ARGENTINA • 88′ a film by PABLO AGUERO Argentina during military dictatorship in the early 80s: Hoping for a new life after being released from prison, Alba takes her six-year-old son Inti with her to a remote hippie village in the foothills of the Andes. She settles in the house of a deceased physician and indulges[…]
SOUTH AFRICA • 99′ a film by RAMADAN SULEMAN Johannesburg is in a state of euphoria two years after the first democratic elections. Here Thandeka, a young black journalist, lives in fear of her country’s past. She’s so troubled that she can’t work, and her relationship with Mangi, her 13-year-old, profoundly deaf daughter, goes from bad[…]
FRANCE/ZIMBABWE • 70′ a film by JEAN PIERRE BEKOLO When Essemba Tourneur, an accursed moviemaker driven out of Europe, goes back home, everything seems to have changed drastically. He discovers in amazement that the old movie theater is now occupied by a gang of thugs led by an African nicknamed «cinema», who ingests American movies all[…]
SOUTH AFRICA • 89′ a film by RAMADAN SULEMAN Charterston Township 1990. Professor Zamani is respected in the township. To be sure, he once raped one of his students but the community turned a blind eye. Zamani used to rail against the apartheid system but those days are long gone. Now he teaches South African history[…]
FRANCE • 28′ a film by CHEN ZHUN A young Asian man, wanders, absolutely lost in the streets of Paris. Voice over in a strange foreign language, reminds to the man that there has been some mistake, that directions, places, thoughts, judgements, and decisions are elsewhere: strange superposition between two cultures. Double sensation: abstraction of forms, black[…]
FRANCE/ALGERIA • 98′ a film by MERZAK ALLOUACHE The country mouse, Alilo, arrives wide-eyed from Algiers to do a little business. The town mouse, his cousin Mok, French-born and Parisian to the core, is there to meet him. Alilo loses the address of the guy he is supposed to meet and they spend a frantic week[…]
FRANCE/ALGERIA • 91′ a film by MERZAK ALLOUACHE Bab-El-Oued is a working class district of Algiers, shortly after the bloody riots of 1988. Boualem is a young worker in the district bakery. He works hard at night and sleeps during the day. One morning, he committed a “foolish” act which is going to put all the[…]
FRANCE • 87′ a film by FERNANDO GUZZONI Santiago (Chile). Jesús (18) is in search of his identity. He dances with a Korean pop group and likes hanging out in public parks with his friends. He doesn’t go to school or have a job. Since his mother died he lives with his father, Hector (53), in[…]
FRANCE • 120′ a film by CLAUDE TIMON GAIGNAIRE 1940, a young teacher who dreams about the Mediterranean, is nominate in an isolated village in the Lozère. In spite of the savagery of the war and the outside world, he arouses among his pupils a spirit of peace and humanism. But, he would have to leave his[…]
INDIA a movie by PANKAJ BUTALIA India was one of the first countries to the world to release itself in the XXth century of the colonial yoke. This liberation has provoked the partition and the birth of Pakistan, then in 1971, of Bangladesh. Almost a million people died and several millions were uprooted and had to[…]