Cinéma du réel

Adieu la rue des radiateurs (Nina)

2009-02-09T11:41:54Z

Vladimir Léon

36'

- France

- Prod: Vladimir Léon

2008

The writer Mathieu Riboulet records at home readings of excerpts from his book Le Regard de la source. The portrait of a woman emerges… she is "neither a close friend, nor family, but certainly a little of the one and a little of the other"… Nina.

Autoproduction

2009-02-09T11:41:53Z

Virgil Vernier

74'

- France

- Prod: Virgil Vernier

2008

Paris, 2007. Nicola Sornaga, an independent filmmaker, is shooting a feature film, with no budget. The story of Morimoto, a sixty-year-old Japanese man who speaks no French, and who meets with all the district's locals. As the shoot progresses, Sornaga tests his ability to survive the hardship of low-budget filming.

Dossier (File)

2009-02-09T11:41:51Z

Svetoslava Koleva

- France

- Prod: Ateliers cinéma - Université Paris 7

2008

A self-portrait in the form of a file. An attempt at an objective view of oneself and the East European generation that has straddled the eras of communism and post-communism.

Ecchymoses

2009-02-09T11:41:50Z

Fleur Albert

100'

- France

- Prod: Cauri Films

2008

The school infirmary is an interesting refuge to observe. It is here that anxieties about school, family or personal matters are expressed, as well as light-hearted or more serious questioning on daily life, family, love, society and the future…

LOUIS MARCORELLES AWARD

J'ai tant aimé... (I Loved so Much...)

2009-02-09T11:41:48Z

Dalila Ennadre

52'

- France, Maroc

- Prod: Aya Films

2008

Fadma, a cheerful and mischievous 75-year-old woman, begs at the Ouzoud Falls, a highly popular tourist venue in Morocco. Here, everyone knows the flamboyant saga of this "public woman" who, at the age of twenty, embarked on her career of official prostitute to the French army during the Indochina War.

J'ai un frère (I Have a Brother)

2009-02-09T11:41:47Z

Emmanuel Vigier

77'

- France

- Prod: Promenades Films

2008

Two brothers separated by the war in Bosnia. Dražan, a political refugee living in France, in Marseilles. And Dejan who stayed in Bosanski Brod, a dying industrial town on the Croatian border. In 2007, Dražan decides to pay his brother a visit.

Je voudrais aimer personne (I Wish I Loved Noone)

2009-02-09T11:41:46Z

Marie Dumora

109'

- France

- Prod: Quark Productions

2008

White boots, 16-year-old, Sabrina walks briskly. She travels the roads that separate her from her kin counting only on herself and her ten-month-old son, Nicolas.She keeps moving to stay on track while everything around her wavers. One day she decides to have her son christened as if to better protect herself from the shadow that looms.

L' Exil et le Royaume (North Coast)

2009-02-09T11:41:44Z

Andreï Schtakleff, Jonathan Le Fourn

127'

- France

- Prod: Château-Rouge Production

2008

On the ramparts of the kingdom, people fish, dredge, wile away the time. Cigarette after cigarette, they reinvent the world, and bring its still smoking ruins back to life from exile. When the weather's fine across the waters, they can even see Paradise lost. Or is it just a mirage?

La Cité des Roms (City of the Roma)

2009-02-09T11:41:33Z

Frédéric Castaignède

97'

- France

- Prod: Arturo Mio

2008

In the ghetto in Nadejda in the heart of Bulgaria, Angel Tichaliev and the other activists of the Romany Gypsy Youth Organisation, a local NGO, are running a school desegregation programme to combat the scandalous discriminations that still affect the gypsy communities.

La Mort de la gazelle

2009-02-09T11:41:31Z

Jérémie Reichenbach

45'

- France

- Prod: e2p, entre2prises

2008

Since the late 1980s, a sporadic and bloody guerrilla war has plagued Niger. In February 2007, a group of armed men claiming to be from the Nigerians' Movement for Justice attacked an army barracks. One year later, hundreds have joined up with the MNJ in the Air mountains.