Capacity: 150 places Access for people with reduced mobility
Monday, October 2, 2023
4:00 PM
Coup de grâce – Volker SCHLÖNDORFF – 17:45 (France)
War as seen by...
The fate of three people caught up in the turmoil of the fighting between White Russians and Bolsheviks in the Balkans at the end of the First World War.
The Smeds and the Smoos – Samantha CUTLER – Daniel SNADDON – 10:00 (United Kingdom)
For the kids
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 Smeds and the Smoos – Samantha CUTLER – Daniel SNADDON – 11:15 (United Kingdom)
For the kids
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
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.
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…
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.
From Lincoln to the Present Day: a history of the United States in film
1863. The American Civil War is devastating the United States. Young Robert Gould Shaw is promoted to colonel of the first all-black regiment of volunteers, who signed up to fight a war they thought was theirs. They were wrong. Given menial tasks, despised by their officers, they revolt with Shaw as their leader. Volunteers in the assault of the impenetrable Fort Wagner, these heroes will pay a high price to retrieve their dignity.
Commedia all’italiana goes to war: an irresistible antidote
1940 in Libya. Lupi, a young sub lieutenant specialised in psychiatry, works in the medical service of the Italian army. There he meets Oscar Pilli, a medical officer with odd behaviour who is particularly disliked by his colleagues. Soon Lupi will find out why Oscar Pilli is being kept in the medical service…
Summer Of Soul (...Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) – Ahmir "Questlove" THOMPSON – 20:05 (United States)
From Lincoln to the Present Day: a history of the United States in filmRock'n' War/Art'n'War #7
Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Marcus Garvey Park — an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. The footage was never seen and largely forgotten—until now. Summer of Soul shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest.
Four Daughters – Kaouther BEN HANIA – 22:30 (France)
Points of view 2023
With the director Kaouther Ben Hania and the producer Nadim Cheikhoura in person.
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
Chicken for Linda! – Chiara MALTA – Sébastien LAUDENBACH – 10:55 (France)
For the kids
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?
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.
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?
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?
Circle of Deceit – Volker SCHLÖNDORFF – 19:30 (Germany)
War as seen by...
In Beirut torn apart by civil war, a German reporter sent to cover the events meets up with a former mistress, living in Lebanon with her husband. In this tormented city, he discovers the many faces of a conflict that will have consequences for him far beyond his work as a journalist.
This unique cinematic experience dives deep into an artist’s work and reveals his life path, inspiration, and creative process. It explores his fascination with myth and history. Past and present are interwoven to diffuse the line between film and painting, allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the remarkable world of one of the greatest contemporary artists, Anselm Kiefer. Wim Wenders shot this unique portrait over the course of two years in stunning 3D.
They Shot the Piano Player – Fernando TRUEBA – Javier MARISCAL – 20:40 (Spain)
Points of view 2023Rock'n' War/Art'n'War #7
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.
The Tin Drum – Volker SCHLÖNDORFF – 12:50 (Germany)
War as seen by...
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 Survival of Kindness – Rolf DE HEER – 15:40 (Australia)
Points of view 2023
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.
