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SONGS NEXT DOOR
Flavie Pinatel
16:9 I Colour I 26 min I 2017 I DCP I HD I FR/EN
As a portrait of a housing project with astonishing shapes (La Maladrerie near Paris), SONGS NEXT DOOR by Flavie Pinatel is a documentary of a different kind, since the protagonists express themselves through songs and not through speech. Implicitly, Flavie describes poetically how people live together in France in 2016.
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UNCANNY VALLEY
Paul Wenninger
16:9 I Colour I 13 min I 2015 I DCP I HD
In UNCANNY VALLEY, we are at once bombarded by the psychological and physical intensity of a battle fought between desperate soldiers during the first world war. Each frame of this animated live action piece reveals its own painful yet detailed history.
The numbing futility of war, the agony of conflict and survival, the discovery of brotherhood, and madness of it all. UNCANNY VALLEY is a hypnotic nightmare, a revelation that at first glance is impossible to forget.
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BONUS : Interview with the director (dvd), Making-of (dvd), Trailer.
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MEMORIES FROM GEHENNA
Thomas Jenkoe
16:9 I Colour I 56 min I 2015 I DCP I HD I VF, VOSTEN
Grande-Synthe, Northern France, 2002. J.D. loads his rifle and drives through town, looking for people with an immigrant background. His wild odyssey ends up with the murder of a 17-year-old North African.
More than ten years after the events, the film follows the murderer’s path through Grande-Synthe, confronting the city’s urban metamorphosis to J.D.’s voice, reconstructed from his criminal case report.
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BONUS : Trailer, Interview with Thomas Jenkoe, Interview with Thierry Paquot urban philosopher.
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BEFORE WE GO
Jorge León
16:9 I Colour I 82 min I 2014 I DCP I HD I VF, VOSTEN
Meg Stuart, Benoît Lachambre and Simone Aughterlony, dancers and choreographers, meet Lidia, Michel and Noël, with already weakened bodies. They are all about to have a unique experience, in the sumptuous setting of the Opéra de la Monnaie.
In an unexpected, physical and lyrical way, BEFORE WE GO lifts the veil on a taboo subject – the end of life – conjuring up all the arts within a genuine tribute to life and human frailty.
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BONUS : Trailer, Interview of Jorge Leon directed by Dimitra Bouras (DVD)
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NAOSHIMA (dream on the tongue)
Claire Laborey
16:9 I Colour I 52/67 min I 2015 I DCP I VOSTFR, VOSTFREN
NAOSHIMA (dream on the tongue) is a journey across a small Japanese island in the Seto inland sea. Since the 90s, it is threatened by exodus, its population decreases and ages, its industry declines.
As a result of a stunning contemporary art sponsoring project, Naoshima is changing. The pure timeless lines of the three museums designed by Tadao Ando, the contemporary artworks on site blend into the landscape, scattered along its shores, in the shadow of the forest.The presence of art is worrying, fascinating, inspiring, upsetting and becomes the beating heart of the island. Through the account of a dream or a memory, an island appears where the presence of art arises from a primitive nature and resonates with the frail permanence of traditions and daily rituals. It unsettles the representations of the locals and confronts them with this haunting question: what is beauty?
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BONUS : Trailer
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RAMALLAH
Flavie Pinatel
16:9 I Colour I 28 min I 2013 I DCP I HD I VOSTFR, VOSTEN
After three months of full immersion, Flavie Pinatel offers to restore on screen the city of Ramallah as a physical and sensory experience. Through funny, serious or unusual portraits of Ramallah inhabitants, Flavie Pinatel attempts, with this film, to get this city out of its tragedy and reveal it as a beating heart, a 21st century city.
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BONUS : Interview with the Anastas brothers (architects), interview at Image de Ville, comments of the director (DVD), deleted scene (DVD)
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TIRANA
Alexander Schellow
16:9 I Colour and black & white I 26 min I 2013 I DCP I Version FR, EN
After decades of dictatorship, Albania is at a turning point in its history. Yet, in the collective imagination, “Albania does not exist”. Facing this lack of images, Alexander Schellow uses his technique of memory reconstruction through drawing, and explores various approaches: live action shooting, interviews, satellite images, voice over… And calls into question the criteria a civil society is grounded on, just when it is coming into existence.
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BONUS : Alexander Schellow at work – speaking & drawing, Interview at Image de Ville, Interview with Edi Muka (DVD), music byJean-Marc Montera and pictures of the soot (DVD), cut animations (DVD)
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RELAPSE
Jérôme Nunes
16:9 I Colour I 23 min I 2013 I Blu-Ray I VF, VOSTEN, VOSTES
After a day interspersed with hallucinations, Carlos meets again the disturbing man who turned his life upside down. Between attraction and repulsion, this confrontation will reveal Carlos to himself.
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BONUS : Trailer, Interview of the director
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MARSEILLE #01-#30
Alexander Schellow
16:9 I Black & white I 6 min I 2011 I HD
With these 30 spots made in 2011 as part of a carte blanche, Alexander Schellow keeps on working on the remembering process through drawings and animation, this time based on scenes he observed in Marseille. Made up of 3-second animations looped and interrupted by black screens, the spots appear and disappear before we can really grasp them, as if they were memories subconsciously entering our perception.
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BONUS : Interview with Corinne Diserens, Philipp Gehmacher, Prof. Giovanni Galizia, and Alexander Schellow
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THE KISS FROM MARSEILLE
Valérie Mitteaux
16:9 I Colour I 52 min I 2014 I DCP I HD I FR/EN/DE
Shocking picture. In Marseille, in 2012, Julia and Auriane, two young students, stand up to anti-gay marriage and adoption protesters, and offer a snapshot which soon became a reference in terms of anti-discrimination civic action. Opposite them, homophobia which pretends not to be one, taking advantage of the equal right movement to parade shamelessly. Between progressive bill and new homophobia, we delve into an image that bears witness of the state of the relationship between France and homosexuality.
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BONUS : trailer, interview of the director
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A BIOGRAPHY
Alexander Schellow
16:9 I N&B I 6 min I 2017 I HD I FR/EN/DE
How can a person suffering from Alzheimer still tell herself her own life? When words are no longer there, only remain the sensations and the sounds the body remembers. In the community room of an Alzheimer clinic, a music coming from a radio triggers the dancing of an old lady in a wheelchair. Remembering the moves it used to perform, her body brings along a series of sound memories. Entirely drawn and animated from memory, A BIOGRAPHY reconstructs dot by dot this emergence of memory where it is no longer expected, in an effort to keep this body and this life from oblivion.
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BONUS : Interview of the director
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