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Nocturnes

In this poetic story, set in the late 1950s, the life of a small boy is influenced by historical events, ranging from the exploration of space to the Algerian War. His father is drafted and the boy’s cozy home changes into the cold walls of a barracks flat. His central focus becomes the world of child fantasy and imagination. The director has made an attempt at capturing the thoughts, dreams and anxieties of one child, which sets out on a journey to the centre of the Earth, while the adult hero remembering his childhood sets out on a journey to the centre of himself. The rhythm of the story flows just like a nocturne, a lyrical musical piece expressing a night mood. The director’s ambition was not to create a realistic film, but to try to transpose a child’s fantasies into images.

Nocturnes

4.8 2006
Film sans titre - La Maison de production

In just five minutes, Luc Moullet takes us on a tour of his production company, “Moullet et Cie,” created in a space measuring barely 40 cubic centimeters. In this surprising venture, he summarizes the ingenious system that has accompanied his entire career and his determination never to give in to large budgets. As he reveals his films, neatly arranged in a cupboard in his kitchen, the filmmaker recounts a life in cinema orchestrated with as much candor as inventiveness.

Film sans titre - La Maison de production

NR 2006
Mirages

One image, in particular, is likely to haunt viewers: that of many men huddled together on the back of a truck. The men are headed northward, from Niger to the coast of Algeria. Just how long they will be travelling depends on countless unknowns. And once they’ve reached the African coast of the Mediterranean, they’ll still be far from their goal, for it is only then that their dangerous attempt to cross the sea to Europe begins. Theirs is a journey in hopes of a better life – one that frequently ends in death.

Mirages

8.0 2008
Resonances

Resonances starts with the prospecting of the bathroom from the artist’s childhood. Black inked words written in Arabic on the bathtub surface scatter and propagate progressively. They resonate and echo night scene recollections. Transformed in a resonance chamber, the bathtub mixes the fluids of these evanescent thoughts. By reflecting its surroundings, the ink blurred water surface, overturns and clouds the words. The backward surge of the night reveals the scars of a troubled universe, verging on obliteration.

Resonances

6.0 2008
L'attrape-rêves

The beauty of the rustic summer countryside has little impact on the alienated Juliette. Her 16th birthday is marred by bickering between her British-born mother and her hippie ersatz stepfather; moreover, her father is a drunken bartender in town. Her boredom leads her to Titi and his gang of skinheads. When their walk on the wild side goes awry, Juliette's parents react coarsely. Frustrated, Juliette ventures into the night on her scooter, resulting in a major accident that chastens the community.

L'attrape-rêves

10.0 2000
The Land Speaks Arabic

The film documents the late 19th-century birth of Zionism and its repercussions for Palestinians. Brings together rarely-seen footage of Palestine before 1948 juxtaposed with original source documents, eyewitness accounts, stunning choreography, moving testimonials, and interviews with historians. This award-winning film shows that the expulsion of the indigenous Arab population from Palestine was far from an accidental result of the 1948 war, shining a spotlight on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist movement.

The Land Speaks Arabic

NR 2007