feature films as i open my eyes by Leyla Bouzid VENICE DAYS 2015 / TIFF 2015 WITH BAYA MEDHAFFAR, GHALIA BEN ALI Tunis, Summer of 2010, a few months before the Revolution... As Ben Ali’s government nears the end, Farah, an eighteen-year-old girl, joins “Joujma”, a political rock band. In a night-time Tunis, she sings, drinks, discovers love and protest, all against the will of Hayet, her mother, who knows Tunisia and its taboos. But in her love life as on stage, Farah goes further and further, without NEW TITLES suspecting the danger of a regime that watches and infiltrates her privacy... PRODUCTION: BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS - PROPAGANDA PRODUCTIONS - HELICOTRONC FRANCE - TUNISIA - BELGIUM / HD / 2015 heatwave by Raphaël Jacoulot WITH JEAN-PIERRE DARROUSSIN, GRÉGORY GADEBOIS, KARIM LEKLOU, CAROLE FRANCK 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... NEW TITLES PRODUCTION: TS PRODUCTIONS - VERSUS PRODUCTION FRANCE - BELGIUM / 102’ / HD / 2015 phantom boy by Alain Gagnol & Jean-Loup Felicioli 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. They are forced to look after Marie, a willful journalist who goes in search of the crook and whom Alex secretly has a crush on. When Marie falls prey to the gangster, our duo has to wield all their powers to NEW TITLES find her, and save New York from destruction. PRODUCTION: FOLIMAGE - LUNANIME FRANCE - BELGIUM / 84’ / 2015 simon by Eric Martin & Emmanuel Causse MONTREAL 2015 WITH ZACHARIE CHASSERIAUD, CORINNE MASIERO, GUSTAVE KERVERN My name is Simon. I’m 17 years old and live in the suburbs in the middle of rapeseed fields. Two years ago, fate struck, like an airliner crashing into a house. I’ve experienced what none of the unluckiest Marvel heroes have suffered. And yet I’m just a normal teenager, with no super power. NEW TITLES PRODUCTION: 3B PRODUCTIONS FRANCE / HD / 2015 chorus by François Delisle SUNDANCE 2015 / BERLINALE 2015 WITH SÉBASTIEN RICARD, FANNY MALLETTE, GENEVIÈVE BUJOLD, PIERRE CURZI A separate couple meet again after ten years when we found the body of their missing son. During their forced reunion, they both handle the death of their child in their own way. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they haltingly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death and even the possibility of reconciliation. Chorus is a love story that emerges from NEW TITLES mourning and leads to two survivors clinging to each other as if to heal the deepest cut of all. PRODUCTION: FILMS 53/12 CANA DA / 96’ / HD / 2015 the law by Christian Faure WITH EMMANUELLE DEVOS, LORANT DEUTSCH, FLORE BONAVENTURA 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. LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY PRODUCTION: K’IEN PRODUCTIONS FRANCE / 90’ / HD / 2015 zouzou by Blandine Lenoir WITH NANOU GARCIA, LAURE CALAMY, PHILIPPE REBBOT Solange is pleased to welcome her three daughters Agathe, Marie and Lucie for a few days. She has great news for them, she is in love. But the three women are struggling to imagine their 60-year-old mother in the arms of a man... Especially as Agathe’s teenage daughter is caught in the act of making love upstairs, certainly for the first time. Talking about sexuality in family is not so simple. LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY PRODUCTION: LOCAL FILMS FRANCE / 80’ / HD / 2014 melody by Bernard Bellefroid SPECIAL MENTION OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY / BEST ACTRESSES - MONTREAL 2014 AUDIENCE AWARD - NAMUR 2014 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. LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY PRODUCTION: ARTÉMIS PRODUCTIONS - SAMSA FILM - LIAISON CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE - .MILLE ET UNE. FILMS BELGIUM - LUXEMBOURG - FRANCE / 94’ / HD / 2014 murder in pacot by Raoul Peck BERLINALE 2015 / TIFF 2014 WITH ALEX DESCAS, AYO, THIBAULT VINÇON, LOVELY KERMONDE FIFI After the terrible January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, an intellectual bourgeois couple decide to rent the remaining habitable part of their villa to “Alex”, a high-level foreign relief worker, who brings with him the ambitious Andrémise, a 17-year-old Haitian girl of modest background. Now the couple, strained by the loss of their social position, their ideals, their LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY dreams and desires, must face this toxic intrusion. PRODUCTION: VELVET FILM - FIGUIER PRODUCTION - APE & BJØRN HAITI - FRANCE - NORWAY / 130’ / HD / 2014 ice forest by Claudio Noce ROME 2014 / TOKYO 2014 WITH EMIR KUSTURICA, KSENIA RAPPOPORT, DOMENICO DIELE, ADRIANO GIANNINI A storm is about to rage in a small village in the Alps and Pietro, a young specialized technician, arrives to repair a failure at the high altitude power plant, where he suddenly faces a very strange disappearance. Pietro then clashes with two brothers that live and work in the area. As soon as he understands the origin of the secrets hidden in the heart of the valley, tensions explode and LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY distorting mirrors make no one immune from suspicion, not even Lana, the bear expert zoologist. PRODUCTION: ASCENT FILM - RAI CINEMA ITALY / 100’ / HD / 2014 above the clouds by Pepe Diokno TOKYO 2014 WITH PEPE SMITH, RURU MADRID After his parents’ death, 15-year-old Andy is forced to live with his estranged grandfather, in the cold northern parts of the Philippines. Andy becomes withdrawn and isolated and nobody can get through to him. One day, his grandfather decides to take him to a beautiful mountain where his parents used to go. Tensions rise on their overnight hike, but through this journey, LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY they start to come to terms with their grief. PRODUCTION: EPICMEDIA - UNLIMITED THE PHILIPPINES - FRANCE / 87’ / HD / 2014 by Martin Provost violette AUDIENCE AWARD - CINEMANIA 2013 / TIFF 2013 WITH EMMANUELLE DEVOS, SANDRINE KIBERLAIN, OLIVIER GOURMET 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 LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY Simone’s conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer. PRODUCTION: TS PRODUCTIONS - FRANCE 3 CINEMA - CLIMAX FILMS FRANCE - BELGIUM / 139’ / HD / 2013 gare du nord by Claire Simon LOCARNO 2013 / ROTTERDAM 2014 WITH NICOLE GARCIA, REDA KATEB, FRANÇOIS DAMIENS Paris, the Gare du Nord, anything can come along, even trains. Like the thousands of lives that intersect at the station, Ismaël, Mathilde, Sacha and Joan are going to meet there. The station is a world apart, frequented by everyone: the French, immigrants, emigrants, travellers, and LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY ghosts. It’s an intersection where each life passes quickly and vanishes. PRODUCTION: LES FILMS D’ICI FRANCE / 119’ / HD / 2013 tenderness by Marion Hänsel ROTTERDAM 2014 WITH OLIVIER GOURMET, MARILYNE CANTO, ADRIEN JOLIVET, SERGI LOPEZ A couple, separated for the past 15 years, find themselves together again for the duration of a two day journey to go and get their son, hospitalized in another country after a serious ski accident. What do they still feel for one another, indifference, rancor, jealousy? Or perhaps complicity, friendship and, who knows, love? LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY PRODUCTION: MAN’S FILMS PRODUCTIONS - A.S.A.P FILMS BELGIUM - FRANCE / 80’ / HD / 2013 just like a woman by Rachid Bouchareb WITH SIENNA MILLER, GOLSHIFTEH FARAHANI, ROSCHDY ZEM 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. LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY PRODUCTION: 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 berthe morisot by Caroline Champetier WITH MARINE DELTERME, ALICE BUTAUD, MALIK ZIDI 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... LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY PRODUCTION: K’IEN PRODUCTIONS FRANCE / 95’ / HD / 2012 almayer's folly by Chantal Akerman OUT OF COMPETITION - VENICE 2011 MASTERS - TORONTO 2011 WITH STANISLAS MERHAR, AURORA MARION, MARC BARBÉ Adapted from the novel by Joseph Conrad. Somewhere in South-East Asia, in a little lost village on a wide and turbulent river, a European LIBRARY HITS LIBRARY man clings to his pipe dreams out of love for his daughter.