After a Hong Kong nuclear plant and the Mercantile Trade Exchange in Chicago are hacked by unknown perpetrators, a federal agent proposes that the FBI work with China to find the cyber-criminals. The leader of the Chinese team insists that convicted hacker Nick Hathaway be released from prison to help with the investigation. As Nick and his comrades chase their quarry, it becomes evident that the hackers have a sinister motive for their actions.
Isra’a lives with her husband Ahmed and their three children in Aden, in Southern Yemen. Their day to day lives are regulated by the civil war. Ahmed, who worked for the television, had to leave his job and become a driver. When Isra’a discovers she is pregnant again, the couple faces another crisis. They both know they can’t afford a fourth child. Together they decide to have an abortion.
Everybody Go Home! – Luigi COMENCINI – 12:25 (Italy)
Commedia all’italiana goes to war: an irresistible antidote
Médiathèque Pompidou
September 8, 1943. Mussolini is deposed and Italy signs the armistice with the Allies. Sublieutenant Innocenzi and two of his men attempt to return home. The journey will be long and eventful, comical and heartrending…
Luis, an 18-year-old boy with Indigenous roots, enters the Heroic Military College in hopes of ensuring a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to turn him into a perfect soldier.
Half-raccoon half-badger, the Tanukis happily shared their habitat with country folk. Interspersed with tribal skirmishes, their carefree lives made them unaware of an increasingly close human presence… Until people decided to take over their land and turn the mountain into a town.
Serbia, 1996. During the student demonstrations against the Milosević's regime, 15-year-old Stefan has to go through the hardest revolution of all. He has to confront his beloved mother, spokesperson and accomplice of the corrupted government that his friends are rising against.
I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul PECK – 19:45 (United States)
From Lincoln to the Present Day: a history of the United States in film
Lycée Bayen
Based on the words and writing of African American writer James Baldwin, Raoul Peck brings us a film that looks back over the social and political struggles of African Americans in recent decades. A personal reflection on American society, echoing the situation in France today.
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.
They Shot the Piano Player – Fernando TRUEBA – Javier MARISCAL – 20:40 (Spain)
Points of view 2023Rock'n' War/Art'n'War #7
Cinéma La Comète
PREMIERE
A New York music journalist sets out to find the truth behind the tragic disappearance of young Brazilian piano virtuoso Tenorio Jr. Celebrating the world-renowned Latin music movement Bossa Nova, They Shot The Piano Player captures a fleeting period of creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the 1960s and 1970s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.
