FRANCE a movie by FRANÇOIS LUNEL Portrait of Tsai Ming-Liang : This documentary FLOWERS IN THE MIRROR, MOON IN THE WATER follows Tsai Ming-Liang’s work, a filmmaker who has already reached a mythical status and is recognized by international critics, during the filming of Face at the Louvre museum. HOW TO GET THE FILM INTERNATIONAL SALES[…]
ENGLAND a movie by KIM FLITCROFT Fucking Sheffield » is a film from the dark underside of the old Steel City. Cassi is a Lap Dancer at the Blue Minx Gentlemans Club, but her dancing days are numbered. Cassi wants to be a singer. Mick is a junkie who has lost everything to his heroin[…]
SPAIN a movie 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[…]
SPAIN a movie 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[…]
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[…]
USA a film by ROBERT BOZZI I went to the West Coast of America to see what the war times looked like after 9-11. I took back my place between my wife Ebby and our dog Napoleon, in our house at the foot of the “French Man’s Mountain”. Living this life and spotting what had changed, I[…]
FRANCE a film by VINCENT BLANCHET François Perrin, a violin maker highly reputed for the quality of his work and also for his sense of humour and good cheer, gives birth to an originally shaped viola. We see a step by step account of the instrument’ s construction from the fashioning of the raw wood to, once all[…]
ARGENTINA a film by MARCELO CESPEDES, CARMEN GUARINI Buenos-Aires is one of those enormous cities scattered with shanty towns. The film retraces the population’s struggle to resist attempts to completely destroy these pockets of poverty. Today after having been displaced, mistreated, the inhabitants see the arrival of new people to the shantytown, people increasingly from the middle classes.[…]
HUNGARY • 97′ a film by MARCELL GERÖ Murderers with the faces of children. They have paid for their sins, and today they are looking for their place in society with the mark of Cain on their foreheads. This society has incarcerated and excommunicated them. Three boys. They have received 8 to 12 years in jail for murder,[…]
BOLIVIA a film by DANIELE INCALCATERRA The situation in Bolivia is a microcosm of the dramatic tensions caused by drug production and consumption. On one side, the traffickers and politicians of course, but also the peasants, ex-miners, unemployed for whom the drug economy is the only rampart against starvation and ab solute misery; on the other, the technicians,[…]