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:
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
Genre: Drama
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Arthur, 19 years old, has just left an orphanage where he has spent the last fifteen years, punctuated by placements in foster homes. Life has not been kind to him. His mother died when he was born and his father abandoned him like a bundle of dirty laundry when he was 6. Broken by his childhood, stuttering, introverted and friendless, Arthur embarks on an intense quest to find his father, his only family. One day, Arthur crosses the path of Nicole, a forty-year-old woman. Without knowing it, Nicole triggers a series of events that will change her life and have extraordinary consequences on Arthur's.
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TO LIFE, TO LOVE
A BUTTERFLY SOUL (L'Âme Papillon)
Director: In talks
Screenwriter: Carol Mitchelle
Genre: Drama
Full of pep and curiosity, LISE (79) plans a sumptuous party in the castle's garden where she married MAX, 50 years earlier. They've had a beautiful life, two children -- VICTOR, based in Africa, and SYLVIE, 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 with 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, Lise does everything in her power to bring the couple back together, but so far to no avail. Camille grills Lise about her party. Lise leads her to believe that she's secretly preparing a remariage with Max on their 50th wedding anniversary. Camille cross-checks information with Sylvie and Victor. Everything matches. They have fun seeing Lise'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.
