BALLROOM

January 17th
5.00 PM
CLUB DE L'ETOILE

• Directed by : Patrick Mario BERNARD, Xavier BRILLAT,
  Pierre TRIVIDIC
• Cast : Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic, Peter Bonke,
  Jean-Yves Jouannais.
• Synopsis : Rene is an artist. His studio is set up in a disused dance
  hall and he lives on the premises with his boyfriend. Life
  swims along nicely, only he seems to be “coming down with
  something” – such is the expression used. It’s not that he
  feels sick exactly, more that he is getting distinctly
  oversensitive.Things pop into his mind and then won't leave.
  Like that picture of two spooky clowns seen in a magazine.
  Hard work and play make no difference at all. The image
  becomes an idée fixe and with every passing day Ren
  is increasingly tormented by obsessions that, in his rational
  mind, he rejects. Until one fine day his world goes off the
  rails as he finds himself face to face with a doppelganger.
• Produced by : Ex Nihilo - Patrick Sobelman

SCREENING : January 17th, 5.00 PM, CLUB DE L'ETOILE
14, rue Troyon - 75017 - PARIS

BROTHERS - FRERES

France - 2003 - 80 minutes - 35mm - Color

• Directed by : Xavier de CHOUDENS
• Cast : Serge Riaboukine, Matthieu Genet, Elisabeth Kaza,
  Bruce Myers.
• Synopsis : Vincent is a young man of 20 leading a mundane
  existence. One day, he narrowly escapes being
  mugged. His life turns upside down when he finds out
  that the mugger is actually his own brother Serge,
  whom he hadn't seen since childhood, and who has
  just escaped from prison. By and by each one reveals
  his true self in this quest for the other and the discovery
  of past made of grief, silence and absence.
• Produced by : Agat Films & Cie – Nicolas Blanc

SCREENING : January 19th, 11.00 AM, CLUB DE L'ETOILE
14, rue Troyon - 75017 - PARIS

• Directed by : Amal BEDJAOUI
• Cast : Mohamed HICHAM - Hammou GRAIA - Isabelle
  PICHAUD - Aurélien RECOING
• Synopsis : Selim, young man with derive, is disguised and prostitue.
  It seeks to be made like of sound avoids. Omar, who lives
  locked up in a mourning since the disappearance of his wife.
  The father and wire pass one to with dimensions of the other
  without managing to meet. Only the destiny will bring them
  closer a little too late...
• Produced by : ML Productions

SCREENING : January 16th , 11.00 AM, CLUB DE L'ETOILE
14, rue Troyon - 75017 - PARIS

SUN'S END - LE SOLEIL ASSASSINE

France – 2003 – 85 minutes – 35mm - Color

• Directed by : Abdelkrim Bahloul
• Cast : Charles Berling, Mehdi Dehbi, Ouassini Embarek
• Synopsis : The Assassinated Sun, based on actual events in the
  newly independent Algeria of the 1970s. Following the country's liberation
  in 1962, the police didn't take kindly to gay poet Jean Senac.
  Nevertheless, he was appreciated by a large liberal audience.
  The police also don't approve of writing student Hamid who writes and stars
  in a French-language play during a national theater competition.
  Senac, however, enjoys the play and proceeds to develop a friendship
  with Hamid. Even though the two were never publicly declared.
• Produced by : Mact Productions

SCREENING : January 16th, 9.00 AM, CLUB MARBEUF
38, rue Marbeuf - 75008 - PARIS

THE WALL - LE MUR

France – 2004 – 100 minutes – 35mm - Color - DOCUMENTARY

• Directed by : Simone BITTON
• Synopsis : In June 2002, the israeli authorities began the construction
  of a gigantic security fence, aimed at preventing palestinian
  terrorists infiltrations. With an original cinematographic approach,
  the director, jewish and arabian as well, aims to go to the human
  universal heart of israeli and palestinian tragic reality.
• Produced by : Cinesud Promotion - Thierry Lenouvel

SCREENING : January 18th, 3.00 PM, CLUB MARBEUF
38, rue Marbeuf - 75008 PARIS

THE LIVING WORLD - LE MONDE VIVANT

France – 2003 – 35mm - 75 minutes - Color

• Directed by : Eugene GREEN
• Cast : Adrien Michaux, Alexis Loret, Laurène Cheilan, Christelle
  Prot, Achille Trocellier.
• Synopsis : Two children are captured by an ogre equipped with a wife
  as beautiful as good. The ogre has another captive, a blonde
  girl locked up in a vault. He intends to eat the children and to
  marry the young lady of the vault. Two young knights, one occur
  accompanied by a lion and which got excited of the young
  prisoner. They will achieve the prowess to deliver the victims
  of the ogre. The knight with the lion will know death, but will
  come back to life.

VANISHED - DISPARUES - Shooting February 2004

France – 2004– 90 minutes - Color - DOCUMENTARY

• Directed by : Alain Mazars
• Synopsis : Thanks to the help of a young medium, the investigation, led through Laos, permits to establish that the young child of Khema, a chamane singer vanished , could be even living.
  The ghosts of this mother and her daughter, mysteriously vanished to 12 years of interval, will they end up taking life at the end of this road movie "initiatique" to the heart of the Laotian forest?
• Produced by : New Deal Films

France – 2004 – 52 minutes (100 minutes in production) - 35mm – Color - DOCUMENTARY

• Directed by : Jean-Michel Carré
• Produced by : Films du grain de sable
• Synopsis : In August 2000, 118 men die on board the state of the art submarine, Kursk, in the Barents Sea. Kursk, the pride and glory of the Northern Fleet, was said to be invincible. What were the real reasons for this tragic accident, why, were these men not saved ? Behind these questions lies a deeper one concerning the role of power in Russia today, but also that of world powers in general and the current evolution in East- West relations.

France – 2003 – 52 minutes (90 minutes in production) - 35mm – Color - DOCUMENTARY

• Directed by : Philippe Priestley
• Cast : Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, Booker T. Jones.
• Produced by : Films du grain de sable.
• Synopsis : It's in first place the history of a music, the Soul, and of a record company, the Stax, who will live forever during the years of the american life. Soul of black american music, Stax is part of the recent history of their actors : the riots of Watstax, the Black Panters...

France – 2003 – 100 minutes - 35mm – Color

• Directed by : Eric GUIRADO (Best short film César 2001)
• Cast : Serge Riaboukine, Benoît Giros, Jean-François Gallotte.
• Produced by : Harpo Films
• Synopsis : Jerôme, since the death of his father, has not a single
  day off in five years. He and his mother struggle to
  maintain a small dairy farm. It’s December and Jerôme uses
  the Christmas vacations to find a work in the city. Once in the
  city he realises the harshness of life outside of the countryside…