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SUNDANCE & FIPA 2005
 18 – 23 January 2005 OFFICIAL
SELECTION
Friday
January 21, 21.00 pm Also
Stand
Up For Reggae, 52’ and 85’
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Wall Tuesday
January 25, 2.30 pm Wednesday
january 26, 7.00 pm Thursday
January 27, 8.30 am
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Dear Friends,
Please note that Agathe Valentin will attend the upcoming FIPA from the 18th to the 23rd of January 2005, she will attend the festival and the Market.
You can reach her on her mobile at: +33 6 62 44 92 35
She would be please to schedule an appointment, please fill up the following:
Company / Contact :
Place:
Date :
Time :
Waiting for meeting, you,
all our best regards.
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Stand Up For Reggae: by Jérôme Laperrousaz – 2004 – Color – 52 or 85
Minutes –
France.
Synopsis:
This is a documentary about people who made and still make reggae music in Jamaica.
Producer:
Hélène Vager (Valentine Productions)
Original
Language: English
Official
selection in competition Music & Performing arts, at the FIPA 2005
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Koursk, A Submarine in Trouble Water
by Jean Michel Carré – 2004- Color – France
– 71 Minutes
Synopsis: In August 2000, 118 men died
on board of the state submarine, Koursk, in
the
Barents Sea. Koursk, 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.
Producer:
Jean Michel Carré (Les Films du Grain de Sable)
Original
Language : French or English
SUNDANCE SCREENINGS
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Wall : by Simone Bitton – 2004 – Color - 100 Minutes - France
Synopsis:
in June 2002, the Israeli authorities began the construction of a gigantic security
fence, aimed at preventing Palestinian terrorists from infiltrating Israeli
territory. The wall imprisons Palestinians and Israelis alike. The WALL is visual,
human, and psychological study.
French
Release: October20th.
Already
5 festivals:
- Cannes 2004 : “Directors Fortnight”
- Marseille : Grand Prize, Best Documentary
- Jerusalem: Grand Prize, Best Documentary
- Pesaro, Italy: Grand Prize, Best Film
- Melbourne, Australia: Official Selection (Great reviews
- Montréal, Best Documentary
- Official selection in competition Sundance 2005
LINE UP
- Brasileirinho
by Mika Kaurismaki – 2004 – Color –
90 Minutes – Switzerland – Finland – Brazil
Synopsis: Brasileirinho is
a 90minutes swinging musical documentary film about CHORO,
the first genuinely Brazilian urban music that
has evolved over the past 130 years into a fascinating form of modern
tropical sound.
Producer: Marco Forster (Marco Forster
Productions)
Original Language: Brazilian
Festivals: International
Forum of New Cinema – Berlin 2005
- Moolaadé
: by Ousmane Sembene – 2004– Color – 120 Minutes – France
– Sénégal
With Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré
Synopsis: Collé Gallo Ardo Sy, a circumcised woman, had managed to help her only daughter escape from the ritual of purification organized every seven years. This year, four young girls have fled from the village to escape from excision and are seeking protection (Moolaadé) from Ardo. The village is on the boil. We are witnessing a confrontation between two kinds of values: the right to protection and the attachment in tradition symbolized by excision.
French
Release: March 2005 on 80 prints
Original Language: Bambara
Festivals:
- Cannes 2004: “Un Certain Regard” Grand Prize
- Toronto 2004: Official Selection
- Pusan Film Festival 2004: Official Selection
- San Sebastian 2004: Special Events (Las Perlas)
- European
Film Awards: nominated for best non European Film
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National society of film critics award for best foreign film 2005
- Tarfaya :
by Daoud Aoulad Syad – 2004 – Color – 97 Minutes – France – Morocco
With: Touria Aloui, Mohamed Bastaoui, Mohamed Harraga, Naima
Iliasse
Synopsis:
Myriam, 28, wants to leave Morocco. Her goal is to reach Spain. On her journey
she will meet many different persons, mostly girls in transit. Their
life is bound to the rhythm of random illegal departures, finding in each other
comfort and a provisional friend. The way to freedom is not easy for Myriam
and she will pay for it.
Producer: Francine Jean-Baptiste (Mandala Productions)
Language: Arabic
Festivals:
- San Sebastian 2004: Official Competition
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Honest people live in France by Bob Decout- 2004 - 90 minutes
- France / Colombia
Cast: Victoria Abril, Bruno Putzulu, Hélène de Fougerolles, Artus de Penguern
Synopsis:
In order to be able to adopt a child in Latin America, a woman marries an influential
politician. This one intends to exploit this marriage to develop its image.
French
Release: March 2005 on 250 prints
Producer: Thierry Forte (DMVB Films)
Coproducer:
Mate Production
Language:
French
- Tideline by Wajdi Mouawad – 2004 – 96 Minutes – Canada –France
With: Steve Laplante, Gilles Renaud, Miro, Isabelle
Leblanc
Wahab
is a young Montrealer of Lebanese decent. Shortly after celebrating his birthday
and while he is indulging in unabashed sex, his father dies. Suddenly, Wahab’s
easy way of life comes to a brutal stop. A film without any concessions.
The first feature film of a real author.
Producer:
Brigitte Germain (EGM Production)
Coproducer:
Les Films de Cinéma
Language:
French
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Summer Wedding:
by Moktar Ladjimi– 2004 – Color – 94 Minutes – France
World
Premiere
With
Mohamed Ali Ben Jamaa, Fethi Heddaoui, Lotfi Abdelli, Mustapha Adouani
Synopsis:
Hamid, 30, is a journalist
waiting for success. In Tunisia, due to the social and family pressure, his
parents decide to marry him to his cousin Rym. Hamid accepts but doesn’t want
to be involved in the preparation… He looks for his freedom as a man and as
a journalist.
Producer
: Thierry Lenouvel (Ciné Sud Promotion)
Festivals:
20ème edition des journées cinématographiques
de Carthage: Official Selection:
- Jury Special Prize.
- Acting award: Male Supporting Role.
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Hollow City : by Maria Joao Ganga – 2004 – Color – 90 Minutes –
France – Portugal – Angola
With Júlia Botelho, Ana Bustorff, Domingos Fernandes Fonseca
Synopsis:
A group of war refugee children accompanied by a Nun fly off to Luanda. Upon
their arrival at the airport, one of the children, N’dala, escapes the group
and runs off to discover the town. While the Nun begins a search for the child,
N’dala – a war orphan, makes his way through the messed-up town imagining himself
coming back home to find his deceased parents. In the twilight of this degraded
city, the revolutionary illusions have turned to dust, encounters are troubled
even fascinating. Joka, a marginal in this already marginal city, lures N’dala,
offering him a little money in exchange for his help in a robbery.
Producer:
François Gonot (Integrada)
Original Language: Portuguese
Already
5 festivals
- Jury Special Award - Paris Film Festival
- Audience Award - Milan COE Festival Africa, South America, Asia
- 3rd Jury Award - *****
- "Graines de Cinéphage" - Women Films Festival, Créteil France
- Jury Special Mention - "Images de Femmes" Vues d’Afrique Montréal
- Cape Town Film Festival: Best
promising Filmaker
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Souli: by Alexander Abela – 2004 – Color
– 95 Min – France
With
Eduardo Noriega, Aurélien recoing, Fatou N’Diaye
Synopsis:
Carlos arrives in Africa looking for Souli, an author who lives incognito. Souli
is the final keeper of an ancient tale that Carlos hopes to transcribe, but
he becomes the instrument in a vendetta between the people whose path he crosses.
Original
Language: Portuguese
Festivals:
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World cinema Film festival - Montréal 2004: Official Selection
- Namur International Film Festival 2004: Official Selection
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Stay With Me by Livia Gimpalmo – France – 2003 – Color – 84 Minutes
With: Giovanna
Mezzogiorno, (“The last kiss” Facing window”), Adriano Giannini, Yari Gugliucci
Synopsis: A quiet couple leads a peaceful life. Secretly he dreams
of becoming an actor and tries some auditions, in one of which he meets a young
actress. The girl falls in love with him and manages to seduce him... And it's
the beginning of the troubles ...
Original
Language: Italian
- Marlène de Sousa by Tonio de Bernardi – Italy – 2004 – Color – 138 Minutes
With : Valerio Binasco, Marco Giallini,
Stefania Orsola
Synopsis: MARLENE DE SOUSA, alias KELLY exercises the oldest profession
in the world on Sao Paulo’s sidewalks. She’s not an ordinary prostitute; she’s
always working in different places as if she was following a precise plan. It looks like if she was looking
for someone or something…if she was looking for someone or something… I am looking for “this” thing that I miss to
feel complete. People always called her Betty, because she looks, as oddly as
it can be , similar to this famous telenovelas actress BETTY DO SOL. As the
dayare passing by, she starts to really identify herself to Betty. In this weird
game, Kelly and betty will meet.
In Post Production
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Mathidle by Nina Mimica – 2004 –
Italy – Color – 90 Minutes
With:
Jeremy Irons,
Nutsa Kukhianidze, Sinead Cusack
Synopsis: A colonel from Trieste from the Blue Helmets
division is
found dead on the beach at Vruia, beside a young Croat girl of 15 (Mathilde).
The young girl is immediately accuse
of being guilty of the crime
Produced
by Gam Film
Original
Language: English
In Production
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Indian memories : by Gerard Martin and Frédéric Grémeaux - In pre-production
– France
Synopsis
: Indian Memories depicts, through the portrait of the Motos family, the present
and past of one of the only community wich hasn't preserved their history on
books: the Gypsies. The legendary patriarch of the Motos, papa tonio, will retrace
his family's roots to its origin in India, we'll meet his grand grand grand
son, Lounis a 12 year old talented artist who dreams of coming back to his roots
in Spain.We welcome you to a journey full of beautiful surprises where a community,
who lives for music and dance will share with us their customs, superstitions
and traditions.
Producer : Loic Magneron (Wide Management)
And in our documentary section :
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Claude Sautet or the invisible Magic
by NT Binh – 2003 – Color – France –
85 Minutes
Synopsis: What are the secrets of a filmmaker for whom directing
has to do with an "invisible magic" ? After his death, through memories
of work and moments shared, the figure of the creative talent was completed.
A portrait who paradoxically served to reinforce the mistery. Includes intervews of B. Tavernier, P. Sarde, J.-P.
Rappeneau, G. Sautet...
Producer: François Marquis (Bagheera Productions)
Original Language : French
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China
Enigma by Jean Serge Breton – 2004- Color – 90 Minutes
Synopsis: Part-fiction, part
documentary, the director leads us into Contemporary China through the eyes
of Karine, for an amazing voyage of initiation. First in a trilogy commencing
with “J’ai dû heurter un aster (2001 – 81’) and “Une boudeuse en Thaïlande (2002
– 86’).
Producer : Jean Serge Breton (New Deal Films)
Original Language: French
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Liberty bound :
by Christine Rose – 2004 – Color – 90 Minutes – USA
With Michael Parenti, Christine Rose, Howard Zinn
Synopsis:
A film by a girl who had many questions about 9.11 from the unanswered questions
and unprecedented events of 9.11 to the unjust, illegal war and occupation of
Iraq, the Bush administration has been lying. The film sets out to exposure
those lies and to get the world population thinking about the so-called "benevolent
Empire", the United States of America.
Producer:
André Lazare (Take Off)
Original Language: English
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Writers by Marc Aurèle Vecchione – 2004 – Color – France – 90 minutes
Synopsis: Paris 1983, they
are between 14 and 18 years old, and they write their name on the city walls.
Inspired by he New York phenomenon, they
don’t just copy existing forms, but have created their own style, imposed their
own signatures and inspired a whole generation. They communicate through the
letters of their name. They are called “Writers”.
Producer: Marc Aurèle Vecchione (Resistance Films)
Voice
over : Vincent Cassel
Original
Language: French
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Rolling : by Gretchen Berland – 2004 – Color - USA
With G. Buckwalter, V. Elman, E. Wallengren
Synopsis:
Using video cameras, Galen Buckwalter, Vicki Elman and Ernie Wallengren spent
18 months documenting their lives; all from wheelchairs. “Rolling” depicts the
human struggle to maintain independence with dignity; from the perspective of
three feet off the ground.
Producer:
Gretchen Berland
Original
Language: English
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