Program Guide - Cleveland International Film Festival

52 FILMS A – Z [B] The 37th Cleveland International Film Festival
UNITED AIRLINES WORLD TOUR
CINEMA EN ESPAÑOL
WOMEN OF THE WORLD
Bad Seeds
(Comme un homme)
Directed by Safy Nebbou
FRANCE 2012
95 minutes
Thursday, April 4 Friday, April 5
9:15 AM I Code BADS04 9:25 PM I Code BADS05
Monday, April 8
11:40 AM I Code BADS08
Greg is a troubled kid with some pretty bad anger issues. When
he’s punished for threatening his English teacher Camille with
a pair of scissors, he decides he wants revenge. He calls on
help from his friend Louis, a quiet but nice kid still mixed up
over the death of his mother. Together they kidnap Camille and
take her to an abandoned cabin in the woods where Greg rapes
her and leaves her alone overnight to “teach her a lesson.”
Louis, uncomfortable with the situation, begins to get anxious
when one night becomes several days. On the day they agree to
free her, Greg gets into a car accident, putting him in a coma.
This leaves a fragile Louis to handle the issue. But, will he
do the right thing? Or has the severity of their actions caused
him to drift further into the evil world that Greg lured him
into? BAD SEEDS is a psychological thriller that examines
how quickly bad decisions can spiral out of control. (In French
with subtitles) —E.F.
Producer~Michel Saint-Jean Screenwriting~Safy Nebbou, Gilles Taurand
Cinematography~Pierre Cottereau Editing~Bernard Sasia Principal Cast~
Charles Berling, Emile Berling, Sarah Stern, Kevin Azaïs
Print Source~Memento Films International / marion@memento-films.com /
www.memento-films.com
About the Director~Safy Nebbou is a French writer, director, and actor who was
born in Bayonne, Pyrenees-Atlantiques in 1958. He got his start in theater as a
stage director in Paris. In addition to feature films, he’s also directed shorts and
commercials. Filmography~“The Giraffe’s Neck” (2004), “Angel Of Mine”
(2008), “L’ Autre Dumas” (2010), BAD SEEDS (2012)
Beauty
(Nosilatiaj. La Belleza)
Directed by Daniela Seggiaro
ARGENTINA 2012
83 minutes
Monday, April 8 Tuesday, April 9
6:20 PM I Code BEAU08 11:45 AM I Code BEAU09
Look for the beauty in the sparse landscape, with its twisting
tangled trees that take on human forms. The once-fertile grassland
of the stoic Wichi people of northern Argentina has been
gradually appropriated by outsiders, forcing them to adapt to
the dry, sandy desert. Now teenage Yolanda has come from her
people to work as a maid for a typically self-absorbed Argentine
family who are distracted by the bustle of modern life. The
stressed matriarch Sara tries to manage her brood of four noisy
boys and ungainly teen daughter, who is about to celebrate
her quinceañera. While Sara chatters endlessly about her party
plans, sloe-eyed Yolanda stands apart from the whirlwind of
activity, rooted like the trees over the rushing water. She dreams
of the spiritual wisdom she found as a child among her people.
When the family thoughtlessly forces a makeover on Yolanda,
it crushes her soul but leaves her dignity unbowed. BEAUTY
is a shimmering, poetic film. (In Spanish and Wichi Lhämtes
with subtitles) —B.B.
Producer~Alvaro Urtizberea Screenwriting~Daniela Seggiaro Cinematography~
Willi Behnisch Editing~Ana Poliak, Martin Mainoli, Daniela Seggiaro
Principal Cast~Rosmeri Segundo, Sasa Sharet Isabel Mendoza, Ximena Banús,
Víctor Hugo Carrizo, Camila Romagnolo
Print Source~m-appeal world sales / aw@m-appeal.com / www.m-appeal.com
About the Director~Daniela Seggiaro, director, screenwriter, and sound and image
designer, graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. She currently lives in
Salta, in the north of Argentina, where she was born. Her audiovisual work encompasses
animated shorts, and she makes historical and anthropological documentary
films for several institutions Filmography~BEAUTY (2012)
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