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CAST

SEE YOU UP THERE (2018)
Starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte, Niels Arestrup, Émilie Dequenne, Mélanie Thierry, Nicolas De Lavergne, Jonathan Louis, Frans Boyer and Héloïse Balster. Directed by Albert Dupontel.

Albert Maillard is a rank-and-file French infantryman battling to survive trench warfare as WWI comes to its conclusion. In a horrific final sortie, Maillard is almost buried alive by debris and his comrade Édouard Péricourt is horribly disfigured after being hit by mortar fire.

Péricourt becomes addicted to morphine during his convalescence and, living behind elaborate masks to hide his disfigurement, concocts a plan with Maillard to sell phoney monuments to French towns honouring their dead; an undertaking that will prove as dangerous as it is stunning.

THE DANCER (2017)
Starring Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry, Lily-Rose Depp, Mélanie Thierry, François Damiens, Louis-Do De Lencquesaing and Amanda Plummer. Directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto and Stéphanie Di Giusto.

Nothing in her background destined Loïe Fuller (Soko), born in the American Midwest, to become the toast of the Belle Epoque cabarets – or to perform at the Paris Opera. Hidden behind metres of silk, her arms extended by long wooden rods, the athletic Fuller was able to reinvent her body on stage, enthralling her audiences every night with her revolutionary “Serpentine” dance.

Dazzling the capital, she became an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. Eminent admirers fell to her feet: Toulouse-Lautrec, the Lumière Brothers, Rodin. Even if the physical effort risked destroying her back, even if the glare of the stage lights seared her eyes, she never faltered in the quest to perfect her art. But it was Loïe’s meeting with Isadora Duncan (Depp) – a beautiful young prodigy hungry for glory – that threatened everything: her stature, her confidence and her sanity.

A PERFECT DAY (2016)
Starring Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Melanie Thierry and Fedja Stuka. Directed by Fernando LeÓn De Aranoa.

In an armed con ict zone a body has been thrown into a well to contaminate and cut off the water supply to the local population, and circumstances soon turn the simple task of retrieving the body into an impossible mission.

A group of aid workers cross the frenzied landscape like guinea pigs in a maze, and there might be no way out. A war inside another war, in which the only enemy is irrationality. The group must outsmart UN bureaucrats, the military, a particularly angry dog and local criminals to solve this humanitarian crisis, but they’re only human. Humour, drama, tenderness, routine, danger, hope: it all ts into a perfect day.

WITH THE WIND
Starring Mélanie Thierry, Pierre Deladonchamps, Nuno Lopes and Anastasia Shevtsova. Directed by Bettina Oberli.