11/03/2011

Six European filmmakers will take part in the 7th edition of the Cinéfondation Workshop which will take place at the 64th Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22, 2011). Yesterday, it unveiled this year’s selection of 15 feature film projects from 15 countries.

These include Full Contact by Holland’s David Verbeek (who won acclaim in last year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard section with his second feature: R U There [+see also:
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Three other debut feature projects by European directors have been chosen, including Augustine by France’s Alice Winocour, which will explore the relationship between Professor Charcot, a clinician researching hysteria, and a young housemaid interned in a mental hospital in Paris in 1885. Produced by Dharamsala and co-produced by Versus Production, the film starring Benoît Poelvoorde will be shot next summer.

Other chosen titles are Romanian director Bogdan Mustata’s project Wolf (produced by Strada Film – previously awarded by Eurimages and the TorinoFilmLab); and Greek helmer Michalis Konstantatos’s Luton (produced by Yorgos Tsourgiannis).

Also in the selection are George Ovashvili’s Khibula (Georgia); Deniz Ergüven’s Kings (Turkey); Alvaro Brechner’s Mr Kaplan (Uruguay – see interview); Pablo Reyero’s Escafandra (“Diving Suit”, Argentina); Celso García’s La Delgada Línea Amarilla (“The Thin Yellow Line”, Mexico); El Mudo (“The Mute One”) by Peru’s Daniel and Diego Vega; Huang Weikai’s Now is the Future of the Past (China); Mohamed Al-Daradji’s The Train Station (Iraq); and Elad Keidan’s Of Our Economical Situation (Israel).

Created in 2005 to help emerging or established directors to supplement their film financing, the Workshop will enable the chosen filmmakers to attend Cannes with their producers from May 13-20 and hold individual meetings with professionals interested in their projects. The Book of Projects and registration forms will be available at the start of April on the Cinéfondation website.

(Translated from French)