2011
Guests:
Mia Hansen-Love - Director/Screenwriter in Le Père de mes Enfants, Lolita Chammah - Actress in Copacabana, Marc Esposito - Director/Screenwriter in Mon Pote
Films:
Hadewijch
Director:Bruno Dumont
Starring: Julie Sokolowski , Karl Sarafidis , Yassine Salim
Running Time : 1h 45min
Distributor:Tadrart Films IFC
SYNOPSIS
Chocked and scandalized by the blind and ecstatic faith of Hadewijch, a young novice, the mother superior expells her from the convent. Hadewijch thus returns to being Céline, a young parisian daughter of a diplomat. Her passionate love for God, her fury and her encounter with Yassine and Nassir, lead her – between grace and folly – onto a perilous path.
Le père de mes enfants Father of my children
Director: Mia Hansen-Love
Screenplay: Mia Hansen-Love, Clémentine Schaeffer
Starring: Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing
Running Time : 1h 50 min
Distributor: Les Films du Losange IFC
SYNOPSIS
Grégoire Canvel has it all. A wife whom he loves, three delightful children and a job he adores. He is a film producer. Uncovering new talents and shouldering independent projects that are dear to him and true to his idea of filmmaking, are his reasons for living. Grégoire is fulfilled and devotes all his time and energy to his work. Hyperactive, he withdraws from the intensity of his job only on weekends which he spends with his family in the country. These are the few precious retreats into tranquility that he allows himself. Charismatic and successful, Grégoire inspires everyone and appears invincible. However, his production company is flailing. Too many productions, too many risks… Cracks are fissuring its structure from all sides. But Grégoire perseveres at all costs and until everything falls apart : only then is he forced to face the reality of his failure. And soon, secretly, a deep despair engulfs his entire existence and sense of self.
Copacabana
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Lolita Chammah, Aure Atika
Running Time : 1h 45 min
Distributor: Mars Films
SYNOPSIS
Happy-go-lucky Babou never concerned herself much with social responsibilities: professional or personal ones. But after realizing that her own daughter is too ashamed of her to invite her to her wedding, she decides to reshape her life. She takes a job as a real estate agent on the Belgian seaside town Ostende, in the winter season. In this uncanny setting, Babou struggles to keep her life on track and her frivolous ways at bay, in order to regain her daughter’s respect and especially to give her daughter the wedding gift she deserves.
Chicas
Director: Yasmina Reza
Screenplay: Yasmina Reza
Starring: André Dussollier, Emmanuelle Seigner, Carmen Maura
Running Time : 1h 24min
Distributor: UGC Distribution
SYNOPSIS
Pilar, Spanish and a widow, raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the super of her building, She prepares a lunch in order to introduce him to her daughters : What ought to have been a happy and momentous occasion quickly turns into a family crisis.
Illégal
Director: Olivier Masset-Depasse
Screenplay: Olivier Masset-Depasse
Starring: Anne Coesens, Esse Lawson, Alexandre Golntcharov
Running Time : 1h 35 min
Distributor: Haut et Court Film Movement
SYNOPSIS
Tania and her fourteen year old son Ivan are Russians who have been living as clandestine refugees in Belgium for eight years. Constantly on alert, Tania dreads police checks until the day when she is arrested. Mother and son are then separated and Tania is placed in a detention center. From then on, she is prepared to do anything, even face expulsion, to find her son.
Mon pote My Buddy
Director: Marc Esposito
Screenplay: Marc Esposito, Jean-Luc Levesque, Marie Maurin
Starring: Edouard Baer, Benoît Magimel, Atmen Kélif
Running Time : 1h 45 min
Distributor: Mars Distribution
SYNOPSIS
Victor is the editor-in-chief of an automobile magazine. One day he goes to speak about his job in a prison. There he meets Bruno, former car thief and avid reader of his magazine who asks him to hire him. Victor accepts and an unusual friendship builds between the two men…
Un homme qui crie A Screaming Man
Director: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Screenplay: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Starring: Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma, Emile Abossolo M'Bo
Running Time : 1h 32 min
Distributor: Pyramide Distribution Film Movement
SYNOPSIS
Chad , today. Adam is in his sixties. Once a swimming champion, he is now working as a life guard in a luxurious hotel in N'Djamena. When the hotel is bought out by Chinese investors, he must hand over his position to his son Abdel, something he considers a social denigration. The country is on the verge of civil war and militarized rebels are threatening to overthrow the governing power. In response, the government calls on its population to hand over money or children of age to fight the assailants as part of the “war effort”. Adam is thus constantly harassed by his local chief officer to contribute. Only Adam has no money, he just has his son.
Solutions locales pour un désordre global Think global, Act rural
Director: Coline Serreau
Running Time : 1h 53min
Distributor: Memento Films Distribution
SYNOPSIS
"Disaster films have been done before, and they have certainly served an important purpose, but now we must focus on the solutions that are available, we must hear the thoughts of farmers on the question, those of philosophers and economists who, while explaining why our model of society has sunk into ecological, financial and political ruin, are inventing and experimenting with alternatives.” - Coline Serreau.
L'illusionniste The Illusionist
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Starring: Jean-Claude Donda, Edith Rankin
Running Time: 1h 20min
Distributor: Pathé Distribution
SYNOPSIS
At the end of the fifty’s, a revolutionary wave is crashing through the world of music-hall entertainment : Rock & roll is witnessing an unprecedented success and its young idols are attracting hysterical crowds everywhere. Meanwhile, the traditional numbers of acrobats, jugglers, ventriloquists are henceforth considered archaic. Our hero, the illusionist is forced to realize that he now belongs to an antiquated league of artists threatened with extinction. The offer of contracts become more seldom and as such he is obliged to abandon the ruthless venues of Paris and London for the more hospitable shores of Edinburgh. There he meets Alice, a young innocent girl, mesmerized by his craft, who will change his life forever.
La dernière fugue The Last Escape
Director: Léa Pool
Starring: Andrée Lachapelle, Jacques Godin, Yves Jacques
Running Time : 1h 30min
Distributor: Films Seville
SYNOPSIS
It is Christmas, and the Levesque family have come together for their traditional holiday reunion. Inescapably, the subject on everyone’s mind is the family patriarch’s rapidly advancing case of Alzheimer’s and the considerably diminished physical state he is reduced to. In the midst of the quarrels, André, his eldest son and Sam, his grand-son consider the option of releasing him from his suffering and allowing him to enjoy what life he has left.
Le bruit des glaçons The Clink of Ice
Director: Bertrand Blier
Screenplay: Bertrand Blier
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Albert Dupontel, Anne Alvaro
Running Time : 1h 27 min
Distributor: Wild Bunch Distribution
SYNOPSIS
This is the story of a man who is visited by his cancer. “Hello, says the cancer, I am your cancer. I thought it might not be such a bad idea to get to know one another…"
Je n'ai rien oublié Small World
Director: Bruno Chiche
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Alexandra Maria Lara, Niels Arestrup, Nathalie Baye
Distributor: Kinology, Elephant Story
SYNOPSIS
Conrad Lang is 60 and has got the Alzheimer’s disease. He is in the service of Senn family since his early childhood. As his disease worsens, he finds comfort in his childhood memories and relates them to Simone, the young wife of the Senn’s heir. But these memories do not match with the official history of the family, as presented by the head of the family, Elvira.
