The founder and artistic director of Lithuania’s Scanorama European Film Forum (10-20 November), Grazina Arlickaite, points out that any anniversary is a kind of boundary, inviting people to look back on the work that has been done, and evaluate what was done well and what should warrant a new approach. When it opened the very first Scanorama, Lars von Trier's Dogville [+lire aussi :
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Paying tribute to that very first director, Scanorama will invite audiences to celebrate the 20^th-anniversary edition with the first and second episodes of von Trier's The Kingdom Exodus [+lire aussi :
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Consistently keeping a close eye on the creative output of its other long-time directors, Scanorama has prepared an exclusive programme of cinema greats for hardcore cinephiles. The festival will be opened by Austrian director Marie Kreutzer's Corsage [+lire aussi :
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Closing the festival, Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All [+lire aussi :
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In between this memorable duo of opening and closing films, the gathering has lined up a top-notch batch of stars of European cinema and their latest works: the Dardenne brothers' Tori and Lokita [+lire aussi :
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interview : Joely Mbundu
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interview : Albert Serra
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interview : Elliott Crosset Hove
interview : Hlynur Pálmason
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interview : Bertrand Bonello
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interview : Paolo Taviani
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interview : Michael Koch
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The main novelty of this jubilee edition of the festival will be a feature-film competition presenting works that reflect the important and vital processes going on behind contemporary European cinema. These are bold films with an original style, and although the creative journeys of the directors are only just beginning, they are still characterised by a bright, auteur-driven voice. These filmmakers and their movies have not yet won awards at major film festivals, so the organisers of Scanorama have set themselves the goal of creating a space for them to be seen and appreciated.

The first-ever programme of this competition includes Butterfly Vision [+lire aussi :
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interview : Gábor Fabricius
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interview : Alessio Rigo de Righi et M…
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interview : Isabelle Stever
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interview : Carmen Jaquier
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interview : Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
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Scanorama has established a €7,000 prize for the best film in the competition programme, which will be chosen by an international jury. The jury members are member of the European Film Academy, former director and producer of the European Film Awards, and member of the board of directors of the Wim Wenders Foundation Marion Döring; film director and producer Sergej Stanojkovskis; writer-director Ibolya Fekete; film programme compiler Annina Wettstein; and Fabienne Moris, programme coordinator and member of the Doc Station workshop selection committee at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The festival will also host the national premiere of last film by Mantas Kvedaravicius, Prologos [+lire aussi :
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The managers of Scanorama emphasise that the gathering consistently adheres to a sustainable strategy when it comes to organising the festival, and strengthens this attitude every year with new steps that are practical and applicable in the day-to-day running of the event. Related to this is not only the decision to update the structure of the catalogue by transferring the film descriptions to the festival's website, but also this year's novelty – an electronic version of the catalogue. Team members and media representatives are encouraged to choose the electronic version of their accreditations, but one of the most environmentally friendly choices is that Scanorama has become the first film festival in Lithuania to use electric cars for logistical purposes. They have been provided by the company SPARK, which provides electric car-sharing services.

This year, Scanorama will be held from 10-20 November in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Siauliai, Panevėzys and Alytus.