Schedule:
2:30 p.m: Suspended Time (Hors du temps)
Official Selection - Berlin International Film Festival
April 2020 – Lockdown. Paul, a film director, and his brother Etienne, a music journalist, are confined together in their childhood home with their new partners Morgane and Carole. Every room, every object, reminds them of their childhood, and the memories of the absents - their parents, their neighbors…This compels them to measure the distance that separates them from each other and the roots they share, those of their ground zero. As the world around them is becoming increasingly unsettling, unreality, and even a disturbing strangeness, invades their daily gestures and actions.
Directed by Olivier Assayas
Written by Olivier Assayas
Starring Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nora Hamzawi, Nine d'Urso
1h 45m
7:30 p.m: Meet The Barbarians (Les barbares)
Official Selection - TIFF
The town council of Paimpont – a small village in Brittany – has unanimously voted in favor of welcoming a family of Ukrainian refugees. However, the refugees who turn up aren’t Ukrainian but Syrian, and some of the locals are not very pleased with their new neighbors. Yet the Fayad family avoids all the clichés the French villagers may have expected. So much so that, they leave one wondering: who in this little village are the true ‘barbarians’?
Directed by Julie Delpy
Written by Julie Delpy, Matthieu Rumani
Starring Julie Delpy, Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lafitte, India Hair, Jean-Charles Clichet, Rita Hayek
1h 42m
5:00 p.m: The Ties That Bind Us (L'attachement)
Official Selection - Venice International Film Festival
Exploring the challenges of modern family structures, the film follows a single father, a feminist librarian, and a child seeking a place to belong as they navigate love, desires, and redefining what it means to be a family.
Directed by Carine Tardieu
Written by Carine Tardieu, Agnès Feuvre, Raphaële Moussafir
Starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Pio Marmaï, Vimala Pons, Raphaël Quenard
1h 46m