email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

FESTIVALS France

Filmmakers of the future in Paris

by 

Opened last Friday with Le Soleil by Alexandre Sokurov, a co-production gathering Russia, Italy (Downtown Pictures ), France (Mact Productions) and Switzerland (Proline Film), the 11th edition of Paris International Cinema Encounters is in full swing until 11th July within the framework of Paris Cinéma. This year 20 features, both fictiuon and documentary, are on the programme in the Forum des Images, a sélection which includes 14 productions or coproductions from Europe. But the event also offers retrospectives of guests of honour such as the French directors Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, the German filmmaker Helma Sanders-Brahms and also the Spanish actor Javier Bardem, and there is also the workshop "Are European distributors ready for digital cinema ?" (Thursday 7th July).

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

Yesterday, the International Encounters cranked up the projectors on Le Rivage des murmures, a quality first feature by Margarida Cardoso. Selected last year at Venice within Journées des Auteurs, the film produced by Filmes do Tejo (Portugal) benefited from a French co-production (Les Films d'Après-midi) and the support of ZDF ARTE, with a total budget of 1 million euros. Based loosely on the book by Lídia Jorge, Le Rivage des murmures revisits the end of Portugal’s colonization of Mozambique through the eyes of a young woman in the army. A slow immersion in a universe of lies and violence which for the moment has not been distributed in Portugal, and negotiations are continuing with France, while international sales are handled by Paris outfit Insomnia World Sales.

All the films in competition :

A travers la forêt (FR) by Jean-Paul Civeyrac
ADAM AND PAUL (IE ) by Lenny Abrahamson
And Thereafter (KR/US) de Hosup Lee
Beautiful City (IR) by Asghar Farhadi
El Perro negro (NL) by Péter Forgács
Home Sweet Home (FR) by Nils De Coster
How the Garcia Girls Spent their Summer (US) by Georgina Garcia Riedel
Odessa Odessa… (FR/IL) by Michale Boganim
Pour les vivants et les morts (FI) by Kari Paljakka
Pour un seul de mes deux yeux (FR/IL) by Avi Mograbi
Le Rivage des murmures (PT/FR/DE) by Margarida Cardoso
Ronde de nuit (AR/FR) d’Edgardo Cozarinsky
Silenzio (FR) by Christian Merlhiot
Le Soleil (Russie/IT/FR/CH) by Alexandre Sokurov
The Night is Bright (UA/RU) by Roman Balayan
This Charming Girl (KR) by Lee Yoon-ki
Un silenzio particolare (IT) by Stefano Rulli
Voici venu le temps [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
(FR) by Alain Guiraudie
Watermarks ((FR/IL/US) ) by Yaron Zilberman
Yesterday Darrell (ZA) by James Roodt

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

(Translated from French)

Did you enjoy reading this article? Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox.

Privacy Policy