07/04/2008

Having kicked off last Thursday, the15th edition of the Titanic Film Festival is in full swing in Budapest (until April 13) in four arthouse theatres, which are screening 65 features from all over the world. The burgeoning festival headed by György Horváth offers an enticing line-up.

There are eight competition titles vying for the Breaking Waves Award, which will be presented by a jury that includes Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó. Among the films are Let the Right One in by Swedish director Tomas Alfredson; Serge Bozon’s France [+see also:
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film profile] by Iceland’s Baltasar Kormákur.

The section Elements of Crime includes Danish feature Go in Peace Jamil [+see also:
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interview: Meta Louise Foldager
interview: Omar Shargawi
film profile] by Omar Shargawi (recent prize-winner at Rotterdam Festival); Boarding Gate [+see also:
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In the Foam of the Days section, European production will be represented by Polish director Andrzej Jakimowski’s Tricks [+see also:
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interview: Andrzej Jakimowski
interview: Tomasz Gąssowski
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film profile] by Denmark’s Peter Schonau Fog and German features Breaking the Surface by Felicitas Korn and The Unpolished [+see also:
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Further European titles include multiple award-winning This Is England [+see also:
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French cinema is the focus of a special programme entitled French Shoals, which will screen the titles crowned Best Film at the 2008 and 2007 Cesar Awards (Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain [+see also:
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interview: Hafsia Herzi
film profile] and Pascale Ferran’s Lady Chatterley [+see also:
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film profile], André Téchiné’s The Witnesses [+see also:
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film profile], Jacques Nolot’s Before I Forget [+see also:
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Finally, the World Cinema section is screening Czech feature One Night in One City by Jan Balej.

(Translated from French)