Pensée Sauvage Films is an independent production company making work in Iran, France, Mexico, the United States and other extended horizons. Neither culturally based, nor nationally anchored, the work is motivated by an exploration of the visual medium of film and the blurred line between documentary and fiction. The films we want to make are ones that push boundaries and economies, that know no borders, and that seek the complexity in life and thought.

 

“Insofar as history aspires to meaning, it is doomed to select regions, periods, groups of men and individuals in these groups and to make them stand out as discontinuous figures, against a continuity barely good enough to be used as a backdrop... It inevitably remains partial - that is, incomplete.”

- Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind

NEWS:




ZIBA, feature film project at the co-production market
Cinémart - International Film Festival Rotterdam, January 31 to February 3, 2010

ALL RESTRICTIONS END at the Forum Expanded Talk and Screen program
"The Emperor’s New Clothes: Reza Haeri" at this year's Berlinale International Film Festival, February 2010 (date and time TBA)

ALL RESTRICTIONS END, an experimental documentary directed by Reza Haeri, will have its world premier at IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in the shorts competition.

Saturday, November 21 at 21:15 - Tuschinski 6
Monday, November 23 at 12:45 - Munt 13
Wednesday, November 25 at 15:15 - Munt 11
Saturday, November28 at 12:15 - Munt 12


http://www.idfa.nl/industry/Festival/program-2009/films-2009/film.aspx?id=a37f7a3a-345b-4447-87c2-974013c13ed7

* A PEOPLE IN THE SHADOWS receives a Special Jury Mention at the Docs DF Mexico City Documentary Festival

** Bani Khoshnoudi selected for the Fall 2009 Cinéfondation Screenwriting Residency of the Cannes Film Festival with her project, ZIBA **

More information at http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/theResidence/sessions.html

Feature article on Pensée Sauvage Films in LADINAMO Magazine, Spain.

Read the article in Spanish here: http://www.ladinamo.org/ldnm/articulo.php?numero=30&id=783

** French press applauds "A People in the Shadows", feature documentary on Tehran:

“ A beautiful documentary approach that allows us to perceive all the possibilities of a pained society.” (Critikat.com)

“ Bani Khoshnoudi proposes another voyage, one of an almost hypnotic banality… The film shows us an innumerable number of links in a city that is not, in any case, the obscure capital that we would like it to be.” (Libération)

“ For A People in the Shadows, an impressionistic and contrasting portrait of the Iranian capital, she submerged herself in the city… From this megalopolis of 14 million people… she gives us a fragmented vision, respectful of its diversity. Behind images that are traditionally propagated by the regime…little by little, she brings another reality to the surface… Many gaps that open up in a wall of prohibitions of all sorts." (Télérama)

“ A People in the Shadows… with its explicit title, goes against the clichés that the media propagates about Iranian society… Bani Khoshnoudi brings out multiple signs of modernity that coexist with figures that are imposed by the Iranian regime... In brief, an Iran never before seen by Western audiences...” (Politis)

UPCOMING FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS, EXHIBITIONS :


A People in the Shadows


AUGUST 26 at 19h
at Rencontres Cinématographiques de Gindou, France
http://www.gindoucinema.org/


AUGUST 29 at 17h30
at Courant d'Air Documentary Festival / Zoom sur l'Iran
La Lanterne Magique - Île de la Réunion (FRANCE)

**(also screening at Courant d'Air is the 2005 documentary, SHIRIN EBADI: A SIMPLE LAWYER - August 30 at 15h30)


SEPTEMBER 1 - 7
at It's All True Documentary Film Festival Special Program- Brazil
http://www.itsalltrue.com.br/

* CINEMATECA BRASILEIRA (SÃO PAULO - SP) - 01/09 - 16H30
* INSTITUTO MOREIRA SALLES (RIO DE JANEIRO - RJ) - 04/09 - 16H00
* CINEMATECA BRASILEIRA (SÃO PAULO - SP) - 05/09 - 16H30
* INSTITUTO MOREIRA SALLES (RIO DE JANEIRO - RJ) - 10/09 - 20H00


SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 3
at International Documentary Encounters– Bogotá, Colombia
http://www.muestradoc.com


SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 11
at Perspektive - Nuremburg International Human Rights Film Festival, Germany
http://www.fitame.de/en


OCTOBER 15 - 24
at DocsDF - Mexico City Documentary Film Festival
http://docsdf.com/

RECENTLY PAST EVENTS:


Sound installation and other media presented at:

Whitney Museum of American Art
Independent Study Program - Exhibit




May 9-16, 2009
at ART IN GENERAL
79 Walker Street, 6th floor
New York, NY

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 9, 6–8 pm

Gallery hours
Monday–Sunday, 12–6 pm

A People in the Shadows

at Encuentros del Otro Cine - May 11th and 14th, 2009
Quito and Guayagil, Ecuador
http://www.festivaledoc.org/edoc8/site/contents/index/

at Dok Fest Munich - MAY 11th and 13th, 2009
http://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/

at Cinéma du Réel - Centre Pompidou in Paris
MARCH 13 and MARCH 14, 2009
http://www.cinereel.org/article3313.html

Available for sale to industry at Docs for Sale Online - IDFA
http://idfa.nl/industry/docs-for-sale.aspx

Shirin Ebadi : a simple lawyer

at Docs à Tunis - APRIL 4, 2009
http://docatunis.nesselfen.org/mod09.php?page=doc62