Cinéma du réel 32rd edition, March 18-30 2010

Since it was created 31 years ago, the Cinéma du Réel has become the outstanding documentary film festival in France. Open to a wide diversity of writing, forms and ideas, it now gathers a faithful, curious and broad-based public.
Festival screening at: the Centre Pompidou, the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, the MK2 Beaubourg film theatre and several other theatres in the Ile-de-France area.

The 2010 Cinéma du réel programme…

International Competition / First Films / French Panorama
Some forty international and French films that have mostly never been screened, with particular focus on the films’ documentary writing and ethics. Encounters and debates with the invited filmmakers.
And this year for the first time, the First Films section, focusing exclusively on first works.

International Competition
1428 Haibin Du (China)
48 Susana de Sousa Dias (Portugal)
Achrey Haso (Closure) Anat Even (Israel)
Alamar (To the Sea) dPedro Gonzalez Rubio (Mexico)
La Bocca del lupo Pietro Marcello (Italy)
Contre-jour Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller (Germany)
Elie et nous Sophie Bredier (France)
Les Films rêvés Eric Pauwels (Belgium)
Happy End Szymon Zaleski (Belgium-France)
Ideal Match Xiaoxing Cheng (China- France)
Let Each One Go Where He May Ben Russell (United States-Surinam)
Memo mori Emily Richardson (Great Britain)
The Passion According to the Polish Community of Pruchnik Monika Muskala and Andreas Horvath (Austria)
Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo (I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You) Marcelo Gomes and Karim Aïnouz (Brazil)
Vostrau Belarus (Island Belarus) Victor Asliuk (Belarus)
Vous êtes servis Jorge Léon (Belgium)

First Films
Atlantiques Mati Diop (France)
Au nom du Père, de tous, du ciel Marie-Violaine Brincard (France)
Le Bateau du père (Father’s Boat) Clémence Hébert (France- Belgium)
Cet endroit c’est l’Iran, Anonymous
Dames en attente Dieudo Hamadi and Divita Wa Lusala (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Le Collier et la Perle Mamadou Sellou Diallo (France-Senegal)
Custodi di guerra (Gatekeepers of war) Zijad Ibrahimovic (Switzerland)
Grandmother Yuki Kawamura (Japan-France)
Ici-bas (Here Below) Comes Chahbazian (Belgium)
Last Train Home Lixin Fan (Canada)
Peter in Radioland Johanna Wagner (Great Britain)
Port of Memory Kamal Aljafari (France)
La Quemadura (Burn) René Ballesteros (Chile)
Ren jian tong hua (School) Wei Tie (China)
Sanya i vorobey (Sanya and Sparrow) Andrey Gryazev (Russia)
Tage des Regens (Days of Rain) Andreas Hartmann (Germany)
To Shoot an Elephant Alberto Arce and Mohammad Rujailah (Spain)

French Panorama
A ciel ouvert Inès Compan (France)
Acqua in bocca Pascale Thirode (France)
Conversations de salon II Danielle Arbid (France)
Les Dragons n’existent pas Guillaume Massart (France)
Gauguin à Tahiti et aux Marquises Richard Dindo (France)
In Purgatorio Giovanni Cioni (Italy-France)
Je m’appelle Garance Jean-Patrick Lebel (France)
Je suis japonais Mathias Gokalp (France)
K O R Joanna Grudzinska (Belgium-France)
Koyamaru, l’Hiver et le Printemps Jean-Michel Alberola (France)
Marguerite et le Dragon Raphaëlle Paupert-Borne and Jean Laube (France)
Le Miroir aux alouettes Amalia Escriva (France)
Mourir ? Plutôt crever ! Stéphane Mercurio (France)
Ranger les photos Dominique Cabrera and Laurent Roth (France)
Terre d’usage Sophie Bruneau and Marc-Antoine Roudil (Belgium-France)

The Dedication: Albert Maysles
Revisiting the works of Albert Maysles, a landmark figure of the 1960s’ American direct cinema and the musical documentary (with his late brother, David). This tremendously vivacious 83-year-old will propose a retrospective based on the first part of his work, as well as a master class.

Both of us
Both of us plunges us into the creative process of filmmakers working in tandem, in pairs, in partnership, in couples. We take a look at how various individual films are made and try to understand how this singular, yet double, entity comes to light in their filmmaking. With films by Yervant Gianikian/Angela Ricci-Lucchi, Jean-Luc Godard/Anne-Marie Miéville, Yann Le Masson/Bénédicte Deswarte, Raymonde Carasco/Régis Hébraud.

Exploring Documentary – forms of film pamphlets
This year Exploring Documentary focuses on a subversive film form that is all too little known, the film pamphlet.

Music in motion
A programming built around several major innovative works that explore the relationship between the documentary, music and the human body. How to film music, the myth of the singer, the stage or act of creation... With films by Amos Gitai (A Brand New Day), Dan Graham (Rock my Religion), Derek Jarman with his clips, Peter Whitehead (Pink Floyd London ‘66-67) or Mathieu Boogaerts (Le Journal vidéo de Michel).

Icarus the filmmaker (or the story of the eye’s vertical movement)
The theme of this seminar is the history of the aerial view from photography to satellite images, including cinema.

Workshop with Xiaolu Guo
This young Chinese filmmaker and author lives in the UK (Golden Leopard at the last Locarno film festival). In her works horizons broaden and different creative fields meet up. The film redefines its own geography, changes the vocabulary, and oscillates between fiction, documentary and literature.

>>> And also
The filmmakers’ workshop: Marcel Hanoun / Michel Khleifi, news from our filmmaker friends, a children’s afternoon documentary party, a plunge into the festival’s memory, professional days, screenings on reruns and re-editions of rare films, workshops for schoolchildren, daily discussions-encounters, video installations…

Artistic Director : Javier Packer-Comyn

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