies?
What are the demands of the public, especially young people since they are a large
majority in Vietnam?
How the situation did gradually increase from films about nostalgia that magnify national
hero to the exploration of dramas or individual expressions?
What movies do they reflect today Vietnamese life when once they reflect the instructions
of the power or the image of the company that wanted to convey?
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Out of Frame
HD - 2012 – France & Germany – 52 min
Directed by Jean Barat
Cast : Volker Schlöndorff, Franck Liaigre, Pierre-Louis Basse and the French resistant
Odette Nilès
Produced by LES FILMS INGENUS and LES CANARDS SAUVAGES
Synopsis: Jean Barat has followed Volker Schlöndorff during the shooting of CALM AT
SEA to deliver us a wonderful documentary that exceeds the simple making-of and
becomes an overwhelming documentary digging into the history of French Resistance.
Among Volker Schlöndorff’s interviews and working scenes on the set, the historian
Franck Liaigre and Pierre-Louis Basse, author of “Guy Môquet, a childhood cut short”,
bring to light the casualties of war and dig into Guy Moquet’s intimacy. Guy Moquet, a
seventeen-year-old hero against his will.
Beyond the film, the spectator encounters Odette Nilès, also resistant and Guy Môquet’s
love that escaped from Choisel camp.
Les enfants terribles du cinéma
HD - 52 min - 2012 – France – Black & White / Colour
Directed by Ezéquiel Fernandez
Produced by AMO FILMS & FRANCE TELEVISIONS
Synopsis: How did a generation of post-war cinephiles manage to change the course of
cinematic history?
In 1948, a handful of cinema enthusiast founded “Objectif 49”, a “Cine-Club” in Paris
whose existence would be as dazzling as it would be brief. A few months later, they came
up with the idea of a showcase demonstration for art house films, thus giving birth, in the
summer of 1949, to the “Festival du Film Maudit”. Jean Cocteau played the leading role in
this effort with support from Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, Jean Charles Tacchella,
Alexandre Astruc, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Pierre Kast…
Bergman and Magnani: The War of the Volcanoes
HD - 2012 – Italy – 52 min - Black & White / Color
Directed by Francesco Patierno
Produced by Todos Contentos y Yo Tambien in collaboration with Rai Cinema, Cinecittà
Luce and Centro Studi Eoliano
Synopsis: The story of the biggest jet-set love scandal of all times.
Starring Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani and the mythical and
primitive nature of the Aeolian Islands. The islands are at the same time the set for the
movie “Vulcano” with Anna Magnani, who’s just been abandoned, by Rossellini, and for
the movie “Stromboli, Terra di Dio” that will lead to the artistic and love relationship
between Bergman and Rossellini.
Festival’s Selection:
Venice International Film Festival 2012 – VENEZIA CLASSICI
Toronto International Film Festival 2012 – TIFF CINEMATHEQUE
New York Film Festival 2012
London BFI 2012
Belgrade Fest – Documentary Section –
Hong Long Intl Fil Festival – Filmakers & Filmaking Section –
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The Divine Joe Sarno (La magnifique obsession de Joe Sarno)
2012 – France – 56 min
Directed by Virgile Iscan
Original language: English & French
Produced by LES FILMS DU TAMARIN / YANN BROLLI
Synopsis: Joe Sarno has observed and filmed sexuality and fantasies of women without
deviating from its course for 40 years. This observation has led to more than 70 films. A
case in point. Joe Sarno is a filmmaker monomaniacal in his case, one might even say
obsessed, like a Russ Meyer that it could represent for the east coast, with all the
differences that the location embraces. Throughout his life, he has dug a question: that of
female desire. Our desire is to invite him to share his observations and to tell us her
stories.
King Hu
Original language: Cantonese, Mandarin & English
Synopsis: Bodies which float in the air and cross swords, a young woman jumping from a
roof of a pagoda to another, a young woman jumping through a window and turning on
wounded two attackers, a monk who with a wave of his big rod reverses its opponents,
swordsmen who use the flexibility of large bamboo to bounce from one end to another of a
forest. In an open or enclosed area of a tavern, the fighters of the films of King Hu, amaze,
fascinate by their exploits, which are all forms of actions of dreamlike flights.
About the director of A Touch of Zen (Cannes Grand Prize 1975) and Dragon Inn (1967)
Through Japanese Cinema
2012– France – 2x55min
Original language: Japanese & English
Synopsis: The exclusive domination of large corporations-production-distribution operation
for over thirty years, and its collapse at the time of questioning global powers and the
emergence of new styles and the conquest of new territories (animation) seemed to justify
the cutting of a documentary on the recent history of Japanese cinema into two parts,
corresponding to nearly equal lengths (20 to 30 years), and generations of filmmakers:
1. The cinema of protest and renewal, the emergence of independent after the
Golden Age: careers with Nagisa Oshima, Yoshishige Yoshida, Shohei Imamura,
Masaki Kobayashi ... the early 60s until the 90s.
2. The renewal of the images and the New Territories today: with the careers of
Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, Otomo, director Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano,
Hideo Nakata, Kiyoshi Kurosawa ... the late 90's to today.
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Roma Fantastica
HD – 2011 - France – 60 min – Color / Black & White
Directed by Luigi Cozzi
Scenario and interviews: Jean-Philippe Guigou
Cast: Luigi Cozzi, Dario Argento
Produced by FONDIVINA
Synopsis: Under the guidance of Luigi Cozzi, cult director, we invite the public to the
discovery of Rome from a weird and fantastic point of view, a Rome that is far away from
the description in tourist guides…Starting from the catacombs, passing by the Pantheon
and Piazza Navona and ending at Cinecitta, Cozzi retraces the history of the city through
the B- movies of the following Italian directors from the 70’s: Dario Argento, Michele Soavi,
Mario and Lamberto Bava.
Warsaw, the Fortified Forest (Varsovie, la Forêt forteresse)
Directed by Jean-Philippe Guigou et Jean-François Robin
Original languages: French & Polish
Produced by FONDIVINA FILMS
Synopsis: Once upon a time, there was a totalitarian country in which existed an unlikely
island of intelligence and résistance self-called Principality of Warsaw. Some intellectuals
tried to survive the best they could such as Andrezj Zulawski, the director of “L’important
c’est d’aimer” (starring Romy Schneider) and “La Fidélité” (starring Sophie Marceau &
Guillaume Canet).
Johnnie Got His Gun!
Directed by Yves Montmayeur
Original language: Cantonese & English
Produced by CRESCENDO FILMS
Synopsis: Hong Kong is the Hollywood of Asia, with some 6 million inhabitants. Around
80 films are produced here every year. And, despite the crisis that hit the film industry in
the late 1990s, the production of this former British colony remains one of the hubs of
genre films today.
Thanks to a semi-abstract approach, chock full of references to Jean-Pierre Melville's
mesmeric thrillers and Sergio Leone's Westerns, Johnnie To has, single-handedly,
breathed new life into the film noir.
Johnnie To could be considered as a kind of Hong Kong "Godfather". It is in this role that
he escorts us to the heart of his territory, his city. We meet many of his preferred actors
and regular members of his crew, we will begin to understand exactly what it is that gives
his films such a special atmosphere.
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Return to Manila – Filipino Cinema
2011 – France – 60min
In the mid-seventies, Lino Broka’s social melodrama Insiang, shot in the shanty-towns of
Manila, came as a revelation in Cannes because of what it told us about a country with a
long history of which we knew nothing, because we discovered an obviously gifted
director. During the next ten years, in Paris and at various festivals, we saw remarkable
films by other Philippine directors (Ishmael Bernal, Mario O’Hara, Mike De Leon, Marilou
Diaz Abaya, Pepe Gallaga…) and by a few ‘old-timers” as well, discovered thanks to the
private collections of Lino Broka and Agustin Sotto (Gerardo de Leon, Manuel Conde,
Lamberto Avellana, from the fifties, and Eddie Romero, who is still working in the 90’s). In
1991, Lino Broka was killed in a car crash. And the Philippines again disappeared from the
movie agenda in the West… and yet the country continued producing numerous films and
very interesting new directors appeared: Tikoy Aguiliz, Lav Diaz, Jeffrey Jeturian, Laurice
Guillen…
At the end of the nineties a new generation of film-makers appeared, and since 2005, still
more new directors have emerged. At the same time, digital technology came to the
Philippines. Do there is good reason return to Manila and examine the current state of
Philippine production with special attention to the films of newcomers like Brillante
Mendoza (Serbis, Lola), Raymond Red and others, as well as recent work by directors of
the previous generation, still in activity.
Chinese Cinema, Yesterday and Today (Le Cinéma chinois, hier et aujourd'hui)
DIGITAL – 2008 – France – 59 min
Original languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, English & French
Produced by LES FILMS DU TAMARIN & FILMOBLIC
Synopsis: With the proclamation of the Chinese People’s Republic on October 1st 1949,
film production came under government control, and for thirty years the cinema became
an official art form. The emergence at the beginning of the 1980s of a new generation of
film-makers totally changed the face of Chinese cinema and brought it to the attention of
the world. The best way to understand the history of the People’s Republic during the past
two decades is to study its movies.
The Nine Lives of Korean Cinema (Les Renaissances du cinéma)
Original languages: Korean, English & French
Synopsis: The Korean cinema, North and South, though weighed down since birth by
propaganda theories on the one side and tempted for a time by Hollywood machinery on
the other, has succeeded in expressing the identity of one and the same people, however
contradictory or conflicting the currents of thought which run through it.
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Thai Cinema, Yesterday and Today (Le Temps du cinéma thaïlandais)
Original languages: Thai, English & French
Synopsis: After the professionalisation of the cinema in the 70s and the emergence of a
generation of filmmakers more in phase with the reality of Thailand, the Thai cinema
developed itself in many directions, sometimes very commercial, but also in classic
epopees and more innovative films from a new generation.
Indian Cinemas (Les Cinémas indiens, du nord au sud)
DIGITAL - 2008 – France – 3 x 55 min
Synopsis :
1 Bengali cinema
Bengali cinema was not the earliest regional film-industry to develop in India. Most of their
films deal with questions related to their cultural identity and are shot in the Bengali
language. At times, however, like their elders before them, they will opt for the use of Hindi
in their large-scale productions, hoping to reach a wider audience. The bulk of the rest of
Bengali cinema comprises auteur films with a social realist slant, and comedies.
2 Hindi cinema
Too often identified by Westerners with Bollywood, the Hindi cinema is much broader than
that name would imply. The commercial and industrial foundations of the modern Hindi
cinema were laid at the end of the forties and the beginning at the fifties, largely revolving
around widely loved stars. A new generation of film-makers has recently appeared.
3 Southern India cinema
In the Northeast and the South, cinema has a more artisanal character, in contrast with the
heavy industry of Mumbai. In the South, with different languages, state structures, political
functioning, notions as to the goals of film-making prevail in societies governed by
democratically elected communists and where authorities are determined to promote
progress through education. The Tamils, on the other hand, have carried on the Hindi
tradition of entertainment films, and Madras is the second largest production centre after
Mumbai. In these predominantly poor, rural areas, the industry developped later than the
Hindi cinema.
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Classics
La Femme Spectacle
DIGITAL - 1944 – France – 90min – Black & White
Directed by Claude Lelouch
Cast: Jean Yanne, Gérard Sire
Synopsis: Being at the same time a documentary and a fiction, "LA FEMME
SPECTACLE" denounces modern society which has turned woman into a merchandise,
an object, an instrument of work and pleasure, through fashion magazines, night and strip
clubs. .
Tournage à la campagne
DIGITAL - 1944 – France – 90min – Black & White – Documentary
From an idea by Jean Renoir
Cast : Sylvia Bataille, Georges Saint - Saens, Jeanne Marken
Synopsis: This is a shrewd editing of the unsued rushes, but which were shooted for the
film "Une partie de campagne". This shooting allows us to understand in a better way the
personality of the main actors of the films, as the characteristics of the characters.
Lumière
DIGITAL - 1968 – France – 59min – Black & White – Documentary
Directed by Marc Allegret
Synopsis: Cinema has somewhat lost the memory of its origins. The glory of Mélies
overshadows all that is owed to the Lumière Brothers. They not only invented a camera,
they also created cinema itself. They succeeded in making a living documentary of an
epoch, the first of its kind and from this embryonic technique they made a major art form .
La Direction d’acteur
DIGITAL - 1968 – France – 22 min – Black & White – Documentary
Directed by Gisèle Braunberger
Produced by PIERRE BRAUNBERGER & ROGER FLEYTOUX
Synopsis: Director Jean Renoir is having a rehearasal with actress Gisèle Braunberger,
first asking her not to express any feelings then helping her to play the charcater out of
herself…
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ART & CULTURE
Feature formats
Avant
DCP – HD – 98 & 52 – Uruguay & Argentina
Directed by: Juan Alvarez Neme
Original language: Spanish
Produced by: Tarkio Film
Coproduced by: Trivial Media / ITVS International
With the support of: ITVS International / Programa Ibermedia / FONA / ICAU-BROU /
Montevideo Socio Audiovisual / INCAA
After retiring as a professional dancer, Julio Bocca, one of the most famous ballet dancer
ever, accepts the challenge to direct a forgotten national ballet in its unfinished theatre.
Avant explores the contrast between Bocca ´s quest for excellence and the daily life of
this company, set in a changing scenery that frames the lives of dancers, workers,
cleaners and technicians.
Agnès Letestu: a shining star
HD - France - 2014 – 93 min
Directed by: Marlène Ionesco
Original language: French, English
Produced by: Delange Productions
Synopsis: The film focuses particularly on the last two years of Agnes Letestu's career at
the prestigious Opera Garnier. It takes us to the official farewell of Agnès Letestu with "La
Dame Aux Camelias" by John Neumeier in the evening of October 10th 2013 and
captures those ultimate emotional and magical moments on stage as well as in rehearsals
and backstage.
The testimonies of major choreographers of our time such as William Forsythe, Carolyn
Carlson, Jiri Kylian, Rudolf Nureyev, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Pierre Lacotte,
and other ballet stars like Jose Martinez, Stephane Bullion, Ghislaine Thesmar, bring a
unique insight on Agnes Letestu's work and personality.The film shows many excerpts
from classical and contemporary ballet: "Cinderella" and "Swan Lake" by Nureyev, "The
Prodigal Son" by Balanchine, "Dances at a Gathering" by Jerome Robbins, “Signs” by
Carolyn Carlson, “Wound Work” by William Forsythe...
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In a long interview, this extraordinary dancer opens up and reveals her past, present and
future: a life devoted to ballet dancing.
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O Gringo
HD - 2012 – Serbia & Brazil – 90 min
Directed by Darko Bajic
Original language: Portuguese & Serbian
Produced by Petkovic 10
Synopsis: Brazilian footballer usually becomes famous playing for greatest European
clubs. This film is a story about European player who became a football star in Brazil.
Dejan Petkovic, born in Serbia, is considered the greatest player of all time by many
experts. When he was 37, he won the championship title with Flamengo club and was
voted the best footballer in Brazil. In the Maracana Walk of Fame he left his footprints,
next to football legends like Pele, Zico, Zagalo, Ronaldo, Ronaldino, Kaka, Adriano and
other football legends.
STARRING THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS: ADRIANO & JULIO CESAR
Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
HD - 2012 – USA– 82min
Directed by Bob Hercules
Produced by Lakeview Films Production
In Association with Ocean Films
Synopsis: Mavericks of American Dance tells the story of this groundbreaking cultural
treasure, known as the first truly American dance company. Narrated by Tony and Emmy
Award winner Mandy Patinkin and directed by Bob Hercules (Bill T. Jones-A Good Man),
the film documents how The Joffrey Ballet revolutionized American ballet by daringly
combining modern dance with traditional ballet technique, combining art with social
statement, and setting ballets to pop and rock music scores.
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A Life for Ballet (Une Vie de Ballets)
HD – 2011 – France – 95 min
Directed by: Marlène Ionesco
Produced by DELANGE PRODUCTION, WIDE MANAGEMENT & SUPERSONIC
PRODUCTIONS
Synopsis: The new feature length documentary by Marlène Ionesco focuses on the
talented choreographer, Pierre Lacotte & on his muse Ghislaine Thesmar, prima ballerina
& highly skilled professor at the Opéra de Paris.
They dedicated their whole life to the Ballet. Pierre Lacotte dancer and choreographer,
has composed the most beautiful choreographies (Marco Spada, The Voice, The Night is
the Witch, La Sylphide, Ondine, etc.) performed by the prima ballerinas of the Bolchoï,
the Kirov and the Opéra de Paris.
Nowadays Pierre Lacotte is considered by his peers as the precious guardian of the
romantic ballet. Ghislaine Thesmar continues teaching to the prima ballerinas of the
Opera de Paris.
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A Life for ballet explores 60 years of ballet, from 1954 to 2010, through archives unseen
before. Forty five minutes of ballets excerpts (with the foremost ballerinas such as Rudolf
Noureev, Agnès Letestu, Michael Denard, Evgenia Obratsova, Svetlana Zakharova…)
illustrate the strong testimonies of this unusual couple and give resonance to this poetic,
aesthetic and contemporary opus.
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Dancing Across Borders
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – USA – 87 min
Directed by Anne Bass
Original languages: English & Cambodian
Produced by 123 PRODUCTIONS, INC
With the participation of Benjamin MILLEPIED (choreographer of BLACK SWAN)
Synopsis: On a trip to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia in January 2000, filmmaker
Anne Bass came across a sixteen-year-old boy who moved her immensely with his
amazing natural charm and grace as a dancer. A long time devotee of the world of dance,
Bass felt compelled to give this young boy the opportunity to leave his home and follow a
dream that he could not yet have fully imagined. From the serene countryside of
Southeast Asia to the halls of New York’s School of American Ballet to the stage of the
Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, DANCING ACROSS BORDERS peeks behind the
scenes into the world of dance and chronicles the intimate and triumphant story of a boy
who was discovered, and who only much later discovered all that he had in himself.
Award:
Best Documentary – Milan International Film Festival AWARDS 2010
Like a Dream (Comme un rêve)
HD - France – 90 min
Directed by Marlène ionesco
Original languages: French, Russian& English
Produced by DELANGE PRODUCTION
Synopsis: This documentary focuses on two “prima ballerina” of The Opéra de Paris,
Dominique Khalfouni and her son Mathieu Ganio, who was nominated when he was only
20-year-old. His mother followed another path and left the Opera de Paris. She joined the
Ballet de Marseille of Roland Petit.
This touching documentary goes through Marseille, Paris and St Petersbourg, a story
about dance and emotions, thru life, work, memories, regrets and hopes.
Ballerina
DIGITAL – 2008 - France – 77 min
Directed by Bertrand Normand
Original language: Russian
Produced by ADESIF PRODUCTIONS & LES FILMS DU TAMARIN
Synopsis: Ballerina. Fascinating, enthralling, shrouded in mystery. Hers is a rare art. Her
craft as demanding as an athlete. Her dancing life as brief as a butterfly. All to a vision of
fragile beauty. A vision of what it is to be a woman. And Russia, land of absolutes, of the
cult of beauty, of immensities and of nostalgia where that feminine ideal is celebrated and
held dear. Russia is par excellence the land of the Ballerina. This film follows the destinies
of five female dancers of the Kirov Ballet in Saint-Petersburg. Their lives weave together
to tell the story of the Russian Ballerina of our time, from her beginnings as a child in
dance school to the peak of her glory on the world stages. In this intimate gaze at the
lives, the courage, the disappointments and triumphs of these women, this film unveils the
vitality and uniqueness of the Russian Ballerina today. We come to understand her lasting
allure as we begin the 21st century. Ballerina, as old as Russian history, as new as today.
English Voice Over by Diane Baker
AVAILABLE VERSIONS: ENGLISH, RUSSIAN & FRENCH
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Megunica
DIGITAL – 2008 – Italy – 80 min
Directed by Lorenzo Fonda
Original languages: Spanish & Italian
Produced by MERCURIO CINEMATOGRAFICA
Synopsis: The film is about mural artist Blu at work. It follows him at work in MExico,
GUatemala, NIcaragua, Costarica and Argentina, hence the acronym "Megunica". The
creative development of an artist is what makes him unique and different from the others.
The idea of the film was to see how his art would react to the inputs that these places offer
him.
Day After Day (Jour après jour)
DIGITAL - 2006 – France – 65min – Documentary/Experimental
A film by Jean-Daniel Pollet & Directed by Jean-Paul Fargier
Voice Over: François Chattot
Produced by Marie Balducchi & Patrick Sobelman (EX NIHILO)
Synopsis: He lives in the world like in his own house: motionless. A terrible accident has
nailed him there: a house in the middle of a big garden. He cannot run he world anymore:
he contemplates it from his house. He is a filmmaker; he was only born for making movies.
Always one more: towards and counters all. He has imagined making a movie with all his
fixed images, reanimating them by conjunction, juxtaposition, succession. In the
innumerable batch, he would isolate what is necessary to see a year lasting, four seasons,
day after day.
America as seen by a Frenchman (L’Amérique Insolite)
DIGITAL - 1958 – France – 86min
Directed by François Reichenbach
Produced by LES FILMS DE LA PLEÏADE
Synopsis: "I wanted to shoot the American citizen, from birth to death, in every funny,
burlesque and unusual situation of his life..." I wanted to show his extraordinary youth, his
passions, his taste for violence, his dramas, his niceness and his idosyncracies. I wanted
to be a curious, un - tiring even indiscreet observer but I never allowed myself to be
judgmental".
Avec André Gide
DIGITAL - 1951 – France – 89min – Black & White
Directed by Marc Allegret
Synopsis: A trilogy about André Gide : "AVEC ANDRE GIDE" (28'), "ANDRE GIDE ET
SON OEUVRE" (41'), "JANVIER 1951" (26'). Through documents and interviews, we
discover André Gide, his childhood, his work, the "Nouvelle Revue Française", his trips to
the U.S.S.R., his meeting with Sartre, his books, and the end of his family, social and
artistic lives.
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TV Length
Marvel 14: Super heroes vs. censorship
HD –2012 – France, 26 & 52 min
Directed by: Jean Depelley, Philippe Roure
Produced by Metaluna Productions
Synopsis: “Marvel 14: super heroes vs. censorship” is a documentary that tells the tale
of issue 14 of French comic book Marvel, who was censored and banned before
publication. The Marvel comic books were at the time censored in France, being largely
redrawn and cut for content. Both the left wing (American comics supposedly were
symbols of the American imperialism) and the right wing (for the violent and immoral
content) put pressure on the editors, even with death threats, to stop the mag. Issue 14
was not never released, but a few copy may have survived and it became an urban
legend. The documentary also establishes the history of Marvel comics and widens to the
censorship situation in the late 60s in France.
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Scratch Music
HD – 2012 – France– 52 min
Directed by Denis Ramos et Jérôme Decol
Produced by Idée Originale
Synopsis: Scratch Music is an esthetic and engaged documentary about a fringe
artistic expression: turntablism, or the art of manipulating sounds to create music using
turntables. The film catches the creative energy of these performers, all along their
individual or collective shows. We discover their different visual and sound universes;
where the technicality and creativity have no limits. Scratch Music is a tribute to all these
singular artists.
WITH THE ORIGINAL MUSIC OF DJ PREMIER - DJ NETIK- BEAT TORRENT - C2C!
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On the wall
DIGITAL - 2011 – France – 52 min
Directed by Denis Ramos & Jerôme Decol
Produced by IDEE ORIGINALE
Synopsis: Hip-hop culture has for original philosophy to transform negative into positive.
This movie gets the creative energy which leads the graffiti movement and analyzes the
situations and the contexts of development through five European cities (Paris, Marseille,
Barcelona, Amsterdam and Berlin), thanks to meetings, demonstrations and series of
individual and collective performances.
The movie stages and underlines in particular the style, the originality, the universe and the
recognized works of four European graffiti artist-painters: Besok, MarKo, to Say and Kapi.
Always innovative seizing new tools and new supports, this contemporary movement
evolves and develops all over the world outside institutions.
ON THE WALL pays tribute to the passion of these artists, in their spontaneous creativity
and to their singular philosophy.
Music by F.KO & PEDRO BASS
Mireille Nègre: A devoted dancer
HD/DIGITAL - France - 52 min
Directed by Marlène Ionesco
Original language: French, English
This film redraws an usual path of a life out of time, of a destiny out of the ordinary. An
exceptionnel dancer, when Mireille has to be nominated Etoile of the Opéra in Paris by
Serge Lifar, she leaves the Opéra to become a nun and she remains in the cloister ten
years.
Once she gets out of the cloister, she is recognized Virgin Consacreted by the Cardinal
Lustiger and she creates her own school of dance in Paris.
Flight of Eagle Spirit, Larrio Ekson
DIGITAL - France - 63 min
Synopsis: Larrio Ekson’s portrait, one of the best contemporary dancer who made his
career in Europe by working with Maurice Béjar, Carolyn Carlson and Roland Petit,
spending 7 years at the French Opéra de Paris and 8 in Venice with Carolyn Carlson.
A documentary about his life between Paris, New York and Venice, his childhood as a
young American Native kid growing up in Harlem, interviews of famous choreographers
and theater personalities in New York like la Mama, Ellen Stewart and Martha Clarke.
Views of a Principle Dance (Regards sur une étoile)
DIGITAL - France – 55 min
Synopsis: Between Paris, Florence and Valencia, the portrait of Agnès Letestu, young
French star dancer of the Opéra de Paris. Natural, modest and passionate by her art, hard
worker, talented, she talks about her training at the dance school, her teachers and the
years spent in the ballet before becoming a star dancer.
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Megunica
DIGITAL - 2008 – Italy – 52 min
Directed by Lorenzo Fonda
Original languages: Spanish & Italian
Produced by MERCURIO CINEMATOGRAFICA
Synopsis: The film is about mural artist Blu at work. It follows him at work in MExico,
GUatemala, NIcaragua, Costarica and Argentina, hence the acronym "Megunica". The
creative development of an artist is what makes him unique and different from the others.
The idea of the film was to see how his art would react to the inputs that these places offer
him.
Break Hit
DIGITAL – 2008 – 52 min
Directed by Jérôme Decol & Denis Ramos
Produced by IDÉE ORIGINALE & IDPL
Synopsis: A documentary about Hip Hop culture: the Break Dance reveals six French
dancers (6 champions, winner of international “battle” prizes), who prove their willing and
the positive spirit in this discipline. The original philosophy of Hip Hop is to turn the
negative into positive. This is the reflection of a certain youth’s state of mind, who, while
constructing in the heart of the suburbs, found in this art within the reach of everyone,
such a taste of life, such a will, and such an healthy lifestyle, that they like to compare
themselves to samurais. “The best aspect is you do not require anything in particular. This
is why there are so many Hip Hop followers. You do not event need music” says Kool
Shen, the rap singer and music producer that founded NTM. In the film, breakers witness
of an “energy” or a “magical” they could not resist.
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26 min format
Othello’s Dream (Le Rêve d’Othello)
DIGITAL - France – 21 min
Synopsis: A fiction dance about love, jealousy, madness and death performed by two star
dancers: Agnès Letestu and Larrio Ekson. Choreography by Larrio Ekson
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LIFE STYLE
Series
French Delicatessen, Season 3 (Last Season)
HD – 2015 - France – 35 x 26 min
Directed by Lionel Boisseau
Produced by Injam Production & Miss Luna Film
Synopsis: This is the history of a meeting between a 3-star chef, Guy Martin, and the
best products of French Gastronomy.
During his search of truffle from Périgord, « Beaufort » from Savoy, or the Landes
aspargus, Guy Martin will discuss the products with the best specialists of the sector:
men and women that produce, cultivate and collect them.
For its 3rd season, FRENCH DELICATESSEN shines a light on Termignon’s blue
cheese, Aquitaine’s caviar or Lorraine’s Mirabelle plums. Where do those products
really come from? What’s their story and why use them on the best restaurants in the
world?
EPISODES, Season 3 :
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
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18.
Caviar from Aquitaine
Prawns of Brittany
Chickens of Bresse
Termignon’s blue cheese
Wild Bass
The reblochon
Tomme from Savoy
Wild mushrooms
The morbier
Sweet onions of the Cevennes
Walnut from Périgord
Vegetables seedlings
The Ossau-Iraty
Norman shells
The blue leek from Solaize
Black radish
Chevrotin of Savoy
The beets
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21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
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Crabs of Brittany
The Rocamadour
Oysters from Bouzigues
The rigotte from Condrieu
Sea urchin from Sete
The pelardon fo the Cevennes
The Epoisses
Cuttlefish from Arcachon
Samphire from the Somme Bay
Vercors-Sassenage’s
blue
cheese
Sardines from Quiberon
Provence Herbs
Abalones from Plouguerneau
Eatables flowers
Peaches and Nectarines
Red Fruits
The Mirabelle from Lorraine
GUY MARTIN is the chef of Le Grand Véfour, the legendary Michelin
3-star Parisian restaurant. As a kid, he dreamed of being a doctor or
a rock star. First trained in a pizzeria, 20 years later he is one of the
best chefs in the world, with dozens of awards and restaurants in four
countries.
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French Delicatessen, Season 1 & 2
HD - 2012– France - 35 x26 min
Directed by: Lionel Boisseau
Produced by INJAM PRODUCTION & MISS LUNA FILM, TV5 MONDE
Synopsis:
This is the history of a meeting between a 3-star chef, Guy Martin, and the best products of French
Gastronomy.
During his search of truffle from Périgord, « Beaufort » from Savoy, or the Landes aspargus, Guy
Martin will discuss the products with the best specialists of the sector: men and women that produce,
cultivate and collect them.
Thanks to their help you will discover the history, the unique characteristics, the flavor and the path of
these products from the fields to your dish!
EPISODES, Season 1:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
The Black truffle from Tricastin
The pork from South West
The Scallop from Saint-Brieuc bay
The Lemon from Menton
Mushroom
Oysters from Brittany
The “Brie” from Meaux
The handmade butter
Fishes from Savoy Lake
Blackcurrant from Bourgogne
Strawberries from the South West
The Corsican tangerine
The Corsican chestnut
Mussels from Bouchot
Watercress from Essonne
The yellow chicken from Landes
Honey
EPISODES, Season 2
1. Cocoa from Martinique
2. Reunion’s Vanilla
3. Sweet potatoes
4. Reunion’s Bourbon Coffee
5. Victoria Pineapple
6. Figs from Sollies
7. Bananas from Guadalupe
and
Martinique
8. Carrots from Creances
9. Chees from Citaux Abbey
10. Almonds
11. Saffron
12. Camembert from Normandy
13. Vegetables of yesterday
14. Marrows
15. Chili from Espelette
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19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
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30.
31.
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35.
The art of chopped parsley
Banon Cheese
Apricots
Olives
The St. Jacques from Saint-Brieuc
Bay
Zucchinis
Apples
The wild rise from Camargue
Beaufort Chese
The “Ratte du Touquet” ( potatoe)
The « fois gras » from the South west
Dijon Mustard
Cherries from Monts de Venasque
Flower of Salt
Grapes
Apargus from the Landes sand
Lamb from Sisteron
“Beef heart” tomatoes
16. Algae from Brittany
17. Snails
18. Pears
19. Red-legged crayfishes
20. Mediterranean fishes
21. Prunes from Agen
22. The Comté
23. The Roquefort
24. The Beef
25. The goat cheese from
Chavignol
26. Blue lobster from
Contentin
27. Melon from Cavaillon
SPECIAL EPISODES NOMADIC FLAVOURS 4x52’ & 8x26’
28-29 Meskala Cheese & Argan Oil from Morocco
30-31 Aggost & Herrings from Sweden
32-33 Raclette Cheese & Aromatic Herbs from Switzerland
34-35 Boskarin Cheese & Fish from Croatia
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Paris Style Architecture, Season 3 (Last Season)
HD – 2015 – France – 4 X 26 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by: Christophe Kilian & Amandine Ceccaldi
Produced by Les Producteurs Associés
Season 3
EPISODE 1
Basques Houses
More than just a house, the « Etxe » symbolizes the familial heritage, the base of
the Basque community social and political system. Let us push the door of several
houses to understand the characteristics of the three types of the Basque house.
EPISODE 2
Biarritz: Architecture in a seaside resort
The Biarritz architecture is characterized by a surprising architectural variety, at
least a motley one. By going and meeting numerous houses, we will be able to
enjoy the different styles that coexist harmoniously in the city.
EPISODE 3
Panorama of Architecture in Normandy
Norman house and timbered cottage represent all by themselves the symbol of
Normandy and its archetypal shape. Above the postcard imagery, this is a guided
tour of the mythical architectures of the Norman grove and coast.
EPISODE 4
Le Havre: the poetry of cement
Enlisted in UNESCO World Heritage of mankind of 2015, Le Havre downtown is
an exceptional sample of the post war architecture and town planning. Let
yourself led through innovative exploitation of concrete potentials.
EPISODE 5
The bungalows of Bordeaux
The city of Bordeaux has been for several centuries significant commercial place.
As a witness of this prosperity acquired since the 18th century, town planning of
ancient part of the city reflects the first function of Bordeaux: little warehouses,
stalls and shops form the main part of the urban link inside the historic districts.
EPISODE 6
Bordeaux: the architectural spring
Committed in an ambitious project of urban requalification since 1996, Bordeaux,
the 5th city in France by population, continues its transformation, mixing its
architectural heritage with a new contemporary architecture.
EPISODE 7
Lyon: a trade city
Lyon became at a very early stage a significant commercial place. As the city
grew, a specific figure of the town appeared on the hill of the Croix Rousse district
that used to be from the beginning of the 19th century the silk industry place.
EPISODE 8
Lyon: the architectural turn
Sometimes regarded as wise and discrete, Lyon seemed henceforth to present
the ambition to move on from its prestigious architectural past. A bold and fantasy
wind blow on the facilities of nowadays, with a steady elegance.
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Paris Style Architecture, Saison 1 & 2
HD – 2013 – France – 2 seasons of 4 X 26 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by: Christophe Kilian & Amandine Ceccaldi
Produced by Injam
Season 1
EPISODE 1
11th District Industrial Architecture
During this episode we will discover the industrial architecture in the 11th district of Paris, whose
evolution followed, overt time, and the evolution of material and building techniques.
The analyses of these buildings will allow us not only to understand a specific kind of architecture but
also the history of this laborer district and his work memory. We will show that the industrial heritage
leaved an important mark on the 11th but this trace isn’t at all frozen but it is something that lives
through the craftsmen who always work in the district and the inhabitants who engage to transform
ancient work places to residential buildings but always keeping the industrial aspect of the area.
EPISODE 2
The Bohemian spirit of the 18th district
In this episode we will discover the bohemian spirit which still reigns in the heart of the 18th district and
above all in Montmartre.
The architecture here, as his inhabitants and quarters, has an exceptional variety, with a melting pot of
times and architectural styles and it is impossible to collect everything in one single category. But there
are also enough buildings with a very particular style so that the heterogeneous character of the
quarter doesn’t give only a colorful impression, but make rather the effect of the district in its entirety,
real village where still live many artists.
EPISODE 3
Transformed factories – Ivry sur Seine – at Paris’doors
At Paris border, between the Seine’s banks and railways, the city of Ivry has seen the birth of a new
trend in the art of housing, with the transformation of huge abandoned industrial complex in small
condominium paradise.
Often hidden behind walls, arise exceptional homes that don 'have nothing to envy to Parisian chic.
EPISODE 4
The village spirit in the 20th district– Paris
The youngest district of Paris, the 20th changed itself from a rural tradition to urban habits, this making
a symbolic "village atmosphere."
So after one hundred and fifty years, renovation plans have followed and the destruction of unhealthy
buildings, slums, shacks has not stopped. People and organizations have struggled to prevent the
spread of large groups, and intertwining alleyways nestled in small bungalows with gardens, the
peculiarity of this district, have been preserved. These houses have yet eventually grow old. Now the
bet is to modernize the housing without sacrificing the architectural and urban color that makes the
charm of this district.
Season 2
EPISODE 1
Paris’ Grands Boulevards – Haussmann Style
Paris “Grands Boulevards” are symbolic of an elegance that Parisians associate with the architecture
of their city. This style represents the most famous image of Paris. In this episode, we will push the
door of several apartments to see how we play with the codes of this so "classic" style.
EPISODE 2
Architects Houses in Paris
You know Paris from Haussmann with its buildings and main avenues. Leaving the heart of the city to
the suburb, the urban landscape offers more diversity: neighborhoods are more intimate, bucolic and
some houses even become a setting.
If most of Parisian houses are part of the urban landscape for more than a century, architects are still
building today. However, vacant spaces are rare nowadays... Let’s visit those architectural
masterpieces.
EPISODE 3
Art nouveau in Paris in 1900
At the southern border of Paris, between the Seine and the railroads, Ivry-Sur-Seine city gave birth to
a new housing trend, with the transformation of huge industrial buildings in small condominium
paradises. Often private hideaways, those exceptional accommodations have nothing to envy to the
Parisian chic.
EPISODE 4
Ecological Architecture in Paris
At the time of global warming and major environmental issues, ecological architecture becomes
essential. In a city like Paris, is it an easy implementation? We will look for answers and visit several
ecological homes located in Paris and its surroundings.
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Luxe Factory
HD – 2011 – France– 9 x 23 min - Documentary Serie
Directed by Eric Le Seney
Produced by INJAM PRODUCTION, MISS LUNA FILMS & STYLIA
Synopsis: Trade secrets, unexpected anecdotes, moving portraits, small and big histories:
Luxe Factory regroups an exceptional circle of creators, artists and craftsmen who
maintain the flame of the excellence and transmit the breath of Luxury, also called the art
of the detail.
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Craving Asia, Luxury and Ecology (Envie d’Asie)
HD – 2008 – 6 x 26 min – Documentary Serie
Directed by Thierry Bellaiche
Produced by MISS LUNA FILMS
Synopsis: An enchanting trip into marvellous landscapes of Thailand, India (Rajasthan) and Bali
where
sumptuous hotels shelter lucky visitors. All those 6 outstanding hotels stand in complete harmony
with nature.
6 episodes:
Aman-I-Khas Hotel: A Treasure Of Rajasthan
Amanpuri Hotel: An Millennium Oasis
Amanusa Hotel: A Pearl On The Ocean
Raj Palace Hotel: A Palace Of Maharadjas
Hotel Six Senses: A Dream On The Gulf Of Siam
Ubud Hotel: In The Heart Of The Primeval Forest
AVAILABLE VERSIONS: FRENCH AND ENGLISH
SOME TITLES ARE AVAILBALE IN HD
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ONE-OFFS
Montmartre
From the sacred origins of the hill to its captivating
painters, writers, poets, artists and innkeepers,
MONTMARTRE leaves no stones unturned.
HD - 98 min – France - 2014
Directed by: Philippe Cochinard
Original language: French and/or English versions
Produced by: Webtv communications
From the sacred origins of the hill to its captivating painters, writers, poets, artists and
innkeepers, MONTMARTRE leaves no stones unturned.
An exploratory journey through the dreamlike "Château des Brouillards", painters like
Corot and Renoir, the diversity of religious buildings from the ancient Saint Peter
church to the recent Saint John, but also Montmartre’s famous vineyard, among
other locations.
MONTMARTRE is both mystical and revolutionary, and this documentary will shed a
new light to this famous Paris' area, paradoxically not so known, through a
fascinating historical journey.
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MONTMARTRE is the first episode of a 10 documentaries collections entitled I LOVE
PARIS and the next episodes will be about the CHAMPS-ELYSEES & SAINT-GERMAIN.
PROSPECTION LINKS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND and available in French, English,
Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese and Russian
High Parisian Jewelry
HD - 2012 – France– 52 min
Directed by Eric Le Seney
Produced by INJAM PRODUCTION, MISS LUNA FILMS & STYLIA
Synopsis: Diamonds, ruby, sapphires, and emeralds …Three of the most important
Parisian jewelries opened their doors of their studios to tell the secrets of their knowhow:
Lorenz Baumer, the youngest, Mellerio also named Meller the elder and Chaumet, the
most emblematic.
Guy Martin, Portrait of a Great Chef (Guy Martin, Portrait d’un grand chef)
Directed by Lionel Boisseau
Produced by MISS LUNA FILMS
Synopsis: From its native Savoy, where he was initiated by his parents with the alchemy
of savors, in Japan, where he takes care of the destinies of one of the best restaurant of
Osaka, while passing by its cave of Le Grand Véfour… Initiatory and gastronomical
voyage in the steps of one of the atypical Masters of the French cooking. The secrecies of
a great chef, the intimacy of a man. Hat three times spangled, directing Le Grand Véfour
in Paris, Guy Martin was crowned best European cook and best chef of the XXIth century
in Japan and in Switzerland.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS
Features
Nuclear Nation II
Many people have forgotten what happened in
Fukushima. Four years later, for 130 000 residents,
temporary housing became a modern-day refugee
camp.
DCP - HD – 2015 – Japan – 114 & 90 min
Directed by: Atsushi Funahashi
Original language: Japanese
Produced by: Big River Films & Documentary Japa
Following the 2011 events and the first documentary Atsushi Funahashi directed,
NUCLEAR NATION II analyses the evolution as of December 2014.
It follows a new group of people exiled from Futaba, the region occupied by the
crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Nothing has changed yet for the refugees, away from their home like lost souls and
still hoping to be compensated.
Through their agonies and frustrations, the film unravels the cost of capitalism and
nuclear energy
FESTIVAL:
BERLIN 2015 – Official selection – FORUM section
GREEN FILM FESTIVAL SEOUL 2015 – Special Mention
Cinéma Du Réel – International Competition
BOZAR cinéma – Special Screening
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A Turning Tide in the Life of Men
Understanding people, understanding Europe
DCP – HD - 106 min – France & Ireland – 2015
Directed by: Loic Jourdain
Original language: English, Gaelic
Produced by: Idée Originale, Lugh Films and South Wind Blows
Filmed over eight years, A Turning Tide in the Life of Man follows John O’Brien, a
small-scale fisherman from the island of Inis Bó Finne, as he embarks on a journey to
save his community by navigating the corridors of Brussels and the intricacies of a
reform of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy reform.
The film is evidence of the threats faced by small-scale fishermen and coastal
communities throughout Europe today - the complexity of distant political decisionmaking and yet the impact of it on vulnerable communities. We accompany John, his
family and friends, and see how they cope with the stresses of years of meetings,
politicians promise, the anxiety of being away, but also gathering the support of
island communities across Europe and from environmental NGOs. We witness how
John, and the community, come to the realization that they are only a small piece of
a much larger puzzle in which the growing reality of overfishing, environmental
decline, and economic pressure all compete for solutions …
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This is the story of a man, the story of a community, a country and all of Europe.
"A gutsy movie in the spirit of Robert Flaherty."
Steve Martin - Irish Post Film Critic.
A 52’ version entitled Big Fish Small Fish also exists!
Champ of the Camp
HD – 2013 –United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Lebanon – 75 & 52 min
Directed by: Mahmoud Kaabour
Original language: Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Bhojpuri and English.
Produced by: Veritas Films
Synopsis: “Champ of the Camp” is the first ever feature-length documentary filmed in
the controversial labor camps of the United Arab Emirates. The film follows a massive
Bollywood singing and trivia competition that searches across more than 70 camps
throughout the country to find and crown the champ of all camps.
The film alternates between the x-factor style suspense of the competition and the
gritty reality of the labor environment, while weaving in intimate access scenes of their
daily routines and emotional reflections on their life as laborers in Dubai. Narrated (and
sung) entirely in the voices of the laborers, it paints a complete portrait of this vast and
isolated population of men who come to build the dream cities of the Arab world while
supporting their societies and economies back home.
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Plot for Peace
DCP – HD – South Africa – 2013 – 84 min
Directed by: Carlos Agullo', Mandy Jacobson
Original languages: English, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Spanish
Produced by: INDELIBLE MEDIA PTY LTD
Synopsis: This is the untold story behind History, a well-kept secret behind the
world-wide icon: Nelson Mandela's release was a Plot for Peace. For the first time,
heads of state, generals, diplomats, master spies and anti-apartheid fighters reveal
how Africa's front line states helped end apartheid. Their improbable key to
Mandela's prison cell was a mysterious French businessman, dubbed "Monsieur
Jacques" in classified correspondence. His trade secret was trust.
Awards:
Festival Internacional de Cine Politico: Primera Mención Competencia Oficial
Internacional de Largometrajes.
Festival Regards sur le Cinéma du Monde 2014: Jury
Galway Film Festival 2013: Human Right Documentary Competition – Best
International Feature Documentary
Hamptons Intl Film Festival 2013: Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for a
film depicting positive Conflict & Resolution
Sao Paulo Intl Film Festival 2013: Best International Documentary Award from
the jury & audience
Palm Springs International Film Festival – Jury Price
All of us Guinea-Pigs Now?
DCP - HD – 118 minutes – France – 2012
Directed by: Jean-Paul JAUD
Original Languages: French/Japanese/English
Produced by J+B Séquences
Synopsis: From 2009 to 2011, under a total secrecy, Professor Séralini and the
*CRIIGEN led an experience on a *GMO and the herbicide Roundup. The conclusions
are appalling… After Chernobyl’s disaster, the invisible radioactivity reappeared in
March 2011 with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. GMO’s, NUCLEAR POWER:
we use and accept those technologies without medical or environmental independent
tests. Are we all of us guinea-pigs now?
*Committee for Research and Independent Information on Genetic Engineering
*The Monsanto corn NK 603
An African Awakening (Sababou)
Directed by Samir BENCHIKH
Produced by DOCKER FILMS
Synopsis: It is the story of 4 people struggling in Africa in order to change their life …
Each one on his level, they set up ambitious projects.
There is Tiken Jah Fakoly who tries to convince that positive Africa exists. Singer
recognized worldwide, he mobilizes politicians on peace actions and tries to support and
represent the voice of all these unknown persons who act in everyday life. Among these
unknown persons, there are Rosine, Michel and Diabson who have the same purpose …
fighting for education, justice and culture.
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As if we were catching a cobra
DCP – HD – 2012 –Syria – 120 min
Directed by Hala ALABDALLA
Original languages: Syrian
Produced by LES PRODUCTIONS DE L’OEIL SAUVAGE and RAMADFILM
Synopsis: During the two years of the production of the film – from the beginning of
the summer of 2010 to that of 2012 – major upheavals occurred in the Middle East,
especially in the two countries the film focuses on, Egypt and Syria.
It was hardly surprising that a film on the freedom of expression and its repression in
these countries should be drawn into the wake of the turbulent events of the
revolutions under way there…
By questioning Egyptian and Syrian cartoonists about their experiences before and
after these major historic movements against despotism, the film attempts to gauge the
new-found freedom that will also guarantee our future and our right of expression, and
preserve us from censorship.
The Syrian writer and journalist Samar Yazbek provides us with her insight and
impressions from Damascus in the months preceding the Syrian revolution up until her
exile in France five months later.
Nuclear Nation
HD – 2012 – Japan – 90 min – Documentary
Produced by Big River Films & Documentary Japan
Synopsis: A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents, the region housing the
The day after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, Futaba locals heard the
hydrogen explosion at Reactor Number 1 and were showered with nuclear fallout. In
response, the Japanese government designated the whole town as an "exclusion zone"
and 1,400 of the town's residents fled to an abandoned high school 250 kilometers away.
The entire community, including the Town Hall office, was moved into the four-story
building, making the residents nuclear refugees.
The film portrays the evacuees as the nuclear disaster situation changes over time.
Open Sky (À Ciel ouvert)
HD – 2011 – France – 94 min – Documentary
Directed by Iñès Compan
Produced by MOSAÏQUE FILMS & LE HAMAC ROUGE PRODUCTION
Synopsis: Puna, Argentina. Kollas natives suddenly find themselves in the center of
national and international stakes because of their underground natural resources. Indeed,
Standard Silver, a Canadian company, launches an ambitious project of an open sky silver
mine on the abandoned site of Mina Pirquitas, 4,500 m high. This mine is to become one
of the most productive one in Latin America, Standard Silver getting the monopole over
the underground natural resources disturbing also the fragile balance of the Kollas natives
living on poverty. Kollas thus become victims of the globalization with this new mining
boom associated to the decreasing metal exchange rate, the latter being essential to the
technological development of our modern societies.
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Cara a Muerte - La Vida Loca
HD & 35 mm - 2010 – France / Spain / Mexico – 90 min – Documentary
Directed by Christian Poveda
Produced by LA FEMME ENDORMIE, AQUELARRE & EL CAIMAN
Synopsis: In Central America, they are called Maras, these groups of youngsters who
have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent
and are propagating terror in El Salvador and elsewhere. This is a study, through
photography and the personal stories of these gang members, of a violent phenomenon
that has been imported from the USA.
Available bonuses:
MADE IN USA, a presentation of LA VIDA LOCA
12 ' - in 3 languages (French, Spanish, English) - AVAILABLE ON DVD
OCTV, an interview of POVEDA about his personal relations with the Maras.
21 minutes - AVAILABLE ON DVD
ZARAFA FILMS – “REVOLUCION O MUERTE”, one of Poveda's old reportages
(1981)
51'- ONLY ON QUICKTIME FOR NOW FESTIVAL HORIZONTES LATINO, SAN
SEBASTIAN, an interview of Poveda
1 x 2'30'' and 1 x 18' - AVAILABLE ON DVD
CAPA TV - "L'EFFET PAPILLON", a French reportage about Poveda's death (made
4-5 days after)
7'46'' - AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL BETA
CAPA TV – “CARNET DE ROUTE”, a French reportage about Poveda's death, about
the investigation, about what people he interviewed think about his death etc.
31' - AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL BETA
Children of Don Quixote (act 1) (Les Enfants de Don Quichotte Acte 1)
2008 – France – 75 min – Documentary
Directed by Ronan DENECE, Augustin LEGRAND, Jean-Baptiste LEGRAND
Produced by Jean-Baptiste Legrand (SOCIETE CENTRALE ELECTRIQUE)
Co-produced by Mathieu Kassovitz (MNP production) with Augustin LEGRAND “13
TZAMETI
Synopsis: On October 26th 2006, two citizens, Augustin Legrand and Pascal Oumaklouf
decided to federate the homeless people and force the French government to respect their
fundamental rights. They set up a true entrenched camp in the heart of Paris, on the Canal
St Martin, where a new resistance stood up.
This is the story of their struggle and this film was conceived as a tool, a weapon to extend
their fight.
Festivals:
Cannes International Critics' Week 2008, France
Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2008, Argentina
CPH: DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 2008, Denmark
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Carla’s List (La liste de Carla)
2006 – Switzerland – 95 min – Documentary
Directed by Marcel SCHUPBACH
Original language: French, English, Italian, Serbian
Produced by Jean-Louis Porchet (Cab Productions)
Synopsis: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a woman is
fighting to get the last fugitive war criminals under arrest. They are called Ratko Mladic,
Radovan Karadzic, and Ante Gotovina. Her name is Carla Del Ponte. For the very first
time, a camera has been allowed behind the scenes of the ICTY, and follows day by day
the work of the Attorney General and his team. The journey brings us from The Hague to
New York, from Belgrade to Washington, Zagreb or Luxemburg, in a thrilling atmosphere
of manhunt, gambling and risk. We follow her quest between truth and lies, between
success and deceived hopes, fake news, and lobbying.
Awards:
Swiss Cinema Award for Best Documentary Film 2007
TV Length
Nuclear Nation II
Many people have forgotten what happened in
Fukushima. Four years later, for 130 000 residents,
temporary housing became a modern-day refugee
camp.
DCP - HD – 2015 – Japan –52 min
Produced by: Big River Films & Documentary Japa
Following the 2011 events and the first documentary Atsushi Funahashi directed,
NUCLEAR NATION II analyses the evolution as of December 2014.
It follows a new group of people exiled from Futaba, the region occupied by the
Nothing has changed yet for the refugees, away from their home like lost souls and
still hoping to be compensated.
Through their agonies and frustrations, the film unravels the cost of capitalism and
nuclear energy
FESTIVAL:
BERLIN 2015 – Official selection – FORUM section
GREEN FILM FESTIVAL SEOUL 2015 – Special Mention
Cinéma Du Réel – International Competition
BOZAR cinéma – Special Screening
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BIG FISH SMALL FISH
Understanding people, understanding Europe
DCP – HD - 52 min – France & Ireland – 2015
Directed by: Loic Jourdain
Original language: English, Gaelic
Produced by: Idée Originale, Lugh Films and South Wind Blows
Filmed over eight years, A Turning Tide in the Life of Man follows John O’Brien, a
small-scale fisherman from the island of Inis Bó Finne, as he embarks on a journey to
save his community by navigating the corridors of Brussels and the intricacies of a
reform of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy reform.
The film is evidence of the threats faced by small-scale fishermen and coastal
communities throughout Europe today - the complexity of distant political decisionmaking and yet the impact of it on vulnerable communities. We accompany John, his
family and friends, and see how they cope with the stresses of years of meetings,
politicians promise, the anxiety of being away, but also gathering the support of
island communities across Europe and from environmental NGOs. We witness how
John, and the community, come to the realization that they are only a small piece of
a much larger puzzle in which the growing reality of overfishing, environmental
decline, and economic pressure all compete for solutions …
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This is the story of a man, the story of a community, a country and all of Europe.
"A gutsy movie in the spirit of Robert Flaherty."
Steve Martin - Irish Post Film Critic.
Champ of the Camp
HD – 2013 –United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Lebanon – 52 min
Directed by: Mahmoud Kaabour
Original language: Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Bhojpuri and English.
Produced by: Veritas Films
“Champ of the Camp” is the first ever feature-length documentary filmed in the
controversial labor camps of the United Arab Emirates. The film follows a massive
Bollywood singing and trivia competition that searches across more than 70 camps
throughout the country to find and crown the champ of all camps.
The film alternates between the x-factor style suspense of the competition and the
gritty reality of the labor environment, while weaving in intimate access scenes of their
daily routines and emotional reflections on their life as laborers in Dubai. Narrated (and
sung) entirely in the voices of the laborers, it paints a complete portrait of this vast and
isolated population of men who come to build the dream cities of the Arab world while
supporting their societies and economies back home.
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Three Letters from China
DCP - HD – 2013 – Switzerland – 52min – Color
Directed by: Luc Schaedler
Original language: Chinese
Produced by : Go Between Films gmbh – Luc Schaedler I Josie Meier
Synopsis: Based on three different places, the film portrays the infractions to which
people living in modern day China are subjected due to rapid developments: in the
deceptively idyllic Jiuxiancun in the rainy south; in the apocalyptic coal mining site of
Minqin and Wusutu in the parched north; and in Chongqing, the megacity on the
Yangtze River. The protagonists give their moving accounts of an unresolved past, an
uncertain present and their tentative steps into the future. The film thus paints a
complex image of the mental state of the people in this complicated country.
“Watermarks” is a subjective snapshot in time that takes a poetic look at the changing
everyday life in China.
Awards:
Silk Road Film Festival 2014 – Best Documentary
TRT Documentary Award 2014- Republic Of Turkey Ministry Of Culture &
Tourism Special Prize
Plot for Peace
DCP – HD – South Africa – 2013 – 57 min
Directed by: Carlos Agullo', Mandy Jacobson
Original languages: English, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Spanish
Produced by: INDELIBLE MEDIA PTY LTD
This is the untold story behind History, a well-kept secret behind the world-wide icon:
Nelson Mandela's release was a Plot for Peace. For the first time, heads of state,
generals, diplomats, master spies and anti-apartheid fighters reveal how Africa's front
line states helped end apartheid. Their improbable key to Mandela's prison cell was a
mysterious French businessman, dubbed "Monsieur Jacques" in classified
correspondence. His trade secret was trust.
Awards:
Festival Internacional de Cine Politico: Primera Mención Competencia Oficial
Internacional de Largometrajes.
Festival Regards sur le Cinéma du Monde 2014: Jury
Galway Film Festival 2013: Human Right Documentary Competition – Best
International Feature Documentary
Hamptons Intl Film Festival 2013: Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for a film
depicting positive Conflict & Resolution
Sao Paulo Intl Film Festival 2013: Best International Documentary Award from
the jury & audience
Palm Springs International Film Festival – Jury Price
Nuclear Nation
HD – 2012 – Japan – 52 min – Documentary
Produced by Big River Films & Documentary Japan
Synopsis: A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents, the region housing the
The day after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, Futaba locals heard the
hydrogen explosion at Reactor Number 1 and were showered with nuclear fallout. In
response, the Japanese government designated the whole town as an "exclusion zone"
and 1,400 of the town's residents fled to an abandoned high school 250 kilometers away.
The entire community, including the Town Hall office, was moved into the four-story
building, making the residents nuclear refugees.
The film portrays the evacuees as the nuclear disaster situation changes over time.
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Open Sky (À Ciel ouvert)
HD – 2011 – France – 52 min – Documentary
Directed by Iñès Compan
Produced by MOSAÏQUE FILMS & LE HAMAC ROUGE PRODUCTION
Synopsis: Puna, Argentina. Kollas natives suddenly find themselves in the center of
national and international stakes because of their underground natural resources. Indeed,
Standard Silver, a Canadian company, launches an ambitious project of an open sky silver
mine on the abandoned site of Mina Pirquitas, 4,500 m high. This mine is to become one
of the most productive one in Latin America, Standard Silver getting the monopole over
the underground natural resources disturbing also the fragile balance of the Kollas natives
living on poverty. Kollas thus become victims of the globalization with this new mining
boom associated to the decreasing metal exchange rate, the latter being essential to the
technological development of our modern societies.
Cara a Muerte - La Vida Loca
HD - 2010 – France / Spain / Mexico – 52 min – Documentary
Directed by Christian Poveda
Produced by LA FEMME ENDORMIE, AQUELARRE & EL CAIMAN
Synopsis: In Central America, they are called Maras, these groups of youngsters who
have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent
and are propagating terror in El Salvador and elsewhere. This is a study, through
photography and the personal stories of these gang members, of a violent phenomenon
that has been imported from the USA.
Available bonuses:
MADE IN USA, a presentation of LA VIDA LOCA
OCTV, an interview of POVEDA about his personal relations with the Maras.
“REVOLUCION O MUERTE”, one of Poveda's old reportages (1981)
FESTIVAL HORIZONTES LATINO, SAN SEBASTIAN, an interview of Poveda
"L'EFFET PAPILLON", a reportage about Poveda's death (made 4-5 days after)
“CARNET DE ROUTE”, a French reportage about Poveda's death, about the
investigation, about what people he interviewed think about his death etc.
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Carla’s List (La liste de Carla)
2006 – Switzerland – 52min – Documentary
Directed by Marcel SCHUPBACH
Original language: French, English, Italian, Serbian
Produced by Jean-Louis Porchet (Cab Productions)
Synopsis: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a woman is
fighting to get the last fugitive war criminals under arrest. They are called Ratko Mladic,
Radovan Karadzic, and Ante Gotovina. Her name is Carla Del Ponte. For the very first
time, a camera has been allowed behind the scenes of the ICTY, and follows day by day
the work of the Attorney General and his team. The journey brings us from The Hague to
New York, from Belgrade to Washington, Zagreb or Luxemburg, in a thrilling atmosphere
of manhunt, gambling and risk. We follow her quest between truth and lies, between
success and deceived hopes, fake news, and lobbying.
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White Terror
2006 – France/Switzerland – 52min
Directed by Daniel SCHWEIZER
Original language: French, English, Russian
Produced by Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (Samir)
Synopsis: White Terror is the last part of a trilogy on skinheads, hate and racism. Over
two years of investigation on the most active extremist group revealed the international
links between them from Stockholm to Dallas via Moscow. Daniel Schweizer, director of
acclaimed documentary skinhead Attitude, investigates the forces that hide behind the
“White Power” and the “New Racist” slogans.
Skinhead Attitude
2003 – Switzerland – 52min - Documentary
Directed by Daniel SCHWEIZER
Original language: French, English, German
Produced by Samir (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG)
Synopsis: «Skinhead Attitude» is a road movie following Karole, a modern skinhead girl,
traditional and anti - racist. The film is a musical journey which draws a portrait of
contemporary young skinheads. The documentary outlines the history of forty years of
skinhead movement through unpublished archives and witnesses. The documentary
reconstructs the history of the movement, originated by the left wing proletarian youth; and
of its transformation and radicalization by the extreme Right, and the neonazis have turned
away this movement from its original roots.
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HISTORY AND ARCHIVES
Feature format
This ain’t California
HD – 2012 – Germany – 90 min – Color/ Black & white
Directed by Marten Persiel
Produced by Wildfremd Production GmbH,
Synopsis: A hymn to the subversive power of vitality, this fast-paced documentary
takes us on a trip through the strange unknown world of the ‘Rollbrettfahrer’ as
skateboarders were known in the GDR, a country where besides those loyal to the
regime, there was also an avowed political resistance. Apart from this, there was also a
movement of young rebels whose only raison d’être was the illusion of staying young,
immortal and non-committal. In THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA three kids discover their love
of skateboarding on the cracked asphalt of the GDR – a madcap, even unacceptable
sport that was perhaps so incredibly exciting because of its nuttiness. This punk
fairytale created by a bunch of kids who luckily possessed sufficiently manic levels of
energy to record their lives on Super-8mm film, shows us life in the GDR life as it has
never been seen before. The film follows its three main protagonists from their
childhood in the seventies, through their turbulent teens in the eighties right up to that
autumn of 1989 when they were twenty and suddenly, everything they had known up to
that point was about to change forever.
With the support of Arte and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
HD – 2011 – Sweden / USA – 92 min
Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson
Original languages: English, Swedish
Produced by STORY AB
Co-Produced by LOUVERTURE FILMS & SVERIGES TELEVISION
Synopsis: The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power
Movement in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. The film combines
music, startling 16mm footage (lying undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for
30 years), and contemporary audio interviews from leading African American artists,
activists, musicians and scholars.
Award:
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2011
Co-produced by Danny Glover & Joselyn Barnes
Music produced by Ahmir Questlove Thompson & Om’Mas Keith
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The First Rasta (Le Premier Rasta)
Directed by Hélène Lee & Christophe Farnarier
Produced by KIDAM & CYPER PRODUCTION
Synopsis: At the beginning of the last century, the young Leonard Percival Howell (1893
– 1981) left Jamaica, became a sailor and travelled the world. On his way, he chanced
upon all the ideas that stirred his time. From Bolshevism to New Thought, from Gandhi to
anarchism, from Garveyism to psychoanalysis, he sought to find his promised land. With
this cocktail of ideas Leonard “Gong” Howell returned to Jamaica and founded Pinnacle,
the first Rasta community in 1939.
Featuring: Bunny Lee, Groundation , Max Romeo, The Abyssinians
Mai 68, La Belle Ouvrage
DIGITAL - 1968/2008 – France – 117 min – Black & White
Directed by Jean - Luc Magneron
Produced by WIDE MANAGEMENT
Synopsis: A rare documentary about the Mai 68 riots in Paris with many testimonies from
unknown and well-known witnesses. Shot during the events by Jean - Luc Magneron, this
poignant documentary with interviews brings a new light on the events. On April 1998,
some excerpts, entitled “It was your May 68”, were broadcasted during french TV show
“La Marche du siècle” hosted by Jean-Marie Cavada, at the occasion of the 30th birthday
of the events.
The Journey, the Greek American Dream
HD - 2007 – Greece / United States – 87min – Color /B&W
Directed by Maria Iliou
Historian: Alexander Kitroeff
Produced by PROTEUS
Synopsis: While conducting research on a feature film "A Friendship in Smyrna,"
filmmaker Maria Iliou discovered a wealth of previously unseen archival photographic and
film footage from over fifty public and private collections which tell the fascinating history of
Greek immigrants to the United States. Along with historian Alexander Kitroeff and several
scholars and guests, she brings these stories and photographs to life in order to explore
and document a very special story from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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My Country (Il mio paese)
DIGITAL– 2006 – Italy – 113 min
Directed by Daniele Vicari
Produced by VIVO FILM
Synopsis: A documentary where the images of Ivens are a constant reference, a thematic
and narrative suggestion, where the discovery of an industrial and post-industrial Italian
landscape with great visual impact is grafted. The country is seen today as compared with
forty-five years ago, together with a picture of a unique historical moment and a page of
great cinema.
Angry Monk: Reflection on Tibet
DIGITAL– 2005 – Switzerland – 97 min – Color & Black / White – Documentary
Directed by Luc Schaedler
Original languages: English & Tibetan
Produced by ANGRY MONK PRODUCTIONS
Synopsis: Tibet – the mystical roof of the world, peopled with enlightened monks? Only
one of them wouldn't toe the line: Gendun Choephel, the errant monk who left the
monastic life in 1934 in search of a new challenge. A free spirit and multifaceted individual,
he was far ahead of his time and has since become a seminal figure, a symbol of hope for
a free Tibet. A rebel and voluble critic of the establishment, Gendun Choephel kindled the
anger of the Tibetan authorities.
Le Temps du ghetto
DIGITAL – 1961 – France – 82min – Black & White
Directed by Frédéric Rossif
Synopsis: On an event as unique as the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, we made an
experiment: an attempt to remember the former times.
Paris 1900
DIGITAL – 1946 – France – 79min – Black & White – Documentary
Directed by Nicole Vedres
Synopsis: A chronicle of life in Paris between 1900 and 1914, this film is made out of
genuine documents and footage from over 700 different films. It is considered as a model
of editing.
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52 min format
In search for Josephine [2 X 52’]
HD - 2012 – France – 2 X 52 min – Docu-Drama Series / History
Directed by Eric Elléna
Original language: English & French versions
Synopsis: This two-part documentary series revisits the life of an incredibly modern
woman from her childhood spent in the island of Martinique, to her coronation as an
Empress at age 41, and finally to her death – from a simple cold – ten years later in her
palace, Malmaison. We find ourselves retracing her steps in France and Italy and
discover a character much more complex and interesting than what has been written
about her by previous historians.
With the help of historical reenactments, paintings and illustrations, this revealing
documentary series reconstructs the important moments of her extraordinary life.
Having survived a devastating hurricane, a death sentence, firing cannons, a bombing
and even a balcony fall, Josephine continues to fascinate millions of people worldwide,
not only because she was wife to one of the most well-known characters in history, but
also because the life she led – full of drama and grandeur – was greater than any role
ever imagined in fiction.
Produced by FRENCH CONNECTION FILMS
Co-Produced by Quasar Multimedia, Vosges Television
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
HD – 2011 – Sweden / USA – 52 min
Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson
Original languages: English, Swedish
Produced by STORY AB
Co-Produced by LOUVERTURE FILMS & SVERIGES TELEVISION
Synopsis: The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power
Movement in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975. The film combines
music, startling 16mm footage (lying undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for
30 years), and contemporary audio interviews from leading African American artists,
activists, musicians and scholars.
Award:
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2011
Featuring: Bunny Lee, Groundation , Max Romeo, The Abyssinians
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A French Diplomate in Santiago (Un diplomate français à Santiago (1973-1976)
Directed by Patricio Paniagua
Original languages: Spanish, French
Synopsis: Chile, September 11th 1973. General Pinochet’s tanks and planes are
murdering Chilean Popular Unity. CIA, Pentagone, Nixon’s men are working on it
backstage. Pablo Neruda is dying. Salvatore Allende does not abdicate. Then start stalks,
serial murders, book burnings. In Santiago, French diplomat Roland Husson tries to turn
French Embassy into a shelter for tens of writers, academics and poets against military
violence. But what can be done when authorities talk with guns, burn books, cut guitar
chords and guitarplayers’ hands?
Mai 68, La Belle Ouvrage
DIGITAL - 1968/2008 – France – 52 min – Black & White
Directed by Jean - Luc Magneron
Synopsis: A rare documentary about the Mai 68 riots in Paris with many testimonies from
unknown and well-known witnesses. Shot during the events by Jean - Luc Magneron, this
poignant documentary with interviews brings a new light on the events. On April 1998,
some excerpts, entitled “It was your May 68”, were broadcasted during french TV show
“La Marche du siècle” hosted by Jean-Marie Cavada, at the occasion of the 30th birthday
of the events.
Angry Monk: Reflection on Tibet
DIGITAL– 2005 – Switzerland – 52 min – Color & Black / White – Documentary
Directed by Luc Schaedler
Original languages: English & Tibetan
Produced by ANGRY MONK PRODUCTIONS
Synopsis: Tibet – the mystical roof of the world, peopled with enlightened monks? Only
one of them wouldn't toe the line: Gendun Choephel, the errant monk who left the
monastic life in 1934 in search of a new challenge. A free spirit and multifaceted individual,
he was far ahead of his time and has since become a seminal figure, a symbol of hope for
a free Tibet. A rebel and voluble critic of the establishment, Gendun Choephel kindled the
anger of the Tibetan authorities.
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HUMAN STORIES & SOCIAL ISSUES
Feature format
Anna’s Gate
DCP / HD – 2014 – France – 82 min – Documentary
Directed by: Patrick Dumont & François Hebrard
Produced by: Maybe Movies
Synopsis: “Anna’s Gate” takes us in the life of a child psychiatric hospital in a group
of kids with various mental disorders.
With no prejudices, without controversy either, we share the hard, titanic and
profoundly human work that is accomplished daily by caregivers and educators.
The documentary reflects the joys and sorrows of those disabled teenagers.
Through poetic images and music, the film places us in a sensitive state. Take the
time to open Anna’s gate, to meet these young people with an extraordinary destiny,
to share their perspective on the world.
3 Minutes (3 Minutos)
DCP – HD - 2014 – Spain – 75min
Directed by: Álvaro Torrellas
Produced by: La Fábrika Films
Synopsis: The story of 3 Minutes wheels around the character of Antonio Rodriguez,
aka El Bigotes, an old Sevillian boxing trainer who rescues boys from the streets since
30 years. What Antonio does is just open the door to people whom life, society, law
and even family have denied a second chance.
Through the stories of three young boys, who have a lot of things in common, we will
find out how Antonio is the key in those boys life as well as in their process of social
reintegration. Where school, psychologists and reformatories have failed, Antonio finds
solutions.
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The Special Need
DCP - HD – 2013 – Germany / Italy - 82 min – Documentary
Directed by: Carlo Zoratti
Produced by :DETAiLFILM and Videomante
Synopsis Enea is 29 and looking for love – physical love that is. But as an autistic living
in Italy, this is anything but easy.…
From Bolzano to Linz, Zurich and Hamburg, Enea and his two best friends, Carlo and
Alex embark upon a journey that will take them far beyond what they initially imagined.
More people will join the mission and a series of unexpected events will divert the van
from the initial destination towards new paths.
What started as an expedition aimed at having sex soon becomes a journey into Enea’s
most intimate feelings and a way for the three friends to explore their own conception of
love, friendship and freedom.
Awards:
SXSW 2014 - SX Global: Audience Award
ZagrebDox International Documentary FF 2014 - Small Stamp for the best film by
a first time filmmaker
Trieste Film Festival - Best Documentary Award
DOK Leipzig – German Competition - Golden Dove
IDFF Flahertina -Special Jury Mention
Edox - Lithuania - Special Jury Award -
213 The Gang Project
HD – 2012 – USA – 90 min
Directed by ROBERT E. BALL, JR
Synopsis: 213 THE GANG PROJECT is a powerful, moving and highly stylized feature
length documentary that dramatically captures the highs and horrors of Los Angeles’
infamous Gang culture -- Black, White and Brown -- behind prison bars and in the
streets of L.A but also follows gang members’ wives.
The documentary introduces Zone, Chako, Grumpy and Mr. Cholo with Devil Face, The
Aryan Princess, Puppet, Bandit, Tanjareen and Jim Runion. Music is by Dirty Daniel
and Otto of Never Dead, Bill Wandel, Zone, Rick Hard, Final War and Jose Reyes.
“I’m sorry for my sins. Please forgive me. If not, then I deserve to go to hell.”
Bandit, of Villa Boyz
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Death Metal Angola
DCP – HD – 83 min – USA
Directed by: Jeremy Xido
Original Language: Portuguese
Produced by: COALITION FILMS, CABULA6
Synopsis: Following nearly 40 years of unrelenting war – with every attendant horror –
peace and reconstruction are slowly arriving to Angola. Damaged first by the war for
independence from Portugal, Angola was then ripped apart by a devastating civil war
that orphaned thousands of children. Huambo, Angola’s second largest city, finds 55 of
these children in the Okutiuka orphanage under the care of Sonia Ferreira. Sonia’s
boyfriend, Wilker Flores, is a death metal guitarist who uses the brutal sounds and
rhythms of this hardcore music as a path to healing, or, as Sonia says, “to clear out the
debris from all these years of war.”
DEATH METAL ANGOLA tracks Wilker and Sonia’s dream – to stage Angola’s first-ever
national rock concert, bringing together members from different strands of the Angolan
hardcore scene from different provinces – as it unfolds in fits and starts against the
bombed out and mined backdrop of the formerly stately Huambo. Rubble and
deconstructed spaces provide scenic reminders of why hardcore music has gained a
foothold.
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New Life
DCP - HD – 2012 – Czech Republic, Slovak Republic - 80 min – Color and B&W
Directed by Adam Ol’ha
Original Language: Slovak & English
Produced by: Evolution Films
Synopsis: The big Slovak family. Seven women and just one man left.
Father couldn't managed them and found another woman.
Son, "the only man standing" is trying to understand father's act and women's world.
Takes the tools of his father - camera and many photos left to find men's role in "such a
family". How he can learn from parent's divorce and how can he teach his sisters to
divorce well in the future?
In My Mother’s Arms
DCP - HD – 2011 – UK, The Netherlands, Iraq – 85 min
Directed by Atia Al Daradji & Mohamed Al Daradji
Original Language: Arabic
Produced by: Human Film & Iraq Al Rafidain
Synopsis: Husham works tirelessly to build the hopes, dreams and prospects of the 32
damaged children of war, under his care at a small orphanage in Baghdad’s most
dangerous district. Against this threatening backdrop, with funds running desperately low,
the bittersweet dramas of childhood play out: 7-year-old SAIF can only remember his
dead mother’s name, ‘Mejuda’, as he faces the taunts of other kids in constant
playground battles; teenager MOHAMMED struggles to balance academic life with his
search for self-identity; whilst young Salah fears he may never be able to go to school.
When the landlord gives Husham and the boys just two weeks to vacate, a desperate
search ensues.
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This is not a film
35mm - DCP - HD – 2011 – Iran – 75 min
Directed by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
Original Language: Persian
Produced by: JAFAR PANAHI & MOJTABA MIRTAHMASB
Synopsis: “Our problems are all our assets.”
Understanding this promising paradox helped us not to lose hope, and to be able to go
on since we believe wherever in the world that we live, we are going to face problems,
big or small. But it is our duty not to be defeated and to think of solutions.
The reality of being alive and the dream of keeping cinema alive motivated us to go
through the existing limitations in Iranian cinema.
The existing possibilities in cinema have convinced us that a filmmaker has only himself
to blame if he is unable to make films. The discerning nature of art not only paves the
way for the artist to overcome problems, but in the process of creativity, it turns every
limitation into a subject for work.
The unpleasant reality governing Iranian cinema and filmmakers today drove us to not
overlook this (perhaps transient) reality and to depict parts of it that were reflected in us.
Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (May the 5th of 2011)
One of the Oscars 2012 15 shortlisted documentaries!
Crulic – The Path to beyond (Crulic - drumul
spre dincolo)
35mm & DCP & HD – 2011 – Romania & Poland – 73 min – Animated Documentary
Directed by Anca DAMIAN
Original Language Romanian & English
Voices by: Jamie Sives & Vlad Ivanov
Produced by: APARTE FILM, SRL
Synopsis: The animated documentary feature-length “Crulic – The Path to Beyond” tells
the life’s story of Crulic, the 33 years old Romanian who died in a Polish prison while
making hunger strike. The acclaimed Romanian actor, Vlad Ivanov, narrates Crulic’s
ironic voice over from beyond the grave.
A strong visual style, the result of beautiful hand drawn, collage, stop-motion and cut-cut
animation techniques, blend to create a striking, surprisingly integrated and memorable
film.
Honk!
Directed by Arnaud Gaillard & Florent Vassault
Original Language English
Produced by: ANDOLFI & CENTRALE ELECTRIQUE
Synopsis: At nightfall, on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, surrounded by his family, a
grandmother
will
attend
the
execution
of
her
husband's
murderer.
In Oklahoma, a former death row inmate exonered after 22 years in prison tells his
amazing
story.
In Texas, a woman struggles against the criminal justice system for his son to survive,
while
he
is
awaiting
his
execution
for
14
years.
In Huntsville, a small provincial town in eastern Texas, the Department of correction
performs the executions by lethal injection almost as a weekly ritual.
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Scena del Crimine
HD – 2010 – The Netherlands – 74 min
Directed by Walter Stokman
Original Language Italian
Produced by: ZEPPERS FILM & TV
Synopsis: SCENA DEL CRIMINE is a film about the influence of the Camorra on the city
of Naples and its residents. An increasingly violent and intimidating sphere unfolds from
various perspectives. Juvenile prisoners from the Nisida prison show how difficult it is to
escape the control and the attraction of the Camorra. Meanwhile, a forensic expert of the
Neapolitan police deals with the consequences of the Camorra violence for over 30 years.
Severn, The Voice of our Children (Severn, la
voix de nos enfants)
35 mm & JPEG 2000 & HD - 2010 - France - 100 min
Directed by Jean-Paul Jaud
Original Language French, English, Japanese
Produced by: J+B SEQUENCES
Synopsis:
« I am here to speak for all generations to come…
... What you do makes me cry at night…
… Please make your actions reflect your words… »
1992: 1st Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For the first time in human history, a child,
Severn, calls out to the whole planet. 18 years later, our actions are still different from our
speeches. The Earth is still in the same state and Severn is now expecting a baby. She
speaks again, showing that despite the emergency, it is still possible to change the course
of things. In this documentary full of hope and emotion, Severn embodies a reference for
those people, from Canada to Japan going through France, who act in concrete and
positive terms in order to respect biodiversity.
Who will answer Severn’s call?
10 years later what will be the answer given by The Rio Earth Summit 2012 (the United
Nations Conference on Environment and Development)?
Mine, My Life behind the Scenes (Mine, de fil en aiguille)
Digital - 2010 – France – 83 min
Directed by Valérie Minetto
Produced by: TS PRODUCTIONS, TV RENNES 35, PARIS BREST PRODUCTIONS,
FORUM DES IMAGES
Synopsis: A portrait of Mine Barral Vergez who has been making for 40 years’ costumes
for the most famous Parisian cabarets and show stages like Moulin-Rouge, Lido,
Comédie-française and Olympia. She has dressed up the most celebrated artistes of our
time starting with Juliette Greco and Barbara.
A star in the shadow at this perticular time of transition since she is passing the business
baton on to her successor...
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Journey’s End (La Belle Visite)
HD – 2010 – Canada - 78 min
Directed by Jean-François Caissy
Produced by: LES FILMS DE L’AUTRE
Synopsis: In the far reaches of the Quebec countryside, between a road and a headland
that plunges into the sea, an abandoned motel has been converted into a retirement
home. In this former travellers’ retreat, time seems to have ground to a halt. Journey’s End
is an elegiac exploration of old age, set in a place at once physical and allegorical.
That Should Not Be (Nos enfants nous accuseront)
HD & 35 mm – 112 min – 2009 – France
Directed by Jean-Paul Jaud
Original Language French and English
Produced by: J + B SEQUENCES
Synopsis:
In Europe every year 100,000 children die of diseases caused by the environment.
In Europe 70% of cancers are linked to the environment: 30% to pollution and 40% to
food.
In Europe cases of cancer in children have been increasing by 1.1% yearly for 30 years.
In France the number of cancers in males has increased by 93% in 25 years.
In a little French community at the foot of the Cévennes Mountains, the mayor has
decided to take a stance by making the school canteen organic. Here as everywhere,
people are confronted with the anxiety of the dangers of industrial and agro-chemical
pollution. It’s the start of a fight against a process that could become irreversible, a fight to
stop our children accusing us in the future.
More than 2 millions visitors on www.nosenfantsnousaccuseront-lefilm.com
280 000 admissions & more than 2 Millions Euros gross receipt in France (oct 2009)
Victoire Terminus
DIGITAL – 2008 – France – 80min – Documentary
Directed by Renaud Barret, Florent De La Tullaye
Original Language Lingala
Produced by: SCIAPODE
Cast: Martini Lomboto, Jeanette Mukendi, Hélène Mukadi Efuto, Rosette Ndongala
Synopsis: Summer 2006 in Kinshasa. Martini, Jeannette, Hélène and Rosette spar
everyday with Coach Judex in the old stadium Tata Rafael, where in 1974 Muhammad Ali
knocked out George Foreman in the most legendary match in the history of boxing. At
dawn, thousands of people from the ghetto come to train here and political parties rally. In
parallel to the fight for the Presidency of Congo (DRC), Judex struggles to organise a
woman’s boxing tournament with little money… Kinshasa sings, Kinshasa starves and
Judex’s girls manage to survive, with no illusion still full of hope. A film about women in a
country where men have become crazy. A film overflowing with energy, life and humour in
a place where death and misery roam
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Her Name Is Sabine (Elle s’appelle Sabine)
35 mm – 2007 – France – 85min – Documentary
Directed by Sandrine Bonnaire
Produced by: MOSAIQUE FILMS
Synopsis: A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by
her closest sister. The film tells her story through personal footage filmed by the actress
over a period of 25 years, and her life today in a suitable facility. After a tragic five-year
stay in a psychiatric hospital, Sabine found a new lease on life-even if these capacities
remain altered-in a home in the Charente region. The film exposes the penury of
specialized institutions and the dramatic consequences they can lead to.
Substitute
Directed by Fred Poulet, Vikash Dhorasoo
Produced by: LOCAL FILMS
Synopsis: The story begins on June 2006. Fred POULET, singer, author and video
clipper, entrusted a Super 8 camera to his friend, the football player Vikash DHORASOO,
so that he can film his everyday life until July 9th, date of the World Football Cup finale in
Berlin… The movie follow up will be written day after day in Le Havre, Paris, then in
Germany, in hotel rooms, in buses or on the phone. Also a bit in stadiums… In fact, Vikash
DHORASSO will only play 16 minutes during this World Cup full of new developments and
with the French team eventually reaching the finale. The twelfth man, the substitute, such
was the destiny of this original player. This is the sincere portrait of a man who was hurt
and lost in the largest sports event of the world.
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52 MINUTES FORMAT
Czech Swan
It’s never too late to dance Swan Lake!
HD – 2015 - 52’– POLAND & CZECH REPUBLIC
Directed by: Aleksandra Terpińska
Original language: Czech
Produced by: Colab Pictures
The documentary Czech Swan is a compelling story about women aging, dance and
beer.
A group of pensioners from Horni Lhota, a small village near Ostrava, Czech
Republic, lends beauty to the occasional village events with their dance
performances, calling themselves Majorettes. Always ready to perfect their repertoire
the ladies decide to incorporate the famous Russian classic – Tchaikovskyʼs Swan
Lake – into their famous routine.
They ask Igor Vejsada, the director of the Ostrava Ballet, for help. Igor, who is
bewitched by their energy and enthusiasm, decides to help the beginner ballerinas.
He asks a ‘Swan Lake’ debutant soloist Marketa Pospisilova to give the ladies a
proper Ballet training.
Key to The Castle
Sometimes, wisdom is to move
from your castle of habits
HD – 2015 – Scotland – 59 min
Directed by: Darren Hercher
Produced by: Darren Hercher Films
A touching and often funny observational documentary about a charming couple in
their twilight years, who have lived in their beloved Scottish Castle since rebuilding it
from ruins forty years ago.
Alisoun, for the first time in her long marriage to Sandy, has had to take control of
their destiny by putting the castle up for sale. As the move approaches we follow her
as she faces the daunting task of downsizing to a modern bungalow.
Facing the future with equal measures of trepidation and optimism, their unwavering
commitment and love for each other is always at the heart of the film.
Matthieu Ricard, On the Path to Compassion
HD - 2012 – France – 52 min – Documentary
Directed by: JEANNE MASCOLO DE FILIPPIS
Produced by DAMIA FILMS
Synopsis: 40 years devoted to the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism have made
Matthieu Ricard an essential intermediary between East and West. Scientific, Buddhist
Monk, French Interpreter of the Dalai Lama, photographer and author of many texts
about Buddhism and meditation, Matthieu Ricard is today one the world’s expert about
this subject. This film allows us to find out his thoughts, research and humanitarian,
through its association KARUNA-SHECHEN.
He is a man of his time, putting his knowledge and humanist philosophy in favor of wellbeing and vitality of many.
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In My Mother’s Arms
HD – 2011 – UK, The Netherlands, Iraq – 51 min – Documentary
Directed by Atia Al Daradji & Mohamed Al Daradji
Original language: Arabic
Produced by Human Film & Iraq Al Rafidain
Synopsis: Husham works tirelessly to build the hopes, dreams and prospects of the 32
damaged children of war, under his care at a small orphanage in Baghdad’s most
dangerous district. Against this threatening backdrop, with funds running desperately low,
the bittersweet dramas of childhood play out: 7-year-old SAIF can only remember his
dead mother’s name, ‘Mejuda’, as he faces the taunts of other kids in constant
playground battles; teenager MOHAMMED struggles to balance academic life with his
search for self-identity; whilst young Salah fears he may never be able to go to school.
When the landlord gives Husham and the boys just two weeks to vacate, a desperate
search ensues.
Biblioburro, The Donkey Library
2009 – France/ Colombia/ Belgium - 52 min
Directed by Carlos RENDON ZIPAGAUTA
Synopsis: Each week-end, Luis Humberto Soriano, a teacher living in the remote hamlet of
La Gloria in the north of Colombia, brings, with the help of his two donkeys « ALPHA » and
« BET », the written word and knowledge to communes as secluded as Nueva Granada.
With the kids - who ever their parents are peasants or members of
FARC, paramilitaries, drug cartels - Luis gives lectures and private tutoring, organizes
puppet shows and board game sessions…
Produced by GRENADE PRODUCTIONS (France) in coproduction with IMAGINARIA
FILMS (Colombia) & IOTA PRODUCTION (Belgium)
Luis Soriano, the teacher, nominated as CNN Hero 2010
Wrong Side of the Bus
DIGITAL – 2010 – Australia – 52 & 56 min – Documentary
Directed by Rod Freedman
Produced by CHANGE FOCUS MEDIA
Synopsis: Professor Sidney Bloch left South Africa for Israel, newly graduated in
medicine. Returning 40 years later from Melbourne to attend a university reunion, he
travels with his son, Aaron, to explore what it was like growing up in a racist regime. Sid
also hopes to resolve his own unfinished business.
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LGBT
In some places love equals courage
Misfits
DCP – HD – 2015 – 74 min - Denmark, Sweden
Directed by: Jannik Splidsboel
Produced by: Sontag Pictures
Co-produced by: Stina Gardell
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a tiny youth center called OpenArms Youth Project is squeezed
in between two of the city’s two thousand churches. The center welcomes young
LGBT kids between thirteen and nineteen, who have decided to come out in a very
religious society. But the prize for being yourself is high – and you end up becoming
a MISFIT.
The three main characters: Larissa, Benny and “D” all go to the center, where they
find love and support to confront the daily drama they are facing.
While the general public opinion towards gays in the USA is slowly changing, this
coming-of-age story closely follows the three young protagonists as they struggle to
achieve a sense of self in a community that still widely condemns homosexuality.
By the producer of Cannes Winner and Emmy Award Nominated ARMADILLO
and lately IDFA-nominee ‘MERCY MERCY – A PORTRAIT OF A TRUE
ADOPTION’.
By the filmmaker behind the Berlin International Film Festival nominee HOW
ARE YOU
FESTIVAL:
BERLIN 2015 – Official selection – PANORAMA DOKUMENTE
Before You Know It
DCP – HD - 2014 – USA – 110 min – Documentary
Directed by: PJ Raval
Produced by: Untitled Film
Synopsis: BEFORE YOU KNOW IT is no ordinary documentary about senior citizens.
Robert Ty and Dennis are unique characters among the 2.4 million lesbian, gay and
bisexual Americans over the age of 55; many of whom facing discrimination, neglect
and exclusion. However, the film is not about cold statistics and gloomy realities but
about overcoming prejudice and defying expectation to form communities, create
camaraderie in senior living facilities, lively activist enclaves or wacky queer bars
brimming with glittered trinkets and colorful drag queens.
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Love ain’t a crime.
The Circle
Produced by: Contrast film
Co-produced by: Schweizer Fernsehen SRF / SRG SSR
Synopsis: Zürich in the mid 50's: The young shy teacher Ernst Ostertag becomes a
member of the gay organization DER KREIS. There he gets to know the transvestite star
Röbi Rapp – and immediately falls head over heels in love with him.
Röbi and Ernst live through the high point and the eventual decline of the organization,
which, in the whole Europe, is seen as the symbol of gay emancipation. Ernst finds
himself torn between his "bourgeois" existence and his commitment to homosexuality, for
Röbi it is about his first serious love relationship. A relationship which will last a lifetime.
From the present, the film looks back to the time when the “Mother” of all European
homosexual organizations had its high point until it fell apart.
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Awards:
Berlin 2014: TEDDY AWARD - Best Documentary/ Essay Film
Berlin 2014: PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD
Swiss Film Award 2015: Best Feature Film / Best Screenplay / Best Actor / Best
Performance in a Supporting Role.
Meanwhile in Beirut
HD - 2015 - Switzerland - 75 Min
Directed by: Felipe Monroy
Produced by : Adokfilms
Lea is a 30 year old transsexual, a shemale, in the Hamra district of Beirut. In Liban,
transsexuality is prohibited by law. The transgender community is constantly threatened
which leads her to live at night, working as an escort girl and locked in her apartment at
the Hotel Stars. She refuses to be a victim of her condition and finds a way to an
existence that resembles as much as possible a "normal" life, the life of everyone...
Hello Stranger
HD – 2013 – Switzerland – 45 min
Directed by: Ammann Thomas
Produced by : Haute école d'art et de design – Genève
Thomas, the protagonist of this autobiographical film, lives with his husband Felipe in
Geneva. They are both film students who love each other and also like women. However,
these love triangles result in jealousy, and Thomas has a troubled relationship with his
parents. This intimate and exuberant film presents an impressively honest and
melodramatic snapshot of a phase in a life.
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MUSIC BOX
Feature format
We always lie to strangers
HD - USA - 2014 – 108 min
Directed by: AJ Schnack & David Wilson
Produced by: AJ Schnack, David Wilson and Nathan Truesdell
Synopsis: We Always Lie to Strangers is a story of family, community, music and
tradition set against the backdrop of Branson, Missouri, one of the biggest tourist
destinations in America.
A remote Ozark Mountain town of just 10,500, Branson hosts more than 7.5 million
tourists a year and generates nearly 3 billion dollars in annual tourism revenue.
At the heart of Branson’s appeal is the more than 100 staged music shows earning
the town the monicker of "the live music capital of the world". These shows are well
known for their "traditional & family" style of entertainment - no cursing, no nudity, no
gambling, healthy doses of gospel and respect for veterans. Crowds from around the
country, and particularly from the American midwest, flock to Branson for this "return
to old fashioned values".
Bajari
HD – 2013 – Spain – 84 min
Directed by: Eva Vila
Produced by: A LASTOR MEDIA, CROMOSOMA, TV3, IDEC-UPF
Synopsis: Juanito is about to fulfill his dream of getting a pair of red boots and
become a true flamenco dancer. His uncle Coco, a legendary singer in the flamenco
tablaos of Barcelona, will help him achieve it.
Flamenco is passed on within the family in the Gypsy community that bore Carmen
Amaya, the greatest flamenco dancer of all time. Her grand-niece, Karime, comes to
Barcelona to pick up her trail. The journey is only complete when Mercedes Amaya
“Winny”, her mother, joins from Mexico in order to prepare a show with some of the
city's biggest talent.
Together they will discover the spirit of Bajarí, the name of the city of Barcelona in
Caló, the language of the Gypsies.
Awards:
Academy of Catalan Cinema - nominated for a Gaudi Award for the best
documentary
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Children of Flamenco
HD - 2014 – Czech Republic/Spain - 66 min
Directed by: Kateřina Hager
Produced by: Bohemian Productions
Synopsis: Amós and Abraham are two coming-of-age boys celebrated as child
prodigies of the flamenco scene in Spain today. While the sui generis guitarist Amós
performs around the world, composes his own music and is recognized by such
famous guitarist as Paco de Lucía, the spontaneous and charismatic Abraham is
inculcated the rich tradition of flamenco singing in his family and Caño-Roto
neighborhood of Madrid. The film tells an intimate story of two different paths to
acquiring virtuosity and of the passing of music and life philosophy from father to son.
Death Metal Angola
DCP – HD – 83 min – USA
Directed by: Jeremy Xido
Original Language: Portuguese
Produced by: COALITION FILMS, CABULA6
Synopsis: Following nearly 40 years of unrelenting war – with every attendant horror –
peace and reconstruction are slowly arriving to Angola. Damaged first by the war for
independence from Portugal, Angola was then ripped apart by a devastating civil war
that orphaned thousands of children. Huambo, Angola’s second largest city, finds 55 of
these children in the Okutiuka orphanage under the care of Sonia Ferreira. Sonia’s
boyfriend, Wilker Flores, is a death metal guitarist who uses the brutal sounds and
rhythms of this hardcore music as a path to healing, or, as Sonia says, “to clear out the
debris from all these years of war.”
DEATH METAL ANGOLA tracks Wilker and Sonia’s dream – to stage Angola’s first-ever
national rock concert, bringing together members from different strands of the Angolan
hardcore scene from different provinces – as it unfolds in fits and starts against the
bombed out and mined backdrop of the formerly stately Huambo. Rubble and
deconstructed spaces provide scenic reminders of why hardcore music has gained a
foothold.
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My father and the man in black
DCP – HD – 90 min – Canada – 2013 – Color and Black & White
Directed by: Jonathan Holiff
Produced by: New Chapter Production, Inc.
Synopsis: MY FATHER AND THE MAN IN BLACK is the unauthorized look at Johnny
Cash in the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of his manager, the late Saul Holiff. But
this is no ordinary music documentary.
Shot on film, this one-of-a-kind movie directed by Saul's son, Jonathan Holiff, is driven
by Johnny's and Saul's own voices. After his father's suicide in 2005, Jonathan
discovered a storage locker full of never-before-published material on Johnny Cash-including 60 hours of audio diaries and telephone calls recorded in the '60 and '70s. A
very personal journey of discovery that just happens to feature one of 20th century's
greatest music icons come to market in time for the 10th anniversary of Cash's death
on September 12th.
Sons of the wind
HD - 2012 – France- 96’ - Documentary
Directed by Bruno LE JEAN
Original languages: French
Synopsis:
They are Angelo Debarre, Moreno, Ninine Garcia and Tchavolo Schmitt.
They are guitarists. They are gypsies. They play and perpetuate the music of Django
Reinhardt.
They have also a certain sense of humor, of friendship and a personal way to live their
life standing.
Penetrating in tiptoe in their camps, their caravans or their apartments, we discover
between notes and words, a community that preserves an authentic and particular way
of life, a taste for difference, where in spite of difficulties, the important thing is the
pleasure of playing guitar.
Produced by LES FILMS DU VEYRIER, SUPERSONIC
Tropicalia
DCP – HD – 2012 – Brazil – 87 min – Color and B & W
Directed by: Marcelo Machado
Original language: Portuguese & English
Produced by: Bossa Nova Films
Synopsis: The documentary "Tropicália" tells the story of the cultural movement with
the same name that roused in the late 60's in Brazil. Headed by the musicians Caetano
Veloso and Gilberto Gil, the Tropicalist movement had its apogee in the popular music
scene, with intense presence in Brazilian television, press and radio.
A contemporary look into this important cultural movement, which exploded in
Brazil in the late 1960s. It mixes valuable archive material especially recovered for
the production and encounters with the icons of the movement such as CAETANO
VELOSO, GILBERTO GIL, TOM ZE, MUTANTES and others.
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HD - 2011 – France – 85 min –Documentary
South Coast
DIGITAL – 2009 – UK – 85 min
Directed by Will Jewell
Synopsis: Think hip hop’s just about MTV videos, gangsta posing and bling? Think again
– this ain’t East Coast, this ain’t West Coast. This is South Coast! This character
documentary charts how hip hop has found a quintessentially English voice in the most
unlikely of locations – the south coast seaside towns.
South Coast seeks answers to questions such as why 30 years after hip hop arrived
there’s no global UK artist. Why teenagers ignore home grown hip hop in favour of violent
tales from 15000 miles away? And can you really rap about guns and bling when you’re
on the dole in Eastbourne?
Produced by FRACTURED FILMS LTD
Redemption Song
HD – 2009 – France – 90 min –Documentary
Directed by Markus Hansen & Jean-Marie Boulet
Synopsis: In March 1967, Billy Bang was conscripted to fight in Vietnam, an experience
that left him emotionally desolate and profoundly confused about his American identity.
Upon his return, he tried to forget his nightmares through alcohol, drugs and music. Forty
years later, he decides that the only way he will be able to repair his emotions and find
some closure to his trauma, is to return to Vietnam, this time with his violin. This film is
about the desire to overcome and transcend the trauma of war through music and art.
Youssou N’Dour: Return to Goree (Retour à Gorée)
35 mm – 2007 – Switzerland / Luxembourg – 112min
Directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud
Original languages: French & English
Synopsis: This musical road-movie tells of African singer Youssou N’Dour’s epic journey
following the trail left by the blacks’ slaves and the jazz music they invented. Youssou
N’Dour’s challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire and to sing those tunes in
Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to commemorate its
victims. Guided in his travel by pianist Moncef Genoud, N’Dour travels across the United
States and Europe. Accompanied by some of the world’s most exceptional musicians, they
meet people and well-known figures, and create, through concerts, encounters and
debates, music which transcends cultural division.
Produced by CAB PRODUCTIONS, IRIS PRODUCTIONS, DREAMPIXIES
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Sonic Mirror
HD & 35 mm - 2007- Switzerland / Finland / Germany – 79min
Directed by Mika Kaurismaki
Original languages: Portuguese, German, English
Synopsis: For most people music is a marvelous experience and part of their life whether
or not they play an instrument themselves. They understand music and rhythm as a
fundamental communication tool of mankind.
Mika Kaurismäki`s new film SONIC MIRROR is a surprising and emotional dive into the
world of rhythm - an extraordinary trip to discover the magic relationship between Life and
Rhythm. Drum legend Billy Cobham takes us from the bandstands of the Western world to
the primal music of African origin with kids in a Brazilian community and on to the
completely secluded world of musical experiences of autists. These different worlds are
yet connected in a mystical and secret way. The relation between the collective and the
individual consciousness becomes obvious when, in a fantastic final, the symbiosis is
achieved. Music is emotion. Music is communication. Music is identity. Music as a true
universal language to express hope, love, ambition and joy. SONIC MIRROR is a film full
of vibrancy and compassion, authentic and hypnotic from the first to the very last moment.
Produced by MARCO FORSTER PRODUCTIONS, MARIANNA FILMS OY, UWE
DRESCH FILMS LTD, DOC PRODUCTIONS
Brasileirinho
35 mm – 2005 – Switzerland / Finland / Brazil – 90min
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki
Original language: Portuguese
Synopsis: “Brasileirinho” is a 90 -min musical documentary film about Choro, the first
genuinely Brazilian urban music. Back in the late 19th century in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian
musicians started to blend European melodies, Afro - Brazilian rhythms and the
melancholic interpretation of the Brazilian Indians' music to create Choro. Choro is
credited as being the first musical expression of Brazil's melting pot and had until the
1920s, leading directly into Samba and later to Bossa Nova. After a slight decline in
popularity, Choro music has made a remarkable comeback over the past few decades.
Produced by MARCO FORSTER PRODUCTIONS
Moro No Brasil
35 mm – 2003 – Brazil / Germany / Finland – 105 min
Original languages: English & Portuguese
Synopsis: The documentary “Moro no brasil” is the fascinating journey of the filmmaker
Mika Kaurismaki searching for the roots of Brazilian samba. He covered more than 4000
kilometers and to discover and present less known musical styles like frevo, maracatu,
coco and embolada, Moro No Brasil is a personal travelogue revealing Brazil's rich
musical culture and the part music plays in the lives of the Brazilian people. The
documentary features performances by more than 50 artists including Seu Jorge, Antonio
Nobrega, Silberio Pessoa, Ivo Meirelles, and Darue Malungo
Produced by MAGNATEL & MIKA KAURISMAKI
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52 MINUTES FORMAT
Grandma Lo- Fi
HD – 2012 – Iceland – 62 min – Color and B & W
Directed by: Orri Jónsson, Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, Ingibjörg
Birgisdóttir
Original language: Icelandic
Synopsis: At the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music
straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more
than 600 songs – an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions mixing in her pets, found
toys, kitchen percussions and Casio keyboards. Sigrídur Níelsdóttir is her name, and
before long the Icelandic/Danish musician became an adored cult figure in the Icelandic
music scene. Shot mostly on Super-8 and 16mm ‘Grandma Lo-fi’ is a cinematic tribute
to her boundless creativity, created by three musicians and artists whom she inspired.
Production company: Republik Productions in association with Killit Films
Scratch Music
Directed by Denis Ramos et Jérôme Decol
Synopsis: Scratch Music is an esthetic and engaged documentary about a fringe
artistic expression: turntablism, or the art of manipulating sounds to create music using
turntables. The film catches the creative energy of these performers, all along their
individual or collective shows. We discover their different visual and sound universes;
where the technicality and creativity have no limits. Scratch Music is a tribute to all these
singular artists.
Produced by Idée Originale
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South Coast
DIGITAL – 2009 – UK – 60 min
Directed by Will Jewell
Featuring: Norman Cook, Beardyman, Buzz, Monkey Sons, Evil Ed and many more!
Synopsis: Think hip hop’s just about MTV videos, gangsta posing and bling? Think again –
this ain’t East Coast, this ain’t West Coast. This is South Coast! This character
documentary charts how hip hop has found a quintessentially English voice in the most
unlikely of locations – the south coast seaside towns.
South Coast seeks answers to questions such as why 30 years after hip hop arrived
there’s no global UK artists. Why teenagers ignore home grown hip hop in favour of violent
tales from 15000 miles away? And can you really rap about guns and bling when you’re
on the dole in Eastbourne?
Produced by FRACTURED FILMS LTD
Immaterial Treasure
Directed by Markus Hansen & Jean-Marie Boulet
Original languages: English & Vietnamese
Synopsis: A musical documentary about an African American violinist in Vietnam, when
musical encounters and creation overcome nationalism, traditions, borders and sorrows. A
violin road movie.
Brasileirinho
35 MM – 2005 – Switzerland / Finland / Brazil – 52 min
Original language: Portuguese
Synopsis: “Brasileirinho” is a 90 -min musical documentary film about Choro, the first
genuinely Brazilian urban music. Back in the late 19th century in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian
musicians started to blend European melodies, Afro - Brazilian rhythms and the
melancholic interpretation of the Brazilian Indians' music to create Choro. Choro is
credited as being the first musical expression of Brazil's melting pot and had a prominent
place in the development of Brazil's cultural identity. Choro remained a major popular
music style until the 1920s, leading directly into Samba and later to Bossa Nova. After a
slight decline in popularity, Choro music has made a remarkable comeback over the past
few decades.
Produced by MARCO FORSTER PRODUCTIONS
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SELF-DISCOVERY
Slow
A feature Documentary. A Wildlife Film.
A Cinematic Meditation.
Directed by: Sascha Seifert
Produced by: Nicole Ackermann
Synopsis: Underneath bushes and hedges, along alleys and fields, in the woods
and on meadows, they roam around peacefully, in beauty, with dignity. Unimpressed
by the speed of life around them. Always careful but also constantly ready for stunts
beyond human sense of gravity. They glide, they climb, they dive, they enjoy. A
meditative journey into the mystical world of those marvelous creatures popularly
known - but yet ignored far too often - as snails and a beautiful & cinematic walking
meditation.
Slow depicts quite fittingly the life of snails. A peaceful slow documentary about life
in nature; the embodiment of slowness, far away from mechanical clocks which have
caused so much trouble that we now have to create events like Slow Art Day to
remind us that we’re moving too fast.
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RELIGION / ESOTERICISM
Feature format
Voodoo – The Power of Healing
DIGITAL – 2010 – Germany – 71 min – Documentary
Directed by Henning Christoph
Original language: English and/or German
Synopsis: "If you spend your entire life with Vodun, you will still only understand and
know as little as what the eye can see in between two blinks"
VODUN VOODOO VODOU – SPIRITS is a journey through Benin, the motherland of the
Voodoo cult, a journey to the origins and diverse aspects of a religion that remains largely
closed to outsiders.
Produced by SHOTGUN PICTURES
Vaudou
Directed by Jean-Luc Magneron
Synopsis: An exceptional insight into the initiation ceremonies of the vaudou cult, filmed
in Dahomey, March 1972. The true Vaudou is in fact not situated in Haïti, neither in Brazil,
like most people believe but in Dahomey, in the ancient kingdom of Bénin. “Vaudou,
between life and death, blood”is a documentary but also a show. The Vaudou is an
extraordinary and exciting phenomenem.
Produced by CAMERA ONE
La Vie de Jésus
DIGITAL – 1951 – France – 78min – Black & White – Documentary
Directed by Marcel Gibaud
Synopsis: This film relates the life of Jesus as of a sort of a medieval mystery play. The
set, Palestine, imagined by primitive German and Flemish painters, is first presented.
Next, a special sequence with the main protagonists of the drama: Mary, Jesus, Joseph,
Jesus Companions, people of Israel. Then the drama begins...
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52 min format
Evangelic Immigration
DIGITAL – 2007 – France – 52 min – Documentary
Directed by Camille Maignien & Muriel Schwob
Synopsis: In the 80’s new evangelic churches founded by African immigrants originated
all over France. Since they are growing continuously and they attract more and more
believers every day. There are 200 to 300 of these churches in Greater Paris alone. They
developed spontaneously, people are attracted by their dynamic services and finally these
churches have put the Bible up to date. The majority are truly involved in integration, but
there are some which come close to sectarianism.
We followed Marie-Odette, a believer of the evangelic church « La Paix de l’Eternel », in
her spiritual and daily activities. Her example puts the viewer into the wave of a
Protestantism which can no longer be ignored.
Produced by 415 PRODUCTIONS
26 min format
To Talendon
Directed by André Targe
Synopsis: André Targe shot this film on location at the very bottom of a chasm in the
Vercors mountains through winter to spring. It is a daily logbook shot of the man who
shared the daily life of the Greek Orthodox community of Saint Antoine le Grand.
AVAILABLE VERSION : FRENCH VERSION
Under The Smart Star (Sous la belle étoile)
Directed by André Targe
Synopsis: André Targe shot this film logbook on location through winter to spring when he
shared the daily life of the Trappist Community of Tamié in Savoy.
AVAILABLE VERSION : FRENCH VERSION
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ALAIN RESNAIS
Le Chant du Styrène
1957 – France – 14 min – Documentary
Directed by Alain Resnais
Synopsis: Creation, making and using of the plastic, seen very aesthetically by a great
director.
Toute la mémoire du monde
1956 – France – 21min – Black & White - Documentary
Synopsis: The camera crosses the forbidden threshold and filmed for the first time the
picture of this labyrinth strewed with treasures, machines and laboratories. It did again all
the routes : the book one which is asked and cover another itinerary before arriving until
the reader. The French National Library, memory fortress, gives (thanks to cinema) some
of his captivating secrets.
Music by Maurice Jarre
Gauguin Paul
1949 – France – 12min – Black & White -- Documentary
Synopsis: Life of Gauguin related and illustrated by the study of his work.
Music by Darius MILHAUD
Guernica
Synopsis: Guernica is a small town on the Basque Country in Spain, which on the 26 th
April 1937 was bombarded by the pro - Franco army. 2000 men were killed and the town
was totally burned down. Resnais produced his film with the paintings of Picasso between
1902 and 1949.
Voice Over : Maria Casares, Jacques Pruvost
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Van Gogh
Synopsis: This film relates the spiritual life and adventure of one of the greatest modern
painter.
JEAN ROUCH
Tambours d’avant
Directed by Jean Rouch
Synopsis: in May 1971, people from Simiri, Niger, called for the gods of the bush to fight
against grasshoppers, tapping, maybe for the last time, on their archaic drums…
Produced by LES FILMS DU JEUDI
Petit à petit
Synopsis: The continuation of "Jaguar", this cinematographic tale relates the funny and
unusual adventures of Damouré and Lam, two businessmen of modern Africa, in the
search of their model.
Jaguar
Synopsis: The adventures of three Nigerians, who leave their village for Ghana (then
called Gold Coast) to make a living there.
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La Chasse au lion à l’arc
Synopsis: Shot between Niger and Mali, during 7 missions for a French institution of
researches, this documentary star’s hunters.
La Goumbé des jeunes noceurs
Synopsis: A coverage among an association from Abidjan in the popular district of
Treichville. They gather for extraordinary performances of singing and modern dances.
La Pyramide humaine
Synopsis: Abidjan 1959. An integrated school in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast where White
French and local blacks go to school together. How they decide to fraternise socially and
the troubles, frictions, friendships, understandings and decisions that come out of it.
Moi, un Noir [1x72’]
Synopsis: Abidjan 1958. Three young black men from Niger leave their life and ancestral
tradition to go working in “Treichville”, the suburb of Abidjan.
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Mammy Water
Synopsis: For this population of fishermen from Guinea Gulf, fishing is bad: they try to get
favours from the gods of the sea by performing ceremonies and incantations.
Les Maitres fous
1955 – France – 26 min – Black & White
Synopsis: in the city of Accra, migrants from poor areas of Niger find themselves
suddenly taken into the dripping urban life. This change causes mental conditions and the
appearance of new gods: the “Haukas”.
Prix de la sélection ethnographique, Festival de Venise 1957
Prix de participation à la Biennale de Venise 1957.
Participation au Festival du Peuple. Florence 1959
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