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El otro

Francisco Bermejo
Deux hommes vivent isolés dans une cabane au bord de la mer. Pendant que l’un se consacre à la pêche et à la chasse, l’autre se dédie complètement à la lecture. La paisible cohabitation entre les deux hommes se voit altérée par des discussions de plus en plus violentes. L’ombre de la folie plane sur la cabane alors que se fait la découverte, après une tempête, des restes d’une baleine (...)
Buenaventura Producciones - Chili

ERRANCE SANS RETOUR - Une histoire rohingya

Mélanie Carrier, Olivier Higgins
Discriminée et victime de persécutions systématiques, la minorité musulmane des Rohingyas s’est vue contrainte en 2017 de fuir le Myanmar bouddhiste. Un des camps de réfugiés les plus importants s’est formé au Bangladesh. Entre poésie et cauchemars, distribution alimentaire et partie de soccer, les Rohingyas du camp de Kutupalong témoignent de leur quotidien et des fantômes du (...)
MÖ Films - Canada

Il mio corpo

Michele Pennetta
Oscar passe sa vie dans des déchèteries sauvages et récupère de la ferraille pour son père qui la vend. Aux antipodes, juste à côté, il y a Stanley. Il nettoie l’église contre une hospitalité monnayée, il ramasse les fruits, mène les troupeaux, tout ce qui peut occuper son corps venu d’ailleurs. Entre Oscar, le petit Sicilien, et Stanley, le Nigérian, rien de commun en apparence. Sauf (...)
Close Up Films, Kino Produzioni, Rai Cinema - Suisse, Italie

Incandescence des hyènes

Nicolas Matos Ichaso
En Éthiopie, les forgerons de Harar ont la réputation de se transformer en hyènes, pour rôder dans la vieille ville. Poème visuel ayant comme toile de fond l’inquiétante beauté nocturne de Harar et sa passion pour le khat, ce film nous plonge dans le travail des ferronniers éthiopiens, déclassés (...)
La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma - France

Les enfants terribles

Ahmet Necdet Cupur
Dans un petit village du sud-est de la Turquie, Mahmut annonce qu’il veut divorcer de sa jeune épouse. Sa sœur Zeynep part travailler à l’usine et suit des cours par correspondance. Contre la volonté de son père, elle veut quitter le village et aller à l’université. Leurs envies de liberté deviennent une source de conflits dans cette famille traditionaliste qui ne comprend pas ce que (...)
Jyoti Film, Liman Film, TS Productions - Allemagne, France, Turquie

Makongo

Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino
André et Albert sont deux jeunes pygmées Aka du sud de la République centrafricaine. Ils sont parmi les rares de leur communauté à faire des études. André et Albert ont un rêve : inscrire les enfants des campements dans une vraie école. Pour financer leur entreprise, ils misent sur la prochaine récolte de « makongo » (...)
Makongo Films - Argentine, Italie, République centrafricaine

Sapelo

Nick Brandestini
Sur l’île de Sapelo, aux États-Unis, deux frères grandissent accompagnés de leur mère adoptive Cornelia, l’une des dernières représentantes de la communauté afro-américaine des Geechee. À l’aube de l’adolescence, ils découvrent, au cœur de la forêt et sur les rives de l’Atlantique, un espace naturel préservé et une culture unique, tous deux voués à (...)
Envi Films AG - Suisse

Silent voice    (Prix du meilleur moyen-métrage de la Compétition Internationale)

Reka Valerik
Jeune espoir du MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) Khavaj a fui la Tchétchénie lorsque son frère a découvert son homosexualité et promis de le tuer, sous la pression des persécutions du régime de Kadyrov. Arrivé à Bruxelles, et devenu mutique face au choc de l’exil, le seul lien que Khavaj garde avec la Tchétchénie sont les messages vocaux que lui envoie sa mère. Vivant dans l’anonymat le plus (...)
Dublin Films, Need Productions, Maelstrom Studios - France, Belgique

Sing me a song

Thomas Balmès
Le jeune Peyangki vit et étudie dans un monastère traditionnel au Bhoutan. Au pays du bonheur, l’arrivée récente d’internet entraîne d’importants bouleversements. Les rituels quotidiens des moines entrent en concurrence frontale avec la nouvelle addiction aux smartphones. Peyangki se passionne pour les chansons d’amour et tombe amoureux sur WeChat d’une jeune (...)
TBC Productions, Participant Media, Zero One Film, Close-Up Films, ARTE France Cinéma, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse - France, Suisse, Allemagne

The beloved daughter

Tiina Madisson
Rekha a un rêve : elle veut devenir professeure d’anglais. Mais elle a déjà 14 ans et le temps commence à manquer pour lui trouver un mari. Et si les mariages d’enfants sont en théorie interdits par la loi au Népal, ils demeurent dans la pratique monnaie courante. Dans la région de Terai, une fille sur deux est mariée avant l’âge légal. Sa communauté pousse le père de Rekha à (...)
Kirsi Mattila, Joonas Kauppinen, Alexander Kristiansen - Finlande, Norvège

The earth is blue like an orange    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Iryna Tsilyk
Anna et ses quatre enfants vivent dans une petite ville de la "zone rouge" du Donbass, en Ukraine. Pour affronter une vie perturbée par la guerre, où il est impossible pour les enfants d’aller à l’école et où la famille se voit obligée de dormir dans la cave, ils décident de faire des films sur leur quotidien, et leurs mésaventures bien réelles prennent des allures de fiction. La (...)
Albatros Communicos, Moonmakers - Lituanie, Ukraine

The filmmaker’s house    (Grand Prix festival Ânûû-rû Âboro)

Marc Isaacs
Lorsque le cinéaste apprend que son prochain film doit comporter du crime, du sexe ou des célébrités pour être financé, il prend les choses en main et commence un tournage chez lui, avec un casting de personnages liés à sa propre vie. Soit deux ouvriers de construction anglais, employés pour remplacer la clôture de jardin entre la maison et celle des voisins pakistanais, la femme de (...)
Marc Isaacs, Lush, MK Studios, Bungalow Town Productions Ltd - Royaume-Uni

The last hillbilly

Diane Sara Bouzgarrou, Thomas Jenkoe
Dans les monts des Appalaches, à l’est du Kentucky, les gens se sentent moins Américains qu’Appalachiens. Ils ne reconnaissent pas toujours l’autorité du gouvernement. Ne paient parfois pas leurs taxes, quitte à devoir se passer d’eau courante ou d’électricité. Au fil du temps, les habitants de ce territoire de “l’Amérique blanche rurale” ont vu se développer un mélange explosif, fait (...)
Films de Force Majeure - France, Qatar

This is Paris too

Lech Kowalski
Ken Metoxen est Amérindien. Il a 55 ans et vit dans une réserve du nord des Etats-Unis depuis toujours. Haut en couleurs, il cultive un secret ; en voyage à Paris, la « ville-lumière », il espère pouvoir le dévoiler aux yeux du monde. Le monde est en effet bien là, aux portes de la capitale.
Odile Allard, Revolt Cinema - France

Wake up on mars    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Dea Gjinovci
A Horndal, petit bourg au centre de la Suède, une famille du Kosovo se confronte au rejet de sa demande d’asile, et elle doit faire face à une énigme médicale qui bouleverse leur quotidien. Les deux filles aînées, Ibadeta et Djeneta, ont sombré dans le coma l’une après l’autre il y a plus de trois ans, victimes du “syndrome de résignation”. Leurs corps ont mystérieusement cessé de (...)
Mélisande Films, Dea Gjinovci, RTS, SRG SSR - Suisse, France

Water get no enemy

Arthur Bourbon, Damien Castera
Quinze années après la guerre civile qui ravagea la totalité du pays, le Liberia renaît peu à peu de ses cendres et tend vers un renouveau plus heureux. L’occasion pour les surfeurs professionnels Damien Castera et Arthur Bourbon d’aller à la rencontre des enfants de la guerre qui, dans certaines zones du pays, ont troqué leur fusil d’assaut contre des planches de (...)
Almo Film, Hand Studio - France

Zinder

Aïcha Macky
Dans la ville de Zinder, au cœur du Sahel, des jeunes Nigériens s’organisent en gang face au manque de perspectives. Ces groupes, appelés « Palais », sont issus du quartier de Kara-Kara, abritant historiquement lépreux et parias. Désœuvrés, candidats malheureux à l’exil, Bawo, Boy et Ramsess nous font pénétrer dans l’univers des gangs et de ces quartiers ostracisés. Un terreau fertile (...)
Tabous productions, Corso films - France, Mali, Allemagne


A Woman Captured

Bernadett Tuza-Ritter
Être esclave en Europe aujourd’hui, cela semble impossible. Pourtant, c’est le cas de milliers de personnes. Marish, 52 ans, est retenue captive par une famille depuis 10 ans et est forcée de travailler sans recevoir de rémunération. Elle a oublié ce à quoi ressemble la liberté et a perdu toute volonté de s’enfuir. Tirant courage de la présence de la réalisatrice, elle décide (...)
Éclipse Film, Corso Film - Hongrie, Allemagne

Anatomia del Miracolo

Alessandra Celesia
Naples. Une Vierge à la joue marquée d’un bleu dispense des miracles. Autour d’elle évoluent trois personnages féminins qui ne se rencontrent jamais : Giusy, une fille en chaise roulante qui n’a pas eu droit au miracle, Fabiana, une transsexuelle à la tête d’une troupe de fidèles de la Vierge, et Sue, une pianiste coréenne à la recherche d’une nouvelle direction pour sa vie. Chacune (...)
Zeugma Films, La Sarraz Pictures, ARTE France - Italie, France

Boxing Libreville

Amédée Pacôme Nkoulou
Christ, un jeune boxeur gabonais, s’entraîne sans relâche le jour et veille la nuit les portes des discothèques de Libreville pour survivre tant bien que mal. Au même moment, un autre combat se joue, celui des élections présidentielles, marquées par la rivalité entre le Président Ali Bongo et l’opposant Jean (...)
Les Films du Bilboquet, Princesse M. Productions, ADV Productions, TV5 Monde - Belgique, France, Gabon

Curupira, Bicho Do Mato

Félix Blume
Au cœur de l’Amazonie sur la terre de Tauary, une créature rôde entre les arbres. Parmi ceux qui l’ont déjà entendue, très peu l’ont vue, et ceux qui l’ont rencontrée n’en sont jamais revenus. Elle charme, elle enchante, elle rend fou, elle emmène les gens, elle les pousse à se perdre : chacun la raconte à sa manière et tente de décrypter ses (...)
Félix Blume - Brésil

Gods of molembeek (Les dieux de Molenbeek)

Reetta Huhtanen
Le quartier de Molenbeek à Bruxelles. Une enclave djihadiste pour certains, mais surtout le quartier natal d’Aatos et Amine, deux garçons de six ans. C’est là qu’ils écoutent les araignées, découvrent les trous noirs et se disputent pour savoir qui commandera le tapis volant qui les mènera sur les terres de leurs ancêtres. La menace du monde des adultes interrompt soudainement le jeu (...)
Zone2 Pictures, Clin d'Œil Films, Tondowski Films & Friends - Belgique, Allemagne

Honeyland    (Grand Prix festival Ânûû-rû Âboro)

Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska
Dans un hameau désert niché au cœur d’un paysage idyllique de Macédoine, Hatidze vit seule avec sa mère infirme. Son existence, âpre mais bien réglée, tourne toute entière autour de la récolte de miel. Parcourant les montagnes à la recherche de nids, soignant ses ruches, elle s’est fixée une règle qui garantit la bonne harmonie de cette collaboration : prendre la moitié du miel, mais (...)
Trice Films, Apolo Media - Macédoine

Midnight family

Luke Lorentzen
Malgré une population de neuf millions d’habitants, la ville de Mexico City ne compte que quarante-cinq ambulances publiques. Afin de palier à un État défaillant, des entreprises privées prennent le relais, comme la famille Ochoa, à la tête d’une société d’ambulances. L’oreille collée à la radio, ils passent des nuits blanches à écouter les fréquences policières pour être les premiers à (...)
Kellen Quinn, Luke Lorentzen - Mexique, États-Unis

Of father and sons    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Talal Derki
Abu Osama n’est pas seulement un père aimant pour ses huit garçons, mais aussi l’un des fondateurs du groupe Al-Nusra, une branche syrienne d’Al-Qaeda, et un spécialiste des attaques à la bombe et du déminage. Se faisant passer pour un sympathisant de la cause djihadiste, le réalisateur Talal Derki partage l’intimité d’une famille en guerre au moment ou Osama et Ayman, les deux (...)
Basis Berlin Filmproduktion, Ventana Film, Impact Partners, Cinema Group Production - Allemagne, Syrie, Liban, Qatar

Poisson D’or, Poisson Africain    (Prix du meilleur moyen-métrage de la Compétition Internationale)

Thomas Grand, Moussa Diop
La région de Casamance, au sud du Sénégal, est une des dernières zones refuges en Afrique de l’Ouest pour un nombre croissant de pêcheurs, de transformateurs-artisans et de travailleurs migrants. Face à une concurrence extérieure de plus en plus forte, ces femmes et ces hommes résistent en contribuant grâce à leur labeur à la sécurité alimentaire de nombreux pays (...)
ZIDEOPROD - Sénégal

Scheme bird

Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
Gemma, une jeune adolescente rebelle, vit au sommet d’une tour d’habitation dans une ancienne petite ville minière d’Écosse. Dans cet environnement violent où les perspectives d’avenir se limitent à "se faire engrosser, ou finir en tôle", les jeux innocents peuvent facilement se transformer en drame. Pour Gemma, l’enfance se transforme trop tôt en âge (...)
Sisyfos Film, Scottish Gid Films Ltd - Écosse, Suède

Talking about trees (En parlant des arbres)

Suhaib Gasmelbari
Ibrahim, Suleiman, Manar et Eltayeb sont amis depuis plus de quarante-cinq ans. Ils ont quitté leur pays d’origine dans les années 1960 et 1970 pour étudier le cinéma à l’étranger et fonder à leur retour le « Sudanese Film Group ». Après des années d’éloignement et d’exil, ils se réunissent et espèrent enfin réaliser leur vieux rêve : ramener le 7ème art au Soudan, grâce à la rénovation (...)
Agat Films & Cie, Made in Germany Filmproduktion GmbH, Goï-Goï Productions - France, Soudan, Allemagne, Tchad, Qatar

The Lonely Battle Of Thomas Reid

Feargal Ward
Thomas Reid vit isolé, en marge de la société moderne, dans la ferme de ses ancêtres transmise de génération en génération. Sa terre, son bétail et sa maison sont les seules choses qui lui importent. Non loin de là se trouve l’une des plus grandes usines de microprocesseurs au monde. Un jour, deux hommes de l’Agence irlandaise pour le développement industriel viennent lui rendre (...)
Feargal Ward - Irlande

Unt, Les Origines

Pierre-Christophe Yanuwana
Ce film est un voyage initiatique depuis l’embouchure du Maroni jusqu’aux collines du Tumuc Humac, à la frontière brésilienne. Remontant le fleuve à la rencontre des Amérindiens de Guyane et à la recherche de son identité, le réalisateur aborde les questions essentielles de la situation sociale et économique du peuple (...)
Ardèche Images Production - France

Welcome to sodom    (Prix du meilleur film sur l'environnement)

Christian Krönes, Florian Weigensamer
À Accra, capitale du Ghana, Agbogbloshie est l’un des endroits les plus toxiques sur terre. C’est la plus grande décharge électronique au monde. Près de six mille femmes, hommes et enfants travaillent et vivent ici. Ils l’appellent "Sodom". Chaque année, près de 250.000 tonnes d’ordinateurs, smartphones, climatiseurs et autres appareils usagers d’un monde électrisé et numérique (...)
Blackbox Film, Medienproduktion GmbH - Autriche

What you gonna do when the world’s on fire ?

Roberto Minervini
Chronique de la communauté Afro-américaine de Baton Rouge en Louisiane, durant l’été 2017, quand une série de meurtres violents agite le pays un an après la mort d’Alton Sterling. Une réflexion sur la question raciale et ses dérives, dans l’extrême violence sociale des États-Unis d’aujourd’hui.
Okta Film, Pulpa Film, Rai Cinema, Shellac Sud, MYmovies.it - Italie, États-Unis, France

When The Persimmons Grew

Hilal Baydarov
Dans le village du réalisateur azerbaïdjanais Hilal Baydarov, le temps est encore régulé par les saisons et le travail de la terre. Comme chaque été, avec son frère, ils rejoignent leur mère restée seule dans la maison familiale. C’est la saison des kakis, et les habitants du village se réunissent autour de ce (...)
Ucqar Film, Subobscura Films - Azerbaïdjan, Autriche

With The Wind

Arthur Sahakya
Arpine est pêcheuse et elle vit depuis toujours dans son village natal, sur les berges d’un lac en Arménie. C’est la seule femme pêcheuse à travailler aux côtés des hommes et, tout comme eux, elle met chaque jour sa vie en danger. À chaque instant la nature peut prendre l’un des leurs mais ils n’ont pas d’autres choix que de continuer, pour (...)
Lusine Sargsyan - Arménie


Braguino

Clément Cogitore
Un village, au cœur de la forêt en Sibérie. Au milieu : une barrière sépare deux familles, les Braguine et les Kiline. Vivant reclus en autarcie au bout du monde, ils se sont brouillées, se haïssent et refusent depuis plusieurs années de se parler. Entre la peur des bêtes sauvages, du feu qui détruit tout, et la joie offerte par l’immensité de la forêt et de ses ressources, enfants (...)
Seppia, Making Movies Oy, ARTE France - France, Finlande

Fahavalo

Marie-Clémence, Andriamonta Paes
À Madagascar en 1947, les rebelles insurgés contre le système colonial sont appelés fahavalo, « ennemis » de la France. Ce voyage dans les archives est éclairé par les séquences filmées aujourd’hui dans les villages où se sont déroulés les faits, le long des lignes de chemins de fer qui traversent la forêt, des Hauts Plateaux vers la côte est de Madagascar. Les derniers témoins évoquent (...)
Laterit productions - France, Madagascar

Il Crater

Luca Belino, Silvia Luzi
Sharon, âgée de treize ans, est une étoile émergente de la musique néomélodique napolitaine. Son papa, Rosario, convaincu du talent de sa fille, s’improvise imprésario et croit pouvoir trouver le salut grâce à son succès. Lancé à la poursuite de son rêve, que ne semble pas vraiment partager Sharon, Rosario entre dans une espèce de cercle sans fin paranoïaque qui enferme la toute jeune (...)
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Kalès

Laurent Van Lancker
Polyphonie d’hommes, de récits et d’atmosphères de la "jungle" de Calais. Partageant le quotidien des migrants durant de nombreuses visites sur toute la durée de la jungle, le réalisateur propose un film à la fois politique et poétique, qui livre un regard intérieur et inhabituel sur la faculté d’adaptation et la vie sociale des (...)
Polymorfilms - Belgique

La Vida Suspendida de Harley Prosper

Juan Manuel Sepulveda
Enfant, Harley Prosper a été désigné comme "guérisseur", un rôle majeur pour la conscience spirituelle de sa communauté amérindienne, qui résiste à l’abandon de ses traditions ancestrales. Mais l’élu a fui son destin. Il a sombré dans l’alcool et se laisse désormais mourir à Vancouver, dans un hôpital pour malades en phase terminale. Enfermé dans cet exil volontaire, Prosper défie l’esprit (...)
Fragua Cine - Mexique

O processo

Maria Ramos
Dilma Rouseff, fille d’un immigré bulgare, a été la première femme élue démocratiquement à la présidence brésilienne. Emprisonnée et torturée de 1970 à 1972 sous la dictature militaire, elle est devenue le symbole de la quête de démocratie des Brésiliens. Au cœur du pouvoir bureaucratique brésilien, Maria Romas filme le procès qui a mené à sa destitution en 2016, orchestrée par son (...)
Nofoco Filmes, Autentika Films, Conijn Film - Brésil, Allemagne, Pays-Bas

Old Marine Boy

Mo-young Jin
Onze ans après avoir fui la Corée du Nord par la mer avec femme et enfants, Park Myongho continue chaque jour de risquer sa vie en plongeant pêcher le poulpe, enfermé dans un antique scaphandre de 60 kg et relié à la surface par un fragile tuyau qui lui permet de respirer. Comme de nombreux déserteurs qui sont venus tenter leur chance chez leurs voisins capitalistes, Park Myongho (...)
My Love Films, Illume - Corée du Sud

Over the limit

Marta Prus
Une plongée dans le système russe d’entrainement des athlètes de haut niveau et ses méthodes très particulières. Un système efficace, mais transgressant toutes les limites. Rita Mamun, une jeune athlète de vingt ans concourant en GRS (gymnastique rythmique et sportive), arrive à un moment crucial de sa carrière. Mais, sur le point de prendre sa retraite sportive, il lui reste un but (...)
Telemark, Ventana-Film GmbH, Marianna Films Oy, Chimney Poland - Pologne, Allemagne, Finlande

Southern Belle

Nicolas Peduzzi
Fille chérie du plus grand exploitant pétrolier du Sud des Etats-Unis, Taelor, vingt-six ans, a grandi dans l’un des quartiers riches de Houston, Texas. À quinze ans, la mort soudaine et mystérieuse de son père met fin à son enfance idyllique, et provoque sa chute dans une vie où règnent la drogue, l’alcool et les jeux d’armes. Son héritage, estimé à plus de 500 millions de dollars, (...)
Jonas Films - France

Syn

Alexander Abaturov
Dima est mort le 23 mai 2013, à l’âge de vingt-et-un ans. Enrôlé dans l’armée Russe, il est tué d’une balle dans la tête, lors d’une mission spéciale au Daghestan. Pendant que ses parents affrontent le vide laissé par sa disparition, ceux qu’il appelait ses frères s’entraînent toujours pour la guerre dans des conditions difficiles qui créent un lien puissant entre eux. Ces deux univers se (...)
Petit à Petit production - France, Russie

The Distant Barking of Dogs

Simon Lereng Wilmont
Oleg, âgé de dix ans, vit dans la partie orientale de l’Ukraine - une zone de guerre qui fait souvent écho aux tirs anti-aériens et aux frappes de missiles. Parfois, ces sons sont distants, tandis que d’autres fois ils sont terriblement proches. Alors que beaucoup ont déjà quitté cette zone dangereuse, Oleg reste avec sa grand-mère, qui a pris soin de lui depuis la mort de sa (...)
Final Cut For Real, Story, Mouka Filmi Oy - Danemark, Finlande, Suède


Boli Bana

Simon Coulibaly Gillard
La nuit, le jeune Ama et sa bande voyagent dans la brousse de Boli Bana au Burkina Faso. Des bêtes immenses et bienveillantes les accompagnent. Ils se jaugent, se cherchent, s’apprivoisent. Le jour, la jeune Aissita est au coeur de l’attention du village de Boli Bana. Une sorcière est venue pour un rituel : Aissita rentre dans l’âge adulte. A travers les yeux de ces enfants se (...)
Hélicotronc, Grenade, RTBF - Belgique

Communion    (Grand Prix festival Ânûû-rû Âboro)

Anna Zamecka
Quand les adultes font défaut, les enfants doivent grandir plus rapidement. Ola a quatorze ans et doit s’occuper d’un père dysfonctionnel, d’un frère autiste et d’une mère qui vit au loin. Rêvant de réunir la famille, elle organise les festivités de la première communion de son frère.
Otter Films, HBO Poland, Wajda Studio - Pologne

Damiana Kryygi

Alejandro Fernández Mouján
En 1896, dans l’épaisse forêt paraguayenne, une enfant Aché de trois ans survit au massacre de sa famille par des colons blancs. Cette jeune indigène, baptisée Damiana, est placée dans un orphelinat. Après sa mort prématurée à l’âge de quatorze ans, son corps transféré en Allemagne fait l’objet d’études raciales. Cent ans plus tard, son peuple, les Aché, récupère ses restes et les enterre (...)
Océano Films - Argentine

Derniers jours à Shibati

Hendrick Dussollier
Dans l’immense ville de Chongqing en Chine, le dernier des vieux quartiers va être démoli et ses habitants relogés dans des tours à la périphérie. Ne parlant pas chinois, le cinéaste se lie cependant d’amitié avec un enfant et une vieille dame, les derniers habitants d’un labyrinthe bientôt effacé.
StudioHdk Productions, Maria Roche Productions, Les Films d'Ici - France

DUGMA : The Button    (Prix du meilleur moyen-métrage de la Compétition Internationale)

Paul Refsdal
En Syrie, lorsqu’Al-Qaïda se heurte à une position ennemie qui semble imprenable, des "martyrs" sont envoyés vers l’ennemi, au volant d’un camion ou d’un véhicule blindé truffé de tonnes d’explosifs. Ils appuient alors sur le détonateur. Ils appellent simplement ces opérations "bouton" (dugma en arabe). Nous suivons quatre de ces aspirants au martyr dans leur vie quotidienne, dans (...)
Medieoperatørene - Syrie

Dusk Chorus

Alessandro D'Emilia, Nika Saravanja, Concept & 3D soundscapes: David Monacchi
David Monacchi connait bien la forêt amazonienne, et son mode d’exploration n’est pas commun : c’est par le son qu’il appréhende le terrain. Le spectre sonore de la forêt est fondé sur un équilibre subtil, dans lequel chaque espèce communique sur une fréquence bien précise, ne parasitant jamais les autres. Aujourd’hui, le chamboulement induit par l’Homme et le réchauffement climatique (...)
Zelig - Scuola di Documentario, Televisione e Nuovi Media, Fragments of extinction - Italie

Gogita’s New Life

Levan Koguashvili
Après quatorze ans de détention, l’heure est venue pour Gogita de retourner à une vie normale. Ses souhaits sont modestes : avoir sa propre maison et épouser une jolie femme. Mais qui serait intéressé par un fermier sans le sou tout juste sorti de prison et qui vit encore chez sa mère ? Il rencontre tout de même Maka sur Internet. Elle n’est plus toute jeune et ce n’est pas la plus (...)
Kino Iberica, Embrio Production, Moskvich, Tatofilm, MDR, Georgian Public Television - Géorgie, Croatie, Russie, Ukraine

La Vie à venir

Claudio Capanna
Les jumeaux Eden et Léandro sont nés grands prématurés. Hors du ventre de Laurence, ils se retrouvent précipités dans un monde hospitalier hostile et inquiétant, fait de bruits de machines et de médecins en blouse blanche. Au fil des semaines au service de néonatologie, la mère et les enfants luttent pour leur (...)
Stenola Productions, Associate Directors, Take Five - Belgique

Ouaga Girls

Theresa Traore Dahlberg
Dans un pays où le taux de chômage chez les jeunes est à 52%, l’emploi reste une question brûlante. Les jeunes filles d’une école de mécanique de Ouagadougou, capitale du Burkina Faso, sont dans la phase décisive de leur vie où leurs rêves, leurs espoirs et leur courage se heurtent aux opinions, aux craintes et aux attentes de la société vis-à-vis de la (...)
Momento Films, Les filmes du Balibari, Seydoni Burkina S.A. et Film I Väst - Suède, Burkina Faso, France, Qatar

Plastic China    (Prix du jeune public décerné par les lycéens)

Jiu-liang Wang
Nous produisons chaque jour une quantité de déchets qui disparaissent très rapidement, mais où vont-ils ? La plupart des déchets plastiques du monde terminent en Chine, recyclés à mains nues dans des conditions difficiles par des familles entières. Yi-Jie, une jeune fille non scolarisée de onze ans, travaille avec ses parents dans un de ces ateliers de recyclage. Elle souhaite plus (...)
CNEX Studio, Beijing TYC Media, Oriental Companion Media - Chine

Roadside Radiation (Radiations résiduelles)

Moritz Schulz
Dans la zone d’exclusion de Tchernobyl, on découvre le destin des habitants de l’un des lieux les plus contaminés par la radioactivité dans le monde. Roadside Radiation expose les conséquences humaines complexes de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl et révèle à la fois un lieu de perte collective mais aussi de survie (...)
Earlybirdpictures - Allemagne

Small People. Big Trees

Vadim Vitovtsev
République de Centrafrique. Ici, dans l’ombre de la forêt vierge, vit la tribu des hommes les plus petits du monde : les pygmées Baka. Comme leurs lointains ancêtres avant eux, ils chassent pour se nourrir, font des offrandes aux grands arbres, prient les esprits de la forêt et apprennent aux enfants à respecter la nature. Mais petit à petit, ce mode de vie traditionnel cède à la (...)
Olga Michi - Russie

Taste of Cement

Ziad Kalthoum
A Beyrouth, des ouvriers du bâtiment d’origine syrienne construisent un gratte-ciel alors que, en même temps, leurs propres maisons sont bombardées. La guerre au Liban est finie mais en Syrie, elle fait encore rage. Le jour, les ouvriers sont coincés sur le site et la nuit, le gouvernement libanais impose un couvre-feu aux réfugiés. Leur seul lien avec l’extérieur est le trou par (...)
Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts, BASIS BERLIN Filmproduktion - Liban, Allemagne, Qatar, Syrie, Émirats arabes unis

Tempestad

Tatiana Huezo
Des innocents sont accusés de trafic d’êtres humains et jetés en prison pour que les autorités puissent prétendre lutter efficacement contre le crime organisé et rassurer la population. À Mexico, les victimes de ces procédures sont surnommées les “Pagadores”. Innocente, et pourtant privée de sa liberté, une jeune mère raconte sa descente aux enfers jusque dans une prison privée du (...)
Pimienta Films, Cactus Films, Terminal - Mexique

The Good Postman

Tonislav Hristov
Les trente-huit électeurs qui habitent "The Great Gate", un village bulgare presque déserté à la frontière avec la Turquie, doivent élire un nouveau maire. Parmi les candidats, Ivan le facteur a un plan pour donner une deuxième vie à son village : accueillir les réfugiés syriens qui traversent chaque jour la frontière à quelques pas du (...)
Making Movies Oy - Bulgarie, Finlande

The Grown-Ups

Maite Alberdi
Depuis longtemps, Anita, Rita, Ricardo et Andrés fréquentent une école pour enfants atteintes du syndrome de Down. Dans ce milieu protégé, ils ont rencontré d’autres enfants comme eux et appris, entre autres, à devenir pâtissiers. Aujourd’hui, ils ont presque tous dépassé les quarante ans et faire des gâteaux ne leur suffit plus : ils voudraient une maison à eux, une vie indépendante, (...)
Micromundo Producciones, Volya Films, Mandra Films - Chili, Pays-Bas, France

The Islands and the Whales

Mike Day
Depuis la nuit des temps, les habitants des Îles Féroé, au nord de l’Écosse, vivent de et avec la mer. La pêche à la baleine et la capture des oiseaux font partie intégrante de leur culture… et de leur alimentation. Aujourd’hui, la forte teneur en mercure présente dans la chair des baleines menace la santé des habitants des îles et certaines espèces d’oiseaux rares sont en voie (...)
Intrepid Cinema, Radiator Film - Royaume-Uni, Danemark

The Modern Jungle

Charles Fairbanks, Saul Kak
Carmen vit pauvrement sur le terrain que son mari a payé de sa vie en militant dans un mouvement de paysans sans-terres. Juan, tout chamane qu’il soit, est affligé d’une hernie que ses incantations ne peuvent soigner, et tombe sous la coupe de charlatans qui lui proposent des compléments alimentaires en guise de (...)
Charles Fairbanks, Saul Kak - Mexique, États-Unis

Vangelo    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Pippo Delbono
Pippo Delbono, metteur en scène de théâtre, se rend dans un centre où les réfugiés trouvent asile, et partage avec eux leur quotidien. Peu à peu, ils se confient à lui. Démarre alors une relation qui l’amène à imaginer de créer avec eux cet Évangile que sa mère, au moment de sa mort, lui avait demandé de mettre en (...)
Stemal Entertainment, ventura film sa, Snaporazverein, Les Films du Fleuve, RAI Cinema, Arte - France, Italie, Belgique, Suisse


16 Years Till Summer

Lou McLoughlan
Uisdean reckons he should be given a second chance. But, after sixteen years in prison, he must re-shape his ambition and look after a frail and demanding father. When an accusation spreads out in the village, a fearless woman intervenes, and Uisdean must find his way to redeem himself from a tragic (...)
Loumclou Films Ltd., Vintage Pictures - Écosse/Islande

A Syrian Love Story

Sean McAllister
Amer met Raghda when they were both imprisoned in a Syrian jail for speaking out against an oppressive regime. When released, they got married and started a family, but as the ‘Arab Spring’ swept the region, the family’s fate shifted irrevocably. Filmed over five years, the film charts their incredible odyssey to political (...)
10Ft Films Production - Royaume-Uni

Ba Khoda miraghsam

Hooshang Mirzaee
Ali Badri, an old Kurdish man, lost vision in both eyes forty-five years ago. To make a living, he decided, however difficult it would be, to learn sewing and become a tailor.
Dafilm - Iran

Behemoth

Zhao Liang
In this unconventional documentary, Chinese director Zhao Liang takes us to multiple open-pit coal mines in the sparse hinterlands of China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, revealing the barbaric impetus of Chinese economy scrambling for preserving its world-wide leadership.
INA - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel - France

Between Sisters

Manu Gerosa
Ornella and Teresa, two Italian sisters, have always cared for each other. Now that Teresa is in her life’s twilight and her memory slowly fades out, Ornella decides to confront her sister with an untold story that goes back to their childhood. This well kept secret might change their close bond (...)
Clin d’oeil Films, Oneworld DocuMakers - Italie/Belgique/Qatar

Coal India

Felix Röben
"Coal India" portrays people who work under pre-industrial conditions in the coal fields near Dhanbad, India. The film takes us to Loader Area 6, where men carry chunks of coal in baskets on their heads, and Kusunda Area, where children climb like pirates onto trucks to claim their booty of (...)
Felix Röben - Allemagne

Coming of Age

Teboho Edkins
Four teenagers grow up somewhere in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho. Doors into adulthood open and close : some leave their village school to help tend the sheep while others are going to attend secondary school and may never return. The summer of their youth will not last forever.
Don Edkins - Afrique du Sud/Lesotho/Allemagne

Driving with Selvi

Elisa Paloschi
Selvi, like so many girls living within India’s patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to escape, going to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. But instead, she gets on the bus, choosing to live… and goes on to become South (...)
Eyesfull - Canada

Du piment sur les lèvres

Laurène Lepeytre
They are under twenty but are governed by elderly. In Cameroon, sclerotic gerontocrats have been stifling young people for a long time, excluding them from any leadership system. Valsero, a highly subversive artist, has shouldered the role of a spokesperson for these young adults : he sings and raps about social (...)
Laurène Lepeytre - France/Cameroun

Ghostland – The View of the Ju/’Hoansi

Simon Stadler, Catenia Lermer
One of the most ancient cultures on our planet is undergoing a major change : the Ju/’Hoansi Bushmen from Namibia are not allowed to hunt anymore and are asked to adapt to our so called modern life. For the first time they travel across the Kalahari and into Europe. What begins as a glimpse into their fascinating culture soon becomes a thought­provoking exploration of our (...)
Cameleon Film GbR - Allemagne

Holy Cow

Imam Hasanov
Tapdig has a dream of bringing a European cow into his picturesque village of Azerbaijan to improve the condition of his poor family ; he decides to call it Madonna. His passion unsettles his traditional community, where the Old Men see a threat in having a foreign cow among them. Even his wife Vafa does not want to take care of such a strange breed. But Tapdig is ready to (...)
Free Art, Kloos & Co. Medien, Conset - Azerbaïdjan/Allemagne/Roumanie/Qatar

I Didn’t Cross the Border, The Border Crossed Me

Toma Chagelishvili
When Russia started building barbed wire fences on the border to Georgia after the Ossetian war, they cut right through some villages. Family members, childhood friends or lovers, suddenly find themselves on opposite sides.
T-Studio, Kloos & Co. Medien - Géorgie/Allemagne

La Balada del Oppenheimer Park

Juan Manuel Sepúlveda
"The Ballad of Oppenheimer Park" depicts the everyday life of a First Nation community, who was displaced from its Canadian reserve and occupies a municipal park in Vancouver.
Fragua Cinematografía, Zensky Cine, Mexican Film Institute - Mexique

La fiancée du Nil

Edouard Mills-Affif
Like millions of young girls throughout the world, Heba must marry a man whom she has not chosen. A drama of tragic proportions is being played out in a recluse village by the Nile Delta.
Temps Noir, France Télévisions - France

Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision Of Paradise

Volker Schaner
A thrilling, poetic story with the legendary Lee Scratch Perry, this movie is not a biopic but rather a fairy tale documentary ! It is a mind-blowing encounter with "the" inventor of reggae and dub, the mentor of Bob Marley and as such one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth (...)
Fufoo FIlm GmbH - Allemagne

My Buddha Is Punk

Andreas Hartmann
Kyaw Kyaw, a twenty-five-year-old Burmese punk, pursues the dream of seeing the punk scene take off in Myanmar. Along with the members of his punk band and by way of his music, he criticizes the ongoing civil war and the persecutions of ethnic minorities. He travels across the country to promote his philosophy among the young generations : A symbiosis of Buddhism and (...)
Andreas Hartmann - Allemagne/Birmanie

Not My Job

Denis Shabaev
Leaving his wife and child in Dushanbe, Farrukh, a young Tajik who dreams of becoming a film star, emigrates to Moscow in the hope of standing out. But fate is against him and an accident will soon thwart his plan.
Marina Razbezhkina Studio - Russie

Princess Shaw

Ido Haar
Samantha lives in New Orleans. By day she works as a caregiver for the elderly ; at night she turns into Princess Shaw, posting homemade a cappella clips on YouTube. How could she suspect that on the other side of the world, a talented secret admirer is about to expose her to millions of listeners (...)
Atzmor Productions - Israël

Salafistes

François Margolin, Lémine Ould Salem
François Margolin and Lemine Ould M. Salem expose the radical ideologists indoctrinating thousands of jihadists. They venture to Gao and Timbuktu in Mali to Mauritania, and finally to Tunisia. The raw documentary also displays ISIS’s propaganda images, bereft of commentary or voiceover.
France 3 Cinéma, Margo Cinéma - France

Salamanca    (Prix du meilleur moyen-métrage de la Compétition Internationale)

Aleksandra Kulak, Ruslan Fedotow
In Salamanca, time stopped two hundred years ago, when the first Mennonites came to Mexico in search of their place on Earth. Everything here is predetermined, and lives of the descendants are repeating lives of their ancestors. While the hero of the film recalls his childhood in search of the right answer, days, months and years slowly go (...)
STEREOTACTIC - Russie

Samir dans la poussière

Mohamed Ouzine
In a mountainous and arid region of Algeria, Samir lives off fuel smuggling. He transports his merchandise on the back of a mule from his Algerian village to the Moroccan border. In a conversation with his uncle, Samir gradually shares his aspirations and his desire for a different life.
L’image d’après - France/Algérie/Qatar

Something Better to Come    (Prix du public parrainé par les Nouvelles calédoniennes)

Hanna Polak
Yula lives with her mother, her friends and many other people in the Svalka, the largest dumping ground in the world, located not far from Moskow and run by the Russian mafia. While life is tough in the Svalka, beauty and humanity can arise among the most squalid and unpredictable conditions.
Danish Documentary Production, Hanna Polak Films LLC - Pologne/Danemark

Somos Cuba - Wir sind Kuba !

Annett Ilijew
A far cry from the familiar picturesque images of Cuba, casual labourer and amateur cameraman Andres recorded everyday life in a working class neighborhood of Havana over a period of seven years. Filmmaker Annett Ilijew edited Andres’ footage into a unique, intimate document that shows the reality of ordinary Cubans on the eve of a sea (...)
Annett Ilijew, Saxonia Entertainment GmbH, WDR - Allemagne

Sonita    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
Sonita is a reckless and enthusiastic Afghan teen living in Tehran, who dreams of being a famous rapper. But in Iran, the government doesn’t let girls sing solo. And in her Afghan home, she is expected to become a teenage bride. Armed with nothing but passion and determination, will she turn obstacles into opportunities (...)
TAG/TRAUM, Intermezzo Films, Rokhsareh Ghaem Magham - Iran/Allemagne/Suisse

Still Breathing    (Prix du jeune public décerné par les lycéens)

Anca Hirte
Karim Chakim is a thirty-eight year old boxer. He is madly in love with his wife and children. When he arrives to step into the ring, possibily for the last time, Karim knows that it is the fight of a lifetime. Will he stand up to the occasion ?
entre2prises - France

Tanna

Martin Butler, Bentley Dean
On the island of Tanna, in Vanuatu, Wawa and Dain belong to the same tribe but Wawa’s marriage has been arranged in order to reconcile a violent ongoing tribal war. The narrative of this spectacularly exotic film is based on a true story from the Tanna community in the 1980s, with hints of Romeo and Juliet in its tale of star-crossed forbidden (...)
Contact Films - Vanuatu/Australie

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

Saeed Taji Farouky
When NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Afghan National Army (ANA) took over the control of the Helmand Province, a highly dangerous region where attacks by Taliban militants take place on a daily basis. Risking their lives, the directors take us on to the front line.
Ponda Films - Royaume-Uni

The Dazzling Light of Sunset

Salomé Jashi
Dariko, the only local television journalist in a small town in Georgia, races from one report to another giving an honest, if highly personal, take on the current events that shape her environment.
Sakdoc, Inselfilm Produktion - Allemagne/Géorgie

The Last Nomads

Ben Ahmed Hamdi
Cut off from the world, deep in the southern part of Tunisia, without any kind of identity papers or birth certificates, the Rebayaa tribe maintains a nomadic lifestyle : its day­to­day life, songs and music are faifthful to centuries old traditions. However, some community members start to speculate about their (...)
No pasaran production - Tunisie

Tisseuses de rêves

Ithri Irhoudane
Berber women weave carpets and dreams ; dreams of a new goat, of building, of love, all transformed into carpet by their skillful hands. Through all four seasons, this film examines their reality through the door of the unconscious.
AMC2 Productions, MPS, TV 2M Maroc, Télévision Loire 7, Berbère TV - France/Maroc

Under the Sun    (Grand Prix festival Ânûû-rû Âboro)

Vitaly Mansky
This is a film about an ideal life in an ideal country – North Korea. We see a girl in an ideal school, the daughter of ideal parents, working at ideal factories, living in an ideal apartment in the centre of the capital. We can appreciate how much effort the North Korean people have to undertake to make this ideal world (...)
Vertov.Real Cinema, Saxonia Entertainment,
Hypermarket Film, MDR, Czech TV - Russie/Lettonie/Allemagne/République tchèque/Corée du Nord

Vita Brevis

Thierry Knauff
Drifting with the wonderful blooming of millions of mayflies on the waves of the Tisza River, "Vita Brevis" is a poem of the moment, an evocation of the fragile and fleeting dance of life.
Les Films du Sablier - Belgique/France

Zona Franca

Georgi Lazarevski
Zona Franca, a rather run-down tourist showcase, is Patagonia’s biggest shopping mall in Chile’s Magallanes Province. The story interlaces the life of Patricia, the mall’s security guard stuck in her sentry box, and of Edgardo, a politically active trucker. When the local inhabitants block the roads to protest against the rising gas prices, the tourist bubble pops. The (...)
Ciaofilm, Les Films du Poisson - France

Zud

Marta Minorowicz
After winter kills hoards of his parents’ livestock in Mongolia, eleven-year old Sukhbat has to support the family and is given the responsibility by his father to tame a wild horse in a bid to win a regional race.
zeroone film, Otter Films - Allemagne/Pologne


Above and Below    (Grand Prix festival Ânûû-rû Âboro)

Nicolas Steiner
From a couple who moved in a drainage tunnel in Las Vegas to an adventurer surviving on his own in the Californian desert and this young woman seriously planning to be among the first crew to colonise Mars, none of these characters fit into the world as we know it... but all of them are citizens of the United States of America, a place that can be regarded as apocalyptic (...)
Maximage, Flying Moon - Suisse / Allemagne

All Things Ablaze

Oleksandr Techynskyi, Aleksey Solodunov and Dmitry Stoykov
Ukraine, winter 2013 – 2014. What does People’s revolution look like when you observe it from the inside ? What happens when the demand for freedom escalates into civil war and politics rule the game ? This account of the Ukrainian revolution will take you across political divides to examine the core of a complex and violent (...)
Honest Fish Documentary Stories - Ukraine

Au crépuscule d’une vie

Sylvain Biegeleisen
When the doctor told Sylvain that his mother, in her nineties, was not expected to live much longer, Sylvain started to visit her everyday. Against all odds, the venerable lady “decided” to hang around for a while…
Zen Production Ltd, Take Five - Belgique/Israël

Baladna Alraheeb

Mohammad Ali Atassi and Ziad Homsi
At a time when Syria is on the edge of the abyss, this road movie takes you on a perilous journey across the country with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, a distinguished revolution theorist who was imprisoned for sixteen years, and Ziad Homsi, a young militant-photographer.
Bidayyat for Audiovisual Arts - Syrie/Liban

C’est ma vie qui me regarde

Damien Fritsch
Eighty-eight-year-old Alice has been living alone since her husband died three months ago. Her neighbour, whom she asked help from so that she can stay home, comes for a filmed portrait. They both engage in a surprising conversation with a lot of memory lapses and indulgence moments.
Ana films - France

Elephant’s Dream

Kristof Bilsen
"Elephant’s Dream" depicts three State-owned institutions and their workers in DR Congo. The interwoven stories of a female clerk in the dilapidated central post office, colleagues at the railway station and a group of fire-fighters in the only fire station provide insight into their daily lives and reveal what survival is about in the third largest city of Africa, (...)
Associate Directors, Bram Crols & Mark Daems - Belgique/Royaume-Uni

Hotel Nueva Isla    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Irene Gutiérrez and Javier Labrador
In a rundown part of old Havana, what was at the turn of the century the luxurious Hotel Nueva Isla has become the refuge of a group of people living on the margins of society. Life inside the ruins is becoming more and more dangerous, Jorge refuses to leave the building : he remains convinced that treasures, hidden by the hotel’s original owners, lie waiting within its (...)
El Viage Films, Produciones de la 5TA. Avenida - Cuba/Espagne

Ícaros

Georgina Barreiro
Ícaros explores the spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the river Ucayali, one of the main affluents to the Peruvian Amazon. Young Mokan Rono sets outs on a journey to reconnect with the ancient knowledge of Ayahuasca, mentored by Sene Nita, a respected shaman and his mother, a traditional (...)
Georgina Barreiro - Argentine

Ik ben Alice

Sander Burger
Alice is a “care bot”, a robot designed to take care of people, in this case exclusively elders. A university research group tries to find out how Alice should talk and react to stem the effects of loneliness on elderly women. For several weeks, Alice pays regular visit to three women who volunteered to take part in an experiment, which could become fairly mundane in a (...)
Keydocs - Pays-Bas

Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared

Stefan Schwietert
What would happen if one day all music simply disappeared from the planet ? Would it be possible to bring it back ? Stefan Schwietert follows controversial musician Bill Drummond as he engages with different people asking them to sing or hum a tune that does not exist yet. Schwietert delivers a strong advocacy for musical creation and a true conspiracy against marketing (...)
Maximage, Flying Moon, SRF, WDR - Suisse/Allemagne

In the Underground

Song Zhantao
On the Chinese mine of Sunzhuang, safety instructions learnt by heart and recited before heading down into the pit do not protect workers from explosions, silicosis and potential collapses. On the ground, a miserable domestic life illustrates the dramatic impact of these high risk, working conditions on (...)
Song Zhantao - Chine

Lejos de la orilla

Javier Sanz
Mariama, Amadou, Abdoulaye and Rahisy share a goal they attempt to tackle by all means and they are so determined that they bounce back whenever life brings them to their knees. “Lejos de la orilla” is a documentary that reflects on the heroic and anonymous journey some people have to undertake to pursue their (...)
Films de l'Orient - Espagne

My Love, Don’t Cross That River

Moyoung Jin
Jo Byeongman is ninety-eight-year old, his wife Kang Gyeyeol is eighty-nine and their extended family includes thirty-five children, grandchildren and great-grand children. Kang was only fourteen when they met and ever since, not a day has passed without them falling asleep hand in hand each (...)
Kyungsoo Han, Argus Film - Corée du Sud

Of the North

Dominic Gagnon
Reaching out to the Inuit people through amateur films posted on YouTube.
Film 900 - Canada

The Storm Makers : ceux qui amènent la tempête

Guillaume Suon
A young Cambodian peasant girl, Aya was enslaved at the age of sixteen and sold as a maid in Malaysia, where she was harnessed for two years without receiving any salary. As she returns to her home village just as poor as when she was abducted, with her child as a result of a rape, she is despised by her mother and about everyone in the (...)
Production, Tipasa Production - France/Cambodge

Tomorrow We Disappear

Jimmy Goldblum and Adam Weber
Delhi´s most fascinating community, the Kathputli Colony, is home to over three thousand artists, magicians, acrobats, puppeteers and their families. When their neighbourhood was sold to real-estate developers, these street artists were left with no choice but to overcome manipulation and division and find a way to struggle together for their (...)
Old Friend - Inde/États-Unis

Toto si surorile lui (Toto et ses sœurs)    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Alexander Nanau
Alexander Nanau brings us the astonishing family story of Toto (ten), and his sisters, Ana (seventeen) and Andrea (fifteen). As his mother was serving her time behind bars, Toto became passionate about learning to read, write and dance with a little help from his sisters who tried their best to preserve a good family balance in a world that had long forgotten what (...)
Strada Film, HBO Europe, Alexander Nanau Productions - Roumanie

Um Ghayeb

Nadine Salib
In a forgotten corner of Egypt lives Hanan, a woman who is yearning for a child. Having no other option but to live on the fringe of her community because of her infertility, Hanan lingers between a dream that is slowly slipping away and her struggle to find a place where she could settle.
Hassala Films - Égypte/Émirats arabes unis

Un homme pour ma famille

Thierno Souleymane Diallo
My father died eight years ago but he still haunts my nights. He regularly delivers messages to me, some of which I can decipher. I found out he was concerned that his family split up because of a piece of land he sold before he died. For his soul to rest in peace, the Peul tradition requires that I organise a cow (...)
JPL Productions, Lyon Capitale TV, Le Grenier des Ombres - France

Une jeunesse allemande

Jean-Gabriel Périot
Using archives footage, the film portrays the first generation of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and its central figures, namely Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof. They firmly believed in the power of images and started their activism through artistic activities and the media, but in view of the failure of their strategy, they soon radicalised and pursued armed (...)
Local Films - France/Suisse/Allemagne


Abu Haraz    (Grand Prix festival Ânûû-rû Âboro)

Maciej J. Drygas
For centuries, inhabitants of Abu Haraz, a small village in the desert area of North Sudan, have lived in harmony with the Nile and its floodings. When they learnt of a project to build a gigantic dam, people realised that their stern, albeit joyful world might soon come to an end. Unfortunately, their attempts to turn back fate had no impact and their village was flooded (...)
Drygas Production - Pologne

American Vagabond

Susanna Helke
When James decided to leave Chico, a small provincial town of California, because his parents would not accept his homosexuality, he headed for San Francisco with Tyler, his teenage lover. Yet their dreams were soon shattered against a reality which did not match their expectations of a gay-friendly community, and the return to their home town ended up fraught with (...)
For Real Productions et Radiator Film - Finlande/Danemark

Domino Effect

Elwira Niewira et Piotr Rosolowski
Natasha, an opera singer, left her husband and daughter in Russia to join Rafael, Minister for Sports of Abkhazia, an autonomous territory within Georgia only recognised internationaly by five foreign countries. Set in a crumbling seaside resort on the Black Sea coast, the film swings between comedy and documentary, creating an ironic yet affectionate atmosphere which (...)
Zero one film et Otter Films - Allemagne / Pologne

El Gort

Hamza Ouni
Two young Tunisians struggle to survive by working in the hay trade. Their day starts very early and seems to never end. With no other alternative than unemployment or exploitation, their dreams of a carefree youth quickly turn to despair.
Mhamdia Productions - Tunisie/Émirats arabes unis

National Diploma

Dieudo Hamadi
National Diploma follows a group of young Congolese high school students who are about to sit the exam for their National Diploma, the equivalent of the French baccalaureate, in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. Dieudo Hamadi’s camera films them as they prepare for the exam, from the benches of the school that they are regularly ejected from because they haven’t paid (...)
AGAT Films & Cie, Studios Kabako, Karoninka - France/Congo

Farewell to Hollywood    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Henry Corra et Regina Nicholson
The dream of directing a film created a strong relationship between seventeen-year-old Regina Nicholson, in the final stage of a terminal illness and fifty-year-old filmmaker Henry Corra. The film questions ethical boundaries in filmmaking and results in a rich and complex documentary that is extremely disturbing and irresistibly moving at the same (...)
Corra Films - États-Unis

Häätanssi    (Prix du jeune public décerné par les lycéens)

Mohamed El Aboudi
Twenty-two year old Hind from Morocco has had not official status since she was raped when she was fourteen ; she was subsequently kicked out from her family home and left with no other choice than engaging in prostitution. Despite the odds of her situation, she has refused to give up her dream of dignity, motherhood and love and has been trying to make ends meet by (...)
Illume Ltd - Finlande

L’escale

Kaveh Bakhtiari
Amir, an Iranian immigrant, has been renting a modest flat in Athens, which gradually became a place of transit for migrants. But Greece is only a stop-over : all of them are dreaming to move on to Western countries but in the meantime, they find themselves stuck at Amir’s, hoping for ID documents, contacts and eventually a smuggler to whom they might entrust their (...)
Louise Productions et Kaléo Films - Suisse/France

Les Hustlers    (Prix du public parrainé par les Nouvelles calédoniennes)

Amah Egome
Ekoué, Léon, Blacky and Zorro live in Lomé, in a slum known as “Katanga“, a place where the local fishermen hang around. Always looking for a deal to strike or a bargain, they spend most of their time together. Known to the other residents of Katanga as the “Hustlers“, they are always ready to take whatever job they are offered, be it legal or (...)
La maison du directeur et Merveilles Production - France/Togo

Little Proletarian

Shen Jie
Since Hai’er has been expelled from school, he has wandered around in town. When he isn’t drinking or getting into fights, he’s racing motorcycles with his gang. Beatings by his father simply won’t stop him. Having turned fourteen, he reckons it’s about time to go to the city for some shady (...)
Shen Jie - Chine

Don’t Leave Me

Sabine Lubbe Bakker et Niels van Koevorden
Bob, a retired cowboy and forest addict, is a free spirit and a good friend of Marcel. Now that his wife has left him, Marcel does his best to regain control of his life from time to time. The two stooges fill their boredom in the Walloon countryside with friendship and drunkenness.
Pieter van Huystee Film - Pays-Bas / Belgique

No Burqas behind Bars

Nima Sarvestani
This feature-length cinematographic documentary was entirely shot inside one of the world’s most restricted environments : the Takhar Prison, a no-burqa detention centre where forty women and thirty-four children are rotting in four cells. Unprecedented access to the lives and stories of the Afghani women prisoners enabled the director to explore how “moral crimes” are used (...)
NimaFilm - Suède

Pine Ridge

Anna Eborn
Pine Ridge Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota Nation, has been the site of some of the most tragic events in Sioux history. With high unemployment, a large number of residents living below the federal poverty line, troubling rates of teen suicide and low life expectancies, the youth of Pine Ridge struggle to make sense of an uncertain (...)
filmrepublic - Danemark

The Stone River    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Giovanni Donfrancesco
At the beginning of the twentieth century, large numbers of marble quarrymen from Carrara in Italy crossed the Atlantic to work in the granite quarries of Barre, Vermont. In the 1930s, when the industry was already in decline and many quarrymen had succumbed to the occupational lung disease of silicosis, dozens of interviews with Barre’s inhabitants were transcribed by (...)
Les Films du Poisson - Italie

Waiting for August

Teodora Ana Mihai
While her mother went to work in Italy to provide for their needs, fifteen-year-old Georgiana looks after her six brothers and sisters in the suburbs of Bacau, Romania.
Clin d’oeil films and A Private View - Belgique

Behind the Redwood Curtain

Liesbeth De Ceulaer
« Behind The Redwood Curtain » takes the spectator on a mesmerising journey through the dark and eerie Redwood forest. Seven forest dwellers - loggers, scientists, activists and Native Americans – invite us to familiarise with their environment. The ancient Redwoods have always kept the region isolated but now that the logging industry has become intrusive, the survival of (...)
Minds Meet - Belgique

Captain Thomas Sankara

Christophe Cupelin
The film profiles Thomas Sankara, the late President of Burkina Faso, who was murdered in 1987. Committed to liberate his country and transform the mentalities of his fellow citizens, contest the world’s political order and challenge the powers of the mighty players, Sankara stood out strongly in the history of modern Africa and of the whole (...)
Nicolas Wadimoff et Christophe Cupelin - Suisse

Mashti Esmaeil

Mahdi Zamanpoor Kiasari
Mashti Esmaeil spends most of his time three hours’ walk from home, where he grows rice. With an impressive autonomy despite his blindness, he proves in this affectionate portrait to be a serene and wise man with an incredible sense of humour.
Mahdi Zamanpoor Kiasari et Somayyeh Zeraatkatr - Iran

My Name Is Salt

Farida Pacha
Salt is everywhere, lying just beneath the cracked, baked surface of the earth. This is the Little Rann of Kutch, 5000 sq kms of saline desert in India. And for eight months of the year, Chhanabhai and his family live here without water, electricity or provisions – tirelessly extracting salt from this desolate landscape. Under the blinding glare of the sun, they work on the (...)
Leafbird Films - Suisse

Poslednite chernomorski pirati

Svetoslav Stoyanov
On the shores of the Black Sea, Captain Jack and his pirates lived on a remote beach where a legendary seafarer was said to have buried his treasure. Fuelled by gold fever, these dropouts blew lumps of rock into the air… until the project of a luxury resort forced them out.
Agitprop - Bulgarie

Živan ivan pank festival

Ognjen Glavonić
“In one hundred years, it’ll be Woodstock !” In his village near Belgrade, Zivan Pujic, aka Jimmy, has been organising his own punk music festival for six years, turning the concrete slab of the sports ground into a stage and relying on performers to help move the rows of seats. If need be, Zivan’s guests might as well provide some cash to pay for a new light bulb in the (...)
Non-Aligned Films - Serbie


Hamdan

Martin Sola
Hamdan is a former Palestinian leader who was detained in the old Israeli prisons for 15 years. In 1973, whilst living in Syria, he received the mission of transporting explosives over the border and training someone he could trust. The man he chose was Omar, a neighbour from his village. The investigation led to Hamdan, who was imprisoned. Via his memories the film (...)
Ânûû-rû Âboro - Argentine/ Nouvelle-Calédonie

Atalaku

Dieudo Hamadi
The 2011 presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was only the second free election since the country gained its independence in 1960. Gaylor, a penniless pastor (like most of Kinshasa’s nine million inhabitants) turned into an "atalaku", a town crier, following a deal with the most generous of the candidates, ensuring visibility on the street and (...)
Mutotu Productions et Walter Films - Congo Kinshasa (RDC)

Cantos

Charlie Petersmann
Four silhouettes wandered around in Cuba in search of their destiny. Victims of an ideology on its way out, these individuals fought for survival, sometimes flirting with illegality. Cantos took a poetic look at a drifting society, far away from its long-vanished utopias.
Intermezzo Films - Suisse

Dell’Arte della Guerra    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Silvia Luzi & Luca Bellino
On August 2009, in Milan, four workers from INNSE climbed a 20-metre high gantry crane and threatened to throw themselves down to protest against the dismantling and the closure of the last factory in town. Surrounded by dozens of policemen and supporters from all over Italy and Europe, the four workers resisted for eight days in a cramped space in temperatures close to (...)
Indie Air Films et Kino Produzioni - Italie

El Etnographo

Ulises Rosell
Ulises Rossell took his camera to the Indian community of Wichi, which settled not long ago in the province of Chaco, Argentina, with an American ethnologist as a guide. To some degree a repentant ethnologist, John Palmer married a native Indian and established a large family rather than completing his PhD. He chose to become part of this remote and deprived community (...)
Pablo Rey - Argentine

In the Shadow of the Sun    (Prix du jeune public décerné par les lycéens)

Harry Freeland
Director Harry Freeland accompanied albino activist Josephat Torner on his awareness campaign across Tanzania to try to put an end to superstitious beliefs spouted by witchdoctors about albinos. Filmed over six years, In the Shadow of the Sun leaves little hope for short term improvement but it celebrates courage and tolerance and it will not leave you (...)
Dogwoof - Tanzanie, Angleterre

La clé de la chambre à lessive

Floriane Devigne & Frédéric Florey
Dans l’immeuble du 85 rue de Genève à Lausanne, la clé de la chambre à lessive est bien plus qu’une simple clé servant à ouvrir la porte d’une buanderie collective. La rencontre entre ce symbole d’une mentalité respectueuse de l’ordre helvétique et les locataires placés dans les appartements de secours par le service social de la ville ne va pas de soi. Traditionnellement située dans (...)
Alina Film et L’oeil Sauvage - Suisse, France

Hiver Nomade

Manuel Von Sturler
As traditional shepherds, Pascal, fifty-three, and Carole, twenty-eight, embarked in November 2010 on a four-month winter migration spanning 600 km across the Swiss- French region. Accompanied by three donkeys, four dogs and eight hundred sheep, they walked through a rural area which had undergone profound changes, and their odyssey turned into an eventful journey with (...)
Louise Productions - Suisse

Matthew’s Laws

Marc Schmidt
Matthew is partially autistic, desperately trying to sort out the chaos around him. Home is his world, the only place where he can find peace and stability, and when he has to relate with the outside world, explosive confrontations often happen. As a childhood friend, director Marc Schmidt filmed him from a point of view that expressed both distance and complicity, (...)
Basalt Film - Pays-Bas

Documentarian    (Grand Prix festival Ânûû-rû Âboro)

Ivars Zviedris & Inese Klava
A filmmaker intruded upon the reclusive life of Inta, a woman who lived alone on the edge of a picturesque swamp. He thought that Inta would make an extraordinary film character, but rather than being filmed, the "untamed" woman preferred to cast a spell on this unwelcome intruder. The determination of the filmmaker eventually softens Inta’s heart... only to break it (...)
VFS Films - Lettonie

Per Ulisse

Giovanni Cioni
Outcasts of Italian society gathered in this open centre after having experienced drugs, prison and homelessness. They talked about their existence, sang and lived a simple life, demonstrating that there was still hope for humanity. This is a film with a vision, with a nod to Italian masters such as Pasolini and Bellocchio ; a sad yet vibrant work that mourns a certain (...)
Teatri Uniti and Zeugma Films - France, Italie

Ranandeh va Roobah

Arash Lahooti
Mahmood Kiani Falavarjani was an Iranian truck driver and filmmaker whose experimental animal films had been screened at international film festivals. Mahmood had developed an obsession : taming a fox and filming a love story with donkeys. The result was an amazing, touching and funny story of an artist who tried to overcome his bipolar disorder using his own (...)
Documentary & Experimental Film Center - Iran

Terra de Ninguém

Salomé Lamas
Paulo de Figueiredo worked as a mercenary and lived on the fringes of two worlds : power and revolutions. Structured as a non-linear conversation between the filmmaker and his subject, the film took place in a « no man’s land, » a place outside of the comfort zone of both the director and her subject. While Paulo talked about anonymous locations and facts, fragments of (...)
O Som e a Furia - Portugal

The Act of Killing

Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn and Anonymous
When Joshua Oppenheimer went to Indonesia to produce a documentary on the Death Squads who tortured and killed over a million communists in the mid-60s, he did not expect that the survivors would be too scared to talk. On the other hand, former executioners, who were still protected by a corrupt administration, easily shared their memories and even proposed to replay the (...)
Final Cut For Real - Denmark, Norway and United States

The Ambassador

Mads Brügger
Danish journalist Mads Brügger went undercover as a European Ambassador to the Central African Republic and embarked on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the diamond trade and reveal the ins and outs of a corrupt political system.
Zentropa - Danemark

The Captain and his Pirate

Andy Wolff
In 2009, when the MV « Hansa Stavanger » was seized by Somali pirates for four months, international media did not report on a fascinating aspect of this front page story : the friendship that developed between chief pirate, Ahado, and captain Krysztof Kotiuk. Waiting for rescue which was slow to take shape, the captain established a relationship with his enemies in a (...)
Brockhaus et Wolff GbR - Allemagne

Un été avec Anton

Jasna Krajinovic
Twelve-year-old Anton lived with his Grandma in a little home outside Moscow. He spent his summer time with his friends and his babouchka, who was always happy to play with him. Unfortunately, like most of the Russian children, Anton had to join an army camp where he found himself in uniform, holding a (...)
Dérives (Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne) - Russie

Anplagd

Mladen Kovacevic
This is a feel-good movie about the art of music produced by tree leaves. Anplagd takes us into a world of eccentric characters with Vera, a former private detective, Pera, an expert farmer, and Josip, an inventor of instruments who attempts to unravel the mystery of perfect leaves. Frozen in time, filled with gentleness and poetry, music is central to life even if it (...)
Horopter Film Production et Helmi Film Oy - Serbie, Finlande

Kinshasa Symphonie

Martin Baer & Claus Wischmann
Kinshasa Symphony shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world managed to implement an incredibly complex system of human cooperation : a symphony orchestra. This is a film about Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.
Sounding Images - Allemagne,

Kovasikajuttu

Jukka Kärkkïnen
Kovasikajuttu is a film about Finland’s most kick-ass punk rock band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät. The band members, Pertti, Kari, Toni and Sami, suffer from mental disorders and they play their music with bucketloads of attitude and pride. Come and follow these professional musicians on their journey from obscurity to popularity, on the fringes of (...)
Mouka Filmi Oy - Finlande

Le premier rasta

Hélène Lee
At the beginning of the last century, Leonard Percival Howell (1893 – 1981) left Jamaica as a sailor to travel the world. He came back home in 1939 to launch the very first Rasta community, the Pinnacle. Thirty years after Bob Marley’s death, it was timely to pay homage to Howell, the first Rasta whose rhetoric about revolution, politics and social issues resonated with (...)
Kidam - France

Natasja

Andreas Rosforth
Her dream was to make it big in Jamaica as a reggae artist. Finally, it came true but ironically she didn’t live to see it all : after fighting for her break-through from the age of seventeen, her success had only just begun to bloom when her car crashed on the way to a stage show in Spanish (...)
- Danemark

Sugar Man

Malik Bendjelloul
In the early 70s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well-received albums that were commercial failures and rumour had it that he had committed suicide. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon, a symbol against apartheid and inspired the younger (...)
Simon Chinn, Malik Bendjelloul - Suède, Royaume-Uni

Viramundo

Pierre-Yves Borgeaud
This unique musical road movie follows Gilberto Gil travelling from Aboriginal Australia to the townships in South Africa and to the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. Former Minister for Culture in the Brazilian government, Gilberto Gil unveils his vision of a diverse and interconnected future, rich in hopes, exchanges… and music, of course (...)
Dreampixies et Urban Factory - France


Canned Dreams

Katja Gauriloff
« Canned Dreams » is a lyrical journey across the world. It builds a portrait of ordinary workers, through their own personal stories. All this happens in a frame of following a route of one canned food product, which starts its journey from other side of the world and travels all across Europe. Behind this product are uncountable pairs of hands and their (...)
Oktober Oy - Finlande

BAD WEATHER

Giovanni Giommi
BAD WEATHER tells the story of Banishanta Island. It is made up of a community of sex workers. Living on a tiny sliver of land 100 meters long and only ten meters wide in the Bay of Bengal, south Bangladesh, this community survives at the frontline of climate change. The rising river, soil erosion and frequent cyclones are slowly destroying what is left of the island. (...)
ma.ja.de filmproduktion - Allemagne, UK

Bouton

Res Balzli
Johana, a young actress, and Button, her puppet, have chosen humour to face and beat a painful reality : the progress of an incurable disease. The film tells a story oscillating between smiles and tears, between the here-and-now and the world beyond, between documentary and poetic fiction. Despite the bitter reality of an approaching end, Button defies fate and it all (...)
Balzli & Fahrer GmbH - Suisse

Little Heaven    (Prix du public parrainé par les Nouvelles calédoniennes)

Lieven Corthouts
Right In the heart of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is a small orphanage called “Little Heaven”. One of the orphans, Lydia, is 13 today. A trul joyful event, because she can now move to the “other house” where all of the ‘big kids’ live. Unfortunately this special day is overshadowed by the shocking news delivered to her by the head nurse : Lydia is HIV positive. The (...)
Taskovki films - Belgique

Stand van de sterren

Leonard Retel Helmrich
This third film of a trilogy, ‘Position among the stars’ transports us into the working-class suburbs of Jakarta. For twelve years, Leonard Retel Helmrich followed a Javanese family. Through the eyes of Rumidjah, the grandmother, he paints a portrait of a fast-changing Indonesian society. In the realities of this world, where corruption rules, in a country with a large (...)
Scarabee Films - Hollande

KOUKAN KOURCIA, Le Cri de la tourterelle

Sani Elhadj Magori
A long journey from Niger to Côte d’Ivoire, to meet Niger people who were forced into exile twenty years ago by the songs of Zabaya Hussey, a hugely popular female singer. She is now reaching out to them with a song asking them to come home to their country. The film raises, in song, the universal issue of separation : why did they leave their native land ? And what has kept (...)
la Smacprod & Maggia images - France, Niger

Espoir-Voyage

Michel K. Zongo
« In my country, young people emigrate as a rite of passage to adulthood. But the rule is that you leave to come back. In fact for many this is a journey of no return, for various reasons that those who stay behind often cannot understand. Joanny, my big brother, suddenly left his family one morning in 1978. After 18 years, and still no news, cousin Augustin, who had come (...)
Cinnédoc films-Diam production - Burkina Faso, France

Bakoroman

Simplice Ganou
Leave your family at age 7, 12 or 16. Travel to a strange place. Make your home in front of a store, in a video club, by a bus station. Learn how to use drugs, beg, steal, scarper, fight, stop feeling frightened. Make friends and enemies. Move into a new world. Adapt. Stories told and journeys made : this film is an insider look at some ‘Bakoroman’ from Gounghin, a (...)
coproduction Diam prod, TV Rennes 35/ Région Aquitaine, CNC, Procirep-Angoa, Africalia - France

Cheveux rouges et café noir

Milena Bochet
Hermanovce, Slovakia. A Rom village at the bottom of the valley. Old outhouses and new watertight. An ancestral spirit, Vozarania, which roams. Through the centuries-old gestures, four rom women tell us their daily paper. ). In the course of the words, on the border between two worlds, Stories of red hair and black coffee, Transmission but also (...)
Iota Production - Belgique

Empire of Dust

Bram Van Paesschen
Two men from two different cultures clash in the dust of the former Belgian colony, the Democratic republic of Congo. Lao Yang, the Logistics Manager, is Chinese. Eddy, his inter- preter, is Congolese and speaks fluent Mandarin. Both of them work for a Chinese mining company repai- ring the road between Kolwezi and Lubumbashi, 300 kilometres long. Deliveries dry up and the (...)
Savage Film - Belgique

De Engel van Doel    (Grand Prix festival Ânûû-rû Âboro)

Tom Fassaert
Near the port of Antwerp lies the village of Doel. A village that has been in the way of the megalomaniac expansionary urges of Antwerp for decades, and now finally has to disappear. While Doel is slowly dying, the elderly Emilienne attempts to keep up a pretence of normality. At her kitchen table village life seems to continue like nothing has changed. But when her close (...)
SNG Film - Pays-bas, Belgique

Five Broken cameras

Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi
In his village, Bil’in in Gaza, on the birth of his fourth son, Emad Burnat tries out his first camera. Filming political events and family intimacy in equal parts, Emad Burnat provides an insider vision of the spirit of resistance. These sometimes very violent images, shot over five years, relate events in the colonised territory and the escalation of repression. Damaged (...)
Productions, Guy DVD Films, Burnat Films Palestine, France Télévisions Print Source CAT&Docs - France, Israël, Palestine

Fragments d’une révolution

Film anonyme
Iran, June 12, 2009. Denouncing « massive fraud » in the presidential elections, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to express their discontents. At a time when local journalists were muzzled and foreign journalists expelled, the ensuing violent confrontations were living to the entire world films by the anonymous demonstrators. For a full year, Iranians (...)
Mille et Une. Films, l’Atelier documentaire, LCP/ TVM - France

Katinoula

Myrna Tsapa
Cairo 2010. Katinoula has grown old, but still actively serves a Greek-Egyptian lady of her age and origin. She does the chores around the house, haggles with the Egyptians in the marketplace and blesses each day even though what‘s left of her loved ones is just smiling faces frozen in a picture. Where have all these people gone ? All these years ? Let them go... Let them (...)
Top-Cut/ Myrna Tsapa - Grèce

Kurdish lover

Clarisse Hahnn
« The Kurdish lover is Oktay, a man of Kurdish origin with whom I share my life. We have been drifting through a devastated region brought to a standstill by war and economic misery. A shaman goes into trance in front of the television, sex-starved hermit dreams of marriage, a ewe is sacrificed and eaten, an old woman prevents her daughter-in-law from learning to read, a (...)
les Films du présent - France

Lecciones para Zafirah    (Prix du jeune public décerné par les lycéens)

Carolina Rivas Dominguez & Daoud Sarhandi
Lessons for Zafirah records the faces and gestures that congregate around the train « The Beast », which represents the symbolic vehicle of escape for thousands of migrants who travel to the United States. Through testimonies, the film captures the participation of people in Mexico who voluntarily provide assistance to migrants : the Women of La Patrona and Father Solalinde. (...)
Creadores Contemporaneos - Mexique

Le libraire de Belfast

Alessandra Celessia
A bookseller without a shop, a scar covered rapper, a dyslexic, opera loving punk, a wannabe popstar, a mattress too big for a bed, another bombscare... The staircases of John Clancy’s terraced house are filled with hundreds of unsold volumes like a Noah’s Ark of Knowledge telling the stories of a city that has known stormier times. John Clancy treads a new path through the (...)
Dumbworld Productions, Zeugma films, Voges Télévision, Nothern Ireland Screen - France

La nuit, elles dansent

Isabelle lavigne & Stéphane Thibault
This chronicle of a Cairo family, ‘They dance at night’ by Isabelle Lavigne and Stéphane Thibault, gives us an intimate insight into a clan of women, in which the art of dance has been handed down from mothers to daughters since the beginning of time. Gradually the film unveils their daily existence, made up of concern about the threats to their livelihood, tricks to deceive (...)
les films du tricycle - Canada

La puerta de no returno

Santiago A-Zannou
Alphonse, 70 years old, returns to his native country after 40 years as an expatriate in Spain. This is a journey of redemption, a quest for reconciliation and forgiveness. Alfonse will have to speak up and explain 40 years of silence, and face up to the present and his shame and disillusions. The one-way door is a trip between two worlds, a journey through time, between (...)
Dokia Films & Shankara Films - Espagne

Tahrir

Stephano Savona
Cairo, February 2011, Elsayed, Noha and Ahmed, three young Egyptians, join the Revolution. Day and night, they occupy the square, talk, shout and dance with thousands of other Egyptians, saying what they hadn’t been able to say freely until that moment. The bloody crackdowns of the regime fan the flames of revolt. In Tahrir, the crowd puts up its resistance, they learn how (...)
Picofilms - France, Italie

Tea or electricity

Jérôme le Maire
“Tea or electricity” tells the epic story of the implementation of electricity in a tiny isolated village enclosed in the middle of the Moroccan High Atlas. Over more than three years and season after season, the director patiently reveals the outlines of the net that will inevitably end up closing on the people of Ifri. Before our eyes is drafted the image of the merciless (...)
Iota Production, Perspective Films, HKS Production, K Films - Belgique

Life

Patrick Epapè
“Vie” follows a group of young African women in the streets of Douala – Cameroon. On the screen, there art video-clips dancing stars, but in real life, they struggle to survive. Between the sacrifices the women make to live their passion and the everyday problems that lie upon their path, “Vie” documents the courage and the will it takes to be an artist in a precarious social (...)
Aiprod, Neon Rouge Production, Green Light 7 - Belgique, France, Cameroun

La vierge les coptes et moi

Namir Abdel Messeh
Namir is a French filmmaker of Egytian origin. One day he watches a videotape of the Virgin Mary’s apparition in Egypt with his mother who, like millions of other Copts, (Egypt’s Christians) sees the Virgin on the screen while he sees nothing. Skeptical about the videotape, Namir travels back to Egypt, to make a film about the bizarre occurrence of the (...)
Oweda Films - France

Special flight    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Fernand Melgar
As they await deportation from Switzerland, a group of rejected asylum-seekers and overstayers languish in Frambois prison. In this detention centre the tension is rising day by day. Guards full of humanist good intentions on one side and men in the grip of fear and stress on the other. Relationships develop here – love and hate, respect and rebellion, until the (...)
Climage - Suisse


Blue Meridien

Sofie Benoot
Follows the devastated and worn out banks of the Mississippi river, as a blue meridian between North and South. From Cairo, Illinois to Venice, the film portrays people living in the decay of semi abandoned places, who try to rebuild, preserve and survive, in an attempt to take a stand in their land and its history. Flooding, civil rights movement riots, racism, real (...)
Auguste Orts - Belgique

Yatasto    (Prix spécial du jury pour la compétition internationale Hôtel Tiéti)

Hermes Paralluelo
Hermes Paralluelo’s first film takes us to Villa Urquiza, a neighbourhood just outside the city of Córdoba. For several years now, we have seen cartoneros portrayed in Argentine cinema. However, very few films have deeply wondered about the way they should be represented. And a film that is aware of that while also managing to takes us to the world the lead characters live (...)
Juan C. Maristany - Argentine

Palazzo delle aquile    (Grand Prix festival Ânûû-rû Âboro)

Stefano Savona, Alessia Porto, Ester Sparatore
Eighteen ill-housed families appear lined up on the back row of the Council Chambers. They decide to occupy Palermo town hall. Democracy incarnate seems to take hold of the woodwork and the gilt. Dreams of victory and decent housing drive the squatters. A young “mediator” Fabrizio, a left-wing councillor tries to represent them. Then little by little the Palace becomes a (...)
Picofilms - France, Italie

People I could have been and maybe am

Boris Gerrets
The film, shot entirely on a mobile phone camera, evolved from three protagonists filmed on London’s streets : Sandrine, an attractive young woman from Brazil on a mission to find a husband, Steve, a seasoned beggar, whose life is a continuous struggle with drug addiction and Precious, a poet who became Steve’s girlfriend. The filmmaker mostly remains off-screen while he (...)
Pieter van Huystee Film /Pippaciné - Pays-Bas


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     Aucun film en diffusion pour cette année.