Pourquoi Filmez-vous ? « Pour courir plus vite que le doute. Pour tenter de retrouver la grâce perdue. Pour mettre l’ennui de vivre sur liste d’attente. Parce que, les histoires, je préfère les raconter plutôt que les vivre. Parce que dans la vie, on n’a pas le final cut. Parce que Dieu est un metteur en scène dont je jalouse chaque mauvaise idée. » François Zabaleta, cinéaste
Cannes 2011
- CATALOGUE ACID CANNES 2011
The ACID Program in Cannes 2011
Miaoyan Zhang
China / France, 2010, feature film, 123’
In a remote mountain village in the northwest of China, the poverty-stricken Xiaolin sells his blood to pay his daughter’s school fees. Together with his wife Xiaojuan, he tries to set up a business. At first that seems very lucrative, but then fate strikes : it turns out that Xiaojuan is infected with HIV.
Emmanuel Gras
France, 2011, documentary, 62’
The true life of a cow : grazing, ruminating, gazing - but also feeling - mooing with grief, or simply enjoying an apple...
Jacqueline Zünd
Switzerland / Germany, 2010, documentary, 77’
Goodnight Nobody takes us on a sleepless trip through one night in the unusual lives of four insomniacs. They are night people against their will guiding us through their nights which are filled with silence, solitude, pain and fear but also beauty, fantasies and hope. Their world is a world about which most of us can only dream.
Jérôme le Maire
Belgium, 2010, feature film, 98’
An amateur marching band have made an appointment in the square of a small village in the Ardennes. They are 10 men aged around forty, 10 friends. They have decided to visit the « World Carnival » in Stavelot. A four-day march through the woods with a compass, backpacks and instruments with shoulder straps, in rows of three behind their banner…
Reza Serkanian
France / Iran, 2011, feature film, 78’
An Iranian city practicing a little-known custom, permitted under Islamic law : the temporary marriage. A story about a relationship between the young and passionate Kazem, and his sister-in-law, the widow Mariam. A world where every person’s actions and aspirations are weighed down with social constraints.
Stefano Savona, Alessia Porto, Ester Sparatore
France / Italy, 2011, documentary, 128’
Palermo : 18 homeless families evict the politicians from the City Hall. New, fierce and unlikely players finally seize the old stage of democracy, embodying its contradictions with unprecedented force.
Armel Hostiou
France, 2011, feature film, 85’
One day in Paris. Three characters, a woman, a man and a child. Though they don’t know each other, they share an insidious feeling of separateness.
Carine May, Hakim Zouhani
France, 2011, feature-film/documentary, 68’
Adile is twenty. He lives in the slums of Paris. His life is a mix of hanging around in the hood and fixing motorbikes. That day, his grand-father has disapperead, he’s outside to search him…
Pedro Peirano, Sebastian Silva
Chili, 2010, feature film, 88’
Distribution : Memento Films (octobre 2011)
Isidora and Enrique, an ederly couple, live a comfortable life in an handsome high-rise apartment in Santiago, Chile. Everything is quiet until Rosario, Isidora’s daughter, drops in for a cocked-up visit.
Short Films
Kathy Sebbah
France, 2011, 25’
At the ’Odéon Dancing Club’ while the orchestra plays, couples are formed or brought closer together. whether dancing rock’n’roll, cha cha, tango or bolero... Yelena, the novice, wants to have a very special evening. This one will exceed her expectations.
Virgil Vernier
France, 2010, 35’
Paris, the entrance of a nightclub, a physionimist at work. Selection criteria and power struggle. A time, a space and an action : in or out ?
Short Films « Talents Cannes Adami 2011 »
- CHRISTINE de Gilles Porte
- DEEP INSIDE de Marc Gibaja
- DEVINE de Laurent Perreau
- ENCORE HEUREUX de Ivan Calbérac
- SCÈNE DE VESTIAIRE de Frédéric Malègue
- YASMINE LA RÉVOLUTION de Karin Albou
Special screenings
Matthew Porterfield
USA, 2010 , feature film
Distribution : ED Distribution
An off-screen voice questions a group of teenagers, their words helping to paint the portrait of one of their friends, who recently died of an overdose. With an incredibly delicate approach, their stories weave together to create an image of a contemporary American Community.
- MAFROUZA 5 - PARABOLES
Emmanuelle Demoris
France, 2010 , documentary
Distribution : Shellac
Bruno Rolland
France, 2011, feature film
Distribution : Zelig Films
In a French small town, Lea goes to university and dreams of another life. Her admission to the school of political science in Paris rushes her decisions. But money is a problem. Lea becomes a stripper.
English Version
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