30/09/2010

There is no jealousy on either side of the linguistic border: while the 37th Ghent International Film Festival (October 12-23) has just announced its line-up.

Its highly eclectic selection will give Flemish audiences the chance to discover discerning films and exceptional avant-premieres.

The Ghent Festival is also unique in its emphasis on film music. Since 2001, it has hosted the World Soundtrack Awards, where honours include Best Composer of the Year, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Song, Best Discovery and the Audience Award. Moreover, there can be no music without a concert, so brilliant Brit composer John Barry (Goldfinger, Out of Africa, Barry Lyndon) will perform before Ghent audiences.

On screens, the official competition will be an opportunity to discover irreverent Belgian director Koen Mortier’s new feature, 22nd of May [+see also:
trailer
film profile] in European avant-premiere; Irish director Alicia Duffy’s All Good Children [+see also:
film review
film profile], which was presented at Cannes in May and is co-produced by Belgium’s Artemis Productions; Valerio Mieli’s Italian title Ten Winters [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Michele Riondino - actor
interview: Valerio Mieli
film profile]; German hopeful for the 2011 Oscars, When We Leave [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Feo Aladag
interview: Feo Aladag
film profile] by Feo Aladag (finalist of the LUX Prize 2010 of the European Parliament); Home for Christmas [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bent Hamer
film profile] by Norway’s Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories, Eggs); Daniel Esposito’s thriller Easy Money, Swedish box office hit of 2010, which is reminiscent of the Millennium [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Niels Arden Oplev
interview: Søren Stærmose
film profile] saga, another Swedish hit, whose second instalment is planned for 2011; and finally,Tender Son [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], the new feature by up-and-coming Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczo (Delta [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Kornél Mundruczó
interview: Orsi Tóth
film profile], Johanna [+see also:
trailer
film profile]), unveiled in official competition at Cannes in May.

Added to this abundant programme are a selection of avant-premieres (including Mike Leigh’s Another Year [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mike Leigh
film profile], Gabriele Muccino’s Kiss Me Again [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] and Belgian director Alex Stockman’s Pulsar) and discoveries in the World Cinema section. The ten-day Ghent festival is thus set to give pride of place to European cinema!

(Translated from French)