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FRANCE, GREECE, SERBIA / DRAMA / 2018 / 90’
SYNOPSISPanagiota, a 37-year-old illiterate housewife, leads a quiet life with her husband and their children in a modest neighbourhood in Athens, Greece. To cope with the recession that has been affecting her family for some time, Panagiota for the first time in her life, finds a job as a cleaner in a shopping mall. Despite the ruthlessness of her work-environment, Panagiota breaks free from domestic monotony and gradually gains the respect she never had from her family. When a series of layoffs starts, she will have to face again her personal dead ends. But Panagiota cannot be the same anymore.
CASTMarisha Triantafyllidou, Dimitris Imellos
THE DIRECTORNikos Labôt is a Greek filmmaker who directed 3 short films: The Dog, Impro-Walk and Kinisi 0-0. He co-directed the feature-documentary The Immortals at the southern point of Europe which premiered at the 2013 Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. He’s also been an assistant-director on several feature-films. Her Job is his first feature-film as a director.
BY NIKOS LABÔT
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ANIMATION / NORWAY, FRANCE, SWEDEN / 90'
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SYNOPSISBeirut, Lebanon, Today.Wardi, an eleven-year-old Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. Her beloved great-grandfather Sidi was one of the first people to settle in the camp after being chased from his home back in 1948. The day Sidi gives her the key to his old house back in Galilea, she fears he may have lost hope of someday going home. As she searches for Sidi’s lost hope around the camp, she will collect her family’s testimonies, from one generation to the next.
THE DIRECTORMats Grorud is a film director and animator from Norway. He previously directed two short films and has worked as an animator on several feature films, documentaries and music videos. During his childhood, his mother worked as a nurse in refugee camps in Lebanon and he spent most of holidays there. In the 1990s, Mats studied at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon while working as an English and Animation teacher in the Burj el Barjaneh refugee camp. Based on the testimonies of the refugees and his experience, he wrote the script for his first-feature film, The Tower.
BY MATS GRORUD
THE TOWER
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FRANCE/ DOCUMENTARY, MUSICAL / 90’
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SYNOPSISAt the foot of the French alps, students at the renowned Lesdiguières Hotel School are on track to become chefs, headwaiters and housekeepers for the world’s most prestigious hotels and restaurants. These young men and women, most from modest backgrounds, have come to this school to learn how to prepare food, serve and tidy in what eventually becomes a carefully crafted choreography. In this film at the crossroads of documentary and musical, these hopefuls dance and sing their way through the demanding training program; but will their rigorous preparation be enough to impress the famous institutions they dream of working for ?
THE DIRECTORJacques Deschamps is a French filmmaker who has been directing documentaries and feature-films for television and cinema for over 30 years. His first feature film, Still Waters Run Deep, was awarded Best First Film at the Venice Film Festival in 1996. He is currently working on his fourth feature film entitled Tsunami. Concurrently, Deschamps also gives lectures on documentary filmmaking at the prestigious Femis School as well as the Lussas-Grenoble Documentary Film School.
BY JACQUES DESCHAMPS
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FRANCE, SPAIN / DOCUMENTARY / 2017 / 85’
EFM 2018
SYNOPSISOver recent years, the young spanish dancer and choreographer Rocio Molina has become the new shining star of Flamenco and modern dance, using public improvisations called impulsos to create choreographies. After having won the heart of both classical and new audiences, she’s now facing the biggest challenge of her career : the creation of a new show at the Chaillot National Theatre in Paris, highlight of their 2016 / 2017 season.
THE DIRECTOREmilio Belmonte is a Spanish filmmaker and poetry-writer. After having studied engineering and literature at the University of Valencia, Emilio moved to France in 1999 and started directing documentaries for television. Impulso is his first feature-length documentary and a return to his Andalusian roots.
BY EMILIO BELMONTE
IMPULSO
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MARKET SCREENINGS
THURSDAY 15TH 15 : 40 CINESTAR 2
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TUNISIA, FRANCE, SWEDEN, NORWAY, LEBANON, QATAR, SWITZERLAND / DRAMA / 2017 / 100’
SYNOPSISDuring a student party, Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, meets the mysterious Youssef and leaves with him. A long night will begin, during which she’ll have to fight for her rights and her dignity. But how can Justice be made when it lies on the side of the tormentors ?
CASTMariam Al Ferjani, Ghanem Zrelli.
THE DIRECTORTunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania studied cinema in Tunisia and in Paris (Femis and la Sorbonne). She directed several shorts including Wooden hand (2013), which had a long and successful run on the international festival circuit. Her documentary film Imams go to school was premiered at IDFA 2010 and selected in many prestigious festivals. Challat of Tunis her first feature film, opened the ACID section at the Cannes Film Festival 2014. Her latest film Zaineb hates the snow, shot during 6 years between Tunisia and Canada, was premiered in the official selection at Locarno Film Festival 2016.
BY KAOUTHER BEN HANIA
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FRANCE / COMEDY / 2017 / 93’
SYNOPSISMichel and his brother Franck are associates in a small construction company. It’s love at first sight when Michel meets Michèle, a real estate agent who entrusts them with a big project. But in order to seduce her, Michel has to deal with Franck, whose scheming soon begins to threaten his romantic designs.
CASTVincent Macaigne, Philippe Rebbot, Hafsia Herzi, Suzanne Clement.
THE DIRECTORGuilhem Amesland first worked as an assistant director on short and feature-length films including La Fille du 14 Juillet by Antonin Peretjatko, Tonnerre by Guillaume Brac and Terre Battue by Stéphane Demoustier. In 2008, he directed the short film Demain peut-être, starring Oxmo Puccino and Vincent Macaigne, as part of the Canal+ collection. In 2010, he made Moonlight lover starring Vincent Macaigne and Stéphane Soo Mongo. In 2015, he directed Chez Ramzi, starring Ahmed Sylla, Esteban and Marc-Antoine Vaugeois. Superlovers is his first feature-length film.
BY GUILHEM AMESLAND
SUPERLOVERS
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FRANCE / DOCUMENTARY / 2017 / 91’
SYNOPSISChristian Comes, headmaster of a public middle school in a diverse Parisian suburb, has decided to implement an alternative teaching program based on intensive acting classes and rugby trainings.2016 is the final year for the two classes that were at the spearhead of the experiment.
THE DIRECTORAntoine Fromental is a french filmmaker, journalist and script consultant born in 1977. After directing several short-films including Melvil & Océane, he directed his first feature-film Chevaliers errants au sud de l’anamour in 2010 before becoming assistant-director to Abdellatif Kechiche on Blue is the Warmest Color. Wiz Kids is his second film.
BY ANTOINE FROMENTAL
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CORNICHE KENNEDY
A WEDDING ( NOCES )
FÉLICITÉ
THE GOLDEN AGE
FRANCE / DOCUMENTARY / 2016 / 52’ & 77’
Featuring previously unissued photographs and video archives as well as interviews of his friends and partners in crime, Robert Doisneau : Through the lens tells how the kid from the poor suburbs turned superstar photo-grapher. It draws the intimate portrait of the life and work – being so closely interwoven – of an artist fiercely determined to be a purveyor of happiness.
FRANCE / DOCUMENTARY / 2016 / 83’
For the Klurs, nothing is going right: their factory that had made suits for Kenzo (LVMH) was relocated abroad. Now unemployed and in debt, the couple stands to lose their home. That’s when François Ruffin knocks on their door. Can they manage to pull one over on Bernard Arnault, CEO of the world’s leading luxury group and France’s richest man ?
FRANCE / DRAMA / 2016 / 90’
In the space of one summer, a group of idle teens attempt to defy the laws of gravity by diving along the Kennedy cliff near Marseille. When the path of a narcotics agent assigned to a local case crosses theirs, she tries to bring them under her wing and prevent them from risking their lives. Between their insatiable taste for freedom and everything that is forbidden and the captain’s lonely, disillusioned lifestyle, a fragile future begins to take shape.
BELGIUM, FRANCE, LUXEMBOURG, PAKISTAN / DRAMA/2016/98’
Zahira, an 18 - year - old Belgian-Pakistani, is very close to everyone in her family, until she is forced into a traditional marriage. Torn between the demands of her parents, her Western lifestyle and desire to be free, she counts on the support of her older brother and confidant, Amir.
FRANCE, SENEGAL, BELGIUM, GERMANY, LEBANON DRAMA / 2017 / 123’
Félicité is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her 14 year - old son falls victim to an accident. To save him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of electric Kinshasa - a world of music and dreams where she’ll cross paths with Tabu…
ITALY, FRANCE / DRAMA / 2016 / 94’
For years, Arabella has been living in a small Italian village working at the local cinema L’Arena, directing films, and being an inspiration to her com-munity. When her son Sid decides to return to the village after years of es-trangement from his mother, his perception of her changes as he hears the testimonies from her close circle.
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