They are the children of the 21st century. Since 2000, the style and story of their films incarnate contemporary French cinema. They are also the children of history, that begun more than half-century ago in the French New Wave. They did not create one particular cinematic style; instead, they have made broader innovations with the creativity, modernity and variety of their films.

UCCA Art Cinema in collaboration with French Embassy will present “New French Film: Contemporary Auteurs”. In this series, you will see 9 films by 9 outstanding contemporary French filmmakers. Varying from comedies to dramas, these films touch on different subjects such as love, politics and social issues. Some of them illustrate reality, and others reconstruct reality.

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7.1 SUN
16:30 8 Women

19:00 Silent Voices

7.7 SAT
19:00 The King of Escape

7.8 SUN
19:00 Heartbeat Detector
7.13 FRI
19:00 On Tour
7.14 SAT
14:00 Flanders
16:30 The Young Lieutenant
19:00 Beloved
7.15 SUN
19:00 The Secret of The Grain

8 Women
2002. France. François Ozon.111min
A gaggle of mothers, wives, daughters, maids, and mistresses gather for a holiday homecoming at their country mansion -- and end up having to solve a murder-mystery -- in this musical-comic homage to studio-era "women's pictures" from acclaimed French director François Ozon. Partly inspired by George Cukor's 1939 classic The Women, 8 Femmes stars Catherine Deneuve as Gaby, a high-society matron just returned to her country house to celebrate Christmas with her husband; mother Mamy (Danielle Darrieux); sister Augustine (Isabelle Huppert); and daughters Suzon (Virginie Ledoyen) and Catharine (Ludivine Sagnier). Not long after they all arrive, however, do they find the man of the house with a knife in his back, whereupon everyone becomes a suspect -- including maids Chanel (Firmine Richard) and Louise (Emmanuelle Béart). The mysterious arrival of Augustine's sister-in-law Pierrette (Fanny Ardant) only complicates matters, as the titular eight women find themselves snowed in by a fierce blizzard, forced to confront the matter of the lifeless husband -- and their long-standing secrets and resentments -- without the aid of the police. Following its immensely successful release in France in early 2002, 8 Women enjoyed much acclaim at the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals.

AWARDS:
2002 Berlin International Film Festival Outstanding Artistic Achievement
2002 European Film Award Best Leading Actress

Silent Voices
2009. France. Léa Fehner. 120min
Several people's life involved in an unexpected place. A mother had to face the killer of her son ; A young girl determined to meet her new boyfriend, and a man was to the jail for
a better future life. The three met in visiting prisoners room of Marseille Prison by accident. Originally, the three men is no reason will meet in when visiting prisoners. Everybody has to take destiny into their own hands.

AWARDS:
2010 Cesare Award Best First Work

The King of Escape
2009. France. Alain Guiraudie. 97min
The tone is rambunctious and Rabelaisian in director Guiraudie's decidedly offbeat mixture of comedy, romance, and road movie. Fortyish, gay, and in a rut, rural tractor-salesman Armand (Berthillot) finds his life taking off in an unexpected direction when his boss's 16-year-old daughter (Herzi, who made a sensational debut in THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN) develops a crush on him and convinces him to run away with her. Her dad sics the gendarmes on them, and the ensuing pursuit of the unlikely couple across the Southern France countryside is an often hilarious overturning of chase-movie conventions.

Heartbeat Detector
2007. France. Nicolas Klotz. 143min
When a Parisian psychologist (Mathieu Amalric) is asked to conduct a confidential assessment of Mathias Jüst (Michael Lonsdale) -- the head of the German petrochemical company that employs him -- he uncovers a series of unpleasant truths. Nicolas Klotz directs this French-language Cannes selection that explores the lingering effects of World War II-era Nazism on contemporary Europe.

Awards:
2007 Copenhagen International Film Festival: Best Actor Award
2007 Spain HongGuoJi Film Festival: Best Actor Award
2008 French Caesar Award: Best Supporting Actor

On Tour
2010.France. Mathieu Amalric.111min
Exiled television producer Joachim Zand (Mathieu Amalric) returns to his native France from the United States, bringing with him a cast of striptease artists and the notion of promoting a burlesque tour of the country. The grand tour proves to be an unlikely success, but things go less well in Paris, where the tour is to have its final performance, and where Joachim has to deal again with the cast of enemies and friends he left behind.

AWARD:
2010 Best Director at Cannes Film Festival

Flandres
2006. France. Bruno Dumont. 91min
A circle of small-town youths in France come of age in this drama from acclaimed writer-director Bruno Dumont. At its core is the relationship between teen tramp Barbe (Adélaïde Leroux) and farmhand Demester (Samuel Boidin) -- who sleeps with Barbe but shows no feelings for her. Both of their lives will change, however, as Demester is sent off to war, where his hellish experiences are rivaled only by Barbe's own terrible turn of events at home

Award:
2006 Grand Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival

The Young Lieutenant
2005. France. Xavier Beauvois. 110min
Rookie detective Antoine Derouère (Jalil Lespert) accepts a position with Paris's elite homicide division, where his first days as a new lieutenant are routine. But when the body of a drifter is found on the banks of the Seine, the entire squad is thrown into turmoil. Led by a recovering alcoholic unit commander (Nathalie Baye), Antoine and the seasoned investigative team unravel a case of shocking violence that will change their lives forever.

Awards:
2006 French César Award: Best Actress

Beloved
2011. France. Christophe Honoré. 135min
In the 1960s, circumstances separated Madeleine from her husband. Flash-forward 30 years, and Madeleine watches history repeating itself in the life of her daughter, Véra. But as times change, so do the ways these women respond to love and loss.

The Secret of The Grain
2007. France. Abdel Kechiche. 151min
After 35 years of shipyard work in the French port town of Sète, Tunisian immigrant Slimane (Habib Boufares) takes his severance pay and pursues his impossibly expensive dream of opening a couscous restaurant. His only hope lies in his fractured family, including his mistress, Lilia (Leila D'Issernio), her entrepreneurial daughter, Rym (Hafsia Herzi), and his ex-wife and ace couscous cook, Souad (Bouraouïa Marzouk), in this César-winning drama.

Awards:
The 64th Venice Film Festival Special Jury Prize

Curator: Jean-Michel-Frodon (previous head editor of Cahiers du Cinémas)

Partner: French Embassy