feature films LIBRARY latest releases TWO OF US BLIND SPOT by Filippo Meneghetti by Pierre Trividic & Patrick-Mario Bernard With: Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker With: Jean-Christophe Folly, Isabelle Carré, Golshifteh Farahani Nina and Madeleine, two retired women, are secretly deeply in love for decades. From everybody's point of view, including Dominick always had the power to turn invisible but he chose Madeleine's family, they are simply neighbors living on the to keep it secret and barely used it. One day, his ability to top floor of their building. They come and go between their control it gets out of his hands, throwing his life and loves into two apartments, sharing the tender delights of everyday turmoil… life together. Until the day their relationship is turned upside down by an unexpected event leading Madelein's daughter to slowly unveil the truth about them. Paprika Films - Artémis Productions - Tarantula Ex Nihilo - Les Films De Pierre France - Benelux / 2019 France / 2019 ANGOULÊME - PALM SPRINGS - HONORABLE MENTION WHATEVER HAPPENED JURY PRIZE SAF TORONTO TO MY REVOLUTION by Ali Vatansever by Judith Davis With: Saadet Işil Akşoy, Erol Afşin, Onur Buldu, Ümmü Putgül With: Judith Davis, Malik Zidi, Claire Dumas Istanbul, 2018. Urban transformation is sweeping away local Angèle, a young and restless activist, never stops crusading communities. Kamil and his wife Remziye are threatened to for social justice, losing sight of her friends, family and love lose their house. When Kamil suddenly disappears, Remziye in the process. have to face the consequences of his actions. Agat Films - Apsara Films Terminal Film - 2Pilots Film - 4 Proof Film France / 88' / 2018 Turkey - Germany - Romania / 102' / 2018 TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS TRANSFRONTEIRA PERIFERIAS - SLAM RAIVA AUDIENCE AWARD by Partho Sen-Gupta by Sérgio Tréfaut SIX SOPHIA AWARDS INCLUDING BEST FILM With: Adam Bakri, Rachael Blake, Abbey Azziz With: Isabel Ruth, Leonor Siveira, Hugo Bentes Ricky is a young Arab Australian whose peaceful suburban Portugal, 1950. In the desolate landscape of the South, life is turned on its head when his sister, Ameena, disappears battered by the wind, by misery and hunger, sudden violence without trace. In a climate of distrust and xenophobia, she is erupts: a succession of cold-blooded murders occur over a soon suspected of having joined the ranks of ISIS in Syria. In single night. Why? What's the origin of these crimes? a "post-facts" world, Ricky no longer knows who to believe, his sense of what's right or the 24 hour media cycle of spin. Based on a Portuguese classical novel, Raiva is a dark tale of abuse and revolt. Invisible Republic - Dolce Vita Films Faux - Refinaria Filmes - Les Films d'Ici Australia - France / 115' / 2018 Portugal - Brazil - France / 84' / 2018 2 highlights VENICE VENICE DAYS ALMAYER'S FOLLY TORONTO AS I OPEN MY EYES AUDIENCE AWARD & by Chantal Akerman BUSAN by Leyla Bouzid EUROPA CINEMA LABEL With: Stanislas Merhar, Aurora Marion With: Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Ben Ali Somewhere in South-East Asia, in a little lost village on a Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, wide and turbulent river, a European man clings to his pipe 18 years-old, has just graduated and her family already sees dreams out of love for his daughter. A story of passion, loss her as a future doctor. But she doesn't think the same way. She and madness. sings in a political rock band. She has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the will of Adapted from the novel by Joseph Conrad. her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers too well. Liaison Cinématographique - Artémis Productions - Blue Monday Productions - Propaganda Productions - Paradise Films Helicotronc France - Belgium / 127' / 2011 France - Tunisia - Belgium - UAE / 102' / 2015 TORONTO KIDS BERLINALE - GOLDEN BEAR & PHANTOM BOY TOUCH ME NOT BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD by Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli by Adina Pintilie Leo, an 11-year-old boy from New York, is a phantom boy: Tell me how you loved me, so I understand how to love. he can become invisible and fly through walls. He befriends TOUCH ME NOT looks at how we can find intimacy in the Alex, a police officer temporarily stuck in a wheelchair. Alex most unexpected ways, at how to love another without losing was hurt by a mysterious gangster threatening the city ourselves. with a dangerous computer virus. Together they form an extraordinary duo, with Leo in the air and Alex on the ground. Manekino Film - Rohfilm Productions - Pink - Agitprop - Les Films de l'Etranger Folimage - Lunanime Romania - Germany - Czech Republic - Bulgaria - France / France - Belgium / 84' / 2015 / Animation 125' / 2018 CINEMANIA - AUDIENCE AWARD CANNES - UN CERTAIN REGARD VIOLETTE TORONTO THE MINISTER by Martin Provost by Pierre Schoeller With: Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, With: Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Olivier Gourmet Zabou Breitman, Laurent Stocker Born out of wedlock early in the last century, impoverished The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken and unloved Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in post in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary. war Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An intense lifelong relationship A bus has crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's choice. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction increasingly complex and hostile world. that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer. TS Productions - France 3 Cinema - Climax Films Archipel 35 - Les Films du Fleuve - France 3 Cinema France - Belgium / 139' / 2013 France - Belgium / 112' / 2011 3 all about women MONTREAL - BEST ACTRESS & LA ROCHELLE - BEST MELODY JURY SPECIAL JUST LIKE A WOMAN ACTRESS AWARD by Bernard Bellefroid by Rachid Bouchareb With: Rachael Blake, Lucie Debay With: Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani, Roschdy Zem Melody, 28 years old, decides to rent out her body in order Marylin and Salma travel across the United States. One to realize her dream. She accepts to carry the child of Emily, of them wants to make her dream come true and become a rich English woman. To make sure everything goes well, a professional belly dancer, while the other one tries to run Emily decides to welcome Melody into her home during the away from the police. The bonds of their friendship are about pregnancy. The bonds that emerge creates all sorts of doubts to couple their destinies, changing their lives forever. and questions. Taglhit LLC - Cohen Media Group - 3B Productions - Artémis Productions - Samsa Film - Arte France - The Bureau - Doha Film Institute - Minerva Liaison Cinématographique - .Mille et une. Films Production Group - Tassili Films Belgium - Luxembourg - France / 94' / 2014 France - USA / 85' / 2012 FIFAM - LOVEBIRDS MILES FROM ANYWHERE AUDIENCE by Christine Dory by Pierre Duculot AWARD With: Guillaume Depardieu, Marie Vialle With: Christelle Cornil, François Vincentelli Boris and Sandra meet and right away love each other with Christina lives in the Charleroi region with her boyfriend Marco. passion. A passion that is strong enough to fight the worst When her grandmother dies she inherits a house in Corsica, enemy to their love: dependency. Boris' to drugs, Sandra's which nobody in her family seems to know of. Everyone tries to to Boris. Bound together, hanging to each other, recluse but convince her to sell the house, but she decides to leave on her alive, they will attempt, out of necessity, to live their love in a own to discover the place. close circuit. Pierre Grise Productions Need Productions - Perspective Films France / 100' / 2008 Belgium - France / 82' / 2012 LOLA PATER LOCARNO - PIAZZA GRANDE CATCH THE WIND TORONTO by Nadir Moknèche by Gaël Morel With: Fanny Ardant, Tewfik Jallab, Lubna Azabal With: Sandrine Bonnaire, Lubna Azabal, Mouna Fettou When his mother dies, Zino decides to go looking for his Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned father. But 25 years ago, Farid became Lola... upside down by the company's downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco. Blue Monday Productions - Versus Production TS Productions France - Belgium / 95' / 2017 France / 103' / 2017 4 teenage focus BERLINALE GENERATION - DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT MISS IMPOSSIBLE SPECIAL MENTION THE END OF SILENCE by Emilie Deleuze TORONTO KIDS by Roland Edzard With: Léna Magnien, Patricia Mazuy, Philippe Duquesne With: Franck Falise, Thierry Frémont, Maia Morgenstern Some would say Aurore lives a boring life. But when you are A violent quarrel bursts in a remote house in the Vosges a 13 year-old girl, and just like her have an uncompromising mountains. On the first day, Jean, the younger son of the way of looking at boys, school, family or friends, life takes on family, is thrown out of the house after a violent quarrel. He the appearance of a merry psychodrama. Especially with joins a group of hunters for a beat and learns how to kill. a new French teacher, the threat of being sent to boarding The following night, his mother's car is torched. He is held school, repeatedly falling in love and the crazy idea of going responsible. Jean disappears into the forest… on stage with a band... Agat Films & Cie Les Films de l'Etranger - Dor Film - Swift Productions France / 90' / 2016 France / 80' / 2011 MONTREAL WORLD FF - LOCARNO YOU WILL BE MINE BEST FILM AWARD DIOSES TORONTO by Sophie Laloy by Josué Mendez SAN SEBASTIAN With: Isild Le Besco, Judith Davis, Johan Libéreau With: Sergio Gjurnovic, Anahi De Cardenas Marie leaves her family and moves to Lyon to study piano Before starting at university, Diego and his sister Andrea at the conservatory.