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                            | WORKS (TRAVAUX)  2005 US Premiere |  
                            |  DIRECTOR: Brigitte Roüan (Post Coitum animal triste, Outremer)
 
 CAST:
 Carole Bouquet
 Jean-Pierre Castaldi
 Alvaro Llanos
 Aldo Maccione
 Didier Flamand
 DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT -Cannes Film Festival '05
 Presented by and followed by Q&A with Writer
 & Director Brigitte Roüan and Actor Alvaro Llanos
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                              Chantal Letellier (C.Bouquet) is a « wonderful woman ». She is a lawyer and wins every case. She may be a pit bull at work but she’s a nanny in her private life. Following a mutually satisfactory divorce, she lives with her 2 « very badly brought up » adolescent children. Her love life is a wasteland: she has no time. But the flesh has its demands and she gives in to a client’s advances (J-P.Castaldi). Unfortunatly, he falls madly in love with her and move in. To get rid of him, she starts having work done to make a house unliveable. To capit all, she hires a young Colombien architect, an illegal immigrant from whom she has just obtained a residence permit. Overcome with gratitude, he redesigns her whole house. She never expected so much!www.pyramidefilms.com
  
 
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                              | THE CHILDREN (LES ENFANTS) 2005 US Premiere |  
                              |  DIRECTOR: Christian Vincent (La séparation)
 
 CAST:
 Gérard Lanvin
 Karin Viard
 Martin Combes
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                                A man meets a woman. His name is Pierre (G.Lanvin), her name is Jeanne (K.Viard) . They are both divorced, and each has two children. In this story, 1 + 1 equals 6. It’s hard to do the math, and Pierre and Jeanne will have to solve the equation. It’s rough on Pierre, living with Jeanne’s children but not his own. And it’s not easy for Jeanne to be the mother of two boys who aren’t hers. This is the romance of remarried families.www.lesenfants-lefilm.com
  
 
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                              | THIRTYFIVE SOMETHING (TOUT POUR PLAIRE) 2005 US Premiere  |  
                              |  DIRECTOR: Cécile Telerman
 
 CAST:
 Mathilde Seigner
 Judith Godrèche
 Anne Parillaud
 Marina Tomé
 Pascal Elbe
 Presented by and followed by Q&A with Co-writer Jérôme Soubeyrand and
 Actress Marina Tomé
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                                Florence, Juliette, Marie, three childhood friends, three modern working women... Marie (J. Godrèche) is a doctor married to a loving but ineffectual artist who’s never sold a canvas. Florence (A. Parillaud), caught between a marriage gone cold and a passive job in an advertising firm, is a woman in search of recognition. Juliette (M. Seigner), their still single friend, is a struggling attorney-at-law, and when she's not trying to collect her fees, she's on a constant quest for Mr. Right. All three steal a few moments to find and punctuate their daily life of conversations without reserve. A report is essential: at 35, the ideals grew blurred and reality takes the step...
 www.diaphana.fr
  
 
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                              | THE FIVE OF US (ELLES ÉTAIENT CINQ) 2004 US Premiere |  
                              |  DIRECTOR: Ghyslaine Côté (Pendant ce temps, Pin-Pon the movie)
 
 CAST:
 Jacinthe Laguë
 Julie Deslauriers
 Brigitte Lafleur
 Ingrid Falaise
 Noémie Yelle
 Louise Portal
 Presented by Mrs. MARCY GROSSMANConsul General of Canada in Miami, and followed by Q&A with Actress  Julie Deslauriers
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                                  Manon Cloutier (J.Lague), 32, accepts a dinner invitation from her colleague, Romance is on the menu. A few days later, still aglow from this fledgling relationship, Manon is at a carwash when she becomes completely distraught at the glimpse of a man with tattooed arms. Terrified Manon hurries home and double-bolts the door. So begins a series of flashbacks. She remembers a summer day, when she was 17, when she and her girlfriends, Anne (J.Deslauriers), Claudie (B.Lafleur), Isa (I.Falaise) and Sophie (N.Yelle), are getting ready for party at Sophie’s cottage. She remembers how much fun they used to have together…and she remembers the young tattooed man…www.ellesetaientcinq.com
  
 
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                              |  DIRECTOR: Maurice Barthélémy (Casablanca Driver)
 
 CAST:
 Alain Chabat
 Martin Combes
 Yael Abecassis
 Judith Godrèche
 
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                                  Louis (M.Combes) has a funny dad (A.Chabat): always smiling, joking, laughing.But Louis does not really feel like laughing.
 On the road which brings them back home, the father and his son will find each other.
 At the end of their voyage, they will find light, and life.
 www.papa-lefilm.com
  
 
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                              | THE ART OF BREAKING UP (UN FIL A LA PATTE) 2005 East Coast Premiere |  
                              |  FROM A PLAY BY GEORGES FEYDEAU DIRECTOR:
 Michel Deville
 (Un monde presque parfait, La maladie de Sachs)
 
 CAST:
 Emmanuelle Béart
 Charles Berling
 Dominique Blanc
 Julie Depardieu
 Jacques Bonnaffé
 Stanislas Merhar
 Patrick Timsit
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                                  Bois d’Enghien (C.Berling) loves Lucette (E.Béart), the diva, his appointed mistress, but must break up with her urgently because…he has to sign his marriage settlement, that very afternoon, with the pretty Viviane Duverger, a young woman who also has a very pretty dowry. Madame Duverger (D.Blanc), Viviane's mother, is eager to have Bois-d'Enghien as a son-in-law - or does she just want to have him for herself? The very rich Irrigua would like to take Lucette as a mistress. Her entire entourage, including Bois d'Enghien, agrees, because Irrigua is wealthy. But he is also very jealous… Sex and money are the subject of this comedy. Who sells whom? Who is selling himself or herself? Who will be had?
 www.unfilalapatte.com
  
 
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                              | RENART THE FOX (LE ROMAN DE RENART) 2005  US Premiere |  
                              |  DIRECTOR: Thierry Schiel
 
 VOICE CAST:
 Frédéric Diefenthal
 Laurent Deutsch
 Patrick Préjean
 PUBLIC AUDIENCE AWARD -ANIMA '05SPECIAL PRICE OF THE JURY -FIFEM '05
 OPENING CEREMONY SCREENING -SICAF '05
 NOMINATED IMAGINA '05
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                                  Renart the Fox tells the hilarious yet moving adventure of cunning Renart (voice F. Diefenthal), an outlaw constantly at odds with the feudal laws of his society, who is characterized by a "liberal attitude" towards the property of others. However, the motivation for his pursuit of riches is simply to make a decent living for children. His quest for a better living will start while meeting an ugly and fat sewer rat named Rufus (voice L.Deutsch), who will become a companion and eventually a friend. The treasure they will look for in their adventure will not be the one they imagined, and they will discover many values along the way that could be more important in life than all the riches in the world. www.leromanderenart.com
  
 
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                              | IZNOGOUD 2005  US Premiere |  
                              |  DIRECTOR: Patrick Braoudé (Deuxième vie, Neuf mois)
 
 CAST:
 Jacques Villeret
 Michaël Youn
   Presented by and followed by Q&A with:
 Writer & Director Patrick Braoudé
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                                  It’s said that in Baghdad, an unscrupulous Grand Vizier called Iznogoud (M.Youn) plans to steal the throne from the caliph Hanoun El Poussah (J.Villeret). In short, he wants to take the caliph’s place. Supported by his faithful servant Dilat Larath, Iznogoud makes endless attempts to achieve his aims. www.iznogoud-lefilm.com
  
 
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                              | ANTHONY ZIMMER 2005 US Premiere |  
                              |  DIRECTOR: Jérôme Salle
 
 CAST:
 Sophie Marceau
 Yvan Attal
 Samy Frey
 Gilles Lellouche
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                                  All the police from around the world are after Anthony Zimmer, a criminal genius operating in the financial sphere. No one knows what he looks like, but among the competitors in the chase to nab him, Akerman, an exceptional cop, is one lap ahead: he knows that Zimmer will risk anything to see Chiara again.The young woman was supposed to link up with the elusive criminal, but instead receives a message from him. To shake off the people on his tail, Zimmer asks
 Chiara (S.Marceau) to accost a stranger and to make everyone believe he's the man they're all after. Chiara sets her cap at François (Y.Attal), an ordinary man who, fascinated by the young woman, rapidly finds himself caught up in a nightmare.
 In a world full of manipulations and pretense, they all discover that, despite appearances, they're merely pieces in a chess game being played while waiting for the grand master to arrive.
 www.marsdistribution.com
  
 
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                              |  DIRECTOR: Mabrouk El Mechri
 
 CAST:
 Jalil Lespert
 Léa Drucker
 Jean-Pierre Cassel
 
 
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                                  Every week Virgil (J.Lespert) comes to visit Ernest (JP.Cassel), his father, in prison and every week he fuels the old man’s dreams with tales of his boxing feats.
 Every week Virgil crosses paths with Margot (L.Drucker) in the visiting room and every week Virgil builds his own castle in the air.
 One week, Ernest tells Virgil he’s being released and can’t wait to see him in the ring.
 The only hitch is that Virgil hasn’t boxed for three years…
 www.virgil-lefilm.com
  
 
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                              | FCM KICK OFF PARTY @The Forge - October 15, 2005 |  
                              |  Virginie Champoussin,
 French Consul General & Mrs. Vinogradoff, Philippe Timon
 |  Patrick Gimenez, Laurence Oxenberg, Sylvie Clasquin
 |  Karl Hoffman, Damièle Ferré, Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor
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                              |  Patrick Gimenez,  FCM volunteers Virgine & Julie
 |  Christine Caly-Sanchez, Luis Sanchez
 |  Barbara Pergament, Dana Keith
(Miami Beach Cinematheque)
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                              | DISCUSSION PANEL @Miami Beach Cinematheque - November 11, 2005
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                              |  The French delegation
 |  Director Brigitte Roüan, Jean-Louis Lefevre,  Philippe Timon
 |  Aymelyne Alexi (for City of Miami),  Barbara
Pergament (President of Miami Beach Cinematheque)
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                              | COCKTAIL PARTY @Alliance Française de Miami - November 11, 2005
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                              |  P. Gimenez and P. Timon with the French delegation
 |  Directors Patrick Braoudé & Brigitte Roüan
 |  Kimberley Gaultier, Ysé
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                              | PROJECTIONS - November 11, 12 & 13, 2005
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                              |  Opening night French delegation
 |  Q&A  Director Brigitte Roüan
 |  M. Grossman (Canada’s Consul General in Miami), S.Papiernik (President Alliance Française)
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                              |  P. Gimenez,  Actress Marina Tomé,  Writer Jérôme Soubeyrand
 |  Patrick Gimenez, Patrick Braoudé, Philippe Timon
 |  Q&A with Patrick Braoudé, Philippe Timon
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                              |   2005 Proclamation
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