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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
FRANCE/TAIWAN • 47′ a film by FRANÇOIS LUNEL Portrait of Tsai Ming-Liang : This documentary FLOWERS IN THE MIRROR, MOON IN THE WATER follows Tsai Ming-Liang’s work, a filmmaker who has already reached a mythical status and is recognized by international critics, during the filming of “Face” at the Louvre museum. FESTIVALS PRESS HOW TO GET THE FILM INTERNATIONAL[…]
ITALY a film by JEAN CHRISTOPHE ROSÉ “The greatest cycling champion of all times”, this was and for many connoisseurs still is, the expression used in referring to Coppi. Symbol of a Europe of Sports, which was born long before the European idea was practiced by nations and politicians, Fausto Coppi is also a mirror of society and[…]
HAÏTI • 19′ a film by RAOUL PECK During his term as Minister of Culture in Haiti, the director Raoul Peck put together this “video letter,” evoking the lassitude and sorrow of exile, bit terly addressing the state of affairs in a country wounded by “three hun dred years of resistance.” The diary of doubts and meditations of a[…]
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,[…]
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[…]
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,[…]