French Cinema at 2024 Cork International Film Festival [fr]

Special Presentation: French Embassy & Alliance Française de Cork Film Screening

This Life of Mine (Ma Vie Ma Gueule)
Director: Sophie Fillières
language: French
Barberie may have been beautiful, a good mother, colleague, lover… but that was before she predictably and inevitably turned 55 (and more to come!). Now, things are getting darker and absurd. How then will she deal with her own self, others, and simply life in general?
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French Film Programme

● A Family (Une Famille)
Director: Christine Angot
language: French
Award-winning French writer Christine Angot is invited for business to Strasbourg. There, at the age of 13, she had met her father for the first time, and he started to rape her.
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● All We Imagine as Light
Director: Payal Kapadia
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled by an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find somewhere to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to the beach allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.
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● At Averroès & Rosa Parks
Director: Nicolas Philibert
language: French
“Averroès” and “Rosa Parks” are two psychiatric units in Paris. From individual interviews to meetings between patients and carers, the filmmaker focuses on showing a form of psychiatry that continually strives to make room for and rehabilitate the patients’ words.
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● Bambi (Family) - Family Film
Director: Michel Fessler
A retelling, with live animals, of the Disney Classic! Grandiose and moving, with a strong environemtnal message for young people and families.
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● The Belle from Gaza (La Belle de Gaza)
Director: Yolande Zauberman
language: French
They were a fleeting vision one night during the shooting of M. Beautiful. One of them told Selim Nassib in Arabic that she had walked from Gaza to become a transsexual in Tel Aviv. I called her La Belle de Gaza. With my camera, I looked for her everywhere.
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● La Déposition (Online Selection)
Director: Claudia Marschal
language: French
1993. One rainy afternoon, Emmanuel leaves the village’s presbytery having sworn never to ell anyone what happened there. Thirty years later, he remembers that day. At the police station, he begins his deposition against Hubert, the priest he once thought he could trust.
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● Fotogenico
Director: Christophe Paou & Benoit Sabatier – Attending + DJ party
language: French
Unable to cope with grief, Raoul arrives in Marseille, the city of his lost daughter. He finds her old friends, her music band, and even her dealer.
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● In his own image (A son image)
Director: Thierry de Peretti
language: French
The life of Antonia, a young photographer for a Corsican newspaper, intertwines with the political events of the island from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. The fresco of a generation.
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● Irreversible
Director: Gaspar Noé
language: French
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological
order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.
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● Misericordia (Misericorde)
Director: Alain Guiraudie
language: French
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbour and a priest with strange intentions make his stay take an unexpected turn.
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● Rabia
Director: Mareike Engelhardt - Attending
language: French
Driven by the promise of a new life, 19-year-old Jessica and her best friend Laila left for Syria to join Daech. But when they arrive, they find themselves locked up in a women’s house run by the authoritarian and charismatic Madame.
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● The Story of Souleymane (L’histoire de Souleymane)
Director: Boris Lojkine
language: French
As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers. But Souleymane is not ready.
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● The Typewriter and Other Headaches
Director: Nicolas Philibert
(Online Selection) language: French
This third opus in Nicolas Philibert’s psychiatry triptych will take us into the homes of some of the ADAMANT and AVERROES & ROSA PARKS’ protagonists, during the visits led by their caregivers.
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● TWST - Things We Said Today
Director: Andrei Ujică
TWST takes as its starting point the arrival of the Beatles in New York for their August 1965 concert at Shea Stadium, and as its title a Beatles song that already anticipates a time when the present moment will have become a haunting past, neither retrievable nor forgettable.
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SCHOOL SCREENINGS

● The Fantastic Three (Les Trois Fantastiques)
Director: Michaël Dichter
language: French
Max, a witty and brave 12-year-old, feels like he has two families instead of one. In and after school, he spends all his time with his two best friends Tom and Vivian, who are always there to make life easier for each other. Together, they are The Fantastic Three.
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● Neneh Superstar
Director: Ramzi Ben Slimane
language: French
Neneh, a 12-year-old black dancer dreams of joining Paris Opera Ballet School, but must overcome her condition and be accepted by director Marianne Belage.
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