France/Italy | 1965 | col | 120 mins | dir. Louis Malle, with Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot, George Hamilton | cert. 15 | new print

Director Louis Malle let his hair down, 60s-style, with this delirious comic western, a big arthouse hit in its day. France's most famous bombshells Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau team up as singers in a travelling show who inadvertently end up leading a South American socialist revolution. Beautifully photographed by Henry Decaë, with winning performances from its two stars, the film gleefully satirizes everything from American westerns to revolutions, dictators, the Church, priesthood, even sex itself.

Auder will discuss his work alongside a programme of short films and clips from his archive spanning four decades of film-making.

total length: 120 mins | £5, conc. £3

UK/Bangladesh | 2008 | col | 81 mins | dir. Sadik Ahmed, with Tariq Anam, Tanveer Hasan | in Bengali with English subtitles

Award-winning young UK/Bengali filmmaker Sadik Ahmed Kala directs this intense contemporary Western set in the wilds of rural Bangladesh. A mysterious, rifle-carrying stranger, arrives in a riverside shanty town looking for payback over an injustice against his mother. Read more  

Les Visiteurs du soir
France | 1942 | b&w | 120 mins | dir. Marcel Carné, with Arletty, Fernand Ledoux, Maria Dea

Another sparkling collaboration between actress Arletty, writer Jacques Prévert and director Marcel Carné, based on a 14th-century French legend in which the Devil, disturbed by the encroaching forces of Good, sends his envoys to earth to drive the citizens to despair, but is thwarted when they prove unable to overcome the power of true love. Carné was forced by the German Occupation to make 'escapist' films; Les Visiteurs du soir was read by many French audiences at the time as an allegory of their situation with the Devil as Hitler, played with impish charm by actor Jules Berry.

 In french without subtitles

Award-winning young UK/Bengali filmmaker Sadik Ahmed Kala directs this intense contemporary Western set in the wilds of rural Bangladesh. A mysterious, rifle-carrying stranger, arrives in a riverside shanty town looking for payback over an injustice against his mother. Read more  

Award-winning young UK/Bengali filmmaker Sadik Ahmed Kala directs this intense contemporary Western set in the wilds of rural Bangladesh. A mysterious, rifle-carrying stranger, arrives in a riverside shanty town looking for payback over an injustice against his mother. Read more  

Les Visiteurs du soir
France | 1942 | b&w | 120 mins | dir. Marcel Carné, with Arletty, Fernand Ledoux, Maria Dea

Another sparkling collaboration between actress Arletty, writer Jacques Prévert and director Marcel Carné, based on a 14th-century French legend in which the Devil, disturbed by the encroaching forces of Good, sends his envoys to earth to drive the citizens to despair, but is thwarted when they prove unable to overcome the power of true love. Carné was forced by the German Occupation to make 'escapist' films; Les Visiteurs du soir was read by many French audiences at the time as an allegory of their situation with the Devil as Hitler, played with impish charm by actor Jules Berry.

 In french without subtitles

Cambodia/France | 2003 | 101 mins | col | dir. Rithy Panh | cert. PG

Rithy Panh's documentary centres on two survivors of the campaign of genocide led by the Khmer Rouge, the communist ruling party of Cambodia in power from 1975 to 1979.  One survivor of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison (code-named “S21”), now a genocide museum where former Khmer Rouge are employed as guides, returns to confront his formers captors and the atrocities he endured. Panh himself was imprisoned at a Khmer Rouge labour camp as a teenager, before escaping to Thailand in 1979.

Mexico | 2008 | col | 83 mins | dir. Fernando Eimbcke, with Diego Cataño | cert. 12

Set in a small harbour town somewhere in the Yucatan peninsula, Lake Tahoe takes place during a single day, beginning with a resolutely non-dramatic car crash. The car in question belongs to  sixteen-year-old Juan (Diego Cataño), who has had enough of his family problems, and in an attempt to escape takes the family car for a ride around the outskirts. He sets off in search of spare parts and help, but in this sleepy Yucatan town his options are limited. His encounters with the few people he does manage to find are gently funny, and they enable Juan to understand that there are things that are as inevitable and inexplicable as death.

The scene is set in the 18th dynasty, Ancient Egypt.  Akhesa, a beautiful princess aged 14, has no idea what her destiny is. When her adventure begins, the hot-headed young girl rebels against her father, Pharaoh Akhenaton.  She refuses to live in the confines of the royal palace and is eager to find out why her mother, Queen Nefertiti, has been exiled to Elephantine island.  Her journey to find her mother, with the help of Prince Thout, sees the two youngsters braving many dangers with innocence as their only weapon.  

tickets: £3

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. For Lionel, only his daughter counts, and for Joséphine, it’s her father who is the most important person in the world. Little by little, Lionel realises that time is passing by, even for them. The time to leave each other is perhaps approaching. 35 shots of Rum is a tender drama, which resonates with unmitigated clarity.

Mexico | 2008 | col | 83 mins | dir. Fernando Eimbcke, with Diego Cataño | cert. 12

Set in a small harbour town somewhere in the Yucatan peninsula, Lake Tahoe takes place during a single day, beginning with a resolutely non-dramatic car crash. The car in question belongs to  sixteen-year-old Juan (Diego Cataño), who has had enough of his family problems, and in an attempt to escape takes the family car for a ride around the outskirts. He sets off in search of spare parts and help, but in this sleepy Yucatan town his options are limited. His encounters with the few people he does manage to find are gently funny, and they enable Juan to understand that there are things that are as inevitable and inexplicable as death.

Léon Morin, prêtre

France/Italy | 1961 | b&w | 115 mins | dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, with Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Paul Belmondo | cert. PG

Fed up with being 'an auteur maudit known only to a handful of crazy film buffs,' Jean-Pierre Melville accepted an offer of real stars and an actual budget to adapt Beatrix Beck’s autobiographical novel, a book he considered 'the most accurate picture I have read of life under the Occupation.' Emmanuelle Riva plays Barny, an atheist widow who falls in love with Belmondo's handsome, radical young priest. Melville charts the couple's personal and religious relationship against an evocative rendering of troubled times. A box-office and critical hit, Belmondo excels in a powerful, erotically-charged performance.

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. For Lionel, only his daughter counts, and for Joséphine, it’s her father who is the most important person in the world. Little by little, Lionel realises that time is passing by, even for them. The time to leave each other is perhaps approaching. 35 shots of Rum is a tender drama, which resonates with unmitigated clarity.

Mexico | 2008 | col | 83 mins | dir. Fernando Eimbcke, with Diego Cataño | cert. 12

Set in a small harbour town somewhere in the Yucatan peninsula, Lake Tahoe takes place during a single day, beginning with a resolutely non-dramatic car crash. The car in question belongs to  sixteen-year-old Juan (Diego Cataño), who has had enough of his family problems, and in an attempt to escape takes the family car for a ride around the outskirts. He sets off in search of spare parts and help, but in this sleepy Yucatan town his options are limited. His encounters with the few people he does manage to find are gently funny, and they enable Juan to understand that there are things that are as inevitable and inexplicable as death.

France | 2005 | col | 84 mins | doc | dir. Claire Denis, with Mathilde Monnier

A fascinating collaboration between Mathilde Monnier, France's foremost contemporary choreographer, known for her explorations into movement and post-modern theory, and Claire Denis, director of films often described as 'choreographic'.

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. For Lionel, only his daughter counts, and for Joséphine, it’s her father who is the most important person in the world. Little by little, Lionel realises that time is passing by, even for them. The time to leave each other is perhaps approaching. 35 shots of Rum is a tender drama, which resonates with unmitigated clarity.

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. For Lionel, only his daughter counts, and for Joséphine, it’s her father who is the most important person in the world. Little by little, Lionel realises that time is passing by, even for them. The time to leave each other is perhaps approaching. 35 shots of Rum is a tender drama, which resonates with unmitigated clarity.

Mexico | 2008 | col | 83 mins | dir. Fernando Eimbcke, with Diego Cataño | cert. 12

Set in a small harbour town somewhere in the Yucatan peninsula, Lake Tahoe takes place during a single day, beginning with a resolutely non-dramatic car crash. The car in question belongs to  sixteen-year-old Juan (Diego Cataño), who has had enough of his family problems, and in an attempt to escape takes the family car for a ride around the outskirts. He sets off in search of spare parts and help, but in this sleepy Yucatan town his options are limited. His encounters with the few people he does manage to find are gently funny, and they enable Juan to understand that there are things that are as inevitable and inexplicable as death.

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. For Lionel, only his daughter counts, and for Joséphine, it’s her father who is the most important person in the world. Little by little, Lionel realises that time is passing by, even for them. The time to leave each other is perhaps approaching. 35 shots of Rum is a tender drama, which resonates with unmitigated clarity.

Iran | 2008 | col  | 90 mins | dir. Abbas Kiarostami, with Mahtab Keramati, Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar, Niki Karimi, Juliette Binoche | cert. PG

What Shirin shows us – and indeed all it shows us - is an audience of more than 100 women who are deeply absorbed in watching a film we never see. We observe instead how the drama plays out on the faces of the audience, seen in close-up, mostly one at a time, illuminated by the flickering light of the screen. It is a mesmerizing series of portraits of women young and old, many of them strikingly beautiful, their expressions variously wistful, quizzical, amused, enraptured and distraught. Also helping us to reconstruct the tale for ourselves are the unseen film’s impassioned narration, dramatic dialogue, romantic, doom-laden score, and richly evocative sound effects.

Fed up with being 'an auteur maudit known only to a handful of crazy film buffs,' Jean-Pierre Melville accepted an offer of real stars and an actual budget to adapt Beatrix Beck’s autobiographical novel, a book he considered 'the most accurate picture I have read of life under the Occupation.' Emmanuelle Riva plays Barny, an atheist widow who falls in love with Belmondo's handsome, radical young priest. Melville charts the couple's personal and religious relationship against an evocative rendering of troubled times. A box-office and critical hit, Belmondo excels in a powerful, erotically-charged performance.

Iran | 2008 | col  | 90 mins | dir. Abbas Kiarostami, with Mahtab Keramati, Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar, Niki Karimi, Juliette Binoche | cert. PG

What Shirin shows us – and indeed all it shows us - is an audience of more than 100 women who are deeply absorbed in watching a film we never see. We observe instead how the drama plays out on the faces of the audience, seen in close-up, mostly one at a time, illuminated by the flickering light of the screen. It is a mesmerizing series of portraits of women young and old, many of them strikingly beautiful, their expressions variously wistful, quizzical, amused, enraptured and distraught. Also helping us to reconstruct the tale for ourselves are the unseen film’s impassioned narration, dramatic dialogue, romantic, doom-laden score, and richly evocative sound effects.

The Marbella International Film Festival, now in its third year, provides an artistic platform for independent international talent within the worlds of cinema, visual and performance art.  The Institut français is pleased to announce the screening of five Marbella International Film Festival shorts.  The Cleaner (2007, 13 mins), Safe Zone (2007, 16 mins) , Angels Die in the Soil (2008, 30 mins), i became...(2006, 5.28 mins) and Bloodline  (2008, 12 mins) Read more

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. For Lionel, only his daughter counts, and for Joséphine, it’s her father who is the most important person in the world. Little by little, Lionel realises that time is passing by, even for them. The time to leave each other is perhaps approaching. 35 shots of Rum is a tender drama, which resonates with unmitigated clarity.

Iran | 2008 | col  | 90 mins | dir. Abbas Kiarostami, with Mahtab Keramati, Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar, Niki Karimi, Juliette Binoche | cert. PG

What Shirin shows us – and indeed all it shows us - is an audience of more than 100 women who are deeply absorbed in watching a film we never see. We observe instead how the drama plays out on the faces of the audience, seen in close-up, mostly one at a time, illuminated by the flickering light of the screen. It is a mesmerizing series of portraits of women young and old, many of them strikingly beautiful, their expressions variously wistful, quizzical, amused, enraptured and distraught. Also helping us to reconstruct the tale for ourselves are the unseen film’s impassioned narration, dramatic dialogue, romantic, doom-laden score, and richly evocative sound effects.

France | 2000 | silhouette animation | col | 70 mins | dir. Michel Ocelot | cert. U/ages 4+

Directed by the internationally acclaimed director of Kirikou, this imaginative film presents a world that dazzles its viewers – both young and old – with the beauty of Ancient Egypt, the poetry of Japanese art, the romance of the Middle Ages and the wonders of the year 3000.

tickets: £3

Iran | 2008 | col  | 90 mins | dir. Abbas Kiarostami, with Mahtab Keramati, Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar, Niki Karimi, Juliette Binoche | cert. PG

What Shirin shows us – and indeed all it shows us - is an audience of more than 100 women who are deeply absorbed in watching a film we never see. We observe instead how the drama plays out on the faces of the audience, seen in close-up, mostly one at a time, illuminated by the flickering light of the screen. It is a mesmerizing series of portraits of women young and old, many of them strikingly beautiful, their expressions variously wistful, quizzical, amused, enraptured and distraught. Also helping us to reconstruct the tale for ourselves are the unseen film’s impassioned narration, dramatic dialogue, romantic, doom-laden score, and richly evocative sound effects.

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. For Lionel, only his daughter counts, and for Joséphine, it’s her father who is the most important person in the world. Little by little, Lionel realises that time is passing by, even for them. The time to leave each other is perhaps approaching. 35 shots of Rum is a tender drama, which resonates with unmitigated clarity.

France | 1988 | col | 175 mins | dir. Bruno Nuytten, with Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu | cert. PG

The troubled life of Camille Claudel and her long relationship with Auguste Rodin are the subject of this passionate biographical drama. The end of their affair combines with Camille's increasing doubts about the value of her work to drive her into an emotional tumult that threatens to descend into insanity. Featuring a fearless, Oscar-nominated performance by Isabelle Adjani, and shot with a keen eye for period detail, Camille Claudel considers the ambivalent nature of insanity, the importance of status and money in the art world, and the position of women in a male-dominated society. 

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. For Lionel, only his daughter counts, and for Joséphine, it’s her father who is the most important person in the world. Little by little, Lionel realises that time is passing by, even for them. The time to leave each other is perhaps approaching. 35 shots of Rum is a tender drama, which resonates with unmitigated clarity.

France | 1999 | col | 90 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin | cert. 15

Inspired by Melvilles's Billy Bud, Beau Travail is a stunning combination of literature, music, poetry and dance that explores the near mythical world of the French Foreign Legion. Perhaps Denis' most 'choreographic' film.

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. Read more

DB2 with Beau travail

Last Grave in Dimbaza | South Africa | 1972 | col | 55 mins | dir. Nana Mahomo

tickets: £7, conc. 5

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. Read more

Last Grave in Dimbaza | South Africa | 1972 | col | 55 mins | dir. Nana Mahomo

tickets: £7, conc. 5

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. Read more

South Africa | 1999 | col | 138 mins | dir. André Van In

Before 1994 South Africa had never known a democratic government; it therefore had to invent its own model of democracy.  One of Nelson Mandela's first decisions upon coming to power was to set up the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission”.  In order to undertake reconciliation, healing, judgment and exorcism of the past had to take place.

tickets: £7, conc. 5

France | 1988 | col | 175 mins | dir. Bruno Nuytten, with Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu | cert. PG

The troubled life of Camille Claudel and her long relationship with Auguste Rodin are the subject of this passionate biographical drama. The end of their affair combines with Camille's increasing doubts about the value of her work to drive her into an emotional tumult that threatens to descend into insanity. Featuring a fearless, Oscar-nominated performance by Isabelle Adjani, and shot with a keen eye for period detail, Camille Claudel considers the ambivalent nature of insanity, the importance of status and money in the art world, and the position of women in a male-dominated society. 

France/Senegal/Switzerland | 1993 | 110 mins | col | dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty, with Ami Diakhate | cert. 12

The film centres on a Senegalese village sliding into poverty, which sees the village's elders reduced to selling town possessions in order to pay off debts. Linguère, a former resident and local beauty, now very rich, returns to the village of her birth where the elders hope that she will be a generous benefactor.

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. Read more

France/Germany | 2008 | col | 100 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Alex Descas, Mati Diop | cert. 12A

Lionel is a train driver on Paris’s rapid-transit rail network. He has been raising his daughter, Joséphine, alone ever since she was a little girl. She has now grown into a young woman. They live side by side, a little bit like a couple, refusing the advances and cares of others. Read more

France/Italy | 1965 | col | 110 mins | dir. Jean-Luc Godard, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina | cert. 15

Fed up with wife and Paris, Jean-Paul Belmondo heads for the south of France with old flame Anna Karina, a gangster's moll. Based on the Lionel White novel Obsession, but mostly improvised as Godard was inspired by locations en route to the South, this is one of the director's very best films – a bewildering blend of genres and visual styles, shot in sun-splashed colour by Raoul Coutard, with a cameo  by tough-guy director Sam Fuller and an explosive finale. 'Pierrot le fou isn't really a film,' said Godard on its release, 'it's an attempt at cinema.'

Bad ma ra khahad bord
Iran/France | 1999 | col | 118 mins | dir. Abbas Kiarostami, with Behzad Dorani | cert. U

The film opens with a lingering shot of the Iranian countryside. Behzad, an irreverent city engineer sets out on a journey driving miles to an isolated rural village to watch over a dying relative. The film follow his efforts to fit in with the locals and the impact they have on him. Kiarostami's introspective character pieces are always provocative, emotive, and ultimately a joy to the senses.

DB1 with Shirin

Iran | 2008 | col  | 90 mins | dir. Abbas Kiarostami, with Mahtab Keramati, Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar, Niki Karimi, Juliette Binoche | cert. PG

What Shirin shows us – and indeed all it shows us - is an audience of more than 100 women who are deeply absorbed in watching a film we never see. We observe instead how the drama plays out on the faces of the audience, seen in close-up, mostly one at a time, illuminated by the flickering light of the screen. It is a mesmerizing series of portraits of women young and old, many of them strikingly beautiful, their expressions variously wistful, quizzical, amused, enraptured and distraught.

DB2 with The Wind Will Carry Us

France/Italy | 1965 | col | 110 mins | dir. Jean-Luc Godard, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina | cert. 15

Fed up with wife and Paris, Jean-Paul Belmondo heads for the south of France with old flame Anna Karina, a gangster's moll. Based on the Lionel White novel Obsession, but mostly improvised as Godard was inspired by locations en route to the South, this is one of the director's very best films – a bewildering blend of genres and visual styles, shot in sun-splashed colour by Raoul Coutard, with a cameo  by tough-guy director Sam Fuller and an explosive finale. 'Pierrot le fou isn't really a film,' said Godard on its release, 'it's an attempt at cinema.'

France | 1999 | col | 90 mins | dir. Claire Denis, with Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin | cert. 15

Inspired by Melvilles's Billy Bud, Beau Travail is a stunning combination of literature, music, poetry and dance that explores the near mythical world of the French Foreign Legion. Perhaps Denis' most 'choreographic' film.

Bad ma ra khahad bord
Iran/France | 1999 | col | 118 mins | dir. Abbas Kiarostami, with Behzad Dorani | cert. U

The film opens with a lingering shot of the Iranian countryside. Behzad, an irreverent city engineer sets out on a journey driving miles to an isolated rural village to watch over a dying relative. The film follow his efforts to fit in with the locals and the impact they have on him. Kiarostami's introspective character pieces are always provocative, emotive, and ultimately a joy to the senses.