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FILM FINISHED APRIL 2010
THE ENERGUMEN
A feature film by Jean-Loic Portron
77’. Original version French and English subtitles / French version
Production: JBA Production
Co-production: ARTE GIE / CNC / Centre Images / Procirep-Angoa / Doc & Film International
With Anna Mihalcea, Melissa Barbaud, Thierry Bosc, Serge Merlin, Philippe Awat, Serge Feuillard and the historian Sarah Ferber, Robin Briggs, Moshe Sluhovsky, Denis Crouzet.
Production manager Benjamin Lanlard • First assistant director Marianne Fricheau • Director of photography Hélène Louvart • Set and wardrobe Françoise Arnaud • Sound Laurent Gabiot, Jean Mallet • Editing Stéphane Huter • Music Valentin Portron
Synopsis
The film inquires into an affair of state, which shook the end of the sixteenth century. It shows how the devilries of Marthe Brossier, who claimed to be possessed, led her contemporaries to clarify their thinking on the relationship between religion and science, between God and state. Four historians dissect the plot staged by Catholic zealots to sabotage the reconciliation policy pursued by Henry IV. This policy, which puts an end to religious wars, heralds the birth of the modern state and the genesis of a new world where religion is separated from politics. Our world.
IN POST PRODUCTION
CORPO CELESTE
A feature film by Alice Rohrwacher
Production: Tempesta (Italy) - JBA Production - AMKA (Swiss)
Producer: Carlo Cresto Dina, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin and Tiziana Soudani
Co-production: RAI Cinema, Ministère de la Culture (Italy), Fondation Calabre, ARTE France Cinéma, RTSI
With Avec Salvatore Cantalupo • Yle Vianello • Anita Caprioli • production manager Giorgio Gasparini • Cinematography Hélène Louvart • Editing Marco Spoletini
Synopsis
Set deep in the south of Italy, Corpo Celeste is the story of 13 year old Marta who is struggling to resettle after ten years growing up in Switzerland. Bright-eyed and restless, she observes the sights, sounds and smells of the city but feels very much an outsider. Marta is about to undergo the rite of confirmation. In the convention of the Catholic Church she takes catechism but confronts the morality of the local Catholic community. A series of subtle moments trace her journey as she connects and conflicts with her mother, sister and the Sunday school teacher Santa. From experiencing her period to making a bold decision to cut her hair, Marta begins to shape her own life for the first time since moving back to Italy. Corpo Celeste heralds the arrival of a young and distinctive voice. Alice Rohrwacher’s writing and directing debut is a sensitive unveiling of the moral and religious layers that can smother adolescence.
Sélection à la Quinzaine des réalisateurs- Festival de Cannes
Director Biography
Born in Tuscany, Alice Rohrwacher graduated from Torino University in Literature and Philosophy. She directed a segment in the collective feature film Checosamanca. Corpo Celeste is her feature length writing and directing debut.
IN DEVELOPPEMENT
DIARY OF A YOUNG MAN
A feature film by Tsai Ming-Liang
Shooting in Taiwan, winter 2011
KHORRAMSHAHR
A feature film by Massoud Bakhshi
Production: JBA Production / Firoozei Films (Iran)
Shooting in Iran, winter 2011
Selected at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Workshop and at the Turinolab 2009/2010.
Khorramshahr was awarded the ARTE Prize of International Relations at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Workshop.
Synopsis
The destiny of a man, Arash, in the whirlwind of political intrigue and family vengeance from the war of 1980 to the spring of 2009. A story of the Iranian revolution over three generations.
EVITA
A feature film by Pablo Agüero
Synopsis
Eva Peron was buried 25 years after her death. During that quarter of a century, she had more political power than anyone alive.
LE CHANT DES HOMMES
A feature film by Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jimenez
Shooting in Belgium, autumn 2011
New titles DVD 2010
ARISTOTLE'S PLOT
a feature film by Jean-Pierre Bekolo
70 mn / DVD 5 – color – 16/9 - in english with french subtitles
When Essemba Tourneur, an accursed moviemaker driven out of Europe, goes back home, everything seems to have changed drastically. He discovers in amazement that the old movie theater is now occupied by a gang who ingests American movies all day long. Essemba decides to recover the premises in order to project African movies. For their part, the hoodlums who have been expelled from town and deprived of movies, are getting bored. They thus decide to strip Essemba’s theater and to open a makeshift cinema in the village where they took refuge. Unfortunately, their loot is only made of African movies. With an aching heart, they project them to the villagers who love them. Essemba decides to get his movies back and to settle Cinema and his gang, thus slipping in spite of himself into a real fiction in the American style.
Bonus: Djibril Diop Lalbety in “La grammaire de grand-mère” – 8mn French version
CORPS PLONGÉS
a feature film by Raoul Peck
96 mn - DVD 9 - Pal - color - format 16/9 - english and french version, french and english subtitles
Chase Dellal was just a little girl when she left Haiti. Her past remains for her an unexplained child's nightmare. A coroner in New York City, she spends her time every day next to vic tims of a violence that strikes the weakest, and defends her integrity in a world rotting with an inexorable corruption. She's bored with her comfortable but aimless relationship with Ralph, a married man, judge in the state court and ambitious politician. Everything turns upside down with Dimitri appears, after a ten-year absence...
DANCE OF THE WIND
un long-métrage de Rajan Khosa
90 mn - DVD 5 - Pal - color - format 4/3 - vo hindi, english subtitles, stt français, son stéréo
Pallavi, a young Indian musician, studies classical music with her mother. Her mother dies and the young girl loses her voice. The only way she can keep on singing is by meeting up with her mother’s teacher, an old indiscernible and mystical man. With the help of this wise man and thanks to her own determination, she will learn the real spiritual dimension of music, a sacred oral tradition; she will discover the mysteries of silence and will revive her lost voice.
TWO FILM BY ROBERT BOZZI
DVD 9 - color - english version with french subtitles, in french for “God, dollar”
MY AMERICAN FAMILY
A documentary film by Robert Bozzi • 57mn
Crossing the desert, I think about Ebby. After ten years of being separated by an ocean and a continent, I'm going back, back to my wife's home to shoot the film I promised her mother I'd make. It all started with a head-over-heels love-at-first-sight encounter. Margarey-Ethel and Ray-Gene were 16 when they got married. Colorado was born the following year, the oldest of their ten children. With pockets full of holes myself, I would have loved to have had a rich old American uncle, but love decided otherwise.I inherited a family of ten children in Las Vegas instead.
Et GOD, DOLLAR, FLAG AND DOG
A documentary film by Robert Bozzi • 52 mn
I went to the West Coast of America to see what the war times looked like after 9-11. I took back my place between my wife Ebby and our dog Napoleon, in our house at the foot of the "French Man's Mountain". Living this life and spotting what had changed, I came back with four words upon which I kept stumbling : God, Dollar, Flag & Dog.
FLAME
a feature film by Ingrid Sinclair
90 mn - DVD 9 - Pal - color - english version with french and german subtitles•
The story begins in a small village in Rhodesia (which will became Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980 after years of civil war), when the war is hotting up. The life of two teenage girls are changed when the father of one of them is detained by the Rhodesians. They decide to walk to Mozambique to join the struggle. Life in the camps is harsh. They training on equal terms with the men, take war names « Flame » and « Liberty », and all their place in the common fight. « Flame » is the story of how the independence of a country also became the independence of the women who fight for it.
Bonus: Interview with Ingrid Sinclair directed by Simon Bright - 22 mn
FILM FINISHED APRIL 2010
THE ENERGUMEN
A feature film by Jean-Loic Portron
77’. Original version French and English subtitles / French version
Production: JBA Production
Co-production: ARTE GIE / CNC / Centre Images / Procirep-Angoa / Doc & Film International
With Anna Mihalcea, Melissa Barbaud, Thierry Bosc, Serge Merlin, Philippe Awat, Serge Feuillard and the historian Sarah Ferber, Robin Briggs, Moshe Sluhovsky, Denis Crouzet.
Production manager Benjamin Lanlard • First assistant director Marianne Fricheau • Director of photography Hélène Louvart • Set and wardrobe Françoise Arnaud • Sound Laurent Gabiot, Jean Mallet • Editing Stéphane Huter • Music Valentin Portron
Synopsis
The film inquires into an affair of state, which shook the end of the sixteenth century. It shows how the devilries of Marthe Brossier, who claimed to be possessed, led her contemporaries to clarify their thinking on the relationship between religion and science, between God and state. Four historians dissect the plot staged by Catholic zealots to sabotage the reconciliation policy pursued by Henry IV. This policy, which puts an end to religious wars, heralds the birth of the modern state and the genesis of a new world where religion is separated from politics. Our world.
IN POST PRODUCTION
CORPO CELESTE
A feature film by Alice Rohrwacher
Production: Tempesta (Italy) - JBA Production - AMKA (Swiss)
Producer: Carlo Cresto Dina, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin and Tiziana Soudani
Co-production: RAI Cinema, Ministère de la Culture (Italy), Fondation Calabre, ARTE France Cinéma, RTSI
With Avec Salvatore Cantalupo • Yle Vianello • Anita Caprioli • production manager Giorgio Gasparini • Cinematography Hélène Louvart • Editing Marco Spoletini
Synopsis
Set deep in the south of Italy, Corpo Celeste is the story of 13 year old Marta who is struggling to resettle after ten years growing up in Switzerland. Bright-eyed and restless, she observes the sights, sounds and smells of the city but feels very much an outsider. Marta is about to undergo the rite of confirmation. In the convention of the Catholic Church she takes catechism but confronts the morality of the local Catholic community. A series of subtle moments trace her journey as she connects and conflicts with her mother, sister and the Sunday school teacher Santa. From experiencing her period to making a bold decision to cut her hair, Marta begins to shape her own life for the first time since moving back to Italy. Corpo Celeste heralds the arrival of a young and distinctive voice. Alice Rohrwacher’s writing and directing debut is a sensitive unveiling of the moral and religious layers that can smother adolescence.
Sélection à la Quinzaine des réalisateurs- Festival de Cannes
Director Biography
Born in Tuscany, Alice Rohrwacher graduated from Torino University in Literature and Philosophy. She directed a segment in the collective feature film Checosamanca. Corpo Celeste is her feature length writing and directing debut.
IN DEVELOPPEMENT
DIARY OF A YOUNG MAN
A feature film by Tsai Ming-Liang
Shooting in Taiwan, winter 2011
KHORRAMSHAHR
A feature film by Massoud Bakhshi
Production: JBA Production / Firoozei Films (Iran)
Shooting in Iran, winter 2011
Selected at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Workshop and at the Turinolab 2009/2010.
Khorramshahr was awarded the ARTE Prize of International Relations at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Workshop.
Synopsis
The destiny of a man, Arash, in the whirlwind of political intrigue and family vengeance from the war of 1980 to the spring of 2009. A story of the Iranian revolution over three generations.
EVITA
A feature film by Pablo Agüero
Synopsis
Eva Peron was buried 25 years after her death. During that quarter of a century, she had more political power than anyone alive.
LE CHANT DES HOMMES
A feature film by Bénédicte Liénard and Mary Jimenez
Shooting in Belgium, autumn 2011
New titles DVD 2010
ARISTOTLE'S PLOT
a feature film by Jean-Pierre Bekolo
70 mn / DVD 5 – color – 16/9 - in english with french subtitles
When Essemba Tourneur, an accursed moviemaker driven out of Europe, goes back home, everything seems to have changed drastically. He discovers in amazement that the old movie theater is now occupied by a gang who ingests American movies all day long. Essemba decides to recover the premises in order to project African movies. For their part, the hoodlums who have been expelled from town and deprived of movies, are getting bored. They thus decide to strip Essemba’s theater and to open a makeshift cinema in the village where they took refuge. Unfortunately, their loot is only made of African movies. With an aching heart, they project them to the villagers who love them. Essemba decides to get his movies back and to settle Cinema and his gang, thus slipping in spite of himself into a real fiction in the American style.
Bonus: Djibril Diop Lalbety in “La grammaire de grand-mère” – 8mn French version
CORPS PLONGÉS
a feature film by Raoul Peck
96 mn - DVD 9 - Pal - color - format 16/9 - english and french version, french and english subtitles
Chase Dellal was just a little girl when she left Haiti. Her past remains for her an unexplained child's nightmare. A coroner in New York City, she spends her time every day next to vic tims of a violence that strikes the weakest, and defends her integrity in a world rotting with an inexorable corruption. She's bored with her comfortable but aimless relationship with Ralph, a married man, judge in the state court and ambitious politician. Everything turns upside down with Dimitri appears, after a ten-year absence...
DANCE OF THE WIND
un long-métrage de Rajan Khosa
90 mn - DVD 5 - Pal - color - format 4/3 - vo hindi, english subtitles, stt français, son stéréo
Pallavi, a young Indian musician, studies classical music with her mother. Her mother dies and the young girl loses her voice. The only way she can keep on singing is by meeting up with her mother’s teacher, an old indiscernible and mystical man. With the help of this wise man and thanks to her own determination, she will learn the real spiritual dimension of music, a sacred oral tradition; she will discover the mysteries of silence and will revive her lost voice.
TWO FILM BY ROBERT BOZZI
DVD 9 - color - english version with french subtitles, in french for “God, dollar”
MY AMERICAN FAMILY
A documentary film by Robert Bozzi • 57mn
Crossing the desert, I think about Ebby. After ten years of being separated by an ocean and a continent, I'm going back, back to my wife's home to shoot the film I promised her mother I'd make. It all started with a head-over-heels love-at-first-sight encounter. Margarey-Ethel and Ray-Gene were 16 when they got married. Colorado was born the following year, the oldest of their ten children. With pockets full of holes myself, I would have loved to have had a rich old American uncle, but love decided otherwise.I inherited a family of ten children in Las Vegas instead.
Et GOD, DOLLAR, FLAG AND DOG
A documentary film by Robert Bozzi • 52 mn
I went to the West Coast of America to see what the war times looked like after 9-11. I took back my place between my wife Ebby and our dog Napoleon, in our house at the foot of the "French Man's Mountain". Living this life and spotting what had changed, I came back with four words upon which I kept stumbling : God, Dollar, Flag & Dog.
FLAME
a feature film by Ingrid Sinclair
90 mn - DVD 9 - Pal - color - english version with french and german subtitles•
The story begins in a small village in Rhodesia (which will became Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980 after years of civil war), when the war is hotting up. The life of two teenage girls are changed when the father of one of them is detained by the Rhodesians. They decide to walk to Mozambique to join the struggle. Life in the camps is harsh. They training on equal terms with the men, take war names « Flame » and « Liberty », and all their place in the common fight. « Flame » is the story of how the independence of a country also became the independence of the women who fight for it.
Bonus: Interview with Ingrid Sinclair directed by Simon Bright - 22 mn
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