Synopsis:

This is the first part of the saga about Antoine Doinel, a 12 year old boy from Paris whose life with his family and in school is not at a great state. His parents neglect him and he ditches school in order to go to the movies and play with his friends. Antoine Doinel’s character is based on Truffaut himself and this film was praised as one of the best films of the French New Wave.

b/w, 99'

PROJECTION:

Saturday 03.06.2006 AT 21:00

Friday 02.06.2006 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

The protagonist of this film is Charlie Kohler, a piano player, who hides from his own life playing in a bar. Once he was famous for his talent but everything changed after his wife’s suicide. His past will catch up with him when his brother shows up in the bar, on the run from two gangsters.

b/w, 92'

PROJECTION:

Saturday 03.06.2006 AT 19:00

Friday 02.06.2006 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This is a story about an unhappy and long-lasting love triangle between two friends, Jules and Jim, and a girl, Catherine. In Paris in 1900, both young men fall in love with Catherine. She chooses the shy and conservative Austrian Jules and marries him. After WW II, they all meet again in Germany and then Catherine starts to fall in love with the extroverted Jim.

b/w, 105'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 06.06.2006 AT 21:00

Monday 05.06.2006 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

This is a love drama about a successful and happily married publisher who meets a charming stewardess Nicole. Soon, they become lovers. Even though Pierre tries to hide his affair from his wife France and daughter Sabine, he soon realizes that he will have to choose between Nicole and France.

b/w, 113'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 06.06.2006 AT 19:00

Monday 05.06.2006 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

In 1968, Antoine is discharged from military and returns home to Paris. He meets Christine Darbon, who he has been in love before, and goes to her parent’s house for dinner. Thanks to her father he gets a job in a hotel, but soon is fired. Afterwards he starts to work in a detective agency and then in a shoe store. At the same time he develops his relationship with Christine.

color, 91'

PROJECTION:

Monday 12.06.2006 AT 21:00

Saturday 10.06.2006 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

This is a film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi novel. The story takes place in the future in a world in which owning and reading books is strictly forbidden. Firefighters are, instead of fires, in charge of burning of books. People spend their time high on drugs in front of television. In such a totalitarian society, a firefighter Guy Montag develops an interest in reading books…

color, 112'

PROJECTION:

Monday 12.06.2006 AT 19:00

Saturday 10.06.2006 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This film is Truffaut’s ode to Hitchcock’s films. It is thriller in which Julie Kohler is a cruel widow who decides to avenge her husband’s death. She leaves her hometown and decides to kill the five men who are responsible for her husband’s death. Has she found the right persons?

color, 107'

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 14.06.2006 AT 21:00

Tuesday 13.06.2006 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

In this film Antoine is 26 years old and married to Christine. She teaches violin and he changes many jobs. They are going to have a baby and the small family seems idyllic until Antoine meets a Japanese woman, Kyoko, at work and starts an affair with her…

color, 100'

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 14.06.2006 AT 19:00

Tuesday 13.06.2006 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This is a romantic drama taking place in the beginning of the 20th century. It is a story about a love triangle between Claude and two sisters, Anne and Muriel. Claude is a middle-class young man from Paris who meets an English woman, Anne, in Paris. The two of them become close and she invites him to her house for the holidays. There he meets her mother and the sister that Anne intended for Claude...

color, 130'

PROJECTION:

Saturday 17.06.2006 AT 21:00

Friday 16.06.2006 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

The film begins with the funeral of Bertrand Morane, a forty year old engineer. All of his former lovers come to the funeral. During his life, Bertrand had always had women on his mind and as much as he loved them, they loved him too. Bertrand himself tells his story.

color, 120'

PROJECTION:

Saturday 17.06.2006 AT 19:00

Friday 16.06.2006 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This is the fifth and last part of the films about Antoine Doinel in which he meets people from his past. Now he is 30 and is getting a divorce from Christine. He is in love with Sabine who sells records. Soon he meets his old love, Colette, who is now a lawyer. He has also published an autobiography…

color, 94'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 20.06.2006 AT 21:00

Monday 19.06.2006 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

The story takes place during WW II in a theatre in the middle of occupied Paris. In the theater basement there hides Lucas Steiner, a Jew who fears for his life. His wife, actress Marion Steiner, tries to keep the theater open and hires Bernard Granger as the main actor in the new play.

color, 131'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 20.06.2006 AT 19:00

Monday 19.06.2006 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Bernard Coudray is happily married to Arlette and they have a son, Thomas. His life will be turned upside down when Philippe Bauchard and his wife Mathilde move in to their neighborhood. Namely, years ago Bernard and Mathilde had a passionate love affair. Their meeting will ignite their old emotions and they start an affair again…

color, 106'

PROJECTION:

Monday 26.06.2006 AT 21:00

Wednesday 21.06.2006 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

This is François Truffaut’s last film starring Jean-Louis Trintignant. He plays Julien Vercel, a real estate agent who is the prime suspect for the murder of Claude Massoulier. When the police find out that Vercel’s wife was Massoulier’s lover, Julien will be in trouble. His secretary, Barbara, starts her own investigation in order to find the real murderer…

b/w, 110'

PROJECTION:

Monday 26.06.2006 AT 19:00

Wednesday 21.06.2006 AT 21:00