MARINALEDA
Louis Séguin
France
Fiction
2022
50'
SYNOPSIS
Two vampires hitchhike on the roads of France. Their goal : Marinaleda, a small town in Andalusia. Following a misunderstanding, they meet Lise, a young woman who offers to host them for the night. She discovers that they are vampires and they spend the evening talking, over a good bottle of wine.
DIRECTOR
A filmmaker, film critic, film editor and actor, Louis has directed two short films (Les Ronds-points de l’hiver co-directed with Laura Tuillier in 2015 and Saint-Jacques-Gay-Lussac in 2018) and an essay (Bus 96, 2019) before shooting Marinaleda.
PRODUCTION
Hippocampe Productions
TEAM
Script Louis Séguin, Simon Cornaz Cinematographer Martin Rit Sound Elton Rabineau Edit sound Antoine Bailly Mix Simon Apostolou Cast Pauline Belle, Luc Chessel, François Rivière, Marie Rivière, Jacques Monteil, Mathys Vieira, Quentin Papapietro, Aurélien Gabrielli, Simon Cornaz, Véronique Deldin Edit Léo Richard Sets Lola Breton Make-up Fabien Celhay Costume designer Séverine Bourdais
Thursday, April 6 - 4 pm - Salle 1
Tuesday, April 4 - 6:30 pm - Salle 3
THE SONG OF RAIN
Tetsuichiro Tsuta
Japan
Fiction
2022
45'
SYNOPSIS
Two men, Tera and Jin, live deep in the countryside of Japan, in a house built of sustainable materials—an autonomous structure that doesn’t rely on non-renewable energy. Tera is a local, used to living in the wild. Jin is an intellectual who moved from the city and struggles to keep up. Cerebrally, Jin knows that this is the lifestyle he wants but can he live it? Perhaps none of it matters in nature, in poetry and in the rain. A meditation on our present and future shot on 16mm b&w film.
DIRECTOR
Born in 1984 in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Tetsuichiro moved to Tokyo and studied film at Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2013, he debuted with his first feature, Tale of Iya, which he shot on 35mm color film in the Iya region of Tokushima Prefecture. The film premiered at Tokyo International Film Festival and has won awards at festivals around the world. In 2020, BFI listed Tale of Iya as the Best Japanese Film of 2013 in their list, “The Best Japanese Film Every Year—from 1925 to Now.” He is currently working on his second feature film featuring Lee Kang-Sheng, known for films by Tsai Ming-Liang as lead and shot on 35mm and 65mm film.
PRODUCTION
Niko Niko Film
TEAM
Script Tetsuichiro Tsuta Cinematographer Yutaka Aoki Sound Kota Sasai Mix Kota Sasai Cast Ryubun Sumori, Hiroki Teraoka
Tuesday, April 4 - 2 pm - Salle 1
Wednesday, April 5 - 6:15 pm - Salle 3
THE LIMITS OF VISION
Laura Harrison
USA
Animation
2022
35'
SYNOPSIS
A housewife comes into contact with the king of dust on her daily cleaning rounds which forces a reckoning about her own smallness.
DIRECTOR
Laura makes experimental narrative animations that deal with people living on the fringes of mainstream culture. Her work has screened internationally and she has garnered numerous awards the most recent of which a Guggenheim for The Limits of Vision.
PRODUCTION
The Limits of Vision
TEAM
Cinematographer Laura Harrison Sound Alex Inglizian, Laura Harrison, Jim Becker, Chris Sullivan Mix Alex Inglizian Cast Sarah Farinha, Gregory Hollimon Original music Jim Becker and Faun Fables Sets Laura Harrison Special effects Laura Harrison, Meredith Leich, Jon Portman, Jackson Ammenheuser
Friday, April 7 - 2 pm - Salle 1
Tuesday, April 4 - 2 pm - Salle 3
SUPERNOVA
Leslie Lagier
France
Fiction
2023
43'
SYNOPSIS
Basile, 17 years old, activist, wants to change the world. Malik, 19 years old, a security guard at a multinational company’s warehouse site, makes do with the world as it is. These two were not really meant to meet. However, a combination of circumstances will embark them in a common adventure…
DIRECTOR
After studying history and cinema at La Sorbonne, Leslie Lagier became first assistant director then editor and director. She directs films that mix genres and is particularly interested in places, their real or imaginary history, individual or collective, and the relationships that are woven with those who inhabit them.
PRODUCTION
Tripode Productions
TEAM
Script Leslie Lagier, Jeanne Traon Loiseleux Cinematographer Javier Ruiz Gomez Sound Thomas Van Pottelberge Mix Gilles Bénardeau Cast Sefa Yeboah, Thomas Gioria, Julia Leblanc Lacoste, Stéphane Hausauer , Luc Lémonon Sets Maud Vidal Foulon Edit Nathan Jacquard
Tuesday, April 4 - 2 pm - Salle 1
Wednesday, April 5 - 6:15 pm - Salle 3
SANS REGRET
Carmen Leroi
France
Fiction
2023
38'
SYNOPSIS
For a residency organized by the University, Miranda Ackerman, a writer, returns to Caen where she lived a decade earlier. She is astonished to discover that the University is hosting her in the very house where she lived with Richard, her partner at the time. Richard now teaches at the university. As they reconnect, she begins to be disturbed by presences in the house.
DIRECTOR
Carmen Leroi is a director. She worked in different film festivals and production companies before directing Les Belles portes and Pour Elsa, selected in French (Brive, Belfort, Côté court) and International Festivals. She has just finished her third short film, Sans regret, and is writing her first feature film.
PRODUCTION
Bathysphère Productions
Co-production Hippocampe Productions
TEAM
Script Carmen Leroi Cinematographer Juliette Barrat Sound Mariette Mathieu-Goudier Mix Simon Apostolou Cast Julia Faure, Emmanuel Mouret, Natacha Krief, Quentin Vernede Original music Frédéric Alvarez Sets David Faivre Special effects Mohamed Megdoul
Thursday, April 6 - 6:30 pm - Salle 1
Tuesday, April 4 - 4 pm - Salle 3
RAIE MANTA
Anton Bialas
France
Fiction
2022
30'
SYNOPSIS
MANTA RAY is a fragmented portrayal of three characters in search of poetic and liberating openings in a muzzled and gradually authoritarian Paris of the 2020’s. United under the sign of the MANTA RAY, Kamilya, Ghost Rider and Gilles, each in their own way, organizes his secret melody, crafts a situation, where, alternately, a sense of lightness can be found, suffocated screams can uprise and reality be distorted into new horizons.
DIRECTOR
Anton Bialas is born in 1990 in Paris, from a Swedish mother and a German father. He pursues cinema studies at Paris III La Sorbonne. His first film, Behind our Eyes (2018), has been selected at the FID Marseille, and has then been screened in many international festivals. In 2020, his film At the Entrance of the Night, premieres in the Berlinale official competition. Thus, The Blackbird Group Noir (2021) is selected in the official competition of the Visions du Réel festival in Switzerland, as well as in the Brive medium-length film Meetings. His last film, Manta Ray, follows on from his other films; in their exploration of marginal figures in search of poetic breaches.
PRODUCTION
Apaches Films
TEAM
Script Anton Bialas Cinematographer Julia Mingo Sound Benjamin Silvestre Mix Victor Praud Cast Kamilya Kuspanova Bialas, Julia Joubert, Michaël Blin, Hadrien Mossaz, Nikita Dmitriev, Matthieu Peck Sets Edwige Le Carquet Special effects Vincent Goy
Thursday, April 6 - 2 pm - salle 1
Friday, April 7 - 2 pm - salle 3
POITIERS
Jérôme Reybaud
France
Fiction
2022
41'
SYNOPSIS
Victor, 18, loses his parents in a car accident three months before his high school diploma.
He is taken in by his godfather Michel, an enigmatic man who lives in the outbuilding of a castle with his daughter Caroline, a young woman in her twenties.
DIRECTOR
Jérôme Reybaud is a French director born in 1970 in Cannes.
Filmographie : 2017 Jours de France 2012 Qui êtes-vous Paul Vecchiali ? 2008 Trois dames pour Jean-Claude Guiguet 2006 Aires 06
PRODUCTION
Barberousse Films
Co-production Ampar / La Chambre aux Fresques
TEAM
Script Jérôme Reybaud Cinematographer Nicolas Contant Sound Rosalie Revoyre / Maxime Berland Mix Xavier Thieulin Cast Cyprien Farret, Patrice Gallet, Fabienne Babe, Roxane Ottmann, Pascale Borel, Emilien Tessier, Paul Aubin Special effects Augustin Gwinner
Tuesday, April 4 - 6:30 pm - Salle 1
Wednesday, April 5 - 2 pm - Salle 3
MIMI DE DOUARNENEZ
Sébastien Betbeder
France
Fiction
2023
38'
SYNOPSIS
Mimi has always lived in Douarnenez (Brittany), near her friends and her widowed father. She is a simple young woman who takes life as it comes, even if sometimes life puts obstacles in her way. She works at the cinema Le Club. She was not supposed to, but tonight she has to welcome a young depressive director Gaspard Kermarec. He happens to come from the same town as her, and his film happens to be as depressing as himself.
DIRECTOR
After studying at Le Fresnoy and Les Beaux-Arts, Sébastien Betbeder directed several short films, followed by his first feature film « Nuage » in 2004. Since then, he keeps switching formats from shorts to long features, like with « 2 autumns, 3 winters » , « Inupiluk » for which he won the Jean Vigo Prize in 2014, « Journey to Greenland » and « Thick and Thin ».
He also writes fictions for the French radio France Culture, directs video clips and tv programs such as Blow up for Arte.
PRODUCTION
Envie de Tempête Productions
TEAM
Script Sébastien Betbeder Cinematographer Romain Le Bonniec Sound Olivier Pelletier, Claire-Anne Largeron Mix Roman Dymny Cast Valentine Verhague, Ferdinand Niquet Rioux, Paul Moulin, Michiko Yoshino Original music Minizza (Franck Marguin / Geoffroy Montel) Sets Steven Le Devic
Wednesday, April 5 - 6:15 pm - Salle 1
Thursday, April 6 - 2 pm - Salle 3
MICHEL VAY
Patricia Gélise et Nicolas Deschuyteneer
Belgium
Fiction
2023
59'
SYNOPSIS
In a broken-down world, Michel Vay’s escape is thwarted by a series of unexpected encounters. Will he manage to take off?
DIRECTOR
Patricia Gélise is a film director and visual artist. She was born in Brussels in 1966.
Nicolas Deschuyteneer was born in Ath in 1962. He’s a film director and a musician.
After Gerda 85 and Fat Cat, Michel Vay is their third film together.
PRODUCTION
Stempel / Heroika
TEAM
Cinematographer Pierre Choqueux Sound Thomas Berliner Mix Mikael Barre Cast Marc Barbé, Leslie Mannès, Pascale Bodet, Arne Vinzon, Olivier Thomas, Herr Seele Music Nicolas Ekla, Wilf Plum Sets Jean-Pierre Fargeas Special effects Christophe Zucconi
Thursday , April 6 - 2 pm - salle 1
Friday, April 7 - 2 pm - salle 3
MAURICE, L'HIVER
Matthieu Chatellier
France
Fiction
2023
59'
SYNOPSIS
Maurice is a camera operator living in a deserted village in the mountains of central France. Drawn to the call of the woods, he begins wandering alone through lands now once again haunted by wolves. It is not long before the ghosts of the past reappear.
DIRECTOR
Matthieu Chatellier is a filmmaker. He experiences an autarkic form, haunted by humans and their vulnerability. His films have been selected and awarded at many international festivals. In 2022, the Cinémathèque du Doc devoted a retrospective to the work of Daniela de Felice and Matthieu Chatellier at the Center Pompidou, in Paris.
PRODUCTION
Alter Ego Production / Nottetempo
TEAM
Script Matthieu Chatellier Cinematographer Matthieu Chatellier, Daniela de Felice Sound Matthieu Chatellier, Daniela de Felice, Nicolas Joly Mix Xavier Thibault Cast Catherine Bonifassi, Magalie Desvages , Antoine Gauthier, Costanza Chatellier de Felice, Matthieu Chatellier Music Sol Hess
Tuesday, April 4 - 4 pm - Salle 1
Wednesday, April 5/04 - 4 pm - Salle 3