Poster – French Cinema Season @ BACC

04.11.2023

Sub-Series

1 Picture

Date : 29 January 2022 – 30 January 2022
Location: Auditorium on 5 floor

French Cinema Season @ BACC
Date: 29 January 2022 – 30 January 2022
Location: Auditorium, 5th floor
Organised by: Arts Network Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre together with the Embassy of France in Thailand

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre together with the Embassy of France in Thailand organise the “French Cinema Season @ BACC,” a French language film festival from 29 – 30 January 2022. We present 4 selected French language films which reflect various issues in urban societies, such as mental health issues, relationships, technology, connectivity, the environment as well as social and political activism.

Arab Blues (Un divan à Tunis), 2019
Saturday 29 January 2022
Registration starts at 1PM
Screening starts at 2PM
Duration 1.30 hrs. / Thai and English Subtitles

Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.
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Deux moi, 2019
Saturday 29 January 2022
Registration starts at 4PM
Screening starts at 5PM
Duration 1.50 hrs. / Thai and English Subtitles

Rémy and Mélanie are thirty years old and live in the same neighbourhood in Paris. She multiplies missed appointments on social networks while he struggles to make an encounter. They are both victims of the solitude of big cities, in the hyper-connected era when it was thought that meeting each other should be easier… Two individuals, two journeys. Without knowing it, they take two roads that will lead them in the same direction… that of a love story?
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System K, 2018
Sunday 30 January 2022
Registration starts at 1PM
Screening starts at 2PM
Duration 1.34 hrs. / English Subtitle

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 2017. In the urban jungle counting over 13 million inhabitants, amid social and political chaos, an eclectic and bubbling street art scene is emerging. Underground visual artists, musicians and performers create out of nothing, using recycled objects and their own bodies to express their anger, but also their dreams for change. Despite the constant harassment of the authorities, the strong taboos of a traditional society and the personal struggles of the artists, the movement can no longer be stopped
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Si le vent tombe, 2020
Sunday 30 January 2022
Registration starts at 4PM
Screening starts at 5PM
Duration 1.40 hrs. / English Subtitle

Alain, an international auditor, comes to assess the airport of a small self-proclaimed republic in the Caucasus in order to give the green light to its reopening. Edgar, a local boy, engages in a strange trade around the airport. In contact with the boy and the inhabitants, Alain discovers this isolated land and risks everything to allow the country to open up.

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