FILMS PRÉSENTATION

IBALLA CORAZON DE ESCAMAS (ESP. Canaries)
5PM // 38min
Réal: Jose Hernandez
Prod: Kinema Producciones SL

After more than two decades in the world class of sports and overcoming different personal and sporting challenges of great significance, Iballa Ruano Moreno achieved in 2018 an historical landmark unprecedented in professional sports: winning the world championships in the same year the PWA World Circuit of Windsurf and the APP World Tour of Stand Up Paddle. This milestone never before achieved by an active athlete, highlights the level of dedication and improvement that the Moreno Twins and specifically Iballa Ruano, have been successfully reaping for so many years. However, the journey wasn’t easy. #Corazóndeescamas is a short biographical documentary told in the first person and that shows the most intimate part of its history and is dedicated with great affection to the Ruano Moreno family.

MONDAY JULY 5

LESS IS MORE (France)
18h00 // 52min
Réal: Mathias Joubert & Surf Island family
Prod: Mathias Joubert

This documentary traces the lifestyle of the Surf Island Family,
a family of “surfers-adventurers” with an atypical, intriguing and inspiring
lifestyle. Part-time teachers on the Ile de Ré, they travel the globe the other six
months of the year. In this 52-minute documentary, we embark on an
immersion with them in Indonesia, where like any real adventure,
nothing goes as planned. We will then head to a completely different
destination, to say the least unexpected …
Head to Ireland.e

MONDAY JULY 5

A CORNER OF THE EARTH (Australie)
19h00 // 42min
Réal: Réal: Spencer Frost
Prod: Prod: Spencer Frost Film

A Corner of the Earth is a cinematic exploration of surfing in the brutal northern winter featuring aspiring professioneal surfer Fraser Dovell who is struggling with the harsh realities of competitive surfing. Along with filmmaker Spencer Frost and the photographer Guy Wiliment, Fraser throws himself out of his comfort zone to embark on an adventure of a lifetime.

MONDAY JULY 5

KALANI:GIFT FROM HEAVEN (Portugal)
21h30 // 25min
Réal: Nuno Dias
Prod: Nuno Dias

Over the past 3 years, director Nuno Dias has spent much of his time capturing the life of one of the Big Wave scene’s most enigmatic phenomena, Kalani Lattanzi. Filmed in Nazaré and Rio de Janeiro, this documentary illustrates the life path of this man of the sea, from his origins to his first contact with the ocean in Brazil, to Nazaré in Portugal, where he faces, body to body, without fins, without boards or jets, to the biggest waves in the world, by surfing them in the purest way: in bodysurf. The film relies on the participation and testimonies of the biggest personalities of the Big Wave scene, such as Garrett McNamara, Andrew Cotton, Ross Clarke-Jones, Maya Gabeira and Lucas Chumbo. It also contains never-before-seen footage of the great waves of Nazaré, in addition to historical recordings of the larger waves faced by bodysurfers.

MONDAY JULY 5

ENFER & PARADIS (France)
22h30 // 53’05min
Réal: Antoine Chicoye & Michaël Darrigade &
Alex Lesbats

Prod: Palm Production

Nazaré, this small Portuguese fishing village holds a jewel discovered only 10 years ago. Now known for holding the biggest waves in the world, it welcomes the world’s surfing elite every winter to challenge these water monsters. Among them, a woman, Justine Dupont, continues her journey with the goal of becoming the best big wave surfer in the world. This film will immerse you in the daily life of this young Frenchwoman, in the heart of an environment mainly reserved for men. Experience for the first time, a total immersion behind the scenes of the first world championships of large mixed waves surfing. An adventure full of rebounds, which will make this competition a historic moment.

MONDAY JULY 5

GOATZEN « BASK SURF FILM » (France)
17h00 // 27’09min
Réal: Benjamin Ithurliague
Prod: Benitu Video

This film takes us back to the Basque Country before the confinement of 2020. Surfing, foil surfing, longboard surfing sessions with all the locals but also Kai Lenny, Laird Hamilton on improvised sessions. We find the festive atmosphere of the port of Guéthary with an exceptional president! This film is a tribute to his friend François Lartigau, one of the first surfer in the Basque Country and a recognized artist.

TUESDAY JULY 6

ROAM (France)
17h30 // 17min
Réal: Michel Garcia
Prod: Avalon Creative

Roam is about a Surf Trip to Ireland. The film Director Michel Garcia, along with Thibault Manson and his childhood friend, Cornelius Accoh, join creative efforts in an adventure that would take them chasing big waves. From finding incredible landscapes to experiencing remarkable conditions riding the notorious Irish wave Mullaghmore, this is more a human experience that combines fear, despair and pure joy.

TUESDAY JULY 6

BELIEVE (France)
17h50 // 27min
Réal: Michel Garcia
Prod: Avalon Creative

Meet the sportsmen from the France Para Surf team with atypical routes during the world championships, contested a few days before France entered confinement. Tension, uncertainty, confidence and joy punctuated 10 days spent in California, on the eve of the global health crisis. When “different” athletes go above and beyond for medals. For the adventure of a lifetime.

TUESDAY JULY 6

MOUVEMENT La Vague (France)
18h30 // 22min
Réal: Jérémy Gabrien
Prod: Sud Landes Production

“Mouvement” is a documentary film directed by Jérémie Gabrien and Romain Pélissier. He gives voice to the wave and sets out to meet those who surf life. With the testimonies of Gibus de Soultrait, Patrick Beven, Tristan Guilbaud, Bruno Castelle, Anaïs Vanel and Tom Frager, they tried to answer the question of the links between surfing and life. Witnesses of this movement, they give us the keys to better understand the movement of the wave and at the same time help us to apprehend the evolution in a fluid society

TUESDAY JULY 6

E CAPIXABA (Brésil)
19h00 // 43min
Réal: Gustavo Marcolini et Hugo Caiado
Prod: Marcolini Filmes

The documentary tells the story of surfing in Espírito Santo – Brazil through rares and conserved images from the pioneers in the search for the perfect wave starting in 1965. Pictures illustrating the beach activities and costumes from that time, culminating with the Avalanche Expedition where the 3 biggest waves of Brazil in 2019 were surfed in Vila Velha – Espírito Santo, until then a plane unfamiliar for the surfing scene.

TUESDAY JULY 6

WAVE OF CHANGE (France)
22h00 // 40min
Réal: Pierre Fréchou et Damien Catera
Prod: Picture Organic Clothing

Professional surfer Damien Castera joins Caroline, Corentin and Guénolé aboard the now famous « Nomade des mers », a catamaran traveling around the world, discovering low-tech innovation and a pioneer of sustainable and inclusive innovation. “Low technology”, unlike “High-tech”, can be defined as a set of sober and clean technologies. These are both economical, locally manufactured, low ecological impact, repairable and often call for creativity. A set of simple skills that meet our essential needs: food, energy, water, health. It’s innovation, but in a whole different way. For several weeks, they will combine their areas of expertise to unite surfing and low-tech. All this, with a single instruction on board: that of letting yourself be carried to the rhythm of the waves and the winds, transforming stopovers into surfing sessions between sunrises and sunsets.

TUESDAY JULY 6

WATER GET NO ENNEMY (France)
22h50 // 42min
Réal: Arthur Bourbon et Damien Castera
Prod: Almo Film

Fifteen years after the civil war that ravaged the entire country, Liberia is gradually rising from its ashes and tending towards a happier renewal. The opportunity for professional surfers Damien Castera and Arthur Bourbon to meet the children of war who, in some areas of the country, have traded their assault rifles for surfboards.

TUESDAY JULY 6

BRILLIANT CORNERS ALGERIA (Algérie)
17h00 // 51min
Réal: Sam Bleakley
Prod: WSL Studios

Algeria is still a big mystery for surfers. Sam Bleakley sets out to explore Africa’s largest country with Australian surfer Lucy Small and Breton explorer Erwan Simon. It is an exceptional Mediterranean adventure guided by Dihya Nasri that will take them from Algiers to fabulous Kabylia.

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

L’ALBATROS (France)
18h10 // 53min
Réal: Jean-Pierre Mothes
Prod: Oxbow

A 52minutes documentary that tells the story of French waterman Ludovic Dulou. Much more than a portrait of a sportsman, this intimate and authentic film tells the story of a Man’s Odyssey in the face of his destiny. Ludovic Dulou is a French waterman living in Bidart, in the Basque country. Swimming, paddleboarding, big wave surfing and now hydrofoil, this 49-year-old lifeguard has dedicated his life to learning about the ocean and its board and endurance sports. If some people see him as a strange bird, Ludo has always remained true to his values. After living a painful chapter in life, the man continued to write his story. Throwing himself body and soul into his passion. In search of that new life he has always dreamed of. A true hymn to freedom, the film L’ALBATROS tells this story.

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

FRERES D’OCEAN (France)
19h15 // 30min
Réal: Fred Berho
Prod: Fred Berho

The story of two brothers in love with the ocean, one in extreme surfing and the big brother in extreme fishing. A trip to Morocco, Tahiti, Indonesia in search of perfect waves and white marlin

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

7 LESSONS FROM JAPAN (Brésil)
22h00 // 12’55min
Réal: Rafael Mellin et Gustave Ferolia
Prod: Grupo Sal

When it comes to Japan, most Westerners think of sushi, sumo, and kimono. What few people know is that behind this ancient culture, Japan hides some of the best adventure peaks in the world. A handful of paradisiacal islands in the middle of the Pacific, surrounded by waves, mountains and rivers, with a huge variety of world-class peaks for practicing the main action sports …

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

BLOOD BROTHERS (Espagne)
22h25 // 12’14min
Réal: Diego Borges
Prod: Diego Borges Films

Nacho and Paolo two brothers united by a common passion. Following in his brother’s footsteps, Paolo develops his obsession with surf movies, culture and art.

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

ROCA BRUJA (France)
22h40 // 5’10min
Réal: Brian Llinares et Baptiste Levrier
Prod: Baptiste Levrier

Mythical surf spot revealed in Endless Summer 2, the wave of Roca Bruja captivates by the magnetism exerted by this hooked rock at the foot of which unwind perfect waves. The place is inhabited by several legends which would have earned it the name of Witch’s Rock: the sound of the wind, that of the waves, its threatening shape … But the legend of Roca Bruja finds its source in the mists of time when the natives had to live together with a mystical creature.

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

LES INSEPARABLES (France)
22h50 // 3’20min
Réal: Maxime Garenne et Alexandre Peneau
Prod: Bollingpot

Maï-Linh and Luc are two young souls full of energy. When they are in college, they like to meet up after class to mix their arts. Luc begins to play the piano. Mai-Linh joins him, and she begins to improvise a dance to Luc’s rhythm, without exchanging a word with him. When summer arrives, the school closes its doors. While MaiLinh goes on vacation by the sea, Luc finds the ocean and his original passion: surfing. As they are separated by distance, MaiLinh and Luc find a way to stay united through movement. In this surf and dance unite, punctuated by music and waves.

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

REBIRTH (France)
23h00 // 5’40min
Réal: Laura Basil Duncan
Prod: Laura Basil Duncan

Rebirth features Benoit, a surfer from the Basque Country, who fights for his love of the waves after losing an arm in an accident. Through deep perseverance and an optimistic spirit, Benoit develops a challenge of adaptation both physically and mentally. The journey pushes him to relearn and find the freedom of surfing once again, no matter what.

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

DIRTY BLADIND (Israël)
23h10 // 3’30min
Réal: Yaeer Eldar & Erez Melamed
Prod: Yaeer Eldar & Shachar “Shushu” Aharoni.

Shachar “Shushu” Aharoni plays the role of a top “Wall Street” roller skater. In a world where people are filling their own life checklists with money-ridden issues and anxieties, rollerblading with a suit and tie is an iconic contradiction. Dirty blading puts this contradiction to the test and makes a bold statement about how we actually manage our motivations and our sense of purity.

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

POISSON CRU (Polynésie Francaise)
23h20 // 15’17min
Réal: Olivier Sautet
Prod: Thierry Donard Films

POISSON CRU follows the virtuoso Matahi Drollet through the evolution of his surfing on one of the most dangerous and frightening waves in the world: Teahupoo. Matahi pushes the limits of what’s possible on a surfboard, whether paddling or tow-in. He knows this wave by heart, and this film reflects his vision of this gem.

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

THE ARMSTRONGS (Afrique du Sud)
23h35 // 12’35min
Réal: Arthur Neumeier
Prod: Eyeforce SA

The Armstrongs – a short film about a family of South African surfers who lead a life that many do not consider conventional. Ian (46), outfitter, shaper, former Big Wave World Champion and, above all, family man, with his wife Lee (45) and their 8 children and 1 grandson, are redefining what is normal and challenge modern family values. The Armstrongs have close ties to each other and to the ocean. They put a point honor to place well-being, unity, love and a genuine connection with nature above financial gain and status.

WEDNESDAY JULY 7

DE MER EN FILLES (France)
17h00 // 53min
Réal: Lisa Monin et Sébastien
Prod: Babel Doc

The ocean is at the heart of Tahitian culture, its spiritual beliefs and its contemporary life. In the archipelago, riding waves is said to be an ancient, ancestral practice from which women have gradually been erased. Some even said it was best to exclude them from competitions at Teahupoo. Like the times, the activity is becoming more feminine and universal, just in time to prepare for the hosting of the 2024 Olympic Games. In the Fierro family, all the daughters surf, starting with the mother. She is even a pioneer on the small island of Huahine: it was her husband, a former pro American surfer, who passed on her passion to her. Pushed by their dad, today the three girls take up the torch. Out of childhood but not quite adults, Vahine (20), Heimiti (16) and Kohai (14) are at an age where no dream seems too good. All of them hope to make a living from their passion and explore the world thanks to it. The eldest is already a world champion (the very first in Polynesia), the younger is training hard in the only sport-surf study section of the archipelago and the youngest intends to follow in their footsteps.

THURSDAY JULY 8

HAVANA LIBRE (Cuba)
18h00 // 83’13min
Réal: Corey Mc Lean
Prod: Make Wild Film

In Cuba, where the population fled the Fidel Castro regime en masse. Surfing and other water activities have been banned for decades. Today, surfing is in a legal gray area and is viewed with suspicion by Cuban authorities. Despite these challenges, a group of passionate Cuban surfers are determined to make surfing a part of the country’s culture of sporting excellence. Frank is the de facto leader of the group, and many consider him the best surfer on the island. Yaya is a community leader and surfer determined to ensure that the next generation can surf freely. When surfing is advertised as an official sport for the Tokyo Olympics, they see their chance to bring their sport out of the shadows and take it onto the world stage. The story follows of underground surfers who build their own boards from scratch, dodge the authorities by scouring the island in search of the perfect wave, and attempt to legitimize their passion by persuading the Cuban authorities to send a team. Olympic.

THURSDAY JULY 8

NO MAD (France)
20h00 //
Réal: Alvynn Diagne
Prod: NOMADS SURFING

The Nomads Surfing team with by their side Laurent and his son Jérémie, passionate about surfing, set off on a tropical island, a remote paradise with incredible waves. Despite its isolation, the island is not immune to pollution and climate change that impact biodiversity and local communities.
Surfers aim to contribute to the conservation of the seabed in this marine reserve in the process of being created and to quench their thirst for riding.
In terms of surfing, the swell is long overdue, but they do not yet know how transformed they will come out of this trip through their encounters and the discovery of an exceptional but threatened nature.

THURSDAY JULY 8

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