Un air de famille – Cédric KLAPISCH – 15:55 (France)
Special screening
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.
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.
De grandes espérances Booking possible – Sylvain DESCLOUS – 20:15 (France) Filmmaker in Attendance
Focus
A graduate of Sciences-Po, Madeleine leaves to prepare for the ENA orals in Corsica with her lover, Antoine. At the bend in a deserted road, the couple gets involved in an altercation that turns into a tragedy. The secret that now binds them will weigh heavily on their future political careers…
Arrête avec tes mensonges Booking possible – Olivier PEYON – approved for all audiences – 22:38 (France) Filmmaker in Attendance
Preview
Stéphane, a novelist, returns for the first time to the town where he grew up. There, he meets Lucas, the son of his first love. Memories come flooding in: irrepressible desire, bodies coming together, a passion that must be kept silent...
The screening will be preceded by the short film in Competition Son by Marta Nieto.
6:00 PM
Ce qui nous lie Booking possible – Cédric KLAPISCH – 19:58 (France) Filmmaker in Attendance
Special screening
The screening will be followed by a wine tasting in the presence of Cédric Klapisch.
Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they’ll have to trust each other again.
La Montagne Booking possible – Thomas SALVADOR – 22:50 (France) Filmmaker in Attendance
Focus
Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes up in the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by what surrounds him, he camps out alone high in the mountains and leaves behind his everyday life. Up there he meets Léa, a chef of an alpine restaurant, while mysterious glows glitter in the deep mountains…
Un petit frère – Léonor SERRAILLE – 17:01 (France)
Official Competition
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.
Un petit frère – Léonor SERRAILLE – 13:05 (France)
Official Competition
Prix d'Interprétation (Annabelle Lengronne), Prix de la Meilleure Photographie (Hélène Louvart)
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.
L'Homme le plus heureux du monde – Teona STRUGAR MITEVSKA – approved for all audiences – 16:05 (Republic of Macedonia)
Official Competition
Grand Prix du Jury, Prix du Jury Jeune
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.
Sergeant Major Eismayer is known and feared as the toughest training officer in the Austrian Armed Forces, ruthless with recruits and unwavering in his discipline, order and macho toughness. But when he starts to fall in love with Falak, a new recruit who unashamedly embraces his homosexuality, Eismayer‘s closeted existence is shaken to the core. Will he choose to protect his badass tough guy image over all else, or can he follow his heart and his true desire? Inspired by a true story.
Vera Booking possible – Tizza COVI – Rainer FRIMMEL – 22:05 (Austria)
Official Competition
Flèche de Cristal
Vera lives in the shadow of her famous father. Tired of her superficial life and relationships, she drifts through Roman high society. When she injures a child in a traffic accident in the suburbs, she forms an intense relationship with an eight- year-old boy and his father. But soon she must realise that also in this world she is only an instrument for others.
