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About a boy
By Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz
USA - 2002 - 101mn
Will Lightman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all invoved with the responsibilities of maried life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will'shope of a continued bachelorhood is interruped when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.

Closing film

L'ultimo bacio
By Yousri Nasrallah
Italy - 2001 - 115mn
Eight characters share their loves and passios. The Last kiss tells of their fear of growing up, the fear of being thirty and having to grow un and of being fifty and of growing old.

Avant première

divine secrets of the Ya-Ya
By Callie Khouri
USA - 2002 - 116mn
Playwright Sidda Lee Walker, on the verge of opening a new play, gives a magazine interview in which she discusses her unhappy childhood. her mother is furious and cuts her off. Her mother's friends, who formed a secret society, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, as children, kidnap Siddalee from her New york apartment and take her home to Louisiana, where they explain why her mother mistreated her with help from the secret Ya-Ya scrapbook (and copious flashbacks).

Embrassez qui vous voudrez
By Michel Blac
France - 2002 - 103mn
Parisian bourgeois couple Bertrane and Elizabeth and their friends and neigbours, Jérôme and véro, decide to spend the summer holidays in Le Toquet. At the Westminster Hotel, Elizabrth and julie make the acquaitance of a couple on the verge of implosion, Jean-Pierre and Lulu, and Maxime, a man obsessed with women. Meanwhile, Véro, Jérôme and son Loïc, whose actual holiday destination turns out to be a grubby caravan at the local compsite, do likewise with Alice (Julie's howling baby) and Carole and Romain, two teenagers an holiday with their father. The week in Le Toquet gives rise to all kinds of misunderstandings, infatuations and adulterous behaviour. They each go home a changed person and give their lives new direction at the garden party Elizabeth throws to round off the holidays.

Yadon Ilheyya (Intervention divine)
By Elia Sulaiman
France & Palestine - 2002 - 92mn
In Nazareth, undera a guise of banal normality, the town embraces madness. Under pressure from his failing business, a man takes matters into his own hands and tries to break a chain reaction of petty feuds.

K*19 The widow maker
By Kathryn Bigelow
USA - 2002 - 138mn
Inspired by a true story, the film follows the heroism of Capitain Alexei Vostrikov who, at the height of the Cold War, is ordred to take command of the nuclear miisile submarine K-19 away from its original commander Captain Mikhail Polein. Vostrikov's mission is to quickly ready the ill-prepared sub for her maiden voyage-no matter what the cost. But Vostrikov, Polenin and K-19’s mission loyal crew can never fathop what the price of failure might be for them and for the word when a nuclear reactor malfunctions, threatening a core meltdown and an explosion...

Le voyage de Chihiro
By Hayao Miyakazi
Japon - 2002 - 122mn
In the middle of her family"s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by witches and monsters, where humans are changed into animals.

Les amants deMogador
By Souheil Ben Barka
Morocco - 2002 - 90mn
Set in the early thirties, this film recounts the fight between Belkacem Ait Lahcen, a young Moroccan from the Sahara desert and Forjat, chief of the militarygarrison, who suspects him of helping the Djebel Saghro resistance.

Les voisins d’Abou Moussa
d’Eran Riklis
Maroc- 2002 - 90
In the early 14th centry, back from a victorious pacification compaign, Abou Salim Al Jourai is visitwo high dignitaries from the city who are opposed to each other. During the dinner, Chama, a young slave, almost scalds Abou Salim Al Jourai while passing him a jug of water. Noticing her exceptionnal beauty, the sultan"s minister immediatly asks her master to marry her.

L’homme du train (The man on the train)
By Patrice Leconte
France - 2001 - 90mn
In a medium sized town, two men come across each other; they are complete opposites or at least seem to be. Warily att fist, they strike up a friendship as they each discovered that what they have always really wanted is the life of the other man. Manesquier fantasizes about having been a man of action whilst Milan imagines himalayen at home with a pipe and slippers. Three days from now Milan is to hold up the local branch of the BNP Bank That"s why he is here. Tree days from now Manesquier is to have a triple heart bypass. That"s why he"s square stiff. three days to get to know one another and to dream of a different life. a life that might have been. Three days befor taking the plunge.

No man’s land
By Danis Tanovic
Bosnie - 2002 - 98mn
The late of two soldiers, Ciki and Nino, a Bosnian and a Ser who find themselves stranded between enemy lines, in ’ no man"s land &rsquot;, during the 1993 conflict. As Ciki and Nino try to figure a way out of their bizarre predicament, a brave UN sergeant goes to help them, despite being ordred not to intervenue, and the press corps follow, turning a news story into an international incident.
In a tense stand off between the many sides involved in the conflict and with the word"s press waiting for an outcome, Ciki and Nino desperately try to negotiate for their lives amidst the insanity of war.

Le mentale
By Mark Forster

France - 2002 - 115mn
Hank Grotowski is a prison gund. He works with his son, Sonny, and lives at home with his racist father, Buck. Lawrence Musgrove has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has hapened at home. Now, Hank has just met Leticia, a young black woman struggling to make ends meet and they quickly fall in love to ease each other's pains. If only he knew that Leticia is Musgrove's window..

Quelqu'un de bien
By Patrick Timsit
France - 2002 - 100mn
Pierre and paul are two brothers who have been enemies for more than ten years. Everyting drives them apart. Almost everything...altough two things bring them together.

Sings
By Night Shymalan
USA - 2001 - 106mn
In Bucks Country, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of graham Hess, the town’s reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test hess’s faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.

Road to perdition
By Sam Mendes
USA - 2001 - 125mn
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crim boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure. However after his son is witness to a killing he has done Mike Sullivanfinds him self on the run trying to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him. Jude Law co starts as a hit man hired to kill Sullivan.

The good thief
By Neil jordan
USA - 2002 - 109mn
Bob Montagnet is an american gambler and thief, who has ended up in the south of france, out of luck and out of money but he is olso a heroin addict, his habit fed by Said. As the filmd opens, Bob is gambling in an illegal joint run by Remi, a local pimp.

I am Sam
By Jessie Nelson
USA - 2002 - 127mn
Sam Dawson has the montal capacity of a 7-years-old. he works at a Starbucks. He has a daughter with a homeless woman, she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. he names his daughter Lucky and rises her.

Une minute de soleil en moins
By Nabil Ayouch
France-Maroc - 2002 - 99mn
Tangiers, Kamel Raoui a young police captain, must investigate the daeth of Hakim Tahiri, a major drug trafficker murdred in his Tangiers villa. The principal suspect is his employeeand misstress, touria, a young woman who lives in the villa with her little brother, Pipo.

Flower and Granet
By Keith Behrman
Canada - 2001 - 104mn
Garnet is a ten year-old boy whose mother died during his birth. Raised by his older sister, Flower, and his brooding father Ed, Garnet feels that his mother’s death was his fault and that he was meant to live.

Des chiens dans la neige (Wolves in the snow)
By Michel Welterlin
Canada - 2001 - 95mn
Lucie and Antonie have an unhappy mariage. One day, they have a violent confrontation and Lucie accidentally kills Antonie in their fight. Lucie goes to the police to report her husband missing. What Lucie does notknow in that Antonie has been laundering money. His former partners are now looking for him and for their missing money.

Mulholland drive
By Michel Welterlin
USA - 2001 - 146mn
A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdred, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a Director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Sueurs
By Michel Welterlin
France - 2002 - 103mn
Experienced truck driver Harvery, ground crew member Victor, and psychotic hit man Simon join forces to heist a fortune in gold orefrom a North African airport. Then a frantic race against time begins as the four uneasy partners in crime drive across an unforrgiving and scorching desert to make contact with the man who’ll turn their loot into hard cash..

Cinema du sud

Kabala
By Assane Kouyate
Mali-2002-112mn
Kabada, a small town in the mandé region of africa, is afflicted dy drought, and struggles betwineen life and death, the sacred well of the ancestors is drying up.

La cueillette des olives
By Hanna Elias
Palestine - Etats-Unis 2002-83mn
The beautiful and spiritual Raeda is engaged to taher, an ambitious journalist and politician livig in Ramllah.

Le fleuve
By Mama Keita
Palestine - Etats-Unis 2002-83mn
Out of revenge, a young halfcaste, Alfa kills the man who ordered the death of his best friend. In hiding, he takes covr in senegal where part of his family lives whom he has never met.

Abouna
By Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
France-Tchad -2002- 81mn
15-year-old tahir and 8-year-old Amine wake up one morning to tearn that their father has left hane.

Ali Rabia et les autres
By Ahmad Boulane
Maroc -2000- 85mn
Implicated against his will in a political scandal, Ali spends 20 years in prison for murder. When he is released, evrithing has changed: his group of friends has separated; each one having chosen a diferent path.

En attendant le bonheur
By Abderrahmane Sissako
Mauritanie -2002- 95mn
Nouadhibou is a small seaside village on the Mauritanian coast. Amongst its white-washed buildings and melodic songs passed down through generations, lives intertwine while waiting for a hypotetical happiness...

Anansi
By Fritz Boumann
Allemagne -2002- 80mn
Anansi tells the story of a group of a West Africans who, out of desperate need and in their quest for survival, dare the perilous journey to Germany.

L’ange de goudron
By Denis Chouinard
Allemagne -2002- 80mn
Ahmad Kasmi fled Algeria with his family to settle in Montréal. A few weeks before he is to receive his prized Canadian citizenship, he discovers that his eldest son, Hafid, is involved with a group of political activists.

Les chemins de l’oued
By Gael Morel & Wadi Paths
France-2002-78mn
A murder? Hit-and-run drivers, An accident. Sony gets missed up in a sinister tale with Franck and Pablo. He was the one driving the car and he is the one who probably killed a policeman

Rachida
By Yamina bachir
Algerie -2002- 100mn
For having bravely refused to put a bomb in her school, Rachida a young teacher finds herself in a nightmare. Inspite of the daily terror, she avows not overcome.

Satin rouge
By Raja Amari
Tunisie/2002/100mn
Modern day Tunis. As far as anyone is concerned, Lilia’s an “orderly woman” and a attentive mother. She believes her daughter Salam is having affair with Chokri, a musician is in the Red Satin cabaret.






International Film Festival Of Marrakech Out of competition 2002 Opening film About a boy By Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz USA - 2002 - 101mn Will Lightman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all invoved with the responsibilities of maried life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will'shope of a continued bachelorhood is interruped when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite. Closing film L'ultimo bacio By Yousri Nasrallah Italy - 2001 - 115mn Eight characters share their loves and passios. The Last kiss tells of their fear of growing up, the fear of being thirty and having to grow un and of being fifty and of growing old. Avant première divine secrets of the Ya-Ya By Callie Khouri USA - 2002 - 116mn Playwright Sidda Lee Walker, on the verge of opening a new play, gives a magazine interview in which she discusses her unhappy childhood. her mother is furious and cuts her off. Her mother's friends, who formed a secret society, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, as children, kidnap Siddalee from her New york apartment and take her home to Louisiana, where they explain why her mother mistreated her with help from the secret Ya-Ya scrapbook (and copious flashbacks). Embrassez qui vous voudrez By Michel Blac France - 2002 - 103mn Parisian bourgeois couple Bertrane and Elizabeth and their friends and neigbours, Jérôme and véro, decide to spend the summer holidays in Le Toquet. At the Westminster Hotel, Elizabrth and julie make the acquaitance of a couple on the verge of implosion, Jean-Pierre and Lulu, and Maxime, a man obsessed with women. Meanwhile, Véro, Jérôme and son Loïc, whose actual holiday destination turns out to be a grubby caravan at the local compsite, do likewise with Alice (Julie's howling baby) and Carole and Romain, two teenagers an holiday with their father. The week in Le Toquet gives rise to all kinds of misunderstandings, infatuations and adulterous behaviour. They each go home a changed person and give their lives new direction at the garden party Elizabeth throws to round off the holidays. Yadon Ilheyya (Intervention divine) By Elia Sulaiman France & Palestine - 2002 - 92mn In Nazareth, undera a guise of banal normality, the town embraces madness. Under pressure from his failing business, a man takes matters into his own hands and tries to break a chain reaction of petty feuds. *K19 The widow maker By Kathryn Bigelow USA - 2002 - 138mn Inspired by a true story, the film follows the heroism of Capitain Alexei Vostrikov who, at the height of the Cold War, is ordred to take command of the nuclear miisile submarine K-19 away from its original commander Captain Mikhail Polein. Vostrikov's mission is to quickly ready the ill-prepared sub for her maiden voyage-no matter what the cost. But Vostrikov, Polenin and K-19’s mission loyal crew can never fathop what the price of failure might be for them and for the word when a nuclear reactor malfunctions, threatening a core meltdown and an explosion... Le voyage de Chihiro By Hayao Miyakazi Japon - 2002 - 122mn In the middle of her family"s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by witches and monsters, where humans are changed into animals. Les amants deMogador By Souheil Ben Barka Morocco - 2002 - 90mn Set in the early thirties, this film recounts the fight between Belkacem Ait Lahcen, a young Moroccan from the Sahara desert and Forjat, chief of the militarygarrison, who suspects him of helping the Djebel Saghro resistance. Les voisins d’Abou Moussa d’Eran Riklis Maroc- 2002 - 90 In the early 14th centry, back from a victorious pacification compaign, Abou Salim Al Jourai is visitwo high dignitaries from the city who are opposed to each other. During the dinner, Chama, a young slave, almost scalds Abou Salim Al Jourai while passing him a jug of water. Noticing her exceptionnal beauty, the sultan"s minister immediatly asks her master to marry her. L’homme du train (The man on the train) By Patrice Leconte France - 2001 - 90mn In a medium sized town, two men come across each other; they are complete opposites or at least seem to be. Warily att fist, they strike up a friendship as they each discovered that what they have always really wanted is the life of the other man. Manesquier fantasizes about having been a man of action whilst Milan imagines himalayen at home with a pipe and slippers. Three days from now Milan is to hold up the local branch of the BNP Bank That"s why he is here. Tree days from now Manesquier is to have a triple heart bypass. That"s why he"s square stiff. three days to get to know one another and to dream of a different life. a life that might have been. Three days befor taking the plunge. No man’s land By Danis Tanovic Bosnie - 2002 - 98mn The late of two soldiers, Ciki and Nino, a Bosnian and a Ser who find themselves stranded between enemy lines, in ’ no man"s land &rsquot;, during the 1993 conflict. As Ciki and Nino try to figure a way out of their bizarre predicament, a brave UN sergeant goes to help them, despite being ordred not to intervenue, and the press corps follow, turning a news story into an international incident. In a tense stand off between the many sides involved in the conflict and with the word"s press waiting for an outcome, Ciki and Nino desperately try to negotiate for their lives amidst the insanity of war. Le mentale By Mark Forster France - 2002 - 115mn Hank Grotowski is a prison gund. He works with his son, Sonny, and lives at home with his racist father, Buck. Lawrence Musgrove has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has hapened at home. Now, Hank has just met Leticia, a young black woman struggling to make ends meet and they quickly fall in love to ease each other's pains. If only he knew that Leticia is Musgrove's window.. Quelqu'un de bien By Patrick Timsit France - 2002 - 100mn Pierre and paul are two brothers who have been enemies for more than ten years. Everyting drives them apart. Almost everything...altough two things bring them together. Sings By Night Shymalan USA - 2001 - 106mn In Bucks Country, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of graham Hess, the town’s reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test hess’s faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles. Road to perdition By Sam Mendes USA - 2001 - 125mn Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crim boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure. However after his son is witness to a killing he has done Mike Sullivanfinds him self on the run trying to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him. Jude Law co starts as a hit man hired to kill Sullivan. The good thief By Neil jordan USA - 2002 - 109mn Bob Montagnet is an american gambler and thief, who has ended up in the south of france, out of luck and out of money but he is olso a heroin addict, his habit fed by Said. As the filmd opens, Bob is gambling in an illegal joint run by Remi, a local pimp. I am Sam By Jessie Nelson USA - 2002 - 127mn Sam Dawson has the montal capacity of a 7-years-old. he works at a Starbucks. He has a daughter with a homeless woman, she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. he names his daughter Lucky and rises her. Une minute de soleil en moins By Nabil Ayouch France-Maroc - 2002 - 99mn Tangiers, Kamel Raoui a young police captain, must investigate the daeth of Hakim Tahiri, a major drug trafficker murdred in his Tangiers villa. The principal suspect is his employeeand misstress, touria, a young woman who lives in the villa with her little brother, Pipo. Flower and Granet By Keith Behrman Canada - 2001 - 104mn Garnet is a ten year-old boy whose mother died during his birth. Raised by his older sister, Flower, and his brooding father Ed, Garnet feels that his mother’s death was his fault and that he was meant to live. Des chiens dans la neige (Wolves in the snow) By Michel Welterlin Canada - 2001 - 95mn Lucie and Antonie have an unhappy mariage. One day, they have a violent confrontation and Lucie accidentally kills Antonie in their fight. Lucie goes to the police to report her husband missing. What Lucie does notknow in that Antonie has been laundering money. His former partners are now looking for him and for their missing money. Mulholland drive By Michel Welterlin USA - 2001 - 146mn A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdred, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a Director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio. Sueurs By Michel Welterlin France - 2002 - 103mn Experienced truck driver Harvery, ground crew member Victor, and psychotic hit man Simon join forces to heist a fortune in gold orefrom a North African airport. Then a frantic race against time begins as the four uneasy partners in crime drive across an unforrgiving and scorching desert to make contact with the man who’ll turn their loot into hard cash.. Cinema du sud Kabala By Assane Kouyate Mali-2002-112mn Kabada, a small town in the mandé region of africa, is afflicted dy drought, and struggles betwineen life and death, the sacred well of the ancestors is drying up. La cueillette des olives By Hanna Elias Palestine - Etats-Unis 2002-83mn The beautiful and spiritual Raeda is engaged to taher, an ambitious journalist and politician livig in Ramllah. Le fleuve By Mama Keita Palestine - Etats-Unis 2002-83mn Out of revenge, a young halfcaste, Alfa kills the man who ordered the death of his best friend. In hiding, he takes covr in senegal where part of his family lives whom he has never met. Abouna By Mahamat-Saleh Haroun France-Tchad -2002- 81mn 15-year-old tahir and 8-year-old Amine wake up one morning to tearn that their father has left hane. Ali Rabia et les autres By Ahmad Boulane Maroc -2000- 85mn Implicated against his will in a political scandal, Ali spends 20 years in prison for murder. When he is released, evrithing has changed: his group of friends has separated; each one having chosen a diferent path. En attendant le bonheur By Abderrahmane Sissako Mauritanie -2002- 95mn Nouadhibou is a small seaside village on the Mauritanian coast. Amongst its white-washed buildings and melodic songs passed down through generations, lives intertwine while waiting for a hypotetical happiness... Anansi By Fritz Boumann Allemagne -2002- 80mn Anansi tells the story of a group of a West Africans who, out of desperate need and in their quest for survival, dare the perilous journey to Germany. L’ange de goudron By Denis Chouinard Allemagne -2002- 80mn Ahmad Kasmi fled Algeria with his family to settle in Montréal. A few weeks before he is to receive his prized Canadian citizenship, he discovers that his eldest son, Hafid, is involved with a group of political activists. Les chemins de l’oued By Gael Morel & Wadi Paths France-2002-78mn A murder? Hit-and-run drivers, An accident. Sony gets missed up in a sinister tale with Franck and Pablo. He was the one driving the car and he is the one who probably killed a policeman Rachida By Yamina bachir Algerie -2002- 100mn For having bravely refused to put a bomb in her school, Rachida a young teacher finds herself in a nightmare. Inspite of the daily terror, she avows not overcome. Satin rouge** By Raja Amari Tunisie/2002/100mn Modern day Tunis. As far as anyone is concerned, Lilia’s an “orderly woman” and a attentive mother. She believes her daughter Salam is having affair with Chokri, a musician is in the Red Satin cabaret.