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:[…]

FRANCE/ARGENTINA • 85′ a film by PABLO AGUERO Evita Perón just died. She is the most beloved, but also hated political figure of Argentina. An expert is in charge of her embalming. After years of hard work, he achieves a remarkable work. Meanwhile in Argentina coups follow each other and some dictators want to remove Evita’s legacy[…]

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  •  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[…]

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,[…]

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.[…]

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[…]