Aux Images, Citoyens!: Europe on four screens
Hosting film screenings on four media – cinema, television, Internet and mobile phones – the very first edition of the Festival européen des 4 Ecrans unspools in Paris today.
The event – helmed by producer Hervé Chabalier (Capa) and promoted extensively in the French media under the slogan "Aux Images, Citoyens !" (a pun on the line “Aux armes citoyens” from the French national anthem) – is offering cinephiles three days of film screenings at the MK2 Bibliothèque cinema along with conferences and meetings held at the nearby French National Library.
Programme highlights include sneak previews of two features: Cannes Best Screenplay winner and Germany’s 2008 Oscar candidate for Best Foreign Language Film, Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fatih Akin
interview: Klaus Maeck
film profile], as well as the screening of 2007 Venice Days title Under the Bombs [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by French/Lebanese director Philippe Aractingi.
The event will also host no less than 45 European television films, ranging from documentaries, reports and investigations to docudramas and fiction projects shown for the first time in France, 16 of which will battle it out in competition for one of five awards, among which the top prize of Ecran d’Or (“Golden Screen”).
Presided over by Spanish writer Jorge Semprun, the jury also comprises legendary rock singer Marianne Faithfull (recently acclaimed for her role in Irina Palm [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sam Garbarski
interview: Sébastien Delloye
film profile], see Focus), Italy’s Lilli Gruber, Estonia’s Kadri Kõusaar (director of Cannes 2007 entry Magnus), German journalist Franziska Augstein, French comic book illustrator Philippe Starck and fellow comic book artist, Balkan-born director Enki Bilal.
The event will be rounded off by screenings of the best films selected in the Net and Mobile competitions, which will be open to all, as well as by the University of Images.
The latter aims to create a point of reflection, at which both industry professionals and the public will be invited to debate images, their sense and their evolution. Eight themes are programmed, including "Cinema and Digital Revolution", "New Broadcasters, New Economy?" and "New Screens, New Writings".
(Translated from French)
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