INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL KÜSTENDORF | 17 - 23. 01. 2012.
NICOSTRATOS THE PELICAN
Olivier Horlait
France | 2010
Programme Date:
22.01.2012 Programme Time:
13.00

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Yannis lives on a small Greek island that has remained untouched. Since his mother's death, his relationship with fisherman father has become strained. Yannis rescues a young pelican and the bird becomes his friend. During summer, Yannis encounters Angeliki, a seventeen-year-old girl whose carefree, fanciful nature and spontaneity lead him down the paths he has never been before. It is a unique summer, a summer that one remembers for the rest of life. During it, Yannis also discovers the love his father feels for him, a love that he's never known how to express.

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Director:
Olivier Horlait 

Screenplay:
Eric Boisset, Olivier Horlait

Director of photography:
Michel Amathieu 

Film Editing:
Serge Bourdeillettes 

Producers:
Alain Grandgérard, Serge de Poucques, Adrian Politowski, Gilles Waterkeyn 

Production Companies:
Five 2 One Productions, Nexus Factory, Studio 37, Wesh Wesh Productions 

Cast:
Emir Kusturica, Thibault Le Guellec, François-Xavier Demaison, Jade-Rose Parker, Gennadios Patsis

Duration:
95`

Director Biography

Olivier Horlait

Olivier Horlait is a French film director and screenwriter with long experience in filmmaking. Before he directed his first feature Nicostratos the Pelican, based upon the award-winning novel by Eric Boisset, Horlait had worked as an assistant director for many famous French and international film directors: among others, Milos Forman (Valmont), Jean-Marie Poiré (Les couloirs du temps: Les visiteurs 2), Luc Besson (The Fifth Element), Pascal Thomas (with whom he worked on several comedies, such as La dilettante, Le grand appartement, By the Pricking of My Thumbs) and many others. In 2008, in collaboration with Frédéric Lepage, Horlait wrote the script and directed the movie Sunny and the elephant, telling the story of the friendship between a boy and an elephant in Thailand. He has made more than 30 films, mainly working as a producer and director assistant, and has a very successful career in film and television.

List of New Authors Movies

  • Alice Rohrwacher
    Italy, Switzerland, France | 2011
  • Olivier Horlait
    France | 2010
  • Edoardo De Angelis
    Italy | 2011
  • 17.02.2012

    • 10:30h
      3-IRON
      Kim Ki-duk
    • 12:30h
      ARRI ALEXA
      WORKSHOP
    • 16:30h
      OPENING CEREMONY
      Thierry Frémaux Presents
    • 20:00h
      ARIRANG
      Kim Ki-duk
      WORKSHOP - Kim Ki-duk - film director
    • 00:00h
      PELAGEYA
      Russia

    18.02.2012

    • 10:30h
      MADAME BOVARY
      Claude Chabrol
      WORKSHOP - Isabelle Huppert - actress
    • 17:00h
      4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH
      Abel Ferrara
      WORKSHOP - Abel Ferrara - film director
    • 21:00h
      TULIP, TEXAS AND US
      Lee Filipovski | Canada, Estonia 2011
      ---
      MOUSSA
      Christophe Nanga-oly | France 2010
      ---
      WE'RE GETTING THERE
      Marko Grba Singh -|Serbia 2011
      ---
      BARBAKAN
      Bartlomiej Zmuda | Poland 2011
      ---
      COUNTRYSIDE
      Yana Skopina & Eugene Kostkin | Russia
    • 00:00h
      THE ROSENBERG TRIO
      The Netherlands

    19.02.2012

    • 10:00h
      A PROPHET
      Jacques Audiard
      Tahar Rahim - actor
    • 13:00h
      A BETTER LIFE
      Cédric Kahn
    • 13:00h
      CHICKEN WITH PLUMS
      Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
      WORKSHOP - Marjane Satrapi - film director
    • 21:00h
      FIREWORKS
      Giacomo Abbruzzese | Italy, France 2011
      ---
      VANISHING
      Bartosz Kruhlik | Poland 2011
      ---
      BOYS, WHERE ARE YOU
      Jelena Gavrilović | Serbia 2011
      ---
      LUNCHBOX STORY
      Pieter Dirkx | Belgium 2010
    • 00:00h
      STRIBOR AND THE POISONERS
      Serbia

    20.02.2012

    • 10:30h
      BAD GUY
      Kim Ki-duk
    • 13:00h
      CORPO CELESTE
      Alice Rohrwacher
    • 17:00h
      NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION
      Asghar Farhadi
      WORKSHOP - Leila Hatami - actress
    • 21:00h
      CABBAGEMINCER
      Vadim Viner | Russia 2011
      ---
      LEERFAHRT
      Matis Burkhardt | Germany 2009
      ---
      MADE OF ASHES
      Ognjen Glavonić | Serbia 2012
      ---
      THE SONG OF THE RAIN
      Aygul Bakanova | Kyrgyzstan, UK 2011
    • 00:00h
      ADAM STINGA
      Moldova

    21.02.2012

    • 10:30h
      LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
      Zoran Tairović
      ---
      BALKAN STAR
      Andrey Gligoryev
    • 13:00h
      SMALL TOWN
      Nuri Bilge Ceylan
      WORKSHOP - Nuri Bilge Ceylan - film director
    • 16:30h
      STOPPED ON TRACK
      Andreas Dresen
      WORKSHOP - Andreas Dresen - film director
    • 20:00h
      SMILE
      Gil González Penilla | Mexico 2011
      ---
      THE TRIP
      Simão Cayatte | USA, Portugal 2011
      ---
      MARINA
      Sonya Karpunina | Russia 2011
    • 00:00h
      BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIC ORCHESTRA
      Serbia

    22.02.2012

    • 10:30h
      MILENA
      Čarna Radoičić
      ---
      HAPPY NOW
      Frederikke Aspöck
    • 13:00h
      NICOSTRATOS THE PELICAN
      Olivier Horlait
      WORKSHOP - Olivier Horlait - film director
    • 17:00h
      ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
      Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    • 21:00h
      FRAGMENTS
      Ivan Stojiljković | Serbia, Germany 2011
      ---
      ALTO SAUCE
      Fernando Pomares | Spain 2011
      ---
      GLASGOW
      Piotr Subbotko | Poland 2010
      ---
      THE END OF THE WORLD
      Jani Bojadzi | Macedonia 2011
    • 00:00h
      SONIDO GALLO NEGRO
      Mexico

    23.02.2012

    • 10:30h
      DISTANT
      Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    • 13:00h
      MOZZARELLA STORIES
      Edoardo De Angelis
    • 17:00h
      OUT OF BOUNDS
      Frederikke Aspöck
      WORKSHOP - Frederikke Aspöck - film director
    • CLOSING CEREMONY AWARDS CEREMONY

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