Un air de famille – Cédric KLAPISCH – 15:55 (France)
Special screening
Le Coeur d'Or 2
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Tarek and his friends have their Saturday evening all planned out: PlayStation, junk food, and a few joints to go with it. When he pops by the park to buy some weed, a policeman who's been eyeing him from inside his car approaches him. The man has a mysterious air about him. He's gentle yet menacing and somewhat conspiring. Rather than taking him to the precinct, the cop takes Tarek on an adventurous night of brawls, chases, and escapes.
L'Homme le plus heureux du monde – Teona STRUGAR MITEVSKA – approved for all audiences – 17:40 (Republic of Macedonia)
Official Competition
Salle des festivals
Asja, a 40-year-old single woman, lives in Sarajevo. In order to meet new people, she ends up spending her Saturday in a speed dating event. She’s matched with Zoran, a 43-year-old banker. However, Zoran is not looking for love but forgiveness.
Italia K2 – Marcello BALDI – approved for all audiences – 17:40 (Italy)
Special screening
Le Coeur d'Or 3
In 1954 the Italian Alpine Club organised an expedition on K2, led by Ardito Desio. The second summit on Earth (8611 metres high) was reached on 31st July by Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli, who took the shots from up there: it was the first time ever on an 8000 peak.
Brussels, early ’60s. Alice and Céline live in twin bourgeois houses. They are best friends as are their children, Theo and Maxime, who have grown up like brothers. Both families spend all their time together. This perfect harmony is broken when an accident creates strong divisions between the two families.
Un petit frère – Léonor SERRAILLE – 20:01 (France)
Official Competition
Salle des festivals
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
Alpenland Booking possible – Robert SCHABUS – 19:33 (Austria)
Focus
Le Coeur d'Or 3
Travelling to meet mountain farmers in Austria, visiting a small manufacturing company in Italy and going to famous skiing resorts in France and Germany, Alpenland paints an insightful and sympathetic portrait of this region caught between the two opposite poles of economy and ecology.
The screening will be preceded by the short film in Competition The Diamondby Vedran Rupic.
8:00 PM
Les Huit Montagnes Booking possible – Charlotte VANDERMEERSCH – Felix VAN GROENINGEN – approved for all audiences – 22:32 (Italy)
Focus
Le Coeur d'Or 3
Pietro, a city boy, befriends Bruno, the last child living in a forgotten village in the Aosta Valley. While Bruno remains faithful to his mountain, Pietro travels the world. On this journey, they experience love and loss, their origins and destinies, but above all, a life-and-death friendship.
Pink Moon – Floor VAN DER MEULEN – 22:10 (Netherlands)
Official Competition
Salle des festivals
When completely out of the blue Iris (29) is told by her father Jan (74) that he has had enough of life and wants to die, she is forced to face the total absurdity of the situation. As his unsettling deadline approaches, Iris decides to ignore her brother’s watertight action plan. She strong-arms her father into answering the one question that matters to her: why? Without ever getting a satisfactory answer, she eventually tries to find herself a way to deal with her father’s very last wish.
