The class of 2016 was hosted in Algiers (Algeria) in February, by the Algerian Center for Cinema Development-CADC, in Ouarzazate (Morocco), in June, by the Ouarzazate Film Commission-OFC, and in Marseille (France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region) in September, by the Villa Méditerranée.
A boy becomes a man in a village in the Middle East. A place where growing up means blindly obeying harsh, ancient rules. Lives will collide with each other having a single common root: the father. Generation after generation, violence and honor killings will push women and men to the point of unbearability. Can all this finally end with Raken?
A family sees the bonds of its members strengthen as they go through difficult times.
Immersion in the daily life of a place of life, the Cool'heure, welcoming children placed by child welfare, following the fight of Alice, a young artist who works there as a facilitator, so that the magic of art emerges in this difficult and turbulent reality. In the footsteps of popular education and the creator of the center, resistant to anti-psychiatry, it is a path that is traced towards the Other and its difference, through revolt and Utopia. What project will be worthy of inspiring and uniting young people and the center team to make Alice’s dream come true?
Malik, a 40-year-old man, has always lived paralyzed by a strange fear of “disappearing”. He meets Krystha, a mystical and disturbing young woman. Malik seems paralyzed by the idea of seeing the ghosts of the past resurface and refuses to confront them. But this is to ignore the obstinacy of Krystha who decides to cure him against his will of his ills by leading him in a breathtaking road movie to the heart of his deepest anxieties.
Following Makram's arrest for trafficking in explosives, Nour, his 30-year-old daughter, returns from Paris to Beirut. Her quest to understand what happened with her father and free him begins: Nour will have to confront the corruption of politicians first, her family which is tearing itself apart, and a city that she no longer recognizes. A journey to meet Lebanon.
The author does not wish to disclose the content of his project.
Mariam, niece of a high priest, disappears on her wedding day, which is also the day of the presidential elections in Egypt. While looking for Mariam, Nagy, the police officer in charge of the investigation, will discover shocking secrets...
Volunteering in an association, when he has just left Paris and moved in with his parents following his divorce, Eric, in his fifties, understands that one of his students is ready to leave to join the Islamic State...
In a forgotten country, under the yoke of the General's absurd dictatorship, Boucif, 11 years old, imagines he has the power to pass through mirrors and defy death. In spite of himself, he saves from eternal rest a mysterious stranger who will turn his existence upside down.
One spring morning, a crazy rumor spreads in the village about Hadjer, a widow who lives with her son, Djamil, an impeccable teenager. Thrown out to pasture, they are forced to leave. After a few days of wandering, they end up on the coast, with a benefactor who is the owner of a tavern. Their “exile” to this new world will not be easy. Between the son's excesses and the mother's concessions, the road to reconstruction seems endless. Is a return to the native village still possible? Clearly, there is only one tragedy to erase another…
Kenza, fifteen years old, leaves Algeria for France to live with her father Samy whom she never knew. She finally thinks of finding this father, a former footballer, whom she idealized so much. It’s finally the start of a new life. A new country. But is this really the promise of happiness?
Dancers of The Spring tells the story of an encounter between two beings. In Beirut for a few months with two of his friends, Amir is a young Syrian refugee who is struggling to survive. Everything changes when he meets a young Lebanese woman, Anna. The young people encourage each other, and decide to prepare together for an audition that could change their reality in the city. On another level, and in a totally unexpected way, this meeting will affect them in a much more profound way...
François Lunel was born in Paris. He lived in the south of France (Hyères, Toulon, Aix en Provence) until the age of 19. He obtained an A3 baccalauréat with a cinema option. He went on to study cinema at the University of Paris VIII, and began making documentaries in 1992, moving to Sarajevo in 1993 during the siege, where he made "JOURS TRANQUILLES À SARAJEVO", selected at Cannes in 2002.
In 2005, he directed a documentary on the life of American saxophonist Sonny Simmons (supported by the CNC). He wrote a first novel set in Brittany (KEREMMA, éditions Riveneuve), then shot two feature-length films, "L'APPARITION DE LA JOCONDE" and "CHEZ LÉON COIFFURE", a documentary produced by Films d'Ici, released in April 2012.
In 2019, he shot the feature-length fiction film QUAND LA NUIT NOIRE, in Sarajevo, with Bosnian actors. The film has just been completed. Since 2004, he has been a lecturer at the Fémis film school, and runs writing workshops at the NFDC (Indian CNC), Groupe Ouest, PK Formation and Meditalents. Several of the projects he has supervised have been brought to the screen and selected at the world's leading festivals (Sundance, Venice...)
QUAND LA NUIT NOIRE : feature-length fiction film produced by Promenades Films/Rose Productions/National Television of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Released in 2021.
L'APPARITION DE LA JOCONDE, feature film produced by La Vie est belle and Promenades Films. With support from CNC, Musée du Louvre (Catherine Derosier). With Serge Riaboukine, Grégoire Colin, Vanesa Glodjo, Julie Gayet. National release: October 2011.
JOURS TRANQUILLES À SARAJEVO, feature film, produced by Promenades Films, TV Bosnia. With support from CNC (aid for French films in foreign languages), Fond Hubert Bals (Holland) and the Swedish Film Institute (AIDS). National release: March 26, 2003. Awarded at Alexandria Festival 2002, selected at Cannes Festival 2002, Thessalonica, Rotterdam, Göteborg. DVD release in 2005.
LE SAUT DE L'ANGE, 80 mn, produced by Promenades Films and Rose Productions (Bosnia), with support from CNC and Région PACA. In editing.
CHEZ LEON COIFFURE, 83 mn, produced by Les Films d'Ici (Serge Lalou, Laura Briand), with support from CNC, Ville deP aris. National release: April 2012.
FLEURS DANS LE MIROIR, LUNE DANS L'EAU, 52 mn, produced by JBA Production (Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin) and the Musée du Louvre (Catherine Derosier), selected at the Taïpei Festival, Hong Kong 2009. Published by Arte Vidéo:
TOGETHER WITH SONNY SIMMONS, 52 mn, produced by Promenades Films, project supported by CNC, SCAM, SACEM and PROCIREP. Diff : Images Plus. DVD release in 2005 (La Vie est belle Editions, Sacem).
SOL EN MER, 52 minutes, produced by Promenades Films. Coproduction: France 3, broadcast by France 3, April 2000.
LA BOUTIQUE AU COIN DE LA RUE, directed by Miklos Laszlo. 2011. Best play, audience award, best actor, best actress, Mostar Festival 2012.
KEREMMA, novel published by Riveneuve, collection Arpents, 2010.
ARTS ET CINÉMA, with Gisèle Skira, published by Séguier, 2011.
Magali Negroni holds a DEA from the University of Paris 8. Her research focused on Saül Bass. She began her career as an assistant director and went on to become a director, working on short films, commercials and documentaries that have been selected for competition in Berlin, New York and at the César awards.
Currently, she works as a scriptwriter and consultant mainly in the Middle East and Maghreb countries, as well as being a reader for Cinémas du Monde. In collaboration with Virginie Legeay, she co-wrote and produced the following films: "Les Jours d'avant" by Karim Moussaoui, "Hédi" by Mohamed Ben Attia, both of which won prizes in Berlin, and "The Translator" by Rana Kazkaz, which won the Prix Cinéfondation and was acquired by Arte.
Jérôme Soubeyrand spent his childhood and teenage years in the Ardèche. After graduating from the Conservatoire, he became a classical guitar teacher, while beginning his career as an actor and theater director. In Paris, he took on several acting roles, before moving into directing with a series of short programs for Canal + in 1988. In 1996, he joined the script workshop at Fémis under the direction of Yves Lavandier.
After a number of television scripts (episodes of Les Monos, the first episode of Père et Maire, etc.), he worked with Alain Robak on a script produced by Mathieu Kassowitz, and went on to co-write Cécile Telerman's Tout pour plaire, starring Mathilde Seigner, Anne Parillaud and Judith Godrèche.
In 2009, he co-wrote Quelque chose à te dire, Cécile Telerman's second film, and Pièce Montée, directed by Denys Granier-Defferre in 2010.2012, Jérôme Soubeyrand became a producer.
He wrote and directed Ceci est mon corps, in which he played the lead role. Released on December 10, 2014, Danièle Heymann and Alain Riou made it their favorite, during the Le Masque et la Plume program. The film won the amphora du public (audience prize) Fifigrot 2013 (Groland festival in Toulouse), the audience prize at the Henri Langlois festival in Vincennes 2014. It was well received at Les Œillades d'Albi 2014 and was presented as Dominique Besnehard's coup de coeur at the Angoulême festival 2016. Ceci est mon corps also stayed in theaters for three years.
In 2021, he played Mimosa, the gay owner of a cabaret transformiste, in Paul Vecchiali's film Pas... de quartier. At the end of the 2000s, Jérôme Soubeyrand was president of the French screenwriters' union (then Union Guilde des Scénaristes - UGS), during which time he established a screenwriters' presence at the Cannes Film Festival, created the first screenplay market and the Jacques-Prévert screenplay prize.
Marcel Beaulieu is a screenwriter born in 1952 in Canada. He began his career in 1978 writing radio plays for Radio Canada1. Working in Quebec, France and Europe, he has collaborated on over eighty works, with Léa Pool, Francis Leclerc, Yves Simoneau, Michel Langlois and others. In 1997, he founded a screenplay teaching program at the Institut national de l'image et du son (INIS) in Montreal. He is best known for Gérard Corbiau's Farinelli (nominated for an Oscar in 1995 for Best Foreign Film and winner of the Golden Globe for Foreign Film).
