BELGIUM • 106′ a film by THOMAS DE THIER Life is slow in the Belgian town of Genappe, with its sugar refinery and clarification ponds full of rotting red beets. Migrating birds stop here to rest. A couple’s daily life is turned upside down when their young son dies. This story about the tragic event and its[…]
FRANCE/TAÏWAN • 141′ a film by TSAï MING-LIANG A Taiwanese filmmaker makes a film based on the myth of Salomé at the Louvre. Even though he speaks neither French nor English, he insists on giving the part of King Herod to the French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. To give the film a chance at the box-office,[…]
FRANCE/ARGENTINA • 85′ a film by PABLO AGUERO Evita Perón just died. She is the most beloved, but also hated political figure of Argentina. An expert is in charge of her embalming. After years of hard work, he achieves a remarkable work. Meanwhile in Argentina coups follow each other and some dictators want to remove Evita’s legacy[…]
CHILE • 67′ a film by FERNANDO GUZZONI Dog’s Flesh deals with a complex period in the life of Alejandro (55), a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man who crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past. The story is that of a man searching for a new identity, but who becomes lost among his own ghosts and obsessions:[…]
INDIA • 90′ a film by RAJAN KHOSA Pallavi, a young Indian musician, studies classical music with her mother. Her mother dies and the young girl loses her voice. The only way she can keep on singing is by meeting up with her mother’s teacher, an old indiscernible and mystical man. With the help of this[…]
USA/HAÏTI • 97′ a film by RAOUL PECK Chase Dellal was just a little girl when she left Haiti. Her past remains for her an unexplained child’s nightmare. A coroner in New York City, she spends her time every day next to vic tims of a violence that strikes the weakest, and defends her integrity in[…]
ITALY • 97′ a film by ALICE ROHRWACHER “What does Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani mean?” Marta asks an elderly priest. “Those are the words that Jesus cried: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The words resound within Marta. Marta observes her native town of Calabria having recently returned there with her mother and[…]
FRANCE • 120′ a film by CLAUDE TIMON GAIGNAIRE 1940, a young teacher who dreams about the Mediterranean, is nominate in an isolated village in the Lozère. In spite of the savagery of the war and the outside world, he arouses among his pupils a spirit of peace and humanism. But, he would have to leave his[…]
FRANCE/ALGERIA • 91′ a film by MERZAK ALLOUACHE Bab-El-Oued is a working class district of Algiers, shortly after the bloody riots of 1988. Boualem is a young worker in the district bakery. He works hard at night and sleeps during the day. One morning, he committed a “foolish” act which is going to put all the[…]
FRANCE • 28′ a film by CHEN ZHUN A young Asian man, wanders, absolutely lost in the streets of Paris. Voice over in a strange foreign language, reminds to the man that there has been some mistake, that directions, places, thoughts, judgements, and decisions are elsewhere: strange superposition between two cultures. Double sensation: abstraction of forms, black[…]