11/07/2017 - From 11-17 July, the Phocaean city will host the 28th edition of its film festival, open to films of all kinds

Today the 28^th edition of the FID – the Marseille International Film Festival got underway. Between now and 17 July, the festival will showcase, in a dozen or so locations all around the city, a vast programme of 140 films from 34 countries, and will be opened this evening by Le masque de la mort rouge (1964) by famous American filmmaker Roger Corman (who the FID is this year dedicating a retrospective of almost 20 films to, and who will hold a masterclass at the MuCEM on 13 July). 

Among the 15 titles participating in the international competition, the jury for which is presided over by Lithuanian filmmaker Sharunas Bartas, are eight world premieres. Among them are French productions Also Known as Jihadi [+see also:
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Also being shown in their world premieres are Playing Men [+see also:
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Turning to the French competition, this includes 11 world premieres, including Va Toto! [+see also:
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Two other competition sections also feature in the programme, one for debut films and the other run by the Groupement National des Cinémas de Recherche (notably featuring Casting [+see also:
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Also worth mentioning, looking at the selection of special screenings that will be held, are a work-in-progress piece on the filming of Le lion est mort ce soir [+see also:
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interview: Karim Moussaoui
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Last but not least, among the 11 projects selected this year for co-production support platform FIDLab (the 9^th edition of which will be held on 13 and 14 July) are fictional feature film projects Sparrow by Sharunas Bartas (currently being written – centering around a young female immigrant who falls into the criminal underworld in Marseille while she works as an au pair for a forty-something year-old man raising his child alone) and A Portuguesa [+see also:
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film profile] by Rita Azevedo Gomes (currently under development – an adaptation of Die Portugiesin by Robert Musil), documentaries Barchini by Italian director Yuri Ancarini (under development) and Michelle Remembers by British director Pia Borg, as well as Spanish fictional film Letters to Paul Morissey [+see also:
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interview: Armand Rovira
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(Translated from French)