06/09/2007

A copious contingent of 33 French majority (co-)productions will screen at the 32nd Toronto Film Festival (September 6-September 15).

The Canadian event will give pride of place to Alain Corneau’s Second Wind [+see also:
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Five other titles will premiere at the renowned festival: Florent-Emilio Siri’s Intimate Enemies [+see also:
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film profile] (see news) in the Contemporary World Cinema section, Michelange Quay’s Eat, for This Is My Body [+see also:
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film profile] (produced by Les Films à Un Dollar and sold by Memento Films) in the Visions programme, Julien Leclercq’s anticipation thriller Chrysalis [+see also:
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World sales agents will abandon Venice’s Lido to head for the Canadian city, with films screened at Venice also getting a showing at Toronto. These include Claude Chabrol’s A Girl Cut in Two [+see also:
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film profile] (see article), Youssef Chahine’s Chaos, Amos Gitaï’s Disengagement [+see also:
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film profile] (see article), Manuel de Oliveira’s Cristovão Colombo – O Enigma [+see also:
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Cannes prizewinners to screen at Toronto include Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis [+see also:
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film profile] (see Focus), Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [+see also:
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Other Cannes titles are Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs [+see also:
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film profile] (see interview), Hou Hsiao Hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon [+see also:
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film profile] (see news), Inside [+see also:
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film profile] (see article ), collective film Chacun fait son cinéma, Caméra d’Or winner Jellyfish [+see also:
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Minority co-productions at Toronto are Alexander Sokurov’s Alexandra [+see also:
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interview: Pernilla Sandström
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interview: Daniele Luchetti
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Berlinale titles selected for the North American festival include François Ozon’s Angel [+see also:
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The line-up also features French/UK co-production Son of Rambow by Garth Jennings, Salif Traoré’s Faro; Philippe Calderon’s The Besieged Fortress [+see also:
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A number of non-French films feature in the line-up of French sales agents, such as Terra by Aristomenis Tsirbas, Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream [+see also:
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(Translated from French)