France, 2017 Cannes ACID selection, Viennale, Turin Doc competition
First feature documentary by Christophe Agou
Synopsis
The endangered world of small farmers, determined to resist till the end…with Claudette as leader!
Donkeyote
Spain/Germany/UK, Rotterdam Big Screen Competition 2017
Chico Pereira
Synopsis
Manolo leads a simple life in Southern Spain. He has two loves: his animals, in particular his donkey Gorrión (“Sparrow”), and wandering through nature. Against the advice of his doctor, he decides to plan one last walk in the US, the brutal 2200 mile Trail of Tears. But not without his donkey.
Newton
India, 2017 Berlin Forum, Hong Kong Jury Prize, Tribeca competition, Indian entry for Oscar Awards
Amit V Masurkar
Synopsis
As India, the world’s largest democracy, braces itself for another general election- with 9 million polling booths, more than 800 million voters, and costing nearly $5 billion- Newton Kumar, a rookie government clerk finds himself entrusted with a task that appears deceptively simple: conducting elections in a remote village in the jungles of central India.
Loving Pia
Denmark, Berlin Forum 2017
Daniel Borgman
Synopsis
A work of fiction, the film is developed from the life of – and starring – a real woman, Pia, who is intellectually disabled. Pia is 60 years old and she lives in rural Denmark in the care of her mother Guittou, 84.In the story, Guittou is getting old, and Pia worries about what will happen when her mother dies. She is afraid of being left alone.
Antonio Um Dois Três
Portugal/Brazil, Rotterdam Bright Future Award Competition 2017
First feature film by Leonardo Mouramateus
Synopsis
António runs away from home and spends the night at his ex-girlfriend’s apartment. There he meets an unexpected guest, a Brazilian girl. Johnny is struggling to stage his first play in Lisbon. The friendship with a young lightning technician leads him to face his own questions.
The Pot and The Oak
Iran, Rotterdam Bright Future Award Competition 2017
First feature film by Kiarash Anvari
Synopsis
After finding out that he has no sperm and can’t impregnate his wife, an Iranian man suffers an existential crisis.
La Soledad
Venezuela, Venice Biennale College 2016, Miami Audience Award 2017
First feature film by Jorge Thielen Armand
Synopsis
Already struggling to survive in the urban jungle of Caracas, José discovers that the decrepit mansion he occupies with his family will soon be demolished. Driven by a desire for a better life and guided by the ancestral spirits of the house, José embarks on a mystical search for a cache of gold that is rumoured to be buried in the walls of the mansion. This film is based on a true story and played by the real characters.
Atlal
Algeria/France, FID Marseille 2016- Best First Feature Film
First feature film by Djamel Kerkar
A poetic discipline that involves facing the ruins and bringing one’s memory back to the surface and one’s memories from the visible to the invisible. Algeria, in the grip of terrorism, officially experienced the loss of over 200,000 lives between 1991 and 2002.
Isola
France, Cannes ACID selection 2016
Fabianny Deschamps
Synopsis
A story made of dreams without fairies, at the heart of a contemporary world where individuals must reinvent themselves to survive. On an island lost between two worlds, Dai, a young Chinese woman, survives alone in a cave, waiting for the baby that swells her womb day after day. By the harbour which, every day, flurry with the arrival of hundreds of migrants, she searches tirelessly the face of the man she loves, her husband. One night her wish is to be fulfilled…
Heaven Sent
France/Lebanon, Cannes ACID selection 2016
First feature film by Wissam Charaf
Synopsis
After 20 years apart, Samir a former militiaman who was presumed dead, reappears in the life of Omar, his little brother who has become a bodyguard in Beirut. Between drama and comedy, Samir has to come to terms with a country he no longer recognizes.