Programme

Shang Cineplex
Shangri-La Plaza

NOTE: This program is not yet finalized. The final list of films to be screened during the
festival will be announced on June 1, during the press preview at Shangri-La Mall.

Title Director Cast Distributor

L’Immortel Richard Berry Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Pioneer Films
Marina Fois, Jean-
Pierre Darroussin
L’Heure d’été Olivier Assayas Charles Berling, Juliette CulturesFrance
Binoche
La Fille du RER André Téchiné Emilie Dequenne, CulturesFrance
Catherine Deneuve
La Graine et le Abdellatif Kéchiche CulturesFrance
Mulet
Les Bureaux de Dieu Claire Simon Anne Alvaro, Nathalie CulturesFrance
Baye, Michel Boujenah,
L’Amour c’est mieux Dominique Farrugia Clovis Cornillac, STUDIOCANAL
à deux Virginie Efira, Manu
Payet
Le Premier Venu Jacques Doillon CulturesFrance

Welcome Philippe Lioret CulturesFrance

Dans La Vie Philippe Faucon CulturesFrance

22 Bullets

Director : Richard Berry

Actors : Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Marina Foïs, Luc Palun, Richard Berry, Joey
Starr, Dominique Thomas, Martial Bezot, Daniel Lundh, Boris Baum
Feature film
Genres : Fiction - Crime/thriller
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 3/24/10
Runtime : 1h 54mn

Synopsis

Charly Mattei has turned over a new leaf and left his criminal past behind. For three years now he has
been leading a peaceful existence dedicated to his wife and their two children. However, one winter
morning, he is left for dead in a parking lot in the old port of Marseille, his body riddled with 22
bullets. To everyone's general astonishment, he doesn't die. Based on real facts, the story has been
reinvented within the Marseille gangster underworld.
Summer Hours

Director : Olivier Assayas

Actors : Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Rénier, Édith Scob, Dominique Reymond, Valérie
Bonneton, Isabelle Sadoyan, Kyle eastwood, Alice de Lencquesaing, Emile Berling, Jean-Baptiste
Malartre, Gilles Arbona, Éric Elmosnino, Marc Voinchet, Sara Martins, Christian Lucas, Philippe
Paimblanc, Luc Bricault, Arnaud Azoulay
Feature film
Genres : Fiction - Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 3/5/08
Runtime : 1h 40mn

Synopsis
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must
relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother’s succession.
Directors : Dominique Farrugia, Arnaud Lemort
Actors : Clovis Cornillac, Virginie Efira, Manu Payet, Annelise Hesme, Laurence Arne, Shirley
Bousquet, Jonathan Lambert, Laurent Lafitte, Sophie Vouzelaud, Emmanuel Suarez , Lancelot Roch,
Marie Vincent, Diane Dassigny, Clémence Aubry, Étienne Drabert, Monique Martial
Feature film
Genres : Fiction - Comedy
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 5/5/10
Runtime : 1h 40mn

Synopsis

Michel dreams of the perfect encounter, one that happens completely by accident like the way that his
parents and his grandparents met, while Vincent has only one thing on his mind: sex. Friends from
childhood with diametrically opposed views about women, they discover the limits of their respective
reasoning when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.
Director : Claire Simon
Actors : Nathalie Baye, Nicole Garcia, Isabelle Carré, Michel Boujenah, Béatrice Dalle, Rachida Brakni,
Anne Alvaro, Lolita Chammah, Emmanuel Mouret, Marie Laforet, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Manon
Garcia
Feature film
Genres : Fiction - Comedy
Production language : French
Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium)
French release : 11/5/08
Runtime : 2h 2mn

Synopsis

In this choral film, we share in the daily lives of five family planning consellors who advise the
adolescent girls and women who come to speak with them. They want to learn about the conditions of
a choice that they must or wish to take, rather than to be subjected to it. That choice is to do with their
sexual freedom and the moment when they'll have a child or not.
Secret of the Grain

Director : Abdellatif Kechiche

Actors : Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Faridah Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche, Bouraouïa
Marzouk, Cyril Favre, Alice Houri, Leïla D'Issernio, Abdelkader Djeloulli, Bruno Lochet, Olivier
Loustau, Sami Zitouni, Sabrina Ouazani, Mohamed Benabdeslem, Hatika Karaoui, Henri Rodriguez,
Nadia Taouil , Jeanne Corporon, Henri Cohen, Violaine Carné (de)
Feature film
Genres : Fiction - Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 12/12/07
Runtime : 2h 31mn

Synopsis : Sète, the port. Monsieur Beiji, 60 and and wanting to retire from hard labor at the docks .
Divorced head of the family, with all its problems and complicated stories. Financial difficulties
burden his existence, at a loss. He wants to put up his own business: a restaurant. But his meager
income make his dream seem impossible, but he opens up to his family and friends. The family
specially is brought together by the project, offering opportunity for all…
The Girl on the Train
Director : André Téchiné
Actors : Emilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc, Ronit Elkabetz, Mathieu Demy, Nicolas
Duvauchelle
Feature film
Genres : Fiction - Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 3/18/09
Runtime : 1h 45mn

Synopsis

Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. The two women get on well together.
Louise earns her living by looking after children. Jeanne is half-heartedly looking for a job.

One day, while checking job offers on the Internet, Louise believes that fate has come knocking at her
door.
She harbours the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer whom she
knew in her youth.

Jeanne's and Bleistein's worlds are light years apart. However, they'll be set on a collision course
because of an incredible lie that Jeanne puts together.

The film is a story of this lie that will become the biggest news and political story of recent times.
Dans la Vie

Director : Philippe Faucon

Actresses : Sabrina Ben Abdallah, Ariane Jacquot, Zohra Mouffok
Feature film
Genres : Fiction
Subgenres : Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 3/12/08
Runtime : 1h 13mn
Current status : Released
Associate production company : Istiqlal Films
Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
Film export/Foreign Sales : Pyramide International
Synopsis

Esther, an elderly Jewish lady, needs constant home care. But her bad moods wear out her home
nurses, and the latest has just quit her job. Elie, Esther's son, no longer knows what to do. Selima, the
day nurse, offers her mother's services. Halima is a practicing Muslim.

Against all expectations, a real bond forms between the two women. Halima knows how to make
Esther appreciate and respect her. Full of energy, she gives Esther a new taste for life.
 Le Premier Venu

Réalisé par Jacques Doillon

Avec Clémentine Beaugrand, Gérald Thomassin, Guillaume Saurrel, plus

Long-métrage français , belge . Genre : Drame

Durée : 02h03min Année de production : 2007
Distributeur : Pyramide Distribution

Synopsis : Twenty-ish girl, from a wealthy family. She’s looking for some light in her life, which she
finds of no interest, lacking passion, boring. She decides to give love. Not to the most attractive, most
worthy, or admirable.. who doesnt need it, but rather to the first comer.
Les toits de Paris

Director : Hiner Saleem

Actors : Michel Piccoli, Mylène Demongeot, Maurice Bénichou, Marie Kremer, Rudi Rosenberg, Serge
Chambon, Birol Unel, Vincent Tepernowski, Nicolas Pignon, Mado Maurin, Sandrine Briard
Feature film
Genres : Fiction
Subgenres : Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 11/21/07
Runtime : 1h 38mn
Current status : Released

Synopsis : Sous les toits de Paris... the song doesn’t sound the same . Nowadays, it’s very hot, specially
when you’re old, and poor…
WELCOME

Director : Philippe Lioret

Actors : Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Thierry Godard, Selim Akgül, Firat Celik, Murat
Subasi, Olivier Rabourdin, Yannick Renier, Patrick Ligardes, Behi Djanati AtaÏ, Jean-Pol Brissart,
Blandine Pélissier, Éric Herson-Macarel, Gilles Masson, Emmanuel Courcol, Jean-François Fagour,
Jean-Paul Comart, Lazare Herson-Macarelle, Stéphane Butet, Carine Bouquillon, Philippe Gaulé,
Fanny Drouin, Emmanuelle Dupuy, Derya Ayverdi
Feature film Fiction Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 3/11/09
Runtime : 1h 50mn

Synopsis

Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurdish youth, has traveled through the Middle East and Europe to join his
girlfriend, who has recently emigrated to England with her family. But his journey comes to an abrupt
end when he is stopped on the French side of the Channel.
Having decided to swim across, Bilal goes to the local swimming pool to train. There he meets Simon,
a swimming instructor in the midst of a divorce. To impress his wife and win back her heart, Simon
decides to risk everything by taking Bilal under his wing.