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– Farewell turtle: by Selin Öksüzoglu
– Aquarium and I am a reminiscence: of Aurélien Sallé in his presence.
– Coleoptera: by Martin Gouzou- Dinosauria, We by Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer
– Dog Apartment: by Priit Tender- Kreskine » by Viktor Vincent
– The Elder: by Alma Jodorowsky
– the voice of his master: by Alexandre Pierrin
– Los Cautiverios: by Silvia Jiménez
– Meringue club: Jean-Sébastien Zahm in his presence and that of producer Eddy Charbit.
– Miserable miracle: by Ryo Orikasa
– Pachyderm: by Stéphanie Clément
– Pépère< /span>: by Henri-Paul Korchia (unpublished) in the presence of actor Serge Riaboukine
– Volcelest: by Éric Briche
– No signal: by Mohammad Al Sherif
Opening:
– Valensole 1965 first look
in the presence of Dominique Filhol, director and member of the jury of this 10th edition, the actors Matthias Van Khache and Vahina Giocante and the producer Virginie Lacombe followed by a debate moderated by the journalist Maxence Layet< /span> on the theme of UFOs, with the French ufologist Jean-Jacques
Velasco and the film crew.
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– Gondola
In the presence of actress Mathilde Irramann
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– Bugarach 3 episodes of the director’s seriesr Fabien Montagner in his presence and those of the actors Jérémy Banster, Matthieu Carle
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Fence:
– El Angelo di muri first look
closing the 10th edition of the Unusual Film Festival, Pierre Richard and the director Lorenzo Bianchini will together present the unreleased feature film El Angelo di muri (The Angel in the wall).
DEDICATIONS
Serge Regourd will dedicate volume 2 of his Anthology of actors and actresses of French cinema and television.
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Maxence Layet will dedicate the book Electroculture and free energies: the benefits of natural electricity and magnetism for ecological crops, co-written with Roland Wehrlen.
Vahina Giocante for her story‘ Open Body: Healing Journal’</p >
Emmanuel Ransford for his essay ‘Quantum Consciousness and the Beyond’
MASTER CLASS / CONFERENCE
Arnaud Sélignac : Sponsor of the script competition for the 2024 Unusual Screenplay Prize, jury and facilitator of the workshop “ Write a scenario »
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Fantastic makeup : Workshop conference with
Arnaud Vautier and Aurélien Sallé
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Denis Rouden : Master class on the job of cinematographer
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Richard Audabram historian: conference on Nostradamus,
INTERACTIVE DEBATES
Debate on the theme of UFOs moderated by science journalist Maxence Layet, with former director of Gepan Jean-Jacques Velasco and the film crew
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Debate on the theme of the existence of parallel universes to ours led by the science journalist Maxence Layet, with the physicist cantique Emmanuel Ransford< /strong> and the team of the series Bugarach
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Science journalistMaxence Layet will host the round table Under the sign of new and renewable energies in the presence of guests.
DIRECTOR:
Dominique Filhol
Screening of Valensole 1965 inFrench preview, in the presence of Dominique Filhol, director and member of the jury of this 10th edition, actors< span style='color: #ffff99;'> Matthias Van Khache and Vahina Giocante and the producer Virginie Lacombe followed by a debate moderated by the journalistMaxence Layet on the the theme of UFOs, with the French ufologist Jean-Jacques
Velasco and the film crew.
With Vahina Giocante, Matthias Van Khache
Synopsis:
Valensole, Provence, summer 65.
At dawn, Maurice Masse, a farmer, discovers in his lavender field a mysterious machine which takes off at a staggering speed, leaving traces on the ground. The news attracts crowds and puts Maurice in the spotlight. Faced with this sudden unwanted notoriety, he tries to protect his family. But beyond his daily life, it is the life of this entire small village that will be turned upside down. Based on a true story.
With: Mathilde Irrmann
Synopsis:
Valensole, Provence, summer 65.
In the mountains of Georgia, a cable car connects a village to a small town in the valley. Two young women, Iva and Nino, are employed there and their cabins pass each other once every half hour, which gives them a moment of happiness and celebration each time.
closing of the 10th edition of the Unusual Film Festival, Pierre Richard and the director Lorenzo Bianchini will together present the new feature film El Angelo di muri (The Angel in the wall).
Italy, 2022, 102’ – Unpublished
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Synopsis :
Pietro, a lonely old man living as a recluse in his apartment, receives an eviction notice. Determined not to leave him, he develops a strategy to hide inside the walls, in a secret room. When a young mother moves in with her blind daughter, the child quickly senses her presence and the two develop mutual trust. But all is not as it seems and a long-suppressed truth resurfaces.
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Synopsis:
Nowadays in a small town in Occitania, a young student decides to investigate the suspicious death of her father, following the crash of his helicopter. With the help of her three friends, she goes to explore Mount Bugarach where the accident took place and discovers a portal opening onto parallel worlds. Will she be able to change the course of her destiny and save the region, threatened by a major ecological disaster?’
Synopsis :
Luis Tayori is an indigenous Harakbut descendant whose origins date back to the confines of the Peruvian forest. Years after the first contacts with the Dominican missionaries, Luis recounts the memories of his childhood and that of his grandparents. Through a selection of photographic archives from the first Dominican incursions, Luis seeks answers to the encounter between two worlds and attempts to reaffirm his identity
Clarisse Feletin
Synopsis:
In the west of French Guiana, Roland Sjabere, chief of the village of Prospérité, warns: “Our village is going to be cut in two, this will alter our way of life. » Alongside other Amerindian peoples, this Kali’na (one of the six indigenous peoples of Guyana) is fighting to prevent the construction of the Power Plant
Synopsis:
Solar Mama follows the revolutionary journey of a Bedouin mother living on the Jordan-Iraq border who, accompanied by thirty illiterate grandmothers from around the world, travels to Barefoot College in India to become an engineer solar.
Synopsis:
The United States represents 4.2% of the world’s population and 20% of the world’s prisoners. In October 2019, the artist JR obtained unprecedented authorization to intervene in one of the most violent high-security prisons in California: Tehachapi. Some inmates are serving life sentences there for crimes committed when they were minors. Through his fresco project, JR brings together the portraits and stories of these men, offering a different look at the prison environment and bringing a message of hope and possible redemption.
Synopsis:
New York, 1905. Visionary inventor Nikola Tesla makes a final appeal to J.P. Morgan, his former patron… Inspired by real events, this electrifying short film is a spectacular audiovisual explosion drawing its energy both in the animated documentary and in the references to avant-garde cinema.
DIRECTION:
elin Öksüzoglu
Synopsis :
La mère d’Inci est morte. Ce jour-là, sur les plateaux déserts de la Mer Noire, la jeune Inci rencontre Zeynep (trente ans). De retour dans la région après une longue absence, Zeynep transporte un encombrant sac noir. Étrangères l’une à l’autre, Inci et Zeynep joignent leur solitude, errant dans les montagnes brumeuses et ensoleillées, de l’aube jusqu’à la nuit.
DIRECTION:
Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer
Canada, experimental documentary, 2023, 5’
Synopsis:
Experimental short film which explores the repercussions of the corrupt, ultra-capitalist human species, exploiting every bit of resource on earth through a dystopian and post-apocalyptic vision imagined by the poet Charles Bukowski.
DIRECTION:
Priit Tender
With:
Synopsis:
Sergei, an alcoholic former star dancer, performs Swan Lake in front of an audience of dairy cows in order to obtain a string of sausages from a one-legged butcher to feed his apartment which has the appearance of a dog…
DIRECTION:
Viktor Vincent
France, fiction, 2024, 30’
Synopsis :
Un jeune journaliste interroge Alexander Kreskine, le plus grand illusionniste du monde, de passage à Paris lors de sa tournée internationale. Kreskine raconte son histoire et l’origine de son nom… Mais derrière les apparences se cachent d’autres apparences et peu à peu le reporter découvre comment, dans l’union soviétique des années 50, Kreskine est devenu cet illusionniste diabolique.
Synopsis:
A young journalist interviews Alexander Kreskine, the greatest illusionist in the world, passing through Paris during his international tour. Kreskine tells his story and the origin of his name… But behind appearances hide other appearances and little by little the reporter discovers how, in the Soviet Union of the 1950s, Kreskine became this diabolical illusionist.
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Synopsis:
Ana is 12 years old. A blossoming body and the first adolescent desires which intoxicate her as much as they destabilize her. But the discovery of a mysterious letter will outline the contours of a family secret whose silence will increase Ana’s anguish
DIRECTION:
by Alexandre Pierrin
France, fiction, 2024, 20’
His master’s voice
Synopsis:
Adam, 15, lives alone with his mother, a scientist obsessed with the experiments she is carrying out clandestinely on the animals on her farm. When one day she finally manages to control them via a chip that she injected into their brains, the animals begin to behave strangely…
DIRECTION:
Silvia Jiménez
Los Cautiverios
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Synopsis:
The world is an empty and cold place. Devastated. There is no time, there is no place. Maybe there is nothing beyond violence. When there is no longer a safe path, the only refuge is the forest and the only possible salvation is through a spell.
DIRECTION:
Stéphanie Clément
France, animation, 2022, 11’
Synopsis:
Like every summer, Louise is entrusted to her grandparents for a few days of vacation in the countryside. Between the green grass in the garden, swimming in the lake, fishing with grandpa, everything seems as sweet as grandma’s strawberry pies. Yet this year, it’s going to snow in the middle of summer and a monster is going to die.
PRODUCTION:
by Éric Briche
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France, animation, 2024, 15’
Synopsis:
Winter is here. To survive, Fuseline, the little ermine, forced by the lack of food, flees her wild environment and settles near an isolated farm and its chickens. His arrival will threaten the precariousness of the man who lives there.