• Tweet
•    

• Tweet
•    

Screening Schedule
Tue, Mar 6: I Think About Alain Tanner; Loving Father, 12:30 & 4pm
Tue, Mar 6: Jacob Berger presents I Think About Alain Tanner & Loving Father, 7pm
Tue, Mar 13: Play; Animal Heart, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, Mar 20: Jonas; Our Dreams, Your Nightmares; and The Invitation, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
Tue, Mar 27: The Man without a Shadow; Accomplices, 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm (Tinker Auditorium)

Swiss cinema reflects the country’s rich cultural diversity with films in German, French, and Italian. In honor of the Mois de la Francophonie, FIAF, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York and Swiss Films, presents a month-long exploration of Swiss films in French.

Included in this series are Jonas and Nos rêves, vos cauchemars, two shorts, to be screened on March 20, La journée de la Francophonie, in celebration of the 300th anniversary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s birth.

On March 6, FIAF kicks off the series with director Jacob Berger, an important voice in Swiss cinema today, who will present his films Je pense à Alain Tanner and Aime ton père.

Short & Feature
I Think About Alain Tanner
and Loving Father 
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
12:30 & 4pm
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall

I Think About Alain Tanner
Je pense à Alain Tanner
Jacob Berger, 2010. Color. 9 min.
In French with English subtitles

Loving Father
Aime ton père
Jacob Berger, 2002. Color. 100 min.
With Gérard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu,
Sylvie Testud, Julien Boisselier
In French with English subtitles

When a renowned author disappears en route to receive an award in Stockholm, most believe him to be dead. No one suspects that his own son has kidnapped him in a hostile yet sincere attempt to reconnect.

Short & Feature
Play
and Animal Heart
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
Free for FIAF Members

Play / Jeu
Georges Schwizgebel, 2006. Color. 4 min.
Without dialogue

Animal Heart / Coeur animal
Séverine Cornamusaz, 2009. Color. 90 min.
With Olivier Rabourdin, Camille Japy,
Antonio Buil, Alexandra Karamisaris
In French without subtitles

A middle-aged man and his younger wife form the core of Animal Heart, a film concerned with deception, paranoia, lust, and helplessness. Confined to the rural farm they share, the gradual disintegration of their marriage is riveting.

Two Shorts & Feature
Jonas;
Our Dreams, Your Nightmares;
and The Invitation 
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
Free for FIAF Members

The screenings at 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm will be introduced by Jean Perret, director of the Cinema Department at Haute École d’Art et de Design Genève (HEAD), and former Director of the international documentary film festival Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland.

Jonas
Alain Tanner, 1975. Color. 4 min.
In French with English subtitles

Our Dreams, Your Nightmares
Nos rêves, vos cauchemars
Felipe Monroy, 2012. Color. 4 min.
In French with English subtitles

The Invitation
L’invitation 
Claude Goretta, 1973. Color. 100 min.
With Jean-Luc Bideau, Michel Robin, Roger Jendly,
William Jacques, François Simon
In French with English subtitles

An undistinguished man invites his office co-workers to a lavish gathering at his country house. As the guests loosen up and enjoy his estate (and his alcohol), they come to appreciate each other in unexpected ways.

Short & Feature
The Man without a Shadow
and Accomplices
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
12:30, 4 & 7:30pm
FIAF, Tinker Auditorium
Free for FIAF Members

The Man without a Shadow
L’homme sans ombre 
Georges Schwizgebel, 2004. Color. 10 min.
Without dialogue

Accomplices
Complices 
Frédéric Mermoud, 2009. Color. 93 min.
With Emmanuelle Devos, Gilbert Melki,
Nina Meurisse, Cyril Descours
In French with English subtitles

Two middle-aged detectives are partnered to work the case of a murdered teenage boy and his missing girlfriend. As they make progress solving the mystery, the agony of their own loneliness and lack of love only intensifies.