19/01/2005

This Friday 21rst January will be the opening day of the seventh Paris Screenings organised by Unifrance. During four days, 460 film professionals (theatrical distributors, TV buyers and journalists) from 40 countries will be able to view some 72 new French films and meet their filmmakers and actors.

The Film market has invited some 350 theatrical distributors and TV buyers who will see 34 French premieres (films never shown before at a market) and 38 recent French films in five cinemas close to the Champs-Elysées. The screenings will include local hits such as L'Enquête Corse, Arnaud Desplechin’s Kings and Queens d’Le Dernier Trappeur, Les Soeurs fâchées with Isabelle Huppert, Holy Lola by Bertand Tavernier, as well as first feature films that have already drawn attention such as the award-winning film in San Sebastian Innocence Le Grand Voyage (awarded in Venice), Narco and last summer’s surprise hit J'me sens pas belle by Bernard Jeanjean. The market premieres will include Chouchou director Merzak Allouache’s new filmBab El Web , Claude Berri’s L'un reste l'autre part Boudu with Gérard Depardieu, Quand la mer monte... as well as Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau’s Crustacés et coquillages with Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, selected at the upcoming Berlin Film festival in the Panorama Section).
110 journalists from 20 different countries will also be able to meet French directors and actors whose films will be shown in their respective countries during the first quarter of 2005. Finally, one of the highlights of the event will be a reception held on January 24 at the Musée d'Orsay by the French Minister of Culture and Communication Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres for a European delegation.

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(Translated from French)