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International Competition
Cinema in Trangresion
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Wednesday 11 october 2017 / 10 pm
Maison du Japon
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris |
Silica |
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Pia Borg
Australia
2017 | 0:22:00
An unseen location scout explores an opal mining town in South
Australia in Pia Borg’s sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this
semi-deserted region both the traces of indigenous culture and
remnants of cinema history.
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Meijing |
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Qu Youjia
China
2017 | 0:34:00
Nine-year-old Zhu Meijing always goes to the film sets alone. Through
a tutor of the orchestra, she got a part in a child movie, to play a
bit of the flute. The leading actress Hanhan somehow cried and
screamed all day, for which the shooting could not proceed. The
director had to change the actress, and Meijing was asked to play the
Chinese traditional instrumental music “Fisherman’s Song at Sunset”.
After a frustrating day, Meijing got home, feeling the air was even
colder than her loneliness.
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Zrinka Matijevic
Croatia
2016 | 0:41:42
This poetic documentary presents one woman’s journey towards finding
self-confidence, inner peace, and harmony. The filmmaker returns to
Croatia’s Lika region, where her family comes from. In the bosom of
nature, she tries to come to terms with the losses she has suffered in
her life, her illness, and her fear of the future. The film is
structured into six parts (prologue, spring, summer, autumn, winter,
epilogue), each linked to a different stage of human life. It is a
very open and intimate confession, framed in a mosaic of memories and
experiences, thoughts and feelings. The film is also therapeutic,
helping the filmmaker find the strength to fight. The film received
the Croatian Oktavijan Award for Best Documentary Film.
“Every fear comes with the reason. To cure my fears I merged secret
patterns and knowledge of my family with the cycles of nature. Through
this collision I revealed what is the human in beasts and the beastly
in humans.” Katarina Zrinka Matijevic Velican
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5 - 15 october 2017
The section "Cinéma in Transgression" offers middle or feature lengh films out of norm and order, between fiction and documentary, characterised by complex audio-visual languages, unpredictable associations based on unconcient, metaphorical and metonymical proceedings. In this way these films can express the complexity of reality.
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