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The Promised Land
With Mads Mikkelsen In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal: to build a colony in the name of the King. In exchange, he’ll receive a desperately desired Royal name for himself. But the sole ruler of the area, the merciless Frederik...
La ligne
After a violent argument with her mother, Margaret, 35, is subject to a restraining order before her trial. She is no longer allowed to contact her mother or go within 100 meters of the family home for three months. This distance separating her from her home only makes her want to be closer to her family and she comes back every day to be confronted by this invisible border. Official selection – Berlinale – 2022
Dear Memories
Thomas Hoepker is one of the most important living photographers worldwide. His pictures became icons of photojournalism. In 2017, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The man whose art has become part of the collective memory is now slowly losing his own memories. His one last big dream: A road trip through the USA with...
Sous les figues
On a hot summer day, a crew of workers – men and women, young and old – arrive at dawn at a picturesque fig orchard in northwest Tunisia. We eavesdrop, through the sun-dappled leaves of the fig trees, on the young women stealing away precious moments from the foreman’s watchful gaze. Meanwhile, the older women,...
Best of Annecy 2022 | Films d’animation | Sélection 1
Best of Annecy 2022 program combines a selection of shorts, mainly winning films from the latest Festival with two tailor-made opening sequences by second year students from the GOBELINS, l’école de l’image. In the program: Watch closely, from the Gobelins image schoolPersona, by Sujin Moon (South Korea, 2022) – 6 min*Terra incognita, by Pernille M....
Hive
Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.Kosovo’s official submission for the Academy AwardsWinner of 13 international awards and nominated 11 times. Sundance triple award winner, and Kosovo’s official submission for the Academy Awards®, HIVE is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije (Yllka Gashi), who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands but their will to begin living independently is met with hostility. The men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and the women around her, starting a feud that threatens their newfound sovereignty and the financial future of Fahrije’s family. Against the backdrop of Eastern Europe’s civil unrest and lingering misogyny, Fahrije and the women of her village join in a struggle to find hope in the face of an uncertain future. Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, HIVE is a pithy, devastating portrait of loss and our uphill journeys to freedom.
Ariaferma
Official Selection – Mostra de Venise – 2021Official Selection – Panorama of European Cinema – 2022Official Selection – Göteborg Film Festival – 2022 In an inaccessible location on the Italian territory, an old nineteenth-century jail is in the process of being vacated, when bureaucracy comes in the way. Together with a handful of officers, a dozen prisoners are left behind in a suspended bubble where rules get hazy, and new relationships form.
Best of Annecy 2021 | Films d’animation
Best of Annecy 2021 program combines a selection of shorts, mainly winning films from the latest Festival with two tailor-made opening sequences by second year students from the GOBELINS, l’école de l’image. In the program: Collection Capsule, by GOBELINS, l’école de l’image (France, 2021) – 1 min Boxballet, by Anton Dyakov (Russia, 2020) – 15 min* Hold Me Tight, by Mélanie Robert-Tourneur (France, 2021) – 6 min* Easter Eggs, by Nicolas Keppens (Belgium, France, Netherlands, 2021) – 14 min Affairs of the Art, by Joanna Quinn (United Kingdom and Canada, 2021) – 16 min* La confiture de papillons, by Shih-Yen Huang (France andTaiwan, 2021) – 6 min Écorce, by Silvain Monney and Samuel Patthey (Switzerland, 2020) – 15 min Le parc, by GOBELINS, l’école de l’image (France, 2021) – 1 min 13 years and older. *Featured Pictures
Best of Annecy Kids 2021 | Films d’animation
The Best of Annecy Kids 2021 assembles funny, touching and poetic short films that children will adore! In the program:Pon-Pon-Partyyy, by GOBELINS, l’école de l’image (France, 2021) – 1 minTemps de cochon, by Emmanuelle Gorgiard (France, 2020) – 9 minPrintsessa y bandit, by Mikhail Aldashin and Sosnina Mariya (Russia, 2020) – 3 min*Kiko et les animaux, by Yawen Zheng (France and Switzerland 2020) – 7 minTulip, by Phoebe Wahl and Andrea Love (USA, 2020) – 9 min*Bémol, by Oana Lacroix (Switzerland, 2020) – 6 minPod oblakami, by Vasilisa Tikunova (Russia, 2021) – 4 minUn caillou dans la chaussure, by Éric Montchaud (France and Switzerland, 2020) – 11 min* 6 years and older. *Featured Pictures