15/01/2014 - Raconte-moi des salades by Olias Barco is in the official short film competition of the Berlinale and Violet by Bas Devos in the Generation section

Olias Barco, a French filmmaker residing in Brussels, returns to business with Raconte-moi des salades, his new short film, selected in the official competition of the Berlin Film Festival (February 6 to 16). Olias Barco takes us into the heart of the kitchens of a restaurant in Brussels, where, throughout the day, as the tension of the rush hour rises, particular tensions are exacerbated. In this microcosm where beliefs and origins are mixed, the owner is battered, he cannot pay his suppliers or his employees, and in the heat of the stoves, the economic crisis is hitting the restaurant hard. After his first feature Snowboarder (2003), which brought together Grégoire Colin and Nicolas Duchauvelle, Olias Barco returned in 2010 with two feature film projects: Estela, directed by Oscar da Silva, which he wrote and coproduced with La Parti Production, and Kill Me Please [+see also:
trailer
film profile], a black, white and hilarious UFO on a suicide clinic, notably with Bouli Lanners, Aurélien Recoing, and Virginie Efira in the cast, which won the Golden Marc-Aurèle at the Rome Film Festival, and was also produced by La Parti Production. Raconte-moi des salades is in fact produced by Altitude 100, the production company of the Malandrin brother, former members of the late La Parti Production.

The Generation section will feature Violet [+see also:
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film profile], the first feature by Bas Devos, produced by Mind Meets. Violet delves into the grieving process of a young boy. Jesse, 15 years old, is the only one in his BMX biking group to have witnessed the death of one of their teammates, Jonas. Incapable of explaining what happened and the reasons behind this tragedy, Jesse becomes more and more isolated from the group... The Generation section, created in 1978, targets movies for children and young adults.