21/06/2013 - The 21st French Film Festival in Japan is in full swing in the notable presence of Nathalie Baye, Ludivine Sagnier, Deborah François and François Ozon

Since Wednesday and until this Sunday, the 21st French Film Festival in Japan is taking place in Tokyo, organized by Unifrance. Amongst the 13 titles on the programme, eight have already been purchased by local distributors, including In The House [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by François Ozon, Populaire [+see also:
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trailer
making of
film profile] by Régis Roinsard, A Few Hours of Spring [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] by Stéphane Brizé, Lines of Wellington [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Valeria Sarmiento
film profile] by Valeria Sarmiento, Three Worlds [+see also:
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interview: Arta Dobroshi
film profile] by Catherine Corsini, the medium-length movie Un monde sans femmes by Guillaume Brac and the documentary Traviata et nous by Philippe Béziat.

Four feature films seeking distributors are also on the agenda: the animated film Le Jour des corneilles [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Jean-Christophe Dessaint, Un enfant de toi [+see also:
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film profile] by Jacques Doillon, Love Is in the Air by Alexandre Castagnetti and Thérèse Desqueyroux [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] by the sadly missed Claude Miller.

The delegation of artists who have travelled to Japan (where French films registered 2.5 million admissions in 2012) includes Nathalie Baye (to whom a retrospective is being dedicated), Ludivine Sagnier, Deborah François, Hélène Vincent, Raphaël Personnaz, François Ozon (who will be the highlight of an encounter entitled "Meet the Filmmaker") and Jacques Doillon (who will give a master class at the Cinema School of Tokyo).

(Translated from French)