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08/29/2006


CINEMA IN MOTION 2
Monday, 25th September 2006


In September 2005, the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the Amiens International Film Festival and the Fribourg International Film Festival launched Cinema in Motion, a new yearly professional rendezvous for filmmakers from the Maghreb and Portuguese-speaking African countries.

With Cinema in Motion 2, the three festivals continue to explore new ways of completing as yet unfinished projects and films, while serving as an efficient bridge between professionals, companies and institutions in these African countries, Europe and Latin America.


Programme

Projects:

  • Entre parenthèses, by Hicham Falah and Mohamed Chrif Tribak (Morocco). The political and sentimental apprenticeship of the last generation of politicised students in the Morocco of the 80s.

  • Les larmes d’argent, by Mourad Boucif (Morocco-Belgium). The life of a young Moroccon peasant is cut short with his obligatory enlistment for the French army in 1940, when German troops invade Belgium and Holland.

  • Mascarades, by Lyes Salem (France-Algeria). Marrying off a young girl affected by sleeping sickness is a real nightmare for her brother and head of the family.

Films at the post-production stage:

  • L’Autre moitié du ciel, by Kalthoum Bornaz (Tunisia). Twins, a boy and a girl, are inseparable for their widowed father who lives his life. But the social rules favouring men cool their complicity…

  • Ne restent dans l’Oued que ses galets, by Jean-Pierre Lledó (Algeria-France). Five people try to find the hidden truth behind the relations between Muslims, Jews and Christian in the last throes of colonial Algeria.

  • Vivantes, by Saïd Ould-Khelifa (Algeria-France). A group of cleaning women suffer the extreme violence of men in a Saharan petrol camp, only to have the family doors slammed in their faces on returning home.

These projects and films will be presented on Monday the 25th of September to an exclusively professional audience from the different areas of the film industry. Several kinds of aid will be offered at Cinema in Motion 2:

    • French Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (15,000 euros to post-production in France), Mactari mixing auditorium (15,000 euros in services), Titra Film (French subtitles) and Mikros Images (post-production adapted to the specific needs of the chosen film) Award. Amiens Festival will offer a 35 mm copy of the film.
    • Swiss Effects and Kodak Suisse (conversion from a digital format to 35 mm film for an approximate value of 30,000 euros) and Titra Film (French subtitles) Award. Fribourg Festival will offer a 35 mm copy of the film..
    • All of the chosen filmmakers will have the opportunity to participate in a yearly Cinema in Motion tour of Argentina, Colombia and Mexico organised by the San Sebastian Festival and the African Cinema Festival of Tarifa.
    • Amiens Festival will offer one of the participating projects a reading of its screenplay at its next edition.

Cinema in Motion thanks the said companies and institutions, in addition to the Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània (Barcelona), Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI), Fundación Audiovisual de Andalucía; Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE), Commission du Film d’Ile-de-France; Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM) and the Portuguese Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia (ICAM).

Details of the selected movies will be available on the Festival web page (www.sansebastianfestival.com) and interested professionals can contact the Festival Sales Office (salesoffice@sansebastianfestival.com), which is responsible for organising the individual meeting agenda.

San Sebastian, 29th August 2006