14/04/2005

The European Coordination of Film Festivals is launching the second part of its world tour. After Hong Kong, it will stop by the Singapore International Film Festival which starts today and finishes at the end of the month.

The European Coordination (the union of 240 European festivals) aims at helping foreign audiences to discover a series of European films selected for their high quality. The Coordination, supported by the Media Programme, shows around six films which have already received great acclaim from the public and the critics in their own country. Press screenings, conferences... Up to the presence of the agents, everything has been organised so that the films really meet his audience.

This year’s films are either new films by internationally famous directors such as Volker Schlöndorff (The Ninth Day) and Mika Kaurismäki (Honey Baby), or films by young talents such as the Dogma director Susanne Bier, whose second feature, Brothers [+see also:
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film profile] and Lukas Moodysson’s latest film, A Hole In My Heart. Finally, the Coordination is presenting Yasmin by Kenneth Glenaan (Germany), oecumenical prize in Locarno and, Niceland by Fridrik Thór Fridriksson (Iceland), Crystal Globe at the Karlovi Vary International Film Festival.

This world tour will take more European selected films to other destinations : the Osian's Cinefan Festival in New Delhi (July 15-24), the Sao Paulo International Film Festival (this Autumn), and the International Festival of New Latin-American Cinema in La Habana (December 6-16).

(Translated from French)