French premiere - International competition

9 FINGERS opens like in a film noir: at night, in a train station, a man called Magloire runs from a police control. With no luggage and no future. No sooner has he found a huge amount of money than trouble begins. A gang on his heels will soon make him a hostage then an accomplice. It is Kurtz’s gang. After an aborted break-in, they all have to flee aboard a cargo ship with a dangerous volatile freight. Nothing happens as it was supposed to be — poison and madness contaminate everybody. Kurtz’s men seem to be the pawns of a conspiracy led by the mysterious “9 Fingers”...

A writer, poet, singer and filmmaker, trublion F.J. Ossang (Treasure of the Bitch Island, Docteur Chance, Dharma Guns) is a precious and unique artist in French cinema. His new feature film, a kind of dreamlike vision of a rock’n’roll noir movie on speed, shot in 35mm film, assembles an intriguing cast : Paul Harry (A Frenchman), Pascal Greggory  (Thousand Cuts) and Gaspard Ulliel (Saint Laurent).  A must !