SPECIAL SCREENINGS 


Babel

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de Hendrick Dusollier • Première internationale
France, 2010, 15' , sans dialogue

From the celestian mountains to the peak of Shanghai's towers: two young peasants have to leave their village to get to the metropolis.

Saturday 5 , 17h15, Fonction:Cinéma
Tuesday 8 , 10h30, Uptown - Rive

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Face

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de Hendrick Dusollier •
France, 2006, 6' , sans dialogue

Stuck in an exiguous box, a man suffers a series of experiments. Face to face with the spectator, the head is degraded until revealing its bestiality.

Saturday 5 , 17h15, Fonction:Cinéma Séance gratuite
Tuesday 8 , 10h30, Uptown - Rive

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Fade to Black

de Hendrick Dusollier • Not a Premiere / Pas une première
France, 2007, 2' , sans dialogue

Birthday's opening and promotional film of the Xe Festival International de Cine Expresion en Corto - Guanajuato, Mexico 2007.

Saturday 5 , 17h15, Fonction:Cinéma Séance gratuite
Tuesday 8 , 10h30, Uptown - Rive

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La Jetée

de Chris Marker • Not a Premiere / Pas une première
France, 1962, 28' , vo fr , st ang

In post-apocalyptic Paris, survivors are forced to live in underground passages. In a bid to save humanity from extinction, scientists experiment with time travel using prisoners of war. One such prisoner, haunted by an intense childhood memory, succeeds in breaking through the time barrier. ...read more

Monday 7 , 20h00, Arditi

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Letters to Angel

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de Sulev Keedus • Swiss Premiere / Première Suisse
Estonie, Finlande, 2011, 115' , vo estonien , st fr/ang

In the beginning of the 80's, Estonia sent men to war in Afghanistan. This film is about one of those soldiers and his journey back to his lost family. Having converted to Islam during his stay in Afghanistan, he now returns home only to find himself facing another kind of war. ...read more

Tuesday 8 , 16h00, Uptown - Rive

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Mildred Pierce

de Todd Haynes • Swiss Premiere / Première Suisse
USA, 2010, 120' , vo ang , st fr

Mildred Pierce, starring Academy Award® winner Kate Winslet in the title role, brings to life the character introduced in James M. Cain's classic 1941 novel. The miniseries offers an intimate portrait of a independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Great Depression ...read more

Wednesday 9 , 13h00, Grütli Langlois

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Millenium Actress

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de Satoshi Kon •
Japon, 2001, 87' , vo japonais , st fr/ang

A small production house run by Genya Tachibana is selected to make a commemorative documentary in honor of a studio's 70th anniversary. Genya decides to focus his film Chiyoko Fujiwara, an actress who at the height of her popularity retreated from public life. ...read more

Monday 7 , 20h00, Arditi

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Obras

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de Hendrick Dusollier •
France, 2004, 12' , sans dialogue

In one single shot, Obras proposes a poetic and graphic journey through time and space, exploring Barcelona's wild irreversible destruction and reconstruction.

Saturday 5 , 17h15, Fonction:Cinéma Séance gratuite
Tuesday 8 , 10h30, Uptown - Rive

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The Dead Mountaineer Hotel's

de Grigori Kromanov •
Estonie, URSS, 1979/restored2009, 80' , vo estonien , st fr/ang

The police station gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel, everything seems to be all right. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things start to happen. ...read more

Saturday 5 , 20h45, Grütli Langlois

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