Quinzaine des cinéastes 2024

<p>Fragments of the life of Antonia, young photographer from Corsica-Matin in Ajaccio. His commitment, his friends, his loves mix with the major events in the political history of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the fresco of a generation.</p>

<p>On Christmas Eve, a family gathers for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and generational tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.</p>

<p>Kana (Yuumi Kawai) is a 21 year old woman. She doesn&#39;t have passion for anything and she just spends her days meaninglessly. She doesn&#39;t even know what she wants in her life. She falls in love in to kill time. Her boyfriend is Honda (Kanichiro) and they live together, but Kana gets close to Hayashi (Daichi Kaneko) who is a creator.</p>

<p>Set in a confined world outside time, East of Noon is the fable of prodigy ABDO (19) who uses music to rebel against his elders: showman SHAWKY (70), an eccentric showman who rules with a mix of performance and fear, and storyteller JALALA (75), who provides relief with stories of the Sea, which no one else has seen. East of Noon is a satire on the inner workings of an ailing autocracy and its inherent vulnerability to youth&rsquo;s unchained vision of a better world.</p>

<p>Pablo and his sister Apolline escape from their daily lives by playing Darknoon, a video game that saw them grow up. One day, Pablo meets Night, whom he introduces to his little deals, and moves away from Apolline. As the end of the game approaches, the two boys provoke the anger of a rival gang...</p>

<p>Grown men&#39;s recreational baseball game stretches to extra innings on their beloved field&#39;s final day before demolition. Humor and nostalgia intertwine as daylight fades, signaling an era&#39;s end.</p>

<p>Set on the outskirts of Newark, New Jersey, GAZER follows Frankie, a young mother with a rare degenerative brain condition called dyschronometria which disables her from correctly perceiving time. Prone to paranoia and frequent &quot;zone outs,&quot; she uses self-recorded cassette tapes to keep herself safe and present in our modern, high-tech world. Unable to find steady work with her condition, she desperately takes a job from a mysterious woman with a dark past.</p>

<p>Friendship shared between Karin, a strong-minded girl sent to live with her monk granddad in the Japanese countryside, and Anzu, the even-more unpredictable phantom feline who acts as her guardian.</p>

<p>On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.</p>

<p>The stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor.</p>

<p>Alma, alone in her beautiful town house, and Mina, a young mother from another town, organize their lives around the visits they make to their two companions in prison. In the visiting room, the two women meet and begin an improbable friendship...</p>

<p>During a trip to Denmark, a man is arrested and accused of murdering his wife and three children. Though maintaining his innocence, he remains jailed as police investigate.</p>

<p>Barberie Bichette, who to her chagrin is called Barbie, may have been beautiful, perhaps been loved, perhaps been a good mother to her children, a reliable colleague, a great lover, yes perhaps... Today, it&#39;s dark, it&#39;s violent, it&#39;s absurd and it terrifies her: she is 55 years old (that&#39;s 60 and soon more!). It was fatal but how do you deal with yourself, with death, with life in short&hellip;</p>

<p>Oom has no papers or formal training but is good at caring for the elderly and disabled. When his situation as a caregiver in the mountains becomes too much for him, he has to choose between survival or dignity.</p>

<p>Once upon a time there was a Revolution in a small Portuguese village. Savana ea montanha is a hybrid documentary where villagers stage their own struggle &ndash; still current &ndash; ​​against a government plan to extract lithium which threatens their land. It is a generous and funny resistance film, a ballad in songs, a rural western which is reminiscent of the cinema of Moullet or Guiraudie</p>

<p>Under the humid Mumbai nights, a small-town misfit in a newly arranged marriage attempts to navigate an awkward spouse, nosy neighbours and her own feral impulses.</p>

<p>Set in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the film zooms in on the Felpeto family running a clandestine gambling business for decades until police raids threaten their dynasty and a secret of their late father comes to light. Rosselli blends found footage with a mis-en-scene that oscillates between documentary and fiction to depict the heyday and downfall of a family.</p>

<p>Documentary about Indigenous peoples&#39; profound connection to nature and their struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life and the ecosystem they call home.</p>

<p>Experience that transforms the M100 GAV into a large film set for a feature film, where audiences will be able to witness the filming and participate in unexpected ways.</p>

<p>After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have an idea that might seem absurd: to organize a party to celebrate their breakup. This announcement leaves their loved ones perplexed, but they remain firm in their decision to separate. Or maybe not?</p>

<p>Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his dangerous drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages in an effort to get him and his best friend out of their hopeless environment before it is too late.</p>

<p>Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.</p>

<p>A summer at the end of the 1980s. An Algerian family takes to the road from the Paris suburbs, where they live, to reach Marseille. On the horizon, a mythical ferry, the port of Algiers, a holiday &quot;back home&quot; to a place the children have never experienced. In the overloaded van, a mixture of joy and excitement, freedom and nostalgia.</p>

<p>A man who was looking for the shortest thing in Tokyo uttered the word &quot;da&quot; at the last moment of his life. This work, produced as the first installment of the ``Bungaku Bideo&#39;&#39; collaboration project between contemporary Japanese literature and animation, is a recitation of ``Totemo mijikai,&#39;&#39; an original work by Hideo Furukawa, by the author himself, and Koji Yamamura handled the animation.</p>

<p>Derya is pregnant, but she hasn&rsquo;t had sex. As we gaze into her life, a housekeeper in the height of a dry summer, signs of the supernatural and the divine emerge, prompting us to question the true origin of her mysterious pregnancy.</p>

<p>A young man faces the reopening of a family farm, and his wife who has to learn to find a place in this environment. This documentary admirably reflects on the doubts and challenges of a new generation of farmers without investing in sociology.</p>

<p>In Vietnam, an almost septuagenarian struggles to live in the unfinished building from which she bought an apartment off plans, while attending a greedy personal development organization. In the shadows of the building left in the state of a reinforced concrete skeleton, a crossover is invented with a young man who has also found refuge there.</p>

<p>Somewhere in Argentina: as an eclipse of the sun is predicted and the surrounding forest continues to be devastated by logging, only a few women and a little boy are left to fend for themselves. When everything collapses, one clings to the slightest hint of vitality.</p> <p>A short fiction film written and directed by Obere&ntilde;a filmmaker Agustina S&aacute;nchez Gavier and is her final year thesis project at the School of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. The plot revolves around how the lives of the different characters intersect due to a natural phenomenon. It was shot on film in 16mm. for eight days in the city of Ober&aacute;, Los Helechos, Barra Bonita and Panamb&iacute;.</p>

<p>Accompanied by two botanical guides, a group of hikers embarks on a journey through the enchanting landscapes of Arr&aacute;bida Natural Park. As they traverse the park&#39;s diverse flora and fauna, they uncover evidence of a troubling transformation: rather than the work of nature, it becomes clear that human intervention is reshaping this once-pristine environment.</p>

<p>An essay matching different acts of resistance and revolutionary struggle from the 20s to the present day. An alternative map of Manhattan that resembles Sebald&#39;s novels.</p>

<p>Amid the fog and the labyrinth of time, while machines probe the geological depths of the mountain, a shepherd searches for an errant cow. Childhood finds its way back, the mountain transforms itself, the cycle continues.</p>