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Proudly Presents the 14th Edition of Focus on French Cinema Welcome from Alliance Française of Greenwich Renée Ketcham, Chair President of the Alliance Francaise of Greenwich

BIENVENUE... Welcome to Focus on French Cinema 2018, the annual festival of French- language film from around the world presented by the Alliance Française of Greenwich. Established in 2005, Focus on French Cinema is a wide- ranging festival embracing the best of cinema from , , Canada, , Lebanon and French- speaking African countries. Now in its 14th year, FFC2018 returns to Connecticut and Manhattan for 5 days of the best of French cinema from April 27 to May 1, 2018. The line- up represents César winning feature films as well as a selection of short films and our continued support of Québecois cinema coordinated by Guilhem Caillard, the Director Général of our partner festival, Cinemania. This year FFC is honoring some extraordinary women. Brilliant visionaries, these women are fearless new voices as directors, actors and producers...women who are driven by a sense of freedom and independence. The inclusion of multiple genres of cinema continues to be the hallmark of the year’s FFC selections. From comic capers to gripping thrillers, female resilience to war dramas, environmental adventure to migration, biopics and educational eloquence to heartfelt loss and spiritual enlightenment, FFC continues to honor the vitality of “ le septième art”. We welcome you, our audience, to be challenged, enchanted and entertained with the selection this year. Thank you for your support, the continued support of our sponsors and partners and the incredible team that is Focus on French Cinema! Et maintenant, que le spectacle commence!

Team Focus on French Cinema EXECUTIVE Renée Amory Ketcham - Chair, President, Alliance Française of Greenwich COMMITTEE Gail Covney - Co-President, Alliance Française of Greenwich Fereshteh Priou - Vice-President & Treasurer, Alliance Française of Greenwich SELECTION Mary Hardy, Renée Amory Ketcham, Harry McLachlin, Sylvie Sergent, COMMITTEE Guilhem Caillard- Québec selection

Joe Meyers, Director of Programming I have been a fan of French cinema for most of my life, so to be named Director of Programming for Focus on French Cinema is a great honor. The selection committee has come up with a slate of films that demonstrates the continuing power and innovation of Francophone cinema. Entertaining. Daring. Moving. You will not soon forget these movies and the wonderful guests who will tell us how they were made.

BIO: Joe Meyers writes about movies, theater and books for Hearst Connecticut Media Group which publishes Greenwich Time, the Stamford Advocate, the Norwalk Hour, Connecticut Post and Danbury News-Times. He is part of the team that puts out the weekly Arts & Style section in the five newspapers. Twice a month, Meyers hosts the Movie & A Martini series which Hearst has been sponsoring at theaters throughout Fairfield County, screening first-run films such as Carol and Spotlight as well as restored classics that have included The Third Man and Sweet Smell of Success. He has also moderated discussions after many French Cinematheque evenings at the Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford presented in partnership with the Alliance Française of Greenwich. In the 1970s, Meyers ran the first (and only) art house on the Delmarva Peninsula—the Lewes Cinema— where he programmed films by Francois Truffaut, Luis Bunuel and other great European directors. In 2012, the Mystery Writers of America gave Meyers the Ellery Queen Award for his writing on crime fiction.

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GENRE Comedy DIRECTOR SCREENPLAY Yaël Langmann, Victor Saint Macary, Yvan Attal, Noé Debré, Bryan Marciano STARRING , Camélia Jordana, Yasin Houicha, Nozha Khouad LENGTH 95 min COUNTRY France US RELEASE CT Premiere

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SYNOPSIS Neïla Salah grew up in the banlieue of Créteil, SPONSORED BY dreaming of becoming a lawyer. On her first day at the prestigious Université D’Assas in Paris, she faces off with Pierre Mazard, a teacher known for his outrageous and provocative behavior. To redeem REVIEWS himself, the professor agrees to prepare Neïla for “Yvan Attal réussit un film magnifique, une the prestigious contest of eloquence. Pierre could comédie diablement bien charpentée, nourrie become the mentor she needs… But they must de dialogues ciselés et loin d’être politiquement both overcome their prejudices. The script was anodine.” inspired by the annual rhetoric competitions held – France Télévision in France’s most prestigious law schools, where students are invited to plead on a wide range of Polished in a very Hollywood sense- Attal even subjects in the most eloquent and imaginative uses the same opening Marvin Gaye song as J.C. way possible. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year - the film flies by at an efficient 95 minutes and is saddled with a SELECT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS strong technical package, including widescreen César Awards 2018 cinematography from Remy Chevrin (Love Songs) WINNER Best Promising Actress (Camélia Jordana) that steeps the action in a fair amount of shadow Nominations: Best Film, Best Actor (Daniel Auteuil) and grain. – The Hollywood Reporter Lumiere Awards 2018 Nominations: Best Actor (Daniel Auteuil), Most Promising Actress (Camélia Jordana)

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GENRE Drama DIRECTOR Léonor Serraille SCREENPLAY Léonor Serraille STARRING Laetitia Dosch, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye and Léonie Simaga LENGTH 97 min COUNTRY France US RELEASE CT Premiere

SYNOPSIS A young woman tries to reinvent herself after the end of a toxic 10-year relationship. Paula is back in Paris after a long absence and shows up with a cat, no money and no idea what to do with her life. Paula resorts to a series of desperate lies SPONSORED BY in order to keep a roof over her head and after several interesting encounters, she is ready for a fresh start. FOCUS ON Léonor Serraille - Director Debut feature by La Fémis graduate Léonor “Made in France with a modest budget, an almost Serraille and starring rising star Laetitia Dosch, entirely female crew, and considerable insight, Jeune femme is the story of a strong and capable Cannes Caméra d’Or winner “Jeune femme” was woman dealing with a brand-new life. directed by La Fémis graduate Léonor Serraille— . while pregnant, no less!—and features young SELECT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS women in nearly every creative role, from camera Cannes International Film Festival, 2017 to composer, sound to set design. The presence Caméra d’or of strong, capable women across all departments Nominations: Un Certain Regard is every bit as important as the fact it chooses César Award 2018 to focus on one as its protagonist, doing so in a Nominations: Best First Film (Léonor Séraille), way that resists the male tradition of introducing Most Promising Actress (Laetitia Dosch) a hero, identifying a problem and admiring his composure as he races to solve it.” SELECT FILMOGRAPHY Laetitia Dosch - Actress – Variety Gaspard at the Wedding (2017) REVIEWS A Brief History of Princess X (2016) “Caméra d’Or winner at the last Festival de Cannes: 4 Days in France (2016) the first film of Léonor Serraille has everything to become a cult movie.” – Paris Match

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GENRE Drama DIRECTOR Albert Dupontel SCREENPLAY Albert Dupontel and Pierre Lemaître STARRING Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte and . LENGTH 117 min COUNTRY France/Canada US RELEASE CT Premiere

SYNOPSIS November 1918, a few days before the Armistice: Edouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard’s life. These men have nothing in common but the war they SPONSORED BY are fighting. By ordering a senseless assault, Lieutenant Pradelle destroys their lives but binds them as companions in misfortune. Condemned to SELECT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS live, the two create an extraordinary scam during Césars Awards 2018 the effervescent period of the 1920’s…Based on Best Director (Albert Dupontel), Best Costumes the novel by Pierre Lemaître (winner of the Prix (Mimi Lempicka), Best Cinematography (Vincent Goncourt in 2013)…The director and ensemble Mathias), Production Design (Pierre Quefféléan), cast have created a magnificent film destined to Best Adapted Screenplay (Albert Dupontel and become a classic. Nominated for 13 César Awards! Pierre Lemaître) Nominations: Best Film (Catherine Bozorgan and Albert Dupontel), Best Actor(Albert FOCUS ON Pierre Lemaître - Writer Adaptation of the book Au-revoir là-haut by Pierre Dupontel), Best Supporting Actress (Mélanie Lemaître. Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2013 Thierry), Best Supporting Actors (Niels Arestrup, Laurent Lafitte), Best Original Music (Christophe Julien), Best Editing (Christophe Pinel), Best SELECT FILMOGRAPHY Albert Dupontel - Director Désiré Sound (Jean Minondo, Gurwal Coïc-Gallas, Cyril Holtz, Damien Lazzerin) Bernie The Creator REVIEWS The Villain “Written, directed by and co-starring Albert The Clink of Ice - (2010) FFC 2011 Dupontel in his most ambitious project yet, the 9 Month Stretch - (2013) Opening Night FFC 2014 film features a handful of jaw-dropping moments.” See you up there - Opening Night FFC 2018 – The Hollywood Reporter “Albert Dupontel might just have made one of the most beautiful movies of the year.” – 20 Minutes 15

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GENRE Drama DIRECTOR Hubert Charuel SCREENPLAY Hubert Charuel, Claude Le Pape STARRING Swann Arlaud, Sara Giraudeau, , Isabelle Candelier LENGTH 90 min COUNTRY France US RELEASE CT Premiere

SYNOPSIS PETIT Pierre is a dairy farmer in his mid-thirties whose life revolves around his farm, his veterinarian sister, PAYSAN and the parents whose farm he has just taken BLOODY MILK over. As the first indications of a deadly epidemic UN FILM DE HUBERT CHARUEL based on Mad Cow disease are announced in France, Pierre discovers that one of his cows has been infected and resorts to drastic measures in order to protect both his flock and his livelihood. SPONSORED BY

SELECT AWARDS & NOMINATIONS César Awards 2018 Best Actor (Swann Arlaud), Best Supporting Actress (Sara Giraudeau), Best First Film (Hubert FOCUS ON Hubert Charuel - Director Charuel) Hubert Charuel is a farmer’s son. His parents farm Nominations: Best Film, Best Director (Hubert is located in Droyes, between Reims and Nancy, Charuel), Best Editing (Lilian Corbeille, Grégoire twenty kilometers from Saint-Dizier. Pontécaille, Julie Léna), Best Original Screenplay “What allowed me to survive the dairy crisis (Claude Le Pape, Hubert Charuel) was hard work, a little investment, a few new tools, Cannes Film Festival 2017 and limited loans. It means a lot of intelligence, as Nominations: Caméra d’Or, Hubert Charuel well as physical intelligence in order to survive.” – Hubert Charuel

REVIEWS In essence, Pierre is part of a dying breed trying to make ends meet in a place where agribusinesses rule and smaller farms have a hard time surviving. His decision… is both a means to save his farm, and, in a greater sense, an act of resistance. – The Hollywood Reporter

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SYNOPSIS “What do Sophie Marceau, and Audrey Tautou, , Yvan Attal, have in common?” If this documentary FOCUS ON Patrick Fabre - Director evokes a strong Since 2001, Fabre often appears on TV as a response by the vision journalist (Canal +, Starmag on TPStarl, FilmoTv) or of great actors at the editor-in-chief (DVD mag on TPStar, Jour de fête beginning of their sur France 2). In 2007, he directed a 52-minute career, it refutes the documentary, Cédric Klapisch ce qui le meut; it was nostalgia and turns released the next year on France 5. In 2010, he resolutely towards the directed his first short: La Moustache de Charles future; towards these Bronson. Then he made emerging luminaries a second short in 2012, who will one day make Rue des Roses, by Mon history in the cinema. Voisin Production; the Although the César of the Best New Actor or scenario was bought Actress does not decide with certainty those who by France 2 and it was make cinematic history, it nevertheless offers a selected for about 20 delicious image that I way dying to discover. festivals worldwide. – Dominique Besnehard, Mon Voisin Productions The same year, he made a documentary about the “behind the scenes” of the anime Ice Age and in 2014 he did the same thing for the movie Les Garçons et Guil- laume à table.

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GENRE History DIRECTOR François Girard SCREENPLAY François Girard STARRING Raoul Trujillo, Tanaya Beatty, LENGTH 100 min COUNTRY Canada US RELEASE CT Premiere

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GENRE Docudrama DIRECTOR Ursula Meier SCREENPLAY Antoine Jaccoud, Ursula Meier STARRING , Kacey Mottet Klein, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Stéphanie Blanchoud LENGTH 70 min COUNTRY Switzerland US RELEASE US Premiere

SYNOPSIS A few minutes before killing his father and mother SPONSORED BY in cold blood, Benjamin Feller—a young 18-year- old who apparently had no prior history—mails his intimate diary, in which he explains and confesses his act, to his French teacher. The teacher finds herself being questioned by the authorities and is soon filled with doubt. What if her taste for literature that is obsessed with the sufferings of the human soul had blinded her to play the brother of Lea Seydoux in Meier’s Sister, her student’s distress and to what was hidden in though he is probably most famous internationally the feverish prose he had shown her well before for the lead role in Andre Techine’s well-received his crime? Being 17, which premiered in Berlin two years ago. Meier wrote the screenplay with her regular FOCUS ON Ursula Meier and Kacey Mottet Klein - co-writer Antoine Jaccoud, together with editor Director and Main Actor Nelly Quettier—who also cuts Leos Carax’s Ursula Meier reunites here with the prodigiously narratively complex films—they create a dense talented young actor Kacey Mottet Klein. The storytelling web from the get-go. Swiss filmmaker director, who was educated in Belgium, discovered Ursula Meier is set to preside over the Caméra d’Or Klein when she was looking for an actor to play jury at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2018. the son of ’s character in her Cannes-selected film, Home. He went on to REVIEW Ursula Meier returns in short, sharp form with this needling, fact-based moral puzzler, brilliantly performed by Fanny Ardant and Kacey Mottet Klein. – Variety

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GENRE Drama DIRECTOR Samuel Matteau SCREENPLAY Guillaume Fournier STARRING Noah Parker, Théodore Pellerin, Clémence Dufresne-Deslières, Antoine DesRochers, Christian Michaud , Emmanuel Schwartz LENGTH 98 min COUNTRY Canada US RELEASE US Premiere

Q&A with Noah Parker

SYNOPSIS Ailleurs is the first feature length film by Samuel Matteau showcasing two exceptional young actors: Noah Parker and Théodore Pellerin (guest at FFC 2017 for his short film, Sigismond Imageless). SPONSORED BY The film tells the story of Samu and Tévé, two 15 year old boys on a journey through the alleyways of the city of Québec. They are desperate to flee The aesthetic of Ailleurs is that of a coming their lives at the Seminary of the Marist Fathers of age story of “enfants perdus” similar to Peter and escape to the bright colors and warmth of Pan or Oliver Twist. The camera work is alive and California. When Samu stabs his father in a heated aerial,with frequent closeups of actor Noah Parker argument, the two best friends flee in the night. revealing the intense emotions of a teenager However, without the financial means, they end in search of love and a new life. A magnificent up finding refuge with La Belette, a young junkie “coming of age” story that also pays tribute to the who is at loggerheads with his dealer, who takes beautiful city of Québec. them under his wing and brings them back to the “ squat”, met unkindly by the other “ squatters.” REVIEW Best friends, their friendship is tested… they are Never has the city of Québec been filmed with being sought by police. such a poetic intrigue (better word- poésie Tévé, the more timid of the two boys, is acted insolite) than in Ailleurs, with a particular focus on with beauty and refinement by rising star Noah the visual magic of the streets Parker. This makes the movie essential. The film- – Le Devoir maker describes Noah as an “exceptional” actor, very gentle, silent and radiant. Having opened in theaters in Québec in March, Ailleurs will be presented in U.S. Premiere at Focus on French Cinema 2018.

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GENRE Comedy DIRECTORS Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache SCREENPLAY Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache STARRING Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Paul Rouve, , LENGTH 177 min COUNTRIES Belgium, Canada, France US RELEASE CT Premiere

SYNOPSIS C’est la vie! (Le sens de la fête) is a 2017 comedy directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. Retiring caterer Max Angélique, played by Jean- Pierre Bacri, is catering the last wedding of his long career. The event is set in a 17th-century French chateau, where every conceivable SPONSORED BY nightmare that could happen is going to happen. From the earliest preparations to the crack of dawn, we live the evening from behind the SELECT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS: scenes, along with Max’s staff, who are forced to César Awards 2018 count on the one thing they have in common: Nominations: Best Sound Editing (Pascal Armant, knowing how to throw a good party. Sélim Azzazi, Jean-Paul Hurier), Best Film (C’est Aided by the directors’ use of documentary- la vie), Best Supporting Actor (Gilles Lellouche, style camera work and unique jazz music to Vincent Macaigne), Most Promising Actress complement the rising tension of the wedding, (Eye Haïdara), Best Editing (Dorian Rigal Ansous), Max brings the audience along in his desperate Best Original Screenplay (Eric Toledano, Olivier attempt to keep everything together. Nakache), Best Actor (Jean-Pierre Bacri), Best Director (Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache), SELECT FILMOGRAPHY Jean-Pierre Bacri - Actor Most Promising Actor (Benjamin Lavernhe) C’est la vie 2016 Lumiere Awards 2018 Back in Business 2016 Nominations: Best Film (Olivier Nakache, Eric The Very Private Life of Mister Sim 2015 Toledano), Best Actor (Jean-Pierre Bacri), Best The Night Clerk 2010 Screenplay (Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano), Le goût des autres 2000 Most Promising Actress (Eye Haïdara)

REVIEWS C’est la vie is an impressively fast succession of sketches. But it is also a story of solidarity full of tenderness and humanity. – Le Parisien

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All That Divides Us Tout nous sépare Saturday, April 28 - 9 to 11pm Bow Tie Cinemas, Greenwich, CT

GENRE Thriller DIRECTOR Thierry Klifa STARRING Catherine Deneuve, Diane Kruger, Nekfeu SCREENPLAY Thierry Klifa, Cédric Anger LENGTH 99 min COUNTRY France US RELEASE US Premiere

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SYNOPSIS In Sète, a bourgeois family in a house in the middle of nowhere clashes with slum-dwellers residing in the projects. A mother and a daughter. SPONSORED BY Two childhood friends. A disappearance. Black- mail. Catherine Deneuve plays a mother trying desperately to save her daughter (Diane Kruger) from a questionable relationship.

SELECT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS GUEST BIOGRAPHY Thierry Klifa Festival du Cinéma et de musique de film de la Thierry Klifa is a director and writer, known for Baule 2017 Tout nous sépare (2017), His Mother’s Eyes (2011), Le Best Film, Best Music (Gustavo Santaolalla), héros de la famille (2006) and Une vie à t’attendre Best Actors (Nekfeu, Nicolas Duvauchelle) (2004). He was a journalist with Studio Magazine Lumiere Awards 2018 from 1991-2002. Focus on French Cinema featured Nominations: Most Promising Actor (Nekfeu) his film Family Hero (Le héros de la famille) at REVIEW FFC2007 with guest Klifa is perhaps trying to say something about star . how a society divided by class can be united in a He collaborated with struggle for survival… Christopher Thompson – Hollywood Reporter on Bus Palladium and Les Yeux de sa mère. In his work, Klifa has surrounded himself with great French actors including , , Catherine Deneuve, Claude Brasseur, Diane Kruger and Mélanie Laurent among others.

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GENRE Documentary DIRECTOR Manthia Diawara LENGTH 70 min COUNTRY /US/Mali US RELEASE CT Premiere

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SYNOPSIS Diawara’s film serves as a mirror to build an aesthetic and reflexive story, through song and SPONSORED BY dance, about the current yet timeless drama of migration between North and South, and the on- going refugee crises. The film ponders the realities of cultural encounters through the concepts of métissage and hybridity. The success and limits of fusing African and European perspectives are tested by interlacing performances from the Bintou Were opera, past and present archival GUEST BIOGRAPHY Manthia Diawara footage of migrations, classic European arias, and Manthia Diawara was born in Mali, West Africa. interviews with European and African intellectuals, He is a distinguished Professor of Comparative artists and social activists–including Alexander Literature and Film at New . Diawara Kluge, Fatou Diome, Nicole Lapierre and Richard was educated in Sennett. Guinea-Conakry, Bamako and Paris, REVIEW before migrating to the Wandering the shores of Lesbos, Diawara poses United States to pursue questions in the face of the sea, its myths, and his studies. His essays media footage of mass migration… A Sahel Opera on art, cinema and becomes a world opera, tragic in its tradition of politics have appeared the genre, but far from a dead end. Might we in The New Times consider it moving in search of a better death? Magazine, LA Times and – Monika Szewczyk Libération. His memoirs include: In Search of Africa and We Won’t Budge: An African in the World. Diawara’s more recent films include: An Opera of the World and Negritude: A Dialogue between Soyinka and Senghor.

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GENRE Documentary DIRECTOR Natalie Fuchs SCREENPLAY Natalie Fuchs STARRING Tenzin Norzom, Nepal Tamang (Jampa), Tenzin Khetsun, Natalie Fuchs VOICEOVER Uma Thurman LENGTH 83 min COUNTRIES France/ India US RELEASE US Premiere

Q&A with Natalie Fuchs

SYNOPSIS Immersed in the colorful and vibrant setting of Dharamsala (India), Natalie Fuchs and 3 individuals from very different backgrounds come together SPONSORED BY to face their deepest fears, as they approach the transformational power of the Kalachakra initiation, led by the Dalai Lama and followed by millions. Kalachakra is the most sacred teaching in Tibetan buddhism; the initiation is generally given REVIEWS over 11 days. There are seven days of preparation Voyage au coeur d’une culture en danger mais rituals during which the monks make the mandala. aussi blessure intime et documentaire d’une The ceremony ends when the monks release the réalisatrice sur le rituel d’une initiation le plus positive energy of the mandala into the everyday élevé du bouddhisme tibétain, ce film est rare et world through a final ritual. Kalachakra means beau.” “wheel of time.” Rarely filmed, this initiation has Journey to the heart of a culture at risk facing its long remained secret. The Dalai Lama gives it for deepest fears and documentary from a director peace in the world. Through this film, we enter an on the most sacred teaching in Tibetan buddhism, ancient and unknown dimension, where death the film is rare and beautiful. meets life, and we are changed forever. – Le Canard Enchaîné

Natalie Fuchs: “Planter une graine dans les coeurs” Natalie Fuchs: “To plant a seed in the hearts” – Nice Matin

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Garden Party SCREENPLAY Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayroux, Victor Cair, Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon and Lucas Navarro COUNTRY France LENGTH 7’10 PRODUCTION Mopa

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SELECT AWARDS & NOMINATIONS , 2017 Nominations: Best Animated Short Film(Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata)

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Sunday, April 29 - 11:30am to (HAÏTI MY LOVE) 1:30pm A FILM BY GUETTY FELIN Bow Tie Cinemas, Greenwich, CT

GENRE Drama DIRECTOR Guetty Felin SCREENPLAY Guetty Felin

WITH JOAKIM COHEN ANISIA UZEYMAN JAURÈS ANDRIS PASCALE FAUBLAS JAMES NOËL JUDITH JEUDY SIMBI DUPLAN STARRING Joachim Cohen, Anisia Uzeyman, Jaures Andris LENGTH 88 minutes SPONSORED BY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COUNTRY Haiti US RELEASE CT Premiere The School of

Q&A with Guetty Felin REVIEWFilm & Media Studies Ayiti MonCelebrating Amour, directed our 14 by year Guetty partnership Felin, is Haiti’s with SYNOPSIS first submissionAlliance for theFrançaise foreign andlanguage this annual Oscar. For Haiti, five years after the earthquake…In a coastal Felin, who has previouslyfilm and workedcultural onexchange. documentaries, town forgotten by the rest of the world, the sea it’s a new venture intoCongratulations narrative filmmaking. to She is gaining ground and although the memories taps a veinThe of Alliancesurrealism Française inhabited byof ApichatpongGreenwich of the great disaster still haunts the villagers, life Weerserthalkul on another and Carlos successful Reygadas year forfor thea remark focus- must go on…Shot in the mist and sunlight, Ayiti able debut that channelson French one Cinema.of history’s most Mon Amour is the story of old wounds that need admired lyricists, Aimé Césaire. Reely Dope Friends and Alumni of Film & Media Studies healing in order to begin anew. The film provides The School of Film and Media Studies at Purchase College is dedicated to enriching the college’s strong legacy in film, integrated media studies, and media arts. With three stories that intertwine, collide and co-exist. GUESTprograms BIOGRAPHY like “Great Films and Guetty Great Directors,” Felin selective screenings and showcases, campus events with filmmakers, writers and directors, and student exhibitions, the GuettySchool Felin of Film &is Media an award-winningStudies is building unity and independent support for film on campus and SELECT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS filmmaker, teacher, throughoutand film the community.curator. Born in Cartagena Film Festival Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in New York, she Nominations: Best Film, Golden India Catalina holds Visitan MFA purchase.edu from the University to of learn Paris School more. of Cinema. Felin has FOCUS ON Guetty Felin worked on factual and Filmmaker Guetty Felin says: “Ayiti Mon Amour is a narrative films for love poem to my native land; a place that I ache European and American for, that haunts me, that frightens and yet angers television. She pro- me, a place that I am fiercely and madly in love duced and co-curated with.” the critically-acclaimed Haiti on Screen in 2004 to celebrate Haiti’s bicentennial. She also helped to launch Haiti’s Film Festival Jakmèl in 2004. Her films include, Broken Stones, Thérèse, Biographies in Black, Telling Our Stories, Uptown, and Rap to Rock.

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GENRE Drama DIRECTORS Colombe Savignac and Pascal Ralite SCREENPLAY Colombe Savignac and Pascal Ralite STARRING Suzanne Clément, Pascal Demolon, Sabrina Seyvecou, Igor Van Dessel LENGTH 96 min COUNTRY France US RELEASE US Premiere

Q&A with Pascal Ralite and Colombe Savignac

UN FILM DE COLOMBE SAVIGNAC ET PASCAL RALITE ADAPTATION SCÉNARIO ET DIALOGUES DE COLOMBE SAVIGNAC ET PASCAL RALITE AVEC MATHIS BOUR SALOMÉ LAROUQUIE CARINE MAY LUDIVINE DE CHASTENET BERTRAND COMBE DIRECTEUR DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE MYRIAM VINOCOUR MONTAGE VANESSA BASTÉ SUPERVISEUR MONTAGE IMAGE GUY LECORNE MUSIQUE ORIGNALE MAXIME BEAUDET SON THOMAS BOURIC ALEXANDRE FLEURANT RAPHAËL SEYDOUX SYNOPSIS DÉCORS HÉRALD NAJAR COSTUMES ISABELLE MATHIEU ASSISTANTE MISE EN SCÈNE ZAZIE CARCEDO SCRIPTE JOËLLE HERSANT CASTING VALÉRIE ESPAGNE LUCCIANA DE VOGÜÉ CHRISTOPHE ISTIER PRODUCTEUR EXÉCUTIF PHILIPPE SAAL UNE COPRODUCTION LOMA NASHA FILMS VENDREDI FILM ORANGE STUDIO NEXUS FACTORY UMEDIA EN ASSOCIATION AVEC UFUND COFIMAGE 28 CPCF 3 AVEC LA PARTICIPATION DE OCS AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE LA RÉGION ÎLE-DE-FRANCE AVEC LE SOUTIEN DU TAX SHELTER DU GOUVERNEMENT FÉDÉRAL DE BELGIQUE Adrien is a shy, lost boy with divorced parents. ET DES INVESTISSEURS TAX SHELTER Bouncing back and forth between his mom and dad, Adrien realizes something that will change SPONSORED BY everything for him and his family. In the mean- time, he decides to join a theatrical production to get to know the girl he is in love with. During this complicated period in his life, Adrien wants to learn the meaning of bravery. My Mother’s Laugh, directed by Colombe Savignac and Pascal Ralite, mixes emotion and humour in a true celebration of life.

SELECT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS REVIEWS Nominations: Un film qui sonne juste de bout en bout, où Rencontres cinématographiques de Cannes, 2017 l’émotion vous étreint au détour d’un regard, d’un Festival international du film francophone de silence ou d’un geste d’amour esquissé qui se Tübingen/Stuttgart, 2017 perd dans le brouhaha de la vie. – L’Humanité FIFF - Festival international du film francophone de Namur, 2017 Produit par la réalisatrice Marie-Castille Festival du Film Francophone d’Angoulême, 2017 Mention-Schaar, qui explore dans ses propres films (« les Héritiers », « le Ciel attendra ») des univers proches, « le Rire de ma mère » est à la fois brûlant et tout en mesure (...). – Le Parisien

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GENRE Drama, War DIRECTOR Philippe Van Leeuw SCREENPLAY Philippe Van Leeuw STARRING Hiam Abbass, Diamand Bou Abboud, Juliette Navis LENGTH 85 min COUNTRY Belgium, France, Lebanon US RELEASE CT Premiere

SYNOPSIS A brutally tough drama set in a Damascus apartment where a family with a tragic secret have barricaded themselves, effectively imprisoned by the civil war outside, this nerve-wracking study of life in Damascus won an audience award at Berlinale. Hiam Abbass plays Yazan, the stern SPONSORED BY matriarch who through sheer force of will is keeping her family alive.

SELECT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS Lumiere Awards 2018 Best French-Language film (Philippe Van Leeuw) Nominations: Best Actress (Hiam Abbass), Best French-Language Film (Philippe Van Leeuw) SELECT FILMOGRAPHY Hiam Abbass - Actress Belgium, 2018 Foreign Body 2016 Best Film (Philippe Van Leeuw, Guillaume Insyriated 2016 Malandrin), Best Director (Philippe Van Leeuw), I Still Hide to Smoke 2016 Best Script (Philippe Van Leeuw), Best Cine- Le Sac de farine 2014 matography (Virginie Surdej), Best Original Miral 2010 Score (Jean-Luc Fafchamps), Best Sound (Alek Goosse, Paul Heymans) Lemon Tree 2008 Berlin International Film Festival 2017 Label Europa Cinemas (Philippe Van Leeuw), REVIEWS Panorama Audience Award (Fiction film, In Philippe Van Leeuw’s feature, Insyriated, the Philippe Van Leeuw) term” home invasion” isn’t the name of a Holly- wood sub-genre but takes on a frighteningly immediate real-world meaning. – Screen Daily

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GENRE Documentary/Adventure DIRECTOR Bertrand Delapierre, Alain Zenou SCREENPLAY Bertrand Delapierre, Luc Hardy, Alain Zenou STARRING Alexei Tikhonov, Eric Crubézy, Kevin Wood, Alexey Molchanov, Aurore Asso, Natalya Volgusheva, Sébastien Gadal, Marc Jarry, Ludovic Ravanel, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Luc Hardy, Marie de la Ville Baugé, Adrien de Bontin, Arkady Nasonov, Maxim Arbugaev, Andreï Demeshin, Victor Boyarsky, Zarina Kopyrina, Andreas Dhzons LENGTH 52 min COUNTRY France, United States US RELEASE World Premiere

Q&A with Luc Hardy and Alain Zenou SPONSORED BY SYNOPSIS At a time when man dreams of conquering other planets, there exists on Earth an extreme region with many secrets. Beyond the Arctic Circle, the islands of New Siberia are still Terra Incognita. Rare SELECT FILMOGRAPHY Luc Hardy (Producer, explorers have stepped upon these white lands. In Explorer and Expedition Leader) 1879, aboard the USS Jeannette, Captain George The Pursuit of Endurance – In the Footsteps of De Long and his crew aspired to reach the North Shackleton (Director: Bertrand Delapierre, Pole. They discovered islands, later named De Producer: Luc Hardy) Long, but did not reach the famous pole, and the Tout là-haut (Director, B Team cinema: Bertrand adventure turned tragic. Delapierre) In 2017, as a tribute to these men, an interna- tional, multicultural expedition set off on the trail FOCUS ON of the Jeannette. The purpose of this mission is to “To succeed in this extreme adventure, our explore, observe, and witness this unknown world conquerors of a new kind embarked on a mythical of white mounds on the ocean, the sanctuary of an freighter—The Mikhail Somov, an arctic icebreaker, authentic Arctic wildlife. In the manner of 19th- rescued from the Soviet era, operated by a crew century explorers, scientists, adventurers, artists and of hardened sailors. Very difficult shooting freedivers go in search of this Arktika Incognita. conditions…“ Bertrand Delapierre—director A WORD FROM FFC “We are thrilled to present this world premiere “The free diving done on the site of the sinking of documentary as part of our offering this year” the USS Jeannette really made us want to come Anne M. Kern, Associate Professor of back to help recover the wreck.” Cinema Studies – Purchase College Alexey Molchanov and Aurore Asso–free divers

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GENRE Biography/Drama/Romance DIRECTOR Eric Barbier STARRING Pierre Niney, ,

Didier Bourdon LE CHEF-D’ŒUVRE DE ROMAIN GARY SCREENPLAY Eric Barbier and Marie Eynard

LENGTH 131 min CHARLOTTE PIERRE GAINSBOURG NINEY COUNTRY France/Belgium US RELEASE East Coast Premiere

SYNOPSIS UN FILM DE ERIC BARBIER DIDIER BOURDON JEAN-PIERRE DARROUSSIN From a childhood in Poland to adolescence in CATHERINE M c CORMACK FINNEGAN OLDFIELD

PHOTOS JULIEN PANIE JULIEN PHOTOS PAWEL PUCHALSKI NEMO SCHIFFMAN D’APRÈS L’ŒUVRE DE ROMAIN GARY PARUE AUX ÉDITIONS GALLIMARD SCÉNARIO, ADAPTATION, DIALOGUES ERIC BARBIER ET MARIE EYNARD DIRECTEUR DE PRODUCTION JEAN-JACQUES ALBERT IMAGE GLYNN SPEECKAERT CHEF DÉCORATEUR PIERRE RENSON MONTAGE JENNIFER AUGE CASTING GIGI AKOKA COSTUMES CATHERINE BOUCHARD SON FRANÇOIS MAUREL KEN YASUMOTO MARC DOISNE PRODUIT PAR ERIC JEHELMANN ET PHILIPPE ROUSSELET COPRODUIT PAR ROMAIN LE GRAND VIVIEN ASLANIAN JONATHAN BLUMENTAL COPRODUIT PAR SYLVAIN GOLDBERG ET SERGE DE POUCQUES Nice to years as a student in Paris and tough UNE COPRODUCTION JERICO PATHÉ TF1 FILMS PRODUCTION NEXUS FACTORY UMEDIA LORETTE CINÉMA AVEC LA PARTICIPATION DE LA RÉGION BRUXELLES-CAPITALE EN ASSOCIATION AVEC UFUND AVEC LA PARTICIPATION DE CANAL+ OCS ET TF1 AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE INDÉFILMS 5 PALATINE ÉTOILE 14 CINÉMAGE 11 MANON 7 A PLUS IMAGE 7 SOFITVCINE 4 AVEC LE SOUTIEN DU TAX SHELTER DU GOUVERNEMENT FÉDÉRAL DE BELGIQUE ET DES INVESTISSEURS TAX SHELTER training as a pilot during World War II, this LA PROMESSE DE L'AUBE_120.indd 1 17/07/2017 15:36 tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists SPONSORED BY and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

SELECT AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS César Awards 2018 Nominations: Best Actress (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Best Adapted Screenplay (Eric REVIEWS Barbier Marie Eynard), Best Costume Design “On vibre pour ce film d’aventure romanesque et (Catherine Bouchard), Best Production Design délicieusement drôle.” (Pierre Renson) – Ouest France The second film adaptation of Romain Gary’s epic memoir is a patchy but diverting melange of pathos, comedy and ripe camembert. – Variety

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GENRE Biography/Comedy/Drama DIRECTOR SCREENPLAY Michel Hazanavicius STARRING , Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Micha Lescot LENGTH 107 min COUNTRY France US RELEASE CT Premiere

SYNOPSIS With his romantic and slyly funny Godard Mon Amour, the Academy Award-winning director of The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius, once again affec- tionately transports moviegoers back to a unique SPONSORED BY time and place in cinematic history: France, in the late 1960s. Actress Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin) finds herself juggling political protests and artistic challenges in her married life with renowned filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (Louis Garrel). As her country undergoes enormous cultural change, REVIEW so too does Anne’s dynamic with her husband. The director of The Artist delivers a youthful Godard Mon Amour is a story of both real love and portrait of the New Wave icon in love. reel love. – The Hollywood Reporter The surprise of Godard, Mon Amour, which turns SELECT AWARDS & NOMINATIONS out to be a lightly audacious and fascinating movie César Awards 2018 (if not exactly one to warm your heart), is that Nominations: Best Actor (Louis Garrel), though it is, in fact, structured, around Godard’s Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), marriage to Wiazemsky, its real subject is his life Best Cinematography (Guillaume Schiffman), as an artist—in particular, the way his relationship Best Adapted Screenplay (Michel Hazanavicius), to filmmaking got turned on its head during the Best Production Design (Christian Marti) crucial period of late 1967 and ’68, when he was Cannes Film Festival 2017 drawn into the national spasm of protest that was Nominations: Palme d’Or (Michel Hazanavicius) May 1968 and became obsessed with “revolution”, Lumiere Awards 2018 to the point that he shed the skin of the filmmaker Nominations: Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), he’d been in his glory days. Best Actor (Louis Garrel) – Variety

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GENRE Drama DIRECTOR Gaël Morel SCREENPLAY Gaël Morel, Rachid O STARRING Sandrine Bonnaire, Mouna Fettou Kamal El Amri, Ilian Bergala LENGTH 103 min COUNTRY France US RELEASE NY Premiere

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SYNOPSIS When her textile factory closes, Edith, a seamstress, astonishes everyone when she decides to forgo her severance package to follow her job to Morocco, where the factory has been relocated. SELECT AWARDS & NOMINATIONS What unfolds is more than a fish out of water Festival International du Film de , TIFF story, as Edith must contend not only with new Nomination: Présentations spéciales surroundings, but challenging workplace conditions and customs. Catch the Wind is REVIEW beautifully shot and elegantly composed and Sandrine Bonnaire makes her comeback with this Sandrine Bonnaire’s performance as Edith proves incandescent portrayal. that she is one the finest actresses working today. – Les Inrockuptibles Catch the Wind is presented as part of Tales of Europe, a program of Europa Cinemas and Europa This is Gaël Morel’s best film, as convincing in the International with the support of Creative Europe delicacy of his psychological approach as in his Media. analysis of a decaying social environment. – Positif

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OUR MISSION • FOCUS ON FRENCH CINEMA brings the vitality of French and francophone cinema to our community • showcases the diversity of French and francophone cultures by promoting French film as a powerful storytelling medium • offers a unique opportunity to meet with French directors, actors, and producers • provides a learning tool to teachers and students, an authentic way to convey French Culture and language 61 Merci Beaucoup From the Alliance Française of Greenwich and Focus on French Cinema

PRESENTING SPONSOR DIRECTOR SPONSORS Mon Voisin Productions Ecole Internationale de New York NFR Neighbors for Refugees Federation of Alliances The Performing Arts Center, Françaises USA Purchase College Greenwich Arts Council PI Executive SUPPORTING SPONSORS Lyceum Kennedy Putnam & Vine Organisation Internationale de la Purchase College, SUNY The Ashforth Company Francophonie Québec Government Office in Purchase College, State Boston University of New York Québec Government Office in RATPDev New York Ashforth Focus on French Cinema Ad.indd 1 2/27/18 11:13 AM Sotheby’s Royce Foundation TV5 Monde Sagax Entertainment Sorteer SPONSORS AND PARTNERS Unifrance Alliance Francaise of Westchester The Ashforth Company MEDIA PARTNERS Karen and Steve Bacon Serendipity Magazine - Main Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas at Media Sponsor Greenwich Plaza Bandsintown Breast Cancer Alliance BFM TV Cappelli Organization Canal Plus Cinemania Jen Danzi Cohen Media Group Darby and Friends Coldwell Banker Residential France - Amérique Brokerage Greenwich French Flicks Coldwell Banker Residential French Morning Brokerage Sarasota Greenwich Magazine Consulate General of Switzerland Hearst Media Services The Royce Foundation in New York News12- CT The de Lotbinière Family TV5 Monde Robert Dilworth USA21.tv Patrick Fabre WGCH Fairfield Greenwich Cheese Company FOOD AND French-American Chamber of COCKTAIL SPONSORS Commerce in New York Aux Delices French Institute Alliance BE Chocolat Française (FIAF) Belvoir fruit farms Greenwich International Film Bistro V Festival Harvest Gilles Clément Gallery L’Escale Restaurant Bar International Campaigne for Tibet Le Pain Quotidien Maison D’Alexandre Le Penguin Bistro Mission Permanente ONU Canada Le Moulin Event Planning and Mission Permanente ONU France Catering 62 Lucien George Lin Terissa Simental Flora Viale Méli-Mélo Crêperie and Juice Bar Marie-Monique Steckel Mimi Wind Mère Poulard Ginger Stickel The Yoga Center of Greenwich Nature Addicts Anchu Vidyarthy Inessa Zaleski The Olive Branch Cafe Planet Pizza Special thanks to our student INTERNS & VOLUNTEERS Putnam & Vine volunteers and all the volunteers Paola Albarincon Stella Artois that make Focus on French Karen Bacon St Geron Cinema possible. Didier Bonnefoy Thai Basil Colette Cote Volvic Natural Spring Water SILENT AUCTION Gail Covney The Avon Theatre Film Center Julie de Courtivron MANY THANKS TO... Stephen & Karen Bacon Catherine de Lotbinière Stephen & Karen Bacon Patrick Bancel Sylvie Fortin Antoine Bancharel BE Chocolat Lia Garcia Apolline Bas Donna Bunte Whole Health Lucie Godefroy Adam Birnbaum Gail & Michael Covney Mary Hardy Bistro V Crisfields Emily Isabel Antoine Blech Catherine de Lotbinière Lea Jaffe Charles Cohen Classy Groundcovers Jessica Jimenez Delamar Greenwich Harbor Design Concepts Inc Anna Jinjikhashvili Jean Doyen de Montaillou Do’s Family Salon Karin Puls Jondral Colleen deVeer Elite Airways Renee Ketcham Gerard Epelbaum Equinox Greenwich Brooke Lange Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery Sylvie Fortin Colette Lemarie Mathieu Fournet The Four Columns Inn Clement Letailleur Amélie Garin-Davet Greenwich Pilates Center Ellen Lewis Maryann Ghirardelli Sylviane Guerrier Madeleine Macora Gilles Clement Gallery Mary Hardy Leo Maniscalchi Isabelle Giordano Hozana Schuindt Photography Elana Marcus Louisa Greene Jean-Georges Restaurant Brid Mortamais Mary & Luc Hardy Caroline Kehm - Beau Voyage Marc Mortamais Aude Hesbert Travel Claire Negrin Sam Kleiner Catherine Ladnier Fereshteh Priou John Kochman La Panetiere Sylvie Roisin LCI Design Le Penguin Sylvie Sergent Antoine Le Carpentier Longchamp Margot Sosa Le Penguin Maison d’Alexandre Olivia Spencer Adeline Monzier Metro Wines Egor Subbotin Tatiana Mori Noland’s for Men Hali Traina Elizabeth Poyet Perfect Provenance Geraldine Trippitelli Wendy Reyes Putnam and Vine Maria S Viale Betsy Robertson The Salt Cave of Darien Thomas Schwarz Sephora Delphine Selles-Alvarez The Soft Idea List Incomplete. We apologize for Fabrice Sergent Two B Accessories any errors or omissions. 63 Guest Biographies

Guilhem Caillard is the Managing Director of the CINEMANIA Film Festival in Montreal celebrating its 24th edition in November. He plays an important role in film selection and the fundraising of this event. Guilhem previously worked for several European festivals, among them the Avignon Fes- tival and the Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier (CINEMED). He studied at the Université Paul Valery (Montpellier) and most recently in Film Studies at the Concordia University (). Guilhem’s specialty is “Cultural Manage- ment”; with a focus on the history of cinema. He has served as a member of the jury at major film festivals.

Natalie Fuchs was born in Germany to a German father and a French mother. Her family moved to Grasse when she was 8 years old. Natalie studied law before working as a TV series casting director. This experience confirmed her dedication to the cinematic industry. In 2003, she founded a personal development center named “Terre d’Eveil” or “land of awakening,” now managed by an association. In 2011, Natalie finally pursued her dream of producing and directing the film Kalachakra, released on September 2017 in France. Her new project is about Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Clare.

Hélène Godec is an accomplished French actress. She graduated from L’ENSATT and the Sorbonne University. She has performed in different theater productions in Paris and New York, recently in The Maids by Jean Genet at the Mama Theater, New York. Hélène has played in several film and French television series. She directs her own theater company​ ​L’Arpenteuse Géomètre​ ​ in Paris and New York that seeks to support young playwrights. Hélène teaches French theater and performance at Fordham University where she recently di- rected Roberto Zucco​ by Bernard-Marie Koltès. She also organizes the concours d’eloquence at the French Embassy, an annual competition with students from Fordham, NYU and Columbia University.

Luc Hardy is an entrepreneur, explorer, environmentalist, author, photographer and filmmaker. As a founder and main sponsor of his environ- mental organization Pax Arctica, Luc has led several scientific expeditions to remote corners of the world to raise awareness for global causes. He is the author of books: Antarctic Adventure, Greenland Impressions, Arctic Transitions and The Pursuit of Endurance. Through his media company Sagax Entertainment, Luc has produced several documentaries including, The Pursuit of Endurance – In the Footsteps of Shackleton and Arktika Incognita. He is also a co-producer of The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir, directed by Ken Scott and Tout Nous Sépare, starring Catherine Deneuve and Diane Kruger. Luc is currently developing several other film projects on environmental causes and social change issues, inspiring solutions and compelling social change.

64 Gaël Morel was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France. After acting in the André Téchiné films Les Roseaux sauvages and Loin, Morel wrote and directed Les chemins de l’oued, which won the FIPRESCI prize. His other credits as director include Le Clan, Après lui, and Notre Paradis. Catch the Wind is his latest feature film.

Noah Parker is the newly discovered actor in 2018 in Quebec cinema: he is the co-star of the feature film Ailleurs, directed by Samuel Matteau, in which he magnificently plays the role of Tévé a fragile teenager fleeing his morose existence in Quebec City to live in California. Squat is Noah’s first major role in a feature film in which he was noticed by all the critics. His acting interpretation has been described as soft, luminous and silent.

Pascal Ralite is a production manager and an actor. He studied Art History in Nanterre, France and was hired as an assistant director for Le Bal d’Ettore Scola when he was 19 years old. Le Rire de ma mère is his first long feature where he talks about subjects that he cares about such as family and childhood.

Colombe Savignac has been an assistant director for 15 years and worked with , Christian Vincent or Philippe Harel. She also directed the making of La Première étoile, Les Héritiers and Le Bureau des légendes.

Alain Zenou Passionate about history and science, he is the screenwriter of many prestigious documentaries, such as Toumaï, le nouvel Ancêtre, Second Life & Baby Mammoth Awakening; Kheops Revealed. His latest documen- tary film is Arktika Incognita produced by Luc Hardy, Sagax Entertainment, and directed by Bertrand Delapierre. His films have been broadcasted in major French and American TV channels. Some of his achievements have been broadcasted in prime time, such as Ramsès – Mysteries in the Valley of the Kings; Cape to Cape (from North Cape to Cape of Good Hope); Paris, a Capital History (4x52’).

65 Jessica Lang Dance May 5, 8pm

On this very special evening, Jessica Lang, whose choreography is “reliably sophisticated and achingly beautiful” (Chicago Tribune), will present the world premiere of a brand new work, developed on the Purchase College campus and set to the music of Tony Bennett, as The PAC celebrates it’s 40th anniversary.

Tickets: 914-251-6200 www.artscenter.org

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