sHOWTIMES:
Saturday 2 Oct at 3pm

synopsis:
France, 1942, during the German occupation - Philippe Gerbier, a civil engineer, is one of the French Resistance's chiefs. Given away by a traitor, he is interned in a camp. He manages to escape, and joins his network at Marseilles, where he ensures the execution of the traitor... The fi lm shows rigorously and austerely the everyday-life of the soldiers of the French Resistance: their solitude, their fears, their relationships, the arrests, the forwarding of orders and their carrying out...

sHOWTIMES:
Saturday 2 Oct at 5.45pm

synopsis:
In Paris's Montmartre district, everyone knows Bob, a middle-aged, welldressed compulsive gambler. He's generous, moralistic, drives a two-toned convertible coupe, lives in a swank apartment, and has the respect of the police. But he's on a losing streak, and even when he hits it big at the track, he loses at the Deauville Casino. He hears through a friend that the Deauville Casino holds undreamed-of quantities of cash, vulnerable in the early morning hours. Bob develops a complicated scheme to steal it, bringing in a tough but naive young protégé and an ace safecracker into his scheme, along with a few other underworld characters.

sHOWTIMES:
Sunday 3 Oct at 5.15pm

synopsis:
In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German offi cer, Werner Von Ebrennac is lodged in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the offi cer warms himself by the fi re and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between France and Germany. That is, until he visits Paris and discovers the reality of the occupation.

sHOWTIMES:
Sunday 3 Oct at 7pm

synopsis:
Corey is a cool, aristocratic thief, released from prison on the same day that Vogel, a murderer, escapes from the custody of the patient Mattei, a catloving police superintendent. Corey robs Rico, his mob boss, then enlists Vogel and an ex-police sharpshooter, Jansen, in a jewel heist. While Corey is harried by the vengeful Rico, Mattei pressures Santi, a nightclub owner and pimp, to help him trap the thieves. Over all hangs the judgement of the police director, that every man is guilty.

sHOWTIMES:
Monday 4 Oct at 7.15pm ** Special Screening - Followed by a Q&A session with the film's Director, Olivier Bohler

synopsis:
Combining interviews of Johnnie To, Masahiro Kobayashi, Volker Schlöndorff, Bertrand Tavernier and others with rare archival footage of Jean-Pierre Melville himself and extracts of his fi lms, Code Name: Melville shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced as a young man during World War II, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics. Indeed, Melville spent a total of eight years of his life (1937-1945) in the French army and then escaped through the South of France to Spain, to join the Free French Forces. Although his family name was Grumbach, as a Resistance fi ghter, he adopted the name of Melville (after Herman Melville), and would never go back to his original family name, remaining as Melville throughout the post war years. Signifi cantly, his fi rst feature fi lm was the adaptation of one of the most prestigious novels written about the French Resistance, The Silence of the Sea. Twenty years later, he directed what still remains as the ultimate movie about the French Resistance, Army of Shadows. Resisting the structures of the fi lm industry, his own original approach to fi lmmaking was that of a highly independent man who did not want to have to rely on any existing system or network. This attitude earned him the reputation of being the precursor of the French New Wave.

Code Name: Melville has been presented in numerous festivals around the world, in Taipei, Torino, Biarritz, Amiens, Angers, Brighton, Cambridge, Tokyo, etc.

Code Name: Melville is featured at the 26th Singapore French Film Festival courtesy of Nocturnes Productions

sHOWTIMES:
Screening details: Tuesday 5 Oct at 7.15pm

synopsis:
Burglar Maurice Faugel has just fi nished his prison sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a housebreaking, and his friend Silien brings him the needed equipment. But Silien is a police informer. The police appear and he tries to run but the police shoot at him and he is wounded. He loses consciousness and awakes in his friend Jean's apartment. He believes that his friend Silien told the police about his plans. Silien is questioned by the police about the murder of Gilbert and the robbery before the police collect Maurice from a bar where he is reading a newspaper report about his girlfriend, Therese's death. Therese has been found in her car at the bottom of a quarry. Silien is released and goes to meet his ex-girlfriend Fabienne. With Fabienne's help, Silien frames someone else for the murder and robbery, leaving Maurice in the clear. Maurice is released from prison and discovers that it was Therese who told the police about the robbery and Silien and Jean who killed her. Maurice reveals that he killed Gilbert because Gilbert killed his girlfriend Arlette four years ago to keep her quiet. Silien returns home but once Silien has left, Maurice remembers that he hired a man to kill Silien because he thought he had betrayed him and chases after him. Through Maurice and Silien’s actions, the fi lm explores just how deeply qualities such as friendship and loyalty run.