2012
Guests:
Quentin Challal Actor in La Permission de Minuit, Mathieu Lalande Director, Xavier Robic Actor in Avant l'Aube
Films:
The Assault L'assaut
Director: Julien Leclercq
Screenplay: Simon Moutaïrou, Julien Leclercq
Running time: 1h 30 min
Starring: Vincent Elbaz, Gregori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier
Distributor: Screenmedia
SYNOPSIS
Saturday, December 24, 1994.
Four GIA terrorists (Algerian Islamist Group) take an Air France Airbus-300 and its 227 people on board hostage at the Algiers airport. Their intentions are unknown; they are armed and very determined. The terrorists insist their fellow fighters be set free and demand immediate take-off of the plane. Finally, after extensive diplomatic negotiations between the governments of France and Algeria and the execution of three passengers, the plane takes off and lands in Marseille at 3:33 AM on Monday, December 26.
Three characters, Thierry, a soldier with GIGN (the French SWAT team), Carole Jeanton, an ambitious technocrat, and Yahia Abdalla are central to the plot. Witnessed by 21 million TV viewers, the SWAT team attack will put an end to this unprecedented hostage taking…..but heralds the terrible events of September 11, 2001.
Free Men Les hommes libres
Director: Ismael Ferroukhi
Screenplay: Ismaël Ferroukhi / Alain-Michel Blanc
Running time: 1h 39 min
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby
Distributor: Film Movement
SYNOPSIS
1942 – Paris is occupied by Nazi Germans. A young Algerian immigrant named Younes makes his living in the black market. He is arrested by the French police and agrees to spy for them at the Paris Mosque in exchange for his freedom. The police suspects that the rector of the mosque is producing false papers for Jews and members of the French resistance. At the mosque, Younes meets Salim Halali, a singer from Algeria, who charms him with his voice and personality. The two become friends, and Younes soon finds out that Salim is Jewish. Despite the risks, Younes decides to put an end to his collaboration with the police and, little by little, turns into an ardent proponent of freedom.
Angèle and Tony Angèle et Tony
Director: Alix Delaporte
Screenplay: Alix Delaporte
Running time: 1h 27 min
Starring: Clotilde Hesme, Grégory Gadebois, Evelyne Didi
Distributor: Pyramide Distribution
SYNOPSIS
Port-en Bessin. A fishing harbor in Normandy. Angèle has some very good reasons for wanting to start a new life when she appears in Tony’s life, a fisherman-sailor, emotionally adrift since his father disappeared at sea. In spite of his desire for her, Tony remains aloof, Angèle is too beautiful, too mysterious, too disconcerting... he cannot trust her motives.
Pater
Director: Alain Cavalier
Screenplay: Alain Cavalier
Running time: 1h 45 min
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Alain Cavalier, Bernard Bureau
Distributor: Pathé Distribution
SYNOPSIS
During the course of a year, Alain Cavalier and Vincent Lindon, the filmmaker and the comedian, the president and his prime minister, have seen and filmed each other. In “Pater,” they are present in the flesh and in their collaborated fiction.
The Moon Child La permission de minuit
Director: Delphine Gleize
Screenplay: Delphine Gleize
Running time: 1h 50 min
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Quentin Challal, Caroline Proust
Distributor: Wild Bunch
SYNOPSIS
An extraordinary friendship. David at 50 years old and Romain at 13.... David, a dermatology professor and crazy about his work, has been taking care of Romain since he was 2. Afflicted by a rare genetic deficiency, Romain has to live away from daylight. He is a “moon child”. Nothing seems to be able to separate them until the day David unexpectedly gets transferred. How is he to tell Romain of his departure?
Romantics Anonymous Les émotifs anonymes
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Améris / Philippe Blasband
Running time: 1h 20 min
Starring: Isabelle Carré, Benoît Poelvoorde, Lorella Cravotta
Distributor: Tribeca Films
SYNOPSIS
Jean-René and Angélique are two hopeless romantics. He runs a chocolate factory and she is an accomplished chocolate maker, and it is their passion for chocolate that brings them together. Even though they fall in love, they do not dare reveal their emotions. Can they overcome their shyness and find happiness together?
The Night Clerk Avant l'aube
Director: Raphaël Jacoulot
Screenplay: Raphaël Jacoulot / Lise Macheboeuf
Running time: 1h 44 min
Starring: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Vincent Rottiers, Sylvie Testud , Xavier Robic
Distributor: TF1 International
SYNOPSIS
Frederic works in a large hotel in the mountain as part of his rehabilitation plan. One day, a client disappears. Frederic suspects the family who employs him, but he is fascinated by his boss and therefore chooses to protect him. Soon, his life is in danger…
Jo's Boy Le fils à Jo
Director: Philippe Guillard
Screenplay:Philippe Guillard
Running time: 1h 35 min
Starring: Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Marchal, Vincent Moscato
Distributor: Gaumont
SYNOPSIS
Jo Canavaro, grandson of a rugby legend, son of a legend, and himself a rugby legend, is raising his son Tom in a small village in southwestern France as a single parent. Much to Jo’s regret, his son’s math skills far exceed his skills on the field. Not wanting the Canavaro legend to end, he risks the disapproval of the entire village and his own son by starting a rugby team for Tom…..
Headwinds Des vents contraires
Director: Jalil Lespert
Screenplay: JalilLespert / Olivier Adam / Marion Laine
Running time: 1h 31 min
Starring: Benoît Magimel, Isabelle Carré, Antoine Duléry, Audrey Tautou
Distributor: SND Groupe M6
SYNOPSIS
Paul’s life is turned upside down the day his wife suddenly disappears. After a year of fruitless searching, Paul is a broken man, haunted by doubt and guilt. Perhaps his only chance left is to return to his roots: he moves back to his childhood town with his two children. But here, unexpected events give their own twist to this new beginning.
Unforgivable Impardonnables
Director: André Téchiné
Screenplay: André Téchiné / Mehdi Ben Attia
Running time: 1h 51 min
Starring: André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Mélanie Thierry
Distributor: Strand Releasing
SYNOPSIS
Francis arrives in Venice to write his next novel. While trying to find a space in which to work, he meets a real estate agent named Judith. She shows him an isolated house on the Ile of Saint Erasmo where they begin a life together. But Francis cannot write when he is in love.
The following summer, Francis’s daughter Alice comes to visit during her vacation. Suddenly, she disappears. Francis’s life is now in danger…
A Happy Event Un heureux événement
Director: Rémi Bezançon
Screenplay: Vanessa Portal / Rémi Bezançon
Running time: 1h 47 min
Starring: Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmai, Josiane Balasko
Distributor: Screenmedia
SYNOPSIS
“She has pushed me into a corner, driven me beyond my limits, forced me to confront the absolute: of love, of sacrifice, of tenderness, of relinquishment. She has dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn’t anyone tell me? Why doesn’t anyone talk about it?” A Happy Event is an intimate interpretation of motherhood, sincere and free of taboos.
