Ascona Film Festival presents : “Madame & Monsieur” a film by Eleonora Albrecht con Flavio Parenti (già per Woody Allen, Pupi Avati e Peter Greenaway)

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“Madame & Monsieur” è un film cortometraggio che aspira ad essere un inno alla vita e all’amore, attraverso la storia di due persone che, nonostante tutto, non possono stare l’una senza l’altra.

SINOSSI – Synopsis

ITALIANO

E’ quasi il tramonto, siamo su una spiaggia. Una donna ed un uomo sui 65 anni, Madame e Monsieur, sono seduti su un asciugamano di fronte al mare. Mentre Madame è di buon umore, Monsieur è preso dalla lettura di un libro e non le presta nessuna attenzione. Andando indietro nel tempo, vediamo varie situazioni della loro gioventù negli anni ’60, momenti felici della loro vita passata insieme. Finché Madame, oggi, chiama Monsieur per farsi raggiungere in acqua, ma Monsieur non la guarda neanche. Allora Madame gli si avvicina, fa per abbracciarlo ma… qualcosa accade.

ENGLISH

We’re on a beach, the sunset is approaching. There’s a woman and a man in their sixties, Madame and Monsieur, sitting on a towel, facing the sea. Madame is in a good mood, Monsieur is reading a book and is not paying any attention to her. We go back to the time when they were young, in the ’60s, looking at some happy moments of their life spent together. Until now, when Madame is calling Monsieur, asking him to join her in the water, but Monsieur doesn’t even look at her. Madame, then, approaches Monsieur trying to hug him but…something happens.

Note dell’autrice e regista:

Con questo cortometraggio, voglio esprimere le più grandi emozioni che un uomo può provare in una vita vissuta accanto ad un’altra persona. Il sentimento di amarezza, di sconforto, misto a bellezza per la felicità provata insieme. La consapevolezza che la persona con cui abbiamo condiviso la nostra vita, non scomparirà mai dai nostri ricordi. Un tema universale, che può toccare tutti i cuori. 

THE FILM

Eleonora Albrecht ha iniziato la sua formazione artistica attraverso il disegno per poi continuare con la recitazione e il cinema. Ha scritto la sceneggiatura di “Madame & Monsieur” qualche anno fa, ma il suo primo cortometraggio è stato “Le idee di Berenice”,  ispirato al racconto “Berenice” di Edgar A. Poe, che ha scritto, diretto, interpretato e montato.  Ha realizzato anche dei video art, tra cui “Black Coffee Girl”, scelto dal museo di Roma Chiostro del Bramante. 

Parallelamente è attrice e modella. 

www.eleonoraalbrecht.com

“Madame & Monsieur”

scritto e diretto da Eleonora Albrecht

CAST:

Flavio Parenti

Eleonora Albrecht

con la partecipazione straordinaria di Andrea Roncato

e con la partecipazione straordinaria di Barbara Bouchet  

PRODOTTO DA:

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Eleonora Albrecht

Flavio Parenti

Produttore Esecutivo : Simona Mondello

 

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Barbara

Bouchet

Role: Madame

Attrice di fama internazionale, musa di Q. Tarantino, ha recitato in più di 80 film e serie televisive, tra cui “Casino Royale”, “Star Trek” e “Gangs of New York”.

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Andrea

Roncato

Role: Monsieur

Tra i più famosi comici italiani, ha preso parte a numerose commedie di successo e serie televisive, come “L’allenatore nel pallone”e i vari “Vacanze di Natale”, oltre che  lavorare spesso con Pupi Avati.

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Flavio

Parenti

Role: young Monsieur 

Attualmente tra i più noti volti cinematografici e televisivi, protagonista del film candidato all’Oscar “Io sono l’amore”, e scelto da Woody Allen in “To Rome with love”, Pupi Avati, Liliana Cavani e Peter Greenaway.

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Eleonora

Albrecht

Role: young Madame

Vincitrice del premio Golden Graal come Astro nascente del cinema italiano, ha preso parte a numerosi film e fiction tra cui “Se sei così, ti dico sì” di E. Cappuccio e “Un giorno speciale” di F. Comencini.

5th Ascona Film Festival’s Official Selection 2016 Unveiled

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N. Title Author Country Genre Duration
1 Mediation Francisco Lorite United States Noir/Humor 14.10
2 La Queue Yacine Sersal France Fiction 10.00
3 A splendid affair Laurent Ardoint &Stéphane Duprat France Comedy 9.20
4 Webseries:The webseries Marc Giacomi United States New media 4.45
5 Voluntario Javier Marco Rico Spain Fiction 4.00
6 By mutual agreement Remy Cayuela France Fiction/Comedy 12.00
7 Quelques secondes Nora El Hourch France Fiction/Drama 17.00
8 Sans Plomb Emmanuel Tenenbaum Canada-France-Netherlands Comedy/Thriller 7.00
9 Sinuaria Roberto Carta Italy Fiction 15.00
10 A`consommer avant… Nicolas Fogliarini France Drama 15.00
11 Madame & monsieur Eleonora Albrecht Italy Drama/Sentimental 9.05
12 Scrabble Cristian Susler Switzerland Short 11.25
13 Gender & numbers Inés Poggio Quero Ethiopia Documentary 6.00
14 Comic potential Ross Carey & Emmet O’Brien Ireland Short 14.39
15 No Matter who Anne-Claire Jaulin France Short/Drama 18.49
16 L’encenedor quantic Pau Escribano Spain Comedy/Fantasy 5.08
17 Stuck Aaron Kamp Australia Short/Drama 12.09
18 Easy reapparence Guillaume Levil France Short/Comedy 16.50
19 Poetry-Marina Tsvetaeva”I like…” Alexey Karpov Russian federation Short/Music Video 3.45
20 A day Jaebin HAN South Corea Fiction 25.00
21 E.T.E.R.N.I.T Nicolo` Galbiati e Giovanni Aloi France Fiction/Short 14.00
22 Colourful knots Polen Ly Cambodia Drama/Children/Family 6.59
23 Fucking Tøs-Damn girls Kira Richards Hansen Denmark Psycological/Teen movie 14.00
24 The Business Davide Labanti Italy Short/Drama 15.00
25 El pescador Alejandro Suarez Spain Science Fiction 20.00
26 Vainilla Juan Beiro Spain Fiction 10.00
27 The Tailor Antonio Losito Italy Drama/History 15.00
28 Bebé a tout prix Guillaume Cliquot France Comedy/Children 10.00
29 La grippe du panda Sammy Hosseny France Comedy/Romantic 8.00
30 Zero David Victori United States/Spain Science fiction/Drama 29.00
31 In memory Alastar Clayton United Kingdom Drama/Romance/Illness 12.30
32 He and She Marco Gadge Comedy Germany 15.00

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Ascona Film Festival submissions : The Man Who Fed His Shadow (187 Official Selections, 44 Awards, qualified to BAFTA)

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Graham Jones “a very talented director”
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5th Ascona Film Festival closes submissions

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Ascona Film Festival announces the submission of “Tamago” by Koji Hirano

Tamago

In a small harbor town at the Southernmost end of Honshu Island of Japan, a highschool girl, Sora, lives alone with her father, Taichi. Sora deals with the pain of being abandoned by her mother. Being a teenager, Sora finds difficulty expressing her gratitude against her father. Sora slowly learns to face her own life choices and starts to dissolve the conflicting emotions. Sora takes a step toward her dream, inspiring others to find their own answers.

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Director: Koji Hirano

A Japanese, Koji Hirano, who studied in the USA and graduated from the University of Hawaii with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, has been a professional photographer in the USA for over 10 years and for 6 years in Paris, France as a fashion photographer and an artist.
Following his passion to find new ways of artistic expression, he now takes on the world of cinema and cinematography.

Director’s Statement

I made something. Something that was in my head to share with others.
This film is for all the people in the world furthermore for the future people in the era of the artificial intelligence.

Awards :

  • MAC Film Festival

    Amazon, Brazil
    August 8, 2015
    Best Cinematography

  • The Accolade Global Film Competition

    USA
    September 1, 2015
    Awards of Recognition

  • Louisville’s International Festival of Film

    Louisville, KY
    October 3, 2015
    The Best “On The Edge” Film

  • The Oregon Film Awards

    Oregon, USA
    November 8, 2015
    The Gold First-Time Director

 

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Ascona Film Festival proudly announce the submission of the award winner “Wildlike” with Ella Purnell and Bruce Greenwood

After conditions in her new home become unbearable, a teenage girl runs away and befriends an older man preparing for a hike through the Alaskan wilderness.

SYNOPSIS

In this thrilling coming-of-age adventure, a troubled teen must face the dangers of the Alaskan wild, as well as her own past, in order to find her way home. Sent to stay with her uncle in Alaska while her mother is in treatment, 14-year-old Mackenzie (Ella Purnell) is forced to flee as her uncle’s attention turns threatening. Unable to reach her mother and afraid that the authorities will return her to her uncle, she embarks on a journey across miles of wilderness to find a way back home to Seattle. As she plunges deeper into the Alaskan interior, a chance connection with gruff backpacker Bartlett (Bruce Greenwood) proves to be her only lifeline. Mackenzie shadows Bartlett across the rugged frontier, thwarting his efforts to cut her loose until he has no choice but to help her survive, and against the backdrop of a spectacular landscape, they discover the redemptive power of friendship.

Director:

Frank Hall Green

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Ella Purnell (MACKENZIE)

Born on September 17, 1996 in London, England, Ella can currently be seen playing the young Angelina Jolie in Disney’s Maleficent and will also appear in the lead role of the feature film Wildlike.  Ella’s also due to portray a young Jane in the upcoming remake of Tarzan. In 2008, she beat hundreds of other girls for a role in Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London.  She was one of only a few girls chosen to appear in the children’s ensemble and remained in the show for a year.   Her previous credits include Kick Ass 2, Intruders, a co-starring role in Ways To Live Forever and as a young version of Keira Knightly’s character Ruth in Never Let Me Go, based on the acclaimed book by Kazuo Ishiguro.  Ella was named one of Screen International’s Stars Of Tomorrow.  She has also appeared as one of English Vogue’s “Young Meteors” and Teen Vogues “Young Hollywood”. More recently Ella can be found in V Magazine, GQ, Flaunt, Tatler, Teen Tatler, Wonderland, Lulu, Dazed and Confused, Union and 1984.  Ella is also an active member in the National Youth Theatre group.

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Bruce Greenwood (RENE BARTLETT)

Bruce Greenwood is a Canadian actor and producer known for numerous films such as I, Robot (2004), Star Trek (2009) and Flight (2012).  He was last seen in Universal’s Endless Love (2014), and he will next be seen in Andrew Niccol’s Military drama-thriller Good Kill opposite Ethan Hawke.  Greenwood’s other noteworthy film credits include Déjà Vu (2006), a famous portrayal of JFK in Thirteen Days (2000) and Todd Hayne’s I’m Not There (2007).  Greenwood also enjoys a diverse and successful career in television.  He has starred in shows such as ABC’s Horror/Drama series The River and HBO’s John From Cincinnati.  Bruce has been married to Susan Devlin since 1985.  They divide their time between homes in Los Angeles and Vancouver.

Ascona Film Festival proudly anticipates : ” Zero the Project” executive producer RIDLEY SCOTT, MICHAEL FASSBENDER

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THE PROJECT

A sci-fi YouTube project written and directed by the YouTube Your Film Festival winner David Victori, executive produced by Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender.


SYNOPSIS

Father and son are emotionally and physically separate the day that Earth loses gravity intermittently.

The child wanders the city obsessed in responding to the recent death of his mother, while his father tries to find him in a world that is collapsing around him.


DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

A friend of mine, planted the germ of the idea in me by making me realize what a miracle it is that the earth is constantly pulling us to the ground. An idea so simple yet so complex, let my imagination unravel and I started developing ZERO by asking myself on question:

“What if the earth suddenly lost its gravity intermittently and progressively?”