FRANCE a movie by JEAN ARLAUD ” Your eyes bigger than your ears”, that’s what you’ve got to have to learn the trade, of fisherman from the salt banks of Hyères. Afilm about fishing? No, a film on the mental and material universe of fishermen . FESTIVALS Prix de la mission du Patrimoine Ethnologique (Ministère de[…]
TUNISIA • 42′ a film by PIERRE-YVES MOULIN A trip through northern Tunisia, between Hamamet and Cape White, in the heart of autumn. The hotels are empty, but the days are still warm and inviting. This is a travel sketchbook, drawn page by page as the jouney continues and new situations are encountered, revealing little by[…]
NORWAY • 42′ a film by JEAN-LOïC PORTRON A journey to Tromso, in the far north of Norway, beyond the Arctic Circle, at the edge of the inhabited world. Awaiting the night and darkness, Jean-Loïc Portron’s travelogue shows how people cope with obscurity when it invades the day to the point of eliminating it. HOW TO GET THE[…]
CHILE a movie by PATRICIO GUZMAN Patricio Guzman was 13 years old and a resident of Valparaiso, Chile, when he discovered Daniel Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe. In 1999, he shot this film on Robinson Island, which he had long thought fictitious. This film examines the Crusoe legend and retraces the hero’s odyssey. It also recounts the[…]
CAMBODIA 94′ a movie by RITHY PANH After having fled Pol Pot, Rithy Panh, a 15 year old Cambodian finds refuge at the Mairut camp in Thailand, in 1979. Ten years later, now a filmmaker, he returns to the camps to film the daily life of this threatened people. The peoples he meets, eaten away by[…]
UGANDA/USA • 84′ a film by PETER CHAPPELL The future of many developing countries is largely dependent on an institution which is already fifty years old, the World Bank. Criticized and questioned as to its utility, and confronted with numerous setbacks, the Bank is going through a perplexing time in regard to deciding what new strategies[…]
SOUTH AFRICA/FRANCE • 60′ a movie by SIPHAMANDLA BONGWANA / JERRY OBAKENG GAEGANE / STANFORD GIBSON / NDUDUZO SHANDU I was born in a shack in Kliptown, at the end of apartheid. I’ve grown up with hope for a better life, for a real house. With three other young filmakers from Soweto, we have tracked[…]
FRANCE • 51′ a film by ROBERT BOZZI In March 2001, Robert Bozzi enrolled in the school of Parisian taxi drivers. In July he obtained his license and became a taxi driver among many others. His difference? Three little cameras inside his car. For four months his backseat becomes a little theatre of Parisian life. The theatre[…]
GREAT-BRITAIN • 80′ a movie by KIM FLITCROFT Sheffield. In the late 1980s, the steel industry closed down, the heart was torn out of the city. Ten years later, Glen the Karaoke King steals cars, Wayne, a bar owner, spots Sarah and tries to turn her into the star as “the Dirty Dancer”, and Paul, an ex-boxer,[…]
PORTUGAL • 88′ a movie by ROBERT BOZZI In 1970, I filmed the Portuguese community of the Saint-Denis shantytown. I saw it in its death throes. However, in the back of a shed, there was a mother and her new born son. Twenty five years later, I wanted to meet again these “people from the shantytowns”, in[…]