The Smeds and the Smoos – Samantha CUTLER – Daniel SNADDON – 10:00 (United Kingdom)
For the kids
Cinéma La Comète
PREMIERE
This 37-minute programme includes the shot films: Sous les nuages, Somni, La Fiesta, and The Smeds and The Smoos.
On a faraway planet, Janet and Bill meet in the Wurpular Wood and fall in love. But their families, The Smeds and The Smoos, cannot accept the match due to generations of division.
The China Syndrome – James BRIDGES – 11:40 (United States)
Natural habitat, Paradoxes and crises #2
Lycée Bayen
Kimberly Wells, a television news reporter, Richard Adams, her cameraman, are witness to an accident in a power plant. While Jack Godell tries to contain the potential disaster, the situation is secretly filmed by Richard Adams, which then leads to a conflict of corporate forces and a climax that is nearly unbearable.
A Polish vehicle traverses the roads of Ukraine. On board, people are evacuated following the Russian invasion. This van becomes a fragile and transitory refuge, a zone of confidences and confessions of exiles who have only one objective, to escape the war.
The Smeds and the Smoos – Samantha CUTLER – Daniel SNADDON – 11:15 (United Kingdom)
For the kids
Cinéma La Comète
PREMIERE
This 37-minute programme includes the shot films: Sous les nuages, Somni, La Fiesta, and The Smeds and The Smoos.
On a faraway planet, Janet and Bill meet in the Wurpular Wood and fall in love. But their families, The Smeds and The Smoos, cannot accept the match due to generations of division.
Les Sentinelles de l'oubli – Jérôme PRIEUR – 15:30 (France)
Shared recollections #11
Cinéma La Comète
With director Jérôme Prieur in person.
The memorials of WWI have become so familiar that we no longer see them. They are an invisible museum that has come to merge with the landscapes of France. Then, one fine day, a sculpture catches our eye. Another story emerges, perhaps the biggest artistic project since the cathedrals. These statues take us into a world parallel to our own, where the ghosts of the Great War live on.
After the catastrophe in 1986, a 30-km restricted zone was erected around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and 116,000 persons were evacuated from this area. Pripyat is a portrait of the people who still live and work there, or who have moved back. Four protagonists tell their stories and provide a look at everyday life in "their" zone, a life with the invisible and incomprehensible danger of radioactivity.
This documentary follows Roman Polanski in the city where he grew up as a child, alongside his lifelong friend, the photographer Ryszard Horowitz, a Holocaust survivor whom we met in the Jewish ghetto of Kraków during the Second World War. Together, they wander around the streets and confront their memories…
We All Loved Each Other So Much – Ettore SCOLA – 20:35 (Italy)
Commedia all’italiana goes to war: an irresistible antidote
Lycée Bayen
In 1945, three friends who took part in the Italian resistance celebrate the fall of fascism and the end of the war. The monarchy is replaced by a republic and all three continue their lives separately, free of all fascist propaganda…
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona, a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to confess her transgressions to Julia, Mona decides to leave the past behind and adjust to a new status quo, unaware that the country’s turmoil may find its way into her home and put her face to face with her sins.
Les Sentinelles de l'oubli – Jérôme PRIEUR – 21:30 (France)
Shared recollections #11
Salles intercommunale Suippes
With director Jérôme Prieur in person.
The memorials of WWI have become so familiar that we no longer see them. They are an invisible museum that has come to merge with the landscapes of France. Then, one fine day, a sculpture catches our eye. Another story emerges, perhaps the biggest artistic project since the cathedrals. These statues take us into a world parallel to our own, where the ghosts of the Great War live on.
USSR, 1938. At the height of the Great Terror, Stalin purges his own ranks. Aware that it is his turn to be condemned, Captain Volkonogov escapes. As he flees, he is struck by a vision: to save his soul, he must confront the families of his victims and receive their forgiveness.
