Women rule

by Fabien Lemercier

11/03/2005 - Over 110 films are on the program for the 27th edition of the Women's Films Festival which takes place in Créteil, right next to Paris, from today to the 20th of March

Over 110 films are on the program for the 27th edition of the Women’s Film Festival which takes place in Créteil, right next to Paris, from today to the 20th of March. This festival, where last year’s winner was Ne dis rien [+see also:
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All three sections (feature, short film, and documentary) put together, 50 movies are competing. In the main section —features— several films are very promising : Frozen [+see also:
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film profile] (2004) by Susanne Bier (Denmark), O Diablo a quatro (2004) by Alice de Andrade (a coproduction involving Bresil, France, Switzerland, and Portugal), and Los nombres de Alicia (2003) by Pilar Ruiz Guterriez (Spain). Amongst other events and tributes (from experimental cinema to the young public section, called Graine de Cinéphage), Créteil wished to put an emphasis on the Tricky Women Festival in Vienna, since it is the only women’s festival in Austria, and the only animation film festival dedicated to women in all Europe for that matter.