14/12/2012 - A splendid programme and a very busy professional section at the 4th Les Arcs European Film Festival to start tomorrow

The fourth edition of the Les Arcs European Film Festival, an event that has rapidly become highly appreciated by European professionals, kicks off tomorrow. Its artistic director Frédéric Boyer has devised a competition of great quality, that is very representative of European diversity, with 12 films vying for a Crystal Arrow to be awarded by a jury headed by Romanian filmmaker Christian Mungiu. The following countries are to take part: Spain with Pablo Berger's Snow White [+see also:
film review
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interview: Pablo Berger
film profile], Italy with Daniele Cipri's Venice awardee It Was the Son, Greece withEktoras Lygizos's Boy Eating the Bird's Food, Belgium with Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens' The Fifth Season and Marc-Henri Wajnberg's Kinshasa Kids, and Serbia with Goran Paskaljevic's When Day Breaks, as well as Denmark with Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking [+see also:
film review
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interview: Tobias Lindholm
film profile], and Iceland with Baltasar Kormakur's The Deep [+see also:
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film profile]. And then there will also be the United Kingdom with Tom Shkolnik's The Comedian [+see also:
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film profile], Germany with Sylvie Michel's Our Little Différences [+see also:
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interview: Sylvie Michel
film profile] (watch the interview), Ireland with Lenny Abrahamson's What Richard Did, and Russia with Andrey Proshkin's Orda. 

The festival is to offer a European Panorama of six so far unseen titles in France: Danish filmmaker Mads Matthiesen's Teddy Bear, Czech director Jan Hrebejk's The Holy Trinity, Spanish director Alberto Rodriguez's Unit 7, German filmmaker Ralph Huettner's Lost in Siberia, Norwegian director Peter Naess' Into the White [+see also:
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film profile], and Aleksey Igudesman's Austrian production Noseland.

Also worth signalling in the very rich programme is a Focus on Belgium and a section with nine premieres: Danish filmmaker Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast, Belgian director Patrick Ridremont's Dead Man Talking, Barnaby Southcombe's British film I, Anna [+see also:
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interview: Barnaby Southcombe
interview: Charlotte Rampling
film profile], Hungarian filmmaker Bence Fliegauf's Berlinale awardee Just the Wind [+see also:
film review
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interview: Bence Fliegauf
film profile], James Marsh's Anglo-Irish co-production Shadow Dancer, and four French films: Edouard Deluc's Welcome to Argentina, Yann Coridian's Ouf, Gilles Bourdos' Renoir, and Brigitte Roüan's A Greek Type of Problem. 

The event's professional section is also to be very busy with 26 projects in the Co-production Village (read more), 12 films for which the first images will be revealed at Work in Progress, the DIRE Days (European Independent Distributors United) from December 19 to 22 with 13 titles to make their premieres, and 2013 line-ups to be presented to over 200 professionals (especially exhibitors), as well as several conferences notably in partnership with the MEDIA Programme, Europa Distribution, and the European Producers' Club.

(Translated from French)