The Tin Drum – Volker SCHLÖNDORFF – 12:50 (Germany)
War as seen by...
Cinéma La Comète
Born in Dantzig in 1924, Oskar, a child astonishingly mature beyond his years, listens to the comments of those around him with lucid skepticism. At the age of three, he brutally stops growing by deliberating falling down the stairs. With his little drum that never leaves his side, Oskar sets the tempo to the twists and turns of his life and of history, from the rise of Nazism to World War II.
The Buriti Flower – João SALAVIZA – Renée NADER MESSORA – 12:40 (Portugal)
Feature Films International Competition
Théâtre La Comète
PREMIERE
Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest. Tirelessly persecuted, but guided by their ancestral rites, their love of nature and their fight to preserve their freedom, the Krahô never stop inventing new forms of resistance.
The Survival of Kindness – Rolf DE HEER – 15:40 (Australia)
Points of view 2023
Cinéma La Comète
With the presence of the director Rolf De Heer.
PREMIERE
In a cage on a trailer in the middle of the desert, BlackWoman is abandoned. But BlackWoman seems not ready to pass...she escapes, and walks through pestilence and persecution, from desert to canyon to mountain to city, on a quest that leads to a city, recapture and tragedy.
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.
