The China Syndrome – James BRIDGES – 11:40 (United States)
Natural habitat, Paradoxes and crises #2
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.
We All Loved Each Other So Much – Ettore SCOLA – 20:35 (Italy)
Commedia all’italiana goes to war: an irresistible antidote
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…
Commedia all’italiana goes to war: an irresistible antidote
It is 1943 and Rome is being bombed. Cesira, a young widow, flees the capital with her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta. She returns to her native village of Santa Eufemia in the mountainous region of Ciociaria. She entrusts her grocery store to Giovanni, her coal-mining neighbour. The journey is dangerous, under a hail of bullets. Life is hard for the refugees. Michele, a young idealist, falls in love with Cesira and turns the head of Rosetta.
Grand Central – Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI – 16:45 (France)
Natural habitat, Paradoxes and crises #2
After a succession of odd jobs, he’s taken on at a nuclear power plant. There, amongst the reactors and their high doses of radioactivity, he finally finds what he’s been looking for: money, a team, a family. But the team also includes Karole, Toni’s wife, with whom he falls in love. Forbidden love and radiation slowly contaminate Gary. Each day is menacing.
Mississippi Burning – Alan PARKER – 22:30 (United States)
From Lincoln to the Present Day: a history of the United States in film
1964. Three civil rights activists mysteriously disappear in Mississippi. Ward and Anderson, two F.B.I. agents with different but complementary approaches, are sent to investigate. Their inquiries soon begin to ruffle feathers and violent incidents break out against a backdrop of racism in a town where the Ku Klux Klan kindles hatred and violence…
Commedia all’italiana goes to war: an irresistible antidote
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.
Ghettos Of The Shoah – Barbara NECEK – 15:40 (France)
Shared recollections #11
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.
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
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.
BlacKkKlansman – Spike LEE – 11:55 (United States)
From Lincoln to the Present Day: a history of the United States in film
The early 1970s, a time of great social upheaval as the struggle for civil rights rages on. Ron Stallworth becomes the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, but his arrival is greeted with open hostility by the department’s rank and file. Undaunted, Stallworth resolves to make a name for himself and a difference in his community. He bravely sets out a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan.
From Where They Stood – Christophe COGNET – 15:40 (France)
Points of view 2023Shared recollections #11
With director Christophe Cognet in person.
A handful of prisoners in WWII camps risked their lives to take clandestine photographs and document the hell the Nazis were hiding from the world. In the vestiges of the camps, director Christophe Cognet retraces the footsteps of these courageous men and women in a quest to unearth the circumstances and the stories behind their photographs, composing as such an archeology of images as acts of defiance.
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.
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.
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
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.
