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/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[…]
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[…]
USA/HAÏTI • 97′ a film by RAOUL PECK Chase Dellal was just a little girl when she left Haiti. Her past remains for her an unexplained child’s nightmare. A coroner in New York City, she spends her time every day next to vic tims of a violence that strikes the weakest, and defends her integrity in[…]
INDIA • 90′ a film by RAJAN KHOSA Pallavi, a young Indian musician, studies classical music with her mother. Her mother dies and the young girl loses her voice. The only way she can keep on singing is by meeting up with her mother’s teacher, an old indiscernible and mystical man. With the help of this[…]
CHILE • 67′ a film by FERNANDO GUZZONI Dog’s Flesh deals with a complex period in the life of Alejandro (55), a solitary, fragile and unpredictable man who crushed by the hostility of his mysterious past. The story is that of a man searching for a new identity, but who becomes lost among his own ghosts and obsessions:[…]