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D’A 2015 honours Alain Resnais and Bertrand Bonello

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- The fifth Barcelona International Auteur Film Festival is dedicating retrospectives to the two directors and offers audiences the choicest films boasting the most character and personality

D’A 2015 honours Alain Resnais and Bertrand Bonello
Saint Laurent by Bertrand Bonello

Between 24 April and 3 May, film buffs with the most discerning tastes in cinematic delights will be irresistibly drawn to the fifth edition of the D’A International Auteur Film Festival, set to unspool at such venues as the Catalonian Film Library. For starters, the gathering will be opened by Saint Laurent [+see also:
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by Bertrand Bonello, a filmmaker that viewers will be able to get to know more intimately thanks to the retrospective dedicated to him, since only House of Tolerance [+see also:
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has seen a release in Spain. The late Alain Resnais (read the news) will also receive a tribute, with the screening of his last six works.

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This festival, which flies the flag of independent, alternative cinema with character, offers such scintillating sections as Direccions, including the premieres of titles like Bird People [+see also:
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interview: Pascale Ferran
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, The Blue Room
 [+see also:
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and the documentary In the Basement [+see also:
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; Talents, brimming with directors who have made fewer than three films, including treats such as Antigone Awake [+see also:
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, The Money Complex [+see also:
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and Androids Dream [+see also:
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; Futurs (Im)possibles, with its cross-cutting perspectives on the fantastic genre, such as El arca de Noé [+see also:
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and Under the Skin [+see also:
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interview: Jonathan Glazer
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; and Transicions, which boasts such unclassifiable titles as The High Pressures [+see also:
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interview: Ángel Santos
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, The Long Way Home
 [+see also:
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interview: Sergi Pérez
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and Love at First Fight [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Cailley
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.

Standing out among the activities that will take place there are the First Professional Conferences on Marketing Strategies for Independent Film (organised in conjunction with the Creative Europe Media Desk Catalonia, the SGAE Foundation, SDE and Catalán Films) and the first Campus D’A, a place where future film critics are nurtured.

Three awards will be handed out: the Talents Award – which comes with €6,000 – for which the jury comprises Lluís Miñarro, Neus Ballús, Montse Triolla and José Luis Losa (director of the Cineuropa Festival in Santiago de Compostela), the Critics’ Award and the Audience Award. Eden, by Mia Hansen-Love, is the movie that will be given the honour of bringing these ten days of bold, modern arthouse cinema to a close.

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(Translated from Spanish)

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