Cannes - Directors' Fortnight - Vol. 1 - 2-DVD Set ( China China / Luminous People / Majorettes / Cosmetic Emergency / Shadows of Silence / By the Kiss / Bugcrush (Bug Crush) / A bras le corps (With All My Might) / Vinil Verde ) ( Tarrafal / The Heart of the World / Mary Last Seen / Le Mur (The Wall) / Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys )

Cannes - Directors' Fortnight - Vol. 1 - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: China China / Luminous People / Majorettes / Cosmetic Emergency / Shadows of Silence / By the Kiss / Bugcrush (Bug Crush) / A bras le corps (With All My Might) / Vinil Verde
Alternate Title: Tarrafal / The Heart of the World / Mary Last Seen / Le Mur (The Wall) / Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
European Film Awards
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
250 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2000 - 2011 and produced in:
Brazil ( Latin America, Mexico )
Canada ( USA, Canada )
France ( France, Benelux )
Morocco ( Africa, Middle East )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Thailand ( India, Eastern Asia )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
João Rui Guerra da Mata
João Pedro Rodrigues
Ayisha Abraham
Chantal Akerman
Lola Doillon
Pradeepan Raveendran
Yann Gonzalez
Carter Smith
Katell Quillévéré
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Guy Maddin
Sean Durkin
Faouzi Bensaïdi
Jens Assur

Written By:
João Rui Guerra da Mata
Bing Wang
António Pinto Ribeiro
Lola Doillon
Pradeepan Raveendran
Yann Gonzalez
Scott Treleaven
Carter Smith
Katell Quillévéré
Bohdana Smyrnova
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Guy Maddin
Sean Durkin
Faouzi Bensaïdi
Jens Assur

Actors:
Jialiang Chen
Luís Rafael Chen
Chen Jie
Shyam Bahadur ..... (segment 'One Way')
Jurandyr Ferreira ..... (segment 'Germano')
Jenjira Jansuda ..... (segment 'Luminous People')
Sakda Kaewbuadee ..... (segment 'Luminous People')
Wake Li ..... (segment 'Brutality Factory')
Alfredo Mendes ..... (segment 'Tarrafal')
Babu Santana ..... (segment 'Germano')
José Alberto Silva ..... (segment 'Tarrafal')
Lucinda Tavares ..... (segment 'Tarrafal')
Ventura ..... (segment 'Tarrafal')
Paschoal Villaboin ..... (segment 'Germano')
Hongwei Wang ..... (segment 'Brutality Factory')
Gang Wu ..... (segment 'Brutality Factory')
Ning Xu ..... (segment 'Brutality Factory')
Lu Ye ..... (segment 'Brutality Factory')
Vincent Doyon ..... La mère
Stéphanie Murat ..... La majorette de rêve
Jenny Del Pino
Anaïs Havot
Agathe Berman
Justine Andanson
Emmanuelle Bouaziz
Lystia Massazza
Daphnée Ollivaud
Krishna Subramania
Kate Moran
Thiago Telès
Salvatore Viviano
Frédéric Bulcke
Pierre-Vincent Chapus
Alison Hallaine
Josh Caras ..... Ben
Donald Cumming ..... Grant
Eleonore Hendricks ..... Amber
David Tennent ..... Shannon
Alex Toumayan ..... Tim
Billy P. ..... Keith
Harlan Baker ..... Teacher
Elvaize Arroudj ..... Le grand frère
Chérif Arroudj ..... Le petit frère
Anne Carmignani ..... La mère
Nils Chekroun ..... Le petit garçon en bas de l'immeuble
Walter Shnorkell ..... Le patron du bar
Martine Vasseur ..... La maîtresse
Hélier Cisterne ..... L'animateur
Evelyne Gallois ..... La serveuse
Verônica Alves ..... Mãe
Ivan Soares ..... Narrador
Gabriela Souza ..... Filha
Leslie Bais ..... Anna
Caelum Vatnsdal ..... Osip
Shaun Balbar ..... Nikolai
Greg Klymkiw ..... Akmatov
Brady Corbet
Stefanie Estes
Alexia Rasmussen
Zakaria Atifi
Reda Benouatir
Nezha Rahile
Jens Assur

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Films contain original language audio with English & French subtitles***The Directors' Fortnight, side event at Cannes, is recognized worldwide as a true indicator of cinematic talent. The short films selected for this DVD show the richness of this unique festival. You will find the early works of filmmakers that have become one of the biggest names in the film industry.
DVD 1 :
China China, José Pedre Rodriguez & Joâo Rui Guerra da Mata (Portugal - 21 min - 2007)
Luminous People, A. Weerasethakul (Thaîlande - 15 min - 2007)
Majorettes, Lola Doillon (France - 16 mn - 2005)
Cosmetic Emergency, Martha Colburn (Pays-Bas, US - 9 min - 2005)
Shadows of Silence, Pradeepan Raveendran (France - 11 min - 2010)
By the Kiss, Yann Gonzalez (France - 5 mn - 2006)
Bugcrush, Cartes Smith (US - 34 mn- 2006)
DVD 2 :
A bras le corps (With All My Might), Katell Quillévére (France - 20 min - 2005)
Vinil Verde, Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brésil - 17 min - 2005)
Tarrafal, Pedro Costa (Portugal - 15 min - 2007)
The Heart of the World, Guy Maddin (Canada - 6 min - 2001)
Mary Last Seen, Sean Durkin, (US - 14 min - 2010)
Le mur (The Wall), Faouzi Bensaîdi (Maroc, France - 10 min - 2000)
Killing the chickens to Scare the Monkeys, Jens Assur (Suêde - 25 min - 2011)

China China (2007)
China walks down the steps towards Martim Moniz, in Lisbon. As she passes, children shout, "China! China!" China will fly. Fly away by dawn. All she wants is to be happy. But she drinks her own poison. She drinks it to the last drop. Sometimes the air seems to be heavy with evil and purgatory is but a child's playground.

Luminous People (2007)
A group of people is in a boat traveling along Mekong River that stretches along the Thai-Laos border. They are running against the wind, anticipating a farewell. In the middle of the river, the lady head of the family casts the ashes off into the stream.

Majorettes (2005)
A three-part tale about teenagers and majorettes. A boy fantasizes about a girl, a girl would like to be more cool and another girl uses her uniform to flirt.

Cosmetic Emergency (2005)
The film explores the idea of beauty through a collage of live action and lyrical animations. A free-form take on the current trend of cosmetic obsession and the immortal quality of painting, the film searches for 'what's on the inside'. New Zealand's Hip-Hop artist, 'Coco Solid' and 'Half Japanese' founder Jad Fair, among others, wrote and recorded humorously cynical songs about the cosmetic craze.

Shadows of Silence (2010)
Nightmares and realities of a depressed person who is in exile.

By the Kiss (2006)
Night. Kisses. A consumed heart.

Bugcrush (2006)
Ben, a small town high school loner, is fascinated by Grant, a dangerously seductive new kid. It leads to a sinister rite of passage experience.

A bras le corps (2005)
Two children get up to go to school. As they do every morning, they invent games, perpetuating their rituals of cruelty and complicity. But this morning, something has changed.

Vinil Verde (2005)
Mother gives Daughter a box with old little colored records, with children's songs. The girl may listen to the records, but never to the green one.

Tarrafal (2007)
Tarrafal: territory on the island of Santiago in Cape Verde where, in 1936, Portugal created a concentration camp for political prisoners. This colony was known as the 'camp of slow death.'

The Heart of the World (2001)
A state scientist, Anna, discovers that the heart of the world is about to break.

Mary Last Seen (2010)
A young woman embarks on a road trip with her boyfriend to a place he promises to be beautiful and peaceful. But a series of strange events occur on their journey, and it becomes clear that their relationship is not what she thinks and their destination is not what was promised.

Le Mur (2000)
The brief and unending story of a wall and its encounters with man.

Killing the chickens to Scare the Monkeys (2011)
Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys tells a unique story from every day China, never seen before. In the greyish area between black and white, nine strong scenes are enacted, where national politics and strategy are having unforeseen consequences in a young woman's life.

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