VENEZUELA • 90 – 100′ a film by GEORGE WALKER TORRES Coproduction between Brazil, France, and Venezuela Shooting provisional: October 2020 Tomas, a seven-year-old boy, an only child of a bourgeois family decomposed in Rio de Janeiro, takes refuge against the violence around him in his relation with Carmen, a very young maid coming of Venezuela, and a homeless[…]
UKRAINE • 120′ DONBASS by Sergei Loznitsa When we call “peace” the war, when the propaganda is presented as the truth, when we call “love” the hatred, it is there that the life begins to look like the death. Donbass survives. Manuel practises hell. There is a hackneyed phrase: history repeats itself – the first time[…]
ITALY – 90′ a film by Danilo Caputo Nica, 21, drops out of her university course in agronomics and returns home to Apulia in southern Italy after three years away. She finds her father deep in debt, a polluted, devastated region, and olive trees destroyed by a parasite. Everyone seems to have given up in[…]
a film by MASSOUD BAKHSHI IRAN • 90 – 100′ Coproduction between France, Iran, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg & Lebanon. Editing: october 2018 Selection « Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde » Cannes 2016, supported an developped at the TorinoFilmLab, winner of the Coproduction Award and Audience Award, selection at the SundanceLab winner of the Global Filmaking Award. Maryam (26) is “temporarily married” to Naser (65). She accidentally kills him, but[…]
COLOMBIA • 75′ a movie by CATALINA VILLAR Medellin, too well know as the cartel’s city. An unbelievable level of violence. The suffering of the peasants chased off their lands, eaten away by war, overpopulation, unemployment. The first victims of this violence are the young children and the adolescents. Surviving is managed by trying to cling[…]
IRAQ/TURKEY • 78′ a film by STEFANO SAVONA Built around the notes of Akif, a young Kurdish freedom fighter, the film is the chronicle of a group of warriors who cross the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan to reach the combat zones of the Turkish border. FESTIVALS “Compétition Internationale, Cinéma du réel, Paris” (France 2006) “Prix International de la SCAM[…]
SOUTH AFRICA • 90′ a film by the VARAN WORKSHOP OF JOHANNESBURG Made by 12 young South-African film-makers, these chronicles give us a unique look into the daily violence of the Apartheid system as seen from within the different communities. Simply bringing these chronicles, these spaces into contact is explosive; there is no commentary to add, the images[…]
BELGIUM un film by BÉNÉDICTE LIÉNARD et MARY JIMENEZ TO ACCESS AT THE LE FILM THANKS TO CONTACT TARANTULA 99 rue Auguste Donnay 4000 Liège Belgium
“JESUS” in France in the Autumn from 10 till 18 November in competition to the AMIENS FILM FESTIVAL and 14 to 21 to the FESTIVAL CHÉRIE CHÉRI. “JESUS” de Fernando Guzzoni (Chile), full-length film, with Nicolas Duran and Alejandro Goïc produce by Marianne Dumoulin, Jacques Bidou and Giancarlo Nasi After TORONTO, SAN SEBASTIAN, HAMBURG, MADRID, THESSALONIKI, TORINO where Nicolas[…]
PALESTINE/FRANCE • 90′ a film by ANNEMARIE JACIR Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in is mid-60s living in Nazareth. After is daughter’s wedding in one month he will be living alone. Shadi, is architect son, arrives from Rome after years abroad to help is fatherin hand delivering the wedding invitations to[…]