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Barcelone ou la mort
Idrissa Guiro, 49’ France Prod. Simbadfi lms, 2007 From a Dakar suburb flimsy boats set sail for Europe, with their passengers in danger of disappearing into the Atlantic. The local fishing has petered out and the country struggles hard to (...)
Dia dos pais (Father’s Day)
Julia Murat e Adario et Leonardo Bittencourt, 72’ Brazil, Prod. Taiga Filmes, 2008 A journey between five towns whose former prosperity has waned; a surprise journey into a family history. Sunday March 9th 6.00pm, Cinéma 1 Wednesday March (...)
Dirty Pictures (Hotel Diaries 7)
John Smith, 14’ United Kingdom/Palestine, Prod. John Smith, 2007 Episode 7 of Hotel Diaries, between Bethlehem and East Jerusalem: a hotel-room ceiling, a camera and the Palestinian territories. Saturday March 8th 9.00pm, Cinéma 1 (...)
La Frontera infinita (The Infinite Border)
Juan Manuel Sepúlveda, 90’ Mexico, Prod. Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía/FOPROCINE, 2007 Each year, hundreds of thousands of Central Americans enter Mexico illegally trying to reach the United States. At each stage of the journey, their (...)
Fronterismo
Sofie Benoot, 40’ Belgium, Prod. Sofie Benoot, 2007 Rio Bravo or Rio Grand, two names for one river, marked out in the sand a frontier between the United States and Mexico… movement and immobility, isolation and exclusion. Friday March 7th (...)
Gharsallah, God’s Sowing
Kamel Laaridhi, 55’ Tunisia/Belgium, Prod. Gsara, 2007 At the turn of the 21st century, Gharsallah died and was laid to rest in his mausoleum, in a small village in the centre of Tunisia. A saint, a righteous man, a madman or someone (...)
Glorious Exit
Kevin Merz, 75’ Switzerland, Prod. Amka Films Productions, 2007 On the death of his father, whom he hardly knew, a man leaves Los Angeles for Nigeria: how to face one’s heritage, being the eldest sibling, a mixed identity. Monday March 10th (...)
Gugara
Jacek Naglowski et Andrzej Dybczak, 70’ Poland, Prod. Centrala sp Z.o.o., 2007 An Evenki family, like many others, watch their culture become a television show and a spectacle of folk tradition. Wednesday March 12th 9.00pm, Cinéma 1 Friday (...)
Holunderblüte (Elder Blossom)
Volker Koepp, 89’ Germany, Prod. Vineta Film, 2007 Stories from the Kaliningrad region and its inhabitants: with the calamity of unemployment and the ravages of alcohol, many children are left to their own devices, in landscapes that are (...)
Invisible City
Tan Pin Pin, 60’ Singapore, Prod. Point Pictures, 2007 So what exactly is Singapore? Photographers, journalists, archaeologists, observers and researchers are trying to prevent the atrophy of memory and paint the picture of a city that (...)
John Lautner, The Desert Hot Springs Motel
Sasha Pirker, 10’ Austria/United States, Distr. Sixpackfilm, 2007 “Ten days after I stopped writing pornographic stories, I met William Burroughs…” The writer Steve Lowe bought the Desert Hot Springs motel, built in 1947 near Los Angles by the (...)
Kredens
Jacob Dammas, 27’ Poland/Denmark, Prod. Graniza, 2007 The removal of a credenza in the 60s, in Wroclaw. The search for a piece of family furniture leads Jacob to the terrible Polish spring of 68, to the repression of the régime’s opponents, (...)
Kretos Sala (Crete Island)
Oksana Buraja, 26’ Lithuania, Prod. Studija 2000, 2007 Crete exists in the snowy plains of Lithuania. Kestes and his mentor are training to reach it and live in it. Saturday March 8th 6.30pm, Cinéma 1 Friday March 14th 6.00pm, Cinéma 2 + (...)
Listener’s Tale
Arghya Basu, 76’ India, Prod. Seasongray, 2007 A journey into the history of Sikkim, from its founding myths to its vanished dynasties, from mountains to abandoned temples, from fleeting traces to half-faded paintings, from song to tale, (...)
Minot, North Dakota
Cynthia Madansky and Angelika Brudniak, 18’ United States/Austria, Prod. Madangel, 2008 What is life like when you know that 150 nuclear missiles are buried under your feet? Minot’s inhabitants talk about the invisible threat of their (...)
Moskva
Bakur Bakuradze et Dmitry Mamuliya, 35’ Russia, Prod. Salvador-D/Lemonfi lms Studio, 2007 A family sets out from Kirghizstan for Moscow in search of work. Four days in the life of illegal immigrants. The fifth day brings tragedy. Fiction (...)
Moujarad Raiha (Merely a Smell)
Maher Abi Samra, 10’ Lebanon/France, Prod. Maher Abi Samra/Les Films d’Ici, 2007 A boat heading for a Beirut under siege to evacuate foreigners. Buildings destroyed, ruins searched for victims. Darkness and light, silence and screams, all (...)
O Lar (Endgame)
Antonio Borges Correia, 82’ Portugal, Prod. Antonio Borges Correia, 2007 The residents of the Santa Catarina home for the elderly, in northern Portugal, are country folk. They don’t appreciate being alone, they chat, exchange confi dences, (...)
Podul de Flori (Flower Bridge)
Thomas Ciulei, 87’ Romania, Prod. Europolis Film, 2008 In his Moldavian village, Costica is bringing up his three kids alone: their mother has emigrated to work in Italy. Her presence is felt only through phone calls and the gifts she (...)
Querida Mara, cartas de un viaje por Patagonia (Dear Mara, Letters From a Trip Through Patagonia)
Carlos Echeverria, 88’ Argentina, Prod. Carlos Echeverria, 2007 A group of casual workers travel through Patagonia: for six months, they hire themselves out to large landowners as sheep-shearers. Some on this ‘wool road’ are the last (...)
Qian men qian
Olivier Meys, 86’ Belgium/France, Prod. Limited Adventures (Belgium), Mille et Une Films (France), 2008 Chronicle of the destruction of a downtown district in Beijing: the Olympic Games are already in preparation. Thursday March 13th (...)
Sag es mir Dienstag (Tell Me On Tuesday)
Astrid Ofner, 26’ Austria, Prod. Astrid Ofner, 2007 “You’ll tell me on Tuesday,” Franz Kafka wrote to Milena: on Tuesday he will stop off in Vienna to see her. Today, in the grain of the images, the city conveys heavy feverish waiting. Monday (...)
San (Umbrella)
Du Haibin, 93’, China, Prod. Cnex Limited, 2007 Workers, peasants, soldiers, students and trades people: five “social groups” in Chinese society, officially so-defined since the 1950s. Present- day situations and scenes reveal the bare (...)
Sentinela
Afonso Nunes, 15’ Brazil, Prod. Orapronobis Filmes, 2007 In the Brazilian countryside, prayers, song and visits ritualise the passage from life to death. The vigil watches over the peace of the dying. Monday March 10th 8.30pm, Cinéma 1 (...)
Wadley
Matias Meyer, 56’ Mexico, Prod. Axolote Cine, 2008 A man walks through the desert in search of peyotl. Between a Castaneda-like experience, fear and disgust, what the actor embodies for the filmmaker is, above all, the experience of (...)
White Horse
Maryann Deleo et Christophe Bisson, 18’ United States, Prod. DTVD, 2007 Maxim was evacuated from Prypiat after the Chernobyl disaster. He returns twenty years later searching for traces of his childhood among the apartment blocks of a ghost (...)
Wollis Paradies (Wolli in Paradise)
Gerd Kroske, 60’ Germany, Prod. Realistfilm, 2007 One night and one day with Wolli in a Hamburg suburb. Former brothel manager and porn cinema manager, he describes the reality of a time buried in clichés, the horror of alienation and the (...)
Yu
Manon Ott, 20’ France, Prod. Université d’Évry, 2007 A young Burmese woman seeks asylum in France: waiting, uncertainty, administrative procedures, and dreams intermingle between yesterday and “soon”. Monday March 10th 13.00pm, Petite Salle + (...)