New Films

THREE FRIENDS

a film by :Emmanuel Mouret

Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: She herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric and yet their relationship is smooth sailing. She has no (...)

France

117 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : French

SHEPHERDS

a film by :Sophie Deraspe

Mathyas, an aspiring writer, trades his life in Montreal as a young advertising executive for that of a shepherd in the South of France. But the road to his desired pastoral tranquillity is filled with hard work. A visit from Elise, a civil servant who (...)

France / Canada
Running time: 113 minutes
Format : color – 1.85 – Sound 5.1

Spoken languages : French

YOUTH (Homecoming)

a film by :Wang Bing

As New Year's break is coming, Zhili's textile workshops are almost deserted. The fewn remaining employees are desperate to be paid for their trip home. From the banks of the Yangtze River to the mountains of Yunnan, everyone will be celebrating (...)

France / Luxemburg / Netherlands
Running time: 152 minutes
Format : color – 1.85 – Sound 5.1

Spoken languages : Mandarin

YOUTH (Hard times)

a film by :Wang Bing

Individual and collective stories unfold in Zhili's textile workshops, becoming ever more dramatic as the seasons go by. Fu YUN keeps making mistakes and is mocked by her colleagues. Xu WANXIANG can't find his notebook, without which his (...)

France / Luxemburg / Netherlands
Running time: 3h43
Format : color – 1.85 – Sound 5.1

Spoken languages : Mandarin

WILD DIAMOND

a film by :Agathe Riedinger

Liane, 19 years old, daring and fiery, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become “someone”, she sees reality TV as her opportunity to be loved... Fate (...)

France

103 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : French

VIET AND NAM

a film by :Trương Minh Quý

Nam and Viet love each other. Both are miners, working 1000 meters below ground where danger awaits and darkness prevails. Coal earns them a living, while polluting the land and the sea. Black sea. Black coal. Burnt coal. Wet coal. Dusty coal. When Nam (...)

France, Switzerland and Lichtenstein, Vietnam

129 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : Vietnamese

IN HIS OWN IMAGE

a film by :Thierry de Peretti

Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the (...)

France

110 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : French / Corsica

JIM'S STORY

a film by :Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim's biological father, (...)

France

101 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : French

HOLY COW

a film by :Louise Courvoisier

Totone, 18 years old, spends most of his time drinking beers and partying in the Jura region with his group of friends. But reality catches up with him: he has to take care of his 7-year-old sister and find a way to make a living. He (...)

France

90 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : French

SOULEYMANE'S STORY

a film by :Boris Lojkine

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers. But Souleymane is not (...)

France

92 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : French 

THE BELLE FROM GAZA

a film by :Yolande Zauberman

They were a fleeting vision in the night. I was told that one of them had walked from Gaza to Tel Aviv. In my head I called her The belle from (...)

France

76 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : English, Arabic, French, Hebrew

AUCTION

a film by :Pascal Bonitzer

André Masson, an auctioneer at the famous Scottie’s auction house, receives a letter one day stating that a painting by Egon Schiele has been discovered in Mulhouse at the home of a young worker. Very skeptical, he makes the trip and has to face the (...)

France

91 minutes - DCP - 16/9 - Color

Original language : French

Festivals & Markets

VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

From August 28th to September 7th
Official Competition
THREE FRIENDS
Official Competition
YOUTH (Homecoming)

TORONTO INTL FILM FESTIVAL

From September 5th to September 15th
Wavelengths
YOUTH (Hard times)YOUTH (Homecoming)
Special Presentations
SHEPHERDS
Wavelengths
VIET AND NAM
Center Piece
SOULEYMANE'S STORY