Programme 2010

Adrift
Adrift (Choi voi)

Duyen’s marriage to Hai, a taxi driver, ends in emptiness and solitude. Cam, a writer, conceals...

Agua fría de mar
Cold Water of the Sea

While a young bourgeois couple, Mariana and Rodrigo, visit the Pacific coast of Costa Rica for...

Border (Sahman)
Border

A man in combat uniform and a farmer drive through a war-ravaged border zone transporting a buffalo...

El Vuelco del Cangrejo

After a long journey Daniel arrives on foot in a village located on the Pacific coast in western...

La Sangre y la Lluvia
Blood and Rain

Jorge is a young taxi driver who, distraught by his brother's assassination by corrupt cops, seeks...

Lola

In Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, Lola means grandmother. We are shown two grandmothers, one...

Norteado
Northless

From 16 years
Andres comes from Oaxaca, and just like many others, he dreams of crossing...

Perpetuum Mobile

Gabino lives with his mother, who worships his older brother. Their lives together are not easy...

Rompecabezas
Puzzle

Maria del Carmen, a dedicated mother and housewife, leads a peaceful life. When she is given a...

Tehroun

Ebrahim has his young wife back in the village believe that he has a business job in Tehran, whereas he...

The Other Bank
The Other Bank

Tedo, a 12 year-old boy, is an Abkhazian refugee living on the outskirts of Tbilisi, where he...

Wahed-Sefr
One-Zero

We follow eight people of both sexes and from a mixed social background during the Africa Cup...

Zindeeq

A day and a night in the life of a Palestinian filmmaker with a European passport who comes back...

Los Viajes del Viento
The Wind Journeys

Ignacio is an itinerant accordionist and widower. He decides to go off in search of his music...

Asma

In an old apartment building, we see the reflection of a closed-in society through the ordinary...

Be at Table with me

A lonely old man lives in a decrepit apartment in Seoul. On the first anniversary of his wife’s...

Ciao Mama

A single mother leaves her daughter to go on a trip with her new lover. The daughter overcomes...

Como pez en el agua
Like fish in water

The story of an old man and a teenager who fall in love with the same woman. A short film about solitude...

dear (imaginary?) friend
Short films - Programme 2

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Dor

Dor, a handsome soldier, returns home for the weekend after murdering a young Palestinian. While spending...

Everyday Everyday

Sook Chen has quit her job: she has decided to go to Peru. Ma doesn’t understand, but to tell...

Evya

Evya is a depressed young man who decides to end his life after his sister is killed in a car...

Meltdown
Meltdown

12 year-old Vika dreams of becoming part of the Russian national ice-skating team. She is rejected on...

One Step
One Step

Yusif, a war veteran from Karabach, is tired of living as a blind man and decides to commit suicide. However,...

Pick up the phone
Short films - Programme 1

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Ring Ring

In a Bolivian neighborhood, all Saturdays a phone rings. A bunch of kids run to answer it, but...

Sapir College
Short films - Programme 3

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The Red Queens
Bul-Geun Yeo-Wang-Deul

A day in the life of two women who both once had an abortion....

Tripoli, Quiet
Tripoli, Quiet

A few hours into his shift, a cab driver from Tripoli, Lebanon, finds a boy sitting on the backseat...

Tzel Over
Passing Shadow

A terrible secret has shaken Gili’s world. She decides to take revenge, but the moment her decision...

Xiao Fu

Xiao Fu writes postcards to her pen pal while hanging out wither her little brother....

Your Younger Daughter Rachel
Berachel Bitcha Haktana

16 year-old Rachel is living through a difficult adolescence, both at home and outside of it;...

Anna Politkovskaïa, sept ans sur la ligne de front

As a journalist at «Novaia Gazeta», the only nationwide opposition paper, Politkovskaya denounced the...

Brat
Brother

Daniil has just come back from his military service with neither money nor a job, and no one in...

Brèves rencontres
Brief Encounters (Korotkie vstrechi)

An employee of the city of Odessa is waiting for her husband to come back from a business trip....

Champ sauvage
Wild Field (Dikoye Pole)

Mitia, a very young doctor, is given work in an abandoned clinic in the middle of the Kazakh steppes....

Daleko ot Sunset Bulvara
Far from Sunset Boulevard

At the beginning of the 1930’s, Dalmatov, a young filmmaker, comes back to the USSR after spending...

Dans ce pays là
In That Country (V toy strane…)

Far away in the Russian countryside where it is unlikely that anyone ever heard of Perestroika,...

Happy Birthday!
S dnyom rozhdeniya

During the last days of a maternity ward out in the provinces, several women, all staying in the...

Je me balade dans Moscou
Walking the Streets of Moscow (Ya shagayu po Moskve)

A day in the life of a young Moscovite, Kolia, who works at night and comes home early in the...

Koktebel
Roads to Koktebel

From 13 years
An 11-year old boy and his father, who have neither money nor a home, leaveMoscow...

L'Italien
The Italian (Italyanets)

Vania, 6 years old lives in the orphanage. His pals envy him because an Italian couple wants to adopt...

Le temps de la moisson
Harvest Time

During the 1950’s, a young kolkhoz worker wins the Red Flag prize given to the person whose achievement...

Les Premiers sur la Lune
First on the Moon (Pervye na lune)

No one knew about this until the present film was made: the Soviet Union were the first to send...

Mon demi-frère Frankenstein
My Half-Brother Frankenstein (Moy svobonyy brat Frankenstein)

Until he arrives at the home of a conventional intellectual family in Moscow, no one ever knew...

Palata N°6
Ward No. 6

An investigation is being made in a psychiatric clinic near Moscow. It becomes clear that the...

Pas de gué dans le feu
V ogne broda net

War is raging after the October Revolution. In a hospital train, Tania is an assistant nurse,...

Russian Ark
Russkij kovcheg

The film takes place entirely in the Hermitage Palace, the home of all the czars since Peter the Great....

Staroukhi
The little old ladies

Old women living in a deserted Russian village bury one of the inhabitants, wondering whether there...

Tishe!

Daily life along 20meters of road in Saint Petersburg....

Vingt jours sans guerre
Twenty Days without War (Dvadtsat dney bez voyny)

Vassiliy Lopatin, war correspondent and well-known writer, is given 20 days’ leave at the end...

Alma Corsária

Rivaldo Torres and Teodoro Xavier, two childhood friends, celebrate the publication of their anthology...

Anjos do arrabalde

The daily life of three women, all of them teachers in the poorer suburbs of Sao Paulo. All three...

Dois Córregos, Verdades Submersas no Tempo

At the end of the 1990’s, a successful young woman returns to the small village of Dois Corregos...

Garotas do ABC

In Brazil, ABC is the name of the industrial heart of the country on the southern border of Sao Paulo....

Houve uma vez dois verões

From 14 years
Chico, a young boy, is on vacation at the seaside and falls in love with the...

Ilha das Flores

How a tomato lands in a garbage can. Or the life and the death of a fruit grown by a South Brazilian peasant...

Meu Tio Matou um Cara

Eder is thrown into jail after having killed a man. Duca, his fifteen-year old nephew, tries to...

O homem que copiava

André, 20 years old, «photocopy machine operator», has a crush on Silvia. The story is about...

O Sanduíche
Sandwich

A couple is eating its last sandwich while a new couple may already be getting together. And a...

Saneamento básico, o filme

The inhabitants of the small town of Linha Cristal demand that sanitation work be done in their town,...

Chronique d'un été

During the summer of 1960, sociologist Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch investigate the daily life of...

Cocorico Monsieur Poulet

From 13 years
Lam decides to leave for the bush in an old 2CV truck to sell chickens with...

Jaguar

J.Rouch’s first full-length film, worked over several times before its official release in 1967....

La chasse au lion à l'arc

From 1957 to 1964, Rouch observes the Gao hunters. The film recounts the episodes of the hunt in...

Les Maîtres fous

The film shows the rituals of the Hauka cult, a religious sect, at their big annual ceremony....

Madame l'eau
Under the Skin

Lam, Damouré and Tallou go an adventurous trip to Holland, for they are searching for solutions...

Moi, un Noir

Some young men from Niger have left the landlocked country to look for work in the Ivory Coast. Uprooted...

Mon père c'est un lion, Jean Rouch pour mémoire

The «Musée de l’Homme» in Paris, the royal seat of French cultural anthropologists, is going...

Paris vu par…
Episode Gare du Nord (Jean Rouch)

Set in Paris in the sixties in the vicinity of the Gare du Nord, Jean Rouch films the turmoil...

Petit à petit

Damouré and two friends head an import-export company called «Petit à Petit». He wants to...

A Frozen Flower
Ssang-hwa-jeom

At the end of the Koryo era (918-1932), the king can no longer tolerate China’s domination over...

Diary of King Yonsan
Yeonsan ilgi

The young ruler Yonsan accedes to the throne in 1495. His fragile mental state makes it impossible...

King and the Clown
Wang-ui namja

In the 1490’s, the time of the dark prince Yonsan, travelling tight-rope walkers and buffoons...

Shadows in the Palace
Goongnyeo

Suicide in the palace – a servant woman has hung herself. The nurse in charge of the autopsy...

The Eunuch
Naeshi

Do-ryung and Ja-ok have loved each other since childhood, but Ja-ok’s father introduces her...

The President's Last Bang
Geuddae geusaramdeul

Seoul, 1979. At the dawning of the «Made in Korea» era, the dictator Park Chung-hee seems to be...

Eastern Plays

While on holiday in Sofia, a family of Turks is assaulted one night by a neo-Nazi group. Itso,...

Police, Adjective
Politist, adj.

Cristi works as a policeman in the small town of Vasliu in north-eastern Romania. For many days,...

Reykjavík Rotterdam

Kristófer is a security agent. This is a lucky break for a man who had once been sentenced for...

Slovenka
Slovenian Girl

Alexandra, a young student, supports herself in Ljubljana by what is called the oldest profession...

Battle Royale
Batoru rowaiaru

In order to combat unemployment and violence among young people, the Japanese government proclaims the...

Guerre des gangs à Okinawa
Sympathy for the Underdog (Bakuto gaijin butai)

A gang of young delinquents start blackmailing middle-class and other upwardly mobile beneficiaries of...

La maison de geishas
The Geisha House (Omocha)

This is the description of the life of a geisha, or how poverty has forced Tokiko to prostitute...

Le salaire du crime
Wolves, Pigs & Men (Ôkami to buta to ningen)

Ichiro, Jiro and Sabu are three no-good brothers who dream of only one thing: to get rich and...

Okita le pourfendeur
Street Mobster

The story of Okita, a violent delinquent who gradually isolates himself from everyone in an almost...

Shogun Samourai
Intrigue of the Yagyu Clan (Yagyû ichizoku no inbô)

After the death of the Shogun Tokugawa, it turns out that he was poisoned by his son Iemitsu’s friends,...

Yakuza Graveyard
Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana

An undercover policeman tries to catch the bad guys who are active in his sector. The closer he...

Alicia Bustamante, un film de Hanna Schygulla

In her first film, Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's regular lead actress (Lili Marleen,...

Crime and Punishment

Young police recruits take up their quarters at the Chinese-North Korean border. Confronted with local...

Extérieur Nuit

From one day to another, Léo (Gérard Lanvin) ditches his job as a publicist and his girlfriend,...

Paper Airplane

This film shows a group of young drug addicts in the Beijing suburbs. They get arrested and make never-kept...

Petition

This film (shot between1998 and 2006) is about Chinese citizens who come to Beijing from all over the...

We Are Half of Iran’s Population
We Are Half of Iran’s Population

From 14 years
There are a large number of feminist activists in Iran. They come from a very...

O Ritual dos Sádicos
Awakening of the Beast

During a TV show, a moralistic audience condemns José Mojica Marins, an anticlerical artist and provocateur....

Pulgasari
Pulgasari

A warlord is forcing farmers to give him their tools so he can recover the metal and turn it into weapons....

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

1850. In Oregon, deep in the American West, Adam and Milly are getting married without any prelude. Only...

Westward the Women
Westward the Women

19th century, American wild. There aren\'t enough women. Roy Whitman wants to give the workers...

Al-Intizar
Waiting

Over one third of the total urban population in the Arab world – 57 million people - live in...

Almost

They may never become stars, but that doesn’t dampen the lively imagination of four Arab boys whose...

Avoda Aravit
Arab Labor

Amjad is an Arab journalist in Israel. In order to mingle with the cool Israeli crowd, Amjad is...

BeTipul
In Treatment

A half-hour drama, BeTipul focuses on a therapist who is calm, smooth, insightful, and non confrontational with...

Eli & Ben

From 8 years
Eli’s world is turned upside down when his father, an architect of the city...

Jiburo – Sur le chemin de la maison

From 5 years
Sang-woo is forced to spend his holidays in the countryside with his grandmother,...

Malin comme un singe

The monkey is one of the twelve animals of the zodiac, and is very important in the Chinese tradition. It...

Route 225

One evening, Eriko and his brother come back home and find the house empty. The following day,...

El secreto de sus Ojos
The Secret in Their Eyes

When he retires in 1999, Benjamin Esposito, a court official, is still tormented by an assassination and...