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Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 2 PRESENTATION OF THE 11th EDITION
2014 residents with Delphine Gleize and Claude-Éric Poiroux 2013 residents with Olivier Ducastel, Claude-Éric Poiroux, Arnaud Gourmelen and Thibaut Bracq
Created in 2005, the Angers Workshops are directed toward young European filmmakers with one or two short films to their credit and a first feature film in the works. During 5 days, they will be taught by recognized professionals from the world of cinema. This year, the focus will be on production, directing and actors.
The Workshops will offer them:
. Screenings and analyses of film from the past and present.
. Training with established filmmakers and technicians who will bring to the classroom their professional experience and methods.
. Development of their personal projects under the guidance of the attending instructors, with emphasis on specific questions concerning directing, working with actors, production...
The 11th edition of the Angers Workshops will welcome 8 young European directors and 1 scriptwriter from 6 countries: Emma Benestan (France), Wouter Bouvijn and the scriptwriter Wouter Van Haver (Belgium), Hubert Charuel (France), Basile Doganis (Greece / France), Marie Monge (France), Karim Moussaoui (Algeria / France), Antoine Russbach (Switzerland) and Carla Simón (Spain).
The director, scriptwriter and actor Faouzi Bensaïdi (Mille mois, WWW : What a Wonderful World, Death for Sale) will run the workshops, accompanied by professionals from the world of film, including the directors Lionel Baier (Les Grandes Ondes (à l’ouest), La Vanité), Radu Muntean (Tuesday, After Christmas, One Floor Below), screenwriter Razvan Radulescu (Tuesday, After Christmas, One Floor Below, Child’s Pose), producers Joseph Rouschop (Tarantula Belgium) and Alan R. Milligan (Film Farms Production – Norway).
The residents will be invited to come back in Angers in January 2016 during the 28th edition of the European First Film Festival. This new appointment will give them the opportunity to work on the development of their project, to meet professionals about financial support and production of their movie and to participate on the screenings and events of the Festival.
Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 3 RESIDENTS
The 11th edition of the Angers Workshops will welcome 8 young European directors and 1 scriptwriter from Algeria, Belgium, France, Greece, Spain and Switzerland.
EMMA BENESTAN FRANCE PROJECT: PETITE SAUVAGE !
Born in Montpellier, Emma Benestan spent her childhood and her teenage years in the South of France. She went to La fémis, in the editing department. She then studied anthropology at Paris 8 University. She's also been running workshops with teenagers, in the South of France and in the Parisian suburb, being especially involved this year with the French association "Mille Visages". In 2015 and for a couple of months, she participated in an artist-in-residence program, working around the dream. These workshops nourished her writing. Her movies deal with the question of immigration, of dual culture and social relationships, especially during the delicate teenage years. She directed two short films: Touch the Horizon, and Beautiful Mouth, both selected at the Angers First Film Festival. Petite Sauvage! is produced by Apaches Films.
SYNOPSIS Kenza, a fifteen-year old girl, leaves Algeria for France, to live with Samy, her father she never got to know. She thinks she'll finally meet this father again, a former footballer she glorified so much. It's finally the beginning of a new life. A new country. But is it really the promise of happiness?
WOUTER BOUVIJN AND WOUTER VAN HAVER BELGIUM PROJECT: (V)LUCHT
Wouter Bouvijn (born in 1987, Ghent Belgium) graduated from the Rits film school in Brussels in 2012 with great honors. Tweesprong (Crossroads) was his graduation short film that have won several international awards, among the Grand Jury Price at the Premiers Plans Film Festival in 2013. Next to writing and directing he is also active as an editor. He was the editor of the documentary Miles Away by Daniel Dumitrescu, Bram Mervillie and photographer Titus Simoens and he’s doing all kinds of video work such as music videos, commercials, etc... He shot television documentaries as well and directed this year two episodes of the popular Flemish television series Vermist, a fictional series about the missing persons unit of the Belgian federal police. He is currently writing his first feature film (V)Lucht based on true events together with the screenwriter Wouter Van Haver. (V)Lucht is produced by Eyeworks NV (Belgium).
Wouter Van Haver graduated as Master in audiovisual arts from the Rits film school in Brussels in 2009. After his studies he teamed up with director Jonas Baeckeland for the short movie La Proie (The Prey), which was shown on L.A. Shorts Fest and Raindance. In 2011 his idea for a feature film De Bende van de Vosse (The Gang of Vosse) was selected by the Flemish Film Fund VAF for their screenplay workshop. In 2012 he earned his place in the writer’s room of the tv- drama De Ridder for public broadcaster VRT, about a young Belgian prosecutor. He recently worked on two scripts for short animated films, De Droom van de Steenhouwer (The Stone Cutter’s Dream) and Een Knotsgekke Fabel (An Incredible Fable) for the Ghentian animation studio De Doos… Producties, while script doctoring a third: De Wind in het Riet (The Wind in the Reed). He is currently developing the feature film screenplay (V)lucht (Flight), with director Wouter Bouvijn.
SYNOPSIS Vincent (17) is part of a triplet and grew up in the shadow of his two terminally ill sisters. While the disease literally cuts their breath away, she also takes Vincent's right to a normal life.
Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 4 RESIDENTS
HUBERT CHARUEL FRANCE PROJECT: BLOODY MILK
Born in 1985, Hubert Charuel grew up on a dairy farm. After stumbling into literature studies he was passed the entrance exams for La fémis, graduating in production in 2011. His graduation film, Diagonale du vide, was selected for several festivals. His first short film, K-Nada, was awarded this year in Angers. He is currently developing his first feature. Bloody Milk is produced by Domino Films.
SYNOPSIS Pierre, thirties, is a farmer. His whole life revolves around his farm, his cows, his sister Pascale, a vet, and his retired parents. Pierre lives alone, but when one is surrounded by 30 cows, one is never truly alone. Especially because the cows are all Pierre's life. He has never known anything else and that's just fine. While the first case of a bovine epizootic disease appears in France, Pierre discovers that one of his cows is potentially infected. He panics and decides to kill her and burn her body to hide during the health inspection. Pascale, presented with a fait accompli begrudgingly agrees to cover it, provided that, if another event occurs, he denounced to the authorities. Pierre agrees ... but he cannot bring himself to lose his farm. He has nothing else and it will go to the end to keep it.
BASILE DOGANIS GREECE / FRANCE PROJECT: 14 JUILLET
After studying philosophy Basile Doganis made a documentary on Japan (Kami Hito E – On The Edge (2008)) and worked as first assistant director for Jean-Pierre Limosin on his film Young Yakuza (Cannes 2007). He was for a time a script doctor for Celluloid Dreams and wrote the screenplay of his first fiction feature, Entre les lignes, which was selected for the Talent Project Market of the 2010 Berlinale 2010. He won the Script Development Fund from the Amiens Film Festival in the same year. After a residency at the Binger Filmlab in 2011, he wrote and directed a fiction short, Le Gardien de son frère (2011), followed by a second in 2014, Journée d’appel, both selected in Angers. 14 juillet is produced by Elzévir Films.
SYNOPSIS Two neighboring projects in a Parisian suburb, two rival gangs, and a thwarted love which threatens to destroy the warlike brotherhood of young gang members and their vengeful spirit.
MARIE MONGE FRANCE PROJECT: LES JOUEURS
Marie Monge was born in Paris, in 1987. She graduated in cinema studies at La Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. Along with other fellow students and young artists, she founded Novocaine in 2006, a creative collective through which she wrote and directed two short films: Les Ombres bossues (2008) and Mia (2009). Her subsequent film, Marseille la nuit, a medium- length film produced by 10 :15 productions, got nominated in many festivals in France as well as Belgium, and competed for the best short film at 2014 César. One of the two lead roles, Karim Leklou, was awarded twice as best actor, notably in Angers. She is currently writing and developing her first feature, Les Joueurs (The Lucky Ones), produced by The Film.
SYNOPSIS There’s nothing Ella wouldn’t do to win Abel’s love and attention. But Abel is a compulsive gambler, and when money runs out, he disappears…
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KARIM MOUSSAOUI ALGERIA / FRANCE PROJECT: EN ATTENDANT LES HIRONDELLES
Born in 1975, Karim Moussaoui is an active member in one of Algeria most important independent film associations, Chrysalide, an Algerian cultural association created in 2000 to promote films. Karim Moussaoui worked on a number of plays and films including Délice Paloma by Nadir Moknèche. In 2003, he made his first short, Breakfast, Ce qu'on doit faire ("What We Must Do"), based on a Charles Bukowsky’s short story. In 2006, his feature film script En attendant les hirondelles was selected for the Méditalents writing workshop, where he met Virginie Legeay, with whom he has co-written Les Jours d'avant (2013), selected and awarded in Angers in 2014. En attendant les hirondelles is produced by Les Films Pelléas.
SYNOPSIS Six main characters are revealed through three different narratives. Mourad is focused on his own life; his work, his wife, his son. He will do anything to avoid trouble, even at the risk of making immoral choices. Yamina is trying to forget her past by marrying a decent man, hoping to start a new life with him. On the way to her new home, she starts having second thoughts. Dahman is a doctor, also hoping to start a new life. He is waiting patiently for a promotion that will improve his social position, therefore giving him the chance to get married. All of them will have to deal with the consequences of the choices they have made in life.
ANTOINE RUSSBACH SWITZERLAND PROJECT: CEUX QUI TRAVAILLENT
Of Swiss and South African parentage, Antoine Russbach was born and lived in Geneva until he was 20. He was involved in theatre for 8 years alongside attending regular school, then studied scriptwriting and directing in Belgium at IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion de Louvain-La- Neuve). In 2008, he co-directed Michel with Emmanuel Marre; the film won numerous awards and was selected for many festivals, including Teheran, Angers and Brussels. In 2009 he directed his graduation film Les Bons Garçons, which was selected at the Angers, Clermont Ferrand and Soleure Festivals. He then worked as a scriptwriter across a range of TV formats, short and feature films and has been involved in several collective projects and workshops as a scriptwriter. He lives and works in Switzerland since 2014. Ceux qui travaillent (Those Who Work) is produced by Box Productions (Switzerland).
SYNOPSIS After committing a serious act of professional malfeasance, Frank loses the job in ocean freight he has loved for 20 years. This imposing, well-built figure of a man, a father of five, cannot bring himself to tell his wife why he was fired. Moving through different stages of personal growth and a series of solitary wanderings, he embarks on a journey of self-examination that calls all his values into question.
CARLA SIMÓN SPAIN PROJECT: SUMMER 1993
Carla Simón was born in a small Catalan village in 1986. Being part of an extensive family that is a bottomless pit of stories, she chose film to portray the complexity of the human condition and family relationships in particular. Carla graduated in audiovisual communication in Barcelona after an exchange year at the University of California where she directed the experimental films Women and Lovers. Awarded with la Caixa scholarships, she studied at the London Film School where she directed Born Positive and Lipstick, both screening at numerous international film festivals. Las pequeñas cosas, selected this year in Angers, is her graduation film for which she received a Distinction. She is currently developing Summer 1993, her first feature film. The project is now participating in numerous development workshops, including the Berlinale Script Station where she also participated in the Talent Campus. She currently works as a film teacher for children and teenagers. Summer 1993 is produced by Inicia Films and Avalon(Spain).
SYNOPSIS Summer 1993 is the story of the first summer that Carla, a six-year old girl, spends with her new adoptive family. An early coming of age drama where a girl learns to fit in a new rural world while coping with the loss of her mother.
Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 6 PROGRAMME
Sunday, August 23
Morning Arrival
4 pm-7 pm | Lancreau Project’s presentation to Faouzi Bensaïdi, the pedagogical referent
8.15 pm | 400 coups I Am a Soldier by Laurent Larivière, introduction and Q&A with the director and the main actress Louise Bourgoin
Monday, August 24
9.15 am-1 pm | 400 coups Presentation and screening of the 8 short films by the residents
2 pm-7 pm | Lancreau Continuation of the project’s presentation to Faouzi Bensaïdi
6 pm | Lancreau Inauguration cocktail of the Workshops
8.30 pm | 400 coups Son of Saul by László Nemes, introduction and Q&A with the director
Tuesday, August 25
9.30 am-1 pm | 400 coups Low Cost (Claude Jutra) by Lionel Baier and masterclass directing and actors with the director
2 pm-7 pm | Lancreau One to one meetings with Faouzi Bensaïdi
8.15 pm | 400 coups La Vanité by Lionel Baier, introduction and Q&A with the director
Wednesday, August 26
9.30 am-1 pm | 400 coups Tuesday, After Christmas by Radu Muntean, and masterclass directing and scriptwriting with the director and Razvan Radulescu, co-writer
2 pm-7 pm | Lancreau One to one meetings with Faouzi Bensaïdi, Razvan Radulescu, Radu Muntean and Joseph Rouschop
8.15 pm | 400 coups The Wakhan Front by Clément Cogitore, introduction and Q&A with the director and Joseph Rouschop, co-producer
Thursday, August 27
9.30 am-1 pm | 400 coups Everything Will Be Ok by Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen and Private Property by Joachim Lafosse, and masterclass production with Joseph Rouschop (Tarantula Belgium) and Alan R. Milligan (Film Farms Production - Norway)
2 pm-7 pm | Lancreau One to one meetings with Faouzi Bensaïdi, Razvan Radulescu, Radu Muntean, Joseph Rouschop and Alan R. Milligan
7.30 pm | 400 coups One Floor Below by Radu Muntean, introduction and Q&A with the director and Razvan Radulescu, co-writer
10 pm | Lancreau Closing dinner of the Workshops
Friday, August 28
9.30 am-1 pm | 400 coups Death for Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi and masterclass directing and actors with the director
Afternoon Departure
Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 7 SPEAKERS
Faouzi Bensaïdi | Actor, director, scriptwriter | Morocco | Pedagogical referent Born in Morocco, Faouzi Bensaïdi studied at the Institut d’Art Dramatique et d’Animation Culturelle in Rabat, before moving to Paris in 1995 to continue studying acting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique. After directing and performing in a number of plays, he directed in 2007 La Falaise, his first short, presented at the Clermont- Ferrand Short Film Festival and at the Berlin Forum, and which won several awards. His second short, Le Mur, was presented in the Directors’ Fortnight, and his next short, Trajets, won a special mention at the Venice Festival. He wrote for André Téchiné Loin and made then his first feature, Mille mois (A Thousand Months), which won, among other awards, the Audience Award of the screenplay readings in Angers and a prize in Un Certain Regard in Cannes. Three years later he directed WWW – What a Wonderful World, which was selected for the Venice Festival. He plays in his own films, and has also appeared by others directors like Daoud Aoulad-Syad, Nadir Moknèche, Bertrand Bonello, Jacques Audiard. His last film, Death for Sale (2012), was presented in the official selection of the Berlin Film Festival. Faouzi Bensaïdi was one of the experts in the Angers Workshops in 2007 and was a member of the Jury during the Festival in 2012.
Lionel Baier | Director, scriptwriter | Switzerland Lionel Baier was born into a Polish-Swiss family in Lausanne. Starting in 1992, he was programmer at the Cinéma Rex in Aubonne. He then went to study at the humanities faculty of the University of Lausanne. Following his first short, Mignon à croquer, he went on to make Celui au pasteur (ma vision personnelle des choses) and then La Parade (notre histoire). He then went into fiction, making Garçon Stupide (Stupid Boy) in 2004, then Comme des voleurs (à l'est) (Stealth) in 2006 which was released in a number of countries, including the United States. His third fiction feature, Un autre homme (Another Man), was at the Locarno Festival in 2008. He presented in 2013 the premiere of Les Grandes Ondes (à l’ouest) during the Angers Workshops. Lionel Baier has been the director of the cinema department of the école cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), and in 2009 he founded Bande à part Films with the filmmakers Ursula Meier, Frédéric Mermoud and Jean-Stéphane Bron. He was in the feature film jury in 2013 at the Premiers Plans Festival. He has attended the Angers Workshops since 2013.
Alan R. Milligan | Producteur | Norvège – Royaume-Uni Alan R. Milligan worked in the US Senate and the software industry before moving to film full time in 2010. He produced the film Everything Will Be Ok by Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen, which won best European short film at the Angers Film Festival in 2013. In the last two years he has produced, co-produced and executive produced four feature films: Letter to the King by Hisham Zaman (Dragon Award for the best Nordic film in Göteborg, Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere by Hoang Diep Nguyen (Critics Award in Venice), Lamb by Yared Zeleke (Un Certain Regard 2015) and Rams by Grímur Hákonarson (Un Certain Regard Award 2015).
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Radu Muntean | Director, scriptwriter | Romania Born in 1971, Radu Muntean is graduated from the Theatre and Film Academy in Bucharest. He directed five feature films and is considered as a central figure of the Romanian New Wave. His debut feature, Furia (The Rage) (2002) was screened in numerous film festivals and received the Best Film Debut Award by The Romanian Cineastes Union and the Award for the Best Cinematography at the Transilvania International Film Festival. Following its premiere in the Competition of the Locarno International Film festival, his second film, Hîrtia va fi albastră (The Paper Will Be Blue) (2006) won numerous awards at several festivals like Sarajevo IFF, Eurasia IFF, Las Palmas IFF, Cottbus IFF and Festival International de Film Francophone de Namur. In 2008, he completed his third feature, Boogie, which was selected at the Directors’ Fortnight and at many other film festivals, such as ones in Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam, Namur, Hamptons (Golden Starfish Award). In 2010, Marți, după Crăciun (Tuesday, After Christmas) was presented in the Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard section. The film was then sold in more than 30 countries and received awards in festivals in Sarajevo, Mar Del Plata, Gijon, Namur, Essonne, Bastia. In 2015, he returned to Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section with his fifth feature, Un etaj mai jos (One Floor Below).
Razvan Radulescu | Director, scriptwriter and writer | Romania Razvan Radulescu is one of the most productive Romanian director. He is the representative of the so-called post-revolution film in Romania and is part of the most successful generation of Romanian filmmakers, whose films marked the international film scene over the past decade. He studied at the Philology at the University of Bucharest and Opera Directing at the Music Academy of Bucharest. His 1997 novel The Life and Deeds of Elijah Cazane won the Best Debut Prize by the Romanian Writers Guild. His second novel, Theodosius the small (2006) won the EU Prize for Literature. He has collaborated with numerous successful directors such as Alexandru Baciu, Cristi Puiu (Stuff and Dough, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu), Cristian Mungiu (4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, Golden Palme in Cannes in 2007), Radu Muntean (The Paper Will Be Blue, Boogie, Tuesday, After Christmas and One Floor Below), Calin Netzer (Child’s Pose, Golden Bear in Berlin in 2012), Dragomir Scholev (Shelter), Andrei Ujica (L’Autobiographie de Nicolae Ceausescu). He co-wrote and co-directed First of all Felicia together with Melissa de Raaf. Between 2005 and 2012, he was a frequent guest teacher at Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe and the ESAV Marrakech. He is, since 2011, tutor for the Torino Film Lab.
Joseph Rouschop | Producer | Belgium Graduated in Arts and Communication Sciences of the University of Liege, Joseph Rouschop has created Tarantula Belgium in the late 90s, with the desire to defend the sincerity and dreams of authors with whom he works. He produced his first documentaries and short films with the constant desire to place the human at the heart of the works, with strong and meaningful themes. Since 2002 and the first feature film A Piece of Sky by Bénédicte Liénard, presented in the official selection at Cannes, Tarantula contributes to the dynamism of Belgian audiovisual production, with films such as Private Madness and Private Property by Joachim Lafosse (presented at Premiers Plans in 2004 and 2007), The Tango Singer by Diego Martinez Vignatti, Last Winter by John Shank or Mobile Home by François Pirot (resident of the Angers Workshops in 2008 with this project).
Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 9 SCREENINGS – MASTERCLASS
Monday, August 24 | Screening Short films by the residents, in their attendance
1st Programme – 1h56 Las pequeñas cosas by Carla Simón (27’) Belle gueule by Emma Benestan (26’) K-Nada by Hubert Charuel (22’) Marseille la nuit by Marie Monge (41’)
2nd Programme – 1h57 Les Bons Garçons by Antoine Russbach (23’) Journée d’appel by Basile Doganis (21’) Crossroads by Wouter Bouvijn (28’) Les Jours d’avant by Karim Moussaoui (45’)
Tuesday, August 25 | Screening and masterclass Directing and actors with Lionel Baier
Low Cost (Claude Jutra) Lionel Baier 2010 – 55min – Switzerland
David Miller has known his date of death since the age of nine. As it approaches, he spends his final moments with those dear to him and is obsessed with the idea of learning how to tie a bow-tie and the Quebec filmmaker Claude Jutra’s falling into the water. Shot using a mobile phone over the course of ten years from Lausanne to Ouagadougou, this is a fiction film about the value of human life in an age where everything is at a “discount”. Life is priceless; death, however, bargains…
Wednesday, August 26 | Screening and masterclass Directing and scriptwriting with Radu Muntean, director, and Razvan Radulescu, co-writer
Tuesday, After Christmas Radu Muntean 2010 – 1h39 – Romania
Paul Hanganu loves two women: Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he’s shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.
Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 10 SCREENINGS – MASTERCLASS
Thursday, August 27 | Screening and masterclass Production with Joseph Rouschop (Tarantula Belgium) and Alan R. Milligan (Film Farms Production - Norway)
Everything Will Be Ok Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen 2011 – 24’ – Norway
Two young polish immigrants decide to explore the land outside. Their journey will strengthen their friendship, but life accidently switches from joyful to woeful in one moment.
Private Property Joachim Lafosse 2006 – 1h35 – Belgium
When their mother wants to sell the house, the good relation between the twins deteriorates. In a fight one gets very badly injured. The other panics and feels guilty.
Friday, August 28 | Screening and masterclass Directing and actor with Faouzi Bensaïdi
Death for Sale Faouzi Bensaïdi 2012 – 1h57 – France / Belgium / Morocco
In Tetouan, at the northern edge of Morocco, three young men decide to rob a jewellery store. The heist goes away, and their destinies part drastically.
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PREMIERES
Sunday, August 23 | Screening and Q&A with the director and the main actress, Louise Bourgoin
I Am a Soldier Laurent Larivière 2015 – 1h37 – France / Belgium French theatrical release: 18th of November 2015 – Distribution: Le Pacte
Sandrine, 30 years old, is forced to return home in Roubaix to live with her mother. She is unemployed and accepts to work with her uncle in a kennel, which turns out to be a hub for dog trafficking from Eastern Europe. She rapidly acquires authority and respect in this world dominated by men, and earns the money that could provide her with her freedom. But sometimes, even good soldiers stop taking orders.
I Am a Soldier was screened this year in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. The screenplay has been developed in the Angers Workshops in 2013.
Monday, August 24 | Screening and Q&A with the director
Son of Saul László Nemes 2015 – 1h47 – Hungary French theatrical release: 4th of November 2015 – Distribution: Ad Vitam
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.
Son of Saul received two awards this year at the Cannes Film Festival: the Grand Prix for feature film from the jury presided by Joel and Ethan Coen and the Fipresci Prize. He has been discovered in Angers with his first short film With A Little Patience (Türelem) in 2008, awarded three times: the Grand Jury Award, the Arte Prize and the best actress prize for Virág Marjai. Son of Saul is his first feature film.
Tuesday, August 25 | Screening and Q&A with the director
La Vanité Lionel Baier 2015 – 1h15 – Switzerland / France French theatrical release: 2nd of September 2015 – Distribution: Happiness Distribution
David Miller wants to die and chooses assisted euthanasia. He planned everything: the place, the time and the manner. However, nothing goes right. With Esperanza, member of the association, and Tréplev, young prostitute, David embarks on his ultimate night with total strangers.
La Vanité was selected this year in the Acid’s Cannes programme.
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Wednesday, August 26 | Screening and Q&A with the director and Joseph Rouschop, co-producer
The Wakhan Front Clément Cogitore 2015 – 1h40 – France / Belgium French theatrical release: 30th of September 2015 – Distribution: Diaphana
Afghanistan 2014. As the withdrawal of troops approaches, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his squad have been assigned a surveillance mission in a remote valley or Wakhan, on the border of Pakistan. Despite Antarès and his men’s determination, control of the secluded valley will slowly fall out of their hands. One dark night, soldiers begin to mysteriously disappear in the valley.
The Wakhan Front was screened this year in Cannes in competition in the Critics’ Week and received the Aide Fondation Gan pour la diffusion. The screenplay has been developed in the Angers Workshops in 2013.
Thusday, August 27 | Screening and Q&A with the director and Razvan Radulescu, co-writer
One Floor Below Radu Muntean 2015 – 1h33 – France / Romania / Germany / Sweden Theatrical French release: 7th of October 2015 – Distribution: Épicentre Films
After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends up in murder, Pătrașcu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbours: one is the bizarre murderer. The other is his very own conscience.
One Floor Below was selected this year in Cannes, in the Un Certain Regard section.
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French theatrical release
Insecure Marianne TARDIEU France - Workshops 2011 French theatrical release: 12nd of November 2014 Production: La Vie est belle Distribution: Rezo Films Scripts readings - Premiers Plans Festival 2013 ACID – Cannes 2014 Party Girl Claire BURGER, Marie AMACHOUKELI and Samuel THEIS France – Workshops 2012 French theatrical release: 27th of August 2014 Production: Elzévir Films Distribution: Pyramide Films Opening Film Un Certain Regard – Cannes 2014 Golden Camera and Prix d’ensemble Un Certain Regard – Cannes 2014 Audience Award –Paris Cinéma Festival 2014
Tristesse Club Vincent MARIETTE France – Workshops 2010 French theatrical release: 4th of June 2014 Production: Kazak Productions Distribution: Haut et Court
The Good Life Jean DENIZOT France – Workshops 2011 French theatrical release: 9th of April 2014 Production: Mezzanine Films Distribution: Chrysalis Films Europa Cinemas Label Venice 2013 Premiers Plans Festival 2014
Salvo Fabio GRASSADONIA and Antonio PIAZZA Italy - Workshops 2010 French theatrical release: 16th of October 2013 Production: Acaba Produzioni, Cristaldi Pictures, MACT Production Distribution: Bodega Films Grand Prize and France 4 Visionary Award, Critics’ Week Cannes 2013
A Month in Thailand Paul NEGOESCU Romania - Workshops 2011 French theatrical release: 26th of June 2013 Production: HiFilm Production Distribution: Épicentre Films Venice Festival 2012 Premiers Plans Festival 2013
Mobile Home François PIROT Belgium - Workshops 2008 French theatrical release: 29th of August 2012 Production: Tarantula Production Distribution: Distrib Films Youth Jury Award –Locarno Festival 2012
Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 14 Abrir puertas y ventanas Milagros MUMENTHALER Switzerland / Argentina - Workshops 2006 French theatrical release: 18th of July 2012 Production: Alina Films Distribution: Happiness Distribution Golden Leopard – Locarno Festival 2011 Best Actress Award - Premiers Plans Festival 2012 The Invader Nicolas PROVOST Belgium - Workshops 2007 French theatrical release: 25th of January 2012 Production: Versus Productions Venice and Toronto Festivals 2011 Premiers Plans Festival 2012
Jimmy Rivière Teddy LUSSI MODESTE France - 2007 9th of March 2011 Production: Kazak Productions Distribution: Pyramide Premiers Plans Festival 2011
Belle épine Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI France - Workshops 2008 French theatrical release: 10th of November 2010 Production: Les Films Velvet Distribution: Pyramide Critics’ Week – Cannes 2010
Le Fil Mehdi BEN ATTIA France - Workshops 2007 French theatrical release: 12nd of May 2010 Production: Mille et Une productions Distribution: Pyramide
Coming soon
Headfirst Antti Heikki PESONEN Finland – Workshops 2013 Production: Helsinki Filmi Oy
I Am a Soldier Laurent LARIVIÈRE France - Workshops 2013 French theatrical release: 18th of November 2015 Production: Mon Voisin Productions Distribution: Le Pacte Un Certain Regard – Cannes 2015 The Wakhan Front Clément COGITORE France - Workshops 2013 French theatrical release: 30th of September 2015 Production: Kazak Distribution: Diaphana Aide Fondation Gan pour la diffusion – Critics’ Week – Cannes 2015
Angers Workshops | 11th edition | August 23-29, 2015 15 Sworn Virgin Laura BISPURI Italy – Workshops 2013 French theatrical release: 30th of September 2015 Production: Vivo Film – Arizona Films Distribution: Pretty Pictures Berlin Festival– Competition 2015
War Simon JAQUEMET Switzerland – Workshops 2012 Production: Hugofilm Productions Gmbh San Sebastián Festival 2014
La Marcheuse Naël Marandin France – Workshops 2009 French theatrical release: 16th of September 2015 Production: Folamour Productions, Vito Films Distribution: Rezo Films
Baden Baden Rachel LANG France – Workshops 2011 Upcoming french theatrical release Production: ChevalDeux Trois
Keeper Guillaume SENEZ Belgium – Workshops 2011 Upcoming french theatrical release Production: Iota Production Europa Cinemas Label - Locarno Festival 2015
Tous les chats sont gris (la nuit) Savina DELLICOUR Belgium – Workshops 2006 Upcoming french theatrical release Production: Tarantula Belgium
Shooting
Dogs by Bogdan MIRICA Romania – Workshops 2012 - Shooting Summer 2015
Toril by Laurent TEYSSIER France – Workshops 2012 – Shooting June 2015 Scripts readings - Premiers Plans Festival 2014
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Part of the Angers Workshops and a specific series of conferences and workshops are open to auditors: professionals (producers, directors, technicians…), exhibitors, cinema students (secondary, technical or film schools), professionals from film events (festivals, film education programmes, associations…) and film lovers.
In the morning, for the auditors and the residents: screenings and masterclass given by professionals who will share their individual experiences and bring ideas on cinematographic creation.
In the afternoon: a specific programme for the auditors with professionals’ speakers about audiovisual actuality.
In the evening: premiere for the public at the Cinemas Les 400 coups with the speakers present.
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WORKSHOPS VENUES Hôtel Lancreau .1. Cinémas Les 400 coups .2. 14, rue Pocquet de Livonnières 12, rue Claveau
Copyrights: Nathalie Guihard, Sébastien Aubinaud, Sandrine Jousseaume, D.R.
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