Sons of Ramses
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Thirty-five-year-old Ramsès runs a fortune-telling practice in Paris's Goutte d'Or district. A skilful manipulator with a poetic streak, he has built up a solid consolation business. The arrival of children from the streets of Tangier, as dangerous as they are elusive, upsets the balance of his business and the whole neighborhood. Until the day Ramsès has a real vision.
Clément Cogitore
Clément Cogitore is a French contemporary artist and filmmaker. He develops a practice at the intersection of contemporary art and cinema. Combining film, video, installations, and photographs, he questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own images and representations. In his work, there is often a focus on rituals, collective memory, the representation of the sacred, and the idea of the permeability of worlds. In 2010, his short film Among Us won the European Grand Prize for Best First Film in Vevey. His documentary Bielutin was selected the following year at the Directors' Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, his first feature film The Wakhan Front was selected for the Critics' Week and won the Foundation Gan Prize. Cogitore was once again selected as a Special Screening at the Critics' Week in 2022 with his second feature film, Sons of Ramses. The film was awarded the Hildegarde Screenplay Award, the Best Director Award at the LEFFEST - Lisboa Film Festival, and the Interpretation Award at the Hainan International Film Festival.
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