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The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq to open Cambridge

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- Festival to focus on Catalan and new German cinema

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq to open Cambridge
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq by Guillaume Nicloux

The 34th Cambridge Film Festival (August 28-September 7) will open with Guillaume Nicloux’s The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq [+see also:
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. Other highlights include Writer/Director Rowan Joffe and novelist SJ Watson who will present Before I Go to Sleep [+see also:
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, starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong. Skip Kite will present his tribute Tony Benn: Will and Testament about the statesman who passed away in March, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s 20,000 Days on Earth [+see also:
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, Sylvian Chomet’s Attila Marcel [+see also:
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, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida [+see also:
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, Kelly Reichart’s Night Moves, David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars [+see also:
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and Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man [+see also:
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The festival’s focus on new German cinema includes Dietrich Brüggemann’s Stations of the Cross [+see also:
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Q&A: Dietrich Brüggemann
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, Edgar Reitz’s Home from Home [+see also:
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, Jakob LassLove Steaks [+see also:
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, Jan Ole Gerster’s Oh Boy [+see also:
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, Philip Gröning’s The Policeman’s Wife [+see also:
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and Monika Treut’s Of Girls and Horses.

Building on two years of celebrating Catalan Cinema, the festival returns with a third programme of films including Sergio Caballero’s The Distance, Roger Gual’s Tasting Menu [+see also:
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, Hammudi Al-Rahmoun Font’s Othello [+see also:
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, Jesus Monllao’s Son of Cain [+see also:
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and Mar Coll’s We all want what’s best for her [+see also:
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The Cambridge Film Festival is operated by the charitable Cambridge Film Trust and funded by the British Film Institute.

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