13/09/2010

The 6th Swiss French Film Festival, which aims to serve as a launching pad for French-language productions in German-speaking Switzerland, will run from September 15-19 in the bilingual city of Bienne. Film enthusiasts will get the chance to discover recent French and Francophone productions, most of them unreleased in Switzerland.

This year, director Otar Iosseliani will present his film Chantrapas, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival; Swiss director Jean-François Amiguet and actor Jean-Luc Bideau will unveil Wild in world premiere; and Switzerland’s Jean-Stéphane Bron will be there with Cleveland Versus Wall Street [+see also:
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interview: Jean-Stéphane Bron
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This edition, whose patron is Swiss-French actor Vincent Perez, will offer audiences an impressive range of films. These also include Swiss directors Véronique Reymond and Stéphanie Chuat’s The Little Room [+see also:
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interview: Véronique Reymond, Stéphan…
film profile], starring Michel Bouquet; Jeanne Labrune’s Sans Queue Ni Tête (“Cock and Bull”); Cédric Anger’s The Counsel [+see also:
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film profile]; Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], in a major premiere after its Cannes screening; Guillaume Canet’s Little White Lies [+see also:
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film profile], in European premiere; and Robert Mitchum Is Dead [+see also:
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film profile] by Olivier Babinet and Fred Kihn.