'La influencia'

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Pedro Aguilera - E / MX - 2006 - fiction - color - 83' - OV - STT FR / NL

Winner of the Film Archives’ Prix de l’Age d’Or in 2007, Pedro Aguilera’s intense and captivating movie focuses on a young woman manhandled by fate. First she looses her shop and everything she owns, then she doubts whether she can bring up her children, then she sinks into depression. But the children take things in hand. Aguilera says he was inspired by religious paintings, and his film is admirably handled, haunted by death, yet full of hope. An intensely emotional experience.

With: Jimena Jiménez, Romeo Manzanedo, Paloma Morales

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'A wonderful night in Split'

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Arsen A. Ostojic - CR – 2004 – fiction - black & white – 100’ – OV – STT FR / NL

A handful of people come and go in the medieval quarter of Split in Croatia. A small-time dealer, a junkie in need of a fix, a widow and her young son, an adolescent couple and American soldiers on leave…their destinies cross and their lives change at midnight. This elegant black-and-white film by Arsen Anton Ostojic is powerfully engaging, at once poetic and subtle.

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'Les damnés de la mer'

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Jawad Rhalib - B – 2008 – Documentaire – color – 71’ – OV – STT FR

First-rate Belgian documentary about Essaouria in Morocco, selected for competition at the prestigious Amsterdam Festival. Formerly known as Mogador, this small coastal town was the world’s first sardine port. But fierce competition from Asia and Europe and a questionable handling of resources have led the local fishermen to have to make do with incomes of less than two euros a day. Jacad Rhalib’s powerful film is an uncompromising look at a harsh reality. 

Flagey / Cinematek

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