MALI a film by MICHAEL HOARE In France over the last ten years immigrant workers from the Sahel re gion 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. FESTIVALS PRESS HOW TO GET THE[…]
FRANCE a film by MIROSLAV SEBESTIK To leave natural capacities in the discovery of the sound, the musical, to chase away and to light these obstacles which deprive us of music as to highlight the implicit wealth of our listening are the first motivations of this movie. As for a journey the term of which would[…]
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[…]
SPAIN • 28′ a film 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[…]
SPAIN • 59′ a film 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 from[…]
FRANCE • 77′ a documentary by JEAN LOïC PORTRON The film inquires into an affair of state which shook the end of the sixteenth century. It shows how the devilries of Marthe Brossier, who claimed to be possessed, led her contemporaries to clarify their thinking on the relationship between religion and science, between God and state. Four historians dissect[…]
FRANCE a film 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, once all[…]
UNITED KINGDOM • 75′ a film 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[…]
ARGENTINA a film 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 middle classes.[…]
HUNGARY • 97′ a film 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 murder,[…]