21/03/2006

The future of the film has a rendezvous this week in Poitiers, at the 29th International Film School Festival, which kicked off yesterday. Running through March 26, the event (also known as the Henri Langlois Cinema Encounters) – at which directors such as Denmark’s Christopher Boe and France’s Noémie Lvovsky have been discovered – offers a competition of 60 short and medium-length films of all genres, from fiction to animation, documentary to experimental.

Prestigious patrons will take part in its Cinema Lessons, including Benoît Jacquot, who will read the screenplay for his new project L’Intouchable, Philippe Faucon who will look back on the writing of La trahison [+see also:
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film profile], and Radu Mihaileanu, who will analyse the screenplay for Live and Become [+see also:
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interview: Denis Carot
interview: Didar Domehri
interview: Radu Mihaileanu
film profile] (Best Original Screenplay at the 2006 Césars).

Representatives of the best film schools from 15 European countries will meet in competition. Among those battling it out are schools from Poland (Polish National Film, Theatre and Television School), the Czech Republic (Vyssi Odborna Skola Filmová Zlín), Hungary (Színház - és Filmmûvészeti Egyetem), Germany (Deutsche Film-und Fersehehakademie Berlin, Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg), Italy (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia), France (including La fémis, Le Fresnoy, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs), Belgium (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et Techniques de Diffusion), Holland (Netherlands Film & TV Academy), the UK (National Film and Television School), Austria (Universitat Film Musik u Darst Kunst Filmakademie Wien), Finland (Helsinki University of Art & Design), Denmark (Den Danske Filmskole), Switzerland (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich), Bulgaria (National Academy of Theatre & Film Arts) and Spain (Escuela Superior de Cinema y Audiovisual de Catalunya).

The Coordination of European Film Festivals will also screen a programme entitled "Europe in Short", consisting of fantasy films.

(Translated from French)