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BERLINALE 2016 GENERATION
SPECIAL MENTION
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MISS IMPOSSIBLE
CHOUF by Karim Dridi
TIFF KIDS 2016
by Emilie Deleuze
With: Sofian Khammes, Foued Nabba, Oussama Abdul Aal
With: Léna Magnien, Patricia Mazuy, Philippe Duquesne, Catherine Hiegel, Alex Lutz
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 student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss’s right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence...
Some would say Aurore lives a boring life. But when you are a 13 yearold girl, and just like her have an uncompromising way of looking at boys, school, family or friends, life takes on the appearance of a merry psychodrama. Especially with a new French teacher, the threat of being sent to boarding school, repeatedly falling in love and the crazy idea of going on stage with a band...
- AGAT FILMS & CIE / FRANCE / 90’ / HD / 2016
- TESSALIT PRODUCTIONS - MIRAK FILMS / FRANCE / 106’ / HD / 2016
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2016 -
LOCARNO 2016
HOME by Fien Troch
THE FALSE SECRETS
ORIZZONTI - BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
OFFICIAL SELECTION
TIFF PLATFORM 2016
by Luc Bondy
With: Sebastian Van Dun, Mistral Guidotti,
With: Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Bulle Ogier, Yves Jacques
Loic Batog, Lena Sukjkerbuijk, Karlijn Sileghem
Dorante, a penniless young man, takes on the position of steward at the house of Araminte, an attractive widow whom he secretly loves. Dorante’s former valet Dubois also works there and is planning a scheme to make Araminte fall in love with Dorante.
17-year-old Kevin, sentenced for violent behavior, is just let out of prison. To start anew, he moves in with his aunt and her family. Quickly he adapts to his new home and gets along well with his 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 -
- MAHA PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 87’ / HD / 2016
- PRIME TIME - VERSUS PRODUCTION / BELGIUM / 103’ / HD / 2016
NAMUR 2016
TALLINN BLACK
PARIS LA BLANCHE by Lidia Terki
With: Tassadit Mandi, Zahir Bouzerar, Karole Rocher
UPSTREAM by Marion Hänsel
With: Sergi Lopez, Olivier Gourmet, John Lynch
OFFICIAL SELECTION
NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL 2016 FIRST FEATURES COMPETITION
On board a little tub of a boat, Homer and Joé, both in their fifties, sail a river up to waterfalls in Croatia. Until the recent death of their father, they did not know about each other’s existence. Yet, they are half brothers. Sean, an enigmatic Irish adventurer, joins them. Upstream is a psychological adventure where these modest and solitary men will reveal some of their secrets, their hopes and where blood ties, whether they like it or not, will unite them.
At the age of 70, Rekia decides to leave her village in Kabylie, to go to Paris. All by herself, she travels across the Mediterranean sea to bring Nour, her husband, back home. From the port of Algiers to the streets of Pigalle, with nothing more than a hotel address on a piece of paper and with the help of new, unlikely friends, she finally finds Nour in the suburbs. But her hero, the war veteran, the one that has been providing for his family from abroad for the past 40 years, has become a stranger.
MAN’S FILMS PRODUCTIONS - SNG FILM - KINORAMA
- BELGIUM - THE NETHERLANDS - CROATIA / HD / 2016
- DAY FOR NIGHT PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 83’ / HD / 2016
FEATURE
FILMS
LIBRARY
AUDIENCE AWARD AND EUROPA CINEMA LABEL - VENICE DAYS 2015 BEST FICTION FILM - DUBAI FF 2015
LUX PRIZE 2016
KOKORO by Vanja d’Alcantara
With: Isabelle Carré, Jun Kunimura, Niels Schneider
AS I OPEN MY EYES
by Leyla Bouzid
With: Baya Medhaffar, Ghalia Ben Ali
After her brother Nathan dies, Alice leaves for Japan and finds refuge
in a small village by the cliffs. Nathan said he had found peace there, thanks to a man called Daisuke. As she follows her brother’s footsteps, in this strange place, both hostile and welcoming, it is her own story that she will discover.
Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years-old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn’t think the same way. She 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 her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers too well.
NEED PRODUCTIONS - BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS - ACPAV - PRODUCTIONS AVENIDA / BELGIUM - FRANCE - CANADA / 92’ / HD / 2016
BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS - PROPAGANDA PRODUCTIONS - HELICOTRONC / FRANCE - TUNISIA - BELGIUM - UAE / HD / 2015
TIFF 2014
BEST ACTOR &
HEATWAVE by Raphaël Jacoulot
With: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Grégory Gadebois
MURDER IN PACOT by Raoul Peck
BERLINALE 2015
AUDIENCE AWARD
PANORAMA SPECIAL
TORINO 2015
With: Alex Descas, Ayo, Thibault Vinçon
As temperatures soar in a summer heatwave, daily life in an outwardly quiet French hamlet is disrupted by Josef Bousou, the son of a family of scrap merchants. The villagers single him out as a troublemaker, the source of all their problems. One day, Josef is found lying dead in his family’s yard...
After the terrible January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, an intellectual bourgeois couple struggles to reinvent a life amid the rubbles of their luxurious home. Needing money to survive, they decide to rent the remaining habitable part of the villa to foreign relief 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 position, their ideals and their dreams must face this toxic intrusion.
TS PRODUCTIONS - VERSUS PRODUCTION FRANCE - BELGIUM / 102’ / HD / 2015
VELVET FILM - FIGUIER PRODUCTION - APE & BJØRN / HAITI - FRANCE - NORWAY / 130’ / HD / 2014
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE
- PHANTOM BOY
- MELODY
ECUMENICAL JURY / BEST
ACTRESSES - MONTREAL 2014
AUDIENCE AWARD - NAMUR 2014
- by Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli
- by Bernard Bellefroid
Leo, an 11-year-old boy from New York, is a phantom boy: he can become invisible and fly through walls. He befriends Alex, a police officer temporarily stuck in a wheelchair. Alex was hurt by a mysterious gangster threatening the city with a dangerous computer virus. Together they form an extraordinary duo, with Leo in the air and Alex on the ground.
With: Rachael Blake, Lucie Debay In order to get the money she needs to realize her dream, 28-year-old Melody accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English woman. To make sure everything goes well, Emily decides to welcome Melody 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 -
- .MILLE ET UNE. FILMS / BELGIUM - LUXEMBOURG - FRANCE / 94’ / HD / 2014
- FOLIMAGE - LUNANIME / FRANCE - BELGIUM / 84’ / 2015 / ANIMATION
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AUDIENCE AWARD CINEMANIA 2013
TIFF 2013
FIPRESCI PRIZE
UN CERTAIN REGARD - CANNES 2011 BEST SCREENPLAY - BEST SUPPORTING
ACTOR - CÉSAR 2012
VIOLETTE by Martin Provost
THE MINISTER
by Pierre Schoeller
With: Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet
- With: Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman, Laurent Stocker
- Born out of wedlock early in the last century, impoverished and
unloved Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in post war Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette’s quest for freedom through writing and on Simone’s conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
The Minister for Transport, Bertrand Saint-Jean, is woken in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary. A bus has crashed into a ravine. He goes there, he has no choice. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an increasingly complex and hostile world.
ARCHIPEL 35 - LES FILMS DU FLEUVE - FRANCE 3 CINÉMA FRANCE - BELGIUM / 112’ / 35 MM & HD / 2011
TS PRODUCTIONS - FRANCE 3 CINEMA - CLIMAX FILMS FRANCE - BELGIUM / 139’ / HD / 2013
- BERTHE MORISOT by Caroline Champetier
- THE LAW by Christian Faure
- With: Emmanuelle Devos, Lorant Deutsch, Flore Bonaventura
- With: Marine Delterme, Alice Butaud, Malik Zidi
Fall 1974, French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing puts his Health Minister, Simone Veil, in charge of a daunting task: to carry the abortion law. During three days, she will defend her text before parliamentarians with exemplary tenacity. Diane, a young journalist, makes it the subject of her first investigation, and discovers over her explorations a considerable changing of the women’s social status.
Paris 1865. Berthe Morisot, a young painter, discovers at the exhibit hall, Manet’s Olympia. A sulphurous portrait of a woman embracing her body and her sexuality. A meeting with Edouard Manet quickly follows this artistic choc. A charmer, in love with women, Manet takes an interest to this young artist apprentice whose face inspires him...
K’IEN PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 95’ / HD / 2012
K’IEN PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 90’ / HD / 2015
JUST LIKE A WOMAN by Rachid Bouchareb
THE EXTERMINATING ANGELS
by Jean-Claude Brisseau
With: Sienna Miller, Golshifteh Farahani, Roschdy Zem
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 belly dancer, while the other one tries to run away from the police. The bonds of their friendship are about to couple their destinies, changing their lives forever.
François, a French director, is conducting a rather unorthodox casting. He tries to understand how women desire and especially how they get pleasure. But by getting too close to their fire, he 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
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON NOT HERE TO BE LOVED
A FEW HOURS OF SPRING
WITH VINCENT LINDON, SANDRINE KIBERLAIN, AURE ATIKA TS PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 101’ / HD / 2009
WITH PATRICK CHESNAIS, ANNE CONSIGNY, GEORGES WILSON TS PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 93’ / HD / 2005
WITH VINCENT LINDON, EMMANUELLE SEIGNER, HELENE VINCENT TS PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 92’ / HD / 2012
JACQUES DOILLON
- YOU, ME AND US
- THE THREEWAY WEDDING
- LOVE BATTLES
WITH LOU DOILLON, SAMUEL BENCHETRIT, MALIK ZIDI, MARILYNE FONTAINE 4 A 4 PRODUCTIONS / FRANCE / 136’ / HD / 2012
WITH PASCAL GREGGORY, JULIE DEPARDIEU, LOUIS GARREL, AGATHE BONITZER, LOUIS-DO DE LENCQUESAING
WITH SARA FORESTIER, JAMES THIÉRRÉE DOILLON & CIE - GROUPE 2 / FRANCE / 98’ / HD / 2013
ALFAMA FILMS / FRANCE / 100’ / 35 MM / 2009
BRUNO DUMONT
THE LIFE OF JESUS
HUMANITY
WITH DAVID DOUCHE, MARJORIE COTTREEL, KADER CHAATOUF 3B PRODUCTIONS - CRRAV / FRANCE / 96’ / 35 MM & 4K / 1997
WITH EMMANUEL SCHOTTE, SÉVERINE CANEELE, PHILIPPE TULLIER 3B PRODUCTIONS - ARTE FRANCE - CRRAV / FRANCE / 148’ / 35 MM & 4K / 1998
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