SPECIAL PROGRAM: FRENCH FRENCH 

DOXA is very proud to offer a second edition of French French, which includes a retrospective of the work of Claire Simon. Ms. Simon was part of DOXA last year with our first selection of French films, curated by Thierry Garrel. In addition to presenting Géographie humaine (Human Geography), Claire also gave a masterclass and presented a selection of clips from some of her earlier films. This brief glimpse of her extraordinary body of work was enough to launch the idea of a retrospective.

We are extremely happy to welcome Claire Simon back to Vancouver with seven of her most celebrated films. In addition to the retrospective, we have a selection of three new and exciting films. The Final Passage is a 3-D animated portrait of the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Caves. The screening will be accompanied by a talk from Dr. Jean-Michel Geneste and Patricia Marquet Geneste. Antoine Boutet's South to North, a look at the largest water transfer project in China, is documentary on an epic scale. Nathalie Loubeyre's film Flow Mechanics examines the refugee crisis through grainy surveillance footage and infrared cameras.

Also, don't forget to read Thierry's superb essay about Claire Simon: The (French) Woman with a Movie Camera.


- CLAIRE SIMON RETROSPECTIVE -

     
Claire Simon, France, 1990
SAT MAY 7 | 6:45PM | SFU-GCA

Dr. Jean-Marie Bouvier could be a character from a novel. With his
thick rimmed glasses, dark suit, and undeniable charm, he is a study in
competence and no-nonsense compassion, but also a lesson in how to be a good human being.

Claire Simon, France, 2008
TUES MAY 10 | 3:00PM | VANCITY THEATRE

Life inside a family planning clinic is the basis for Claire Simon's seamless mixture of documentary and performance. The doctors and counselors are played by some of France's most acclaimed actresses while the patients are all non-professional actors.
Claire Simon, France, 2015
SAT MAY 7 | 8:30PM | SFU-GCA

The Bois de Vincennes park, in Paris, spans some 995 hectares and
contains multitudes. Whether it's gay men cruising for sex in the rain,
or a hermit who makes a home deep in a remote section of the woods,
everywhere humans are busily going about their business.
Claire Simon, France, 1992
TUES MAY 10 | 5:45PM | VANCITY THEATRE

Shot entirely in the courtyard of a French kindergarten, Récréations is a marvel of protean shape-shifting action, not unlike watching the play of molecules in the universe, or macaque monkeys on the loose.

Claire Simon, France, 2002
SUN MAY 8 | 8:15PM | VANCITY THEATRE

On a warm sunny day in the seaside town of Nice, France, Mimi and her friend Claire walk and talk about her memories of the town. A natural born raconteur, Mimi's métier is memory.

Claire Simon, France, 1995
WED MAY 11 | 2:45PM | VANCITY THEATRE

Capitalism, red in tooth and claw, is the basis of Claire Simon's comic tragedy of business heartbreak. The scene is a small catering company in the seaside city of Nice. The business is barely a year old, but is already in major trouble.
Claire Simon, France, 2001
THURS MAY 12 | 3:15PM | VANCITY THEATRE

Manon and Greg are in love. In a small village in Provence, Greg works with his father, the village baker at night. Manon, on summer holidays from her school in Paris, is director Claire Simon's only daughter.




Read more about Claire Simon here!

 
- ADDITIONAL FRENCH FILMS -


Antoine Boutet, France, 2015
SUN MAY 8 | 2:00PM | CINEMATHEQUE

The subject of Antoine Boutet's extraordinary film is made clear from the opening scene. It is scale. Boutet follows the construction of the Nan Shui Bei Diao - South North Water Transfer Project - the largest water transfer project in the world.
Pascal Magontier, France, 2016
TUES MAY 10 | 7:15PM | VANCITY

Made entirely using 3-D models, The Final Passage is an uninterrupted journey through the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave, whose steady development approaches the experience of the first men who spent time in the cave 36,000 years ago.
Nathalie Loubeyre, France, 2015
FRI MAY 13 | 5:00PM | VANCITY

By combining stark footage with poignant testimonies, director Nathalie Loubeyre paints a bleak picture of the migrant crisis in Europe and the precarious lives of those living at the continent's literal and figurative margins.



For National Volunteer Week, we wanted to say a special thank you to all of our dedicated volunteers who  support us during the year and during our Festival. We appreciate all of your hard work and enthusiasm and our Festival wouldn't be possible without you!

There's still time to join us for DOXA 2016! Sign up to volunteer here.
 
 
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DOXA Documentary Film Festival
May 5 - 15, 2016
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