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BERLINALE 2016 GENERATION CANNES 2016 OFFICIAL SELECTION MISS IMPOSSIBLE SPECIAL MENTION CHOUF by Karim Dridi SPECIAL SCREENING by Emilie Deleuze TIFF KIDS 2016 With: Sofian Khammes, Foued Nabba, Oussama Abdul Aal With: Léna Magnien, Patricia Mazuy, Philippe Duquesne, Catherine Hiegel, Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant Some would say Aurore lives a boring life. But when you are a 13 year- student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto old girl, and just like her have an uncompromising way of looking where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. at boys, school, family or friends, life takes on the appearance of a Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, merry psychodrama. Especially with a new French teacher, the threat ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the of being sent to boarding school, repeatedly falling in love and the boss’s right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a crazy idea of going on stage with a band... spiral of violence...

AGAT FILMS & CIE / / 90’ / HD / 2016 TESSALIT PRODUCTIONS - MIRAK FILMS / FRANCE / 106’ / HD / 2016

VENICE FESTIVAL 2016 - LOCARNO 2016 HOME by Fien Troch ORIZZONTI - BEST DIRECTOR AWARD THE FALSE SECRETS OFFICIAL SELECTION TIFF PLATFORM 2016 by Luc Bondy With: Sebastian Van Dun, Mistral Guidotti, Loic Batog, Lena Sukjkerbuijk, Karlijn Sileghem With: , Louis Garrel, , Yves Jacques Dorante, a penniless young man, takes on the position of steward at 17-year-old Kevin, sentenced for violent behavior, is just let out the house of Araminte, an attractive widow whom he secretly loves. of prison. To start anew, he moves in with his aunt and her family. Dorante’s former valet Dubois also works there and is planning a scheme Quickly he adapts to his new home and gets along well with his to make Araminte fall in love with Dorante. cousin Sammy, in his last year of highschool. Through Sammy and his friends, Kevin meets John. Upon discovering John’s unbearable situation with his mother, Kevin feels the urge to help his new friend. One evening fate intervenes and questions of betrayal, trust and loyalty start to direct their daily lives more then ever. IDÉALE AUDIENCE - ARTE FRANCE - ODÉON - THÉÂTRE DE L’EUROPE - PRIME TIME - VERSUS PRODUCTION / / 103’ / HD / 2016 MAHA PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 87’ / HD / 2016

TALLINN BLACK NAMUR 2016 LA BLANCHE by Lidia Terki NIGHTS FILM UPSTREAM by Marion Hänsel OFFICIAL SELECTION FESTIVAL 2016 With: Tassadit Mandi, Zahir Bouzerar, Karole Rocher FIRST FEATURES With: Sergi Lopez, , John Lynch COMPETITION On board a little tub of a boat, Homer and Joé, both in their fifties, At the age of 70, Rekia decides to leave her village in Kabylie, to go to sail a river up to waterfalls in . Until the recent death of their Paris. All by herself, she travels across the Mediterranean sea to bring father, they did not know about each other’s existence. Yet, they are half Nour, her husband, back home. From the port of Algiers to the streets brothers. Sean, an enigmatic Irish adventurer, joins them. Upstream is of Pigalle, with nothing more than a hotel address on a piece of paper a psychological adventure where these modest and solitary men will and with the help of new, unlikely friends, she finally finds Nour in the reveal some of their secrets, their hopes and where blood ties, whether suburbs. But her hero, the war veteran, the one that has been providing they like it or not, will unite them. for his family from abroad for the past 40 years, has become a stranger. MAN’S FILMS PRODUCTIONS - SNG FILM - KINORAMA DAY FOR NIGHT PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 83’ / HD / 2016 BELGIUM - THE NETHERLANDS - CROATIA / HD / 2016 FEATURE FILMS

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AUDIENCE AWARD AND EUROPA KOKORO by Vanja d’Alcantara AS I OPEN MY EYES CINEMA LABEL - DAYS 2015 by Leyla Bouzid BEST FICTION FILM - DUBAI FF 2015 With: Isabelle Carré, Jun Kunimura, LUX PRIZE 2016 After her brother Nathan dies, Alice leaves for Japan and finds refuge With: Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Ben Ali in a small village by the cliffs. Nathan said he had found peace there, Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 thanks to a man called Daisuke. As she follows her brother’s footsteps, years-old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a in this strange place, both hostile and welcoming, it is her own story future doctor. But she doesn’t think the same way. She sings in a that she will discover. political rock band. She has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the will of her mother Hayet, who knows and its dangers too well.

NEED PRODUCTIONS - BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS - ACPAV - BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS - PROPAGANDA PRODUCTIONS - PRODUCTIONS AVENIDA / BELGIUM - FRANCE - CANADA / 92’ / HD / 2016 HELICOTRONC / FRANCE - TUNISIA - BELGIUM - UAE / HD / 2015

HEATWAVE by Raphaël Jacoulot BEST ACTOR & MURDER IN PACOT by TIFF 2014 AUDIENCE AWARD BERLINALE 2015 TORINO 2015 PANORAMA SPECIAL With: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Grégory Gadebois With: , Ayo, Thibault Vinçon

As temperatures soar in a summer heatwave, daily life in an outwardly After the terrible January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, an quiet French hamlet is disrupted by Josef Bousou, the son of a family intellectual bourgeois couple struggles to reinvent a life amid the of scrap merchants. The villagers single him out as a troublemaker, rubbles of their luxurious home. Needing money to survive, they the source of all their problems. One day, Josef is found lying dead decide to rent the remaining habitable part of the villa to foreign relief in his family’s yard... worker. He brings with him in the house an ambitious Haitian girl of modest background. Now the couple, strained by the loss of their social TS PRODUCTIONS - VERSUS PRODUCTION position, their ideals and their dreams must face this toxic intrusion. FRANCE - BELGIUM / 102’ / HD / 2015 - FIGUIER PRODUCTION - APE & BJØRN / - FRANCE - / 130’ / HD / 2014

SPECIAL MENTION OF THE PHANTOM BOY MELODY ECUMENICAL JURY / BEST by Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli by Bernard Bellefroid ACTRESSES - MONTREAL 2014 AUDIENCE AWARD - NAMUR 2014 Leo, an 11-year-old boy from New York, is a phantom boy: he With: Rachael Blake, Lucie Debay can become invisible and fly through walls. He befriends Alex, a police officer temporarily stuck in a wheelchair. Alex was hurt by a In order to get the money she needs to realize her dream, 28-year-old mysterious gangster threatening the city with a dangerous computer Melody accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English woman. To virus. Together they form an extraordinary duo, with Leo in the air and make sure everything goes well, Emily decides to welcome Melody Alex on the ground. into her home throughout the pregnancy. The bonds that emerge during this maternity create all sorts of doubts and questions.

ARTÉMIS PRODUCTIONS - SAMSA FILM - LIAISON CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE - FOLIMAGE - LUNANIME / FRANCE - BELGIUM / 84’ / 2015 / ANIMATION .MILLE ET UNE. FILMS / BELGIUM - LUXEMBOURG - FRANCE / 94’ / HD / 2014 FEATURE FILMS

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AUDIENCE AWARD FIPRESCI PRIZE VIOLETTE by Martin Provost CINEMANIA 2013 THE MINISTER UN CERTAIN REGARD - CANNES 2011 TIFF 2013 by Pierre Schoeller BEST SCREENPLAY - BEST SUPPORTING With: , , Olivier Gourmet ACTOR - CÉSAR 2012 Born out of wedlock early in the last century, impoverished and With: Olivier Gourmet, , Zabou Breitman, unloved Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in post war Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An intense lifelong relationship develops The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken in the between the two women authors, based on Violette’s quest for middle of the night by his personal private secretary. A bus has freedom through writing and on Simone’s conviction that she holds crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no choice. Thus begins in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer. the odyssey of a State official through an increasingly complex and hostile world.

TS PRODUCTIONS - FRANCE 3 CINEMA - CLIMAX FILMS ARCHIPEL 35 - LES FILMS DU FLEUVE - FRANCE 3 CINÉMA FRANCE - BELGIUM / 139’ / HD / 2013 FRANCE - BELGIUM / 112’ / 35 MM & HD / 2011

BERTHE MORISOT by Caroline Champetier THE LAW by Christian Faure With: Marine Delterme, Alice Butaud, With: Emmanuelle Devos, Lorant Deutsch, Flore Bonaventura

Paris 1865. Berthe Morisot, a young painter, discovers at the exhibit Fall 1974, French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing puts his Health hall, Manet’s Olympia. A sulphurous portrait of a woman embracing Minister, Simone Veil, in charge of a daunting task: to carry the her body and her sexuality. A meeting with Edouard Manet quickly abortion law. During three days, she will defend her text before follows this artistic choc. A charmer, in love with women, Manet takes parliamentarians with exemplary tenacity. Diane, a young journalist, an interest to this young artist apprentice whose face inspires him... makes it the subject of her first investigation, and discovers over her explorations a considerable changing of the women’s social status.

K’IEN PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 95’ / HD / 2012 K’IEN PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 90’ / HD / 2015

JUST LIKE A WOMAN by THE EXTERMINATING ANGELS by Jean-Claude Brisseau With: Sienna Miller, , With: Frederick Van Den Driessche, Maroussia Dubreuil Marylin and Mona travel across the United States. One of them wants to make her dream come true and become a professional François, a French director, is conducting a rather unorthodox belly dancer, while the other one tries to run away from the police. casting. He tries to understand how women desire and especially The bonds of their friendship are about to couple their destinies, how they get pleasure. But by getting too close to their fire, he changing their lives forever. hasn’t sensed the Angels coming.

TAGLHIT LLC - COHEN MEDIA GROUP - 3B PRODUCTIONS - ARTE FRANCE - THE BUREAU - DOHA FILM INSTITUTE - MINERVA PICTURES GROUP - TASSILI FILMS / FRANCE - USA / 85’ / 35 MM & HD / 2012 A LA SORCIERE ROUGE - TS PRODUCTIONS /FRANCE / 100’ / HD / 2006 FILMMAKERS COLLECTION

STÉPHANE BRIZÉ

A FEW HOURS OF SPRING MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON NOT HERE TO BE LOVED WITH , EMMANUELLE SEIGNER, WITH VINCENT LINDON, SANDRINE KIBERLAIN, WITH , ANNE CONSIGNY, HELENE VINCENT AURE ATIKA GEORGES WILSON TS PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 92’ / HD / 2012 TS PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 101’ / HD / 2009 TS PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 93’ / HD / 2005

JACQUES DOILLON

LOVE BATTLES YOU, ME AND US THE THREEWAY WEDDING WITH , JAMES THIÉRRÉE WITH , SAMUEL BENCHETRIT, WITH PASCAL GREGGORY, , DOILLON & CIE - GROUPE 2 / FRANCE / 98’ / MALIK ZIDI, MARILYNE FONTAINE LOUIS GARREL, AGATHE BONITZER, HD / 2013 4 A 4 PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 136’ / HD / 2012 LOUIS-DO DE LENCQUESAING ALFAMA FILMS / FRANCE / 100’ / 35 MM / 2009

BRUNO DUMONT

HUMANITY THE LIFE OF JESUS WITH EMMANUEL SCHOTTE, SÉVERINE CANEELE, PHILIPPE TULLIER WITH DAVID DOUCHE, MARJORIE COTTREEL, KADER CHAATOUF 3B PRODUCTIONS - ARTE FRANCE - CRRAV / FRANCE / 148’ / 3B PRODUCTIONS - CRRAV / FRANCE / 96’ / 35 MM & 4K / 1997 35 MM & 4K / 1998

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