04/04/2018 - The 10th edition of the international festival dedicated to thrillers is taking place from 4 to 8 April and will pay homage to David Cronenberg in the presence of Viggo Mortensen

Inked into the film festival diary, the Beaune International Thriller Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary (from 4 to 8 April) and has once again chosen to pay homage to a world-renowned, first-rate filmmaker in the annual tribute section of the programme. Following in the footsteps of William Friedkin, James Gray, David Lynch, John McTiernan, Bertrand Tavernier, Brian De Palma and Park Chan-wook, it is Canadian director David Cronenberg who will be honoured this Friday 6 April, and one of his most emblematic actors, Viggo Mortensen, will be travelling to Beaune to take part in this particular celebration.

As a testament to the appetite for thrillers among young cinema-goers of the Old Continent, four full-length European first films will feature among the eight titles in the international competition: Boys Cry [+see also:
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interview: Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo
film profile] by Italian directors Damiano and Fabio d’Innocenzo (stand-out film in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival, to be distributed in France by ARP Sélection), The Guilty [+see also:
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interview: Gustav Möller
film profile] by Danish director Gustav Möller (winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Festival and in Rotterdam – also distributed by ARP Selection), Beast [+see also:
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interview: Michael Pearce
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interview: Samuel Tilman
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Also up for awards are The Third Murder by Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-Eda (unveiled in competition in Venice and opening the festival), Piercing by American director Nicolas Pesce (discovered in competition in Rotterdam), The Looming Storm (working title) by Chinese filmmaker Dong Yue and La mémoire assassine (Memoir of a Murderer) by South Korean director Won Shin-yun. The jury deliberating over these films will be headed up by the actor Lambert Wilson, supported by Arnaud des Pallières, Hélène Fillières, Radu Mihaileanu, Jérôme Bonnell, Alice Pol and Géraldine Pailhas.

Five European productions feature among the six films headlining the Sang Neuf section of the competition (Belgian filmmaker Lucas Belvaux will preside over this jury, which will also include the actress Catherine Frot): Four Hands [+see also:
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film profile] by German director Oliver Kienle, Sicilian Ghost Story [+see also:
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making of
film profile] by the Italian filmmakers Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, A Prayer Before Dawn [+see also:
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interview: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
film profile] by the French director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, Love Me Not [+see also:
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interview: Alexandros Avranas
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film profile] by Eran Riklis (produced by Israel, Germany and France).

Worth noting outside of the competition are, among others, Black Tide [+see also:
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film profile] by Erick Zonca, Maze [+see also:
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film profile] by Stephen Burke and the American-Swedish co-production Spinning Man [+see also:
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film profile] by Simon Kaijser. The Claude Chabrol award, meanwhile (awarded to French films released in the past year and whose cinematographic qualities are a credit to the thriller genre), will go to Hubert Charuel for Bloody Milk [+see also:
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interview: Hubert Charuel
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(Translated from French)