11/05/2007

Over 50 documentary films in 11 sections – including retrospectives on the work of the most renowned directors, conferences on the ethics of commerce, the relationship between cinema and psychoanalysis, Islam and participants from numerous countries – are what audiences can look forward to at the 4th Planete Doc Review International Festival, which begins tomorrow in Warsaw and runs until May 20.

The event presents documentary features awarded at major international festivals. This year 19 titles have been selected in official competition including, for the first time, a Polish film, Marcin Koszałka’s User Friendly Death.

The Millennium Award will be presented by a jury whose members include Mirosław Dembiński, Anna Maria Bucchetti, Leonard Retel Helmrich, Jane Balfour and Bartek Konopka.

The sure-fire highlight of the festival will be the Werner Herzog retrospective, at which audiences will be able to see 10 films by the German master.

The official selection line-up:

37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
- Ben Hopkins (UK)

Arcana
- Cristobal Vicente (Chile)

Tales of the Rat Fink
- Ron Mann (Canada)

The Prize of the Pole
- Staffan Julen (Sweden, Denmark)

Black Sun
- Gary Tarn (UK)

Echoes of Home
- Stefan Schwietert (Switzerland, Germany)

Iraq in Fragments
- James Longley (USA)

The Prisoner or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
- Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker (USA, Germany)

The Monastery: Mr Vig and the Nun
- Pemille Rose Gronkjaer (Denmark)

The End of the Neubacher Project
- Marcus J. Carney (Austria, Netherlands)

Nomadak Tx
- Raul de la Fuente (Spain)

Jesus Camp
- Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady (USA)

Exile Family Movie
- Rodzina Arach (Austria)

Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story
- Chris Sheridan and Patty Kim (USA)

Manufactured Landscapes
- Jennifer Baichwal (Canada)

User Friendly Death
- Marcin Koszałka (Poland)

Three Comrades
- Mascha Novikowa (Netherlands)

Comrades in Dreams
- Uli Gaulke (Germany)

Buddha's Lost Children
- Mark Verkerk (Netherlands)

(Translated from French)