The opening ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 3rd at 6:30 PM in the presence of Xavier NATAF.
The closing ceremony will be on Sunday, July 1st at 6:30 PM in the presence of the director Michael BUCH.
Sunday, June 3rd at 6:30 PM
-BARNEY’S VERSION Italo-Canadian film by Richard J. LEWIS
Barney Panofsky, an apparently ordinary man leads an extraordinary life. His first wife Clara is a fiery redhead, unfaithful and free-spirited… The second “Mrs. P.” is a wealthy Jewish princess preoccupied with her appearance. Miriam, his third wife, becomes the mother of his two children and the love of his life. Barney is suspected of having murdered Boogie, his friend whom he admires. His disappearance leads Barney into the maze of his life…
Sunday, June 10th at 6:30 PM
-WHERE ARE YOU GOING MOSHE? Moroccan-Canadian film by Hassan BENJELLOUN
(in the presence of the film’s lead actor Simon ELBAZ)
In the early 60s, following Morocco’s independence, hundreds of thousands of Moroccan Jews, fearing political uncertainty, decide to leave their homeland to immigrate to Israel and other countries. When, the manager of the town’s only bar learns that all the Jews are leaving, he panics. If all non-Muslims leave the town, he will be forced to close the bar. How to avoid closure? By keeping a Jew! Seeing all his schemes come to no result, his hopes diminish. Then comes a perfect solution, so simple, that no one had thought of it…
Sunday, June 17th at 6:30 PM:
-HOWL American film by Rob EPSTEIN and Jeffrey FRIEDMAN (in the presence of Steve KRIEF, specialist of the “Beat Generation”)
In 1957, the publisher of American poet Allen Ginsberg is prosecuted following the publication of the poem “Howl” considered obscene. Little known at the time, the author quickly becomes one of the significant figures of the American counterculture.
Sunday, June 24th at 6:30 PM
-THIS MUST BE THE PLACE Italo-Irish film by Paolo SORRENTINO
(in the presence of Stéphanie JAUNAY, film distributor)
Cheyenne is a former rock star. At 50, he has retained a gothic look and lives off his wealth in Dublin. The death of his father, with whom he had cut ties, brings him back to New York. He decides to pursue, across America, the vengeance that haunted his father.
Sunday, July 1st at 6:30 PM
-LET MY PEOPLE GO French film by Michael BUCH
p>Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, homosexual, a postman, half Finnish, half French, an undutiful son, an ungracious brother, a disappointing lover, a dubious murderer, a reluctant thief… Yet Ruben, himself, is incapable of knowing who he is. At the great turning point of his life, as the Red Sea parts ahead of him, Ruben hesitates: should he follow his people or his heart?
