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Hiroshima mon amour

Friday January 28 starting at 5pm

Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h30
Year : 1959

Synopsis:
Hiroshima, 1958. A French actress working on an antiwar film falls in love with a Japanese architect shortly before her return to France. In the brief time they have, the couple learn about one another and share the secrets of a dark past.

Director: Pascale Fautrier and Pierre Seguin
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 52 min
Year: 2008

Synopsis : With (The Second Sex in 1949), a seminal work of Western feminist thought, Simone de Beauvoir gained an international following from the 1960s, notably in the United States. This documentary endeavours to show the historical, political and social importance of this book, by looking at how much the development of women's rights and current feminist politics owe to Simone de Beauvoir.

Director: David Teboul
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 52 min
Year: 2004

Synopsis:
This documentary follows the history of one of France's most influential political woman.
This magnificent portrait highlights the profound truth of a woman haunted by painful memories of many months spent in exile and by the absence of her mother.

Director: Pierre Jolivet
Actors: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Bonnaire, Kad Merad
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 1.30 hours
Year: 2007

Synopsis:
Forty-three-year-old Lucas, a rich, divorced industrialist, is irresistibly attracted to thristy-eight-old Elsa, a renowned ceramist whom he's commissioned to create a fresco for his office foyer. But, still smating from a recent disappointment in love, he asks Roland Christin, a private detective from his company, to discover the reasons why this lovely woman is still single. Without the slightest scruple, Roland puts the most modern of surveillance methods into operation. Lucas better beware if Elsa finds out.

Director: Eleonor Faucher
Actors: Lola Naymark, Ariane Ascaride, Marie Félix, Jackie Berroyer, Thomas Laroppe
Genre: Drama
Duration: 88 min
Year: 2004

Synopsis:
Claire, 17 yo, learns that she is five months pregnant. She decides to keep her baby and finds refuge to Madame Melikian, an embroiderer for haute couture. And day by day, stitch by stitch, as Claire's belly grows rounder, is transmitted between them more than the art of embroidery but the art of parenting.

 Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré

Friday June 24 starting at 5.30pm

Synopsis:
At 25, Philip arrives from the provinces in Paris to a large firm of business consultants. The morning of his first day at work, he meets Eva, a young single mother with whom he falls in love.
His first mission is about a confidential takeover plan by a large group. He quiclkly  earns the trust of his boss who gives him a new task: to select the appropriate staff to work in the new business organization. Henceforth, Philippe must convince himself and Eva of the validity of his work and confront the men and women who will loose their position.

 Serko

Friday July 29 starting at 5pm

Director: Joël Farges
Actors: Aleksei Chadov, Jacques Gamblin, Marina Kim...
Genre: Adventure
Duration: 1h40
Year: 2002

Synopsis:
In 1889, a young man and his horse leave in early winter the banks of the Amur River, located on the eastern borders of the Russian Empire. After extraordinary adventures, both arrive in Saint Petersburg at the Tsar's court. Having covered 9,000 miles in less than 200 days, this young rider and his horse have thus achieved the most amazing equestrian record of all time.

Home

Friday August 26 starting at 5:30pm

Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1h54
Year : 2009
 

Synopsis:
In 200 000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had been living for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has threatened his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic:  barely ten years are left for humanity to reverse the trend...
 

La France

Friday  September 30 starting at 5:30pm

Director: Serge Bozon
Actors: Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Depardieu
Genre: Drama
Duration: 1h42
Year: 2007

Synopsis:
Autumn 1917. Far off, war is raging. Miles away from the fighting zones, Camille, a young woman, leads a life marked out by the news that her husband sends from the warfront. But one day she receives a note ending their relationship. Distraught and determined to stop at nothing, she decides to disguise herself as a man in order to go and find him. She heads for the front, cutting across fields to avoid the gendarmes. In a forest she comes across a small group of soldiers who do not suspect her true identity.
She follows them, embarking on a new life and, as the days and nights pass, discovers what she could never have imagined...

Stavisky  

Friday October 28 starting at 5:30pm

Synopsis:
France, July 1933. Leon Trotsky secretly arrives in Cassis. The French government has granted him political asylum. At the same time, Serge
Alexandre, a.k.a. Stavisky, is rocking the Parisian political and financial scene with his many dealings squandering millions.

Zim and Co

Friday November 25 starting at 5:30pm

Director: Pierre Jolivet
Actors: Adrien Jolivet, Mhamed Arezki, Yannick Nasso
Genre: Comedy
Duration:  1h30
Year: 2004

Synopsis:
After an ordinary scooter accident, Zim, 20, must get a real job if he wants to
avoid prison. He rushes to the ads, but the only job he can find specifies that he must have a car within ten days ... and a driving licence!   But he hasn't got any!
Fortunately Zim and his friends: Cheb, Arthur and Safia can help.... And to avoid jail, they are ready for anything ... or almost!