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Un poison violent
When the young teenager Anna comes home from boarding school, she discovers that her father has left. Her mother clings onto the local priest, a…Published on: -
L’illusion comique
A father is looking for the son he hasn’t seen for years in this contemporary adaptation of the seventeenth-century play by Pierre Corneille. AcPublished on: -
Les Boulistes 7
Dry social humour from the Congo. Episode from a series of twelve short African comedies. Screens before Elmina.Published on: -
Yoshido (Les autres vies)
A director feels his death is imminent and takes a bear’s advice. Unmistakeable, with filmmaker Betbeder’s light, mystical touch.Published on: -
Where the Boys Are
Teenage girls hope to have important, enthralling lives. Whilst waiting for these to arrive, they dance and kiss each other, then spy on hunky builderPublished on: -
Mak
Heart-wrenching, well-acted fiction about a Moldavian teenager and her baby. Her mother makes her give the child up. Cuts to the bone.Published on: -
Le Grand’Tour
An ad-hoc orchestra treks through the woods, strolling and drinking, to the ‘Carnaval du Monde’ in Stavelot. The drunken procession appeals to them soPublished on: -
Les Boulistes 11
A boss faces the strong spirit of one of his employees whom he harkens night and day. Episode from a series of twelve short African…Published on: -
L’affaire des divisions Morituri
A bookmaker is cross-examined about prostitution and clandestine gladiator fights by a police commissioner who has a complete file, but no hard evidenPublished on: -
Les Boulistes 10
They may well make some more next year. Episode from a series of twelve short African comedies. Screened before My Father’s House.Published on: