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Gijon announces the composition of the jury of its official competition

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- Patrice Leconte will preside over the jury of the official competition, in which France is well represented. He will be surrounded by Aida Folch, Ray Loriga, Pablo Giorgelli and Iván Trujillo

Gijon announces the composition of the jury of its official competition
Patrice Leconte

Catalan actress Aida Folch, writer, director and screenwriter from Madrid Ray Loriga, Argentinean director Pablo Giorgelli and Iván Trujillo, the director of the Guadalajara Festival (Mexico), will surround French filmmaker Patrice Leconte to form the jury of the official competition of the 51st Gijon International Film Festival.

In this central section of the event, Europe is represented by Spain, Poland and France, which dominated the selection with five competing titles: Les Apaches [+see also:
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by Thierry by PerettiMe Myself and Mum [+see also:
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by Guillaume Gallienne (read the review) and the coproductions (respectively with Belgium, Chad and Iran) Henri [+see also:
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by Yolande Moreau, Grisgris [+see also:
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by Mahamat Saleh-Haroun and The Past [+see also:
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by Asghar Farhadi (read the review). Poland is sending the great winner of London and Warsaw, Ida [+see also:
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by Pawel Pawlikowski (read the review) and Floating Skyscrapers [+see also:
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by Tomas Wasilewski (read the review). As for Spain, it bets on Blockbuster, Tirso Calero’s second feature after Carne cruda, and the coproduction with Venezuela La distancia más larga by Claudia Pinto Emperador.

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France also presents four films in the AnimaFICX section, a programme dedicated to animated films, which returns after its success last year. The titles are: the international coproduction The Congress [+see also:
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by Ari Folman (read the review), Jasmine [+see also:
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by Alain Ughetto, Aya de Yopougon [+see also:
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by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie, and the Franco-Luxembourg coproduction My Mommy is in America and she met Buffalo Bill [+see also:
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by Marc Boréal and Thibault Chatel.

Une promesse [+see also:
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 (read the review) the latest film by Patrice Leconte will open the festival on November 15. Our Sunhi, the last film by South Korean director Hong Sang-soo, to whom Gijon dedicates a retrospective, will be screened during the closing ceremony. The other director to whom the festival will pay tribute is French maestro of animation Jean-François Laguionie.

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(Translated from Spanish)

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