Journée Art et Essai du Cinéma Européen

FILMS :
. A GERMAN CHILDHOOD - Amrum Island, 1945
Running time: 1h 33min | Drama, War
By Fatih Akın | By Fatih Akın, Hark Bohm
With Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke, Diane Kruger

Spring 1945, on the island of Amrum, off the coast of Germany. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves dangerous seas to hunt seals, fish at night and work on the neighboring farm to help her mother feed the family. When peace finally arrives, new conflicts arise, and Nanning must learn to make her own way in a world turned upside down.

. AN ITALIAN YEAR
Running time: 1h 42min | Comedy drama, Drama
By Laura Samani, Elisa Dondi
With Stella Wendick, Giacomo Covi, Pietro Giustolisi

September 2007, Trieste. Fred, a seventeen-year-old Swedish girl, arrives in the city and enrolls in her final year at a technical high school. The only girl in an all-male class, she finds herself the center of attention of an inseparable trio.

. COUTURES
Drama
From Alice Winocour | By Alice Winocour
With Angelina Jolie, Ella Rumpf, Louis Garrel

In Paris, amid the hustle and bustle of Fashion Week, Maxine, an American film director, learns a piece of news that will turn her life upside down. She crosses paths with Ada, a young South Sudanese model who has left her country, and Angèle, a French make-up artist aspiring to a new life. Between these three women from very different backgrounds, an unsuspected solidarity develops. Beneath the glamorous veneer lies a kind of silent revolt: that of women sewing together, each in their own way, the threads of their own history.

. The Mysterious Gaze of the Pink Flamingo
Running time: 1h 44min | Drama
By Diego Cespedes | By Diego Cespedes
With Tamara Cortes, Matías Catalán, Paula Dinamarca
Early 1980s, in the Chilean desert. Lidia, 11, is growing up in a flamboyant family that has taken refuge in a queer cabaret on the outskirts of a mining town. When a mysterious fatal disease begins to spread, rumor has it that it can be transmitted by a simple glance. The community quickly becomes the target of collective fears and fantasies. In this modern western, Lidia stands up for her people.