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Film Retrospective

6^th FRANCOPHONE FILM FESTIVAL OF KALAMAZOO.
Little Theater, March 14-18 2007

Screening Schedule

All films with English subtitles.

Tickets:  Students:  $5, General admission: $8

Student Pass:  $18, General admission pass:  $40
Passes include unlimited access to all screenings and events
*Invitations to Friday’s reception included with Pass.

Long Feature Film Competition:
A Sunday in Kigali (Dimanche à Kigali) by Robert Favreau, Quebec/Canada,  2006, 118 min.)
 Nominated for the Genie and Jutra awards.
Bernard Valcourt is a disillusioned journalist living in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. He’s there to make a film on AIDS while all around him the racial tensions between the Tutsis and Hutus grow. At the Hôtel Des Mille Collines, headquarters for the Western expatriates, he finds a source of inspiration in Gentille, a shy and beautiful waitress...

Robert Favreau will present his film Friday, March 16 at 7pm. Since the 1970s, Robert Favreau has written and directed close to 30 productions for television or cinema. His filmography demonstrates his marked interest in social and humanitarian matters. Among his feature films are Portion d’éternité (1989), Trois Femmes, un Amour (1993), that was nominated for a Genie award for best director, and Les Muses orphelines (2000), that earned four Genie nominations and six Jutra awards.

The Sleeping Child (L’Enfant Endormi) by Yasmine Kassari (Morocco, 2004, 95 min) Award winner for the Best European Film in the Mostra of Venice
A day after their wedding in the countryside of north-eastern Morocco, a young bride, Zeinab, is left alone by her husband as he joins his countrymen to work clandestinely in Europe. Zeinab discovers that she is pregnant. Not wanting her baby to be born before her husband's return, she prolongs her pregnancy. Time passes. Her husband does not return…

Bosta by Philippe Aractingi (Lebannon, 2005, 91 min.) Box office hit and national phenomenon in Lebabon.
BOSTA (the Autobus) is a film that is set in Lebanon with some of the most popular actors, dancers, and choreographers in the Arab world. It is the first post-war Lebanese musical with contemporary Middle Eastern rhythms. This film is a timely film that deals with the contemporary Lebanese society in a creative way and gives a positive outlook to the future away from the stereotypical image of war and terrorism.

Tideline (Littoral) by Wajdi Mouawad (Quebec/Canada 2005, 96 min.) “Visually strong and imaginative masterpiece”- Wahab, a young man born in Montréal, decides to bury his deceased father in the man’s native Lebanon. In Lebanon, along with a few friends, all of whom dream of a better life, Wahab confronts a country scarred by war where an additional corpse is one too many.

Moolaade by Ousmane Sembene (Sénégal, 2004, 124 min.) Winner of Cannes Film Festival “Un Certain Regard”.

In Moolaadé the main character Collé is the only individual in the village to rebel against the ancient tradition of the circumcision of women. She had earlier already refused to allow her daughter to be circumcised; now she protects four village girls by taking them into her home. To protect them, she calls upon the Moolaadé, an ancient spell that prevents anyone from harming the girls as long as they are on her property.

Night of Truth (La Nuit de la Vérité) by Regina Fanta Nacro (Burkina Faso, 2005, 100 min) Winner of the “Grand Prix” of the Fespaco and Vues d’Afrique Films Festivals.

 Mirroring the political strife and genocide in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, this film opens as preparations are being made to end a decade of civil war in a fictitious country.

Out of Competition:

Me and My Sister (Les Soeurs fachées) by Alexandra Leclère (France, 2004, 93 min)

Louise, younger sister, natural and straightforward, lives in province; Martine, older sister, beautiful and aloof, lives in the Parisian upper middle class. Louise has written a novel. On Monday she will go for an appointment with a publisher in Paris, which may change her life. She comes to live with Martine for three days. During three days, Louise and her obvious happiness exasperate Martine and set her life in glares.....

Short Feature Film Competition:

The ball of wool (la pelote de laine) by Fatma Zohra Zamoun. (France, 2005, 14 minutes)
In the early 70's, Mohamed returns to France with his wife Fatiha and his
two children. Mohamed as usual goes to work and locks the door behind him.
Fatiha and the children are prisoners in their own house. Fatiha is going to
find strange ways to communicate with the outside world.

Deweneti by Dyana Gaye.  (France/Senegal,2006, 16 min)Daka, Senegal. Ousmane is not even seven years old, but he's already earning his keep by begging in the center of the capital. He decides to write to Father Christmas.

A warm bed (Dormir au chaud) by Pierre Duculot. (Belgique, 2006, 27 min)
An Ardenne’s village, by the middle of winter. That’s where Sandrine, a young urban homeless, arrives. She only search a place to sleep and rest. This place, she’ll find by Marthe, an old lady, alone for too much time.

Red (Le Rouge au Sol) by Maxime Giroux (Québec/Canada, 2006, 16 min)
A man's alcoholism is depicted in all its destructive glory. Another "morning after" forces him to face not only his mother but also his own self-loathing.

Revolver Tango by Pascale Marcotte (Québec/Canada, 2005, 5 min)
On a hot summer’s night, we meet Alejandro and Sylvia on the terrace of a bar, at the top of a building. The last customer has left, Alejandro cleans his chrome revolver before Sylvia grabs it. A languishing tango follows during which the two protagonists try to charm the object of their desire. Who is leading this intense fatal dance: Alejandro or Sylvia? The tango or the revolver?

The Ultimatum (L'Ultimatum) by Sebastien Lafarge and Rafael Schneider (France,2006,6minutes)
Thomas, I'm telling you for the last time... If you don't change, I'm leaving!...

The Crossing (La Traversée) by Maeva Paoli (France, 2006, 12 minutes) Sabrina, a young woman, works at Le Havre docks. She meets Aïcha, an old Algerian woman who embodies an Algerian culture unknown to Sabrina, despite of her own North-African origin.

Binta and the Great Idea (Binta y la gran idea) by Javier Fesser and Luis Manso(Senegal/Spain,2004,30minutes)
A seven-year-old African girl tells the stories of her cousin, who longs to go to school, and her father, who has an idea that he hopes will change the world.Nominated for 2007 Best Live Action Short Film Oscar Award

Youth and Teenagers Program:
This year, the Francophone Film Festival, with the support of the French ministry of Foreign Affairs, presents two special programs: Playground Shorts (7 and up) and Strange Shorts (teenagers).A teacher’s booklet (made by professors of the CAVILAM) and supplemented by information on ways of reading the screen image will be available to the teachers.

Documentary:
The Colour of Sacrifice (La couleur du sacrifice) by Mourad Boucif (Morrocco/Belgium,2006,84minutes)
The tragic participation of the Africans from the French colonies in the biggest world conflicts, is a very important subject. We have just commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Europe. Unfortunately, not one African, nor Asian, who has fought alongside the allies, has been honored, together with his French, American, English brothers in arms....

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