SYNOPSIS: Demi-dieu, a rich peasant from a village in Côte d’Ivoire, has five wives. He decides to marry a sixth. This way, he’ll have one for each day of the week. On Sundays, he’ll rest and reward the best-behaved one. But with Binta, the new wife conflicts soon erupt…Read More »
In a French building, the inhabitants seem to be dealing with the hazards of life: an ogre breaks his teeth on the very same day of the annual Ogre Feast, while being asked to watch over his neighbor’s kids; a magician cuts his assistant in half and her legs run off; a hiker and his dog spend several days stuck in the elevator; an old man falls in love with a pair of legs…
A truly imaginative animation film about the intertwined destinies of these unusual neighbors and their neighbors’ neighbors.Read More »
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“A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood’s unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.”
– Written by Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival
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Thirty-year-old Jérémie returns to Saint-Martial to attend an old friend’s funeral. In this village full of things left unsaid, he finds himself the target of rumour and suspicion, to the point he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.Read More »
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Adapted from a work by Paul Bowles and co-written by Andre Techine, this film — directed by Benoit Graffin) — is about the complicated relationship between a young up-and-comer and a silver-haired lothario. Driss is a jack-of-all trades type who sells fish from his car and moves furniture from one end of his hometown Tangiers to the other. His girlfriend is a free-spirited and wealthy European lass who runs an antique shop. One day, Driss becomes fascinated with Fouad, an old man who runs a rundown caf by the beach.Read More »
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Bored with her predictable middle class life, 20-something Camille decides to do something impulsive, like fall in love with the next man who comes her way. The lucky individual turns out to be Costa, a young delinquent who already has a young daughter, whom he neglects. Camille follows Costa to his home and the young man soon succumbs to her charms. Costa’s friend Cyril, a cop, also finds Camille irresistible, but he wonders if her naivety is genuine or a merely ploy to get what she wants…Read More »
With the soberly lyrical and infinitely gracious Les Îles (Islands), Yann Gonzalez gives his personal version of La Ronde by Max Ophüls. The endless circularity in the mechanisms of desire are conveyed in joyful sequencing from the actors to the spectators. Instead of desire, the need for the theatre, maliciously revealed with the forces of cinema (the opening game of the frame scale) and the pleasures of the eye (the direct elation), of the ear (the deferred elation, with the sound recording). At the crossroads of the two given entities (the theatre stage and the frame of a shot), which are the body of this beautiful erotic poem, the islands bear wings.Read More »
Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to Nikolaï’s apartment and make love. Afterwards, instead of parting, the two lovers divulge their deepest secrets to one another.
Nicolaï is a beautiful loser. At thirty-one years old, he leads a simple and frugal life. He applies himself to reading the great classics of literature but never finishes a book he has begun. Unable to submit to any schedule, he finds himself unfit for work. He envisions big projects and has large ideas but, inevitably and despite himself, loses sight of them beforethey are realized.Read More »
Shot entirely on day for night, this wildlife eco-horror follows the trajectories of endangered species fleeing to escape extinction, in a sombre plot in which the animals look back at us.Read More »