Jacques Bouquin

A young college student from rural Albania leaves school to visit home, only to find himself embroiled in his family's deadly blood feud.

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

Reunión de 33 cortometrajes de unos tres minutos cada uno realizados por 35 directores con motivo del 60 aniversario del Festival de Cannes.

Each morning Beirut awakens to a new murder seemingly committed by a serial killer, with victims found emptied of their blood. At the same time a doctor, Khalil, begins to experience strange symptoms that destabilise him and transform his life. A connection slowly emerges that seems to link Khalil to these victims. Salhab’s body of films have come to narrate the state of Lebanon – and Beirut in particular – during and after the civil war, and this film is no exception.

After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.

Two young men went on a ride with their old friend in his truck across the whole Mauritius, the sole purpose of it being finding and getting two girls to entertain them that very night back home.

"In The Moonless Night, the whole of Albania seems to head for the coast by train in order to emigrate to the West. So too is 16-year-old Rudina and her strict and secretive grandfather, who have left their village with that aim in mind. In the train, Rudina meets Gjergj, who is on his way with his friend Millo. The grandfather tries at all costs to keep the two away from each other, but is left powerless in the train when Rudina and Gjergj miss the train at the station. As they continue their journey on foot, they get to know each other better. When they reach the beach, the local Mafia is busy organising the smuggling of people and goods. When the train travellers arrive there too, it slowly becomes clear how much Rudina's grandfather tries to hide about his past and why he doesn't want the two young people to be together." - IFFR

A short documentary about the making of Chaplin's "Limelight."

In Beirut, the destinies of several thirtysomethings (an architect, a tour guide, a mystic, a radio operator, and an exile returned home) collide.

La verdadera historia de la saga que se esperaba era la tan esperada justicia ejercida sobre Augosto Pinochet, dictador chileno de 1973 a 1990. En septiembre de 1998, Pinochet voló a Londres en un viaje de placer pero experimentó dolor de espalda y se sometió a una operación en La Clínica de Londres. Al despertar, fue arrestado por Scotland Yard. ¿Podría ser que este se convertiría en el primer dictador latinoamericano en responder por crímenes mientras se desempeñaba como Jefe de Estado? Después de 500 días de arresto domiciliario, sin embargo, finalmente regresó ileso a Chile, a pesar del convincente caso construido contra él antes y durante este período por un joven fiscal español, Carlos Castresana.

Camille, quien acaba de cumplir nueve años, es un niño precoz e inteligente, y fanático de las videocamaras. Después de actuar de una manera muy extraña en su cumpleaños, Camille asusta a su madre insistiendo que ella no es su madre verdadera. Se dirige a ella como "Ariane" y le convence para llevarle a casa de Isabella, su madre verdadera. Isabella reclama a Camille como su hijo a pesar del hecho que su hijo Paul se ahogó hace dos años. Y así empieza la extraña relación entre las dos mujeres y el niño... ¿Es Ariane realmente la madre de Camille? ¿Que influencia tiene Isabella sobre el niño?

In Jakarta, a young journalist struggling to escape from the confines of familiar obligations, receives a telegram informing him that his mother is dying.

In 1956, the rich French publisher of the works of the Marquis de Sade, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, was summoned to court for violating good morals and publishing pornography. Sade was born in 1755 and already in 1778 he was sentenced to a years-long prison, which was renewed by himself because of the writing of "scandalous" texts. This saved his life after the French revolution, but he soon came into conflict with Robespierre.

Martin está enamorado de Lucas, monitor de la piscina en la que trabajan. Pero no lo tendrá nada fácil, ya que éste es muy introvertido, vive con su novia Lisa y no reconoce su condición de gay. A pesar de todo Martin no se desanima, pues para él el tiempo y el amor son demasiado preciosos.

Martin está enamorado de Lucas, monitor de la piscina en la que trabajan. Pero no lo tendrá nada fácil, ya que éste es muy introvertido, vive con su novia Lisa y no reconoce su condición de gay. A pesar de todo Martin no se desanima, pues para él el tiempo y el amor son demasiado preciosos.

Charterston Township 1990. Professor Zamani is respected in the township. To be sure, he once raped one of his students but the community turned a blind eye. Zamani used to rail against the apartheid system but those days are long gone. Now he teaches South African history in the Afrikaner language and grudgingly organizes the picnic for National Day, which commemorates the Boers' massacre of the Zulu nation... When Zani, the rape victim's brother, returns from Swaziland where he won a place in school, he is determined to change everything. In the small hours, in the waiting room at Johannesburg station, he runs into Prof. Zamani, who's spent the night on the town. They travel back together to the harsh reality of the township. In due course, Zamani regains some of his pride and Zani, inevitably, loses some of his...under the gaze of the women, who never renounced their dignity.

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment of celluloid that can only be seen by a secret society known as the Philokinetes. They watch it on a loop, somnambulating through a life that is unreal by comparison. It is the belief of the Philokinetes that film has an existence “independent from humans. Cinema, they said, is the primeval soup of a new life form. There from were to emerge pure screening creatures. Which is to say, non-topical beings.” - n+1

1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich completes the orchestration, but in 1948 is advised to suppress the opera, during Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans". Jewish motifs enter Shostakovich's own work.

This French documentary pays homage to a young man whose passion left a rich and valuable legacy to the world of cinema. Henri Langlois was one of the co-founders of the Cinematheque Francaise, a museum which contains many rare artifacts from early cinema as well as one of the most extensive film archives in the world. This documentary will be most meaningful for those already familiar with Langlois' story. Through old film clips and interviews, Langlois is seen as an eccentric but charismatic young visionary obsessed with preserving and locating old films. Filmmaker Edgardo Cozarinsky uses scenes from Citizen Kane to compare the portly iconoclast to Charles Foster Kane, in that both Langlois and Welle's fictional newspaper magnate where avid collectors, and both were men of mystery.

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.

In 1977, one year after Mao died, a French man ( played by Alain Bashung) comes back to China to work as a school teacher with his daughter. He quickly ignores the interdiction of getting in touch with Chinese people and finds himself drawn into mysterious meetings at the Red Pavilion. MY CHINESE SISTER is a movie about pretense and the mystification of reality.

Primer largometraje de ficción dirigido por Rithy Panh, el más importante cineasta camboyano, que se centra en las dificultades de una familia cuya vida gira en torno al cultivo del arroz, y que a su vez, sirve como metáfora del sufrimiento y la ausencia de futuro de su propio pueblo durante y tras el genoc

Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transports us to the land where she was born, on the other side of the Mediterranean "where the sea is saltier". If most of the pieds-noirs left Algeria in the summer of 1962, some -a minority- remained. By going to meet them, the director makes her own inner journey.

About the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954). More than a style, there is a Dagerman voice. This simple voice speaks softly, without emphasis, of simple people, of children, of old men, of his native Sweden. She is friendly to the humble, the solitary, the victims.

Alone in a dark room, a mysterious woman dreams while surrounded by phantoms.

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might decide that what we receive was a story full of intentions; or we might decide that it was a spineless joke empty of sense or direction. In any case, it will be difficult to deny the acid sense of humor that animates the film.

La película comienza con una premisa: un estudiante debe salir de Francia pues ha cometido una ilegalidad, un marinero le ofrece su puesto en un buque mercante que está por zarpar, pero a cambio de que escuche su historia. A partir de ahí, el relato no arranca verdaderamente, sino que explota, estalla en múltiples relatos de la vida del marinero y sus encuentros con diversos personajes (un ciego, una bailarina, un hombre de 90 años, un intelectual, entre otros).

Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.

With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.

A Creator of the Imaginary: Patrick Bokanowski