SÉANCES SPÉCIALES

EURODOC, une production prototype

Great debate: Friday, April 16, 2010,  2 p.m., Salle de la Colombière

EURODOC, an indispensable training programme for European producers, is coming back to Nyon for the third year running. A study of the artistic career of Themerson & Themerson by Wiktoria Szymanska: the unique union of a couple of Polish artists at the pinnacle of expression for nearly 60 years! From one avant-garde to the next? In the presence of the filmmaker, the producer, the partner, Jacques Bidou and Jean Perret.

Les Voix d’Iran

In partnership with Payot Libraire and L’Hebdo

Great debate: Friday, April 16, 2010, 7:30 p.m., Théâtre de Marens

With Ali Razi, filmmaker, Jean Perret, Director of the Festival, Antoine Duplan, filmcritic of L’Hebdo magazine, Serge Michel, specialist of Iranian issue, Yann Richard, specialist of Iranian issue and author of "L'Iran de 1800 à nos jours" and "L'Iran au XXe siècle: entre nationalisme, islam et mondialisation", and Emmanuel Chicon, film member of the Working Group of Visions du Réel.

Great debate about today’s Iran with the projection of the film Twenty Days that Shook Tehran by Ali Razi. Focus on the presidential campaign that preceded the contested re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seen through the eyes of the members of a theatre troupe determined to stage a play based on the events of the election. A confrontation with the dreams and hopes of the Iranian population.

Doc Alliance

A selection of high-quality films chosen by five benchmark festivals: VISIONS DU REEL, Planete Doc Review Varsovie, IDFF Jihlava, DOK Leipzig et CPH:DOX Copenhague. A European tour that is beginning in Nyon for the third year running.

Aisheen [Still Alive in Gaza] by Nicolas Wadimoff
We, April 14, 7:30 p.m., Théâtre de Marens
Mo, April 19, 5:00 p.m., Salle Communale
We, April 21, 2:00 p.m., Théâtre de Marens
In the silence that follows war, an extraordinary journey leads us into the Gaza Strip. Aisheen means “still alive” in Arabic.

Metrobranding by Adrian Voicu & Ana Vlad
Fr, April 16, 5:30 p.m., Salle de la Colombière
A trip into the world of brands in communist Romania, and the nostalgia of ex-factory workers who used to produce bikes, sewingmachines and trainers.

Into Eternity by Michael Madsen
Fr, April 16, 8:00 p.m., Salle Communale
Su, April 18, 1:30 p.m., Capitole 2 Fellini
A stylistically expert exploration of radioactive waste disposal problems, as well as of our responsibility towards posterity.

Steam of Life by Joonas Berghäll & Mika Hotakainen
Sa, April 17, 11:00 a.m., Salle Communale
Mo, April 19, 3:30 p.m., Capitole 2 Fellini
Through the saunas’ steam, the filmmakers probe into the souls of Finnish men. An elegiac and tragicomical vision of existence.

Les Arrivants by Claudine Bories & Patrice Chagnard
We, April 21, 1:00 p.m., Salle de la Colombière
Immersion into a reception centre for asylum seekers in Paris. Between tragedy and comedy, two worlds confront each other beyond reassuring clichés.

Breathless, Dominance of the Moment

Great debate: Sunday, April 18, 2010, 6:30 p.m., Salle de la Colombière

Resulting from exemplary cooperation between Germany and the Czech Republic, this bold project of five breathtaking films explores the perception of time in a world that moves at a breakneck pace. To be discovered on Sunday, April 18, 2010: Milltown, Montana by Rainer Komers and Es wird einmal gewesen sein by Anca Miruna Lazarescu, followed by a great debate in the presence  of the filmmakers.

I Love My Boring Life by Jan Gogola
Sa, April 17, 6:30 p.m., Capitole 2 Fellini
The current diary notes of a Czech grandmother set to film shots of a family’s daily life document the way world events find their way into private life.

Phantom of Liberty II by Karel Zalud
Sa, April 17, 6:30 p.m., Capitole 2 Fellini
A documentary remake of Buñuel’s “Phantom of Liberty,” an excuse to construct a narrative crisis doubled with an allegory of our relation to time.

Milltown, Montana by Rainer Komers
Su, April 18, 6:30 p.m., Salle de la Colombière
Sleepy town? In this strangely simple yet complex film, Milltown’s residents busy themselves with tasks that define the life of a community.

Es wird einmal gewesen sein by Anca Miruna Lazarescu
Su, April 18, 6:30 p.m., Salle de la Colombière
The 639-year recital of an organ piece by John Cage in Halberstadt invites us to approach the notion of time and transience.

Time’s Up by Marie-Catherine Theiler & Jan Peters
We, April 21, 11:00 a.m., Salle Communale
How can one slow down life? Marie-Catherine Theiler and Jan Peters bring us a daring self-experiment with time that is both personal and universal.

Weitere Infos unter www.breathless-films.com

ARTE-SSR : 15 X un partenariat engagé

Great debate: Monday, April 19, 7:30 p.m., World-Dreams Capitole 1 Leone

With Emmanuel Suard et Christian Cools, ARTE G.E.I.E, Gilles Pache, RTS, and Alberto Chollet , SRG SSR idée suisse.
And in the presence of Silvana Bezzola, Radiotelevisione svizzera (RSI), Irène Challand and Gaspard Lamunière, Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS), Urs Augstburger, Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), and Patrizia Pesko, SRG SSR idée suisse.

The celebration of 15 years of an exemplary co-production partnership! The programme features: excerpts from films, debate and projection of Nicolas Bouvier, 22 Hospital Street by Christoph Kühn. A film that explores the writer’s extraordinary decline on the island of Ceylon.

Chine & Suisse: «Rencontre authentique»

In partnership with China Documentary Film Festival , Li Xianting ’s Film Fund of Songzhuang , CCD Workstation, Swiss Films and the exchange and cooperation programme «Swiss Chinese Explorations» of Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council.

Great debate: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 7:30 p.m., World-Dreams Capitole 1 Leone

China films itself, tells its story, questions itself and meets us on a key issue: “authenticity”. An exceptional evening of projections and debate. In the presence of Zhu Rikun, artistic director of the Li Xianting’s Film Fund in Songzhuang, and Chinese filmmakers.

And a programme of surprising films:

Two Seasons by Zhao Xun
Fr, April 16, 10:00 a.m., Salle de la Colombière
Life in high school with its rules and regulations in a spectacularly competitive context akin to that of China.

The House in the Park by Hercli Bundi
Sa, April 17, 6:30 p.m., Salle de la Colombière
Young architects from Basel participate in the construction of a municipal park in China -a small universal parable on the modern society of emergence.

Doctor Ma’s Country Clinic by Cong Feng
Su, April 18, 9:00 a.m., Salle de la Colombière
In the Gansu province, a traditional Chinese doctor and his patients open their doors and their hearts for the filmmaker.

Wind Flowers Snow Moon de Yang Jianjun
Su, April 18, 10:00 p.m., Capitole 1 Leone
The chronicle of the rare sensitivity of a family, of a couple, of generations that succeed each other while specialising in funerary rituals.

Mr Jia and His Friends by Zi Han
Mo, April 19, 10:30 p.m., Capitole 1 Leone
Old age does not dampen the desire of practicing seductiveness or turning on one’s charms, as the engaging protagonist demonstrates.

Buried by Libo Wang
We, April 21, 7:30 p.m., Capitole 1 Leone
An intense and remarkable investigation of a famous earthquake. Impeccably staged, the film deals with responsibility and truth.