ENVIRONNEMENT | SOCIETY
Mediterranean – Challenges Of The Global Warming
On the Mediterranean coast, the great heat wave of 2003 was exceptional. Twenty years later it has become normal. Will the conditions of life be impossible in cities such as Nice, Cannes and Marseille? Will it be possible to share water on the French Riviera? Will it be still possible to grow cattle and cereals in the mountains near the sea? This documentary is the second episode of a series starting with “Mediterranean 2100 – a changing climate” that aims to help us to understand what must be changed to guarantee the living on Mediterranean shores.
DIRECTORS: Marie-Anne Sorba & Jean-Marc Cazenave
ORIGINAL MUSIC : Paul Tyan
PRODUCTION: Fred Hilgemann Films
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: France Télévisions, CNC
FORMAT : 52 minutes
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Beliane
SCIENCE | NATURE
The Great Scallop Odyssey
Thanks to their ability to give very accurate information on the changes of their environment, scallops are unexpected indicators of the state of the ocean. Detecting their potential, researcher Laurent Chauvaud takes us from Brittany to the Pole, with a multidisciplinary team to better understand and alert on the ecological changes revealed by scallops.
DIRECTOR: Laurence Monroe
SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR: Laurent Chauvaud (French National Center Of Scientific Research)
PRODUCTION: Fred Hilgemann Films & Calisto Productions
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: Ushuaïa TV, CNC, CNRS Images, Procirep-Angoa
PARTENARIAT : French Polar Institute
FORMAT: 52 minutes
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Beliane
HISTORY | RELIGIONS
Women Of Faith
Catherine of Siena, Plautilla Nelli, Louise de Marillac and Suzanne Aubert were four exceptionnal women. They have a special place in the History of Christianity. How did they chose their mission? Which paths did they open? How do their writtings and their fights echo today? Using archive footage, interviews with experts and fiction sequences in order to make them live again, this documentary gives a voice to these women from the past, in the places where they actually lived, in France and Italy.
DIRECTOR: Valérie Deschênes
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Jean-Marc Ladet
PRODUCTION: Fred Hilgemann Films
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: KTO, CNC
FORMAT: 52 minutes
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Beliane
SCIENCE | ENVIRONMENT
Mediterranean 2100
According to IPCC experts, the Mediterranean area is warming faster than anywhere else on earth. On the French Riviera, the temperatures will exceed +2°C in 2040, +4°C in the cities, causing extreme weather events, recurrent forest fires, intense droughts… In which conditions will our grand-children live in 2100?
DIRECTORS: Marie-Anne Sorba & Jean-Marc Cazenave
PRODUCTION: Fred Hilgemann Films
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: France Télévisions, CNC
FORMAT: 52 minutes
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Beliane
SCIENCE | ARCHAEOLOGY
Meeting Neanderthal
*** Best Archaeology Film ***
Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival 2020
*** Youth Prize – Narbonne Archaeology Film Fest (France) 2019 ***
*** ArcheoVisiva Prize – Licodia Eubea Film Fest (Italy) 2019 ***
On the tracks of the mysterious Neanderthal people who lived in North-West Europe for 200 000 years, in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and South England, long before the Channel or the North Sea, we discover the way of life of those who happened to be the first European people. Thanks to their archaeological and anthropological marks in the landscapes, we understand their deep connection with the environment.
DIRECTORS: Rob Hope & Pascal Cuissot
SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR: Ludovic Slimak (French National Center Of Scientific Research)
PRODUCTION: Fred Hilgemann Films
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: ARTE France, France Télévisions, Inrap, CNC, Procirep-Angoa
FORMAT: 52 minutes
INTERNATIONAL SALES : Beliane
SOCIAL ISSUES | ENVIRONMENT
The Prophecy
A Warning Of Climate Change In Alaska
*** Best Environmental Film – We The People – London – 2018 ***
Decades before scientists recognized the looming dangers of climate change, the elders of one of Alaska’s indigenous groups, the Yupik people, shared a profound warning with their children. « When the world changes », they said, « the weather will change along with the people ».
Over fifty years later, the impact of climate change on Alaska’s environment and population is becoming more and more visible. The Central Alaskan Yupik people, who have retained their native language and culture despite centuries of Russian and American influence, now face their toughest challenge yet. How will this society, which is so close to nature, adapt to the changing natural landscape around them?
Does their experience prefigure our own global future?
DIRECTORS: Dmitry Trakovsky & Paloma Veinstein
NARRATION: Laura Benson
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK: Paul Tyan
ADDITIONNAL MUSIC: Hildur Guonadottir
PRODUCTION: Fred Hilgemann Films / French Connection Films (France) & Trakovky Film (USA)
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: M-Media / Cinefeel, CNC
FORMAT: 52 minutes
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Beliane
Berlinale Talents 2017: the composer Paul Tyan talks about the creation of the original music of « The Prophecy »
Selections
SCIENCE | ARCHAEOLOGY
The Enigma Of The Great Menhir
Seven thousand years ago, peoples living on the Atlantic shores erected thousands of gigantic stones in Western Europe. A millennium before the first cuneiform alphabets of Mesopotamia or Egyptian hieroglyphics, they engraved stylized signs that has long remained a mystery. From the beginning of the 2010s, an international team of archaeologists led by France’s Serge Cassen, has been able to decipher that original language, shared by all the Atlantic cultures during the Neolithic. Based on new techniques of aerial and underwater surveys, as well as on spectacular 3D reconstructions, this discovery changes our look on European Prehistory forever. Between history and myth, the megalithic monuments now tell us an ancient story, that stretches back to the roots of all Atlantic cultures : the epic expressions of the first sailors conquering the Ocean…
DIRECTORS: Marie-Anne Sorba & Jean-Marc Cazenave
SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR: Serge Cassen (French National Center Of Scientific Research)
PRODUCTION: Fred Hilgemann Films, France Télévisions, TRV, Tebeo, Tebesud, CNC, Procirep-Angoa
PARTNERS: French National Monument Center, Nantes National School of Architecture
FORMAT: 52 minutes
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Beliane
AWARDS
*** Jury Award – Cinearchea (Germany) 2017 ***
*** Jury Award – FIFAN (Switzerland) 2016 ***
*** Great Prize – Narbonne (France) 2016 ***
*** Best Archaeology Film – Athens (Greece) 2017 ***
*** Best Cinematography – Arkhaios (USA) 2016 ***
Festivals
Special screenings
Around the Great Menhir Advendure
The Missing Stele – short documentary 2015 (8’25”)
Based on recent archaeological discoveries and 3D reconstitutions, this short film was especially created by FHF for the experimental panoramic screen called Naexus 2.0. Named after Star Trek serial’s mysterious magnetic field due to its spheric structure, the 5.1 screen was designed by Nantes National School of Architecture (France), with the former collaboration of Dessau Bahaus University (Germany). Presented with Naexus 2.0 by the District of Morbihan to the 2015 Innovative SHS Exhibition to the Cité des Sciences (Paris) as a tool for the enhancement of the archaeological heritage, “The Missing Stele” has already been seen by more than 100,000 persons during events such as sailing races (Spi Ouest-France) and days of Archaeology.
DISCOVERY | RELIGION
The Passion Of Planaltina
Holy Week in Planaltina, Brazil. Saulo (Jesus), Preto (Judas) Paulo (Pilate) and the 1100 actors of the Via Sacra are about to replay the last moments of Jesus Christ’s life in front of up 200,000 persons, gathered on the slopes of the Mount of the Chapel. Created in 1973, this cultural event in now part of the Brazilian national heritage. From the performance to the backstage, following the main characters in their daily life and at work, we discover a society where men are moved by the power of dream and faith.
DIRECTOR: Marie-Anne Sorba
PRODUCTION: Fred Hilgemann Films
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: KTO, CNC
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Fred Hilgemann Films
LANGUAGE: Portuguese (Brazil) ST ENG
Festivals
DISCOVERY | RELIGION
Brother Sylvestre, Saint And Sorcerer
Born in an Italian family of winegrowers, Brother Sylvestre Pia dedicated 45 years of his life to fight against poverty in Burkina Faso (western Africa). Died at 83, he is the only foreigner who was granted National funeral ceremony folllowing the rites of the Mossi people in this country. Ten years after his death, Charles H. de Brantes, the director of the film, comes back to Goundi where he had met Sylvestre in 1975. Many, in Africa and Europe, now consider him a major figure of Burkina’s History in the 20th century, and moreover, as a saint.
Festivals
Rabat International Film Festival 2013 (Morocco)
FESPACO 2013, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
Cannes International PanAfrican Film Festival 2013 (France)
SCIENCE | ARCHAEOLOGY
The Peoples Of The Ring
Seven thousands years ago, in Brittany (western Europe), the Neolithic peoples made thousands of rings out of greenstones. Some of those rings were made of jade, which is an extremely rare mineral. Those have been found in the tombs of the highest chiefs of the megalithic civilisation in the fifth millennium. What did those precious rings mean for the people who wore them? To understand the symbolic values of the rings during Prehistory, the archaeologist Yvan Pailler starts an investigation from the ancient Brittany to contemporary Africa, until the margins of Mali, to explore the universal meanings of this cult-object.
DIRECTOR: Fred Hilgemann
SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR: Yvan Pailler (Inrap)
ORIGINAL MUSIC : Eric Lavallade & Mhéni Amazouz
PRODUCTION: EKLA Production
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF : Brittany TVs, CNC, Procirep-Angoa
FORMAT: 52 minutes
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Ekla Production
Festivals
Archaeology International Film & Video Festival, Eugene, OR (USA) 2014
Intl. Film Fest of Archaeology Rovereto (Italy) 2013
World Cultures Festival, Gannat (France) 2013
Pariscience 2012
DISCOVERY | AFRICA
The Carnival Of Kwen
In Kwen, Burkina Faso (Western Africa), the villagers a preparing an unusual party. During 3 days and nights, the young men and women, chosen by the elders, are going to play the part of political men, members of government, and decision makers of the civil society. Thus the young peasants become President of the country, Ministers, General of the Army, Queen, acting a full-size play parodying the power and the elites of their country…
DIRECTOR: Fred Hilgemann
PRODUCTION: EKLA Production
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF: France Télévisions, CNC, Procirep-Angoa
FORMAT: 52 minutes
INTERNATIONAL SALES: Ekla Production
CULTURE | CINEMA
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
“… a revealing-documentary…” – Reed Johnson, The Los Angeles Times
“The excellent Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky must be seen” – The Guardian
*** Jury Special Mention – Sao Paolo International Film Festival 2008 ***
In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky’s death, the Russian-American student filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky sets out in search of his favorite director’s legacy. His journey leads him to fifteen moving interviews in California, Italy, Sweden, and finally, Russia as he attempts to come closer to the meaning of one of Tarkovsky’s most enigmatic beliefs… that “death doesn’t exist”.
With : Vyacheslav Ivanov, Angelo Perla, Domiziana Giordano, Donatella Baglivo, Andrei Andreevich Tarkovsky, Fabrizio Borin, Manuele Cecconello, Krzysztof Zanussi, Brother Michael McCormick, Franco Terilli, Michal Leszczylowski, Erland Josephson, Ilya Khrzhanovsky, Paola Volkova, Gregory Pomerants.