2023-10-24 06:01:00
Catalan new wave, Regards d’Occitanie documentaries, “And the party continues!” by Robert Guédiguian in preview, films by Ettore Scola… discover the program of the International Mediterranean Cinema Festival in Montpellier for this Tuesday, October 24.
The Catalan new wave: “Our suns”
At 10 a.m., at Corum, Pasteur room. Fiction (Spain, 2022, 2h, VOSTF) by Carla Simón, with María Zamora, Stefan Schmitz, Tono Folguera. For generations, the Solés have spent their summers picking peaches on their farm in Alcarràs, a small village in Catalonia. But this year’s harvest might well be their last as they face eviction.
Maroun Bagdadi Films: “Little Wars”
At 10 a.m. at the Rabelais center. Fiction (Lebanon, 1982, 1h48, VOSTF) by Maroun Bagdadi, with Soraya Khoury, Roger Hawa, Nabil Ismail. We are in Lebanon in 1975. Talal, the son of a family, leaves his fiancée Soraya and joins his mother; his father has been kidnapped, perhaps killed, and he must now assume his role as clan leader. Out of obligation and duty, he will then lead his men into a merciless war in which he does not believe.
Cinemed for children: “The Great Adventure of Non-No”
At 10:30 a.m., at Corum, Einstein room. Animation from 3 years old (France, 2018, 41′, VOFR) by Mathieu Auvray. In Sous-Bois-Les-Bains, the days pass in good spirits and it’s not a story of carrot ice cream, a (failed) trip to the Moon or a flood that will change things! Nothing seems to be able to stop this funny group of friends, all so different, but always united.
Films Ettore Scola : “La Terrasse”
At 11 a.m., at the Corum, Berlioz opera. Fiction (Italy – France, 1980, 2h34, VOSTF) by Ettore Scola, with Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni. An Italian terrace where liberal-progressive fifty-year-olds from the world of the press, television and cinema gather around sumptuous buffets. Enrico, a famous screenwriter, can no longer find anything to make people laugh. Amedeo, producer, expects funny stories and feels slighted by his wife. Luigi, a journalist, tries to win back his.
Panorama short films n° 1
At 12 p.m., at Corum, Einstein room.
“Sokrania 59”, fiction (France – Algeria – Jordan, 2023, 21’58, VOSTF) by Abdallah Al-Khatib, with Hiam Abbass, Hakim Traidia, Olga Tolmachova. In Germany, Aisha, her husband Jamel and their son Samir, Syrian refugees, find themselves housed in accommodation provided by public institutions. One day, Maria and Sofia arrive, a mother and her daughter who fled the war in Ukraine. In the presence of Abdallah Al-Khatib and Hiam Abbass.
“Nobody Wants The Night”, fiction (Lebanon – Germany, 2023, 15’48, VOSTF) by Remi Itani, with Nazha Harb, Layal Ghossain, Rea Gemayel. In Beirut, Layal is pregnant. Accompanied by her best friend, she drives through the night towards an illegal abortion clinic.
“Daw”, fiction (France, 2023, 27’52, VOSTF) by Samir Ramdani, with Leyla Jawad, Sandy Lewis-Godefroy, Ouissam Bougherara. Strange electromagnetic phenomena, lights circulating in the city, hypnotized teenagers who mysteriously disappear… The investigation is stalling and the commissioner in charge has the impression of going crazy. Unless all these events are connected and carry a hidden meaning.
“I want to break the greenhouse”, fiction (Romania, 2022, 20’45, VOSTF) by Teona Galgotiu, with Ioana Bugarin, Valentin Popescu, Ana Covalciuc, Vlad Galer. Sara is confronted with the first signs of an illness that she inherited from her father and for which he is bedridden. Eager for change, she will visit him and tell him everything she mightn’t tell him until now.
“Deadline”, animation (Israel, 2023, 12’49) by Idan Gilboa. Two elderly ladies meet by chance in a medical center. Faced with the contempt of society, they will join forces and defy Death itself…
Films by Yolande Zauberman: “M”
At 12 p.m., at the Rabelais center. Documentary (France, 2018, 1h46) by Yolande Zauberman. “M” like Menahem, child prodigy with a golden voice, abused by members of his community who idolized him. Fifteen years later he returns to search for the culprits, in his native neighborhood of Bnei Brak, the world capital of ultra-Orthodox Jews. But it is also the return to a world that he loved so much, to a path where speech is freed… a reconciliation.
Support session for Armenia: “If the wind falls”
At 12:15 p.m., at Corum, Pasteur room. Fiction (France – Armenia – Belgium, 2020, 1h40, VOSTFR) by Nora Martirosyan, with Grégoire Colin, Hayk Bakhryan, Arman Navasardyan. An international auditor, Alain arrives in a small self-proclaimed republic in the Caucasus in order to assess the possibility of opening its airport. In contact with the inhabitants of Karabakh and a mysterious child, Alain opens up to a new world and risks everything. Free session in support of SPFA and at Armenian Fund of France.
Short film competition: program no. 3
At 2 p.m., at Corum, Pasteur room.
“An unlived story” (Turkey, 2022, 16′, VOSTF) by Ramazan Kilic, with Elanur Kilic, Reyhan Kilic, Sukran Akti. Sevîn, a 10-year-old girl, imagines a television in Kurdish for her sick and mute grandmother.
“The Voices of Others” (France, 2023, 30′, VOSTF) by Fatima Kaci, with Amira Chebli, Siham Eldawos, Hala Alsayasneh. Rim, Tunisian, works in France as an interpreter as part of asylum application procedures. Every day, she translates the stories of exiled men and women whose voices question her own history.
“Z.O.” (Italy, 2023, 13′, VOSTF) by Loris G. Nese, with Francesco Di Leva, Tancredi Marotta, Lorenzo Filosa. The discovery of a box full of firecrackers provokes a confrontation between Baby Girl and Cookie, two teenagers divided by a conflict dating back to their parents’ argument.
“Petit Spartacus” (France, 2023, 28′, VOSTF) by Sara Ganem, with Sara Ganem, Antonis Stampolidis. “Between the brandies and the Eastern Blocs, I navigate with Spartacus, my Greek-speaking bicycle. But even the size of the world is not enough to drown my sorrow.”
Maroun Bagdadi Films: “Lebanon, the land of honey and incense”
At 2 p.m., at Corum, Einstein room. Fiction (France, 1987, 1h35, VOSTF) by Maroun Bagdadi, with Robin Renucci, Richard Bohringer. During his first mission and therefore his encounter with war, Fournier is confronted with the harshness, disillusionment, and loss of innocence of everyone. Morin is there who welcomes him and who, despite his disillusioned look, will do everything, in due time, to save him.
Documentaries Regards d’Occitanie: “Meanders or the invented river”
At 2 p.m., at the Rabelais center. Documentary (France, 2023, 1h13, VOFR) by Marie Lusson, Émilien De Bortoli. In the middle of summer, a group of friends decide to go down a river in a makeshift raft. The obstacles, physical and living, that they encounter bear witness to the transformations and alterations of waterways by humans.
Films Ettore Scola : “La Famille”
At 2 p.m., at the Corum, Berlioz opera. Fiction (Italy – France, 1986, 2h07, VOSTF) by Ettore Scola, with Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli, Philippe Noiret. 1906 in Italy. On the day of little Carlo’s baptism, the whole family gathers in the living room for the photograph to immortalize the event. The baby’s grandfather wonders: will the child become a genius or an imbecile? The years go by. War is tearing Europe apart. The grandfather is dying and the children take the opportunity to steal a few coins from the doctor’s pocket.
The Catalan new wave: “Libertad”
At 3:15 p.m., at the Nestor-Burma cinema. Fiction (Spain – Belgium, 2021, 1h44, VOSTF) by Clara Roquet, with Maria Morera, Nicolle Garcia. Spain, summer. Libertad bursts into the life of 15-year-old Nora and disrupts the usual calm of her family vacation. These two young girls who are completely opposites then form a deep friendship which will mark their entry into adolescence.
Documentaries Regards d’Occitanie: “Sandbox”
At 4 p.m., at the Rabelais center. Documentary (France, 2023, 58′, VOFR STA) by Charlotte Cherici, Lucas Azémar. In real life, some want to become surgeons, others police officers, or taxi drivers. There are those who dream of love, of good fortune, or of finding a place of choice within the city. In this virtual territory, on this Californian island where we speak French, it’s the same, we act as in real life.
Documentary competition: “Death of a City”
At 4 p.m., at Corum, Einstein room. Documentary (Portugal, 2022, 1h56, VOSTF) by João Rosas. In the heart of Lisbon, the building of a former printing house is being demolished to make way for a luxury apartment complex. The construction site and its workers offer paradoxical resistance to the destruction of the city.
Meeting around Maroun Bagdadi
At 4 p.m., at Corum, Espace Joffre 1. Born in Beirut in 1950, Maroun Bagdadi studied cinema at the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies in Paris. He made his first film in 1975, “Beirut, ô Beirut”, followed by several fiction films “Petites guerres” (1982), “The Veiled Man” (1987), “Hors la vie” (1990) or “La Daughter of the Air” (1993) and numerous documentaries made in Lebanon or Europe. He died in Beirut on December 10, 1993.
Films Saleh Bakri : “Salvo”
At 4 p.m., at Corum, Pasteur room. Fiction (Italy – France, 2013, 1h48, VOSTF) by Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza, with Saleh Bakri, Sara Serraiocco, Mario Pupella. Salvo is a henchman of the Sicilian mafia. While he breaks into a house to eliminate a man from a rival gang, he discovers Rita. The young girl is blind and helplessly witnesses the assassination of her brother. Salvo decides to spare his life.
Ettore Scola films: “Awful, dirty and nasty”
At 4:30 p.m., at the Corum, Berlioz opera. Fiction (Italy, 1976, 1h55, VOSTF) by Ettore Scola, with Nino Manfredi, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Merli. The life of a family in a Roman shantytown. The patriarch Giacinto has a wealth that his children try to steal from him every night. But Giacinto only sleeps with one eye open! The family reluctantly submits to Giacinto’s authority until the day he decides to bring a powerful concubine into the barracks…
Short film competition: program no. 1
At 6 p.m., at Corum, Pasteur room.
“A Short Trip” (France, 2023, 17′, VOSTF) by Erenik Beqiri, with Luàna Bajrami, Tristan Halilaj. Mira and Klodi, a young Albanian couple, arrive in Marseille for a fateful meeting in a room full of men. In addition to the urgency of the choice, they must face the need to separate.
“Short Cut Grass” (Croatia, 2023, 26′, VOSTF) by David Gašo, with Areta Ćurković, Živko Anočić. A summer evening begins with a game; while one child counts up to three thousand, others hide in the gardens of a suburban suburb. Meanwhile, a young father spends the rest of his day with someone else’s son, an old man waits for a life-changing call, and the future of a friendship becomes uncertain. The game ends when the mosquitoes wake up.
“Maurice’s Bar” (France – Israel, 2023, 15′, VOSTF) by Tom Prezman, Tzor Edery. In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of the first queer bars in Paris. Echoes of patron gossip tell of this legendary bar and its mysterious Algerian Jewish owner.
“The caterpillars” (France – Lebanon, 2023, 30′, VOSTF) by Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany, with Masa Zaher, Noel Keserwany. Asma and Sarah, two women from the Levant, find themselves working in the same restaurant, in France, in Lyon. Both carry the weight of a home they were forced to leave. At first suspicious of each other, they gradually discover the common thread that binds them – a thread that dates back to the time when the Silk Road connected Lyon to their countries of origin.
Documentary competition: “Dancing on a volcano”
At 6:15 p.m., at Corum, Einstein room. Documentary (Germany – Lebanon, 2023, 1h27, VOSTF) by Cyril Aris. After the explosion at the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020, a film crew faces a dilemma: face the chaos and continue filming their film, or abandon it in the face of the crises gripping the country. Dancing on a Volcano highlights the team’s resilience and chronicles their struggle to continue making cinema in the middle of a devastated city.
Maroun Bagdadi Films: “The Veiled Man”
At 7 p.m., at the Rabelais center. Fiction (France, 1987, 1h33, VOSTF) by Maroun Bagdadi, with Bernard Giraudeau, Michel Piccoli, Laure Marsac. Pierre, a doctor returning from Beirut, has only one idea in mind, to find his 16-year-old daughter, Claire. She has somewhat idealized this adventurer father and their reunion is not easy. Furthermore, Pierre is bound by a contract whose sponsor urges him to honor the clauses.
Films Ettore Scola : “Macaroni”
At 7 p.m., at the Corum, Berlioz opera. Fiction (Italy, 1985, 1h45, VOSTF) by Ettore Scola, with Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni. Robert, director of a multinational aviation company, arrives on assignment in Naples. Weary, depressed by a family crisis, he is a man on the run who returns to his past from which emerges Antonio, the brother of a woman he once loved, during the occupation of the city. Robert has difficulty recognizing the intruder, then his memories coming back to him, he decides to see him once more. A curious friendship arises between them.
Preview: “And the party continues!”
At 8:10 p.m., at the Diagonal cinema. Fiction (France, 2023, 1h46, VOFR) by Robert Guédiguian, with Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Lola Naymark, Robinson Stévenin. Rosa is the heart and soul of her popular neighborhood in old Marseille. She shares her boundless energy between her large family, her work as a nurse and her political commitment. But as retirement approaches, his illusions waver. Session in the presence of Robinson Stévenin.
Feature film competition: “Six feet on earth”
At 8:30 p.m., at Corum, Pasteur room. Fiction (France, 2023, 1h36, VOFR) by Karim Bensalah, with Hamza Meziani,
Kader Affak. Sofiane, son of a former Algerian diplomat, has traveled a lot. Having settled in Lyon for his studies, he was the victim of an administrative decision and lived under the threat of expulsion. In the hope of regularizing his situation, he agrees to work for Muslim funeral directors.
Films Yolande Zauberman: “A Jew at the Sea”
At 8:30 p.m., at Corum, Einstein room. Documentary (France, 2005, 1h05, VOFR STA) by Yolande Zauberman. “He is a bit like Woody Allen’s Zelig in the Middle East, Jewish among Jews, Arab among Arabs, Lebanese among Palestinians, Syrian for Syrians, feminist among women, masked among masks, Iranian with Hezbollah, French in France. I asked him to tell me concretely regarding all his meetings with the Palestinians.”
Feature film panorama: “20,000 species of bees”
At 9 p.m., at the Rabelais center. Fiction (Spain, 2023, 2h08, VOSTF) by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, with Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain. Lucía, 6 years old, is a little girl born in a boy’s body. Ane, his mother, in the midst of a professional and emotional crisis, will take advantage of the holidays to go with her three children to her native village, where her mother and her aunt Lourdes live.
Ettore Scola Films: “The New Monsters”
At 9:15 p.m., at the Corum, Berlioz opera. Fiction (Italy, 1978, 1h55, VOSTF) by Ettore Scola, with Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi, Ornella Muti. Twelve sketches on the monstrously selfish, reactionary, cynical aspects of normality, and other qualities specific to the average civilized person. The situations are even more immoral than in “Monsters”.
Carte blanche to Artus Films: “La Possédée du lac”
At 10 p.m., at Corum, Einstein room. Fiction (Italy, 1965, 1h25, VOSTF) by Luigi Bazzoni with Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone. A writer lacking inspiration, Bernard is going to spend a stay in a mountain hotel in northern Italy where he hopes to find Tilde, the maid with whom he has fallen in love. Once there, he learns that she committed suicide.
Preceded by “Rind”, fiction by Romy Matar (United Kingdom – Lebanon, 2023, 5′, VOSD). The heroine notices previously neglected bad habits in herself. These persistent obsessions disrupt her concentration, take control of her mind and the way she perceives her body.
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