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[…]
HUNGARY a movie 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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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,[…]
FRANCE a film by MIROSLAV SEBESTIK In Fougerolles, the city of cherry alcool production, the language of life and death is the reference for the stages and the techniques of distillation. A town and a craft apprehended through the speech of both the distillers and an ethnologist at work. FESTIVALS PRESS Télécharger le DOSSIER DE PRESSE Télécharger la[…]
CAMBODIA a film by PIERRE ALAIN MEIER Fifteen years after the murderous Khmer rouge, the Cambodian film-maker Rithy Panh returns to his land to make the film “Rice People”. During four years of terror, tens of thousands of children were killed. The survivors among them Rithy Panh, were robbed of their childhood. Danyda, Mary, Sopheary, Kourou and Sodany,[…]
ITALY a film by JEAN CHRISTOPHE ROSÉ “The greatest cycling champion of all times”, this was and for many connoisseurs still is, the expression used in referring to Coppi. Symbol of a Europe of Sports, which was born long before the European idea was practiced by nations and politicians, Fausto Coppi is also a mirror of society and[…]