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----------------- the themes :
"My father, my mother, my sister & my brother"
Three films, tree contexts, tree countries with reflections towards the family.
Nous Deux
Fiction
Christophe Honoré, France, 2002, 35mm, 14min.
Laurent is 30. He wants to have a child. Through the underground network of Great Britian he meets Kate, a candidate to be a surrogate Mother.
Tout contre Léo
Fiction
Christophe Honoré, France, 2001, vidéo, 90 min.
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The parents are very proud of their four boys. But since Leo has announced that he is HIV positive, live is no longer the same.
Leo tries to protect his little brother of twelve years old, Marcel, who has understood that a problems are to come. On one side are the parents with their silence and lies. On the other side the four brothers incapable to say everything and inseparable. Leo, who has just learnt that he has aids, asks Marcel to go to Paris for a few days.
The channel M6 asked to have the film made for the series “Carnets d’ado” and the diffusion has been blocked.
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My mother likes women
Fiction
Inès Paris et Daniela Fejerman, Espagne, 2002, 35mm, 96 min. Vostf.
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Elvira, beautiful and in her thirties, gets together with her sisters, Jimena and Sol to celebrate the birthday of their mother Sofia, a famous pianist and divorced for some years. She is to announce some big news: she is in love. Her daughters are so pleased for her. Elvira tells her daughters that her lover is a bit younger than her, born in the Czech Republic and also a pianist. But there is something else…she is a woman.
My mother prefers women (especially younger ones) is a very funny comedy. It is also the first film in the history of Spanish cinema that is co-produced by two women.
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Dakan
Fiction
Mohamed Camara, Guinée/France, 1997, 35mm, 87min.
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In Malinke, Dakan means destiny. Manga and Sory love each other so much. Their family pressure and the judgement of the society reject the love of these two. A mans obligation in Africa is to get married and have children. Faced with a society imprisoned by taboos, the word homosexuality does not exist in the African vocabulary. Their two families want to cure their children and put them onto the right path. Capturing moments of strong emotions between these two characters, the director treats here a daring subject.
This film was in the selection for the Cannes film festival in 1997. This is a courageous film that covers a very sensitive subject in Africa: Homosexuality.
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« Si t'es, Cité »
Documentaries about the city, discimination and tolerance.
This theme shows different pathes of life, men and women who try to create and share their own visions of life with others..
La Parade (our history)
Documentary
Lionel Baier, Suisse, 2001, vidéo, 78 min.
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If the Gay pride is becoming year by year an event that can’t be ignored in Paris, Berlin and New York, it’s the same in Sion, Switzerland. When Marianne Bruchez and her friends decide to organise in July 2001 the first Gay Pride March in their hometown and take on the media, they knew what was waiting ahead for them. A petition against the march is presented in a local paper, signed by the homophobic community. The gay communities defend their march and finally the parade becomes a real challenge.
“In the parade, I was trying to understand my worst enemy: homophobia”.
During seven months the director Lionel Baier filmed the preparations for this march and shows us an irrepressible mouthful of emotions. The film shows day after day an adventure outside of the community.
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A Circus in New York
Documentaire
Frédérique Pressmann (co-auteur Sophie Sensier), France, 2002, vidéo, 54min. Vostf.
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Jenifer Miller is a colourful character. A director of a circus, a jongler, and a smooth talker, she manages for five years the Amok circus. With her company she gives her shows free of charge in the open air to a public of destitutes. The film follows the company on tour. These performers give a new style with humour in public spaces and reinvent a form ludic and daring. It’s a real play against all forms of discrimination and exclusion. We discover that the real freaks are not those we thought.
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Ciao Bella, Ciao
Fiction
Laurence Rebouillon, France, 2002, 35mm, 7min.
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This short film is a vision of the 2002 elections. A reaction towards the National Front in Marseille.
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"Order, disorder »
Moral order, the theme of these cinematic creations, which cover the themes “Queer and Thriller”. A political analysis of our society and it’s censors.
From Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th of May 2003
Cinéma Les Variétés – 37, rue Vincent Scotto La Canebière – Marseille 1er
Organisation and coordination : MPPM (Moving Project / Projets en Mouvement), in collaboration with le Cinéma Les Variétés
Contacts : Michèle Philibert, Florence Fradelizi, Yann Moraux
Tel & Fax : + 33 (0) 4 91 64 75 87 et + 33 (0) 4 95 04 96 39
festival-reflets@wanadoo.fr
http://www.reflets.org
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