Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the many pirogues that head towards Europe via the Canary Island, he reluctantly accepts the job, knowing full-well the dangers that lie ahead. Leading a group of 30 men who don’t all speak the same language, some of whom have never seen the sea, Baye Laye will confront many perils in order to reach the distant coasts of Europe.

France, Senegal / 2012 / 87 min / French, Wolof

The story of Sandra (Ann Dowd), an overworked manager at a fast food restaurant, who receives a call from a police officer accusing one of her employees, a teenage girl named Becky (Dreama Walker), of stealing from a customer. Taking the officer at his word, Sandra detains Becky, setting into motion a nightmarish scenario that quickly spirals out of control.
Based on true events

USA / 2012 / 90 min / English

Like a western, it starts with an escape. Five teenagers violently escape a reform school in an Argentinean prov- ince. They travel by foot, across hills, a hundred kilometres, for the prom- ise of a new home. They carry a few supplies and a shotgun. They hunt to feed, rob the homes they pass,get high, bath in the river, fight with each other and make love: Their trip is an evolutionary voyage into the wilder- ness, one that soon becomes a mystic fable about courage and grace.

Argentina/2012/119 mins./Spanish

May 16th- 27th

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A hard-working woman with two children and a drunkard for a husband.

In the mornings, Choco works in a gold mine along the San Juna river. In the afternoons she cleans clothes for richer famiiles. And when her daughter turns 7, the only thing Choco wants is to buy her a birthay cake. A humble wish that could change her life.

Chocò is the story of a woman from the rural areas in the pacific coast of Colombia, subjugated by her husband and by the dominant male tradition from this part of the country. She portrays the life of many women who undergo violence and mistreatment at home not only in Colombia but in the entire World.

Colombia/2011/80 mins./Spanish

This Month the film will  be making its Belgain premiere in the OPEN DOEK FILM FESTIVAL as well as in the Netherland’s LATIN AMERICA FILM FESTIVAL OF UTRECH. Don’t miss it !

April 1-4

MEDIA:
Palais des Festivals – Booth H4.35

Attending:
Nicholas Kaiser – Sales & Acquisitions Executive
nicholas@memento-films.com – +33 6 43 44 48 99

March 18-22

Unifrance Pavillion – Booth 1CF14

Attending:
Nicholas Kaiser – Sales & Acquisitions Executive
nicholas@memento-films.com – +33 6 43 44 48 99

Agustín forgets things; he is aging and he knows it. María is never alone, she watches over everyone, sleeps very little and works too much; she’s increasingly overwhelmed. The relationship between two beings who love one another and at the same time get on each other’s nerves suddenly breaks up.

Mexico, Uruguay, France/2012/84 mins./Spanish

It had starting this exciting week end by winning the French Cesar for Best Foreign Film and the Independent Spirit Award for Best International Film. The film has also won the Golden Globes for Best Foreign film last month. Congratulations!

US remake by Jim Mickle of the Mexican horror film “Somos lo que Hay” directed by Jorge Michel Grau (Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2010).

USA/2013/English

ME @THE ZOO tells the story of Chris Crocker, a video blogger from a small town in Tennessee.  Crocker is part of the first generation of kids raised on the Internet, coming of age under constant self-surveillance. His online videos, including the infamous YouTube declaration “Leave Britney Alone!”—have been viewed hundreds of millions of times and have created a worldwide phenomenon. This portrait weaves a tapestry of Internet media with reactions from Crocker fans and haters to examine a new controversial kind of fame: the Internet folk hero.

USA/2012/92 mins. – 52 mins./English

February 9th-19th

Martin Gropius Bau booth n° 31

Laura is still waiting for Prince Charming at the age of 24. So when Sandro appears at a party, exactly like her Prince would in her dreams, she thinks she’s found the right one. But then again, when she meets Maxime, Laura starts to wonder if some Princes could be more charming than others?

Of course Sandro has problems of his own : his father, Pierre, just bumped into Madam Irma at his father’s funeral and this reminded him of the date of his own death which Madame Irma had predicted ages ago. Now Pierre is unable to make any plans, not with his new partner Eleonore, nor with Sandro.  And Maxime has his own problems, and so does Eleonore, Marianne, Jacqueline and many others. But don’t worry, in the end, they’ll all live happily ever after.

France / French

(c) Jean-Paul Dumas-Grillet

January 11th-14th

Grand Hôtel Intercontinental
2 rue Scribe – 75009 Paris – 1st Floor

Attending:

“Tightly paced with a natural ebb and flow of action, the film Pen-ek Ratanaruang has created is nothing short of a unique shot in the arm for international thrillers.” TwitchFilm

September 8th – 18th

Hyatt Regency Hotel, King Ballroom – Mezzanine Level

Attending:

One extra week of shooting will take place during the winter for Foxfire to include some snowy exterior scenes.

Post production will start shortly and both films should be ready mid 2012.

November 1st – 7th

Unifrance booth – Hamilton Galleries / 1431 Ocean Ave. – Suite 1800 / Santa Monica CA 90401

Attending:

Directed by Kelly Reichardt • With Michelle Williams, Will Patton, John Robinson • Produced by Filmscience and Glass Eye Pix Production

Synopsis

Wendy Carroll is driving to Ketchikan, Alaska, in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish Cannery, and the start of a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in Oregon, however, the thin fabric of her financial situation comes apart, and she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic decisions, with far-ranging repercussions for herself and her dog. Wendy and Lucy addresses issues of sympathy and generosity at the edges of American life, revealing the limits and depths of people’s duty to each other in tough times.

USA/2008/80 mins./English

Directed by Francisco Vargas • With Don Àngel Tavira, Dagoberto Gama, Fermìn Martìnez • Produced by Camara Carnal Films

Synopsis

Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: musicians and humble farmers, they also support the campesina peasant guerilla movement’s armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a counterattack, old Plutarco executes his own plan. He plays up his appearance as a harmless violin player, and makes it back into the military-occupied village to recuperate the ammunition hidden his corn field. His violin playing charms the army captain, who orders Plutarco to come back daily. Plutarco has music, but needs ammunition. The Captain wants to stifle the rebellion, but he loves music. Arms and music play cat-and-mouse and result in painful betrayal.

Mexico/2006/98 mins./Spanish

Three portraits of clothing: people who make them and people who wear them…A hot and humid day in Canton. Amid the thunderous noise of sewing machines, women work quietly under fluorescent lamps in a garment factory. The clothes they make will soon be shipped to unknown customers. Likewise, the future of each face along the assembly line is blurred.

A wintry day in Paris. Chinese designer Ma Ke prepares her newly established brand “Wu Yong” (Useless) to be launched in a spectacular show. An anti-fashion designer, she abhors assembly lines.

Hong Kong/2007/81 mins./Mandarin

Zeina lives in Dubai. In the midst of a divorce, she sends her son Karim to stay with her sister in Kherbet Selem, a small village South of Lebanon, to spare him from his parents’ fighting.

A few days later war breaks out in Lebanon.

Desperately worried, Zeina immediately heads to Lebanon via Turkey. Because of the blockage she doesn’t reach the port of Beirut until the day of the ceasefire. There she meets Tony, the only taxi-driver who agrees to take her to the South…

France, Lebanon, UK, Belgium/2007/98 mins./Arabic, French

Jin, a bright-eyed six-year-old, lives with her mother and little sister, Bin, in a cramped apartment in Seoul. When their mother decides to go look for their estranged father, Jin and Bin are forced to stay with their aunt in a small town for the summer.

But after their aunt loses her house, the girls flee to the country into the farm owned by their grandparents. It is through this journey of abandonment that the two sisters come together and learn the importance of family bonds.

USA, South Korea/2008/89 mins./Korean

After the sudden death of her husband, Dawn must face her own mourning yet still care for her four children. Her only daughter, 8-year-old Simone, seems to take the loss the hardest of all.

Simone shares a special secret with her mother: her father whispers to her through the leaves of the magnificient tree next to their home. Convinced he’s come back to protect the family, Simone spends more and more time up in the tree, speaking with her father. Soon, Dawn herself becomes mesmerized by the tree’s commanding presence.

When Dawn becomes more intimate with George, her new employer, the bond between mother and daughter is threatened. With branches infiltrating the house and roots destroying the foundations, the tree seems to be siding with Simone. Fearful the tree is in danger of being cut down, she protests by setting up house high up in the branches.

But Dawn refuses to let the tree take control of her family…

France, Australia/2010/100 mins./English

Ömer, Yakup and Yildiz, three children of about 12, 13 years old, live in a small village, leaning over rocky mountains, facing the immense sea. Villagers earn their living, on a daily survival basis, out of the earth and of a few animals they feed. They live according to the rythm of the earth, air and water, day and night and seasons. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father…

Turkey/2006/108 mins./Turkish

Ibrahim has left his village and family to try his luck in Teheran. However in this urban jungle, where everything can be bought or sold, the dream can rapidly turn into a nightmare. Implicated in a traffic of new born babies, Ibrahim, with the help of his two friends, is forced to go deep into the slums of the city, in Tehroun, amongst prostitutes, beggars and gangsters…

Iran, France/2009/95 mins./Farsi

Fengjie’s old town is already under water, but its new neighborhood hasn’t been finished yet. There are things to salvage and there are things to leave behind… Han Sanming, a miner, travels to Fengjie to look for his ex-wife who he has not seen in 16 years. Seeing each other by the Yangtze River, they decide to remarry. Shen Hong, a nurse, travels to Fengjie to look for her husband who hasn’t come home in two years. They hug in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Despite a dance, they sadly call it quits and decide to divorce.

Hong Kong/2006/108 mins./Mandarin

The lives of Ana, Verónica, Marta and Toro, four lonely people living through the routine and silence of the south. They gather to eat, walk through the beach, take the ferry or simply accompany each other without needing to say anything. In a way, they try to save themselves in a silent, furtive and extreme manner. They search for love, sex, inexistent family affection, and their own space and time, not only to distance themselves from the loneliness that intimately constitutes them, but ultimately, to find themselves.

Chile/2008/110 mins./Spanish

Berlin, today. During a razzia for clandestine employees in a warehouse, the fates of three young German-born Muslims collide. Ismail, a police o!cer of Turkish descent, is about to break his loyalty towards his badge and his wife as he finds himself attracted to illegal immigrant Leyla. Sammi is torn between his Muslim faith and his irresistible desire for one of his male co-workers, despite his friends’ violent homophobia. He is appeased by the local Imam, a liberal religious leader revered by the community, who is going through a crisis of his own: his daughter, Maryam, is moving into an ultraconservative direction although she has been raised so tolerantly.

The three of them must find their place between faith and modern life in a contemporary Western society, between the luring liberated lifestyle and tradition.

Germany/2009/90 mins./German, Turkish, English

Maria del Carmen is a forty-something housewife whose only concern over the past twenty years has been the well-being of her husband and of her now grown-up kids. But when she is offered a puzzle for her birthday, she suddenly discovers she has a very special gift: she can assemble puzzles really fast! Intrigued by an ad “Looking for Partner for Puzzle Competitions” in her local store, she decides to live her new addiction fully, no matter how unsupportive her family is. Together with the author of the ad, a magnetic millionaire bachelor, she trains to the rules of the game, even if it means lying to her husband… Maria is determined to take things to a new level: she dreams of winning the national tournament and traveling to Germany for the World Puzzle Championship.

Argentina, France/2009/88 mins./Spanish

A revealing portrait of Contemporary China in the post Marxist era which explores facets of socio-political life in China, by putting it in the context of globalization and individualisation. Personal stories unflod with unexpected straightforwardness and a striking sense of humor: an old peasant who has lost his land, a millionaire in a stock exchange office, a country boy who came to the city to wash cars, a weapon factory worker who wishes Mao was stile alive, a successful hotel owner who praises the government’s liberal economy policies, and young kids who dream of becoming famous…

China, Germany, UK/2009/76 mins./Mandarin

Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself to a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions.

On this journey through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.

Norway/2009/78 mins./Norwegian

Iraq, 1988… Young husband and father Ako is forced to join Saddam Hussein’s army. The unwilling soldier dreams of fleeing the country, but his wife Selma refuses to leave while her old bedridden father is still alive. Ako is sent away to the frontline of the Iran-Iraq War, where he experiences not only the reality of war, but also abuse due to his Kurdish background.

The desperate man considers drastic measures for a fast ticket home. Ako thinks it’s his lucky day when he receives orders to escort the return of a fellow soldier’s corpse to his family. But his driver turns out to be an anti-Kurd Arab. With flag-wrapped coffin in tow, the mismatched duo prepares for an unexpected voyage across the majestic Iraqi landscape. Ako won’t miss his chance to trick the driver into heading north toward the Kurdistan region…

France, Kurdistan/2005/96 mins./Kurdish, Arabic

Banished by her husband and her village, Katalin Varga is left with no other choice than to set out on a quest to find the real father of her son, Orbán. Taking Orbán with her under another pretense, Katalin travels through the Carpathians where she decides to reopen a sinister chapter from her past and take revenge. The hunt leads her to a place, she prayed eleven years prior, she would never set foot in again.

Romania, United Kingdom, Hungary/2009/84 mins./Hungarian, Romanian

Early 20th century Philippines. The sounds of war signal the arrival of the Americans. An aging mother and her son flee to the mountains, hoping for a quiet life. One day, the son discovers a wounded woman in the middle of the forest, and decides to bring her home. Years pass. The man, the rescued woman and their child live in total isolation from the growing chaos all over the country. But a coming storm soon threatens their existence, and American troops draw nearer…

Philippines, France, Germany, Netherlands/2009/77 mins./Tagalog

A family’s peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only meters away from their isolated house. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment. They continue their happy-go-lucky routine despite the daily stress of hundreds of noisy speeding cars. But suspicions about the highway’s unknown long-term dangers cause family tension. Remaining in the disrupted household might not be so easy, but it’s still their home.

France/Switzerland/Belgium/2008/95 mins./French

Albert buys his daughter Jeanne an initiatory journey to a European country every year. For her 17th birthday he chooses a trip to Sweden to look for the lost treasure of a famous Viking. When they arrive in the rented house, it is occupied by Annika and Christine. The improbable quartet decides to share the place which makes Albert upset and Jeanne quite happy. The forced cohabitation will shatter everyone’s beliefs and delusions, and will push all of them into rethinking their lives and starting anew. Leaving behind ancient demons for some, and discovering unexpected feelings for others, they will all come back deeply changed.

France/2008/84 mins./French

Souléymane, AKA Solo, a 34 year old, Senegalese taxi driver in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is hired by William, a tough 70-year-old white southerner, to drive him in two weeks time, on October 20th, to Blowing Rock, the peak of a secluded mountain. Solo comes to understand William’s plan, and makes one of his own – to befriend the stubborn 70-year-old and dissuade him from jumping off the rock before the two weeks are up. He brings William with him on taxi rides; they visit drug dealers and bars, play pool, and flirt with barmaids. Solo even introduces William to his 9-yearold stepdaughter, smart and independent Alex, with whom William immediately forms a bond. He also meets Solo’s strong-willed Mexican wife Quiera, who discourages Solo from pursuing his dream of becoming a flight attendant. Ultimately, Solo leaves Quiera and moves into William’s motel room. Though William tries to keep Solo at arm’s length, Solo convinces him to act as his study partner for his flight attendant test. Just days before the 20th, Solo is convinced that he has succeeded in saving William.

William also keeps a secret from his past to himself. When he closes his bank account and gives away the last of his possessions, Solo, crushed, realizes that William has not forgotten his death wish, and confronts him. William violently throws him out of their motel room. No longer William’s driver, Solo has lost everything. That’s when Solo realizes that to truly be a selfless friend to William, he must do the opposite of what he had planned: he must be the one to take his friend to his death. And so, on October 20th, Solo drives William to the mountaintop. With them comes Alex, Solo’s last hope to save William. There on Blowing Rock, high above the brilliant autumn colors, where the wind is powerful enough to blow a man up into the sky, the drama reaches its climax.

USA/2008/91 mins./English

Neither war nor peace, just the wind blowing

God is absent, but still the sun rises

Over a lonely home between two trees in a forsaken land

A hand emerges from the water, begging for help

A legendary woman searches for love

A soldier kills a stranger, and is burdened by guilt

Sri Lanka, France/2005/108 mins./Sinhalese

Twenty-year old Ivy heads home to New York for college spring-break with a fresh romance in her heart. When her best friend Al can’t find a place to stay, she asks her mother to take him in. Spending time in the city together strengthens their friendship, while Ivy’s boyfriend grows more distant over the phone.

It’s the start of a romantic summer in the city for Ivy, who, having a medical condition, has trained herself to manage her feelings in order to reduce the emotional stress on her body. But, this bottling of emotions eventually takes its toll when Ivy starts to lose control over her personal life.

USA/2009/79 mins./English

Haiti, a lonely forgotten black island abandoned to its poverty and misery. A white woman, Madame lives in a fantasy in which she helps to teach, inspire and feed the retched masses of the world. She is in fact completely cut off from them – a continent away. The awakening of desire between Madame and her black servant boy, Patrick, will lead her from her isolation out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, discover the reality of her own body, her identity and come face to face with her own mortality.

Haiti/France/2007/105 mins./French/Creole

2 brothers who have lost all contact are suddenly brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating: while Georgi who’s recently joined a neonazi group participates in the violence, Itso witnesses and rescues the Turkish family.

Georgi, now being asked to participate in larger events, starts to question his implication in the movement and Itso wonders if the beautiful Turkish girl he saved could be his ticket out from his sad life in Sofia. Only by reuniting will the two brothers be able to assess what they really want from life.

Bulgaria, Sweden/2009/89 mins./Bulgarian, Turkish, English

Fengjie, China, 2005

Painter Liu Xiaodong visited the Three Gorges area to create his oil painting series. Eleven local deconstruction workers became the models on his live sketch. Fengjie, with its two thousand years of history, will be dissipated very soon. After the completion of Three Gorges Hydro Project, the whole city will be submerged under the water. During his stay with the models, the painter was gradually conquered by the reality.

Bangkok, Thailand, 2006

Under theseries, Liu Xiaodong invited eleven tropical women as the models on his next painting. The burning hot city lets the women be drowsy. Only the fruit on the floor keep its freshness. As the painter find himself exhausted, the women models cheer each other and sing a lively song together..

Both cities have their own river running across the city centre, galloping forward and never returning.

Hong Kong/2006/70 mins./Mandarin

François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students.

Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeapordize any teacher’s enthusiasm for the low-paying job.

François insists on an atmosphere of respect and diligence. Neither stuffy nor severe, his extravagant frankness often takes the students by surprise. But his classroom ethics are put to the test when his students begin to challenge his methods…”

France/2008/128 mins./French

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.

USA/2007/84 mins./English

Sexy ex-prostitute Sandra hooks up again with debt-ridden entrepreneur Miles. Mixed signals incite the former lovers to give it another go, but rekindling an old romance isn’t on Sandra’s agenda. She is forced to flee to Hong Kong to seek out a new life. Attractive young couple Lester and Sue promise Sandra papers and money. Nothing turns out as expected for Sandra, whose feelings and intentions remain a mystery till the end.

France/2007/106 mins./English, French, Mandarin

Gaspard and Marion are in love and enjoying summer in the south of France… until they stumble upon a lost cell phone. At first they decide to track down the owner… But the game takes a much darker turn when they find him dead, in a mysterious suicide ceremony. Next to him, lies a half unconscious girl, Audrey. With her enigmatic tattoo and her gothic looks, she soon lures Gaspard into Black Hole, a dangerously addictive video game. Gaspard discovers an obscure universe, full of infinite possibilities.

Creating an avatar who is miles away from him, he sets out on a search for the beautiful but poisonous Sam, who attracts victims in the virtual world and seduces them to commit suicide in real life. Could Sam’s alter ego in the real world be Audrey? Could Gaspard be her next victim? He will have to creep further into Black Hole to find out the terrible truth.

France/2009/104 mins./French, English

Once upon a time there was a kingdom where dancing was forbidden. Despite the ban and under the knowing and mischievous gaze of her little brother Solal, Princess Aurore happily seizes every occasion to dance. Influenced by a greedy and underhanded counselor, the King wants to marry Aurore to a rich Prince and save the kingdom from ruin. He organizes three balls to introduce Aurore to the world. But Aurore falls in love with a handsome and romantic painter. Obliged to choose between her love and her family she will follow her heart and mother’s advice “Never forget to dance, even when you feel sad”

France/2006/95 mins./French

Upstate New York, 1953, a working class neighborhood in a small town. In this violent post-war culture controlled by men, a group of headstrong teenage girls unite into a sisterhood of blood: they form the Foxfire gang, a secret female-only society, recognized by the flame tattooed on the back of its members’ shoulders.

“Foxfire” for pretty foxes, but also “Foxfire” for fire and destruction.

Legs, Maddy, Lana, Rita and Goldie cannot accept any longer to be humiliated and discriminated against for being poor, and being girls. Headed by the feisty Legs, the girls set on a trip for revenge, and try to pursue their impossible dream: living according to their own rules and laws, no matter what. But there’s a price to pay…

Adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’s award-winning bestseller.

France, Canada/English

At the close of the war in Germany 1945, a group of children set out to cross a devastated country to reach their Grandmother somme 900 km to the north.

The eldest, Lore, is left in charge of her four younger siblings when their SS Nazi parents are taken into Allied custody. The children must make a journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parent’s actions.

In meeting the charismatic and intriguing Thomas, a young jewish refugee, Lore soon finds her world shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire. She is transfixed by her fear of the young man, but must trust the one persson whom she has always been taught is the ennemy in order to survive.

Germany, UK, Australia

American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter.

When things don’t go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet.

Then Margit, a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events… as if an obscure power was taking control of his life.

France, UK, Poland/English, French

Photos © Jean-Claude Lother

Adapted from Matthew G. Lewis’ 1796 cult gothic novel, THE MONK follows the tragic destiny of Brother Ambrosio in 17th century Catholic Spain.

Abandoned at birth at the gates of the Capuchin monastery, Ambrosio has been raised by the friars. Today, he has grown into a preacher admired far and wide for his fervor. Feared for his righteousness, he believes he is immune from temptation.

The arrival of a mysterious apprentice undermines his convictions, leading him onto the path of sin.

France, Spain/French

Photos © Mickaël Crotto

Present-day Thailand is rife with corruption. Tul, a straight-laced cop, is blackmailed by a powerful politician and framed from a crime he did not commit. Disillusioned and vengeful, he is soon recruited to become a hitman for a shadowy group aimed at eliminating those who are above the law.

But one day, Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. He wakes up after a three-month coma to find that he sees everything upside down, literally. Unaware of whether the condition is medical or a result of karmic retribution, Tul begins to have second thoughts about his profession.

But when he tries to quit, roles are reversed and the hunter becomes the hunted. Then he meets a girl that turns his world even more upside down. Can Tul find redemption from the violence that continues to haunt him?

Thailand/Thai

When Joby, an aspiring young rock star, finally agrees to sign divorce papers with his estranged wife, he discovers that he is about to forfeit all custody of his six-year-old daughter, Ellen. Never having been in Ellen’s life before, Joby suddenly realizes that he’s not ready to lose that part of himself. Hoping to make up for lost time, he tries to win her heart.

USA/English

Quiet 16-year-old Louis, the high school headmaster’s son, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, however, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent, he has been kicked out of school for physically threatening young English teacher Camille.

When Greg asks Louis to help him take revenge on Camille, Louis accepts, fascinated. Together, they kidnap the young woman and lock her in an old remote shack.

But Greg’s plans with Camille are more sinister than Louis could ever have foreseen, forcing him to confront his own dark side…

France/French

A luxury ski resort in Switzerland. 12-year-old Simon lives in the industrial valley below, with his jobless sister. Every day, he takes the ski-lift to the opulent ski world above, stealing equipment from the rich tourists to resell to the local kids back down. As he partners with a crooked British seasonal worker, Simon loses his boundaries, which affects the relationship with his sister. Confronted with a truth they had both been escaping, Simon seeks refuge up above.

France, Switzerland/French, English

Takua Pa is a small town in the South of Thailand. Ever since the tsunami, people have lost their jobs and remember better times in the past.

One day a stranger comes to town. His name is Ton. He is an architect.

He rents a room in a small hotel owned by Na. They begin to have a secret love affair. The town finds out about it, people are bored and angry. And now they have found an enemy, a person they can blame.

The film is about a love that grows where there is no more love, like a flower that grows in the dirt. About a town that tries to destroy the beauty that it cannot have for itself. Can a town be wonderful again?

Thailand/2007/92 mins./Thai

Ananda has returned home from studying abroad. Unsure of his career plans, he tries his hand acting in a new movie for a famous director. During the filming in a small seaside town, Zoe, his girlfriend from University, arrives for a week-long visit. But the change of country takes its toll and she soon becomes frustrated at the situation.

Several months later, the filming is complete and summer had turned to winter. Back in Bangkok, Ananda has begun a new relationship with May, who works at the movie production company. But soon, she finds herself in the same situation as Zoe. Somehow she doesn’t belong in his life. Or maybe it’s the opposite. He doesn’t belong in hers.

Thailand/2010/102 mins./Thai

When Miron’s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merja culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a picturesque region in West-Central Russia.

Although the Merja people assimilated into Russians in the 17th century, their myths and traditions live on in their descendants’ modern life. The two men set out on a roadtrip thousands of miles across the boundless lands. With them, two small birds in a cage. Along the way, as is custom for the Merjas, Miron shares intimate memories of his conjugal life. But as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will forever part with the body, he realizes he wasn’t the only one in love with Tanya…

Russia/2010/75 mins./Russian

Explore the very concrete local solutions to the global ecological mess.

What are the common points between the millions of landless workers of the plains of Brazil, a couple of microbiologists in France, the world’s biggest organic plantation in Ukraine and Vandana Shina’s experimental farms in India?

Their struggle: a better soil quality and a wiser access to seeds.

Their goals: agricultural self-sufficiency and a better use of limited resources.

Multi-awarded filmmaker Coline Serreau, who started her career as a militant documentarist, returns to her grassroot techniques: she travels the world in search of those who respect the soil and sheds a new light on the multiple initiatives that will allow everyone to answer the key question: “what can I do to save our planet?”.

France/2010/113 mins./French, English

Twenty-something Palestinian-Israeli slacker Jawdat just wants to have fun with his friends, talk on his cell phone and find love. Instead, he navigates unconvincing dates with Muslim, Christian, and even Jewish girls, and wrestles with the Hebrew college entrance exam.

Meanwhile, his curmudgeonly olive-farming father, Salem, is determined to drag Jawdat and his whole community into a fight against a nearby Israeli cell phone tower that he fears is poisoning the villagers with radiation.

As Salem’s efforts to remove the tower disrupt Jawdat’s precious cell phone reception, preventing any further communication with his potential girlfriends, Jawdat is forced to face the battle and grow up to be a man.

France, Israel, Palestine Territories/2010/80 mins./Arabic, Hebrew

A sleepwalker. A body. A family. A small community.

Arlene is like a ghost in her life. She lives in a small town in the midlands – surrounded by field after field, woodlands and laneways to disappear down and never come back…

One morning Arlene wakes in the woods beside the body of a young woman. Someone watches from the trees.  The body is soon discovered and suspicion spreads through the community. Increasingly drawn to the girl’s family – her grieving sister and accused boyfriend, Arlene barricades herself in at night, afraid to sleep. Haunted by grief buried and delayed, Arlene’s sleeping and waking realities soon blur. And all this time someone is watching her.

2011/Ireland, Netherlands, Hungary/English

A legendary 70’s rock critic takes hold of a group of young counter-culturalist. From Paris to Beijing, by way of New York, Montreal and Hong Kong, the nightdwellers ride a William Burroughsy wave. As the decadent pasts and urban futures interlace, music from yesterday and today pave a revolutionary road. With his skeleton silhouette coiffed with a big black chapka, the bizarre character introduces himself : 69-x-69, Yves Adrien’s testament executor, the inventor of punk, of novö, the famed music critic of times past.

France/2011/French

Photos © Love Stream agnès b.

May 11-20

Booth: Riviera E8, Palais des Festivals

Attending:
Emilie Georges, Managing Director
Tanja Meissner, Head of Sales & Acquisitions
Nick Shumaker, Sales & Acquisitions Executive
Deborah Cukierman, Sales & Acquisitions Executive
Marion Klotz, Festivals & Acquisitions Executive
Thomas Rullier, Sales Assistant
Constance Malpel, Festivals Assistant
Sylvain Lagrillère, Servicing Manager

April 4-7

TV France International:
Palais des Festivals – Booth 02.15
Tel: +33 4 92 99 80 41

Attending:
Deborah Cukierman – Sales & Acquisitions Executive
+33 6 67 63 00 71

March 21-24

Unifrance Pavillion – Booth 1CF14

Attending:
Emilie Georges – Managing Director
emilie@memento-films.com – +33 6 62 08 83 43

February 10-20

Martin Gropius Bau booth n° 26

Attending:
Emilie Georges – Managing Director
Tanja Meissner – Head of Sales & Acquisitions
Deborah Cukierman – Sales & Acquisitions Executive
Marion Klotz – Festivals & Acquisitions Executive

January 12-17

Grand Hôtel Intercontinental
2 rue Scribe – 75009 Paris – 1st Floor

Attending:
Emilie Georges – Managing Director
Cell: +33 6 62 08 83 43

Tanja Meissner – Head of Sales & Acquisitions
Cell: +33 6 22 92 48 31

November 1-9

Unifrance Stand
Hamilton Galeries 1431 Ocean Ave., suite 1800 Santa Monica CA 90401 Tel: +1 310 451 9983 Fax: +1 310 451 9554

Attending:
Emilie Georges – Managing Director
Tanja Meissner – Head of Sales & Acquisitions
Karina Korenblum – International Sales

September 9-19

Attending:
Tanja Meissner – Head of Sales & Acquisitions
Cell: +33 6 22 92 48 31

The Asuka region is the birthplace of Japan. Here, in ancient times, there were those who fulfilled their lives in the midst of waiting. Modern people, apparently having lost this sense of waiting, seem unable to feel grateful for the present, and cling to the illusion that all things will move constantly forward according to one’s own plan.

In ancient times, there were three small mountains that people believed were inhabited by gods. They were Mt. Unebi, Mt. Miminashi, and Mt. Kagu, and they still stand. In that time, a powerful official used the mountains as a metaphor for a struggle inside his own heart. The mountains were an expression of human karma.

Time has passed into the present. Takumi and Kayoko, inheriting the unfulfilled hopes of their grandparents, live out their lives. Their tale continues a story of the ages, representing the uncountable souls that have accumulated in this land.

Japan/2011/91 min./Japanese

September 1-11

Attending:
Emilie Georges – Managing Director

May 12-21

Booth: Riviera E8

Attending:
Emilie Georges – Managing Director
Tanja Meissner – Head of Sales & Acquisitions
Nicholas Kaiser – Head of TV & Video Sales
Marion Klotz – Festivals Executive
Deborah Cukierman – Sales Assistant

Anne (Juliette Binoche), a well-off Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for ELLE, is writing an article about university student prostitution.

Her meetings with two fiercely independent young women, Alicja (Joanna Kulig) and Charlotte (Anais Demoustier), are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convictions about money, family and sex.

France/French, Polish

Photos © Marion Stalens

When his wife leaves him, Nader hires a young woman to take care of his suffering father. But he doesn’t know his new maid is not only pregnant, but also working without her unstable husband’s permission. Soon, Nader finds himself entangled in a web of lies, manipulation and public confrontations.

Iran/2011/123 mins./Farsi

Photos © Habib Madjidi

From now on, associations, educational networks and all concerned communities can learn more about the genesis of this committed documentary, and even organize a screening. Go green, visit the website!

The young man has fallen from the sky

The lines of communication are burned

To flee the city and its tumult, get back to nature

Enter into another story

Of the legend of the prince

In the hope of a love

To hide in the hollow of the tree

Nothing magical is improbable

What happened yesterday may happen again tomorrow

Sri Lanka, France/2009, 85 mins./Sinhalese

François, a forty-something bailiff, is about to execute his daily eviction. But fate takes an unexpected turn: as he enters the apartment, he is mistakenly taken hostage by an amateur drug dealer and his father.

Keen to resolve this situation quickly and quietly, the local deputy calls in the Special Police Force. Television crews immediately rush to the scene to make the scoop. Now under crossfire from a dozen snipers, hungry cameramen, a curious crowd, and François’ exasperated wife, the three trapped men prepare their escape.

Their only option: use the neighborhood’s discontentment and start a riot from the 7th floor…

France, Luxembourg/2010/93 mins./French, Arabic

It’s summertime.

Zak and Seth find themselves dead broke and ditched by their absentee mother in the family’s cottage. Just like every holiday, they’ve resigned themselves to another shitty summer.

But things change this year, when they meet Danny, a local teenager.

Together, with their future at their fingertips, they begin the great and perilous journey of their lives.

Belgium, France, Luxembourg/2011/French

Photos © Patrick Muller