Nouveaux Cinéastes A series of award winning films showing the most talented of France’s new filmmakers. In French with English subtitles			January 26, 27 & 29, 2004 San Diego State University Montezuma Hall Aztec Center Screenings are FREE
January 26 -- 5pm	Bord de mer	January 26 --7pm		Se souvenir des belles choses
	Julie Lopes-Curval (2002) Curval tells the stories of the residents of a resort town in northern France so renowned for its pebble-covered beach that the central character, Marie, works at a pebble-processing factory. As the town changes seasonally from being completely empty in the winter and crowded during the summer, the working class lives of the residents whose livelihoods depend upon the money spent by vacationers, go on...			Zabou Breitman (2001) Two people with memory loss find love in this unusual and tender dramatic comedy. A shy woman named Claire checks herself into a special clinic. There, she meets and falls for a noted wine expert whose memory has also begun to fail him. Together they form a relationship with delightfully comical complications.
January 27--5 pm	Ah ! si j'étais riche	January 27 --7pm		17 fois Cécile Cassard
	Michel Munz and Gérard Bitton (2002) The day he wins 10 million Euros in the lottery, Aldo, a salesman getting a divorce, learns his wife is cheating on him with his boss. He then decides to say nothing until the divorce is final and, though immensely rich, he tries to go on living like a poor man.			Christophe Honoré (2001) 17 portraits of a young woman trying to rebuild her life. In the depths of Brittany, Cécile is suddenly widowed. Stunned, she rebuilds her life, step by step, and becomes reconciled with her ghosts.
January 29 --5pm	Mon Idole	January 29 – 7pm		Une part du ciel
	Guillaume Canet (2002) Bastien works on a game/talk show called “It’s Tissue Time!” in which the goal is to make the contestants cry, produced by Jean-Louis Broustal. To Bastien’s surprise, Broustal stops ignoring him one day, and starts taking an interest in the young man’s ideas. Broustal invites him out for a night on the town that turns into a weekend at his remote country estate where Broustal’s wife seduces Bastien. As the weekend progresses, it becomes increasingly bizarre and even sinister.			Bénédicte Liénard (2002) A powerful film about the dignity of two women. Joanna is a former factory worker in a women's prison, and Claudine, still works in the mill. Her dehumanized existence in prison is comparable to that of her female friends on the factory assembly line, prisoners of yet another system that degrades and exploits women. Une Part du ciel casts a steely gaze at an unjust system, and argues for a revolt against it.
A Film Event co-sponsored by: Le Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, France -- College of Arts and Letters/SDSU -- French and Francophone Studies/SDSU European Studies/SDSU -- Women’s Studies/SDSU -- CASE/SDSU -- The Alliance Française/San Diego