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The 61st San Sebastian Festival will dedicate a retrospective to Nagisa Oshima


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A retrospective will be dedicated to the Japanese moviemaker Nagisa Oshima at the 61st San Sebastian Festival, to run from 20-28 September 2013.

Nagisa Oshima (Okayama, 1932) is not only one of Japanese cinema´s most remarkable moviemakers; he is also one of its most audacious, controversial and contentious figures. An iconic director of the so-called nuberu bagu (new wave) in the 60s, in subsequent decades he went on to become one of Japanese cinema’s best known names at international level. Oshima made his movie debut in 1959 with Aito Kibo no Machi / Street of Love and Hope, an early approach to the problem of youths and his first work for the Shochiku studio, one of the biggest in Japan. This was followed by other works with Shochiku, by that time clearly defining his critical style and angry view of Japanese society: Seishun Zankoku Monogatari / Cruel Story of Youth (1960) and Taiyô no Hakaba / The Sun´s Burial (1960). However, his next film, Nihon no Yoru to Kiri / Night and Fog in Japan (1960), is an overtly political film after which Oshima left the studio to become an independent producer.

That second period in Oshima´s filmography was an enormously creative time when he made a series of films portraying his obsessions with and reflections on sex, politics, violence and death, always used as tools to analyse the ulcers of his time. His formal solutions, greatly inspired by the European "new waves" and avant-garde theatre techniques, made him one of the most representative filmmakers of Japanese modernity, thanks to titles including Shiiku / The Catch (1961), Etsuraku (Pleasures of the Flesh, 1964), Muri Shinju: Nihon no natsu / Japanese Summer: Double Suicide(1967), Kôshikei / Death by Hanging (1968), Shinjuku dorobo nikki / Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968), Shonen (Boy, 1969) and Gishiki / The Ceremony (1971).

The year 1976 saw Oshima gain international renown for Ai no koriida (The Realm of the Senses). Although the film caused a worldwide scandal for its explicit portrayal of sexuality and earned the wrath of censors in Japan, it was presented in the Directors´ Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes and went on to become the best known work of his career. He was therefore able to film a co-production with France, another sincere work on the power of desire Ai no borei (Empire of Passion, 1978), for which he won the Best Director Award at the Festival de Cannes. He subsequently shot two European co-productions of wide international repercussion: the war film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) and the disturbing Max mon amour (1986), both of which represent his new approach to sexual desire as a destabilising element of the social network. His last film for the big screen, Gohatto(Gohatto: Taboo, 2000), is yet another unusual work that openly tackles the matter of homosexuality among the samurais.

The retrospective programmed by the San Sebastian Festival includes all of Oshimi´s films for the big screen. In addition to demonstrating the evolution of his career, the initiative will include several titles never seen before in Spain. The cycle, co-organised with the Filmoteca Española and the collaboration of The Japan Foundation, will be accompanied by a book coordinated by Quim Casas.





FILMS IN THE CYCLE

Aito Kibo no Machi / Street of Love and Hope (AKA A Town of Love and Hope) 1959
In his first work Oshima already demonstrates his interest in the people abandoned in the wake of Japan´s "economic miracle" seen through the story of Masao, a young boy with no choice but to support his sick mother and mentally-ill sister.

Seishun Zankoku Monogatari / Cruel Story of Youth (aka Naked Youth) 1960
A powerful generational portrait of two "angry" Japanese youngsters in the 60 built around the stormy relationship between the unscrupulous Kiyoshi and the pretty Makoto, who helps him to blackmail the older men who make sexual propositions to her.

Taiyô no Hakaba / The Sun's Burial 1960
A chronicle of life in the dregs of the Osaka underworld, a claustrophobic social frieze revolving around a prostitute who runs a sordid business: trafficking in the blood of people who are obliged to sell it to survive.

Nihon no Yoru to Kiri / Night and Fog in Japan 1960
Oshima´s first obviously political film describes the tension in the ranks of the Zinkyoto, the left-wing Japanese student movement. A work of surprising visual style reflecting the ideological disillusionment of an entire generation.

Shiiku / The Catch 1961
Adaptation of a novel by Kenzaburo Oé set in World War II: an Afro-American pilot is captured by the inhabitants of a small village. The situation is used by Oshima to depict yet another unrelenting X-ray of Japanese society.

Amakusa shiro tokisada / Shiro Amakusa, the Christian Rebel (aka The revolutionary) 1962
Inroads by Oshima to historic films through the tale of Christian rebel Shiro Amakusa, who led the peasants´ campaign against the Shogunate in the 17th century. The director draws on the past to construct a metaphor on the present and the political repressions of the 60s.

Etsuraku (Pleasures of the Flesh, 1964)
A thriller-like film, asphyxiating and melancholy, where a man who has committed a murder is blackmailed by another who witnessed the crime. A journey through the labyrinths of prostitution and pornography, hosted by the Yakuza.

Hakuchû no tôrima / Violence at Noon 1966
A new study by Oshima of the sexuality and violence that mark Japanese society: the portrayal of a rapist and killer of women constructed thanks to the memories of his wife and one of his victims. One of the director’s most tense and astounding works.

Nihon shunka-kô / Sing a Song of Sex (aka A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs) 1967
Oshima follows the odyssey of four college students obsessed by sex and obscene songs. A tragicomic fantasy, delirious and grotesque, on his recurring themes: repressed desire and the complex relations between sexes.

Muri Shinju: Nihon no natsu / Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (aka Night of the Killer) 1967
The Japanese tradition of shinju (or the double suicide of two lovers) is taken up again by Oshima in one of his most enigmatic works. The artistic vanguards of the period join hands in a fatalistic, tragic film of refined aesthetics.

Ninja bugei-Chô / Tales of the Ninja (aka Band of Ninja) 1967
A surprising contribution by Oshima to animation cinema taking a popular manga by Sampei Shirato to the screen. An experimental work depicting a completely different way of understanding animated film.

Kaette kita yopparai / Three Resurrected Drunkards (aka Sinner in paradise) 1968
A courageous denunciation of the xenophobia congenital to Japanese society: three students go on holiday to a coastal village, where they are mistaken for Koreans, an ethnic minority particularly unpopular with the locals.

Shinjuku dorobo nikki / Diary of a Shinjuku Thief 1968
The adventures of a book thief in the Japanese district of Shinjuku give the basis to a film-collage taking its inspiration from experimental theatre and analysing the secret connection between sexuality and political activism.

Kôshikei / Death by Hanging 1968
A dark satire following the Kafkaesque ups and downs of a Korean man condemned to death who survives hanging. Based on a true story, the film demonstrates the extent to which Oshima cleverly drew on the teachings of modern European cinema.

Shonen (Boy, 1969)
A sordid true story once again provides Oshima with inspiration for one of his most direct and striking discourses on social corruption: a boy is repeatedly used by his parents as a false traffic accident victim so that they can claim compensation.

Tokyo senso sengo hiwa / The Man Who Left His Will on Film (aka He Died after the War) 1970
An independent production shot by Oshima with non-professional actors, in complete underground film spirit and aesthetics akin to the documentary. An audacious testimony of the Japanese counterculture of the time.

Gishiki / The Ceremony, 1971
The most venerated Japanese traditions are laid bare in this sharp satire using a wedding ceremony to highlight the tensions underlying social facades.

Natsu no imôto (Dear Summer Sister, 1972)
Set on Okinawa Island, a bittersweet tale of how a young generation is obliged to live with the undercurrent of a traumatic past: World War II and the Japanese occupation.

Ai no koriida (The Realm of the Senses, 1976)
The film for which Oshima earned worldwide fame and marked a new era in the way sexuality was portrayed in cinema. The true story of Sada Abe, the woman who killed and castrated her lover, became in Oshima’s hands an out-and-out declaration of principles on the subversive power of sex.

Ai no borei (Empire of Passion, 1978)
Oshima takes the tradition of kaidan-eiga (ghost stories), so widespread in Japanese cinema, to construct this beautiful film on a passionate and tragic love affair that defies social taboos.

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1982)
An international co-production on which Oshima worked with big-name stars like David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Takeshi Kitano. What at first seems to be a traditional war film turns into yet another of the director’s explorations of the chasms of desire.

Max mon amour (1986)
Oshima takes another step forward in his constant quest to test the limits and taboos that condition sexual relations. Charlotte Rampling plays a married, middle-class woman who has an affair with a rather surprising lover: a chimpanzee.

Gohatto (Gohatto: Taboo, 2000)
In his last film Oshima proposes a synthesis of the subjects to have obsessed him throughout his filmography. Here samurai cinema is portrayed from a very unusual angle: homosexual relations in its closed world.

Animation cinema, star of one of the retrospectives at the San Sebastian Festival


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The 61st San Sebastian Festival, to take place from 20-28 September 2013, will present the retrospective: ANIMATOPIA. NEW PATHS OF ANIMATION CINEMA, an overview of international productions made in the genre over the last decade.

ANIMATOPIA is the place cohabited by highly suggestive and original contributions brought to us by contemporary animation cinema. The retrospective takes us on a tour of movies that go far beyond family entertainment, fantastic adventures and the limits wrongly pinned on the genre. The programmed titles will highlight the freedom and capacity of animation to tackle any subject from myriad angles and points of view. Matters often considered taboo in the field of animated cartoons (sex, violence) and varied slants on all kinds of social concerns, historical traumas and red-hot issues will abound. There will also be subjective takes on reality, philosophical reflections, hybridisation with documentary film, personal memories, interventions by plastic artists and the confessions of moviemakers who firmly believe that the truth of human experience is not exclusive to photographic film but can also be expressed through drawing. Reaching, too, beyond the traditional animated movies and 3D infographics, the cycle will congregate films that experiment with and combine all sorts of techniques and procedures: stop motion, rotoscoping, cut-out animation, alternative forms of digital animation, etc.

Penned for participation in the cycle along with other titles that will be added to the programme as they are confirmed in the coming months, are: Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001), My Life As McDull (Toe Yuen, 2001), Hair High (Bill Plympton, 2004), Mind Game (Masaki Yuasa, 2004), The District (Aron Gauder, 2004), Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2006), Princess (Anders Moregenthaler, 2006), Taeguchi: Life of the Amazing Fastfood Grifters (Mamoru Oshii, 2006), Renaissance (Christian Volkmann, 2006), Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008), Mary and Max (Adam Elliot, 2009), Metropia (Tarik Saleh, 2009), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009), Chico & Rita (Fernando Trueba, 2010), Crulic (Anca Damian, 2011), Alois Nebel (Tomás Lunák, 2011), Tatsumi (Eric Khoo, 2011), Arrugas (Ignacio Ferreras, 2011), Gordo, calvo y bajito (Carlos Osuna, 2011) and A Liar´s Autobiography (Bill Jones, 2012).

A book coordinated by Roberto Cueto will be published to accompany the retrospective.

J'en serai, promis, juré, craché (enfin j'espère)

Faudrait savoir !

Ses documentaires TV tournés dans les années 60 sont complètement bloqués, ou il y a une volonté éditoriale de se concentrer sur ses long-métrages (puisque sa version de l'histoire du ciné japonais n'est pas non plus mentionnée) ?



Super nouvelle pour les espagnols, par contre, une idée du type de personnage qu'est Q. Casas niveau écrit ciné ?

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ENEMY de Denis Villeneuve

New directors:



EL ÁRBOL MAGNÉTICO (THE MAGNETIC TREE)
ISABEL AYGUAVIVES (SPAIN-CHILE)
A young boy's return to the country of his birth, Chile, after a long absence. The house in the country where he lived with his family is up for sale and they all gather to bid the place farewell. Their visit to the "magnetic tree", a local curiosity with strange properties, will awaken almost forgotten feelings and affections in the boy.




CI YAN DE YANG GUANG (THE BLINDING SUNLIGHT)
YU LIU (CHINA)
The real life of a low-income family living in the southern part of Beijing, which mainly lives on social benefits.




CÂINELE JAPONEZ / JAPANESE DOG (JAPANESE DOG)
TUDOR CRISTIAN JURGIU (ROMANIA)
What does it take to change a solitary life? After twenty years, an old man, widowed by the recent floods, and his son, who has been living in Japan, see each other again for the first time. Their expectations run high and during this brief reencounter, both try to overcome the distance that has grown between them.






LA DUNE (THE DUNE)
YOSSI AVIRAM (FRANCE-ISRAEL)
Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal history, a page that they both need to turn for good.




LAS HORAS MUERTAS (THE EMPTY HOURS)
AARÓN FERNÁNDEZ (MEXICO-FRANCE-SPAIN)
The second film from Aarón Fernández is a Spain-Mexico-France co-production already screened as part of Films in Progress at the 60th edition of the Festival. Sebastián, 17, manages his uncle’s cosy rent-by-the-hour motel on the coast of Veracruz. Miranda, 35, occasionally meets her lover in the Motel, but he often arrives late. During that spare time, Sebastián and Miranda will become closer and closer.




HROSS Í OSS / OF HORSES AND MEN (OF HORSES AND MEN)
BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON (ICELAND-GERMANY)
A country romance about the human streak in the horse and the horse in the human. Love and death become interlaced with immense consequences. The fortunes of the people in the countryside through the horses' perception.




LEVAYA BAZAHARAIM / FUNERAL AT NOON (FUNERAL AT NOON)
ADAM SANDERSON (ISRAEL)
In a small village, Hagar Erlich is somewhat of an alien, unable to find her place in the town community and in her own life as a newlywed. In the ruins of an enchanted, abandoned village she will find her secret hideaway.




LOSEJAS / THE GAMBLER (THE GAMBLER)
IGNAS JONYNAS (LITHUANIA-LATVIA)
Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.




LUTON (LUTON)
MICHALIS KONSTANTATOS (GREECE)
Jimmy, Mary and Makis are three people living their everyday day life in an entirely different manner. They seem to have nothing in common and normally they shouldn’t even know each other…




MOTHER OF GEORGE (MOTHER OF GEORGE)
ANDREW DOSUNMU (USA)
Adenike and Ayodele are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the celebration of their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a child. Adenike has to make a decision that could either save her family or destroy it.




POR LAS PLUMAS (ALL ABOUT THE FEATHERS)
NETO VILLALOBOS (COSTA RICA)
A black comedy about Chalo, a lone security guard who acquires his first gamecock and discovers the bittersweet taste of friendship.




PUPPY LOVE (PUPPY LOVE)
DELPHINE LEHERICEY (BELGIUM-SWEDEN-FRANCE-LUXEMBOURG)
Diane is a mysterious 14-year-old girl. She is always busy looking after her younger brother, Marc, and has an intense relationship with her father, Christian. The appearance in her neighbourhood of Julia, a charming young English girl, sends Diana's life into a spin.




EL RAYO (EL RAYO (HASSAN´S WAY))
FRAN ARAÚJO, ERNESTO DE NOVA ROLDÁN (SPAIN-PORTUGAL)
The odyssey of Hassan, a Moroccan immigrant who can no longer find work in Spain after thirteen years in the country and decides to go home. He puts all his savings into a second-hand tractor to secure a living in Morocco and sets out to drive it back. When he came to Spain he had nothing, now he's returning with his only belonging: el Rayo.




WOLF (WOLF)
JIM TAIHUTTU (HOLLAND)
Majid is a talented kickboxer from a grim suburb in The Netherlands. After a stint in prison, gym owner Ben takes him under his wing, but when criminal boss Hakan shows interest in his skills, Majid begins to lose sight of what it is he really wants…




YOZGAT BLUES (YOZGAT BLUES)
MAHMUT FAZIL COSKUN (TURKEY-GERMANY)
Sabri, a barber in Yozgat - a very small city in the middle of Anatolia - has an emotional breakdown when he runs into Yavuz and Neşe, who come to the town to sing in a small music hall-bar. This will also affect Neşe and Yavuz. None of their desires will be how they want them to be.




ZELENA KOFTA / THE GREEN JACKET (THE GREEN JACKET)
VOLODYMYR TYKHYY (UKRAINE)
In the suburbs of the city a 7-years old boy disappears. After months of fruitless searches the boy's older sister decides to take the deal over. She is confident that she knows who kidnapped her brother. Is this enough to justify a terrible revenge?

Ouverture : Metegol, le dessin animé de José Luis Campanella sur des joueurs de foot.
Cloture : Un "gros" film français à être annoncé à la fin du mois.

Une partie de la compet'.

CLUB SÁNDWICH (CLUB SANDWICH)
FERNANDO EIMBCKE (MEXICO)
Mexico's Fernando Eimbcke premieres his third film in San Sebastian. Paloma and her 15 years old son Hector have a very strong and special relationship. When on holiday at the seaside, Hector meets Jazmin, a teenage girl with whom he discovers the first glimpses of love and sexuality. Trying to keep Hector close to her, Paloma has a hard time accepting that he will eventually grow up and no longer be the same son and best friend he was to her for so many years.


MON ÂME PAR TOI GUÉRIE (MY SOUL HEALED BY YOU)
FRANÇOIS DUPEYRON (FRANCE)
Fourteen years after winning the Golden Shell with C'est quoi la vie?, François Dupeyron returns with his new film. When Frédi loses his mother, he realizes she has passed her healing gift on to him. Frédi rejects it totally, tangled up in his own unhappiness, until a fatal accident changes everything. He is forced to acknowledge that he had healing hands.


PELO MALO (BAD HAIR)
MARIANA RONDÓN (VENEZUELA)
The third film from the filmmaker and plastic artist Mariana Rondón stars Junior, a 9 year-old with "bad hair". He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook picture, like a fashionable pop singer. This puts him at odds with his mother Marta. The more Junior tries to look sharp and make his mother love him, the more she rejects him, until he is cornered, face to face with a painful decision.


QUAI D'ORSAY
BERTRAND TAVERNIER (FRANCE)
Bertrand Tavernier, one of the great masters of contemporary French cinema, adapts in his new film the comic of the same name by Lanzac & Blain, a political satire revolving around Alexandre Tallard de Vorms, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, a man who calls on the powerful and invokes the mighty to bring peace, to calm the trigger-happy, and to cement his aura of Nobel Peace Prize winner-in-waiting. With a brilliant cast including Thierry Lhermitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Niels Arestrup, Anaïs Demoustier, Julie Gayet, Joséphine de La Baume and Jane Birkin.


THE RAILWAY MAN
JONATHAN TEPLITZKY (UK-AUSTRALIA)
Starring Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine and Stellan Skarsgård, the film is based on the true story of Eric Lomax, a British officer fascinated with railways since childhood. During World War II he was captured by the Japanese and sent to a work camp on the Burma-Thailand railway line where he and his fellow prisoners were forced to survive the torture inflicted on them by their captors in extreme conditions. Years later, Lomax is retired and lives in the north of England with his wife Patricia, focussed on his passion for trains, when he discovers that the Japanese soldier responsible for a large part of his suffering is still alive...


LE WEEK-END (LE WEEK-END)
ROGER MICHELL (UK)
In his new film, Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Enduring Love) tells the story of Nick and Meg, a couple of British teachers who revisit Paris many years after their honeymoon in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage. Meg feels she deserves a better life, yet feels insecure and bereft without her husband Nick. Starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum.

Metegol, énorme phénomène en Argentine, je crois qu'il bat les films ricains là-bas.

The 61st edition of the San Sebastian Festival will dedicate a special retrospective to animated films produced in the last two decades. Entitled Animatopia, the cycle offers a look at films that overshoot the limits erroneously imposed on the genre, family entertainment or fantastic adventures. The programmed titles will highlight the freedom and capacity of alternative animation to tackle all kinds of adult themes through different perspectives, techniques and points of view.

To introduce the cycle in San Sebastian, "Animatopia" will enjoy the presence of an exceptional master of ceremonies, Bill Plympton. Born in 1946, this North American moviemaker has become a reference in transgressive and iconoclastic animated cinema. Having put his name to almost fifty shorts (including two Academy Award nominees), Plympton has also directed several features that are now modern classics in the genre: The Tune (1992), I Married a Strange Person (1997), Mutant Aliens (2001), Idiots and Angels (2008) and Hair High (2004), the latter of which will be screened in the "Animatopia" retrospective.

The retrospective will be accompanied by a publication coordinated by Roberto Cueto with contributions from high-profile specialists: Jordi Costa, Fernando de Felipe, Sonia García López, Rubén Lardín, Jesús Palacios, Jayne Pilling, Jordi Sánchez-Navarro and Paul Wells.



MY LIFE AS MCDULL
TOE YUEN (HONG KONG) 2001
Winner of the Annecy Festival in 2003 based on the popular Hong Kong comic, this little gem of an animated film shows us the adult world from the bewildered perspective of McDull, a piglet with more questions than answers.




WAKING LIFE
RICHARD LINKLATER (USA) 2001
Richard Linklater, one of the most personal and unpredictable contemporary American filmmakers, couldn’t be expected to make a conventional animation movie: a philosophical look at the meaning of life and the world around us.




HAIR HIGH
BILL PLYMPTON (USA) 2004
Bill Plympton, master of irreverent animation, applies his inimitable style in this homage to the teen movies of the 50s, to comedy from the school of oversized toupees, rock music, fast bikes, loverboys and dance queens. All of course generously sprinkled with the blackest of humour and shots at satire.




MAINDO GÊMU / MIND GAME (MIND GAME)
MASAAKI YUASA (JAPAN) 2004
Adaptation of a popular Japanese underground comic, this impressive merger between hugely varying animation techniques narrates the bizarre adventures of Nishi, a youngster obsessed with becoming a comic illustrator.




NYÓCKER / THE DISTRICT
ÁRON GAUDER, ERIK NOVAK (HUNGARY) 2004
Animated film takes to the streets: considered by some as the "Hungarian South Park", this winning film at the Annecy Festival is the caricaturesque chronicle of life in a multi-racial district of Budapest inhabited by Gypsies, Arabs, Chinese and Hungarians.




THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES
STEPHEN QUAY, TIMOTHY QUAY (GERMANY-UK-FRANCE) 2005
The Quay brothers are two of the most incorruptible and imaginative artists to have come out of modern animation cinema. In their second feature they apply their stop-motion techniques to the morbid Gothic tale of an opera singer kidnapped by a sinister doctor who wants to turn her into an automaton.




DE PROFUNDIS (FROM THE SEA)
MIGUELANXO PRADO (SPAIN-PORTUGAL) 2006
One of the most unusual and surprising animation productions ever made in our country, a visual and musical poem conceived by the Galician illustrator Miguelanxo Prado and created using animated oil paintings.




PAPURIKA / PAPRIKA (PAPRIKA)
SATOSHI KON (JAPAN) 2006
The last film and testament from one of Japanese anime's greats, Satoshi Kon, a hallucinating and visually brilliant sci-fi fantasy: what happens when we have the ability to enter other peoples' dreams?




PRINCESS
ANDERS MORGENTHALER (DENMARK-GERMANY ) 2006
One of the most controversial productions to come out of recent animation cinema, this violent and poignant film follows a missioner's crusade against the porn industry to avenge his sister's death. Nothing further from a film for all the family.




TACHIGUISHI RETSUDEN / TACHIGUI: THE AMAZING LIVES OF THE FAST FOOD GRIFTERS (TACHIGUI: THE AMAZING LIVES OF THE FAST FOOD GRIFTERS)
MAMORU OSHII (JAPAN) 2006
A mockumentary bringing a critical history of Japan from the post-war until today, summed up in a prestigious collage of innovative animation techniques, courtesy of Mamoru Oshii, mythical creator of Ghost in the Shell and Avalon.




PEUR(S) DU NOIR (FEAR(S) OF THE DARK)
BLUTCH, CHARLES BURNS, MARIE CAILLOU, PIERRE DI SCIULLO, LORENZO MATTOTTI, RICHARD MCGUIRE (FRANCE) 2007
Prestigious names from the world of illustration and drawing come together in this anthology film where each use their personal styles to depict the worst fears of the human being. The journey into darkness was never so beautifully drawn.




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TATIA ROSENTHAL (ISRAEL-AUSTRALIA) 2008
Stop-motion adaptation of the short stories by the Israeli writer Etgar Keret, a collection of tales focussed on the people who live in a block of flats, their daily problems, and their search for the meaning of their lives.




VALS IM BASHIR / WALTZ WITH BASHIR (WALTZ WITH BASHIR)
ARI FOLMAN
(ISRAEL-FRANCE-GERMANY-USA-FINLAND-SWITZERLAND-BELGIUM-AUSTRALIA) 2008
One of the most celebrated and important productions of adult animation in recent years, winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Animation and historical research shake hands to unveil a terrible episode in the recent history of the Middle East.




FANTASTIC MR. FOX
WES ANDERSON (USA) 2009
Wes Anderson adapts a short story by Roald Dahl for his first animation movie, fantastically supported by Hollywood star-packed cast who lend voice and soul to the characters. Anderson goes beyond mere family cinema to revisit his sweet and sour reflections on the family, its happy times and its misfortunes.




MARY AND MAX
ADAM ELLIOT (AUSTRALIA) 2009
Winner of awards at prestigious animation festivals like Annecy and Ottawa, this is the tender tale of a friendship between pen-pals you wouldn't believe was possible: a lonely girl in Melbourne and an obese 40-year-old with Asperger's Syndrome in New York. Will they ever meet face to face?




METROPIA
TARIK SALEH (SWEDEN-DENMARK-NORWAY) 2009
A sophisticated animation technique based on manipulated, computer-animated photographs provides the visuals of this claustrophobic fable on the life of a hypothetical Europe in the near future. The voices are by Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis and Stellan Skarsgård.




CHICO & RITA
FERNANDO TRUEBA, JAVIER MARISCAL, TONO ERRANDO (SPAIN-UK) 2010
The creative coming together between the filmmaker Fernando Trueba and the designer Javier Mariscal resulted in a film nominated for an Academy Award that landed a Goya and the European Film Award. A light-packed tour of Cuban music through a passionate love story.




ALOIS NEBEL
TOMÁS LUNÁK (CZECH REPUBLIC-GERMANY) 2011
Based on a prestigious graphic novel by Czech artists Rudis & Jaromir, this tale in steely black and white stars a stationmaster on the border with Poland who lives tormented by the ghosts of his past.




ARRUGAS (WRINKLES)
IGNACIO FERRERAS (SPAIN) 2011
The Spanish production to bag most awards in recent years and premiered at the 59th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. A carefully-made adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name by Paco Roca sensitively portraying the life of residents in a home for the elderly.




CRULIC - DRUMUL SPRE DINCOLO / CRULIC - THE PATH TO BEYOND (CRULIC - THE PATH TO BEYOND)
ANCA DAMIAN (ROMANIA-POLAND) 2011
Can animation cinema and documentary join forces? This film, winner at the Annecy Festival, proves that it is possible and even recommendable: a spectacular animated work recreates the true story of Claudiu Crulic, a Romanian citizen who was arrested in Poland for a crime he claimed he never committed.




DWAE-JI-UI WANG / THE KING OF PIGS (THE KING OF PIGS)
SANG-HO YEUN (SOUTH KOREA) 2011
The big revelation of recent South Korean animation was this powerful chronicle of power struggles between students at a Seoul high school: two former pupils remember a mysterious classmate who marked their lives.




GORDO, CALVO Y BAJITO (FAT, BALD, SHORT MAN)
CARLOS OSUNA (COLOMBIA) 2011
Animation cinema can also tell familiar, everyday stories, like this one about Antonio Farfan, an assistant in a notary's office who believes that his poor professional and sentimental success is due to his unattractive physical appearance. Until someone shows him that things could be different.




LE TABLEAU (THE PAINTING)
JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAGUIONIE (FRANCE-BELGIUM) 2011
Can the figures in a painting come to life? This fascinating exercise in animation stars the inhabitants of a painting left incomplete by its author: figures completely painted, others with no colour, and those that are nothing but sketches.




TATSUMI
ERIC KHOO (SINGAPORE) 2011
A delightful portrayal of the life and work of manga illustrator Yoshihiro Tatsumi adapting the artist's memories and some of his most famous and heartrending narrations, thanks to a careful visual style maintaining the full beauty of the original.




A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE UNTRUE STORY OF MONTY PYTHON'S GRAHAM CHAPMAN
BILL JONES, JEFF SIMPSON, BEN TIMLETT (UK) 2012
Graham Chapman, who died in 1989, was one of the founders of the Monty Python comedy group. Now his memoires, "A Liar's Autobiography" are taken to the screen with the help of animation. The story may not be factually exact, but that doesn't make it any less true.

Perlas :

9 MOIS FERME (9 MOIS FERME)
ALBERT DUPONTEL (FRANCE)
A comedy directed by and starring Albert Dupontel about Ariane Felder, a judge of strict morals who discovers she's pregnant by Bob Nolan, a criminal wanted for murder. Ariane can't remember a thing and tries to find out what could possibly have happened.


ABOUT TIME (ABOUT TIME)
RICHARD CURTIS (UK)
This comedy directed by Richard Curtis, helmer of films like Love Actually and the screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bridget Jones's Diary, was presented at the Locarno Film Festival. At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time. His father tells him that all of the men in his family have had the same gift.


THE FACE OF LOVE (THE FACE OF LOVE)
ARIE POSIN (USA)
Robin Williams, Ed Harris, Annette Bening y Amy Brenneman star in this film presented at the Toronto Festival. Five years after losing the love of her life, Nikki falls head over heels for a new beau: Tom is the man of her dreams, an attractive art teacher with a big heart, a friendly smile and heaps of energy.


FRUITVALE STATION (FRUITVALE STATION)
RYAN COOGLER (USA)
The story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance Festival and the Avenir Award at Cannes' Un Certain Regard.


GLORIA (GLORIA)
SEBASTIÁN LELIO (CHILE-SPAIN)
Winner of the Films in Progress Award at San Sebastian last year and of the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the last Berlin Festival, this Spain-Chile co-production directed by Sebastián Lelio paints the portrait of the spirited and attractive 58-year-old Gloria as she sets about tackling a new stage in her life.


GRAVITY (GRAVITY)
ALFONSO CUARÓN (USA)
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in this electrifying thriller taking us into deepest, darkest space. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Academy Award nominee for Children of Men, the movie narrates the odyssey of Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. Opening film of the next Venice Festival.


JEUNE ET JOLIE (YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL)
FRANÇOIS OZON (FRANCE)
François Ozon, winner of last year's Golden Shell with Dans la maison (In the House), competed at the last Festival de Cannes with this portrayal of a 17-year-old girl in four seasons and four songs.


KAZE TACHINU / THE WIND RISES (THE WIND RISES)
HAYAO MIYAZAKI (JAPAN)
In his new film, presented in the Official Selection at the Venice Festival, the master of animation Hayao Miyazaki brings together the engineer Jiro Horikoshi and the author Tatsuo Hori, who lived during the time of the story of The Wind Rises, to create Jiro, a fictional character at the centre of an epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world.


L'IMAGE MANQUANTE (THE MISSING PICTURE)
RITHY PANH (FRANCE-CAMBODIA)
Winning documentary of the Un Certain Regard Award at the last Festival de Cannes. In the word of its director, Rithy Pahn: "For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia... I searched for it vainly. Today I know: this image must be missing. So I created it."



NARCO CULTURA (NARCO CULTURA)
SHAUL SCHWARZ (USA)
A documentary feature by award-winning photojournalist Shaul Schwarz on the explosive narco culture, a phenomenon blurring the lines between war and entertainment. To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, the narco traffickers represent the only models of fame and success, the only way out of the ghetto.


POZITIA COPILULUI / CHILD'S POSE (CHILD'S POSE)
CALIN PETER NETZER (ROMANIA)
A Romanian production, winner of the Golden Bear at the last Berlin Festival. The film stars Cornelia, a 60-year-old woman who puts all her skills, contacts and money into preventing her son, involved in a tragic accident, from going to prison. But where is the thin line that separates a mother's love from self-centered manipulation?


SOSHITE CHICHI NI NARU / LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON)
HIROKAZU KORE-EDA (JAPAN)
Two years after presenting Kiseki / IWish at the Festival, Hirozaku Kore-eda returns to San Sebastian with his latest film, winner of the Jury Award at the last Festival de Cannes. This time Kore-eda tells the story of a man who must make a life-changing decision and choose between his natural son and the son he believed was his after spending 6 years together.


TIAN ZHU DING / A TOUCH OF SIN (A TOUCH OF SIN)
JIA ZHANGKE (CHINA-JAPAN)
The Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke won the Best Screenplay Award at the last Festival de Cannes thanks to this chronicle of four people and four provinces. A reflection on contemporary China: that of an economic giant slowly being eroded by violence.


THE ZERO THEOREM (THE ZERO THEOREM)
TERRY GILLIAM (UK-USA)
Terry Gilliam will present his new futuristic fantasy in competition at the Venice Festival. An eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst works on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the purpose of existence—or the lack thereof—once and for all. However, it is only once he experiences the power of love and desire that he is able to understand his very reason for being.

Un peu de rab sur la compet'



DEVIL'S KNOT
ATOM EGOYAN (USA)
Four years after he competed in the 57th edition of the Festival with Chloe, Atom Egoyan returns to San Sebastian with his new work, a haunting true mystery about who killed three children in a small town. The police identify three teens, aka the "West Memphis Three", as committing the murders during a satanic ritual, but the truth may be scarier as a mother and investigator suspect all is not as it appears. Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon star in the film.




FOR THOSE WHO CAN TELL NO TALES
JASMILA ŽBANIĆ (BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA)
Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić, winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2006 with her film Grbavica, returns to the traumatic past of the Balkan War through Kym, an Australian tourist who decides to travel to Bosnia. Her guidebook leads her to Višegrad, a small town steeped in history, on the border of Bosnia and Serbia. After a night of insomnia in the 'romantic' Hotel Vilina Vlas, Kym discovers what happened there during the war. She can no longer be an ordinary tourist and her life will never be the same again.




OKTOBER NOVEMBER / OCTOBER NOVEMBER
GÖTZ SPIELMANN (AUSTRIA)
Götz Spielmann, reputed Austrian director nominated for an Academy Award in 2008 for his film Revanche, brings us his new film about two sisters who grew up in a hotel in the Austrian Alps, no longer in use. Sonja now lives in Berlin. Her sister Verena, who is a little older, has never left the village. For Sonja it is high time to visit her family once again, and the scenes of her childhood. The reunion slowly but relentlessly brings to light old conflicts between the two sisters.

Oh Gravity et le Miyazaki !!! j'aime j'aime

Toujours pas le MacQueen?
Le film sortira fin octobre en Espagne, contre fin janvier en France.