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
LE SOLEIL DORT
Pablo Dury
France
Fiction
2022
39'
SYNOPSIS
Octave and Flora have been in a romantic relationship for a long time on an online game without ever having seen each other. While Flora burns with desire to meet her virtual lover, it is not the case of Octave, deeply complexed by a burn ravaging half his face. Weary of the situation, Flora gives Octave a date so that they can finally meet. Will their love survive this meeting?
DIRECTOR
Pablo Dury was born in 1994 in Paris. He graduated in Directing at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In parallel, he set up Limagorium, a collective of filmmakers designed to encourage young film production. It is with this collective that in 2015 he started making OPIUM, his first medium-length film. It won the Fiction Grand Prix at the Festival Côté Court 2016. In 2018, he directed LES AMOUREUX, selected at Angers, Côté Court and Brive among other festivals. In 2021 he directed two short films produced by petit chaos: 💔 and WHERE THE SUN SLEEPS.
PRODUCTION
Petit Chaos
TEAM
Script Pablo Dury, Antoine Du Jeu Cinematographer Alexandre Cambron Sound Thomas Van Pottelberge Cast Thomas Ducasse, Alice Mazodier Original music Group Rallye
Wednesday, April 5 - 4 pm - salle 1
Tuesday, April 4 - 6:30 pm - salle 3
LE MUR DES MORTS
Eugène Green
France
Fiction
2022
51'
SYNOPSIS
Arnaud, a student remaining alone in Paris during the summer, is obsessed with the wall where the names of the Parisian soldiers who died in the 1914 war are engraved. He finds himself confronted by one of these soldiers, who invites him to step out of time, and to bring comfort to his loved ones.
DIRECTOR
Born on June 28, 1947 in New York City, Eugene Green is a filmmaker and writer of French nationality and expression.
In 1999 he directed Toutes les nuits, released in 2001, which received the Louis Delluc Prize for first film. Since then he has directed nine other feature films and five mini-films.
PRODUCTION
Le Plein de super
Co-production : Don Quichotte Films / 10:15 Productions
TEAM
Script Eugène Green Cinematographer Raphaël O’Byrne Sound Jocelyn Robert Mix Stéphane Thiebaut Cast Saia Hiriart, Edouard Sulpice, Françoise Lebrun, Lola Le Lann Music Johann Sebastian Bach et Franz Schubert Sets Valentine Sas, Matteo Zamparutti
Wednesday, April 5 - 4 pm - Salle 1
Thursday, April 6 - 4 pm - Salle 3
LE BRUIT DE L'EAU, LE GRIS DU PARKING - LE VERT.
Théo Sauvé
France
Documentary
2022
32'
SYNOPSIS
There is a gray parking lot. At the edge, the Ardèche flows.
On one side, a football stadium.
On the other, a wood where men meet.
Gestures and habits, appointments and messages noted on the trees.
Patrick, his voices, his fingers. Christian walks, flowers a house.
There is blue passing through brown, there is the sound of water passing through stone and green.
There is, there is, there is.
DIRECTOR
Born in 1994 in Montigné le Brillant, in Mayenne.
PRODUCTION
Ardèche Images
TEAM
Script Théo Sauvé Cinematographer Théo Sauvé Sound Jeanne Moulins, Hermine Chanselme, Louise Filippi, Hector Boudot, Théo Sauvé Edit Louise Filippi, Théo Sauvé
Tuesday, April 4 - 4 pm - Salle 1
Wednesday, April 5/04 - 4 pm - Salle 3
LAST THINGS
Deborah Stratman
USA, France, Portugal
Documentary
2023
49'
SYNOPSIS
From before the beginning until after the end; evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks and various future others. The geo-biosphere is introduced as a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures.
DIRECTOR
Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman makes work around issues of power, control and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. She regards sound as the ultimate multi-tool and time to be supernatural. She lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.
PRODUCTION
Pythagoras Film
TEAM
Script Deborah Stratman Cinematographer Deborah Stratman Sound Deborah Stratman Mix Simon Apostolou Cast Valérie Massadian, Marcia Bjørnerud Music Thomas Ankersmit, Olivia Block, Nicolas Collins, Brian Eno, Okkyung Lee, Matchess Special Effect Deborah Stratman Edit Deborah Stratman
Friday, April 7 - 2 pm - Salle 1
Tuesday, April 4 - 2 pm - Salle 3
J'AI ÉNORMÉMENT DORMI
Clara Alloing
Switzerland
Documentary
2022
44'
SYNOPSIS
In her studio, artist Johanna Monnier tells us about her relationship with her work: living sculptures, costumes made of imaginary beings… Through her creations she has found security, a way to exist and to love. Her words unlighted the sensitive universes she brings to life with the help of the director.A movie about the act of creation as a life force.
DIRECTOR
Clara Alloing is a sound recordist for film and radio. She collaborates with directors such as Marie Losier, Charlie Petersmann and Sayaka Mizuno. She has also just directed her first film J’AI ÉNORMÉMENT DORMI.
PRODUCTION
Earthling Productions
TEAM
Script Clara Alloing, Johanna Monnier Cinematographer Clara Alloing Sound Clara Alloing Mix Loïc Villiot Original music Manuel Viallet, Clara Alloing
Wednesday, April 5 - 2 pm - Salle 1
Thursday, April 6 - 6:30 pm - Salle 3
ITCHAN AND SATCHAN
Takayuki Fukata
Japan
Fiction
2022
44'
SYNOPSIS
Two sisters, younger one Itchan and older one Satchan, come to their grandmother’s house who are currently in a nursing home. They start to clean up the house, to prepare for renovation, but the two gradually find the subtle gulf between them.
DIRECTOR
Born in 1988. His first feature film Forgotten Planets (2018) was officially selected in the 33rd Entrevues Belfort film festival and also screened at Japan Currents festival in Portland, Oregon.
Recently He made some short films focusing on monologues and landscapes. He is also the director of “The Movie Theatre Floating on the Sea”, the film screening events on a boat founded in 2013.
He also worked as the assistant director on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy.
PRODUCTION
Takayuki Fukata
TEAM
Script Takayuki Fukata Cinematographer Ryo Yamada Sound Takahiro Gojo Mix Yoncha Ko Cast Marina Yoshimi, Tomo Kasajima Original music Masayuki Honda
Wednesday, April 5 - 4 pm - Salle 1
Thursday, April 6 - 4 pm - Salle 3
EURIDICE, EURIDICE
Lora Mure-Ravaud
France, Switzerland
Fiction
2022
40'
SYNOPSIS
Ondina is a happy and fulfilled young woman. She shares her life with Alexia, with whom she is madly in love. Their love story is passionate and carnal. But one day, Alexia flies to her native Greece and does not return.
DIRECTOR
Lora Mure-Ravaud was born in Bordeaux. After studying philosophy and literature, she turned to directing. Her first two films, Mona Lisa and Stage Left, made at the Lausanne film school ECAL, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2015 and 2016. Her diploma film, Black Jack, was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize and won the Best Short Film Award at Winterthur Film Festival and the Prix de la Relève at Soleure Film Festival. In 2022, she returns to the Locarno Film Festival with Euridice, Euridice, a medium-length film shot in Rome. She is currently writing her first feature film.
PRODUCTION
Alva Film & 5à7 Films & Préludes
TEAM
Script Lora Mure-Ravaud Cinematographer Augustin Losserand Sound Dominic Rogan Mix Simon Apostolou Cast Ondina Quadri, Alexia Sarantopoulou, Daria Menichetti Original music Marcel Vaid
Thursday, April 6 - 6:30 pm - Salle 1
Tuesday, April 4 - 4 pm - Salle 3
DVA
Alexandra Karelina
Russia
Experimental
2022
33'
SYNOPSIS
During the inexplicable state of emergency in Moscow, a lonely young man is trying to find his missing dog and to figure out what is truly going on. Eventually, he finds himself in a parallel world where the dead and the living are inseparable, but the word “death” is strictly prohibited.
DIRECTOR
Since 2015 Alexandra Karelina has been working as a director of documentaries and experimental films. Her films have participated in international film festivals: IFFR, ISFF Oberhausen, Image Forum Tokyo, Le Guess who?, MIEFF etc. Her films have been awarded: “How to behave” LUFF 2018 (Switzerland) and ”Bobok” NHIIDFF 2021 (Russia).
PRODUCTION
Stereotactic
TEAM
Script Alexandra Karelina Cinematrogpher Egor Protsko Sound Feliks Mirenskiy Mix Andrey Guryanov Cast Wassiliy Kondrashov, Anastasia Shpilko, Olga Shpilko Original music Darya Zvezdina, Feliks Mirenskiy
Wednesday, April 5 - 2 pm - Salle 1
Thursday, April 6 - 6:30 pm - Salle 3
DHUIN
Achal Mishra
India
Fiction
2022
50'
SYNOPSIS
Pankaj is a small-town theatre actor with dreams of making it big in Mumbai. But faced with obligations to his family, which is under a deep financial strain post the lockdown, he is forced to weigh his dreams and make a choice.
DIRECTOR
Achal Mishra (b. 1996, India) is a filmmaker and photographer from Darbhanga, Bihar, currently based out of Mumbai. His debut feature film Gamak Ghar premiered at the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2019, where it won the Manish Acharya Award for New Voices in Indian Cinema. Dhuin is his second film.
PRODUCTION
Achalchitra
TEAM
Script Prashant Rana, Achal Mishra, Anubhav Priya, and Abhinav Jha Cinematographer Anand Bansal Sound Rohan Deep Saxena Mix Bhaskar Roy Cast Abhinav Jha, Prashant Rana, Ankush Prasad, Bijay Sah Original music Tajdar Junaid Sets Achal Mishra and Anand Bansal
Wednesday 5/04 - 6:15 pm - salle 1
Thursday 6/04 - 2 pm - salle 3