According to Karlfried Grafdurkeim "the extraordinary is in the depths of the ordinary "

1st Edition : 2015

https://festivalfilminsoliterenneslechateau.fr - Fanny Bastien & Geoffroy Thiebaut / Crédits photo : Lora

In the presence of :

Godfather of the Festival : Pierre RICHARD

Pierre RICHARD

President of the competition : Andréa FERRÉOL

Andrea Ferreol

THE GUESTS OF THE UNUSUAL ART FILM RENNES-LE-CHÂTEAU 2015

Among the guests of this first edition are the actors: Pierre Richard, ANDRÉA FÉRREOL, Jean-Claude DREYFUS, the screenwriters and Directors: Jan KOUNEN, Jean Michel Roux, BERYL Peillard, Christophe Blanc, the sound engineer of Besson: Vincent TULLI, and the CARTOONIST Reza benahdj.

Présidente 2015 : Andréa Féreol

Andréa FÉRREOL
Actress

President of the press jury, the actress is pleased to present the film of Hélène GUÉTARY “SOMNIA”, of which she is one of the main performers, out of competition.

Pierre Richard Parrain 2015 of the Festival Film Unusual Rennes le Château

Pierre RICHARD
Actor

Godfather of this first Festival, the actor holds the main roles of the Belgian film Vincent Lannoo “the souls of paper” which will be screened out of competition.

http://www.pierre-richard.fr/

Jan kounen

Jan KOUNEN
Screenwriter-Director

The Director, screenwriter and producer will be our guest of honor. His documentary “the other worlds” will be screened at this festival

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kounen

Jean Claude Dreyfus

Jean-Claude DREYFUS
Actor

Alongside Sheila O’Connor, the actor is at the poster of “SAULIAC” the short film of Edouard GiRAUDO in competition.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Dreyfus

Hélène GUÉTARY
Director

Director and screenwriter, Hélène Guétary will present her short film “SOMNIA” and “MONDO INSOLITO”

https://www.heleneguetary.com/biographie

Jean Michel Roux

Jean-Michel ROUX
Director

Director and screenwriter Jean Michel ROUX who has made himself known worldwide by his documentary “investigation of the invisible world” will present in Rennes-Le-Château his second documentary “the mysteries of Snaefellsjokull”.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Roux

Beryl Peillard

Beril PEILLARD
Screenwriter-Director

Christophe Blanc

Christophe BLANC
Screenwriter-Director

The Director and screenwriter Beril PEILLARD accompanied by his co/author Christophe BLANC will present his medium film “ANIMAL SÉRENADE” which to date has won three prizes.

https://www.unifrance.org/annuaires/personne/394483/beryl-peillard

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Blanc

Reza BENHADJ
Designer

The draftsman Reza Benhadj has concocted for this first edition the festival poster

http://www.deshistoiresquifontrever.fr/Des_histoires_qui_font_rever/Reza_Benhadj.html

Short film in competition

ANIMAL SÉRÉNADE
Medium film by Beryl Peillard
Co author Christophe Blanc
With Marie Denarnaud, KevinAzaîs, Léa Poinsot…
Duration: 40 min

Synopsis
Nina lives with Sasha. She raises with him Jessica, their 5-year-old daughter. At the age of 22, Nina is a mother, a woman, a worker. She has all the finery of an adult, without being really one. One day, Nina adopts a dog…

PUZZLE
Short film by Rémy Rondeau
With Philippe Laudenbach…
Duration: 14 MN

Synopsis
An old man feels lonely since his wife died. To deceive boredom, he plunges into the construction of puzzles. The walls of the living room show the dozens of puzzles meticulously assembled over the course of its monotonic days. One day, at the foot of his door, the old man finds a mysterious box…

TOTAL ANIMAL
Short film by Tristan Guerlotte
Duration: 3 mn
Synopsis
An endemic species survives on the roof of Poitiers.

JUMBLE UP
Short film by Léo Karmann
With Pierre Cachia…
Duration: 6 MN
Synopsis
In a circle of high-standing games, at the time the
more cruciard’a poker game, a dealer no longer arrives
to mix his cards.

SAULIAC
Short film by Edouard Giraudo
With Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Sheila O’Connor…
Duration: 14 MN

Synopsis
The film is inspired by the story of Georges Demeny who, two years before the first film of the Lumière brothers, invented the prototype of an object that will be called a few years later “camera”.

THE GHOST’S TEAR
Short film by Florian Quittard
With Rufus, Frédéric Darié, Manesca de Ternay…
Duration: 8 MN

Synopsis
An old man returns to the scene of the death of his father, the parental room of his childhood. As if to close the loop of his own life, he reviews the death of his father, in which he saved the last tear of the latter and attempted to return it to his ghost.

THE CALL
Short film by Alban Ravasard
With Christian Benedetti, Pamela Rawasard…
Duration 14 MN

Synopsis
Benoît is a Police Lieutenant bruised by his wife’s unexplained disappearance (freely inspired by a new HP Lovecraft)

NECHAYANNO
Short film by jOra Krijovnikov
Nationality: Russian
Duration 20 mn
Subtitled French
Synopsis
A whole family of solidarity seeks at all costs how they can make a very embarrassing corpse disappear.

Feature film fiction & documentary

PAPER’S SOULS
Feature film by Vincent Lannoo
With Pierre Richard, Stéphane Guillon, Julie Gayet, Jonathan
Zaccaî…
Nationality: Franco-Belge
Duration 90mn

Synopsis
Paul is doing a funny job, he’s writing orations
Funeral. Victor, his friend and neighbor, no longer knows how to
take to get him out of his solitude. One day, Emma, a
young widow, made Paul an unprecedented request…

Blueberry
Feature film by Jan Kounen
With Vincent Cassel, Tchéky KARYO, Michael Madsen…
Nationality: Britanic-Mexican-French
Runtime 124mn

Synopsis
Mike Blueberry is a Marshall of a quiet little town on the border of Indian lands. Everything is rocking the day a mysterious killer, Wally Blount, turns the village into a blaze. He is looking for an Indian treasure located in
the sacred mountains…

THE BREATH
Feature film by Alexander KOTT
Elena an, Karim Pakachakov, Narinman Bekbulatov-Areshev
Nationality: Russian
Duration: 95mn
Subtitled French

Synopsis
A man and his daughter live peacefully in a secluded farmstead of the kazakhes steppes. While two boys, a Moscovite and a Kazakh, fight the young girl’s heart, a deaf menace is felt…

THE MYSTERIES OF THE SNAEFELLSJOKULL
Documentary by Jean Michel Roux
Nationality: Franco-Icelandic
Duration: 46 min

Synopsis
Part of the Icelandic population has a relationship
intimate and mysterious with the Snæfellsjôkul, a glacier volcano
the far west of the island, which has become universally
famous thanks to Jules Verne who Ta designated as the door
leading to the center of the Earth.

SURVEY: THE INVISIBLE WORLD
Documentary by Jean Michel ROUX
Duration: 90 min

Synopsis
Living in the midst of primitive nature, always in
formation, Iceland maintains secret relationships with a community of invisible beings: the elves, others with the angels

Short film out of competition

PASHIN BEKA WINONI
Short film by Jan Kounen
Duration: 16 MN
Out of competition
Synopsis
Wrapped up in her hammock, Pashin Beka emerges from a joyful and mysterious dream, and realizes that the child she wears is about to be born. Women in the community help her to give birth, but complications arise…

TENEBRAE
Reza Benhadj’s short medium-best film award
fantaisie Los Angeles 2008 – N.Y. Internat. Indep. Film (video
festival) Prix du meilleur film étranger d’aventure NYFLLFVF
Silent serial in black and white-duration 40 MN
Out of competition

Synopsis
Paris 1920. While she attends a magic show in the Montmartre district, Juliette Toupet is abducted by Tenebrae. The one nicknamed the woman with the thousand faces wants the prototype of the time machine on which the father of the young woman works…

SOMNIA
Short film by Hélène Guétary
With Andréa Ferréol, Georges Guétary…
Duration: 17 MN
Out of competition

Synopsis
In a long corridor, a little girl seems lost. They’re all behind the hallway doors. The little girl runs from door to door, she must warn them, they must know…

BLACK NIGHT
Short film by Geoffroy Thiebaut
With Fanny Bastien, Catherine Marchai, Tenessee
Maquignon…
Duration: 13 mn
Out of competition

Synopsis
One night, a little girl, Lea, comes to visit her
MOM in a psychiatric clinic where she does
regularly stays to offer him a strange well
Gift: death.

SABATHO
Short film by Frédéric Demont
With Smistn, Boris Bergman, EISA Saladin…
Duration 12 MN
Out of competition

Shift
Short film by Simon Allix & Dominique Filhol
Out of competition
Synopsis
After a battle, a Knight is looking for a place
to die. He has the vision of an Angel to whom he offers his treasure
the most precious…

THE INSOLITO MONDO
An unpublished series written and directed by Hélène Guétary
Produced by lobster films-lobster collection
Duration 4mn
Out of competition

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