Jean-Henri Roger
2021Bamako
Abderrahmane Sissako
Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.
Bamako
Neige
Jean-Henri Roger, Juliet Berto
Juliet Berto, Jean-François Stévenin
Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, sex workers, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.
Snow
British Sounds
Jean-Henri Roger, Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet director Dziga Vertov's agitprop techniques), it combines a diverse range of footage, from students discussing The Beatles to the production line at the MG factory in Oxfordshire, burnished with onscreen political sloganeering.
British Sounds
Lulu
Jean-Henri Roger
Elli Medeiros, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
It's the beginning of the bullfighting season and all paths seem to lead from the arena straight to Lulu's bar. Lulu is radiant. When she was seventeen, and went by the name of Lucien, she headed off for more convivial surroundings.
Lulu
Cap Canaille
Jean-Henri Roger, Juliet Berto
Juliet Berto, Richard Bohringer
Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.
Cap Canaille
Code 68
Jean-Henri Roger
Anne Buridan is about thirty years old and likes challenges. Her last challenge is to make a movie on May 68. It's a challenge, not only because she will be forced to face a story that is not hers, but specially because her new boyfriend, Blaise, doesn't understand this idea, even more, he hates people that have participated at this event. Anne Buridan is a methodical person and even a bit obsessive. Nothing and nobody will make her turn away from her project. She starts to meet people that were figures of that period. She will start, evidently, with a woman, Marianne, who speaks amongst others, of Jean-Pierre Lucciani. The name is not unknown to her because it's the same as Blaise's. She will go see him right away. Jean-Pierre is Blaise's father alright. She goes back home and keeps the secret from Blaise. Anne Buridan just lost, without knowing it, control over this situation.
Code 68
Clara
Philippe Garrel, Jean-Henri Roger
Michelle Kokosowski, Katia Despiniadou
"Clara, screenplay and dialogues of a Franco-Czechoslovak film, the co-director should have been the Czech filmmaker Kadar. Screenplay adaptated in 1989 by Philippe Garrel and students of the University of Paris X (Nanterre). The subject of the film - which is also a love story - is part of the political atmosphere, release the XXth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party has changed both individual for a certain way of seeing and understanding History: political trials, purges in Czechoslovakia, Hungary events of 1956, Algeria war, cold war." - KG
Clara
