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ATLANTIC BAR

• Director: Fanny Molins
• FRANCE / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 77’ / French; Turkish,  English s.t.

• Director of Photography: Martin Roux
• Editing: Rémi Langlade
• Music: A Transient State
• Producer: Chloé Servel, Nicolas Tiry
• Production Co.: Solab Pictures
• World Sales: Solab Pictures

2023 Istanbul Film Festival Special Mention
2022 Champs-Elysées (France) Jury Prize, Public Prize

At l’Atlantic Bar, Nathalie, the owner, is at the centre of attention. Here, people sing, dance and hold each other close. When the bar is put up for sale, Nathalie and the regulars are faced with the end of their world and the loss of a place, at times harmful, but desperately needed. The first feature-length documentary of Fanny Molins finds overflowing humanism, warmth, life, encounters, love, and drama at a bar in Arles, south of France. The very last place of the patrons and the owners where they find a sense of solidarity, where their story becomes a political one that invites us too against the threat of the voracious appetite of gentrification. World premiering at the ACID side section at Cannes in 2022, Atlantic Bar was praised for being ‘between Depardon, Wiseman, and Bukowski.’

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.