20/09/2013 - Abdellatif Kechiche, Marion Hänsel, Adrian Sitaru, Lionel Baier and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi are all on the programme of the 28th Francophone Film Festival of Namur

The Francophone Film Festival of Namur, one of the biggest Belgian festivals, each year offers a programme that reflects the diversity of Francophone cinema around the world, celebrating films coming from Canada, Burkina Faso or Romania. These past few years, the FIFF rewarded films as different as J’ai tué ma mère by Xavier Dolan, Everybody in our Family [+see also:
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interview: Radu Jude
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film profile] by Nadine Labaki. The latter will in fact be the President of the Jury of the 2013 edition.

The festival will open with the latest Palme D’or from Cannes, Blue is the Warmest Colour [+see also:
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The competition will also abound in European first films, with for example Me Myself and Mom [+see also:
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film profile] by Guillaume Galienne (France), La Bataille de Solférino [+see also:
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film profile] by Justine Triet (France), Des étoiles [+see also:
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film profile] by Dyana Gaye (France/ Senegal), Left Foot, Right Foot [+see also:
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film profile] by Germinal Roaux, and no less than four Belgian first films: Post Partum [+see also:
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interview: Delphine Noels
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film profile] by Delphine Lehericey, Yam Dam by Vivian Goffette and Tokyo Anyway by Camille Meynard.  

The FIFF also offers a prestigious programme of avant-premieres, with notably new films by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Jean-Paul Salomé and Solveig Anspach, as well as a focus on Belgian Flemish cinema, which will enable the Wallonian public to discover Belgian films that do not always come out in theatres. The festival will welcome prestigious guests such as Josiane Balasko (Coup de cœur 2013), the Dardenne brothers (who will present a documentary dedicated to them), Yolande Moreau, Abdellatif Kechiche and Emmanuelle Devos. 

(Translated from French)