Passions Film Slate
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”
Albert Einstein
Director: Philippe Muyl
Screenwriter: Carol Mitchell
Genre: Romantic Comedy Co-Producer Armonïa Productions / BpM Productions
ASHLEY, a pretty forty-something who heads a communication agency in Monaco, only cares about appearances. She spends lavishly and has a deep passion for stilettos. Her delusions of grandeurs have dangerously put her agency on the verge of bankrupcy. She jumps on the last chance budget and finds herself catapulted in tailored suit and high heels on the dream tropical highland of Purehua (French Polynesia), to plan a launch for her new client.
Paradise is only short lived. Everything goes from the frying pan into the fire when Ashley lands in what she calls “the Care Bears country that works in slow-mo”. She discovers a world diametrically opposed to the one she lives in. A country anchored in ancestral rituals, where one appreciates simple pleasures, and whose philosophy is “aita 'e pe'ape'a" (don’t worry, everything will be fine).
A chance meeting with KAHI, a 17-year-old surfer, is going to literally turn her life upside down. It will open her eyes to a more spiritual world focused on environmental protection.
FREEWHEEL
Director: Bibi Naceri
Screenwriter: Bibi Naceri
Genre: Comedy - TV Mini-series
A road-movie with scathing humor, "Freewheel" features three improbable pairs in three different cars that follow each other from Belgium through the roads of France, towards Spain in the pursuit of a killer.
MISTER PUPPET
ARTHUR
Director: Marion Laine
Screenwriter: Carol Mitchell / Marion Laine
Genre: Drama
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ARTHUR (20) leaves a children's home where he has spent the past fifteen years, punctuated by placements with foster families. Life has not been kind to him. His parents died in a car accident when he was five years old. Broken by his childhood, stuttering, introverted, and friendless, Arthur arrives in Paris hoping to find he last family member he believes he has left, but the old woman has been placed in a nursing home. Devastated, Arthur wanders the city and ends up finding refuge in a shelter for young adults. MARC, one of the counselors, finds him a part-time job in a restaurant. That’s where Arthur meets MOKONZO aka MOMO, a young man his age who is also staying at the center. Momo has had a similar upbringing to Arthur, but he is as extroverted and cheerful as Arthur is introverted and taciturn.
A music lover determined to “make it” as a guitarist, Momo will be the first catalyst for Arthur's rebirth. He quickly discovers that Arthur is an amazing singer, and when he sings, he no longer stutters. He is transformed, blossoms, becomes a different man. Momo encourages Arthur to audition for the RATP’s castings so that they could perform together in the subway. Arthur refuses, but a series of circumstances will decide otherwise.
One night, Arthur crosses the path of Axelle, a 35-year-old single woman. Determined to help him, Axelle will trigger a series of events that will change Arthur's life and have extraordinary consequences on hers.
TO LIFE, TO LOVE
A BUTTERFLY SOUL (L'Âme Papillon)
Director: In talks
Screenwriter: Carol Mitchell
Genre: Drama
Full of pep and curiosity, LIZ (79) plans a sumptuous party in the estate's garden where she married MAX, 50 years earlier. They've had a beautiful life, two children -- their adoptive son VICTOR, based in Africa, and SYLVIA, living in Montreal with her family -- a good standard of living, and no clouds in their relationship. With a small hitch… ever since Lise started to obsess about her event, Max has been grumbling, clearly resistant. He wants all this nonsense to stop once and for all.
Close to CAMILLE, Victor's ex, Liz does everything in her power to bring the couple back together, but so far to no avail. Camille grills Liz about her party. Liz leads her to believe that she's secretly preparing a remariage with Max on their 50th wedding anniversary. Camille cross-checks information with Sylvia and Victor. Everything matches. They have fun seeing Liz's embarrassment in avoiding the subject, knowing they have discovered the truth. Well, at least that's what they think!
INFINITE LOVE
Directors: In talks
Screenwriter: Carol Mitchell
Genre: Comedy, Drama
INFINITE LOVE reveals the crossed destinies of three characters and highlights their individual way of apprehending the existential questions… life, death, faith, the after life…
Paul, an ‘eternal teenager’ full of life despite being in his eighties, is terminally ill with cancer.
His best friend Michelle, a forty-year-old writer, stays by his side during the last months of his life, while dwelling on the existential questions of life and death.
Helped in this fundamental quest by her friend Patrick — a zany character passionate about Albert Einstein and quantum physics — Michelle deepens her metaphysical research to realize it reveals strange similarities with quantum theories.
