CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD - ANNECY ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2012  Synopsis : Gianna has difficulties to take care of her grandmother who’s very old and needy. Gianna is also an actress in a play which had to overcome many obstacles before being presented to the public, and the love story she finds difficult to deal with is just the cherry on the top.A mix of documentary, drama and fiction, the film happily descri ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - HamburgFilmFest 2012  Synopsis : Set in the 90’s, Laurence tries to salvage his relationship with his fiancée Fred after revealing to her his aspirations of becoming a woman. Laurence Anyways is the story of a wild and unusual love. The Jury’s Verdict : Graceful and powerful, effortlessly staged and with an astonishing intensity, young Canadian director and author Xavier Dolan succeeds in ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - Festroia 2012 Synopsis : Naked Harbour is a film about Finnish love : it follows several parallel stories of characters facing something irreversible, on a one grey and cold winter week, in a quest to find love and acceptance. In a world where societies expectations are high, and the pressures of everyday life create a shroud of secrecy. This mosaic of characters is portraying people that ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - Locarno 2012 Synopsis: When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, the city, and the ways artworks reflect and shape the world. The CICAE Jury explains its decision: “We decided to give the award to the very extraordinary film called ‘Museum Hours’ by artist Jem ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - Sarajevo 2012  Synopsis: A woman – two men: her husband wants her to flirt with the other man to distract him from finding out about the couples activities as people smugglers. The other man wants to flirt with the woman to get some evidence about the illegal things they do. They fall in love – the woman, being manipulated by both men, finally chooses the only possible way out…Love is a w ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - Venice 2012  Synopsis: A story set in Saudi Arabia and focused on the experiences of a young girl who challenges her country’s traditions. The Jury's verdict: WADJDA is an original first feature film  from a country which has little to zero  film production. Far from being an obstacle, these difficulties grant the film with more bravery and audacity. WADJDA gives a powerful insight into a ...

ART CINEMA AWARD – DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT, Cannes 2012 Synopsis: When Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, facing international pressure, calls for a referendum on his presidency in 1988, opposition leaders persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra, to spearhead their campaign. With scant resources and constant scrutiny by the despot’s watchmen, Saavedra and his team devise an audacio ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - Toulouse Cinéma En Construction 2012; Prix des distributeurs et exploitants  CICAE / Europa Distribution Synopsis: What could be worse than being 14 and on vacation with your father? Taking your children on vacation under a never ending rain. Since his divorce Alberto spends little time with Lucía and Federico. The three of them set off for the hot springs one stormy morning; it's going t ...

CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD - VILNIUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012 Synopsis: Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son's life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody's advice, he's co ...

ART CINEMA AWARD - BERLINALE // FORUM 2012 Synopsis: From the late 50s and into the 70s, more than 90,000 of the Koreans resident in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promisedthem affluence, justice and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just ashort period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with hisfamily in Tokyo aft ...