FRANCE/ZIMBABWE • 70′ a film by JEAN PIERRE BEKOLO When Essemba Tourneur, an accursed moviemaker driven out of Europe, goes back home, everything seems to have changed drastically. He discovers in amazement that the old movie theater is now occupied by a gang of thugs led by an African nicknamed «cinema», who ingests American movies all[…]
PORTUGAL • 120′ a film by MARIA DE MEDEIROS In Portugal, late in the night of April 24 to 25, 1974, the radio broadcast an outlawed song: “Grândola”. It could have just been an act of insubordination by a rebellious journalist. It was in fact the preplanned signal triggering the military coup which was to change the[…]
IRAN • 90′ a film by MASSOUD BAKHSHI Arash is an iranian academic who lives in the west. He return to Iran to teach in Shiraz, a city far from Tehran where his mother lives. Drawn into a series of domestic and financial dramas, he faces a country that is now alien to him. Following the death[…]
BELGIUM • 103′ a film by BéNéDICTE LIéNARD A Piece of Sky” is a story about the struggles of female prisoners and factory workers. Hopping back and forth between the prison and the factory, the personal and the political, we witness the growing awareness of two women who refuse to buckle under the system. In so doing,[…]
FRANCE a film by GUY OLIVIER Here, in the heights of the Haute-Saône, remain a few peasants who are called “the high people”. An angel looks at them. He’d like to stay on, but his wings are caught in a massive tempest unleashed from paradise. We call this tempest progress. In the near future, when the milkman comes no longer to collect milk, the high[…]
MALI a film by MICHAEL HOARE In France over the last ten years immigrant workers from the Sahel re gion have founded hundreds of associations to fund and promote development projects in their home villages. The film recounts three of these experiences, showing how simple guest workers have become actors in the development of their home countries. FESTIVALS PRESS HOW TO GET THE[…]
FRANCE a film by MIROSLAV SEBESTIK To leave natural capacities in the discovery of the sound, the musical, to chase away and to light these obstacles which deprive us of music as to highlight the implicit wealth of our listening are the first motivations of this movie. As for a journey the term of which would[…]
FRANCE • 77′ a documentary by JEAN LOïC PORTRON The film inquires into an affair of state which shook the end of the sixteenth century. It shows how the devilries of Marthe Brossier, who claimed to be possessed, led her contemporaries to clarify their thinking on the relationship between religion and science, between God and state. Four historians dissect[…]
SPAIN • 59′ a film by CAROLE FIERZ Inès is daughter, grand-daughter, great granddaughter of singers, an Andalousian gipsy dynasty. One night, after 38 years of silence, she broke out in a song which left all the family stupefied and moved. Her brother, a famous guitar player, magnetized by this strange sister, took her around the world, far from[…]
SPAIN • 28′ a film by CAROLE FIERZ The Guadalquivir delta has been the scene of many musical cultures. Flamenco appeared 150 years ago as a particular syncretism of oriental and occidental elements. An art of song, guitar and dance, it is above all and quintessentially the work of a few gypsy families who long ago settled in[…]