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[…]
FRANCE • 25′ a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON Three centuries of war have profoundly marked this borderline landscape. Most obviously stand out the fortifications facing Germany. Military constraints have modeled the landscape, smothering any attempt at economic development. Nowadays, however, the border is permeable. Bitche, built as a rampart against Germany, now only lives for[…]
FRANCE a movie 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,[…]
ITALY • 26′ a movie by JEAN LOïC PORTRON A fortified village, perched high on a hill. The land is apparently fertile: the fields display diversity, as do the crops they bear, with trees playing an essential part. This harmony is the result of tireless struggle. If man allows his attention to wander or fails to[…]
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[…]
USA • 52′ 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,[…]
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[…]
ARGENTINA a movie 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[…]
FRANCE • 8′ a movie by JEAN PIERRE BEKOLO The great Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambety (“Touki Bouki,” “Hyénes,” “Le Franc”), in evoking his first experiences in cinema, defines them as such: “It’s like a grandmother who knows how to tell stories… But the grand mother herself allows us to betray her… The grandmother wants us[…]
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[…]