28/04/2010

Making the most of a promising window in the almost permanent bottleneck of releases, several European productions and co-productions will this week try their luck in theatres.

Among them is UK feature Unmade Beds [+see also:
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Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues’s critically-acclaimed To Die Like a Man [+see also:
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There has also been press approval for Haile Gerima’s German/French/Ethiopian co-production Teza [+see also:
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The line-up also includes Marie Jaoul de Poncheville’s French/German title Tengri: Blue Heavens [+see also:
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French production also puts in an appearance this week with Alexandre Arcady’s thriller Comme Les Cinq Doigts de la Main [+see also:
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At the box office, the comedy Camping 2 [+see also:
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Mammuth [+see also:
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interview: Gustave Kervern, Benoî…
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(Translated from French)