Drawing inspiration from his own experiences, Paris-trained, Burkina Faso-born writer-director S. Pierre Yameogo explores the complexities of cultural differences with an appealingly light touch. This comedy about an odd interracial friendship offers many pleasures that should connect with audiences in African film forums and on multicultural TV. VARIETY
The most surprising thing about Memoria del Saqueo is the expressive power of the form. (…) A corrosive, breathtaking lyricism. LIBERATION
Memoria, the title says it all, is a memory, a film that comes from memory and wants to be remembered. FILM BULLETIN
Memoria del saqueo, awarded an Honorary Bear at the Berlinale 04, is a deserving and enormously important film. CINEMAN
In this road-movie there is a melancholic, light, late-season climate. One breathes there at ease. TELERAMA, Isabelle Fajardo
A thin layer between fiction and reality, troubling and engaging… OBJECTIF-CINEMA, Claudia Collao
Karnaval (…) is an extraordinary film. All the more extraordinary because it is built only with very ordinary elements. LE MONDE, Jean-Michel Frodon
The filmmaker deals with collective release without soliciting the complicit laughter of the spectators. The entire success of his approach is a matter of calculated shamelessness (…) and above all of morality. POSITIF, Françoise AudĂ©
The plot of the film is captivating, full of twists and turns, and Rithy Panh displays a visual sense of rare elegance, served by Christophe Pollock’s talented camera. VARIETY
It is a melodrama, a tragedy narrated in the minor mode – at the level of a handful of modest characters, with their feelings as visible springs of events. LE MONDE
A damning testimony on the decay of Cambodia. TELERAMA
A funny, ironic road movie about a couple of rogues trying to make a fast dollar, pic should perform well on its home turf and snag arthouse distribution in other territories, with Eurotube programs also an obvious berth. VARIETY, David Stratton
Blind Date 12 young directors – Switzerland To gather a thousand synopses on the topic «Blind Date» and then select around twenty of them that are to be made into short films, is a way to bring about new encounters and delve into new fantasy worlds. In short, it means to really live the experience the project is about. IMDB SWISS FILMS
Imhoof treats the central problem of missionary work in a dense and differentiated manner, transferable to almost every form of ideological export. ZURCHER OBERLANDER
Markus Imhoof discovered this story through the stories told by his grandmother. Very calmly, very affectionately he gets involved in a psychodrama as well as in an exotic flair: a clever, thoughtful, extraordinary film. HOFER ANZEIGER
After 40 years Alain Tanner again travels to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old. On the back of his own memories he depicts the rough world of the dockworkers, another of those trades that has undergone fundamental changes as a result of recessions, modernisation and liberalisation. LETTERBOXD.COM
Bye Bye Karim Dridi – France How Ismael will overcome his guilt, which occurred after a family tragedy which prompted the departure of his parents for the “bled”, and save his brother Mouloud, twelve years old, who refuses to return home, and has connexion with dangerous dealer in Marseille. IMDB
