Your last moments to enjoy sessions for 1 euro! To conclude this festival on a high note, we offer you a series of four films followed by a buffet at 9:15 PM and the closing ceremony with an awards presentation starting at 9:45 PM.
The Rabbi’s Cat by Joann SFAR and Antoine DELESVAUX
Rabbi Sfar lives with his daughter Zlabya, a noisy parrot, and a mischievous cat who eats the parrot and starts speaking, only to tell lies. The rabbi wants to distance him. But the cat, madly in love with his little mistress, is willing to do anything to stay by her side…
“The Rabbi’s Cat doesn’t just tell the story of Algeria at the beginning of the 20th century: it speaks about today’s multicultural France!” (J Sfar)
In the presence of Joann Sfar (subject to confirmation)
Joann Sfar, a renowned comic book author – he manages a comic book collection for all ages at Gallimard – is also the acclaimed director of Gainsbourg, A Heroic Life.
Footnote by Joseph CEDAR Israel 2011
After Beaufort, a very harsh war film, Joseph Cedar focused on the rivalry between a father and son, both professors at a Talmudic university. Through this “family joust”, Joseph Cedar tells, in this biting and subtle comedy, how the most passionate emotions crystallize on the most trivial objects.
The film won the Best Screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
4:15 PM The First Beautiful Thing by Paolo VIRZI Italy 2011 (WILD BUNCH)
Fiction 1h51
Starring Micaela Ramazzotti, Valerio Mastandrea, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudia Pandolfi
Livorno Summer 1971. Anna, a lovely and frivolous young mother, wins a beauty pageant at a seaside resort. Her temperament makes her family life somewhat chaotic.
30 years later, still marked by this colorful life, Anna and her children, gathered at her bedside, will they be able to reconcile?
Between laughter and emotion, Paolo Virzì paints, in the style of 1960s Italian comedies, the portrait of a life’s journey in Italy from the 1970s to today.
Both funny and moving, the film confirms the talent of actress Micaela Ramazzotti.
Italian Selection for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film
3 Donatellos (Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Screenplay).
Awards in Montpellier, Villerupt, Bastia…
The Mosque by Daoud Aoulad Syad
Between fiction and reality, the film tells the story of a movie set become a place of worship.
At the end of his previous film’s shoot, Waiting for Pasolini, the inhabitants of Zagora (Southern Morocco) dismantled the sets to reclaim their land except…the mosque, much to the dismay of Moha, the landowner, who can no longer cultivate the land…
“Faithful to the quality of his cinema, the director has delivered an excellent piece. A great vintage of the 2011 Moroccan cinema” Aïcha Akalay (Tel Quel)
The story of The Mosque is a contemporary fable. It has universal significance and shows, through the small lens of cinema, the drama of a society entangled in religious dogmas, the abusive use of power, and social hypocrisy.
Thanks to his first profession, photography, Daoud Oulad Sayed offers settings of great beauty. After Farewell Forain, Wind Horse, Tarfaya, Waiting for Pasolini, he cements his place as a filmmaker to be reckoned with.
Awarded notably at the festivals of San Sebastián, Ouagadougou, Namur, Montpellier, Carthage
In the presence of Moroccan film critic Cherqui Ameur
9:45 PM Closing Ceremony and awards presentation followed by We Have a Pope by Nanni MORETTI
A newly elected pope is suddenly plagued by doubts and anxieties. The whole world soon falls into anxiety while at the Vatican they look for solutions to overcome the crisis…up to the intervention of a psychologist.
The film stirred controversy, particularly in the Catholic community, with some seeing it as an offense to the honor and prestige of the pope. Nevertheless, it attracted nearly a million viewers in Italian theaters.
Both lively, light, and deep, this film offers a tailor-made role for Michel Piccoli.
From Nanni Moretti’s filmography, one can cite Ecce Bombo, Dear Diary, The Son’s Room, The Caiman.
