FRANCE/TAÏWAN • 141′ a film by TSAï MING-LIANG A Taiwanese filmmaker makes a film based on the myth of Salomé at the Louvre. Even though he speaks neither French nor English, he insists on giving the part of King Herod to the French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. To give the film a chance at the box-office,[…]
BELGIUM • 103′ a film by BéNéDICTE LIéNARD A Piece of Sky” is a story about the struggles of female prisoners and factory workers. Hopping back and forth between the prison and the factory, the personal and the political, we witness the growing awareness of two women who refuse to buckle under the system. In so doing,[…]
BELGIUM • 106′ a film by THOMAS DE THIER Life is slow in the Belgian town of Genappe, with its sugar refinery and clarification ponds full of rotting red beets. Migrating birds stop here to rest. A couple’s daily life is turned upside down when their young son dies. This story about the tragic event and its[…]
IRAN • 90′ a film by MASSOUD BAKHSHI Arash is an iranian academic who lives in the west. He return to Iran to teach in Shiraz, a city far from Tehran where his mother lives. Drawn into a series of domestic and financial dramas, he faces a country that is now alien to him. Following the death[…]
ZIMBABWE • 87′ a film by INGRID SINCLAIR The story begins in a small village in Rhodesia (which will became Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980 after years of civil war), when the war is hotting up. The life of two teenage girls are changed when the father of one of them is detained by the Rhodesians.[…]
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 • 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[…]