From 01.11 to 01.16.2012
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2012
 

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World Premiere  
 
38 witnesses
A film by Lucas Belvaux.
Starring Yvan Attal, Sophie Quinton, Nicole Garcia, François Feroleto, Natacha  Regnier, Didier Sandre, Patrick  Descamps .
Louise returns home to discover that while she was away on business in China her street was the scene of a crime. There were no witnesses. Everybody was asleep. Apparently.Pierre, Louise's husband, was at work. Apparently.As days go by, Louise learns that thirty-eight people saw or heard something.That Pierre was home that night. He heard. He saw. One of thirty-eight, keeping silent, lying...One of thirty-eight, her husband.

SCREENING
01.11 - 5.00 PM / Room 2 - Gaumont Opéra Premier
 
 
Paris Under watch
A film by Cédric Jimenez.
Starring Mélanie Doutey, Olivier Barthelemy, Francis Renaud, Féodor Atkine, Arsène Mosca, Valérie Sibilia.
Paris. One day before the presidential elections A bomb attack in Gare d'Austerlitz: the government accuses Islamic groups, but a computer hacker, an anonymous upholder of the law, finds images of the bombing and tracks down a young couple responsible for it. With the help of the video surveillance cameras in the city, he starts spying on them and manipulating them, meanwhile realizing that truth can have many faces...

SCREENING
01.12 - 3.00 PM / Room 5 - Gaumont Opéra Capucines
 
 
Cherry on the cake (The)
A film by Laura Morante.
Starring Pascal Elbe, Laura  Morante, Isabelle Carre, Samir  Guesmi, Frédéric  Pierrot , Patrice  Thibaud.
Amanda has a complex relationship with men.Florence, her best friend, would really like to see her settle down in a stable and harmonious relationship but Hubert, Florence's husband who works as an analyst, is very pessimistic. For him, the diagnosis is clear: Amanda suffers from androphobia, a genuine fear of men that causes her to systematically destroy any relationship that could become serious.Events seem to prove Hubert right. After all, on Christmas Eve, Amanda doesn't think twice about splitting up with Bertrand after he carelessly devours the cherry on top of the cake that they had decided to share.When Florence insists that Amanda shouldn't stay alone at home on New Year's Eve, she only manages to persuade her to spend the evening with them after promising that all the other guests will be couples, except for a colleague who will not be a threat because he's gay.The trouble is that Maxime, the colleague in question, leaves for Amsterdam at the last minute to join his lover and that Antoine, another colleague, abandoned by his wife, comes to the party alone...

SCREENING
01.13 - 11.00 AM / Room 3 - Gaumont Opéra Premier
 
 
Market  
 
Twiggy
A film by Emmanuelle Millet.
Starring Christa Théret, Johan Libéreau, Anne Le Ny.
Sarah 20, lives in a hostel and does one odd job after the other. When she actively starts to live an adult life, she discovers she is seven-month pregnant, a denial of pregnancy. Shocked she is torn apart between the fact she needs to assimilate her sudden condition as a future mother and her strong will to become a working woman...

SCREENING
01.11 - 1.00 PM / Room 5 - Gaumont Opéra Capucines
 
 
Café de Flore
A film by Jean-Marc Vallée.
Starring Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent, Evelyne Brochu, Emile Vallée, Chanel Fontaine.
Café de Flore is first and foremost an epic love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son. Two people from two different eras who live two extraordinary moments of passion that shake their lives. A mystical and supernatural odyssey on love.

SCREENING
01.12 - 1.00 PM / Room 2 - Gaumont Opéra Premier
 
 
Guilty
A film by Vincent Garenq.
Starring Philippe Torreton, Wladimir Yordanoff, Noémie Lvovsky, Raphael  Ferret, Michèle  Goddet.
The true story of Alain Marécaux and his wife, heartlessly crushed by one of the most important miscarriages of justice of our time, the Outreau case. Alain Marécaux and his wife were arrested in 2001 along with 12 other people for horrible acts of paedophilia they never committed. He will face the descent into hell with an incredibly unjust and inhuman judicial system.

SCREENING
01.13 - 9.00 AM / Room 2 - Gaumont Opéra Premier
 
 
11 Flowers
A film by Xiaoshuai Wang.
Starring Liu Wenqing, Wang Jinchun, Yen ni.
Wang Han, 11 year old boy in the province of Ghizhou is confronted with a runaway murderer. Hiding in the woods, the wounded man takes Wang Han drying shirt and persuades him to help him out. Frightened and fascinated at once, Wang Han and his friends accept to keep it secret from the police. Strange things are happening at school and the police is everywhere...

SCREENING
01.14 - 1.00 PM / Room 4 - Gaumont Opéra Premier