RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA 2004 SUN'S END January 16th 9.00 AM CLUB MARBEUF A SON January 16th 11.00 AM CLUB DE L'ETOILE BALLROOM January 17th 5.00 PM CLUB DE L'ETOILE THE WALL January 18th 3.00 PM CLUB MARBEUF BROTHERS January 19th 11.00 AM CLUB DE L'ETOILE Dear Friends, Loïc Magneron (Cell : 06 60 43 96 86) and Matteo Lovadina (Cell : 06 14 45 62 78) will be attending the upcoming “RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA“ in Paris from the 16th till the 19th of January 2004. Please find here after our line-up and screening schedule for the market. Looking forward to seeing you in Paris, our best greetings for 2004, Loic Magneron Manager & Matteo Lovadina International Sales To schedule an appointment during the market please complete the following and return via e-mail : wide@widemanagement.com or fax : + 33 1 53 95 04 65 Name(s) : Company : Date : Time : Date : Time : SCREENINGS 2004 BALLROOM - DANCING France - 2003 - 93 minutes - 35mm - Color 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 A SON - UN FILS France – 2003 – 58 minutes – 35mm - Color 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 LINE UP 2004 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 A SUBMARINE IN TROUBLED WATERS - LE KOURSK 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. THE SOUL OF STAX - L'AME DE STAX 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. 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