26/06/2014 - Nearly 250 films will screen from 27 June until 6 July, including a whole raft of Cannes titles and tributes to Bruno Dumont, Hanna Schygulla and Pippo Delbono, among others

Tomorrow marks the start of the 42nd La Rochelle International Film Festival, which will present a delectable programme of 250 films (including 200 fiction features) until 6 July. The menu boasts a section dubbed “Long live Czech animated films” (which will see Jiri Barta in attendance), a “Remembering Bernadette Laffont” programme, and tributes to German actress Hanna Schygulla, French director Bruno Dumont (complete with the premiere of his Cannes selection, Li'l Quinquin [+see also:
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The “Here and Elsewhere” section, which features around 40 films from among the year’s most memorable titles, will offer a whole raft of works arriving fresh from the Cannes Festival, such as: the Palme d'Or winner Winter Sleep [+see also:
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interview: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
film profile] by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan; the Grand Prix winner The Wonders [+see also:
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interview: Alice Rohrwacher
interview: Tiziana Soudani
film profile] by Italy’s Alice Rohrwacher; competition entries Clouds of Sils Maria [+see also:
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interview: Charles Gillibert
interview: Olivier Assayas
film profile] by Olivier Assayas, Timbuktu [+see also:
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film profile] by Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako and Still the Water [+see also:
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film profile] by Naomi Kawase; the winner of Un Certain Regard, White God [+see also:
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interview: Kornél Mundruczó
film profile] by Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo; and the Caméra d'Or winner Party Girl [+see also:
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interview: Marie Amachoukeli, Claire B…
film profile] by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis. In addition to these, the festival will also feature Girlhood [+see also:
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interview: Céline Sciamma
interview: Céline Sciamma
film profile] by Céline Sciamma, Love at First Fight [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Cailley
film profile] by Thomas Cailley, Eat Your Bones [+see also:
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film profile] by Jean-Charles Hue, Amour fou [+see also:
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film profile] by Austria’s Jessica Hausner, Beautiful Youth [+see also:
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interview: Jaime Rosales
film profile] by Spaniard Jaime Rosales, Jauja [+see also:
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film profile] by Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso, Hope [+see also:
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interview: Boris Lojkine
film profile] by Boris Lojkine, Mercuriales [+see also:
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film profile] by Virgil Vernier, Insecure [+see also:
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interview: Marianne Tardieu
film profile] by Marianne Tardieu, Hippocrates [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Lilti
film profile] by Thomas Lilti, Geronimo [+see also:
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film profile] by Tony Gatlif, Gente de bien [+see also:
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film profile] by Colombian filmmaker Franco Lolli and National Gallery [+see also:
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film profile] by US director Frederik Wiseman.

Also of note on the very same programme are the Berlinale award winner Stations of the Cross [+see also:
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Q&A: Dietrich Brüggemann
film profile] by Germany’s Dietrich Bruggemann, Of Horses and Men [+see also:
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interview: Benedikt Erlingsson
film profile] by Icelandic filmmaker Benedikt Erlingsson, Austrian title Steadiness by Lisa Weber and Polish film Little Crushes by Aleksandra Gowin and Ireneusz Grzyb, among others.

(Translated from French)