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Competition / France


571 articles available in total starting from 18/07/2003. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

Festival regulars Ozon and Tavernier to vie for Golden Bear

François Ozon’s Ricky and Bertrand Tavernier’s In the Electric Mist join Rachid Bouchareb’s London River (see news) on the list of French productions selected in competition at the 59th Berlinale...  

16/01/2009 | Berlinale 2009 | France/Competition

Bouchareb’s London River to screen in competition

A French initiative production is included in the initial list of six titles set to screen in competition at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival (February 5-15, 2009): Rachid Bouchareb’s...  

15/12/2008 | Berlinale 2009 | Competition/France

The Other One: The magical number two

After Barbet Schroeder’s Inju, the second French film in competition at the Venice Film Festival is appropriately titled The Other One. The film is also the second feature for the cinema by...  

31/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Schroeder’s untamed Beast

The line between fiction and reality is not so much blurred as it is erased in Barbet Schroeder’s Venice Competition title Inju – The Beast in the Shadow. The SBS and La fabrique de films...  

29/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

SBS Films and UGC pin hopes on Barbet Schroeder

Selected in competition in 2000 with Our Lady of the Assassins, Barbet Schroeder will once again vie for the Golden Lion with Inju (see news) at the 65th Venice Film Festival (August 27-September...  

26/08/2008 | Venice 2008 | Competition/France

Cantet reveals hidden world of teaching

An experimental director who subtly explores social realities, Laurent Cantet received an enthusiastic reception this morning at the screening of his fourth feature, Entre les murs (“Between the...  

24/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Competition/France

The mirror and the Frontier of Dawn

Frontier of Dawn – the 28th feature by traditionalist director Philippe Garrel – met with tumultuous applause and whistles following its competition screening before the international press at the...  

22/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Competition/France

A bittersweet Christmas Tale

Bitter unresolved family issues are served up in Arnaud Desplechin's sixth feature, A Christmas Tale, presented this morning in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is as brilliant as...  

16/05/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Competition/France

Garrel and Desplechin vie for Palme d’Or

Whilst we wait for a third title to be announced in the next few days, France already has two emblematic figures of auteur cinema in official competition at the 61st Cannes Film Festival (May...  

24/04/2008 | Cannes 2008 | Competition/France

Generational conflict in today’s Israel

The press was left somewhat cold at the end of the screening of Restless, a French/Belgian/Israeli/Canadian co-production by Amos Kollek (61), presented in official competition at the Berlinale....  

15/02/2008 | Berlinale 2008 | Competition/France

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