Bordeaux awards its Grand Prix to a first film
The Swiss film Ryna [+see also:
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Already in competition in August in Sarajevo and Montreal (World Film Festival), this Swiss-Rumanian co-production (Pacific Films in Geneva and Strada Film in Rumania) opened the Cinéma Tout Ecran, Festival international for film and television whose 11th edition runs, in Geneva, from the 31st October to the 5th November. Ryna which also represents Switzerland in the section "New Faces in European Cinema" at 19th edition of the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival (3 - 13 November) and in competition at the 54th Mannheim-Heidelberg Festival (17 - 26 November). It will later be screened in Greece at the 46th Thessalonika Festival (18 - 26 November).
(Translated from French)
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