- What we've achieved already, since Zeugma Films exists : a selection of our films in a chronology of catalogues, - What's going on now : all our new films, in different phases of production, - What's coming up next : the projects which, hopefully, we will soon be giving birth to.
And also, a presentation of the team, links to our partners, and all of ZF's burning news !!!
Nothing vanishes (Rien ne s'efface), by Laetitia Mikles, 52' Avant-Garde Film Festival, Athens, Greece, October 1-12, 2009
& Festival "Les Ecrans Documentaires", Arcueil, France, October 27 - November 1st, 2009
Three gifts. Three intimate discussions about cinema. During these three encounters, Japanese director
Naomi Kawase (Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival 2007) reveals the vital and sensitive bonds which tie her to the world of cinema. This intimate reflection unveils the filmmaker's vision, and
questions our own relationship to the world, the fragility of that which surrounds us, the passage of time and all that resists oblivion.
In Purgatory (In Purgatorio), by Giovanni Cioni, 68' International competition at Festival dei Popoli, Florence, Italy
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 9.15 pm
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 3.30 pm
The cult of purgatory in Naples inspires this movie. Its consists of a perambulation made of encounters,
sacred places, true stories, testimonies and dreams. It is a dive into the cult and its questioning ; we need to be aware that we had an existence. The soul of purgatory inhabits this world. The anonymous dead, who appears in a dream and thus wanders around
the living ; the stranger met in a crowd ; on a photograph, the look of a deceased made immortal. The Other.One of the others, each one of us. I am an inhabitant of this world. I am one of the others.
The girls of the ruins (Les filles des ruines), by Xavier Villetard, 62' International first at IDFA - Amsterdam, November 19 - 29, 2009 & Festival International du Film d'Histoire, Pessac, November 10 - 14, 2009
Spring, 1945. In the midst of the war, three civilian women chronicle the battle of Berlin
in their diaries. They write under dramatic circumstances, including repeated rapes perpetrated by the conquering forces. These assaults on women’s bodies, the smallest common denominator in all
conflicts, are kept silent by a persisting taboo.
Bringing together these on-the-scene accounts and the memories of other women who lived
through the battle of Berlin, “The girls of the ruins” unearths this silent war which laid buried beneath the city’s rubble.
Stéphane Hessel, a history of commitment, by C. Seghezzi, 52' This Human World festival, Vienna, Austria, December 3-13, 2009
Stéphane Hessel played an active role in the history of the 20th century. He fought in the Resistance and was interned in a concentration camp during World War II.
He spent his life defending human rights, as a French ambassador, a mediator for illegal immigrants and as one of the authors of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The film follows this great traveller nowadays in Paris, on trips within France, and to the Palestinian territories. At the age of 91, Stéphane Hessel keeps fighting for a fairer world, putting
trust in the future, using humour and poetry.
More information about the festival in German here.
