Beyond the frontiers of cinema – television
Top film and television event, born 11 years ago in Geneva, Cinéma Tout Ecran reaffirms this year its cinema ambitions. Auteur films produced for or by television through to new series from the four corners of the world, the 2005 version (31 October - 6 November) targets artistic quality on the small screen. The international competition, which includes films from the cinema as well as television, welcomes a first Swiss feature as opener, Ryna [+see also:
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film profile] by Ruxandra Zenide, already winner of the Grand Prix at the Women’s Film Festival at Bordeaux. Among the other works in line, worth citing Une saison Sibelius (Sibelius Season) by Frenchman Mario Fanfani, Love by Serb Vladan Nikolic, Distortion from Israeli Haïm Bouzaglo, Manners of Dying by Canadian Jeremy Peter Allen, Les Invisibles by French critic Thierry Jousse and also The Deal by Stephen Frears.
Four previews are also on the programme: Free Zone [+see also:
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film profile] by Amos Gitaï,La ballade de Jack et Rose by Rebecca Miller, Keane by Lodge H. Kerrigan and Café Transit by Kambozia Partovi. The section "Big filmmaker - small screen" tributes Paul Verhoeven, who started out on Dutch TV, while the work of Genevan filmmaker Pierre Maillard is also in retrospective. Finally, "Cinéma Tout Enfant" offers the young public fiction films and original animation. Cinéma Tout Ecran organises too a symposium dedicated to "Political Film Today" and an international market – the Geneva Select Market – opens the debate on the theme "Digital High Definition: video standard for all our images?". The festival inaugurates too a "Work in Progress" on how to pitch destined for filmmakers.
(Translated from French)
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