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Sarajevo Film Festival to open with Kaurismäki’s Le Havre
The Sarajevo Film Festival announced today that Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Aki Kaurismäki
film profile] will open its 17th edition, which runs from July 22-30.
Le Havre premiered in the competition of the Cannes Film Festival (read the review) and won the FIPRESCI award (read the news), and drew enthusiastic applause from both the critics and audience in Cannes.
The drama comedy about a shoe-shiner from the titular French port who tries to help an illegal child immigrant reach London features French actor André Wilms, who collaborated with Kaurismäki on his previous French-language film The Bohemian Life (1992), as well as on Juha (1999). Wilms will attend Sarajevo to present the film at the opening screenings in the National Theatre and !hej Open Air venues.
Kaurismäki’s The Man Without a Past [+see also:
trailer
film profile] was screened in Sarajevo’s non-competition sidebar Panorama in 2002.
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