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[…]