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French Selection
C’est beau les vacances !
Anna Zisman, 52’ Prod. Avenue B Production, 2007 Summer: a holiday cottage in Normandy. The farming couple who built it carefully stage for their guests the dream holiday and the myth of a stay in the country. Friday March 7th 16h, Cinéma (...)
Le Chamane, son neveu et le capitaine
Pierre Boccanfuso, 90’ Prod. Gédéon Programmes, 2007 Palawan Island in the Philippines: Medsinu succeeds his father as shaman, in a community pressured by the modern world. His nephew Issad falls ill and can no longer work the land, so joins (...)
L’Empreinte
Guillaume Bordier, 47’ Prod. Guillaume Bordier, 2007 A bakery in Herat in Afghanistan. Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, a dozen employees and apprentices repeat the same gestures, while the camera raises questions about the outside (...)
En France
Benjamin Serero, 20’ Prod. Dublin Films, 2007 Eight teenagers, serious, mischievous, selfportraits and stories of immigration. Monday March 10th 15h, Petite Salle Wednesday March 12th 18h30, Cinéma 1 + Debate Monday March 17th 14h30, (...)
En permanence
Sylvain Bouttet, 80’ Prod. Aligal/France 3 Ouest, 2007 Social workers in Guingamp: appointments, on-duty hours, meetings and visits non-stop. The portrait of a profession, a system and a world where nothing is sure, where everyone is (...)
L’Initiation
François-Xavier Drouet et Boris Carré, 62’ Prod. Superlux, 2007 Intensive preparation for business school entrance exams: learn how to be “natural” rather than “spontaneous”, know how to sell yourself to become a better seller, play at being (...)
Le Monologue de la muette
Khady Sylla et Charlie Van Damme, 45’ Prod. Athénaïse, 2008 To finally hear the voices of the ‘little maids’ working in wealthy Dakar families, their dreams and their anger. Friday March 7th 16h, Cinéma 1 Sunday March 9th 14h, Petite Salle + (...)
Portrait of a Wedding Day (detail)
Alix Didrich, 7’ Prod. Zadig Productions, 2007 It is not so easy to take the wedding photo. Saturday March 8th 14h, Cinéma 1 Wednesday March 12th 16h15, Cinéma 2 + Debate Thursday March 13th 11h, Centre Wallonie (...)
Section enfants sauvages
Laurence Doumic Roux et Éric Tachin, 90’ Prod. Cine-on/Image’in, 2007 Olivier decides to take the students in his “adapted teaching” class into the adventure of theatre, helped by the actor David. A year of work, doubt, invention, renunciation (...)
Tout l’or du monde
Robert Nugent, 83’ Prod. Trans Europe Film, 2007 A gold-mining multinational sets up its readymade factory in a remote region of Guinea. The villagers comment on the radical changes in their lives and environment. Monday March 10th 14h15, (...)
Trois faces
Érik Bullot, 46’ Prod. Capricci Films, 2007 Barcelona, Genoa and Marseilles: bilingualism, legislation on foreigners and recent urban development raise questions on the concept of frontiers. Sunday March 9th 14h, Cinéma 1 Thursday March (...)
Water Buffalo
Christelle Lheureux, 33’ Prod. Third Home Films, 2007 Two stories intertwine. One is that of a TV soap opera, the other is about a young woman watching the programme at home in Saigon. The TV story of a child in search of his father (...)