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COMPLETED
TORONTO
& SAN SEBASTIAN
THE TOGETHER
PROJECT
by Sólveig Anspach
ORPHAN
by Arnaud des Pallières
A KID
by Philippe Lioret
AFTER LOVE
by Joachim Lafosse
THE POISONING
ANGEL
by Stéphanie Pillonca
LOCARNO
OPEN AT NIGHT
by Edouard Baer
ENDLESS POETRY
by Alejandro Jodorowsky
WRONG ELEMENTS
by Jonathan Littell
IN POST-PRODUCTION
THE OUTSIDER
by Christophe Barratier
THIS IS OUR LAND
by Lucas Belvaux
IRREPLACEABLE
by Thomas Lilti
LIBRARY
MR & MRS ADELMAN
by Nicolas Bedos
COMPLETED
(ORPHELINE)
4CLIPS
by ARNAUD DES PALLIÈRES
(Age of Uprising: The Legend Of Michael Kohlhaas, Parc, Adieu)
with
ADÈLE HAENEL
(The Unknown Girl, Love at First Fight, In the Name of My Daughter)
ADÈLE EXARCHOPOULOS
NAMUR
FILM FESTIVAL
Best Actress
Award 2016
(The Last Face, Insecure, Blue is the Warmest Colour)
GEMMA ARTERTON
(The Voices, Gemma Bovery, Song for Marion)
SOLÈNE RIGOT, JALIL LESPERT,
NICOLAS DUVAUCHELLE, SERGI LOPEZ
and also
NAMUR
FILM FESTIVAL
Winner Golden
Bayard 2016
“‘Orphan’ turns out to be des Pallières’ most
accessible film for general audiences.“
Four moments in the lives of four female characters.
A little girl from the countryside, playing a game of hide and seek that turns
to tragedy.
A teenager, caught in an endless succession of runaways, men and mishaps,
because anything is better than her desolate family home.
A young woman who moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster.
The grown-up at last, an accomplished woman, who thought she was safe
from her own past.
Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.
Producers: Les Films Hatari, Les Films d’Ici
Drama / 111 min / France / French, English, Romanian / 2016
COMPLETED
4TRAILER
4REVIEWS
(L’ÉCONOMIE DU COUPLE)
by JOACHIM LAFOSSE
(The White Knights, Our Children)
with
BÉRÉNICE BEJO
(The Past, The Artist)
CÉDRIC KAHN
(Up for Love, The Anarchists, Miss and the Doctors)
“A compelling drama with
strong performances."
LONDON
FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
AFI
FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
After 15 years of living together, Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce.
Marie had bought the house in which they live with their two daughters,
but it was Boris who had completely renovated it. Since he cannot afford
to find another place to live, they must continue to share it.
When all is said and done, neither of the two is willing to give up.
Producers: Versus Production, Les Films du Worso
Drama / 100 min / Belgium, France / French / 2016
COMPLETED
4TRAILER
4REVIEWS
(POESIA SIN FIN)
by ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
(La Danza de la Realidad, Santa Sangre, El Topo)
with
ADAN JODOROWSKY (2 Days in Paris, Santa Sangre)
PAMELA FLORES (La Danza de la Realidad, Jimmy Rivière)
BRONTIS JODOROWSKY (La Danza de la Realidad, Santa Sangre, El Topo)
“‘Endless Poetry’ is the most accessible movie Jodorowsky
has ever made, and it may also be the best. “
Santiago de Chile, during the thrilling years of the 40s and the 50s.
“Alejandrito” Jodorowsky, aged twenty, decides to become a poet against
the will of his family. He is introduced in the inner circle of the artistic and
intellectual avant-garde of the time and meets Enrique Lihn, Stella Diaz,
Nicanor Parra and many other promising but anonymous young writers
who will become the masters of Latin America’s modern literature. Totally
immersed in this world of poetic experimentation, they live together as
few have dared to live before: sensually, authentically, freely, madly.
BUSAN
FILM FESTIVAL
World Cinema
MUNICH
FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
MOSCOW
FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
MORELAIA
FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
Producers: Satori Films, Le Soleil Films, Le Pacte
Drama / 128min / France, Chile / Spanish / 2016
COMPLETED
(L’EFFET AQUATIQUE)
BUSAN
FILM FESTIVAL
World Cinema
by SÓLVEIG ANSPACH
(Lulu in the Nude, Queen of Montreuil, Back Soon)
with
FLORENCE LOIRET CAILLE (Bastards, Queen of Montreuil)
SAMIR GUESMI (Camille Rewinds, The Sweet Escape, Queen of Montreuil)
4TRAILER
4REVIEWS
REYKJAVIK
FILM FESTIVAL
Opening Film
HAMBURG
FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
“Its utter and complete lack of cynicism makes
‘The Together Project’ sort of extraordinary.“
Samir, a tall, lanky, 40-something crane operator from Montreuil, in the
outskirts of Paris, falls head over heels in love with Agathe. He discovers she
is a swimming instructor at the local swimming pool, and, for lack of a better
plan, he decides to enlist as her student… although he can swim perfectly.
But his lie only lasts for 3 lessons, and Agathe hates liars. The truth surfaces.
Agathe is furious. The end?
Not quite! Agathe goes to Iceland on a business trip, putting an ocean
between her and Samir. But it is without reckoning with his feelings and his
stubbornness...
CHICAGO
FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
RIO DE JANEIRO
FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
Producers: Ex Nihilo, Zik Zak Filmworks
Romantic Comedy / 83min / France, Iceland / French, English, Icelandic / 2016
WARSAW
FILM FESTIVAL
Competition
4TRAILER
4REVIEWS
COMPLETED
(LE FILS DE JEAN)
by PHILIPPE LIORET
WARSAW
FILM FESTIVAL
Competition
(All our Desires, Welcome,
Don’t Worry I’m Fine)
with
PIERRE DELADONCHAMPS
(Vivid, A Childhood, Stranger by the Lake)
GABRIEL ARCAND
(The Auction, Post Mortem)
SEATLLE FRENCH
CINEMA NOW
Official Selection
“A finely chiseled family drama
that’s at once new and familiar,
immersive and deeply poignant.”
Mathieu is 33, but he has never met his father. His late mother always told
him that he was the result of a casual encounter.
One day, Mathieu receives a call telling him that his father was Canadian,
and that he had just passed away. He also discovers that he has two step
brothers and decides to go to the funeral in order to meet them. But once
in Montreal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even
interested in it. He is alone, in hostile territory…
Producers: Fin Aout Productions, Item7
Drama / 98 min / France, Canada / French / 2016
COMPLETED
4CLIPS
(FLEUR DE TONNERRE)
by STÉPHANIE PILLONCA
with
DEBORAH FRANÇOIS
(The Child, Populaire, The Page Turner)
BENJAMIN BIOLAY
(The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, Bachelor Days are Over)
Rural Brittany, in the 19th century.
In an impoverished peasant family, a little girl called Hélène Jégado
grows up in isolation, unloved, battered by the hardships of life and
cradled by a morbid imagination.
Convinced she must serve Ankou, the spirit of Death in local mythology,
Hélène poisons and kills her mother. For the rest of her life, she will
travel the length and breadth of Brittany in search of her next victim,
finding work as a cook and spreading death on her way.
She would become one of the biggest serial killers in history. To this day,
no one could understand her motives or pierce her mystery.
BUSAN
FILM FESTIVAL
Flash Forward
Producer: JPG Films, Nexus Factory
Drama / 101 min / France, Belgium / French / 2016
COMPLETED
PROMO
AVAILABLE
UPON
REQUEST
(OUVERT LA NUIT)
by EDOUARD BAER
with
EDOUARD BAER (Chicken with Plums, Asterix & Obelix)
AUDREY TAUTOU (Chinese Puzzle, Coco before Chanel, Amélie)
SABRINA OUAZANI (The Outsider, May Allah Bless France, The Source)
Luigi has one night to save his theater, one of the most prestigious in Paris.
One night to find a real monkey able to climb on stage and win back the
esteem of his renowned Japanese director. One night to regain the trust of his
team and the respect of his best friend, who is also his most trusted colleague.
One night, finally, to prove to his young, overconfident and uptight trainee
that there is a different way to face (a mountain of) problems: give priority to
the one you find most amusing!
Producer: Les Films en Cabine
Comedy / 95 min / France / French / 2016
COMPLETED
4CLIPS
by JONATHAN LITTELL
(Directorial debut; Author of The Kindly Ones - Prix Goncourt 2006)
“‘Wrong Elements’ is ‘The Act of
Killing’ for the Ugandan Civil War.“
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Uganda, 1989. A young Acholi rebel guided by spirits, Joseph Kony,
forms a new rebel movement against the government: the LRA, The Lord’s
Resistance Army. An “army” that grew by abducting teenagers – more
than 60 000 over 25 years – of which less than half came out of the bush
alive.
Geofrey, Nighty and Mike, a group of friends, as well as Lapisa, were
among these youths, abducted at 12 or 13. Today, in their effort to rebuild
their lives and go back to normal, they revisit the places that marked their
stolen childhood. At the same time victims and murderers, witnesses and
perpetrators of horrific acts that they did not fully understand, they are
forever the “Wrong Elements” that society struggles to accept.
Meanwhile, in the immensity of the Central African jungle, the Ugandan
army still continues to hunt the last scattered LRA rebels. But Joseph Kony
is still out there, on the run…
IDFA
Best of Fests
JIHLAVA
FILM FESTIVAL
Official Selection
Producers: Veilleur de Nuit Productions, Zero One Films, Wrong Men
Documentary / 133 min / FR, DE, BE / English, Atcholi / 2016
COMPLETED
(L’OUTSIDER)
4TRAILER
by CHRISTOPHE BARRATIER
(The War of the Buttons II, Paris 36, The Chorus)
with
ARTHUR DUPONT (Under the Rainbow, Haute Cuisine, Bad Girl)
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DEMAISON (Just Like Brothers, Little Nicholas)
SABRINA OUAZANI (De Guerre Lasse, May Allah Bless France, The Source)
2008. The world economy is hit by the worst crisis since 1929. And only
one man, a young trader, is the alleged responsible for the first and most
extravagant in a series of scandals that will shake the financial markets
worldwide: Jérôme Kerviel. Indeed, the biggest banking loss of its kind in
history (almost 5 billion euros!) is discovered at the French bank Société
Générale and soon attributed to this quiet, low-profile, 31 years old
employee...
Hired as a simple clerk at the same bank, 8 years before, no one could have
predicted that Jérôme Kerviel would go so far, so fast. He became the star of
the trading floor, nicknamed “the cash machine” by his colleagues.
But how could he gamble supposedly alone - and in secret - 50 billion euros?
This film is based on a true story.
Producer: Galatée Films
Drama / 117 min / France / French / 2016
COMPLETED
(MÉDECIN DE CAMPAGNE)
by THOMAS LILTI
4TRAILER
(Hippocrates)
with
FRANÇOIS CLUZET
(Intouchables, Little White Lies, Tell no one)
MARIANNE DENICOURT
(Hippocrates, SK1, La Belle Noiseuse)
“The film bristles with humor and
illuminating moments of irony.
Characters are finely chiseled and
superbly played by the cast.”
FRENCH
BOX OFFICE:
11 MILLION USD
AND COUNTING...
For the past thirty years, Dr. Jean-Pierre Werner has been working
as a general practitioner in the countryside, far away from any other
medical facility.
When he finds out that he suffers from a serious illness, Werner is left
with no choice but to find a replacement, although he considers himself
irreplaceable…
Producer: 31 Juin Films
Drama / 102 min / France / French / 2016
IN POSTPRODUCTION
(CHEZ NOUS)
PROMO
AVAILABLE
UPON
REQUEST
by LUCAS BELVAUX
(Not My Type, 38 Witnesses, Trilogy: One, Two, Three)
with
EMILIE DEQUENNE
(Not My Type, Our Children, Rosetta)
ANDRÉ DUSSOLLIER
(Life of Riley, Diplomacy, Amélie)
GUILLAUME GOUIX
(The Connection, Beyond the Walls)
Pauline, a self-employed nurse in a mining district in the north of France,
raises her two children alone and cares for her father, a former steelworker.
Devoted and generous, her patients love her and count on her.
Yet nobody sees that Pauline, who finds herself facing an increasingly harsh
social reality, is slowly embarking on a path that no one in her family has
taken before. A rising nationalist party, in quest of respectability, is going
to take advantage of her popularity by making her its candidate in the local
elections…
Producers: Synecdoche, Artemis Productions
Drama / France, Belgique / French / 2016
IN POSTPRODUCTION
PROMO
AVAILABLE
UPON
REQUEST
by NICOLAS BEDOS
(Directorial Debut)
with
NICOLAS BEDOS
(Love is in the Air, Populaire, Love Lasts Three Years)
DORIA TILLIER
At the funeral of a famous writer, while everyone pays their last respects,
some can’t help but wonder about the strange circumstances of his death.
A young biographer asks the widow to remember their story. After all,
wasn’t she his muse, his first reader and his partner since the 1970s?
So begins a story that spans over fifty years of shared life, love, jealousy
and deceptions...
Producer: Les Films du Kiosque
Romantic Comedy / France / French / 2016
LIBRARY
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Ozon (The Refuge, Ricky), Christophe Honoré (Love Songs,
Making Plans For Lena) Mathieu Kassovitz (Metisse, La
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Sono Un Autarchico, Sogni D’oro), award winning films like
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Wim Wenders, or the Vietnamese classic The Scent Of Green
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