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RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA 2004

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 21st till the 24th 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 2005...

Loic Magneron & Matteo Lovadina

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

SCREENINGS IN PARIS

Tarfaya
Saturday 22nd January, 11.00 am
Club de l’Etoile
14 rue Troyon
75017 Paris

Honest People Live In France - Le gens honnetes...
(World Premiere of the final cut)
Sunday 23rd January, 9.00 am
Club 13
15 avenue Hoche
75008 Paris

Tideline - Littoral
Sunday 23rd January, 5.00 pm
Club Marboeuf
38 rue Marboeuf
75008 Paris

Summer Wedding - Noce d'été
Monday 24th January, 5.00pm
Club de l’Etoile
14 rue Troyon
75017 Paris

LINE UP

- Tarfaya: by Daoud Aoulad Syad

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)

2004 – Color – 97 Minutes – France – Morocco

Festivals:
- San Sebastian 2004: Official Competition

- Honest people live in France: by Bob Decout
(World Premiere of the final cut)

With 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

2004 - 90 minutes - France / Colombia

Festivals:
- Alpe d'Huez - International Comedy Film Festival 2005

- Tideline: by Wajdi Mouawad

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

2004 – 96 Minutes – Canada - France

- Summer Wedding: by Moktar Ladjimi
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.
Produced by Ciné Sud Promotion – Thierry Lenouvel

2004 – Color – 94 Minutes – France

Festivals:
20ème edition des journées cinématographiques de Carthage: Official Selection:
- Jury Special Prize.
- Acting award: Male Supporting Role.

- Wall : by Simone Bitton

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.

2004 – Color - 100 Minutes - France

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

- Moolaadé : by Ousmane Sembene

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: beginning 2005.

2004– Color – 120 Minutes – France – Sénégal

Already 4 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
- National society of film critics award for best foreign film

- Brasileirinho: by Mika Kaurismaki

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: Brasilian

2005– Color – 90 Minutes – Switzerland – Finland – Brasil

Festival:
- Official selection in the International Forum of New Cinema – for the upcoming Berlin 2005

- Hollow City : by Maria Joao Ganga

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

2004 – Color – 90 Minutes – France – Portugal – Angola

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

- Souli: by Alexander Abela

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.

2004 – Color – 95 Min – France

Festivals:
- World cinema Film festival - Montréal 2004: Official Selection
- Namur International Film Festival 2004: Official Selection

- Stand Up For Reggae: by Jérôme Laperrousaz

Synopsis: This is a documentary about people who made and still make reggae music in Jamaica.
Producer: Hélène Vager (Valentine Productions)
Original Language: English

2004 – Color – 52 or 85 Minutes – France.

Festivals:
- Official selection in competition Music & Show section at the FIPA – for thre upcoming Biarritz 2005

- Koursk, A Submarine in Trouble Water : by Jean-Michel Carré

Synopsis : In August 2000, 118 men die on board the state of the artsubmarine, Kursk, in the Barents Sea.Kursk, the pride and glory of the Northern Fleet, was said to be invincible.What were the rel 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)

2004- Color – 72 Minutes – France

Voice Over : Peter Coyote

- Liberty bound : by Christine Rose

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.

2004 – Color – 90 Minutes – USA

- Writers: by Marc Aurèle Vechione

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”

Voice Over : Vincent Cassel

2004 – Color – France

- Rolling : by Gretchen Berland

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.

2004 – Color - 90 minutes - USA

- 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)

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