The causes of wars, the situations they create as they unfold as well as in their aftermath, and the human lives upended by sometimes far-off conflicts are at the heart of the 11th edition of War on Screen, the only film festival to reflect upon conflicts and their consequences, which was opened yesterday by Thomas Cailley’s Cannes attraction The Animal Kingdom [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Thomas Cailley
scheda film]. Upwards of 100 feature films and short films of all genres and from all corners of the globe are set to be presented in Châlons-en-Champagne until 8 October.

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Ten feature film are battling it out in competition: Lost Country [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Vladimir Perišić
scheda film] by Serbia’s Vladimir Perišić (discovered in Cannes’ Critics’ Week), The Last Men by French director David Oelhoffen, two films well-received in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section (the award-winning work The Buriti Flower [+leggi anche:
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intervista: João Salaviza e Renée Nade…
scheda film] by Portugal’s João Salaviza and Brazil’s Renée Nader Messora, and Goodbye Julia [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mohamed Kordofani
scheda film] by Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofoni), The Vanishing Soldier [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Israel’s Dani Rosenberg (unveiled in competition in Locarno), the documentaries In the Rearview [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Poland’s Maciek Hamela (unveiled in Cannes’ ACID line-up and victorious in Sheffield) and Facing Darkness [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jean-Gabriel Périot
scheda film] by France’s Jean-Gabriel Périot (presented in Karlovy Vary), The Burdened by Yemeni director Amr Gamal (unveiled in the Berlinale’s Panorama section) and two films from the Sundance Film Festival (US production Fremont by Babak Jalal and Heroic [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Mexico’s David Zonana). The line-up will be assessed by a jury including Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi (whose movie The Siren [+leggi anche:
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Also worth a mention, screening out of competition, is Cannes’ Grand Prize winner The Zone of Interest [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jonathan Glazer and fellow Croisette competitors Four Daughters [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kaouther Ben Hania
scheda film] by Kaouther Ben Hania and The Old Oak [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Ken Loach (which is set to close the festival), Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s animated movie They Shot the Piano Player [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Wissam Charaf
scheda film] by Wissam Charaf, Nezouh [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Soudade Kaadan and the documentaries Polanski, Horowitz. Hometown [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Mateusz Kudla and Anna Kokoszka-Romer, homing in on Roman Polanski, and Wim Wenders’ Anselm [+leggi anche:
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War On Screen’s guest of honour this year is German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff (who’ll be delivering a masterclass on 5 October and who’ll see four of his films screened), and is also offering up a variety of Focus sessions, namely "The natural environment, paradox and urgent matters #2: Civil nuclear energy, a weapon of war?" (notably involving films by Rebecca Zlotowski, Nikolaus Geyrhalter and Michael Mann), "From Lincoln to the present day: A history of the USA through the lens of cinema" (screening seven films, including I Am Not Your Negro [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Raoul Peck) and "Italian comedy goes to war: An irresistible antidote".