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Angers Workshops | 9th

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PRESENTATION

2012 residents, with Raphaël Nadjari, Olivier Ducastel, Claude-Éric Poiroux and Yves-Gérard Branger

2011 residents 2011, with Jeanne Moreau, Claude-Éric Poiroux and Delphine Gleize

THE 9TH EDITION OF THE ATELIERS D'ANGERS will welcoming 7 young European directors. Jeanne Moreau,

the founder of the Ateliers with Claude-Éric Poiroux, is in charge of the artistic direction. The director Olivier Ducastel (Jeanne et le Garçon formidable…) will run the workshops, accompanied by professionals from the world of film, including Lionel Baier (Un autre homme, Jury member at the Premiers Plans Festival 2013), François Pirot (a resident at the Angers Workshops 2008 with his screenplay Mobile Home), Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza (residents at the Angers Workshops 2010 and winners of Cannes Critics' Week for Salvo), screenwriter Razvan Radulescu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu), Justine Triet (La Bataille de Solférino), Emmanuel Chaumet, producer. The 7 residents are Antti-Heikki Pesonen (Finland), Clément Cogitore, Elsa Diringer, Laurent Larivière (France), Laura Bispuri (Italy), Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen (Norway), Anca-Miruna Lazarescu (Romania-Germany). In parallel, Premiers Plans will also have an initiation and training program for professionals or future professionals, teachers, film students or film lovers.

CREATED IN 2005, THE ANGERS WORKSHOPS are directed toward young European filmmakers with one or

two short films to their credit and a first feature film in the works. During 5 days, they will be taught by recognized professionals from the world of cinema. This year, the focus will be on staging, working with actors, frame, screenplay and production.

The Workshops will offer them: . SCREENINGS and analyses of film from the past and present. . TRAINING with established filmmakers and technicians who will bring to the classroom their professional experience and methods. . DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR PERSONAL PROJECTS under the guidance of the attending instructors, with emphasis on specific questions concerning directing, working with actors, production...



2013 RESIDENTS

FINLAND ANTTI HEIKKI PESONEN PROJECT : HIT THE WALL Antti Heikki Pesonen originates from Korso, a small suburb near Helsinki. He studied directing at the ELO Helsinki Film School. He sometimes finds humor in the dark stuff of life and considers writing a biography about himself in the third person to be sort of funny - in a good way. His thesis film from ELO Helsinki film school, So it Goes, received the audience- and students of Angers awards this year in the Angers First Film Festival.

SYNOPSIS A dark comedy about a woman who tries to save her teenage daughter with the help of her alcoholic dad, immature ex-boyfriend and spooky rabbits that may or may not be vengeful.

FRANCE CLÉMENT COGITORE PROJECT : LE FRONT DE WAKHAN

Cogitore Clement was born in 1983 in Colmar. After studying at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg and at Le Fresnoy, Clément Cogitore developed an artistic practice halfway between cinema and contemporary art. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, his work questions the modalities of cohabitation of men with their images. There is often question of ritual, collective memory, figuration of the sacred as well as a particular idea of the permeability of worlds. He was in Angers in 2007 with his film Chroniques in the Free Form selection. He came back in 2012 to present Parmi nous in Competition of the French First Short Films.

SYNOPSIS Afghanistan 2013. While troops are on the verge of withdrawal, Captain Antarès Bonassieu and his section are assigned a control and surveillance mission in a remote valley of the Wakhan on the Pakistan border. Despite their determination, Antarès and his men gradually lose control of what is supposedly a calm sector. Until one September night, soldiers in the valley begin to mysteriously disappear.

FRANCE ELSA DIRINGER PROJECT : TERRAIN VAGUE Born in Strasbourg in 1982, she grew up in Montpellier. After a master degree of Direction at Paris 8 University, which enables her to direct her first film (a documentary on footbal women player in Evry), she turns to fiction. She directed Ada (2008), C’est à Dieu qu’il faut le dire (2010) and L’Instant présent (2012). In parallel, she animates workshops with pupils in 19th district of Paris, in the frame of a Webserie, called Demain j’lui dis. Since the beginning, this work with young people and « non professionals » enriches her films’ writting.

SYNOPSIS Victim of an assault, Nassim, 16-year old tries to start over in another place. There, he falls in love with Luna, without knowing that she is involved in the story.

ITALY LAURA BISPURI PROJECT : VIERGE SOUS SERMENT Gratuated in cinema from La Sapienza university, Laura Bispuri was selected by producer Domenico Procacci to follow the Fandango Lab Workshop, where she followed classes of famous italian directors, such as Matteo Garrone, Paolo Sorrentino, etc. With her short Passing Time, she won the David Donatello award of Best short film in 2010. Passing Time was also selected in the programme Nuits en or du court métrage of Césars Academy. Biondina was produced by the Italian bank group Banca Intesa, and directed with the support of Gabriele Salvatores. In 2011, Italian critics gave to Laura a Silver Nastro « Emerging Talent of the year ».

SYNOPSIS A man with an androgynous look arrives in Milan, from albanian mountains, where he spent a long time as a sworn virgin, according to an old local tradition.



FRANCE LAURENT LARIVIÈRE PROJECT : JE SUIS UN SOLDAT Laurent Larrivière wrote and directed five short fiction films L’un dans l’autre, J’ai pris la foudre, Au bout des branches (written with Vincent Rafis and Denis Lachaud), Les Larmes (written with Olivia Rosenthal) and Les Élus de la terre. Selected and awarded in festivals (Belfort, Pantin, Villeurbanne, FID Marseille, Hors Pistes Beaubourg, Rotterdam…), his films were broadcasted on France 2, France 3 and TV5Monde channels. With Olivia Rosenthal and Louise Bourgoin, he wrote and performed films for cinema : Les Larmes (Actoral, Théâtre national de la Colline, Trident in Cherbourg), La Peur (Montévidéo in Marseille, Spirale à Poitiers, Espace 1789 in St-Ouen, Centre G. Pompidou in Paris). He worked for theatre too (Eldorado dit le policier by Denis Lachaud, Vincent Rafis and Laurent Larivière to the CDN in Orléans and at la Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris) and he directed

dance images (Camilla Saraceni, Kettly Noël, Montalvo-Hervieu). He is laureate of Villa Médicis Hors-les-Murs. With the writing support of CNC, he is developping his first feature film, Je suis un soldat, written by François Decodts. www.laurentlariviere.fr SYNOPSIS Sandrine, 30 year-old has to go back living to her mother’s place in Roubaix. Unemployed, she accepts to work for her uncle in a doghouse, which proves to be the center of a dog traffic, coming from Eastern countries.

NORWAY JONAS MATZOW GULBRANDSEN PROJECT : THE FILTHY FEW He holds a bachelor’s degree in TV Journalism and is currently studying directing at the Polish National Film School in Łodz. He both writes and directs his films, which are simple stories about people that he hopes will resonate universally. Jonas’ second year film at the National Film School in Poland, Darek, was already selected in the Premiers Plans Film Festival in 2010. He came back in Angers in 2013 with his first short film Everything Will Be Ok, where he received the Grand Jury Prize. SYNOPSIS Armed with so little, many young people must grow up much quicker than they deserve, learning life the hard way and having to think wiser and outsmart adults at whim. Alex, a young boy, is always on the run. He escapes a child institution and hides out in his

old hometown. He spends his time with his friends, who are toy soldiers serving the local Motorcycle Club. Alex gets taken under the wings by the club leader Karlsen, but quickly realises that loyalty doesn’t exist. They say all for one but in reality it´s every man for himself. This is life at its most dogeat-dog world.

ROUMANIA / GERMANY ANCA MIRUNA LAZARESCU PROJECT : THAT TRIP WE TOOK WITH DAD Born in Romania, Anca M. Lăzărescu emigrated with her family to Germany in 1990. In 2000 she began her studies at the “German Academy for Film and Television” in Munich. She directed several documentary and short films which attracted international interest. Her Thesis Film, Apele Tac, received the Audience Award in Angers in 2012. SYNOPSIS Romania 1968: MIHAI (27) a talented doctor oblivious to political ideologies, starts to question the system after a small incident jeopardizes his family’s long-planned first trip to East Germany. Mihai must betray a friend to be allowed to travel. He sets off together with his idealistic younger brother Doru and his father Tudor, who, discriminated by the communist regime, gave up fighting long ago. Their trip ends as the Soviets invade Prague.

The trio can’t return home to Romania, the way through Czechoslovakia is blocked. The Iron Curtain lifts and they’re offered a two-day transit visa through the West ― 48 hours, which could change their lives forever. Based on the story of the director's father, That Trip we Took with Dad asks a simple question: How free are we really to choose freedom?

http://www.laurentlariviere.fr/



RESIDENTS PROGRAMME Programme subject to change

Friday 23rd August Participant’s arrival

Saturday 24th August Morning Presentation and screening of the participant’s short films

Afternoon Project’s presentation to Olivier Ducastel and Lionel Baier

Sunday 25th August 9.30 am Screening: Un autre homme by Lionel Baier, Masterclass Directing & actors with the director

Afternoon Presentation of the participant’s short films to the public Continuation of the project’s presentation

8.15 pm Premiere with director Les Grandes Ondes by Lionel Baier

Monday 26th August 9.30 am Screening: Ma vraie vie à Rouen by Olivier Ducastel et Jacques Martineau Masterclass Directing and actors with Olivier Ducastel

Afternoon One to one meeting with Olivier Ducastel, Razvan Radulescu, François Pirot, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza

8.15 pm Premiere with directors Salvo by Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia

Tuesday 27th August 9.00 am Screening: The Death of Mr Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu Masterclass Screenplay with Razvan Radulescu

Afternoon One to one meeting with Olivier Ducastel, Razvan Radulescu, François Pirot, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza

8.15 pm Premiere with director and actor Nicolas Maury Les Rencontres d’après-minuit by Yann Gonzalez

Wednesday 28th August 9.30 am Screening: La Bataille de Solférino by Justine Triet Masterclass Production and Directing with director and Emmanuel Chaumet, producer

Afternoon One to one meeting 8.15 pm Premiere with director and producer Emmanuel Chaumet La Bataille de Solférino by Justine Triet

Jeudi 29th August Participant’s departure



WORKSHOPSFOUNDER

Jeanne MOREAU | actress, director

After a theatrical career at the Comédie Française and Théâtre National Populaire, Jeanne Moreau appeared on screen in the 1950s in films such as Hands Off the Loot (1953) by Jacques Becker, before being discovered in Lift to the Scaffold (1956) and The Lovers (1958) by Louis Malle. Her performance in Peter Brook’s Moderato Cantabile (1960), for which she received an award at the Cannes Film Festival, made her famous worldwide, while the song Le Tourbillon sung by the character of Catherine in Truffaut’s Jules and Jim (1961) revealed her as a singer. In 1964, she collaborated again with composer Cyrus Bassiak and recorded the album Peau de banane, which went on to win the Charles Cros Grand Prize. She was Truffaut and Welles’ favorite actress (The Trial in 1962, Falstaff in 1965), but also worked with Demy, Buñuel, Renoir, Losey, Antonioni, Duras and Kazan. In the 1970s, she met with a new generation of directors, like Blier, Téchiné, Wenders, Angelopoulos and Fassbinder. She then directed two critically acclaimed feature films, Lumiere (1975) and The Adolescent (1979) with Simone Signoret in the leading role. Her career has regularly been celebrated with awards at festivals (the Golden Lion in Venice in 1992, a tribute at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 1998, a

Donostia in San Sebastian in 1998, and the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2000). She received the Molière award for her onstage performance in La Servante Zerline (1988) and in 1992 won the Cesar award for best actress in The Old Lady Who Wades in the Sea by Laurent Heynemann. She moves easily from the large to the small screen, particularly for Josée Dayan, with whom she has often worked (Les Parents terribles, Les Rois maudits and Sous les vents de Neptune in 2007). She has continued working with young directors (Edouard Baer, Akoibon) as well as experienced directors such as François Ozon (Le Temps qui reste, 2005), Theo Angelopoulos (Trois minutes, fragment of Chacun son cinéma, presented in Cannes for the 60th anniversary of the festival) and recently Amos Gitaï (Désengagement and Plus tard) and Tsai Ming-Liang (Visage, 2009). In 2008 she played alongside Sami Frey in Heiner Müller’s Quartett at the Théâtre de la Madelaine. In July 2009 she acted in Amos Gitaï’s La Guerre des fils de lumière contre les fils des ténèbres in Avignon and in Istanbul, staged again at the Théâtre de l’Odéon last January. In 2010, Jeanne Moreau and Etienne Daho recorded Le Condamné à mort by Jean Genet and performed it at the Théâtre de l’Odéon, before taking it on an international tour. Once again she worked with Josée Dayan for the TV drama Bouquet Final. In 2012, Jeanne Moreau was in two feature films released in France : A Lady in Paris by Ilmar Raag and Gebo and The Shadow by Manoel de Oliveira. She just finished the last movie of Sandrine Veysset, in post-production. In January in Angers, she read, for France Culture, in public the feature film script Evita by Pablo Agüero.



SPEAKERS Olivier Ducastel | Director, screenwriter | France

Born in Lyon on 23 February 1962, Olivier Ducastel grew up in Rouen. Following university studies in film and drama, he went to IDHEC and in 1987 made his graduation film Le Goût de plaire, which was presented at the first edition of Premiers Plans. He was an assistant on Jacques Demy’s last film (Trois places pour le 26 in 1988), and worked as an editor or sound mixer on films by Vitali Kanevski, Youssef Chahine and Christine Pascal. In 1995, Olivier Ducastel met Jacques Martineau, a film lover with both a literary and a musical background. They started working together on writing and directing a very daring first film, Jeanne et le garçon formidable, presented in Berlin in 1998, a musical comedy inspired by Demy, which tells of the love story between a girl (Virginie Ledoyen) and a boy with AIDS (Mathieu Demy). Ducastel and Martineau once again mixed humour and seriousness in the second

film, Drôle de Félix (2000), a road-movie starring Sami Bouajila as a young French Arab HIV-positive homosexual who goes off in search of his father. Another coming of age film, Ma vraie vie à Rouen (2002) portrays a teenager who discovers his own desires as he films his family and friends with a dv camera. In 2005, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and Gilbert Melki were the heroes of their fourth film, Crustacés et coquillages, a non-conformist vaudeville which shows the directors’ taste for music and dance. They went on to explore history, with a saga on the legacy of May 1968 (Nés en 68, 2008) then with L’Arbre et la forêt, an evocation of the deportation of homosexuals through the discovery of a family secret (2010). His latest film, as yet not run on TV, is a filmed adaptation of Juste la fin du monde by Jean-Luc Lagarce. A film with actors from the Comédie Française shot in natural sets.

Lionel Baier | director, screenwriter | Switzeland Lionel Baier was born into a Polish-Swiss family in Lausanne. Starting in 1992, he was programmer at the Cinéma Rex in Aubonne. He then went to study at the humanities faculty of the University of Lausanne. Following his first short, Mignon à croquer, he went on to make Celui au pasteur (ma vision personnelle des choses), in 2012, a documentary on his father, a pastor in the Vaud, then La Parade (notre histoire) which followed the setting up of the first LGBT parade in the Catholic canton of the Valais. These two films, which were presented in a number of festivals contributed to making Lionel Baier well known. He then went into fiction, making Garçon Stupide (Stupid Boy) in 2004, then Comme des voleurs (à l'est) (Stealth) in 2006 which was released in a number of countries, including the United States. His third fiction feature, Un autre homme (Another Man), was at the Locarno Festival in 2008. Since 2002, Lionel Baier has been the director of

the cinema department of the école cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), and in 2009 he founded Bande à part Films with the filmmakers Ursula Meier, Frédéric Mermoud, Jean-Stéphane Bron and producers Ruth Waldburger and Robert Boner. He also sits on the board of the fondation de la Cinémathèque suisse. After the release of Low Cost (Claude Jutra) in 2010, Lionel Baier realised the documentaries Toulouse and Bon vent Claude Goretta. He was in the feature film jury in 2013 in Premiers Plans. His new film, Les Grandes Ondes (à l’ouest), with Valérie Donzelli and Michel Vuillermoz, will be released in January 2014.



Razvan Radulescu | screenwriter, director and writer | Romania

Razvan Radulescu is one of the most productive Romanian director. He is the representative of the so-called post-revolution film in Romania and is part of the most successful generation of Romanian filmmakers, whose films marked the international film scene over the past decade. He studied at the Philology at the University of Bucharest and Opera Directing at the Music Academy of Bucharest. His 1997 novel The Life and Deeds of Elijah Cazane won the Best Debut Prize by the Romanian Writers Guild. His second novel, Theodosius the small (2006) won the EU Prize for Littérature. He has collaborated with numerous successful directors such as Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean, Calin Netzer. His filmography includes : Stuff and Dough (2001), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) directed by Cristi Puiu, The Paper will be blue (2005), Boogie (2008) and Tuesday after Christmas (2009) directed by Radu Muntean, Shelter (2009), directed by Dragomir Scholev and Child’s Pose, directed by Calin Netzer et awarded in Berlin

(Golden Bear 2012). He co-wrote and co-directed First of all Felicia together with Melissa de Raaf and was the script advisor for 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days by Christian Mungiu (2007) and for The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2011) by Andrei Ujica. Between 2005 and 2012, he was a frequent guest teacher at Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe and the ESAV Marrakech. He is, since 2011, tutor for the Torino Film Lab.

François Pirot | director, screenwriter | Belgium François Pirot finished his directing studies at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion, in Louvain-la-Neuve. He made three short films : Nature morte (experimental fiction), Retraite (Best European Short Film in Premiers Plans), Dimanche soir and the documentary Deux, six varations à quatre mains. He co-wrote two feature films with the Belgian director Joachim Lafosse : Nue Propriété (official selection in the 63rd Venice Film Festival) and Elève libre (Cannes Festival 2008, the Directors’ Fortnight) and with Nicolas Provost The Invader (68th Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti section). He also participated to the writing of L’Hiver dernier by John Shank (official selection of the Venice Days, 68th Venice Film Festival) and of Match Over, a feature film on developing by Bernard Bellefroid. Mobile Home is his first fiction feature film as director. He participated in 2008 in the Angers Workshops to develop his script.

Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza | directors, screenwriters | Italy

Since 1999, Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia have worked as writers, development consultants and acquisition consultants for major Italian production companies. In 2004, they wrote the film Ogni volta che te ne vai, a romantic musical comedy set in night clubs. They directed the short film Rita in 2009, presented in Official Selection in Angers (Arte Prize 2010), selected and awarded in several international festivals (Cannes, Rotterdam, Aspen, Edinburgh, Los Angeles…). Rita was filmed in Palermo, in the fascinating neighbourhood of Arenella, where the action of Salvo, producted by Acaba Produzioni and Cristaldi Pictures, take place. They participated with this project at the Berlinale Talent Campus 2008, the Binger Filmlab 2009 and the Angers Workshops 2010 and won several prizes (Solinas Prize, Torino

Film Lab). They filmed Salvo in 2012 and won the Nespresso Grand Prize and the France 4 Visionary Award in the Critics’ Week 2013.



Justine Triet | director | France Justine Triet graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. She has directed several documentary films on video, examining the place of the individual within a group: Sur Place (2007), shot during student demonstrations, Solférino (2008), shot during the presidential elections. During a 2009 cultural exchange with Brazil, she directed Des Ombres dans la maison in a township of Sao Paolo. Her films have been presented at the Pompidou Centre, the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Paris. Her first fiction short film Two Ships received the Grand Jury Prize in Angers in 2012. La Bataille de Solférino is her first feature film.

Emmanuel Chaumet | producer | France Emmanuel Chaumet is a french producer of films. He run the production compagny Ecce Films, created in 2003. He produced several films, including those of Sophie Letourneur, Benoît Forgeard, La Bataille de Solférino (2013) by Justine Triet and La Fille du 14 juillet (2013) by Antonin Peretjatko.



SCREENINGS - MASTERCLASS

9.30 am | cinémas Les 400 coups

Sunday 25th August | SCREENING and MASTERCLASS DIRECTING AND ACTORS with Lionel Baier

UN AUTRE HOMME Lionel Baier (2009 – 89’ - Switzerland)

Psychological drama about a young, inexperienced film reviewer who falls for the charms of a well-established female colleague. A challenging look at the essence of film critique as well as an erotic encounter between two unequals.

Monday 26th August | SCREENING and MASTERCLASS DIRECTING AND ACTORS with Olivier Ducastel

MA VRAIE VIE À ROUEN (MY LIFE ON ICE) Olivier Ducastel et Jacques Martineau (2003 – 102’ – France)

Ma vraie vie à Rouen (My Life on Ice) presents the unique point of view of 16-year-old Etienne, a cute would-be ice skating champion living in provincial Rouen who is obsessed with filming his daily life with a digital camera. Told from his subjective perspective, the focus of Etienne's video diary subtly takes shape as he records his single mother, his best friend Ludovic, and, almost stalker-like, his handsome male geography teacher Laurent. Though explaining his goal is to match his mother with Laurent, he gradually comes to the realization that other unconscious desires are motivating him, as hinted at in an intense discussion with Ludovic about the possibility of love between men.

Tuesday 27th August | 9.00 am | SCREENING and MASTERCLASS SCREENPLAY with Razvan Radulescu

THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU Cristi Puiu (2006 – 154’ – Romania) Writers : Cristi Puiu and Razvan Radulescu

Mr. Lazarescu, a 63-year-old lonely man feels sick and calls the ambulance. When it arrives, the paramedic decides, he should take him to the hospital but, once there, they decide to send him to another hospital and then yet another... As the night unfolds, they can't find a hospital for Mr. Lazarescu and his health starts to deteriorate fast.



PREMIERES

8.15 pm | cinémas Les 400 coups

Sunday 25th August | PREMIERE with director

LES GRANDES ONDES Lionel Baier (2013 – 90’ - Switzerland) With Valérie Donzelli, Michel Vuillermoz et Patrick Lapp / Hapiness distribution – French theatrical release : January 2014

April 1974. Two Swiss radio journalists are sent to Portugal to report on Swiss aid in that country. Bob, a technician nearing retirement, accompanies them in his trusty Combi VW. But when they get there, nothing goes to plan: there are tensions between feminist Julie and Cauvin, the wily war reporter. Despite all the best intentions of Pelé, the young Portuguese translator, there is no other option but to abort the mission. But the tide of History ends up blowing the Combi VW right into

the heart of the Carnation Revolution.

Monday 26th August | PREMIERE with directors

SALVO Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza (2013 – 109’ - Italy/France – Sub fr) Distribution : Bodega films – French theatrical release : October 2013

A hitman for the Sicilian Mafia, Salvo is solitary, cold and ruthless. When he sneaks into a house to eliminate a man, he discovers Rita, a young blind girl who powerlessly stands by while her brother is assassinated. Salvo tries to close those disturbing eyes, staring at him yet unseeing. Something impossible happens. Rita's eyes see for the first time. Salvo decides to spare her life. From then on, these two beings, both haunted by the world they belong to, are linked together forever.

Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza participated at the Angers Workshops in 2010 to work on their script. They filmed Salvo in 2012 and won the Nespresso Grand Prize and the France 4 Visionary Award in the Critics’ Week 2013.

Tuesday 27th August | PREMIERE with director and actor Nicolas Maury

LES RENCONTRES D'APRÈS-MINUIT Yann Gonzalez (2013 – 91’ - France) With Eric Cantona, Fabienne Babe, Béatrice Dalle, Niels Schneider, Julie Brémond, Nicolas Maury, Alain-Fabien Delon, Kate Moran Distribution : Potemkine – French theatrical release : November 13rd 2013 Not suitable for under sixteens

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.

This first feature film by Yann Gonzalez has been supported by the Région des Pays de la Loire and was presented during the special screenings in the Critics’ Week in Cannes.



…PREMIERES

Wednesday 28th August | PREMIERE with director and producer Emmanuel Chaumet

LA BATAILLE DE SOLFÉRINO (AGE OF PANIC) Justine Triet (2013 – 94’ - France) Distribution : Shellac French theatrical release : September 18th 2013

May 6, 2012 : Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see his two young daughters. It’s a manic Sunday in Paris : two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy new boyfriend, a grumpy lawyer and France cut in half !

Justine Triet won the Grand Jury Prize in Angers in 2012 with her short film Two Ships.



THEY ATTENDED THE ANGERS WORKSHOPS…

French theatrical release

365 New Year's Eves (Un mois en Thailande) Paul NEGOESCU Romania - Workshops 2011 Production : HiFilm Production

French theatrical release : June 26th 2013

Les Grands s’allongent par terre Emmanuel SAGET France - Workshops 2006

French theatrical release : July 16th 2008 Production : Les Films Pelléas Distributor : Pyramide

Premiers Plans Festival 2008

La Domination masculine Patric JEAN France - Workshops 2005

French theatrical release : November 25th 2009 Production : Elzévir Films / Black Moon Distributor : UGC Distribution

Le Fil Mehdi BEN ATTIA France - Workshops 2007

French theatrical release : May 12th 2010 Production : Mille et Une productions Distributor : Pyramide

Belle-Epine Rebecca ZLOTOWSKI France - Workshops 2008

French theatrical release : November 10th 2010 Production : Les Films Velvet Distributor : Pyramide

Critics’ Week 2010

Jimmy Rivière Teddy LUSSI MODESTE France - Workshops 2007

French theatrical release : March 9th 2011 Production : Kazak Productions Distributor : Pyramide

Premiers Plans Festival 2011

La Fin du silence Roland EDZARD France - Workshops 2006

French theatrical release : December 7th 2011 Production : Unlimited Productions Distributor : Equation

Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2011



3 sœurs (Abrir puertas y ventanas) Milagros MUMENTHALER Switzerland / Argentina - Workshops 2006

French theatrical release : July 18th 2012

Production : AlinaFims Distributor : Happiness Distribution

Golden Leopard in Locarno International Film Festival 2011 Premiers Plans Festival 2011

L’Envahisseur (The Invader) Nicolas PROVOST Belgium - Workshops 2007

French theatrical release : January 25th 2012

Production : Versus Productions

Selected at Venice and Toronto Festivals 2011 Selected at Premiers Plans Festival 2012

Mobile Home François PIROT Belgium - Workshops 2008 French theatrical release : August 29th 2012 Production : Tarantula Production Distributor : Distrib Films

Coming soon

Salvo Fabio GRASSADONIA and Antonio PIAZZA Italy - Workshops 2010 Production Acaba Produzioni, Cristaldi Pictures, MACT Production

French theatrical release : October 16th 2013

Grand Prize and France 4 Visionary Award, Critics’ Week Cannes 2013

In post-production

Cornea by Jochem DE VRIES Netherlands – Workshops 2009 - Filmed en 2012

Qui vive by Marianne Tardieu France – Workshops 2011 - Filmed en 2013 Read in Premiers Plans Festival 2013

La Belle vie by Jean DENIZOT France – Workshops 2011 - Production Mezzanine Films

In preparation

Triste esclave by Vincent MARIETTE France – Workshops 2010 - Shooting Summer 2013

Keeper by Guillaume SENEZ Belgium – Workshops 2011 – Shooting and production End 2013

Angélique by Claire BURGER, Marie AMACHOUKELI and Samuel THEIS France – Workshops 2012 – Shooting End 2013

Wars by Simon JAQUEMET Switzerland – Workshops 2012 – Shooting Summer 2013

Dogs by Bogdan MIRICA Romania – Workshops 2012 - Shooting 2014

Mauvais œil by Laurent TEYSSIER France – Workshops 2012 – Shooting Spring 2014



Completed films

Acné Federico VEIROJ Spain / Uruguay - Workshops 2005 Production : Control Z Films – Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2008 (2

nd feature film : La Vida util, presented in San Sebastian Film Festival)

Camembert rose Barnabas TOTH Hungary - Workshops 2005 Production : FilmArt - Distributor : MozinetKft Montréal World Film Festival – Selection 2009

Ephémères Pascal BONNELLE France - Workshops 2005

Narcissus Dovile GASIUNAITE Lithuania - Workshops 2006 Filmed en 2010 Production : Ketvirtaversija

Shanghai – Belleville Show Chun LEE France - Workshops 2007 Production : Clandestine Films

Adalbert’s dream Gabriel ACHIM Romania - Workshops 2009 Production : Green Film (Arizona Films, 4 proof film)

Il Sud è niente Fabio MOLLO Italy - Workshops 2009 Production : B24 Film

Feed me with your words Martin TURK Slovenia - Workshops 2010 Production : Bela Film

Shell Scott GRAHAM Scotland - Workshops 2010 Production : Brocken Spectre

Left Foot – Right Foot Germinal ROAUX Switzerland - Workshops 2008 Production : Unlimited Productions, CAB Productions



AUDITORS Part of the Angers Workshops and a specific series of conferences and workshops are open to auditors: professionals (producers, directors, technicians…), exhibitors, cinema students (secondary, technical or film schools), professionals from film events (festivals, film education programmes, associations…) and film lovers.

In the morning, for the auditors and the residents: screenings and masterclasses given by professionals who will share their individual experiences and bring ideas on cinematographic creation.

In the afternoon: a specific programme for the auditors with professionals speakers about audiovisual actuality.

In the evening: premiere for the public at the Cinemas Les 400 coups with the speakers present. Free of charge, except the screening of the evening Reservation possible : http://www.premiersplans.org/ateliers/inscriptions.php 02 41 88 51 52 | [email protected]

La Guerre est déclarée , premiere with Valérie Donzelli and Jéremy Elkaïm – Workshops 2011

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Documents

PRESENTATION KIT - Premiers Plans · Bureau d’Accueil des Tournages ... two short films to their credit and a first feature ... learning life the hard way and having to think wiser