Chicken for Linda! – Chiara MALTA – Sébastien LAUDENBACH – 10:15 (France)
For the kids
Centre culturel Mourmelon
PREMIERE
Paulette realizes she has unfairly punished her daughter Linda. To make up for it, she promises to cook her chicken with peppers, even though she cannot cook at all. But where to find a chicken on a strike day, when all the shops are closed?
Chicken for Linda! – Chiara MALTA – Sébastien LAUDENBACH – 10:55 (France)
For the kids
Cinéma La Comète
PREMIERE
Paulette realizes she has unfairly punished her daughter Linda. To make up for it, she promises to cook her chicken with peppers, even though she cannot cook at all. But where to find a chicken on a strike day, when all the shops are closed?
Commedia all’italiana goes to war: an irresistible antidote
Lycée Bayen
Former resistance fighter Silvio Magnozzi struggles to hold on to his fervent left-wing political beliefs. Working as a politically committed journalist, he finds it increasingly hard to provide for his family. His wife, Elena, who reproaches him for his idealism and for not taking advantage of the Italian economic miracle, leaves him. Silvio then attempts to win her back by accepting to compromise himself with a rich industrialist.
The Siege of Sarajevo lasted from April 1992 to February 1996. Young men were called up to protect their city, a few of them chose to take along their cameras to face the violence they witnessed throughout those grueling 1,425 days. Now, 30 years later, they show us their films and share their wartime filming experiences and thoughts on cinema as a means of survival and resistance.
The Vanishing Soldier – Dani ROSENBERG – 15:30 (Israel)
Feature Films International Competition
Théâtre La Comète
With director Dani Rosenberg in person.
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Shlomi, an eighteen-year-old Israeli soldier, flees the Gaza battlefield and heads to his girlfriend in Tel Aviv only to discover that the IDF elite is convinced he was kidnapped in the fog of war. This is a tragi-comic journey, taking place over a period of 24 hours in the hot and humid streets of Tel Aviv, shifting from terror to hope, from romance to nightmare.
Alsace in the late summer of 1918. Luise, a young farmer, lives alone on an isolated farm near the French border. One morning, in her house, she discovers Hélène, a French woman pursued by Hermann, a German soldier. Being injured, Hermann is forced to stay on the farm for a while, even though this makes him a deserter. Luise decides to give them both shelter. While the two women get closer to each other, Hermann feels increasingly excluded and tries to stand in their way.
Ghettos Of The Shoah – Barbara NECEK – 15:40 (France)
Shared recollections #11
Lycée Bayen
With the producer Fabrice Frank in person.
More than 1,000 ghettos were established between 1939 and 1941. It is widely believed they were created by the Nazi leadership as a temporary measure, pending the “Final Solution”. But this new historical perspective on the chronology of the Shoah allows us to consider the ghettos in a new light with access to never released personal archives, film, letters and photographs.
Chicken for Linda! – Chiara MALTA – Sébastien LAUDENBACH – 15:15 (France)
For the kids
Centre culturel Mourmelon
PREMIERE
Paulette realizes she has unfairly punished her daughter Linda. To make up for it, she promises to cook her chicken with peppers, even though she cannot cook at all. But where to find a chicken on a strike day, when all the shops are closed?
Every day, the world over, large amounts of radioactive waste are placed in interim storages. In Finland the world's first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock, a huge system of underground tunnels that must last hundred thousand years. How is it possible to warn our descendants of the deadly waste we left behind? Which languages and signs will they understand? Experts strive to find solutions to this crucial problem.
With director David Oelhoffen, Louis Descols uniform expert on the set,and Eve-Lize Blanc Deleuze, head ofMission Cinéma et Industries Créatives (MCIC), in person.
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9 March 1945. The Japanese army launches a sudden and violent attack against the French garrisons in Indochina. Hunted by the Japanese enemy, a column of legionnaires already weakened by alcohol and tropical disease, set off into the heart of the jungle in an attempt to reach the allied bases over 300 km away…
Syrian refugee Ahmed hopes to find love with Mehdia, an Ethiopian cleaner. But in Beirut that seems impossible… Will these refugee lovers find a way to be free as Ahmed, a survivor of the war in Syria, seems afflicted by a mysterious illness that turns his body little by little into metal?
In the Heat of the Night – Norman JEWISON – 20:00 (United States)
From Lincoln to the Present Day: a history of the United States in film
Lycée Bayen
Virgil Tibbs is a black police officer in the North of the United States. When visiting a small town in the South where most people are extremely racist, he finds himself involved in a murder investigation.
Screening followed by the masterclass with Volker Schlöndorff, WoS 2023 guest of honour.
August 1944. The Allies enter Paris. Before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz, German military governor of Paris, prepares to execute Adolph Hitler's orders to blow up the French capital. Bridges and monuments are all rigged to explode. Swedish Consul General Raoul Nordling steals into German headquarters through a secret underground tunnel and there starts a tension-filled game of cat and mouse as Nordling tries to persuade Choltitz to abandon his plan.
1980. Southern Iran. The people of Abadan have been fighting an Iraqi siege. Amongst them is the 14-year-old Omid, who chose to stay in the city with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to return from the frontline. But how can you resist in a war without taking up arms? Then Omid finds an abandoned ship in Abadan’s harbor. Is this the answer to saving the people he loves?
