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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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