July 3, 2017 / July 16, 2017
Pärnu
For its XXXIth edition, the Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival offers a beautiful selections of movies shot by French and French-speaking directors, from July 3rd to 16th.
The theme of the festival is the “art of living” and the organizers chose two quotes to symbolize the festival’s state of mind: “If a farmer ploughing a field looks over his shoulder to admire his straight groove, he is an artist“ said by the French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir and, “The longer you are a child the longer you are an artist” said by the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi.
The art of living or the art of survival? The festival will try to answer with the selected documentaries.
NB: All the screenings are free!
Monday July 3
Regional Hospital of Pärnu
17.00 ALAFIA, 25’, 2016, Switzerland (shot in Benin, Westafrica), directed by Jan Baumgartner
Tuesday July 4
Sütevaka High School
15.00 SWAGGER, 84’, 2016, France, directed by Olivier Babinet
22.00 27 TIMES TIME, 73’, 2016, Belgium (shot in Polynesia), directed by Annick Ghijzelings
Regional Hospital of Pärnu
17.00 THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND, 59’, 2015, France (shot in Iran), directed by Abtin Sarabi
Pärnu Museum of New Art
21H00 CORPSE, 16’, 2016, Belgium, directed by Benjamin d’Aoust
Followed by BELLE DE NUIT – Grisélidis Réal, SELFPORTRAITS, 74’, 2016, Belgium (shot in Belgium, France et Switzerland), directed by Marie-Eve de Grave
Wednesday July 5
Sütevaka Highschool
18.00 DELTA PARK, 68’, 2016, France (shot in Italy), directed by Karine de Villers and Mario Brenta
20.00 CONTROVERSY, 7’, 2013, France (shot in India), directed by Thomas Lallier
BOLI BANA, 59’, 2017, Belgium (shot in Burkina Faso), directed by Simon Coulibaly Gillard
Thursday July 6
Sütevaka High School
15.00 LET THERE BE NIGHT, 15’, 2017, Hungary/ France, directed by Benjamin Hameury
Pärnu Museum of New Art
16H00 THE EMPTY ROOM, 58’, 2016, Belgium/France, directed by Jasna Krajinovic
23.00 THE STRANGE HISTORY OF PRINCE DETHMER, 21’, 2017, France (shot in Congo), directed by Hadrien La Vapeur and Corto Vaclav
Friday july 7
Pärnu museum of new art
16.00 MY DAUGHTER NORA, 16’, 2016, Belgium/ France, directed by Jasna Krajinovic
PARIS IS VOGUING, 67’, 2015, France, directed by Gabrielle Culand
17.00 WORMS, 24’, 2016, Belgium, directed by Xavier Seron and Matthieu Donck
Saturday july 8
Sütevaka High School
22.00 LIFE TO COME, 75’, 2016, Belgium, directed by Claudio Capanna
French auteurs have won the Pärnu Film Festival Grand Prize only once. It was in 1990 for the movie Le chant des harmoniques directed by Hugo Zemp.
Two famous French documentaries have earned the Estonian People’s Award: Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (“the gleaners and I”) directed by the respected artist Agnès Varda, in 2001 and Être et avoir (“to be and to have”) directed by Nicolas Philibert, in 2003.
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