Directed by Giorgio DIRITTI (The Man Who Will Come – Best film David di Donatello 2010)

SUNDANCE 2013 / World Dramatic Competition

Synopsis

Painful family issues push Augusta, a young Italian woman, to doubt the certainties on which she had built her existence. On a small boat and inthe immensity of the Amazon nature she begins her journey accompanying Sister Franca, a friend of her mother’s, in her mission to the Indiosvillages. Augusta’s journey seems driven only by questions to which she doesn’t have any answer.After having parted company from Franca, Augusta fits in the reality of the favelas of Manaus: here, through the meeting of the simple localpeople, she manages to perceive again the atavistic strength of the instinct of life. She undertakes “her” journey, as far as isolating herself inthe forest, welcoming her pain and finding love again, both with her body and soul.In a dimension where nature assumes a prophetic meaning, where it scans new times and establishes existential priorities, Augusta faces theadventure of the searching for herself, incarnating the universal matter of the meaning of the human existence.

Directed by Fabien CONSTANT

Carine Roitfeld is French, and the most renowned fashion editor on the planet along with her opposite number at American Vogue, Anna Wintour.During her 10 years as editor-in-chief at Vogue Paris she was noted for her successes and scandals (“porno chic” was her creation). Lastyear, she left Vogue Paris with the greatest challenge to date, to create a new fashion magazine: CR, the ultimate fashion magazine, the mostunpredictable, glamorous and innovative. CR will be the anti-Vogue. It will be even more chic, more exclusive, more ambitious.Having been granted unprecedented access, the aim of this documentary is to follow the making of a magazine from the first editorial meetingthrough to the extravagant launch party in New York. The filmmaker’s take on this subject is not to be too edgy but instead amusing and upbeat.Fashion, drama, power, models all circle around this most iconic of fashion editors, the most Parisian, the Eiffel Tower in 12 cm heels: theirreverent Mademoiselle C.We, the viewers, are fully immersed in the creative process of producing a new magazine: the “just to see” photo shoots for the pilot issue thatget trashed and do not make it into the magazine, the chaos of fashion week, greeting the designe

rs, previewing new collections, press trips,glamorous soirees, choosing photographers, finding new talents, creating surprise, photo shoot disasters, shopping expeditions, award ceremonies,front row, backstage. This is the hectic life of one of the few people in the world who does not make the wheel of fashion turn, but hasthe wheel of fashion turning around her. But above all else, behind the surface glamour, this film takes the viewer behind the fantasy and triesto understand the way the fashion industry really functions.

Directed by Benoît JACQUOT (Farewell My Queen)

PRE-PRODUCTION

Synopsis

One night in a French provincial city, Marc meets Sylvie after missing his train back to Paris. They wander through the streets until morning, talking about everything except themselves, in rare, almost choreographed, harmony. Marc takes the first train back, and sets a date with Sylvie in Paris, a few days later.

Directed by Randall EINHORN (Director on «The OFFICE US»)

PRE PRODUCTION

Synopsis

Pete Newman has a problem. He’s almost 30 years old and has never had a significant, physical relationship with a woman. He chalks it up tobeing committed to his work and bad genes, but soon learns a disturbing truth – He has a mysterious ailment that he never knew about that hasprevented him from going through puberty. Based on a true story

Directed by Juan Carlos MEDINA

Méliès d’argent 2012 – Festival Européen du Film Fantastique de Strasbourg

Spain, 1931. Somewhere in the Pyrénées near the French border, children were born with an unknown disease. They are insensitive to physical pain and grow up with a deranged perception of human values and the world around them. These children are aggressive and violent, going as far as to even hurt themselves. They are an uncontrollable danger, not only for themselves but for everybody around them as well.

Directed by Morgan NEVILLE

Synopsis

What would a pop song be without the riffs, refrains, and harmonies of its backup vocalists? Although these singers are usually relegated
to the margins, and few, if any, become household names, their work has defined countless songs that remain in our hearts and collective
consciousness. Twenty Feet from Stardom juxtaposes interviews with industry legends (Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler and others) and the
relative unknowns who support them like Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, and Judith Hill as they illuminate the art of melding their
own distinct voices with lead vocals and reveal their desires for careers as solo artists.

Directed by COSTA-GAVRAS

CAPITAL tells the story of the unstoppable rise of Marc Tourneuil, an expendable servant of capital who becomes its undisputed master. As the new CEO of Phenix Bank, the largest in Europe, he claims to his board «I’m your new Robin Hood! We’ll keep on robbing the poor to give to the rich.»

Directed by Shola LYNCH

FREE ANGELA tells the dramatic story of how a young philosophy professor’s social justice activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt of a judge that ends with a bloody shootout, four dead, and a nation wondering, as Newsweek magazine asks: what would prompt Angela Davis, “the daughter of the black bourgeoisie, to take a desperate turn to terrorism?”

Directed by Stéphanie MURAT (Victoire)

POST PRODUCTION

Max is an urban romantic comedy, the story of a 6 years old little girl who never got to know her mum and who lives together with her childish father Toni, who loves her above everything. His goal is to spoil Max no matter what it takes but without using too much effort. Everyday he tells her how great life is despite their marginality, and he almost gets to believe it. Max does the same by plunging him permanently into the eternel world of childhood.Everything changes the day Max meets hooker Rose and she decides to make a special christmas gift to her father… and herself: a woman for Christmas eve. So that “she can take care of him” because “he needs it”. By doing so the little girl also gets a feminine presence around that she badly needs in their harsh environment. For the first time in her life Rose feels that she means something to somebody. She needs this little girl and her love badly.Toni sees the arrival of this woman in their lives as an intruder at first but he slowly realizes that it makes his daughter feel good and he starts having feelings for her too.Will these characters, broken and deceived by life, be able to start a new life with one another?

Directed by Françoise Charpiat

Synopsis

Djemila finally gets the right to leave her parents’home to settle alone in a new apartment nearby. She is successfully assimilated and the perfect executive. She erases her Algerian origins as much as possible. Emma , her french next-door neighbor, a young widow, struggles to raise her to kids alone, playing hide and seek with bailiffs.

Directed by Emmanuelle BERCOT (Backstage / The Players)
BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2013 / IN COMPETITION

Cathy, sixty and beautiful, runs a restaurant offering local specialties in a small town on the coast of Brittany, where she has always lived. Therestaurant has been in the family for three generations.
Cathy is a widow. She’s been having a passionate affair with a local industrialist, who regularly promises to leave his wife for her. When he finallydecides to take the plunge, it’s not for Cathy, but for a young woman who’s expecting his baby! Cathy is devastated. And things get worse: thatsame day she receives news that her business is failing and the bank is threatening to start bankruptcy proceedings. Cathy is filled with despair. Her world is crumbling around her.