GREAT-BRITAIN a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON “Voyages” in the Highlands. Jean-Loïc Portron’s travelogue describes the highlands of Sutherland, the harshness of the soil and the Lord’s violence. In the moors, people hunt grouse; in the villages they play football; on the Isle of Mull, there’s a theater. In the Highlands, people love stories so much[…]
LAOS • 43′ a film by DIDIER NION I always looked for it on globes, a kid’s dream that didn’t cost a cent.” The Mekong carries its murmur and it is surely like a pearl placed in the middle of a great forest. Vientiane. The word itself resonates like a rare gem, poetical, at a human scale.[…]
NAMIBIA • 41′ a movie by RINA SHERMAN Traveling to Himba country means going back to a time that no longer exists, but that nevertheless lights the way for the Africa of tomorrow. In the outlying districts of Opuwo, capital of Kaokoland, the filmmaker lives at the rythmn of the Himbas. Here the papayas are ready to[…]
FRANCE a movie by ANDRE VAN IN How did the end of the Soviet Union change the way of thinking, the way of behavior of militant French Communists? André Van In filmed for a few months, and for the first time, the meetings of a Communist Party cell in a Paris suburb. Set against these[…]
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[…]
ITALY a movie by GIORGIO DI NELLA The chariot race in San Léo (Italy). Bulls harnessed to chariots from another age gallop at full speed over an 8 kilometre trail, spurred on from all sides through a whirlwind of shouts and dust. Alliances, rivalries, magicians’ tricks are the ingredients of village life that becomes ever more[…]
FRANCE a movie by VALERIE DENESLE, ANNE PEYREGNE The “Brasserie de la Gare”, is a permanent address for its customers: there you can find the home you no longer have. Paulette, the owner lends money to one, helps find the family of another, explains to a third how to obtain his living allowance. Whether Paulette offers[…]
MALI a movie by MICHAEL HOARE In France over the last ten years immigrant workers from the Sahel region 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.[…]
HAÏTI • 57′ a film by RAOUL PECK Who said the economy serves mankind? What is this world where a third of the population, i.e., the richest countries, or to be more exact, the decision-makers and those who live well in these countries, which lowers the figure, have taken over? A world where the economy is law,[…]
SWITZERLAND a film by PIERRE-YVES MOULIN Lake Geneva is Switzerland, its banks and palaces. Jean-Jacques Rousseau has made of this body of water a shrine of romanticism. But Lake Geneva also has a shore in the shadows, its French shore, with many hidden faces. From Fifi the fisherman to border inhabitants, from Lorna the pianist to[…]