{"id":11499,"date":"2022-08-12T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T15:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=11499"},"modified":"2022-10-01T18:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T18:17:32","slug":"divertimento","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/divertimento\/","title":{"rendered":"DIVERTIMENTO (DIVERTIMENTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DIVERTIMENTO<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664555543043{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Tuesday, October 11<\/strong> – Renoir Theatre \u2013 7:45 pm
\n(Screening ends at 9:45 pm)
\n<\/em>+ Short Film Presentation<\/a>: PAYRAISE
\nFollowed by a conversation with\u00a0 writer\/director
\nMarie-Castille Mention-Schaar\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

FICTION \/ DRAMA COMEDY<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664582249266{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in Association with:
\n<\/span>France Televisions
\nLe Pacte
\nWomen in Film<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/63266998e664bd00dcd3a760″ align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664648249064{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]International Premiere<\/b> <\/span>| France\u00a0| <\/span>2023<\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Drama, Biopic |\u00a0111\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles <\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>Directed by<\/b>:<\/span> Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar <\/span>
\n<\/span>Written by<\/b>: <\/span>Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Clara Bourreau<\/span>
\n<\/span>Produced by<\/b>: Olivier Gastinel (Estello Films) Marc-Beno\u00eet Cr\u00e9ancier (Easy Tiger), France 2 Cin\u00e9ma
\n<\/span>Cinematography<\/b>: Naomi Amarger
\n<\/span>Film Editing<\/b>: Beno\u00eet Quinon<\/span>
\n<\/span>Cast<\/b>:<\/span> Oulaya Amamra (Zahia Ziouani)<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Lina El Arabi (Fettouma Ziouani)<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Niels Arestrup (Sergiu Celibidache), Zinedine Soualem (the father), Nadia Kaci, Lionel Cecilio
\n<\/span>International Sales<\/b>:<\/span> Le Pacte
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar<\/b>‘s powerful seventh feature, Divertimento<\/i><\/b>, plunges us, heart and soul, into the voluptuous world of classical music.\u00a0 At times weaving a rich tapestry of sound and melodies to express what’s going on in her heroine’s head, the film recounts the inspiring, true story of Zahia Ziouani.\u00a0 A determined, gifted 17-year-old musician, Zahia has but one dream \u2014 to become a conductor.\u00a0 Music is her life; it’s a love she shares with her entire family.\u00a0 Yet, in 1995, all odds seem to be stacked against her.\u00a0 First and foremost, she’s a woman.\u00a0 The daughter of Algerian immigrants.\u00a0 From a working-class background.\u00a0 None of that plays well at her stuffy Parisian conservatory, or at the competitions she embarks upon.\u00a0 Her path is strewn with obstacles.\u00a0 Yet, in her drive to make symphonic music accessible to one and all, she somehow creates the culturally-diverse Divertimento orchestra, based in her own Parisian immigrant neighborhood.\u00a0 The real-life Zahia continues to conduct that orchestra to this day.\u00a0 Watching this ode to one young woman’s musical passion, it’s almost impossible not to feel one’s heart soar.<\/p>\n

Writer\/director <\/span>Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar<\/b> began her career joining forces with Pierre Kubel and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bourboulon to create the production company Friday Film, and producing films for directors like Antoine de Caunes, Pierre Jolivet and Richard E. Grant.\u00a0 In 2009, she co-wrote the screenplay for <\/span>La Premi\u00e8re \u00e9toile<\/span><\/i> with director Lucien Jean-Baptiste, which won the Audience Award and Grand Prix at the Alpe d’Huez International Comedy Festival, and the Audience Award at the Hamburg Film Festival; as well as its sequel, <\/span>La Deuxi\u00e8me \u00e9toile<\/span><\/i> (2017).\u00a0 In 2012, she wrote and directed her first feature, <\/span>Ma premi\u00e8re fois<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 That was followed by <\/span>Bowling<\/span><\/i> (2012); Once in a Lifetime<\/i>, which won the Audience Special Award and the Critics Special Award at COLCOA in 2015<\/span>; <\/span>Heaven Will Wait<\/span><\/i> (COLCOA 2017); <\/span>All About Mothers<\/span><\/i> (2018); and <\/span>A Good Man<\/span><\/i> (2020), which was an official selection at Cannes that year and took the FIPRESCI Prize at the Festival del Cinema Europeo.\u00a0 In 2021, she directed an episode of <\/span>H24, 24h de la vie d’une femme<\/span><\/i>, an Arte series inspired by 24 true stories of violence against women.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/divertimento.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/divertimento-2.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663687902729{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] DIVERTIMENTO [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664555543043{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Tuesday, October 11 – Renoir Theatre \u2013 7:45 pm (Screening ends at 9:45 pm) + Short Film Presentation: PAYRAISE Followed by a conversation with\u00a0 writer\/director Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar\u00a0 FICTION \/ DRAMA COMEDY [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664582249266{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Presented in Association with: France Televisions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13091,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11499\/revisions\/13091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}