Actualités
Summer Rebels
Official Competition – Vilnius Children and Youth Film Festival, Lithuania – 2020Official Selection – Busan International Kids and Youth Film Festival, South Korea – 2020Official Selection – Children’s Rights FIlm Festival, Chroatia – 2020 10 years and older. Rowdy Jonas, 11, longs to spend summer vacation shooting rabbits and exploring the Slovakian countryside with his cool Grandpa Bernard, but his exasperated mother has already made plans to go to the seaside instead. Jonas sneaks away from his ho-me in Dresden to take the train by himself to his grandpa’s charming little town in Slovakia. When he arrives, he discovers that cool grandpa has become grumpy grandpa, and Jonas realizes why his mother didn’t want him to go there – but the damage is done! Jonas is left on his own while his grumpy grandpa mopes. Luckily, his brave and tom-boyish neighbor Alex befriends Jonas and together they create a scheme to raise money for a raft of their own, unleashing a series of dodgy shenanigans. Their illegal racket creates an uproar in the village, lands Grandpa Bernard in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, and causes Alex and Jonas’ friendship to fray. Will Jonas find a way to repair the messes he’s made? Beautifully shot in the gorgeous summer sunlit landscape, with a charming, uplifting soundtrack, Summer Rebels is a bilingual comedy-adventure that offers humor and warmth for the whole family.
Chers camarades!
Special Jury Prize – Venice International Film Festival – 2020Russia’s entry, Best International Feature Film – The Academy Awards (Oscar) – 2021 A provincial town in the south of the USSR, 1962. Lyudmila, a devout Communist Party official and idealistic veteran of WW II, is a scourge of anything she perceives as anti-Soviet sentiment. Together with other local Party officials, she is taken by surprise by a strike at the local factory, in which her own daughter is taking part. As the situation quickly spirals out of control, Lyudmila begins a desperate search for her daughter in the face of curfews, mass arrests, and the authorities’ ruthless attempts to cover up the state violence. Her once unquestioning faith in the Party line is shaken by her growing awareness of its human toll, tearing apart the world she thought she knew.
Sous un même soleil
Despite the 1994 ceasefire, there is still no real peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which continue to fight fiercely over the mountainous Nagorny Karabakh region. More than 25 years after the war, nationalistic passions seem as strong as ever. The litany of resentment and accusations continue to be met with denial in an ongoing dialogue of the deaf. With the restraint that comes with our foreigner’s gaze, Under the Same Sun offers an attentive ear, in search of understanding in these young countries with old wounds.
Passage
Official Selection – Festival de cinéma de Rouyn-Noranda – 2020Official Selection – Compétition Nouveaux Regards – RIDM – 2020Official Selection – Media Library – Festival Visions du Réel – 2020Official Selection – Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival – 2021 Passage paints a poetic portrait of the summer spent by 18-year-old Gabrielle and Yoan on the eve of their unavoidable departure from the remote region of Témiscamingue.
Tant que j’ai du respir dans le corps
Every day, in a consultation room, the patients land; broken, sick and marked by life. In front of them, sits an invested person who tries, without false hope, to repair the bodies and the psyches. In this cramped room where the world and a suffering humanity parade, each one of them confides in a disarming authenticity. At night, when the doors of the resources are closed, street workers storm the city to extend their support to all those unfortunate people who elected the street as their home. The metropolis becomes a veritable open-air refuge where a series of unexpected encounters, places full of strangeness, scattered discussions, wandering souls and dormant bodies hidden from the eyes of passers-by as ghostly visions in the night.
La mer entre nous
Official Selection – Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston – 2020Officiel Selection – DOK. Fest München, Munich, Germany – 2020Official Selection – Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) – 2019 The film transports us into the lives of Hayat & Wafaa and to the city of Beirut in Lebanon, 25 years after the end of a bloody civil war. Through the intimate stories and memories of these two female protagonists of different backgrounds, we understand why the city’s neighbourhoods are still walled in by invisible boundaries and whether forgiveness and reconciliation are possible in a country still broken over religious and political ideology.
Préparons-nous à rester ensemble pour une durée indéterminée
Selection – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) – 2020Official Selection – Giornate degli Autori of the Venice Film Festival – 2020 Márta, a 40-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shiningAmerican career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with theman she loves. But she waits for him at the Liberty Bridge in vain — he doesnot appear at their rendezvous. Marta starts to search for him desperately,but when she finally finds him, the love of her life claims that they havenever met befo
I am Greta
Selection – Festival international du film de Venise – 2020Selection – TIFF – 2020 The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the Swedish Parliament, Grossman follows Greta — a shy student with Asperger’s — in her rise to prominence and her galvanizing global impact as she sparks school strikes around the world. The film culminates with her extraordinary wind-powered voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City.
Les siffleurs
Official selection | Competition – Festival de Cannes – 2019 A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language which includes hissing and spitting.
Jongué, Carnet nomade
Canadian feature competition – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) – 2019 A film about Serge Emmanuel Jongué, photographer-writer. Emigrated to Quebec to escape the family’s shadows, wounds and silences he spent his brief life exploring his multiple origins. Jongué’s life is told with his own texts, images and talismans from his birth in Aix-en-Provence until his untimely death in Montreal.