LAST FILM

Written and directed by Jeon Soo-il (Korea)

PREMIERE IN BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021!

Release in Korea: December 2022

Jeon Soo-il’s first comedy, whose 11 previous dark and beautiful feature films were selected at festivals such as Venice, Cannes, Busan… His lead character is an independent film director who makes an unlikely friendship with a bandit working for loan sharks, to whom the director owes lots of cash… That leads our hero to discover dark sides of its city…

Pitch: Busan, South Korea, nowadays. Professor Park is having a hard time managing his life, with his young and emotional cinema students and gangsters demanding the money he borrowed for his movies that nobody watches. When a cinephile yakusa offers him to clean his slate if he films his life, Park thinks he has found a solution… He is very wrong!

A poetic and eerie existentialist tale…

Production : Ozon Films (Korea), Dong Nyuk Film (Korea), Ghosts City Films, Irrévérence Films (France).

Sarvam Thaala Mayam (Madras Beats)

Written and directed by Rajiv Menon (India) - Released in India in 2019

When Whiplash meets Slumdog Millionaire… Through the confrontation between the protagonist and his master, we travel through contemporary India, from the world of carnatic music (Indian classical music) to modern reality TV shows.

Sarvam Thalla Mayam (Madras Beats) is Rajiv Menon’s third film, respected both as a director and as a cinematographer.

Official Selection of Tokyo Film Festival 2018.

#music equality #castesystem #studentteacher #entertainment #family

Pitch : When a gifted young drummer from a poor untouchable family decides to learn to play the mridangam (percussion instrument) from the top Maestro, he faces rejection from the music community as well as from his family. Can his talent overcome caste system and social boundaries in today's India?

Original music composed by A.R. Rahman (Oscar-winning for Slumdog Millionaire), with the greats of carnatic music, and the post-production contribution of the team of the film Timbuktu (Oscar-nominated in 2015), editor Nadia Benrachid, and mixer Thierry Delor.

Starring GV Prakash, Nedumdi Venu, Aparna Balamurali, Vineeth, Kumaravel.

Length: 1h51

Produced by Latha pour Mindscreen Cinemas, coproduced by Franck Priot (Ghosts City).