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FUCKING SHEFFIELD

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[…]

BUENOS AIRES , CHRONICLES OF THE SHANTYTOWNS

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.[…]

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CAIN’S CHILDREN

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,[…]

CHAPARE

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,[…]

CHERRY

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[…]

DANCE OF THE MONKEY AND THE FISH *

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,[…]