Survivance

// Typhoon Club

Shinji Sômai // Japon // 1985
// 115 min // Couleur // 1:66

IN MOVIE THEATERS JULY 3 2024   A powerful wind blows across a small town near Tokyo. As high school students are on their way to school, a typhoon approaches. Ignoring the order to evacuate, a few students decide to confine themselves to the school. The result is a cruel, sassy, dance-filled interlude that opens and closes on a summer's night.  TEAM  ...

// My Worst Enemy

Mehran Tamadon // France, Suisse // 2023
// 82 min // Couleur // 1.90:1

Mojtaba, Hamzeh, Zar are among other individuals who have been thrown into prison and ideologically interrogated in Iran. In this documentary, the director wants them to interrogate him as agents of the Islamic Republic might. He would like the real torturer in Iran to see himself through the film as if in a mirror. The violent experience of putting themselves in the torturer's head...

// Where God is Not

Mehran Tamadon // France, Suisse // 2023
// 112 min // Couleur // 1.90:1

Taghi, Homa and Mazyar were arrested and interrogated by the Iranian regime. All three testify with their bodies, with their gestures and tell what it means to resist, what it means to break. Is there any hope that the torturer will one day reconnect with his conscience? IN MOVIE THEATERS march 6th 2024 TEAM   Written and directed by : Mehran Tamadon...

// Apolonia Apolonia

Lea Glob // Danemark, Pologne, France // 2022
// 116 min // Couleur // 1:66

When director Lea Glob met Apolonia in 2009, a child of Parisian bohemia raised among a community of artists who frequented the theater founded by her father, she had no idea that she would be filming her for thirteen years. With successive strokes, the Danish filmmaker paints a captivating portrait of a young woman who carries us along in her quest for creative emancipation....

15€

// Motherland :

Park Jae-Beom // Corée // 2022
// 68 min // Couleur // 16:9

Krisha is the daughter of the Yates who are the nomad tribe of the tundra. To save her sick mother, she follows the words of Shaman and takes off on her adventure to the end of Northern land to find the red bear she saw in her dreams. In the meanwhile, Captain Vladimir of the federal army and Bazak, the hunter, invades the forest to hunt the red bear. Krisha arrives at the forest...

15€

// Moving

Shinji Sômai // Japon // 1993
// 124 min // Couleur // 1:66

Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents' decision to separate. With the companionship of her boyfriend, Minoru, and Sally, a classmate in the same boat, Renko gradually realises the practical implications of divorce, and tries repeatedly to get her parents to reconcile. An old man teaches her about the need to forget the past... TEAM with Tomoko...

18€

// Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Mila Turajlić // Serbie, France, Croatie, Montenegro, Qatar // 2022
// 100 min // Couleur // 16:9

Non-Aligned & Ciné-Guerrillas  is a documentary diptych of two feature-length films that take us on an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World project, based on unseen 35mm materials filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito. Non-Aligned  re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned movement, examining how a global project of political...

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Christope Cognet // France // 2022
// 110 min // Couleur // 1:66

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Leonardo Di Costanzo // Italie // 2021
// 117 min // Couleur // 2.39

18€

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Juichiro Yamasaki // Japon - France // 2021
// 97 min // Couleur // 1:1.5

15€

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Pedro Costa // Portugal // 2014
// 105 min // Couleur // 1:33

// El Gran Movimiento

Kiro Russo // Bolivie, France, Qatar, Suisse // 2021
// 85 min // Couleur // 1,85:1

A symphony of the city in the heights, the illness of a worker, the nightmare and his redemption.

18€

// A Man Leaning

Marie-Violaine Brincard et Olivier Dury // France // 2021
// 95 min // Couleur // 1:33

A major poet of the end of the 20 th  century, Thierry Metz (1956 – 1997) worked as a manual laborer and seasonal hand in the southwestern France. He transformed each stage in his life into poetic material. This film aims to bring to light the tragic intensity of his brief existence together with the radicalness of his artistic commitment.   Festivals Ji.hlava International...

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Maya Da-Rin // Brésil - France - Allemagne // 2019
// 98 min // Couleur // 1,85:1

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Pedro Costa // Portugal // 2019
// 124 min // Couleur // 1:33

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Gabriel Martins et Maurilio Martins // Brésil // 2019
// 122 min // Couleur //

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Katsuya Tomita // Japon // 2019
// 63 min // Couleur // 1,85:1

017 // Bangkok Nites

Katsuya Tomita // Japon // 2016
// 183 min // Couleur // 1,85:1

20€

016 // Sayonara

Kôji Fukada // Japon // 2015
// 112 min // Couleur // 1,85:1

It is the near future, Japan has become contaminated with massive amounts of radiation. With 80% of Japan severely contaminated, the government makes an official decision to abandon the country and begin evacuating residents by lots. Left behind in the swelling exodus is a South African expatriate, Tanya, and her android caretaker, Leona. As people pass them by, the two are left alone together...

18€

014 // The Valley

Ghassan Salhab // Liban // 2014
// 134 min // Couleur // 1.77

After a car accident on a lone mountain road, a middle-aged man loses his memory. Drenched in blood, he continues to walk along the deserted path. Further down the road, he encounters people with engine trouble and helps them get their car running again. They are reluctant to leave him stranded, so they take him home to their large estate in the Bekaa valley, a place where production...

15€

012 // Welcome to Madagascar

Franssou Prenant // France // 2015
// 102 min // Couleur // 1,85:1

When you return to a spot you have been in the past, it always looks smaller or larger, freer or more boring than it did before. Time distorts memory. But according to Franssou Prenant, everything in Algiers is still the same, apart from possibly the colour of the fence, which has changed from blue to grey from lack of paint. It soon becomes clear that her picture of the city where she lived...

10€

19 // The other side of everything

Mila Turajlic // France - Serbie // 2017
// 104 min // Couleur // HD

World premiere Toronto International Film Festival 2017 Winner of the IDFA Award for Best-Feature Length Documentary Nominee for the LUX PRIZE of the European Parliament Short-listed for the European Film Academy Award for Best Documentary THEATRICAL RELEASE 24/10/2018   “ If I really am a Freedom Fighter, the freedom I have won is the worst failure of my life...

20€

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Jude Ratnam // France - Sri-Lanka // 2017
// 94 min // Couleur // 1.77

10€

// Bricks

Quentin Ravelli // France // 2017
// 83 min // Couleur // HD

Released in cinema on October 18th 2017 Bricks  shows how the life of a simple commodity can be the mirror of a global crisis. During the housing bubble, real estate developers and construction businessmen were the « brick kings ». Bricks had turned into gold. But in 2007, the housing bubble exploded. Here lies the mad story of the bricks: in the same country, 400 000 subprime...

// Spectres are haunting Europe

Maria Kourkouta & Niki Giannari // France // 2016
// 99 min // Couleur // 1,85:1

The daily life of refugees (Syrian, Kurdish, Pakistani, Afghani, and other) in the camp of Idomeni. Refugees waiting in queues for food, tea and doctors; waiting to cross the border between Greece and Macedonia. One day, Europe closes its borders for them once and for all. The "residents" of Idomeni decide, in their turn, to occupy the train tracks, blocking the trains that carry goods across...

// The Night and the Kid

David Yon // France // 2015
// 60 min // Couleur // HD

In the Atlas steppe highlands. After the wars, on a land where threat still echoes, a young man, Lamine, and a kid wander in the night. From place to place, the past resurfaces from the shadows, through Lamine’s stories and the singular rituals he reenacts, all along the re-flowering ruins. Read more:  David Yon's filming diary In coproduction with  Haut les mains Productions...

// Court

// Inde // 2014
// 116 min // Couleur // 2.39

// Sons of Barents

David Kremer // France // 2015
// 75 min // Couleur // HD

Barents Sea. Arctic Circle. The endless days of summer pass. Thirty men board the Grand Hermine , the last French trawler equipped for the deep-sea fishing. They work tirelessly, facing the sea, on their own.  They purchase fish shoals, on a relentless course, every fishing season. What brings these men back to this risky life? How do they make it through, together?   //...

10€

// Au revoir l'été

Kôji Fukada // Japon // 2013
// 126 min // Couleur // 1:33

Accompanied by Sakuko, her niece, preparing its entry to university, Mikie is back in her hometown to carry out the translation of an Indonesian novel. The summer languor in the Japanese countryside is an opportunity for Mikie to reconnect with Ukichi, an ancient lover, manager of a clandestine love hotel and for Sakuko to approach the shy Takashi, a Fukushima refugee. This summer...

// David Holzman diary

// États-Unis // 1967
// 73 min // Noir et blanc // 1:33

The better to understand his life, and because, according to Godard "cinema is truth 24 times per second", David Holzman, a trainee filmmaker in the New York of the 1960s, starts a film diary. To see the film of his life will perhaps enable him to grasp its meaning. But David Holzman will quickly understand that the ubiquity of the camera in his daily life is not without influence on the...

// Neighbouring Sounds

Kleber Mendonça Filho // Brésil // 2012
// 131 min // Couleur // 1,85:1

At Recife,on Brazilian coast, the inhabitants of a prosperous district of Setúbal follow a quiet way of life, between small annoyances and airiness. Bia deploy some tricks for shut the neighbour's dog up, Joã o wakes up in the arms of his last night lover, Fransisco prevailing in mysterious patriarch on neighborhood, get visits from a private security company that wants to establish it...

// Mundane History

Anocha Suwichakornpong // Thaïlande // 2010
// 82 min // Couleur // 1,85:1

In the wealthy Bangkok house he shares with his father, Ake, a young paralyzed man, is nailed to his bed. His days go by uneasily, marked by his angry silence due to dependence.  A nursing auxiliary, Pun, has been recruited to take care of him. At first, they communicate little. The young man starts to open up his heart through candid conversations. The close proximity to Pun makes Ake’s...

10€