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GIGOLA
HD & 35 mm - 2010 – France – 102 min - Color – Drama
Directed by Laure CHARPENTIER
Original language: French
Cast: Lou Doillon, Eduardo Noriega, Marie Kremer, Rossy de Palma, Ana Padrao, Arly Jover, Virginie Pradal with the participation of Marisa Berenson, Marisa Paredes & Thierry Lhermitte
Synopsis: “GIGOLA” is the story of George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, who, in her teens, falls in love with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover’s eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle’s nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odette, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
Based on the controversial Best Seller novel “Gigola” by Laure Charpentier. The book was first printed in 1972 but immediately retrieved by the censorship. 30 years after “Gigola” became one of the most fascinating character of the 60’s nightlife in Pigalle.
Produced by Denise Petitdidier (MARIE AMELIE PRODUCTION)
SCREENING TIMES :
Saturday 15th at 10 am in PALAIS E
Monday 17th at 4 pm in PALAIS E
Wednesday 19th at 5.30 pm in PALAIS B
SEVERN, THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN
(Severn, la voix de nos enfants)
HD, 35 mm & JPEG 2000 – 2010 – France – 120 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Jean-Paul JAUD
Original languages: French, English, Japanese
Synopsis: “I am here to speak for all generations to come…
... What you do makes me cry at night…
… Please make your actions reflect your words…”
1992: 1st Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For the first time in human history, a child, Severn, calls out to the whole planet. 18 years later, our actions are still different from our speeches. The Earth is still in the same state and Severn is now expecting a baby. She speaks again, showing that despite the emergency, it is still possible to change the course of things. In this documentary full of hope and emotion, Severn embodies a reference for those people, from Canada to Japan going through France, who act in concrete and positive terms in order to respect biodiversity.
Who will answer Severn’s call?
Produced by Béatrice Jaud (J+B SEQUENCES)
SEVERN, THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN is the sequel of THAT SHOULD NOT BE which already cumulated more than 280 000 admissions since nov 2008 & more than 2M € gross receipt in France. 14 571 DVDs already sold !
ALREADY PRESOLD, ALL RIGHTS, IN JAPAN
SCREENING TIMES :
Friday 14th at 6 pm in ARCADES 2
Sunday 16th at 6 pm in ARCADES 2
Tuesday 18th at 2 pm in PALAIS G
JUST BETWEEN US (Neka ostane medju nama)
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – Croatia/Serbia/Slovenia – 89 min – Color – Comedy
Directed by Rajko GRLIC
Original language: Croatian
Cast: Miki Manojlović, Miki Manojlović
Synopsis: romantic and sexual relationships are at the core of the story about five people whose lives are intertwined in provocative and unexpected ways. Nikola (Miki Manojlovic) is a 50-year-old businessman, a hedonist with a taste for younger women, married to Anamarija (Daria Lorenci), a dentist who’s been trying to get pregnant with Nikola for years. They finally succeed just when their marriage is hanging by the thread, mostly due to Nikola’s infidelities.
Produced by Igor A.Nola (MAINFRAME PRODUCTION)
Festival: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2010 – Official Competition
SCREENING TIMES :
Saturday 15th at 1.30 pm in PALAIS H
Tuesday 18th at 4 pm in PALAIS G
ALL THAT I LOVE (Wszystko co kocham)
HD & 35 mm - 2010 – Poland – 95 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Jacek BORCUCH
Original language: Polish
Cast: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Olga Frycz, Jakub Gierszal, Andrzej Chyra
Synopsis: It is a beautiful Spring of 1981 in Poland. In a seaside town, Janek, an 18 year old son of a navy captain, forms a punk-rock band to express the things that matter to him most. His life is all about music and his first great love – Basia, but things are about to change. Massive strikes organized by “Solidarność” sweep through Poland and the Communist party is secretly preparing to impose a martial law. Tension in the country grows. Teenage rebellion becomes dangerous during political turmoil. A clash with a martial law commissar and a death of a loved one will change Janek’s world forever...
Produced by Jan Dworak ( PRASA & FILM LTD )
More than 222 000 admissionsin Poland !
Awards:
Radio Gdańsk Golden Clauquer Award for the film with the longest applause - Polish Film Festival in Gdynia
Golden Kangaroo Award of Australian film distributors - Polish Film Festival in Gdynia
Best Production Design (Elwira Pluta) - Polish Film Festival in Gdynia
Festivals (selection):
Pusan International Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival 2010
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2010
Dublin International Film Festival 2010 - Gala Screening
Istanbul International Film Festival 2010 - Official Competition
SCREENING TIMES :
Monday 17th at 12pm in PALAIS C
JOURNEY’S END (La Belle Visite)
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – Canada – 78 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Jean-François CAISSY
Original language: French
Synopsis: In the far reaches of the Quebec countryside, between a road and a headland that plunges into the sea, an abandoned motel has been converted into a retirement home. In this former travellers’ retreat, time seems to have ground to a halt. Journey’s End is an elegiac exploration of old age, set in a place at once physical and allegorical.
Produced by Jean-François Caissy (LES FILMS DE L’AUTRE)
Canadian release April the 30 th 2010 !
Awards:
Best promising documentary – Jury Award – LES RENDEZ-VOUS DU CINEMA QUEBECQUOIS
Special jury award - French Film Festival, Vancouver 2010
Festivals:
Berlin International Film Festival - Forum of New Cinema 2010
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2010 - Canadian Spectrum Section
Visions du Réel, Nyon Documentary Film Festival 2010 - Regards Neufs Compétition
RIDM - Official Competition – Montréal – 2010
SCREENING TIMES:
Sunday 16th at 4pm in PALAIS G
FROM BEGINNING TO END (Do Começo ao fim)
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – Brazil – 94 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Aluizio ABRANCHES
Original language: Portuguese
Cast : Julia Lemmertz, Fábio Assunção, Jean Pierre Noher, João Gabriel Vasconcelos, Rafael Cardoso
Synopsis: An unconditional love story between Francisco and Thomas, half brothers. Set in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, the film covers their childhood in a loving family environment and their coming of age, when they realize the true affection that bonds them.
Produced by Fernando Libonati (PEQUENA CENTRAL)
Festivals:
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia 2010
Torino LGTB Film Festival, Italy 2010 - Official Competition
Zagreb Queer Film Festival, Croatia 2010
Taormina Film Festival, Italy 2010
SCREENING TIMES:
Sunday 16th at 2 pm in PALAIS G
TWO IN THE WAVE (Deux de la Vague)
HD – 2010 – France – 92 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Emmanuel LAURENT
Original language: French
Cast: Isild Le Besco
Synopsis: Two in the Wave is the story of a friendship. Jean-Luc Godard is born in 1930, François Truffaut two years later, and they meet through their love of cinema. They write in the same magazines, Les Cahiers du Cinéma and Arts. When the younger becomes a filmmaker, with The Four Hundred Blows, which triumphs in Cannes in 1959, he helps his elder to switch to film directing, giving him his own script, already called Breathless.
Produced by Emmanuel Laurent (FILMS A TROIS)
Related by worldwide book seller Antoine de Baecque, former chief editor of Les Cahiers du Cinéma, whose biography “GODARD” was published on March 11th 2010 in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Quebec.
Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival 2009 - Cannes Classics
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2010 - Signals Regained Section
Guadalajara International Film Festival 2010
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2010
Visions du Réel - Nyon Documentary Film Festival, Switzerland 2010
City of Lights, City of Angels (Col-Coa), Los Angeles 2010
Sydney Film Festival 2010
SCREENING TIMES :
Saturday 15th at 4 pm in GRAY 3
Wednesday 19th at 11.30 am in PALAIS B
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – South Africa /France – 81 min – Color – Drama
Directed by John KANI
Original languages: English, Xhosa
Cast: John Kani, Warona Seane, Esmeralda Bihl
Synopsis: What has changed in democratic South Africa for ordinary men, those who resisted and fought in silence against apartheid, without having a political role and without becoming heroes of the ANC? Perhaps not very much. Sipho is a librarian and the brother of a famous ANC leader who had fled to England without ever returning to South Africa. The body of his brother is now coming back to the country and Sipho has to organize the funeral. The event is the opportunity to reflect on his life and the humiliations he always had to endure from his brother, who had been a hero but also a very selfish person.
Produced by MNET, Odélion Films, Jazz Spirit
Awards:
Etalon d’Argent, FESPACO, Burkina Faso
Best Actor Award & Best Direction Award, Zimbabwe International Film Festival
Best African Film - Milan African, Asian and Latin America Film Festival, Italy
Grand Prix - Ecrans Noirs Film Festival, Cameroun
Festivals (selection):
FESPACO, Burkina Faso - Official Competition
Montreal Festival Pan Africa - Official Competition
Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa, Spain 2010 - Official Competition
SCREENING TIMES :
Sunday 16th at 11.30 am in GRAY 4
OPEN SKY (À ciel ouvert)
HD – 2010 – France – 94 & 52 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Iñès COMPAN
Original language: Spanish
Synopsis: Puna, Argentina. Kollas natives suddenly find themselves in the center of national and international stakes because of their underground natural resources. Indeed, Standard Silver, a Canadian company, launches an ambitious project of an open-sky silver mine on the abandoned site of Mina Pirquitas, 4,500 m high. This mine is to become one of the most productive one in Latin America, Standard Silver getting the monopole over the underground natural resources disturbing also the fragile balance of the Kollas natives living on poverty. Kollas thus become victims of the globalization with this new mining boom associated to the decreasing metal exchange rate, the latter being essential to the technological development of our modern societies.
Produced by Thomas Schmitt (MOSAÏQUE FILMS) & Inès Compan (LE HAMAC ROUGE)
Festivals:
Cinéma du réel - Festival International de Films Documentaires Paris, 2010
Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse, France 2010
Premiere at the 32nd International documentary Film “Cinéma du Réel, French Panorama section 2010.
SCREENING TIMES :
Monday 17th at 2pm in PALAIS E
LIKE A DREAM (Comme un rêve)
HD – 2010 – France - 1 x 90 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Marlène Ionesco
Original languages: French, Russian, English
Synopsis: This documentary focuses on two “prima ballerina” of The Opéra de Paris, Dominique Khalfouni and her son Mathieu Ganio, who was nominated when he was only 20-year-old. His mother followed another path and left the Opera de Paris. She joined the Ballet de Marseille of Roland Petit. This touching documentary goes through Marseille, Paris and St Petersbourg, a story about dance and emotions, thru life, work, memories, regrets and hopes.
Are included many extracts of ballets such as "Roméo and Juliet", "Ivan Le Terrible", "Giselle", "Le Spectre de la Rose" (with Noureev), "Don Quichotte". Some documents present the wonderful partners of Dominique Khalfouni such as Cyril Atanassof, Jean Guizerix or Manuel Legris. It also includes interviews of famous dancers like Baryshnikov, Vassiliev, Pierre Lacotte, Michael Denard or Agnès Letestu.
Produced by Marlène Ionesco (Delange Production)
SCREENING TIMES :
Tuesday 18th at 10 am in PALAIS E
MINE, MY LIFE BEHIND THE SCENES (Mine, de fil en aiguille)
2010– France – 83 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Valérie MINETTO
Original language: French
Synopsis: A portrait of Mine Barral Vergez who has been making for 40 years costumes for the most famous Parisian cabarets and show stages like Moulin-Rouge, Lido, Comédie-française and Olympia. She has dressed up the most celebrated artistes of our time starting with Juliette Greco and Barbara. A star in the shadow at this particular time of transition since she is passing the business baton on to her successor...
Produced by Milena POYLO (TS Productions), TV Rennes 35, Paris Brest Productions, Forum des images
With the participation of Juliette Gréco, Barbara, Nana Mouskouri, Nicole Croisille.
SCREENING TIMES :
Tuesday 18th at 11.30 am in PALAIS D
BLACK DIAMOND
HD & 35 mm - 2010 – France/ Belgium – 101 min – Color – Animation - Documentary
Directed by Pascale LAMCHE
Original languages: French, English, Gha, Twi
Synopsis: Black Diamond uncovers the mechanisms of the lucrative international trade of hundreds of young African players with their heads full of dreams, ready for tremendous sacrifices to become the new soccer superstar. Those boys are the victims of a genuine traffic in which they are treated as commodities.
Produced by Dominique Tibi (ROCHE PRODUCTIONS), ARTEMIS PRODUCTIONS & FRANCE 2 CINEMA
SCREENING TIMES :
Wednesday 19 th at 4 pm in PALAIS K « Bory »
NANNERL, MOZART’S SISTER (Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart)
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – France - 120 min – Color – Drama
Directed by René FERET
Original language: French
Cast: Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau, Clovis Fouin
Synopsis: Mozart had an older sister called Nannerl. Child prodigy, she was introduced with her brother to all European courts. In the end of a three year family travel, she met in Versailles Louis XV’s son who encouraged her to write music. But Nannerl is a girl and a girl does not have the right to compose...
Produced by René Féret (LES FILMS ALYNE)
SCREENING TIMES :
Wednesday 19th at 4 pm in PALAIS G
IN SELECTION AT CANNES ECRANS JUNIORS :
Thursday 20 th 2 pm in the Studio 13 (23 avenue du Docteur-Picaud, 06 400 Cannes)
Friday 21 st 9.30 am 30 in Le Raimu (avenue de la Borde, 06 150 Cannes La Bocca)
DIFFERENT FROM WHOM? (Diverso da chi ?)
HD & 35 mm - 2010- Italy - 102 min – Color – LGBT Comedy
Directed by Umberto CARTENI
Original language: Italian
Cast: Luca Argentero, Claudia Gerini, Filippo Nigro, Antonio Catania, Francesco Pannofino, Rinaldo Rocco
Synopsis: Piero, an openly homosexual gay rights activist, runs as the more progressive candidate in the mayoral election of Udine, Italy. At the other end stands the bigoted right-wing candidate, who builds physical walls á la Padua around his community to keep foreigners and drug dealers confined to their various neighbourhoods, and his candidate for vice-mayor, pro-family values champion Adele. In an odd twist, Piero temporarily sets his political loyalties and gayness aside and sleeps with the gorgeous Adele, betraying his male partner, Remo in the process…
Produced by Joshua Berman (CATTLEYA)
SCREENING TIMES :
Wednesday 19th at 1.30pm in PALAIS B
THE BELGRADE PHANTOM (Beogradski Fantom)
35 mm – 2009 – Serbia/ Hungary/ Bulgaria – 52 & 82min – Color – Docu-Fiction
Directed by Jovan B. TODOROVIC
Original language: Serbo-Croatian
Cast: Milutin Milosevic, Marko Zivic, Radoslav Milenkovic, Nada Macankovic, Andrej Sepetkovski
Synopsis: Yugoslavia, 1979. While president and dictator Tito is in Cuba on international affairs, a mysterious Phantom captures the attention of Belgrade. Using a stolen white Porsche car he performs daring stunts through the city streets. As rumours of his cat-and-mouse games with the police spread, people start gathering to watch him at night. Over the radio the Phantom publicly challenges the police to try and catch him. Such open opposition is unheard of and more than 10 000 people are in the streets supporting their hero. It is dangerous to eliminate him in front of the public and the police are forced into a chase where he sets the rules. It comes down to the driving, and the stakes are very high.
Produced by Jovan B Todorovic & Bodgan Petkovic (EMOTE PRODUCTIONS), TIVOLI-FILMPRODUCTIONS, CAMERA FX
Festivals (selection):
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2009
DOCNZ Festival, New Zealand 2010 - Official Competition
Visions du Réel - Nyon Documentary Film Festival, Switzerland 2010
SCREENING TIMES :
Thursday 20th at 12 pm in PALAIS C
THE HOUSE OF BRANCHING LOVE (Haarautuvan rakkauden talo)
HD & 35 mm – 2009 – Finland –102 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Mika KAURISMAKI
Original language: Finnish
Cast: Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Elina Knihtilä, Antti Reini, Tommi Eronen,
Synopsis: Family therapist Juhani Helin, 35, and business trainer Paula Helin, 34, decide to divorce in a civilized manner and move to separate addresses after selling their common house. But when Paula invites her one night stand, Marco, to the house and Juhani takes revenge on her by hiring a prostitute, Nina, from his half-brother and a pimp, Wolffi, to play his new girlfriend in order to force Paula to leave the house, the box of Pandora of their marriage flies open and releases the plagues of love and hate.
Based on the novel by Petri Karra
Produced by Mika Kaurismäki (Marianna Films Oy)
Festivals (selection):
Toronto International Film Festival 2009
Goa International Film Festival of India 2009
Hong Kong European Film Festival 2009
Cinequest Film Festival, USA 2010 - Official Competition
Prague International Film Festival FEBIOFEST, Czech Republic 2010
Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey 2010
Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania 2010
SCREENING TIMES :
Thursday 20th at 10 am in PALAIS C
AVANT- PREMIERE IN CANNES
GARIMPEIRO, THE GOLD FOREST (Orpailleur)
35 mm – 2010 – France – 93 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Marc BARRAT
Original language: French
Cast : Tony Mpoudja, Julien Courbey, Sara Martins
Synopsis: Rod decides to return to Guiana, his native country, accompanied by Gonz, his childhood friend. In Cayenne, they begin an investigation into Rod’s past. A quest that will lead them right into the heart of the virgin forest, into the camps of the illegal gold prospectors…
Produced by Richard Magnien (MAT FILM)
Starring Jimmy JEAN-LOUIS from the TV series HEROES
Best Male Actor Award (Valois of Best Male Actor), Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême
National Release June 16th of 2010
With the presence of the film crew : May 18th – 2.30 pm at the MIRAMAR
(35 rue Pasteur, in the Croisette between the Carlton & the Martinez).
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DOMAIN (Domaine)
35 mm – 2009 – France /Austria –110 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Patric CHIHA
Original language: French, English
Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Isaïe Sultan, Alain Libolt
Synopsis: Pierre, a teen of 17, spends all his time with Nadia, a flamboyant mathematician in her forties. Their rapport is friendly, ambiguous, bordering on amorous. The anarchy that reigns in Nadia's life fascinates this young man on the threshold of adulthood. But Nadia is a wounded soul, dependent on alcohol. Little by little, she slips away. Pierre thinks he can help her, bring her back from the brink...
Produced by Charlotte Vincent (Aurora Films), Ebba Sinzinger & Vincent Lucassen (WILDart FILM)-
Festivals (selection) :
Venice Film Festival 2009 - International Critics' Week
Festival “EntreVues” Belfort, France 2009 – Official Competition
Festival Premiers Plan d’Angers, France 2010 - First French feature film competition
San Francisco International Film Festival 2010
UNFAITHFUL (Infidèles)
2010 – France – 94 min – Color – Erotic
Directed by Claude PERES
Original language: English
Cast: Claude Pérès, Marcel Schlutt
Synopsis: Claude Pérès invited Marcel Schlutt to make love with him. They do not know each other. They do not know whether they like each other. They do not know what will happen. They meet in a flat. They are alone. For one night. For more privacy, Claude Pérès will record images and sound. There is no contract, no obligation. They remain free to say and to do whatever they want. They can stop anytime.
Produced by Claude Péres
LEO’S ROOM (El Cuarto de Leo)
HD – 2009 – Uruguay – 95 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Enrique BUCHICHIO
Original language: Spanish
Cast: Martín Rodríguez, Cecilia Cósero, César Troncoso, Arturo Goetz
Synopsis: Leo is a young man struggling with sexual definition and self-accepatance when he runs into Caro, an ex classmate from Primary School whom he was in love with when they were kids. She´s also going through a deep personal crisis of her own. This reunion will have repercussions in both conflicts, without anyone of them really aware of what´s going on in each other´s life.
Produced by Natacha Lopez (LAVORAGINE FILMS)
World Premiere: San Sebastian International Film Festival 2009 - Zabaltegi Competition
Awards:
Special Mention for Best Script - Zinegoak 2010
Special Jury Award at the GLBT Torino Film Festival - 2010
Festivals (selection):
Miami International Film Festival, USA 2010 - Ibero American Competition
Songs by Cocoon, a French folk music band whose last song “Chupee” is internationally acclaimed.
BURROWING (Man tänker sitt)
HD & 35 mm – 2009 – Sweden – 76 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Henrik Hellström, Fredrik Wenzel
Original language: Swedish
Cast: Sebastian Eklund, Jörgen Svensson, Hannes Sandahl
Synopsis: Sebastian lives at home with his mother. He is eleven years old. From an elevated spot in the playground, he surveys his neighbourhood. He can see Jimmy who lives with his parents, even though he’s got a child of his own. He can see Anders, who’s just been given planning permission for a new carport. In a hollow where the surface water blends into the brook, Mischa is looking for fish. He came as a guest worker in the seventies but still hasn’t left. Sebastian sees the asphalt rotting. He sees hollyhocks eating their way into the foundations causing fractures in the concrete slabs laid directly on the ground. Weakening confined root space, lack of water and low nutritional values. A break-up can only come through force.
Produced by Erika Wasserman (FASAD AB)
Festivals (selection):
Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers, France 2010
Swedish Season at the Lincoln Film Center, New York may 2010
MEN ON THE BRIDGE (Köprüdekiler)
HD & 35 mm – 2009 – Germany/Turkey/Netherlands – 87min – Color – Drama
Directed by Aslı ÖZGE
Cast: Fikret Portakal, Murat Tokgöz, Umut İlker, Cemile İlker
Synopsis: A bit of a Don Juan with his styled hair and single earring, FİKRET (17) illegally sells roses in the traffic jam on the Bosphorus bridge that links Asia and Europe. At the same time, he is striving for a regular job in the old downtown of Istanbul. UMUT (28) drives a shared taxi passing the Bosphorus bridge every day. He is searching for a better apartment to rent in order to satisfy his wife, whose desires are beyond his earnings. The traffic policeman Murat (24), who is stationed at the Bosphorus bridge, feels alone amidst the solid lines of cars. Each night at home, he logs on to the Net seeking for dating chances. Unaware of each other, Fikret, Umut and Murat intersect in the rush hour every day with millions of other Istanbulites, coping with the straits of fulfilling their aspirations in the big city. The story is based on the lives of the characters depicting themselves in the original locations.
Produced by ENDORPHINE PRODUCTION, YENI SINEMACILIK, KALIBER FILM, BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK, ZDF/3SAT, RUSH HOUR FILMS
Awards:
Best Film Award - Ankara International Film Festival 2010
Best Actors Ensemble Award - Ankara International Film Festival 2010
Best Editing Award - Ankara International Film Festival 2010
EAMON
35 mm – 2009 – Ireland – 85 min – Color – Comedy
Directed by Margaret CORKERY
Original language: English
Cast : Robert Donnelly, Amy Kirwan, Darren Healy
Synopsis: ‘Eamon’ is a dark romantic comedy: A family holiday brings to a head the destructive love triangle between Eamon, a little boy with behavioural problems, his selfish mother Grace and his sexually frustrated father Daniel.
Margaret CORKERY is born 1976 in Cork and currently based in Dublin. EAMON is her feature film debut. Her short films include “Killing the Afternoon” (In competition Berlinale 2005) and “Joyride” which won several international awards. Her films tend to combine comedy and suspense.
Produced by Seamus Byrne (ZANITA FILMS)
Awards:
Independent Camera Award - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2009
Prix d’Honneur du Film irlandais - Paris MK2 Close Up Festival 2009
Nominated for 3 Irish Film & Television Awards 2009: Best Film, Best Script Film, Best Actress in a Lead Role
Special Jury Prize for directing - Cinequest 2010
TEARS OF APRIL (Käsky)
HD & 35 mm – 2009 – Finland/ Germany – 115 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Aku LOUHIMIES
Original language: Finnish
Cast: Pihla Viitala, Samuli Vauramo, Eero Aho
Synopsis: 1918, the Finnish civil war. Red socialists and White bourgeois. Prisoner of the Whites, Red guard troop leader Miina Malin, manages to escape only to be recaptured by jaeger Aaro Harjula. Against the general consensus, he does not wish for her senseless murder but for her to have a fair trail. The meeting of Aaro and Miina binds two strong human stories together and sparks an edgy love theme in the midst of the horrors of the civil war.
Based on the novel by Leena Lander.
Produced by Aleksi Bardy (HELSINKI FILMI)
Main actress Pihla Viitala : 2010 EFP Shooting Star. Main actor Samuli Vauramo : 2009 EFP Shooting Star. Samuli recently played in BUNRAKU directed by Guy Moshe starring Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore and Josh Hartnett.
Selected at the European Film Awards 2009.
Award:
Eurimages Award, Sevilla European Film Festival (Sevilla, Spain) 2009
VIL ROMANCE
35 mm – 2009 – Argentina – 110 min – Color – Drama
Directed by José Celestino CAMPUSANO
Original language: Spanish
Cast: Nehuen Zapata, Oscar Génova, Marisa Pajaro, Javier de la Vega, Olga Perez
Synopsis: Roberto is a gay boy who shares the house with his mother and sister. Roberto spends his days wandering around the house; he is aware all he can offer and demand to his young lover is a fling. Roberto starts a relationship with Raul, a man around 50 who invites him to his place. Once he is there Roberto is sexually taken in a rough way he never knew.
Produced by Enrique Muzio (CINEBRUTO)
Awards:
French Critics Discovery Award - Encounter Latin American Cinema, Toulouse - Discovery Competition, France 2009
Prix Rail d'Oc - Encounter Latin American Cinema, Toulouse - Discovery Competition, France 2009
National Competition Award - Río Negro Film Festival, Argentina 2009
COLLECTIONS
LIKE A DREAM (Comme un rêve)
HD – 2010 – France - 1 x 90 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Marlène Ionesco
Original language: French, English and Russian
Synopsis: This documentary focuses on two “prima ballerina” of The Opéra de Paris, Dominique Khalfouni and her son Mathieu Ganio, who was nominated when he was only 20-year-old. His mother followed another path and left the Opera de Paris. She joined the Ballet de Marseille of Roland Petit.
This touching documentary goes through Marseille, Paris and St Petersbourg, a story about dance and emotions, thru life, work, memories, regrets and hopes.
Are included many extracts of ballets such as "Roméo and Juliet", "Ivan Le Terrible", "Giselle", "Le Spectre de la Rose" (with Noureev), "Don Quichotte". Some documents present the wonderful partners of Dominique Khalfouni such as Cyril Atanassof, Jean Guizerix or Manuel Legris. It also includes interviews of famous dancers like Baryshnikov, Vassiliev, Pierre Lacotte, Michael Denard or Agnès Letestu.
Produced by Marlène Ionesco (DELANGE PRODUCTIONS)
Also available: the Marlene Ionesco “Ballet Collection” including:
VIEWS ON A PRINCIPAL DANCER - With Agnès Letestu, Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet – 55 min (SD)
OTHELLO’S DREAM - With Agnès Letestu, Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, and Larrio Ekson – 21 min (SD)
FLIGHT OF EAGLE SPIRIT - With Larrio Ekson – 63 min (SD)
GAY & LESBIAN TITLES COLLECTION
HD & 35 mm – Dramas and Documentaries
The collection includes :
Different from whom? (Diverso da chi ?) by Umberto Carteni, Unfaithful (Infidèles) by Claude PERES, From beginning to end (Do Começo ao fim) by Aluizio ABRANCHES, Vil Romance by José Celestino CAMPUSANO, El Cuarto de Leo (Leo’s Room) by Enrique BUCHICHIO, Soundless Wind Chime by Kit HUNG, Give Me Your Hand (Donne-Moi La Main) by Pascal-Alex Vincent, I Dreamt Under The Water (J’ai Rêvé Sous L’Eau) by HORMOZ, Transvestites Also Cry (Les Travestis Pleurent Aussi) by Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva, Shelter (Riparo) by Marco Simon PUCCIONI, Dakan by Mohamed CAMARA, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Ang Pagdadalaga Ni Maximo Oliveros) by Aureaus SOLITO, Looking for Cheyenne (Oublier Cheyenne) by Valérie MINETTO.
Most of the titles have been selected at acclaimed film festivals such as: Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (USA), The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival (USA), London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (UK), Amsterdam International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival "Pink Film Days" (The Netherlands), Barcelona International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Spain), Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Italy), Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Canada)...
EROTIC TITLES & CLASSICS
HD & 35 mm - From the 60’s to 2009 – Dramas
More than 37 feature film, art house, high quality, from the 60’s to today. A full erotic classic collection including recent festival favorite’s film and classic masterpieces.
The collection includes :
AlbaKiara by Stefano SALVATI, Ah! The Libido (Ah! La Libido) by Michèle ROSIER, Robber Girls by Carla LIA MONTI, Blind Spot by Ad BOL, Cold Blood (Sang Froid), Maladolescenza (Puppy Love), Gradiva (C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle) by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Honey Baby by Mika Kaurismaki, Melancoly Baby with Jane Birkin, Vivante by Sandrine Ray, Wild Camp with Isild Lebesco, Honey Suckle by Claude Faraldo, A Song of Innocence (La Ravisseuse) by Antoine SANTANA, Snow White by Samir, Clemence (Clémence) by Franck Buchter and many more…
And the newly HD restored “Jean-Francois Davy Collection”, which includes more than 15 features from the 70’s.
As Exhibition, Exhibition 2, Q, Exhibition 79, Le Desir, Q, The Hell Of Prostitution, Get On The line Like Everyone Else, Mechanical Banana, Trick Socks,The Pornocrasts, and Melancoly Baby by Clarissse Gabus
MORE THAN 25 HOURS OF PROGRAMME
HD MATERIAL AVAILABLE FOR SEVERAL FILMS
CLASSIC FILMS
HD & Digital material restored
Synopsis: An impressive variety of movies from internationally acclaimed directors and actors. HD material available for several titles. More than 300 feature films, art house, classics, from the 20’s to today. A full classic film collection including eternal festival favorite’s masterpieces with Original stills & Promotional material.
Actors:
Jean Gabin Marlene Dietricht Arletty Louis De Funes Jean Marais Jeanne Moreau Anna Karina Bernadette Laffont Serge Reggiani Bernard Blier Martine Carol Fernandel Michel Simon And Many More…
Directors:
Alain Resnais Jean-Luc Godard Jean Renoir Henri-Georges Clouzot Abel Gance Max Ohpuls Jean Rouch Francois Reichenbach Claude Lellouch Sembene Ousemane Gerard Pires Alberto Cavalcanti Marcel Cravenne Marc Allegret And Many More…
FIRST FILM COLLECTION :
L’amour existe (Maurice Pialat) - Le Chant du Styrène (Alain Resnais) - Charlotte et son Jules (Jean-Luc Godard) - Le Coup du Berger (Jacques Rivette) - Histoire d’eau (François Truffaut & Jean-Luc Godard) - Le Laboratoire de l’angoisse (Patrice Leconte) - Les Surmenés (Jacques Doniol- Valcroze) - Tous Les Garçons s’appellent Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard) - 24 Heures de la vie d’un clown (Jean-Pierre Melville)
CLASSIC COLLECTION :
Vivre sa vie (Godard) - L’eau à la bouche (Doniol-Valcroze) - Manon (Clouzot) - Martin Roumagnac (Lacombe) - Une partie de campagne (Renoir) - Tournage à la campagne (Renoir) - Direction d’acteur (Renoir)
JEAN RENOIR COLLECTION :
Catherine - On purge bébé - La Chienne - Une Partie de Campagne - Tire-au-flanc – Tournage à la campagne
ALAIN RESNAIS COLLECTION :
Le Chant du Styrène - Toute la mémoire du monde - Gauguin Paul - Guernica - Van Gogh
JEAN ROUCH COLLECTION :
Petit à petit – Jaguar – Un cœur gros comme ça - La Pyramide humaine – Moi, un Noir – La Goumbé des jeunes noceurs – Tambours d’avant – La Chasse au lion à l’arc – Un lion nommé l’Américain – Mammy Waters – Les Maîtres fous
RENÉ FÉRET COLLECTION
HD & 35 mm
Nannerl, Mozart’s sister (Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart), Comme une étoile dans la nuit, But Once Mom Had Gone... (Il a suffit que Maman s’en aille), L’enfant du pays, Rue du retrait, Les frères Gravet, La place d’un autre (with Elsa Zylberstein) Promenades d’été, Baptême, Mystère Alexina, Fernand, La communion solennelle, Histoire de Paul.
Produced by : Fabienne Camara (Les FILMS ALYNE)
Festival:
Comme une étoile dans la nuit, Focus on World Cinema, Official Selection, Montreal 2008
MIKA KAURISMAKI COLLECTION
HD & 35 mm
The House of Branching Love, comedy, 2010
Three Wise Men (Kolme viisasta miestä), drama, 2009
Sonic Mirror, documentary, 2007
Brasileirinho, documentary, 2005
Honey Baby, drama, 2005
Moro No Brasil, documentary, 2003
Highway Society, drama, 1996
Condition Red (Jatkuva hälytystila), action/drama, 1996
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made (starring Samuel Fuller & Jim Jarmusch) drama, 1994
The Last Border (Viimeisellä rajalla), action- SF, 1993
Zombie and the Ghost Train (Zombie ja Kummitusjuna) dramatic comedy, 1991
Amazon, action-adventure, 1990
Paper Star (Paperitähti), drama, 1989
Cha Cha Cha, comedy, 1989
Helsinki Naples All Night Long, comedy/thriller, 1987
Rosso, drama, 1985
The Clan Tale of the Frogs (Klaani), drama- action, 1984
The Worthless (Arvottomat), drama-comedy, 1982
Jackpot 2, drama-action, 1982
The Liar (Valehtelija), drama-action, 1981
HD MASTERS AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST FILM
WINDOW ON THE WORLD
LA VIDA LOCA: HD & 35 mm - 2009 – France/Spain/Mexico – 90 min – Color – Documentary
CARA A LA MUERTE (MARKED FOR DEATH): HD - 2010 – France/Spain/Mexico – 52 min –
Directed by Christian POVEDA
Original language: Spanish
Synopsis: In Central America, they are called Maras, these groups of youngsters who have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent and are propagating terror in El Salvador and elsewhere. This is a study, through photography and the personal stories of these gang members, of a violent phenomenon that has been imported from the USA.
Produced by Carole Solive (La Femme Endormie), Luis Bellaba (Aquelarre), Emilio Maillé and Gustavo Angel (El Caiman)
NOISE AND FURY (14-18, Le Bruit et la Fureur)
2009 – France/ Belgium – 100 & 2 x 52 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Jean-François DELASSUS
Original language: French - Voice over by Alexandre Astier
Synopsis: Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain the inexplicable: how tens of millions of men could have suffered the unbelievable toughness of life in trenches during 4 years, season after season, day after day, night after night? How could they have accepted the idea of a sure death or injury while they could not even tell the exact reason why they were fighting?
What you are about to see can seem crazy: WW1 was maintained by a general consent.
It is a documentary based on rare archives for the first time colorized, restored and sonorized as never before.
Produced by PROGRAM 33, ECPAD, IOTA PRODUCTIONS, RTBF
Broadcasted on prime time on France 2 with a 6 million top rated audience, 3rd best audience in Prime Time for a documentary.
Also available in English version
IN PRODUCTION
APPROVED FOR ADOPTION
HD & 35mm – 2011 – France/ Belgium – 80 min – Color – in Production - Animation film
Directed by JUNG and Laurent BOILEAU
Original language: French
Synopsis: European on the heads side, Asian on the tails side. Cartoonist. 42 years old according to his civil status, Jung prefers to place his birth at the age of 5, when a policeman found him wandering alone on the streets of Seoul. He is one of those 200 000 adopted Koreans spread around the world. Jung decided to return, for the first time, in South Korea, in order to breath the air of his home country, tread the land of his ancestors, and maybe find traces of his biological mother. This trip of reconciliation with his roots and with himself – shot as a documentary — leads our character to recall – in animation – the child he once was and the winding path that made him grow up, until the encounter with his wife, an adopted Korean herself. This travel in time – the present of the trip and the memory of the past – will push him little by little towards a peaceful cohabitation between his inner diversities.
Produced by Mosaïque Films (FR) and Artemis Production (BE)
Ready in March 2010
GIGOLA
HD & 35 mm - 2010 – France – 102 min - Color – Drama
Directed by Laure CHARPENTIER
Original language: French
Cast: Lou Doillon, Eduardo Noriega, Marie Kremer, Rossy de Palma, Ana Padrao, Arly Jover, Virginie Pradal with the participation of Marisa Berenson, Marisa Paredes & Thierry Lhermitte
Synopsis: “GIGOLA” is the story of George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, who, in her teens, falls in love with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover’s eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting and reckless journey to the depths of Pigalle’s nightlife, circa 1960. After an encounter with a very wealthy, still attractive, but older woman, Odette, who offers her money and gifts in return for sexual favours, George becomes Gigola, a kind of gigolo for women only.
Based on the controversial Best Seller novel “Gigola” by Laure Charpentier. The book was first printed in 1972 but immediately retrieved by the censorship. 30 years after “Gigola” became one of the most fascinating character of the 60’s nightlife in Pigalle.
Produced by Denise Petitdidier (MARIE AMELIE PRODUCTION)
SCREENING TIMES :
Saturday 15th at 10 am in PALAIS E
Monday 17th at 4 pm in PALAIS E
Wednesday 19th at 5.30 pm in PALAIS B
SEVERN, THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN
(Severn, la voix de nos enfants)
HD, 35 mm & JPEG 2000 – 2010 – France – 120 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Jean-Paul JAUD
Original languages: French, English, Japanese
Synopsis: “I am here to speak for all generations to come…
... What you do makes me cry at night…
… Please make your actions reflect your words…”
1992: 1st Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For the first time in human history, a child, Severn, calls out to the whole planet. 18 years later, our actions are still different from our speeches. The Earth is still in the same state and Severn is now expecting a baby. She speaks again, showing that despite the emergency, it is still possible to change the course of things. In this documentary full of hope and emotion, Severn embodies a reference for those people, from Canada to Japan going through France, who act in concrete and positive terms in order to respect biodiversity.
Who will answer Severn’s call?
Produced by Béatrice Jaud (J+B SEQUENCES)
SEVERN, THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN is the sequel of THAT SHOULD NOT BE which already cumulated more than 280 000 admissions since nov 2008 & more than 2M € gross receipt in France. 14 571 DVDs already sold !
ALREADY PRESOLD, ALL RIGHTS, IN JAPAN
SCREENING TIMES :
Friday 14th at 6 pm in ARCADES 2
Sunday 16th at 6 pm in ARCADES 2
Tuesday 18th at 2 pm in PALAIS G
JUST BETWEEN US (Neka ostane medju nama)
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – Croatia/Serbia/Slovenia – 89 min – Color – Comedy
Directed by Rajko GRLIC
Original language: Croatian
Cast: Miki Manojlović, Miki Manojlović
Synopsis: romantic and sexual relationships are at the core of the story about five people whose lives are intertwined in provocative and unexpected ways. Nikola (Miki Manojlovic) is a 50-year-old businessman, a hedonist with a taste for younger women, married to Anamarija (Daria Lorenci), a dentist who’s been trying to get pregnant with Nikola for years. They finally succeed just when their marriage is hanging by the thread, mostly due to Nikola’s infidelities.
Produced by Igor A.Nola (MAINFRAME PRODUCTION)
Festival: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2010 – Official Competition
SCREENING TIMES :
Saturday 15th at 1.30 pm in PALAIS H
Tuesday 18th at 4 pm in PALAIS G
ALL THAT I LOVE (Wszystko co kocham)
HD & 35 mm - 2010 – Poland – 95 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Jacek BORCUCH
Original language: Polish
Cast: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Olga Frycz, Jakub Gierszal, Andrzej Chyra
Synopsis: It is a beautiful Spring of 1981 in Poland. In a seaside town, Janek, an 18 year old son of a navy captain, forms a punk-rock band to express the things that matter to him most. His life is all about music and his first great love – Basia, but things are about to change. Massive strikes organized by “Solidarność” sweep through Poland and the Communist party is secretly preparing to impose a martial law. Tension in the country grows. Teenage rebellion becomes dangerous during political turmoil. A clash with a martial law commissar and a death of a loved one will change Janek’s world forever...
Produced by Jan Dworak ( PRASA & FILM LTD )
More than 222 000 admissionsin Poland !
Awards:
Radio Gdańsk Golden Clauquer Award for the film with the longest applause - Polish Film Festival in Gdynia
Golden Kangaroo Award of Australian film distributors - Polish Film Festival in Gdynia
Best Production Design (Elwira Pluta) - Polish Film Festival in Gdynia
Festivals (selection):
Pusan International Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival 2010
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2010
Dublin International Film Festival 2010 - Gala Screening
Istanbul International Film Festival 2010 - Official Competition
SCREENING TIMES :
Monday 17th at 12pm in PALAIS C
JOURNEY’S END (La Belle Visite)
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – Canada – 78 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Jean-François CAISSY
Original language: French
Synopsis: In the far reaches of the Quebec countryside, between a road and a headland that plunges into the sea, an abandoned motel has been converted into a retirement home. In this former travellers’ retreat, time seems to have ground to a halt. Journey’s End is an elegiac exploration of old age, set in a place at once physical and allegorical.
Produced by Jean-François Caissy (LES FILMS DE L’AUTRE)
Canadian release April the 30 th 2010 !
Awards:
Best promising documentary – Jury Award – LES RENDEZ-VOUS DU CINEMA QUEBECQUOIS
Special jury award - French Film Festival, Vancouver 2010
Festivals:
Berlin International Film Festival - Forum of New Cinema 2010
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2010 - Canadian Spectrum Section
Visions du Réel, Nyon Documentary Film Festival 2010 - Regards Neufs Compétition
RIDM - Official Competition – Montréal – 2010
SCREENING TIMES:
Sunday 16th at 4pm in PALAIS G
FROM BEGINNING TO END (Do Começo ao fim)
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – Brazil – 94 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Aluizio ABRANCHES
Original language: Portuguese
Cast : Julia Lemmertz, Fábio Assunção, Jean Pierre Noher, João Gabriel Vasconcelos, Rafael Cardoso
Synopsis: An unconditional love story between Francisco and Thomas, half brothers. Set in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, the film covers their childhood in a loving family environment and their coming of age, when they realize the true affection that bonds them.
Produced by Fernando Libonati (PEQUENA CENTRAL)
Festivals:
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia 2010
Torino LGTB Film Festival, Italy 2010 - Official Competition
Zagreb Queer Film Festival, Croatia 2010
Taormina Film Festival, Italy 2010
SCREENING TIMES:
Sunday 16th at 2 pm in PALAIS G
TWO IN THE WAVE (Deux de la Vague)
HD – 2010 – France – 92 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Emmanuel LAURENT
Original language: French
Cast: Isild Le Besco
Synopsis: Two in the Wave is the story of a friendship. Jean-Luc Godard is born in 1930, François Truffaut two years later, and they meet through their love of cinema. They write in the same magazines, Les Cahiers du Cinéma and Arts. When the younger becomes a filmmaker, with The Four Hundred Blows, which triumphs in Cannes in 1959, he helps his elder to switch to film directing, giving him his own script, already called Breathless.
Produced by Emmanuel Laurent (FILMS A TROIS)
Related by worldwide book seller Antoine de Baecque, former chief editor of Les Cahiers du Cinéma, whose biography “GODARD” was published on March 11th 2010 in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Quebec.
Festivals:
Cannes Film Festival 2009 - Cannes Classics
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2010 - Signals Regained Section
Guadalajara International Film Festival 2010
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2010
Visions du Réel - Nyon Documentary Film Festival, Switzerland 2010
City of Lights, City of Angels (Col-Coa), Los Angeles 2010
Sydney Film Festival 2010
SCREENING TIMES :
Saturday 15th at 4 pm in GRAY 3
Wednesday 19th at 11.30 am in PALAIS B
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – South Africa /France – 81 min – Color – Drama
Directed by John KANI
Original languages: English, Xhosa
Cast: John Kani, Warona Seane, Esmeralda Bihl
Synopsis: What has changed in democratic South Africa for ordinary men, those who resisted and fought in silence against apartheid, without having a political role and without becoming heroes of the ANC? Perhaps not very much. Sipho is a librarian and the brother of a famous ANC leader who had fled to England without ever returning to South Africa. The body of his brother is now coming back to the country and Sipho has to organize the funeral. The event is the opportunity to reflect on his life and the humiliations he always had to endure from his brother, who had been a hero but also a very selfish person.
Produced by MNET, Odélion Films, Jazz Spirit
Awards:
Etalon d’Argent, FESPACO, Burkina Faso
Best Actor Award & Best Direction Award, Zimbabwe International Film Festival
Best African Film - Milan African, Asian and Latin America Film Festival, Italy
Grand Prix - Ecrans Noirs Film Festival, Cameroun
Festivals (selection):
FESPACO, Burkina Faso - Official Competition
Montreal Festival Pan Africa - Official Competition
Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa, Spain 2010 - Official Competition
SCREENING TIMES :
Sunday 16th at 11.30 am in GRAY 4
OPEN SKY (À ciel ouvert)
HD – 2010 – France – 94 & 52 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Iñès COMPAN
Original language: Spanish
Synopsis: Puna, Argentina. Kollas natives suddenly find themselves in the center of national and international stakes because of their underground natural resources. Indeed, Standard Silver, a Canadian company, launches an ambitious project of an open-sky silver mine on the abandoned site of Mina Pirquitas, 4,500 m high. This mine is to become one of the most productive one in Latin America, Standard Silver getting the monopole over the underground natural resources disturbing also the fragile balance of the Kollas natives living on poverty. Kollas thus become victims of the globalization with this new mining boom associated to the decreasing metal exchange rate, the latter being essential to the technological development of our modern societies.
Produced by Thomas Schmitt (MOSAÏQUE FILMS) & Inès Compan (LE HAMAC ROUGE)
Festivals:
Cinéma du réel - Festival International de Films Documentaires Paris, 2010
Rencontres Cinémas d’Amérique Latine de Toulouse, France 2010
Premiere at the 32nd International documentary Film “Cinéma du Réel, French Panorama section 2010.
SCREENING TIMES :
Monday 17th at 2pm in PALAIS E
LIKE A DREAM (Comme un rêve)
HD – 2010 – France - 1 x 90 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Marlène Ionesco
Original languages: French, Russian, English
Synopsis: This documentary focuses on two “prima ballerina” of The Opéra de Paris, Dominique Khalfouni and her son Mathieu Ganio, who was nominated when he was only 20-year-old. His mother followed another path and left the Opera de Paris. She joined the Ballet de Marseille of Roland Petit. This touching documentary goes through Marseille, Paris and St Petersbourg, a story about dance and emotions, thru life, work, memories, regrets and hopes.
Are included many extracts of ballets such as "Roméo and Juliet", "Ivan Le Terrible", "Giselle", "Le Spectre de la Rose" (with Noureev), "Don Quichotte". Some documents present the wonderful partners of Dominique Khalfouni such as Cyril Atanassof, Jean Guizerix or Manuel Legris. It also includes interviews of famous dancers like Baryshnikov, Vassiliev, Pierre Lacotte, Michael Denard or Agnès Letestu.
Produced by Marlène Ionesco (Delange Production)
SCREENING TIMES :
Tuesday 18th at 10 am in PALAIS E
MINE, MY LIFE BEHIND THE SCENES (Mine, de fil en aiguille)
2010– France – 83 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Valérie MINETTO
Original language: French
Synopsis: A portrait of Mine Barral Vergez who has been making for 40 years costumes for the most famous Parisian cabarets and show stages like Moulin-Rouge, Lido, Comédie-française and Olympia. She has dressed up the most celebrated artistes of our time starting with Juliette Greco and Barbara. A star in the shadow at this particular time of transition since she is passing the business baton on to her successor...
Produced by Milena POYLO (TS Productions), TV Rennes 35, Paris Brest Productions, Forum des images
With the participation of Juliette Gréco, Barbara, Nana Mouskouri, Nicole Croisille.
SCREENING TIMES :
Tuesday 18th at 11.30 am in PALAIS D
BLACK DIAMOND
HD & 35 mm - 2010 – France/ Belgium – 101 min – Color – Animation - Documentary
Directed by Pascale LAMCHE
Original languages: French, English, Gha, Twi
Synopsis: Black Diamond uncovers the mechanisms of the lucrative international trade of hundreds of young African players with their heads full of dreams, ready for tremendous sacrifices to become the new soccer superstar. Those boys are the victims of a genuine traffic in which they are treated as commodities.
Produced by Dominique Tibi (ROCHE PRODUCTIONS), ARTEMIS PRODUCTIONS & FRANCE 2 CINEMA
SCREENING TIMES :
Wednesday 19 th at 4 pm in PALAIS K « Bory »
NANNERL, MOZART’S SISTER (Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart)
HD & 35 mm – 2010 – France - 120 min – Color – Drama
Directed by René FERET
Original language: French
Cast: Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau, Clovis Fouin
Synopsis: Mozart had an older sister called Nannerl. Child prodigy, she was introduced with her brother to all European courts. In the end of a three year family travel, she met in Versailles Louis XV’s son who encouraged her to write music. But Nannerl is a girl and a girl does not have the right to compose...
Produced by René Féret (LES FILMS ALYNE)
SCREENING TIMES :
Wednesday 19th at 4 pm in PALAIS G
IN SELECTION AT CANNES ECRANS JUNIORS :
Thursday 20 th 2 pm in the Studio 13 (23 avenue du Docteur-Picaud, 06 400 Cannes)
Friday 21 st 9.30 am 30 in Le Raimu (avenue de la Borde, 06 150 Cannes La Bocca)
DIFFERENT FROM WHOM? (Diverso da chi ?)
HD & 35 mm - 2010- Italy - 102 min – Color – LGBT Comedy
Directed by Umberto CARTENI
Original language: Italian
Cast: Luca Argentero, Claudia Gerini, Filippo Nigro, Antonio Catania, Francesco Pannofino, Rinaldo Rocco
Synopsis: Piero, an openly homosexual gay rights activist, runs as the more progressive candidate in the mayoral election of Udine, Italy. At the other end stands the bigoted right-wing candidate, who builds physical walls á la Padua around his community to keep foreigners and drug dealers confined to their various neighbourhoods, and his candidate for vice-mayor, pro-family values champion Adele. In an odd twist, Piero temporarily sets his political loyalties and gayness aside and sleeps with the gorgeous Adele, betraying his male partner, Remo in the process…
Produced by Joshua Berman (CATTLEYA)
SCREENING TIMES :
Wednesday 19th at 1.30pm in PALAIS B
THE BELGRADE PHANTOM (Beogradski Fantom)
35 mm – 2009 – Serbia/ Hungary/ Bulgaria – 52 & 82min – Color – Docu-Fiction
Directed by Jovan B. TODOROVIC
Original language: Serbo-Croatian
Cast: Milutin Milosevic, Marko Zivic, Radoslav Milenkovic, Nada Macankovic, Andrej Sepetkovski
Synopsis: Yugoslavia, 1979. While president and dictator Tito is in Cuba on international affairs, a mysterious Phantom captures the attention of Belgrade. Using a stolen white Porsche car he performs daring stunts through the city streets. As rumours of his cat-and-mouse games with the police spread, people start gathering to watch him at night. Over the radio the Phantom publicly challenges the police to try and catch him. Such open opposition is unheard of and more than 10 000 people are in the streets supporting their hero. It is dangerous to eliminate him in front of the public and the police are forced into a chase where he sets the rules. It comes down to the driving, and the stakes are very high.
Produced by Jovan B Todorovic & Bodgan Petkovic (EMOTE PRODUCTIONS), TIVOLI-FILMPRODUCTIONS, CAMERA FX
Festivals (selection):
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2009
DOCNZ Festival, New Zealand 2010 - Official Competition
Visions du Réel - Nyon Documentary Film Festival, Switzerland 2010
SCREENING TIMES :
Thursday 20th at 12 pm in PALAIS C
THE HOUSE OF BRANCHING LOVE (Haarautuvan rakkauden talo)
HD & 35 mm – 2009 – Finland –102 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Mika KAURISMAKI
Original language: Finnish
Cast: Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Elina Knihtilä, Antti Reini, Tommi Eronen,
Synopsis: Family therapist Juhani Helin, 35, and business trainer Paula Helin, 34, decide to divorce in a civilized manner and move to separate addresses after selling their common house. But when Paula invites her one night stand, Marco, to the house and Juhani takes revenge on her by hiring a prostitute, Nina, from his half-brother and a pimp, Wolffi, to play his new girlfriend in order to force Paula to leave the house, the box of Pandora of their marriage flies open and releases the plagues of love and hate.
Based on the novel by Petri Karra
Produced by Mika Kaurismäki (Marianna Films Oy)
Festivals (selection):
Toronto International Film Festival 2009
Goa International Film Festival of India 2009
Hong Kong European Film Festival 2009
Cinequest Film Festival, USA 2010 - Official Competition
Prague International Film Festival FEBIOFEST, Czech Republic 2010
Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey 2010
Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania 2010
SCREENING TIMES :
Thursday 20th at 10 am in PALAIS C
AVANT- PREMIERE IN CANNES
GARIMPEIRO, THE GOLD FOREST (Orpailleur)
35 mm – 2010 – France – 93 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Marc BARRAT
Original language: French
Cast : Tony Mpoudja, Julien Courbey, Sara Martins
Synopsis: Rod decides to return to Guiana, his native country, accompanied by Gonz, his childhood friend. In Cayenne, they begin an investigation into Rod’s past. A quest that will lead them right into the heart of the virgin forest, into the camps of the illegal gold prospectors…
Produced by Richard Magnien (MAT FILM)
Starring Jimmy JEAN-LOUIS from the TV series HEROES
Best Male Actor Award (Valois of Best Male Actor), Festival du Film Francophone d'Angoulême
National Release June 16th of 2010
With the presence of the film crew : May 18th – 2.30 pm at the MIRAMAR
(35 rue Pasteur, in the Croisette between the Carlton & the Martinez).
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DOMAIN (Domaine)
35 mm – 2009 – France /Austria –110 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Patric CHIHA
Original language: French, English
Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Isaïe Sultan, Alain Libolt
Synopsis: Pierre, a teen of 17, spends all his time with Nadia, a flamboyant mathematician in her forties. Their rapport is friendly, ambiguous, bordering on amorous. The anarchy that reigns in Nadia's life fascinates this young man on the threshold of adulthood. But Nadia is a wounded soul, dependent on alcohol. Little by little, she slips away. Pierre thinks he can help her, bring her back from the brink...
Produced by Charlotte Vincent (Aurora Films), Ebba Sinzinger & Vincent Lucassen (WILDart FILM)-
Festivals (selection) :
Venice Film Festival 2009 - International Critics' Week
Festival “EntreVues” Belfort, France 2009 – Official Competition
Festival Premiers Plan d’Angers, France 2010 - First French feature film competition
San Francisco International Film Festival 2010
UNFAITHFUL (Infidèles)
2010 – France – 94 min – Color – Erotic
Directed by Claude PERES
Original language: English
Cast: Claude Pérès, Marcel Schlutt
Synopsis: Claude Pérès invited Marcel Schlutt to make love with him. They do not know each other. They do not know whether they like each other. They do not know what will happen. They meet in a flat. They are alone. For one night. For more privacy, Claude Pérès will record images and sound. There is no contract, no obligation. They remain free to say and to do whatever they want. They can stop anytime.
Produced by Claude Péres
LEO’S ROOM (El Cuarto de Leo)
HD – 2009 – Uruguay – 95 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Enrique BUCHICHIO
Original language: Spanish
Cast: Martín Rodríguez, Cecilia Cósero, César Troncoso, Arturo Goetz
Synopsis: Leo is a young man struggling with sexual definition and self-accepatance when he runs into Caro, an ex classmate from Primary School whom he was in love with when they were kids. She´s also going through a deep personal crisis of her own. This reunion will have repercussions in both conflicts, without anyone of them really aware of what´s going on in each other´s life.
Produced by Natacha Lopez (LAVORAGINE FILMS)
World Premiere: San Sebastian International Film Festival 2009 - Zabaltegi Competition
Awards:
Special Mention for Best Script - Zinegoak 2010
Special Jury Award at the GLBT Torino Film Festival - 2010
Festivals (selection):
Miami International Film Festival, USA 2010 - Ibero American Competition
Songs by Cocoon, a French folk music band whose last song “Chupee” is internationally acclaimed.
BURROWING (Man tänker sitt)
HD & 35 mm – 2009 – Sweden – 76 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Henrik Hellström, Fredrik Wenzel
Original language: Swedish
Cast: Sebastian Eklund, Jörgen Svensson, Hannes Sandahl
Synopsis: Sebastian lives at home with his mother. He is eleven years old. From an elevated spot in the playground, he surveys his neighbourhood. He can see Jimmy who lives with his parents, even though he’s got a child of his own. He can see Anders, who’s just been given planning permission for a new carport. In a hollow where the surface water blends into the brook, Mischa is looking for fish. He came as a guest worker in the seventies but still hasn’t left. Sebastian sees the asphalt rotting. He sees hollyhocks eating their way into the foundations causing fractures in the concrete slabs laid directly on the ground. Weakening confined root space, lack of water and low nutritional values. A break-up can only come through force.
Produced by Erika Wasserman (FASAD AB)
Festivals (selection):
Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers, France 2010
Swedish Season at the Lincoln Film Center, New York may 2010
MEN ON THE BRIDGE (Köprüdekiler)
HD & 35 mm – 2009 – Germany/Turkey/Netherlands – 87min – Color – Drama
Directed by Aslı ÖZGE
Cast: Fikret Portakal, Murat Tokgöz, Umut İlker, Cemile İlker
Synopsis: A bit of a Don Juan with his styled hair and single earring, FİKRET (17) illegally sells roses in the traffic jam on the Bosphorus bridge that links Asia and Europe. At the same time, he is striving for a regular job in the old downtown of Istanbul. UMUT (28) drives a shared taxi passing the Bosphorus bridge every day. He is searching for a better apartment to rent in order to satisfy his wife, whose desires are beyond his earnings. The traffic policeman Murat (24), who is stationed at the Bosphorus bridge, feels alone amidst the solid lines of cars. Each night at home, he logs on to the Net seeking for dating chances. Unaware of each other, Fikret, Umut and Murat intersect in the rush hour every day with millions of other Istanbulites, coping with the straits of fulfilling their aspirations in the big city. The story is based on the lives of the characters depicting themselves in the original locations.
Produced by ENDORPHINE PRODUCTION, YENI SINEMACILIK, KALIBER FILM, BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK, ZDF/3SAT, RUSH HOUR FILMS
Awards:
Best Film Award - Ankara International Film Festival 2010
Best Actors Ensemble Award - Ankara International Film Festival 2010
Best Editing Award - Ankara International Film Festival 2010
EAMON
35 mm – 2009 – Ireland – 85 min – Color – Comedy
Directed by Margaret CORKERY
Original language: English
Cast : Robert Donnelly, Amy Kirwan, Darren Healy
Synopsis: ‘Eamon’ is a dark romantic comedy: A family holiday brings to a head the destructive love triangle between Eamon, a little boy with behavioural problems, his selfish mother Grace and his sexually frustrated father Daniel.
Margaret CORKERY is born 1976 in Cork and currently based in Dublin. EAMON is her feature film debut. Her short films include “Killing the Afternoon” (In competition Berlinale 2005) and “Joyride” which won several international awards. Her films tend to combine comedy and suspense.
Produced by Seamus Byrne (ZANITA FILMS)
Awards:
Independent Camera Award - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2009
Prix d’Honneur du Film irlandais - Paris MK2 Close Up Festival 2009
Nominated for 3 Irish Film & Television Awards 2009: Best Film, Best Script Film, Best Actress in a Lead Role
Special Jury Prize for directing - Cinequest 2010
TEARS OF APRIL (Käsky)
HD & 35 mm – 2009 – Finland/ Germany – 115 min – Color – Drama
Directed by Aku LOUHIMIES
Original language: Finnish
Cast: Pihla Viitala, Samuli Vauramo, Eero Aho
Synopsis: 1918, the Finnish civil war. Red socialists and White bourgeois. Prisoner of the Whites, Red guard troop leader Miina Malin, manages to escape only to be recaptured by jaeger Aaro Harjula. Against the general consensus, he does not wish for her senseless murder but for her to have a fair trail. The meeting of Aaro and Miina binds two strong human stories together and sparks an edgy love theme in the midst of the horrors of the civil war.
Based on the novel by Leena Lander.
Produced by Aleksi Bardy (HELSINKI FILMI)
Main actress Pihla Viitala : 2010 EFP Shooting Star. Main actor Samuli Vauramo : 2009 EFP Shooting Star. Samuli recently played in BUNRAKU directed by Guy Moshe starring Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore and Josh Hartnett.
Selected at the European Film Awards 2009.
Award:
Eurimages Award, Sevilla European Film Festival (Sevilla, Spain) 2009
VIL ROMANCE
35 mm – 2009 – Argentina – 110 min – Color – Drama
Directed by José Celestino CAMPUSANO
Original language: Spanish
Cast: Nehuen Zapata, Oscar Génova, Marisa Pajaro, Javier de la Vega, Olga Perez
Synopsis: Roberto is a gay boy who shares the house with his mother and sister. Roberto spends his days wandering around the house; he is aware all he can offer and demand to his young lover is a fling. Roberto starts a relationship with Raul, a man around 50 who invites him to his place. Once he is there Roberto is sexually taken in a rough way he never knew.
Produced by Enrique Muzio (CINEBRUTO)
Awards:
French Critics Discovery Award - Encounter Latin American Cinema, Toulouse - Discovery Competition, France 2009
Prix Rail d'Oc - Encounter Latin American Cinema, Toulouse - Discovery Competition, France 2009
National Competition Award - Río Negro Film Festival, Argentina 2009
COLLECTIONS
LIKE A DREAM (Comme un rêve)
HD – 2010 – France - 1 x 90 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Marlène Ionesco
Original language: French, English and Russian
Synopsis: This documentary focuses on two “prima ballerina” of The Opéra de Paris, Dominique Khalfouni and her son Mathieu Ganio, who was nominated when he was only 20-year-old. His mother followed another path and left the Opera de Paris. She joined the Ballet de Marseille of Roland Petit.
This touching documentary goes through Marseille, Paris and St Petersbourg, a story about dance and emotions, thru life, work, memories, regrets and hopes.
Are included many extracts of ballets such as "Roméo and Juliet", "Ivan Le Terrible", "Giselle", "Le Spectre de la Rose" (with Noureev), "Don Quichotte". Some documents present the wonderful partners of Dominique Khalfouni such as Cyril Atanassof, Jean Guizerix or Manuel Legris. It also includes interviews of famous dancers like Baryshnikov, Vassiliev, Pierre Lacotte, Michael Denard or Agnès Letestu.
Produced by Marlène Ionesco (DELANGE PRODUCTIONS)
Also available: the Marlene Ionesco “Ballet Collection” including:
VIEWS ON A PRINCIPAL DANCER - With Agnès Letestu, Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet – 55 min (SD)
OTHELLO’S DREAM - With Agnès Letestu, Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, and Larrio Ekson – 21 min (SD)
FLIGHT OF EAGLE SPIRIT - With Larrio Ekson – 63 min (SD)
GAY & LESBIAN TITLES COLLECTION
HD & 35 mm – Dramas and Documentaries
The collection includes :
Different from whom? (Diverso da chi ?) by Umberto Carteni, Unfaithful (Infidèles) by Claude PERES, From beginning to end (Do Começo ao fim) by Aluizio ABRANCHES, Vil Romance by José Celestino CAMPUSANO, El Cuarto de Leo (Leo’s Room) by Enrique BUCHICHIO, Soundless Wind Chime by Kit HUNG, Give Me Your Hand (Donne-Moi La Main) by Pascal-Alex Vincent, I Dreamt Under The Water (J’ai Rêvé Sous L’Eau) by HORMOZ, Transvestites Also Cry (Les Travestis Pleurent Aussi) by Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva, Shelter (Riparo) by Marco Simon PUCCIONI, Dakan by Mohamed CAMARA, The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Ang Pagdadalaga Ni Maximo Oliveros) by Aureaus SOLITO, Looking for Cheyenne (Oublier Cheyenne) by Valérie MINETTO.
Most of the titles have been selected at acclaimed film festivals such as: Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (USA), The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival (USA), London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (UK), Amsterdam International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival "Pink Film Days" (The Netherlands), Barcelona International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Spain), Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (Italy), Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Canada)...
EROTIC TITLES & CLASSICS
HD & 35 mm - From the 60’s to 2009 – Dramas
More than 37 feature film, art house, high quality, from the 60’s to today. A full erotic classic collection including recent festival favorite’s film and classic masterpieces.
The collection includes :
AlbaKiara by Stefano SALVATI, Ah! The Libido (Ah! La Libido) by Michèle ROSIER, Robber Girls by Carla LIA MONTI, Blind Spot by Ad BOL, Cold Blood (Sang Froid), Maladolescenza (Puppy Love), Gradiva (C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle) by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Honey Baby by Mika Kaurismaki, Melancoly Baby with Jane Birkin, Vivante by Sandrine Ray, Wild Camp with Isild Lebesco, Honey Suckle by Claude Faraldo, A Song of Innocence (La Ravisseuse) by Antoine SANTANA, Snow White by Samir, Clemence (Clémence) by Franck Buchter and many more…
And the newly HD restored “Jean-Francois Davy Collection”, which includes more than 15 features from the 70’s.
As Exhibition, Exhibition 2, Q, Exhibition 79, Le Desir, Q, The Hell Of Prostitution, Get On The line Like Everyone Else, Mechanical Banana, Trick Socks,The Pornocrasts, and Melancoly Baby by Clarissse Gabus
MORE THAN 25 HOURS OF PROGRAMME
HD MATERIAL AVAILABLE FOR SEVERAL FILMS
CLASSIC FILMS
HD & Digital material restored
Synopsis: An impressive variety of movies from internationally acclaimed directors and actors. HD material available for several titles. More than 300 feature films, art house, classics, from the 20’s to today. A full classic film collection including eternal festival favorite’s masterpieces with Original stills & Promotional material.
Actors:
Jean Gabin Marlene Dietricht Arletty Louis De Funes Jean Marais Jeanne Moreau Anna Karina Bernadette Laffont Serge Reggiani Bernard Blier Martine Carol Fernandel Michel Simon And Many More…
Directors:
Alain Resnais Jean-Luc Godard Jean Renoir Henri-Georges Clouzot Abel Gance Max Ohpuls Jean Rouch Francois Reichenbach Claude Lellouch Sembene Ousemane Gerard Pires Alberto Cavalcanti Marcel Cravenne Marc Allegret And Many More…
FIRST FILM COLLECTION :
L’amour existe (Maurice Pialat) - Le Chant du Styrène (Alain Resnais) - Charlotte et son Jules (Jean-Luc Godard) - Le Coup du Berger (Jacques Rivette) - Histoire d’eau (François Truffaut & Jean-Luc Godard) - Le Laboratoire de l’angoisse (Patrice Leconte) - Les Surmenés (Jacques Doniol- Valcroze) - Tous Les Garçons s’appellent Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard) - 24 Heures de la vie d’un clown (Jean-Pierre Melville)
CLASSIC COLLECTION :
Vivre sa vie (Godard) - L’eau à la bouche (Doniol-Valcroze) - Manon (Clouzot) - Martin Roumagnac (Lacombe) - Une partie de campagne (Renoir) - Tournage à la campagne (Renoir) - Direction d’acteur (Renoir)
JEAN RENOIR COLLECTION :
Catherine - On purge bébé - La Chienne - Une Partie de Campagne - Tire-au-flanc – Tournage à la campagne
ALAIN RESNAIS COLLECTION :
Le Chant du Styrène - Toute la mémoire du monde - Gauguin Paul - Guernica - Van Gogh
JEAN ROUCH COLLECTION :
Petit à petit – Jaguar – Un cœur gros comme ça - La Pyramide humaine – Moi, un Noir – La Goumbé des jeunes noceurs – Tambours d’avant – La Chasse au lion à l’arc – Un lion nommé l’Américain – Mammy Waters – Les Maîtres fous
RENÉ FÉRET COLLECTION
HD & 35 mm
Nannerl, Mozart’s sister (Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart), Comme une étoile dans la nuit, But Once Mom Had Gone... (Il a suffit que Maman s’en aille), L’enfant du pays, Rue du retrait, Les frères Gravet, La place d’un autre (with Elsa Zylberstein) Promenades d’été, Baptême, Mystère Alexina, Fernand, La communion solennelle, Histoire de Paul.
Produced by : Fabienne Camara (Les FILMS ALYNE)
Festival:
Comme une étoile dans la nuit, Focus on World Cinema, Official Selection, Montreal 2008
MIKA KAURISMAKI COLLECTION
HD & 35 mm
The House of Branching Love, comedy, 2010
Three Wise Men (Kolme viisasta miestä), drama, 2009
Sonic Mirror, documentary, 2007
Brasileirinho, documentary, 2005
Honey Baby, drama, 2005
Moro No Brasil, documentary, 2003
Highway Society, drama, 1996
Condition Red (Jatkuva hälytystila), action/drama, 1996
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made (starring Samuel Fuller & Jim Jarmusch) drama, 1994
The Last Border (Viimeisellä rajalla), action- SF, 1993
Zombie and the Ghost Train (Zombie ja Kummitusjuna) dramatic comedy, 1991
Amazon, action-adventure, 1990
Paper Star (Paperitähti), drama, 1989
Cha Cha Cha, comedy, 1989
Helsinki Naples All Night Long, comedy/thriller, 1987
Rosso, drama, 1985
The Clan Tale of the Frogs (Klaani), drama- action, 1984
The Worthless (Arvottomat), drama-comedy, 1982
Jackpot 2, drama-action, 1982
The Liar (Valehtelija), drama-action, 1981
HD MASTERS AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST FILM
WINDOW ON THE WORLD
LA VIDA LOCA: HD & 35 mm - 2009 – France/Spain/Mexico – 90 min – Color – Documentary
CARA A LA MUERTE (MARKED FOR DEATH): HD - 2010 – France/Spain/Mexico – 52 min –
Directed by Christian POVEDA
Original language: Spanish
Synopsis: In Central America, they are called Maras, these groups of youngsters who have modeled themselves on the Los Angeles youth gangs. They are extremely violent and are propagating terror in El Salvador and elsewhere. This is a study, through photography and the personal stories of these gang members, of a violent phenomenon that has been imported from the USA.
Produced by Carole Solive (La Femme Endormie), Luis Bellaba (Aquelarre), Emilio Maillé and Gustavo Angel (El Caiman)
NOISE AND FURY (14-18, Le Bruit et la Fureur)
2009 – France/ Belgium – 100 & 2 x 52 min – Color – Documentary
Directed by Jean-François DELASSUS
Original language: French - Voice over by Alexandre Astier
Synopsis: Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain the inexplicable: how tens of millions of men could have suffered the unbelievable toughness of life in trenches during 4 years, season after season, day after day, night after night? How could they have accepted the idea of a sure death or injury while they could not even tell the exact reason why they were fighting?
What you are about to see can seem crazy: WW1 was maintained by a general consent.
It is a documentary based on rare archives for the first time colorized, restored and sonorized as never before.
Produced by PROGRAM 33, ECPAD, IOTA PRODUCTIONS, RTBF
Broadcasted on prime time on France 2 with a 6 million top rated audience, 3rd best audience in Prime Time for a documentary.
Also available in English version
IN PRODUCTION
APPROVED FOR ADOPTION
HD & 35mm – 2011 – France/ Belgium – 80 min – Color – in Production - Animation film
Directed by JUNG and Laurent BOILEAU
Original language: French
Synopsis: European on the heads side, Asian on the tails side. Cartoonist. 42 years old according to his civil status, Jung prefers to place his birth at the age of 5, when a policeman found him wandering alone on the streets of Seoul. He is one of those 200 000 adopted Koreans spread around the world. Jung decided to return, for the first time, in South Korea, in order to breath the air of his home country, tread the land of his ancestors, and maybe find traces of his biological mother. This trip of reconciliation with his roots and with himself – shot as a documentary — leads our character to recall – in animation – the child he once was and the winding path that made him grow up, until the encounter with his wife, an adopted Korean herself. This travel in time – the present of the trip and the memory of the past – will push him little by little towards a peaceful cohabitation between his inner diversities.
Produced by Mosaïque Films (FR) and Artemis Production (BE)
Ready in March 2010
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