DOCUMENTARIES & FEATURE FILMS / FALL - WINTER 2016

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BERNADETTE LAFONT, AND GOD CREATEDTHE FREE WOMAN by Esther Hoffenberg

MILONGUEROS by Bernard Louargant

RAOUL RUIZ, DRAMA AGAINST IGNORANCE! by Alejandra Rojo

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey.

The milonguero is a night creature, who lives mainly after sundown in the milongas, the lairs of tango. With the life stories of the milongueros of Buenos Aires, the film highlights the social and cultural facets of a dance phenomenon.

Since filmmaker Raoul Ruiz’s death in 2011, many tributes and retrospectives of his work have been organized around the world. Born in South Chile, member of Allende’s government, and then exiled in France, Raoul Ruiz had many lives. This documentary, made of film extracts, interviews and testimonies, depicts the life of one of the greatest directors of the 20th century.

PRODUCTION: ARTE FRANCE - LAPSUS - INTHEMOOD - INAFRANCE / 65’ / HD / 2016

PRODUCTION: GÉNÉRATION VIDÉOFRANCE / 54’ / HD / 2015

PRODUCTION: TS PRODUCTIONSFRANCE / 63’ / HD / 2016

Typography is at the heart of our contemporary culture. The film plunges us into the “typographic cauldron” of the great modern metropolis. We are taken on safaris through some of the great European cities by typographers who will decipher for us the “jungle” of typefaces swarming all around us.

Heart of Glass is a journey. A road trip through several countries (USA, UK, The Netherlands, France) on two continents in pursuit of a story. The story of a young glass blower with a singular talent: Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert. The film follows him in his daily life - working in the studio and on the road - and reveals how passion can undo a tragic fate.

PRODUCTION: LES FILMS D’ICIFRANCE / 8 X 6’ / HD / 2016

PRODUCTION: MARTY EST UNE ENTREPRISEFRANCE / 70’ / HD / 2016

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TYPE HUNTERS by Thomas Sipp

HEART OF GLASS by Jérôme de Gerlache

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QUEER PALM 2016

OFFICIAL SELECTION - CANNES 2016 / NYFF 2016 / IDFA 2016

HISSEIN HABRE, A CHADIAN TRAGEDY by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

THE LIVES OF THERESE by Sébastien Lifshitz

In 2013, former Chadian dictator Hissein Habré’s arrest in Senegal marked the end of a long combat for the survivors of his regime. Accompanied by the Chairman of the Association of the Victims of the Hissein Habré Regime, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun goes to meet those who survived this tragedy and who still bear the scars of the horror in their flesh and in their souls. Through their courage and determination, the victims accomplish an unprecedented feat in the history of Africa: that of bringing a Head of State to trial.

Thérèse Clerc is one of France’s fiercest activists. From abortion rights to sexual equality to homosexual rights, she has fought every battle. With the knowledge that she is dying from an incurable illness, she decides to give a tender and lucid last look at what was her life, her battles and her loves.

PRODUCTION: PILI FILMS - GOÏ-GOÏ PRODUCTIONSFRANCE- CHAD / 82’ / HD / 2016

PRODUCTION: AGAT FILMS & CIEFRANCE / 55’ / HD / 2016

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VANGELO by Pippo Delbono

MRS B. A NORTH-KOREAN WOMAN by Jero Yun

Pippo, a theatre director, travels to a centre where refugees come to seek asylum, and shares their everyday lives, in which they are suspended between painful memories and an uncertain future. Slowly but surely, the refugees open up to the director, telling him their stories. Some of these feature in the film, others remain secret. And in the end, the idea of staging the Gospel takes shape through the lives of these people, the inevitable protagonists of a new age.

While illegally leaving North Korea, Mrs. B. is sold by her smugglers to a Chinese farmer. She becomes a smuggler herself and engages in a struggle to reunite with her sons. But the Intelligence Service gets involved…

PRODUCTION: STEMAL ENTERTAINMENT - RAI CINEMA - VENTURA FILM - SNAPORAZVEREIN - LES FILMS DU FLEUVE - ARTE FRANCE - LA LUCARNEITALY - SWITZERLAND - BELGIUM - FRANCE / 85’ / HD / 2016

PRODUCTION: ZORBA PRODUCTIONS & SU:MFRANCE - SOUTH KOREA / 70’ / HD / 2016

ACID - CANNES 2016BEST DOC - ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL 2016

SPECIAL EVENT - VENICE DAYS 2016

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Eight former Lebanese detainees recall the years they spent in Syria’s notorious Tadmor Prison. There, the systematic torture has just one goal: the physical and psychological destruction of the detainees. In Tadmor, the men tell a story of shared suffering. Yet each man has a unique perspective and a particular set of experiences; only he knows the secret to his own survival. In Tadmor, the men reenact their narratives physically, as words cannot fully describe the torture, pain, fear and humiliation they experienced. Tadmor tackles the issue of human capacities in the face of barbarism, resistance and termination. The film is an ode to the human ability to survive. A story of hope and survival.

PRODUCTION: UMAM PRODUCTIONS - LES FILMS DE L’ETRANGER - GOLDENEGG PRODUCTIONLEBANON - FRANCE - SWITZERLAND - QATAR - U.A.E. / 103’ / HD / 2016

TADMOR by Monika Borgmann & Lokman SlimVISION DU RÉEL 2016 - BEST SWISS FILM / INTERNATIONAL JURY SPECIAL MENTION

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NAME ID: FIDEL CASTRO by Axel Ramonet

July 26th, 2003 was the fiftieth anniversary of the attack on Moncada, an attack in which Fidel Castro participated and the event that marked the official beginning of the Cuban revolution. To celebrate the occasion, Fidel Castro agreed to an autobiography in the form of filmed interviews and archives with the journalist Ignacio Ramonet, director of Le Monde Diplomatique; he agreed to look back over his fifty years in power.

PRODUCTION: TEMPS NOIRFRANCE / 52’ & 7 X 52’

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THE FORGOTTEN BOYS OF BRAZIL by Belisario Franca

The film follows a historian’s investigation about bricks branded with the swastika, which were found in rural São Paulo. The historian arrived at a frightening fact: Brazilian Nazis took fifty black boys from an orphanage in Rio de Janeiro to the ranch where the bricks were found. The boys were made slaves by a family that was part of the cream of the crop of the political and economic oligarchy in early 20th century Brazil. With the fall of Hitler, the family aborted the project and left the boys to their own devices. The film follows the life of two survivors, Aloísio Silva and Argemiro Santos, who are willing to share their stories for the first time.

PRODUCTION: ELO COMPANYBRAZIL / 80’ & 52’ / HD / 2015-2016

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VERY EPIGENETIC: THE GAME OF GENES by Noak Carrau

Six stories tell us why our genes are not enough to predict our destiny. Researchers explain how our DNA profiles change over the course of life. Epigenetics lead the changes within our cellular factory, depending on the environment, food, stress. And just like that, molecular biology becomes science fiction: heart and brain rejuvenation experiments, organ reconstruction, delay of the aging process...

PRODUCTION: L’HEURE BLEUE PRODUCTIONSFRANCE / 6 X 6’ / HD / 2016

DYNAMIC SALT by Jérôme-Cécil Auffret

Could we get all our energy needs from sea water and the salt it contains? Are we to witness a time when salt will power our engines and factories, and light up our cities? This documentary explores the latest research on sea water and the way scientists all over the world are working on “Blue Energy”. This research could bring about a major change in our time...

PRODUCTION: ALTO MEDIAFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2015

EMMY AWARD DIRECTOR

EVERYTHING’S UNDER CONTROL by Werner Boote

Facebook, Amazon and Google provide us with around the clock access to the convinient digital world! Surveillance cameras on the streets take care of our security. But who actually collects our fingerprints, iris scans, online shopping preferences, and social media posting? Don´t we care about our privacy anymore? In his unique charming and curious way filmmaker Werner Boote travels around the world (USA, UK, China, Hong Kong, Austria, Cuba) to explore the “brave new world” of total control.

PRODUCTION: NGF GEYRHALTERFILMAUSTRIA / 93’ / HD / 2015

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ROTTERDAM 2016

INSIDE THE MIND OF FAVELA FUNK by Fleur Beemster & Elise Roodenburg

Inside the Mind of Favela Funk is a documentary about love and relationships in the world of the extremely popular favela funk: pornographic music from Rio de Janeiro’s deprived neighborhoods. The documentary shows the perspective of the favela youth and aims to find the relation between the favela funk lyrics and their personal lives, dominated by a lawless subculture of drug gangs, violence and sex.

PRODUCTION: FLEUR BEEMSTER & ELISE ROODENBURGTHE NETHERLANDS / 68’ / HD / 2015 - 2016

Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Lebron James… Nowadays, the most fashionable heroes of pop culture are black men. Their love of style is not only a status symbol or a vapid superficial trend, it is rooted in a deep American cultural history, as flamboyant as it is political, that of Black Dandyism. This movement recalls more than a century of cultural adventures, at the crossroads of fashion, arts and major social issues.

PRODUCTION: LA GROSSE BOULEFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2015

BLACK DANDY, A POLITICAL BEAUTY

by Ariel Wizman & Laurent Lunetta

PACO DE LUCIA: A JOURNEY by Francisco Sánchez Varela

A lively chronicle of the career of the brilliant Andalusian guitarist Paco de Lucía. All the way from the first time the penniless young Paco picked up a guitar in his birth city of Algeciras to the creation of his final album Canción Andaluza, the film covers a lifelong journey of musical discovery and how Paco de Lucía conquered the world by pushing the boundaries of traditional flamenco.

PRODUCTION: ZIGURRAT FILMSSPAIN / 92’ / HD / 2014

GOYA AWARDS 2015 - BEST DOCUMENTARY FILMIDFA 2014 - OFFICIAL SELECTIONSAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2014 - OFFICIAL SELECTION

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Rock star chefs, trendy foodies and gastronomy lovers… They have taken over the food on our plates. This is the story of a generation radically changing the notion we have of gastronomy - lighter, more fun, spicy and sometimes surprising. The story of a change in attitudes, sudden and radical, which made a practice still considered as bourgeois and stuffy, a glamorous and desirable movement. From Paris to Copenhagen, from avant-garde restaurants to street food festivals, the New Foodies are at the forefront of a broader awareness of the importance of “healthy” food, in every sense of the word.

PRODUCTION: EX NIHILOFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2014

L'AMOUR FOOD (THE NEW FOODIES) by Olivier Joyard

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TRUE TO TYPE! by Thomas Sipp & Mariannick Bellot

Every day, out in the street, at the office or in our homes, we are confronted with thousands of letters in different typefaces. We read them, we write them, we send them. These “types” are familiar strangers we rub shoulders with every day without knowing it. This series shows how each one has its roots in the changes in printing techniques, the arts, the mass communication and advertising of its time. It presents the often eccentric and obsessive personalities of their creators - sculptors, painters, historians and typographers - who devoted years of their lives to designing characters.

PRODUCTION: LES FILMS D’ICIFRANCE / 12 X 2’30 / HD / 2014

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DEMOCRACY by David Bernet

Democracy offers an insight into a hidden world of political struggle for new data protection legislation in the European Union. Euro-MP Jan Philipp Albrecht and EU-Commissioner Viviane Reding attempt the supposedly impossible. They take on a hard-edged apparatus of political power, in which intrigue, success and failure are frequent bedfellows. After two and a half years following the legislative process, the documentary brings complex power structures to life and offers a snapshot of democracy today.

PRODUCTION: INDI FILM - SEPPIAGERMANY - FRANCE / 100’ & 90’ / HD / 2015

This documentary shows how Silvio Berlusconi has succumbed to a mad desire, to lease an entire country to serve his own interests. At the heart of the comedy of power and through the back alleys of money laundering, we discover how the media mogul-turned-head of government has never been reluctant to use the Mafia’s money and influence to maintain his power and consolidate his fortune.

Sinking ships, sailors imprisoned, chases at sea, illegal landings, acts of vandalism, military confrontation; incidents of this type have multiplied in the China Sea, now one of the world’s most sensitive areas. In the face of China’s growing power, neighbouring countries Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines have been reinforcing defences to protect maritime borders and uphold sovereignty over the archipelagos they control. Yet more than territorial disputes which regularly raise tensions, it is China’s overall political ambitions that worry adjacent countries, as well as the United States.

PRODUCTION: CINETEVEFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2015

PRODUCTION: TS PRODUCTIONSFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2015

BERLUSCONI AND THE MAFIA: THE ITALIAN BOSS by Olivier Toscer

CHINA SEA, WAR OF THE ARCHIPELAGOS by Marc Petitjean

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WHO ARE YOU MR COURBET ? by Isabelle Brunnarius

Gustave Courbet is one of the most important French painters of the XIXth century. Filmed in Paris, his Ornans native city and Switzerland – where he spent his last days in exile, this piece aims to better understand the paintings of this precursor of modern art by getting to know the human being itself. Archives and interviews with psychoanalysts and doctors will shed a new light, on the painter’s work. Gustave Courbet never ceases to amaze us!

PRODUCTION: SEPPIA FILMSFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2014

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RIMBAUD: LOST YEARS IN ABYSSINIAby Jean-Michel Djian

In 1876, Rimbaud abruptly renounced poetry and embarked on peregrinations that would take him around Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. In 1880, at age 26, he finally settles in a thriving corner of Africa which was then called Abyssinia to become a merchant on his own account, where his commercial dealings included coffee and arms.

PRODUCTION: LES FILMS D’ICIFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2015

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JIHAD 2.0 by Olivier Toscer

DESPOT HOUSEWIVES by Joel Soler

For nearly two years, an extraordinary effective terrorist propaganda has been flooding the Internet. Through an unfailing control over social networks and the mass production of ultra-violent footage enhanced by special effects and edited like rap music videos, the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) terrorists have been hammering their hateful message. How did the Internet become some kind of travel agency promoting armed jihad as the ultimate destination? Who are these dreadful terrorist cyber-headhunters? Can we fight against this indoctrination machinery?

For the first time ever the most infamous first ladies are gathered together in this documentary saga that steps into the lives of these controversial women, examining the power, responsibility, and consequence of their roles as spouses of the world’s most notorious head of states.

5 episodes starring: Imelda Marcos, PhilippinesAgathe Habyarimana, RwandaNexhmije Hoxha, AlbaniaJewel Taylor, Liberia Lucia Pinochet, Chile

PRODUCTION: KINOFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2015

PRODUCTION: DAY FOR NIGHT PRODUCTIONSFRANCE / 5 X 52’ / HD / 2015

35 years after the coup d’état that overthrew her grandfather Salvador Allende, Marcia wishes to change the family custom of not speaking about him and their tragic history. She believes it is time to recover the family memories snatched away during the coup and to unveil their intimate past.

PRODUCTION: ERRANTE - MARTFILMSCHILE - MEXICO / 97’ / HD / 2015

BEYOND MY GRANDFATHER ALLENDE by Marcia Tambutti Allende

L’OEIL D’OR AWARD / BEST DOCUMENTARY - CANNES 2015SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2015 - OFFICIAL SELECTION

As an assistant at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris during WWII, Rose Valland risked her life documenting the Nazis plunder of art. She then collaborated with the Monuments Men and toured Germany to find the missing art pieces. Nominated Captain Fine Arts of the French Army, she never stopped trying to “save a little of the beauty of the world”. 60,000 out of the 100,000 works of art shipped to Germany would return to France thanks to her tireless activity. Even today, her archives are crucial for the restitution of art pieces to their owners, mostly descendants of the Jewish families who were dispossessed during the war.

PRODUCTION: ABER IMAGESFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2015

ROSE VALLAND, THE ART SPY by Brigitte Chevet

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How does a politician - assassinated 35 years ago - gradually become a world-famous image? It recently served as figurehead for the Arab Spring revolutions whereas we had thought it had been relegated to t-shirts and lighters. Why has this image become so universal that we are no longer surprised to find it in drawings, graffiti, and prints on all types of media in all sorts of contexts all over the world? This documentary is a journey to investigate and decode what is the formula that made this figure go viral.

PRODUCTION: TS PRODUCTIONSFRANCE / 52’ / HD / 2014

CHE GUEVARA, THE MAKING OF AN ICON by Jean-Hugues Berrou

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THE OTHER SIDE by Roberto Minervini

BETWEEN FENCES by Avi Mograbi

A MAID FOR EACH by Maher Abi Samra

ABOUT HEAVEN by Stéphane Goël

In an invisible territory at the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, lives a wounded community that is trying to respond to a threat: of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love, ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world, floundering young women and future mothers, and old people who have not lost their desire to live.

Avi Mograbi & Chen Alon meet African asylum-seekers in a detention facility in the middle of the Negev desert where they are confined by the state of Israel. Together, they question the status of the refugees in Israel using ‘Theater of the Opressed’ techniques. What leads men and women to leave everything behind and go towards the unknown? Why does Israel, land of the refugees, refuse to take into consideration the situation of the exiled? Can their collective unconscious be conjured up?

Domestic work is a real market in Lebanon, segmented according to the national and ethnic origins of the workers and in which the Lebanese employer is master and the worker the property. Zein owns a domestic worker agency in Beirut. He arranges for Asian and African women to work in Lebanese households and assists his clients in choosing “mail-order” housemaids that will best suit their needs. Advertisement, justice, police are on his side. He decides to open his agency for us.

If Switzerland is sometimes perceived as heaven on earth, the question that follows is: do its inhabitants believe in heaven? Believers, agnostics and atheists all feel the need for a narrative when confronting death. So, what is left of paradise, which once promised eternal happiness? Encountering people in the twilight of their years, this film offers a moving, offbeat and personal quest within the depictions of this place common to all of humanity, faced with hope and shared doubt.

PRODUCTION: AGAT FILMS & CIE - OKTA FILMFRANCE - ITALY / 92’ / HD / 2015

PRODUCTION: LES FILMS D’ICI - AVI MOGRABI FILMSFRANCE - ISRAEL / 84’ / HD / 2016

PRODUCTION: ORJOUANE PRODUCTIONS - LES FILMS D’ICI - MEDIEOPERATORENELEBANON - FRANCE - NORWAY / 52’ & 67’ / HD / 2016

PRODUCTION: CLIMAGESWITZERLAND / 85’ / HD / 2015

UN CERTAIN REGARD - CANNES 2015 / TIFF 2015

FORUM - BERLINALE 2016

PEACE FILM PRIZE - BERLINALE FORUM 2016

FUORI CONCORSI - LOCARNO 2015IDFA 2015

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PIEL MARCADA by Christian Wyss & Franziska Engelhardt

There is no war – nevertheless, Central America has the highest homicide rate in the world. Gangs known as the Maras terrorize the populace. The film embarks on a road trip to explore the phenomenon of violence in Guatemala, Honduras and in El Salvador, portraying the brutal realities on various levels.

PRODUCTION: CHRISTIAN WYSS & FRANZISKA ENGELHARDTSWITZERLAND / 52’ / HD / 2014

FIPA 2014 - OFFICIAL COMPETITION

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UPSTREAM by Marion Hänsel

On board a little tub of a boat, Homer and Joé, both in their fifties, sail a river up to waterfalls in Croatia. Until the recent death of their father, they did not know about each other’s existence. Yet, they are half brothers. Sean, an enigmatic Irish adventurer, joins them. Upstream is a psychological adventure where these modest and solitary men will reveal some of their secrets, their hopes and where blood ties, whether they like it or not, will unite them.

PRODUCTION: MAN’S FILMS PRODUCTIONS - SNG FILM - KINORAMABELGIUM - THE NETHERLANDS - CROATIA / HD / 2016

Dorante, a penniless young man, takes on the position of steward at the house of Araminte, an attractive widow whom he secretly loves. Dorante’s former valet Dubois also works there and is planning a scheme to make Araminte fall in love with Dorante. Based on his own critically acclaimed production of Marivaux’s comedy, Luc Bondy takes the play and its characters behind the stage, through the corridors and rooms of the Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris, creating a new space between theatre and cinema.PRODUCTION: IDÉALE AUDIENCE - ARTE FRANCE - ODÉON-THÉÂTRE DE L’EUROPE - MAHA PRODUCTIONSFRANCE / 87’ / HD / 2016

THE FALSE SECRETS by Luc Bondy

CHOUF by Karim Dridi

Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss’s right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence...

Some would say Aurore lives a boring life. But when you are a 13 year-old girl, and just like her have an uncompromising way of looking at boys, school, family or friends, life takes on the appearance of a merry psychodrama. Especially with a new French teacher, the threat of being sent to boarding school, repeatedly falling in love and the crazy idea of going on stage with a band...

PRODUCTION: TESSALIT PRODUCTIONS & MIRAK FILMSFRANCE / 106’ / HD / 2016

CANNES 2016 - OFFICIAL SELECTION - SPECIAL SCREENING

BERLINALE 2016 GENERATION - SPECIAL MENTIONBEST FILM - EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS YOUNG AUDIENCE 2016FIRST PRIZE - TEL AVIV FILM FESTIVAL 2016 TIFF KIDS 2016

LOCARNO 2016 - OFFICIAL SELECTION

WITH: SERGI LOPEZ, OLIVIER GOURMET, JOHN LYNCH

WITH: ISABELLE HUPPERT, LOUIS GARREL, BULLE OGIER, YVES JACQUES, MANON COMBES

WITH: SOFIAN KHAMMES, FOUED NABBA, OUSSAMA ABDUL AAL, ZINE DARAR, NAILIA HARZOUNE, FOZIWA MOHAMED

WITH: LÉNA MAGNIEN, PATRICIA MAZUY, PHILIPPE DUQUESNE, CATHERINE HIEGEL, ALEX LUTZ

WITH: ISABELLE CARRÉ, JUN KUNIMURA, NIELS SCHNEIDER

PRODUCTION: AGAT FILMS & CIEFRANCE / 90’ / HD / 2016

MISS IMPOSSIBLE by Emilie Deleuze

KOKORO by Vanja d’Alcantara

After her brother Nathan dies, Alice leaves for Japan and finds refuge in a small village by the cliffs. Nathan said he had found peace there, thanks to a man called Daisuke. As she follows her brother’s footsteps, in this strange place, both hostile and welcoming, it is her own story that she will discover.

BASED ON THE BEST SELLING NOVEL BY OLIVIER ADAM “LE COEUR RÉGULIER”

PRODUCTION: NEED PRODUCTIONS - BLUE MONDAY PRODUCTIONS - ACPAV -PRODUCTIONS AVENIDABELGIUM - FRANCE - CANADA / 92’ / HD / 2016

PRODUCTION: ORJOUANE PRODUCTIONS - LES FILMS D’ICI - MEDIEOPERATORENELEBANON - FRANCE - NORWAY / 52’ & 67’ / HD / 2016

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Havana Sixteen seeks to document the face of a new Cuba. A week in the life of five Cuban youths; a dancer, a tattoo artist, a skater, a DJ and an actor... a window into a Cuba many have not yet seen.

Life Underground is a series of short programmes that takes viewers on a journey into the world’s underground railways through chance meetings with passengers who share their personal stories with us: a dream, an experience, a touching incident, a profound thought. From Santiago to New Delhi, Madrid to Moscow, and Tokyo to San Francisco, Life Underground offers a poetic cinematic journey around the world that allows us to tap into our shared humanity, and also to celebrate our cultural differences.

Game Girls is a feature documentary about the hopes and dreams of women living on the extreme fringes of contemporary American society. It sheds light on the unseen and unheard stories of Los Angeles’ Skid Row, best known as “the homeless capital of the USA”.

The film tells the story of an extended family of farmers in Gaza, who, after managing to survive almost unscathed throughout the wars of the last 60 years, in 2009 suffered the massacre of 29 its members by a unit of the Israeli Army. By interspersing documentary footage with 2D-animated sequences, the film paints a complex portrait of this rural community, from the earliest memories of the survivors through the hour-by-hour account of the massacre to the immersive chronicle of the ensuing reconstruction.

PRODUCTION: MATUTINO FILMSAUSTRALIA / 52’ / HD / DELIVERY 2017

PRODUCTION: LA HUIT PRODUCTIONFRANCE / 45 X 2’ / HD / DELIVERY 2017

PRODUCTION: FILMS DE FORCE MAJEURE - ZDF / ARTEFRANCE - GERMANY / HD / DELIVERY 2017

PRODUCTION: PICO FILMS - DUGONG - ALTER EGO - RAI CINEMA - ARTE FRANCE CINEMAFRANCE - ITALY / HD / DELIVERY 2017

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HABANA SIXTEEN by Marcella Lunam

LIFE UNDERGROUND by Hervé Cohen

GAME GIRLS by Alina Skrzeszewska

SAMOUNI ROAD by Stefano Savona

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In 1932, Charlie Chaplin, in the middle of a professional crisis, decides to go on a trip to Bali with his brother Sydney, where he will find peace and inspiration. Further to this journey, Chaplin was able to overcome his fear of talking movies and to direct some of his greatest successes such as Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940).Thanks to a little camera, he and his brother recorded this journey offering us for the first time a glimpse of this turning point in Chaplin’s life.

The film tells us the story of a humble and little known animal: the domestic donkey. This enquiry leads us to Egypt where the first donkeys where domesticated 5000 years ago. When the Romans took over, they discovered the immense qualities of this powerful animal and brought him with them in the conquest of the world. Since that time, donkey has spread all over the planet.

PRODUCTION: NOCTURNES PRODUCTIONS - MAN’S FILMS PRODUCTIONSFRANCE - BELGIUM / 52’ & 80’ / HD / DELIVERY 2017

PRODUCTION: ALTO MEDIAFRANCE / 52’ / HD / DELIVERY 2016

CHAPLIN IN BALI, A JOURNEY TO THE EAST by Raphael Millet

DONKEY TALES by Jérôme-Cécil Auffret

EMMY AWARD DIRECTOR

With his gauche, at times naïve, manner and his slender but reassuring figure, Stewart embodies a successful life; he’s the kind of guy that everyone would like to be like. Mitchum, with his legendary nonchalance and his hangdog look, is more like the naughty kid, the loveable rogue that everybody would like to have as his partner. When they shared top billing in 1978 the film The Big Sleep, these two actors, certainly did not suspect that they would both embark upon eternal sleep on almost the same day in 1997. On this, the twentieth anniversary of their deaths, what heritage have these two Hollywood legends left behind them, and how did their particular qualities feed the American dream?PRODUCTION: TS PRODUCTIONSFRANCE / 52’ / HD / DELIVERY 2017

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Further to the success of the first season, discover three new families of autocrats or bloodstained despots’ wives, three episodes that combine love, glory, and terror. Many films have shown dictatorial regimes all over the world, but only a few films show the role played by the despot’s spouses. They accepted for the first time to open their doors and show us their new lives. Through this original angle, one of the goals of this series is to better understand the unknown historical realities of our contemporary world.

PRODUCTION: DAY FOR NIGHT PRODUCTIONSFRANCE / 3 X 52’ / HD / DELIVERY 2017

DESPOT HOUSEWIVES SEASON 2 by Joel Soler

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