Nouvelles

04 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Sundance Film Festival 2021 : Searchers will have its world premiere

    Is there anything worse than dating in New York City? Yes. It’s called dating in New York City during a pandemic—but at least in this film, you only have to watch others do it. Among those searching for their dream partner is Pacho Velez, the director of this charming and insightful documentary. “What are you looking for?” Velez asks his subjects, a group of New Yorkers of all ages, races, genders, and sexual preferences. Their approaches to...

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04 january 2021

  • Shooting

    Sundance Film Festival 2021 : Son of monarchs will have its US premiere

    Enchanted by the monarch butterflies of Michoacán, Mexico, since he was a child, Mendel dedicates his career as a scientist in New York to mapping out the monarch’s genetics. But he is haunted by flashbacks of being orphaned alongside his older brother, Simon, when their parents died in a flood. When Mendel travels home to attend the funeral of his grandmother, it's clear Simon harbors deep resentment toward him for having left. Migrating back and forth between Mexico...

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03 january 2021

  • Exhibition

    Asterix the European: Malbrouck Castle from 3 April to 28 November 2021

    The Château de Malbrouck inscribes its imposing silhouette in the heart of Europe, a javelin throw away from Germany and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, just a few kilometers from the Belgian border. What better setting to welcome our Gallic heroes, tireless travellers who have federated Europe in their own way through their many journeys, whether to Germany (Asterix and the Goths), Spain (Asterix in Hispania), Belgium (Asterix among the Belgians), or more recently to Scotland...

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03 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Sundance Film Festival 2021 : Sabaya will have its world premiere

    In August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Daesh) attacked the ancestral homeland of the Yazidis, one of the oldest ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq. Among many atrocities Daesh committed was the abduction of thousands of women and girls, who were passed on as sex slaves (sabaya) among the jihadists. Five years after the attack, filmmaker Hogir Hirori takes us on an eye-opening journey that follows a group of volunteers from the Yazidi Home Center on their mission to...

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03 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Sundance Film Festival 2021 : R#J will have its world premiere

    In fair Verona, a war as old as time is brewing between rival houses—but it’s being captured in a new way. Montague and Capulet Gen Zers are using their cell phones to document the eruptions of violence plaguing their communities. In the middle of it all, Romeo discovers Juliet’s artwork at a party, and the two inevitably fall in love. As tensions between their families escalate, the two plead for peace and desperately search for a way to escape their star-crossed...

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