06/05/2005

After Canal +, which has pre-bought almost all the French movies selected in the different sections of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival (11th-22d May), Arte is the second most represented film-producing French channel on the Croisette this year. Indeed, Arte France Cinéma, the cinema arm of the French and German channel, co-produced 14 of the features in the Official selection and the Directors’ Fortnight, 7 of which are amongst the 21 contestants in Competition : Manderlay [+see also:
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film profile] by Lars Von Trier (with WDR/Arte as a partner), L'enfant [+see also:
film review
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interview: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
film profile] by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Hidden [+see also:
film review
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interview: Margaret Menegoz
interview: Michael Haneke
film profile] by Michael Haneke (also co-produced by WDR/Arte/ORF), Free Zone [+see also:
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film profile] by Amos Gitaï, Batalla en el cielo [+see also:
film review
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interview: Carlos Reygadas
interview: Jean Labadie
film profile] by Carlos Reygadas (with ZDF/Arte), Conte de cinéma by Hong Sangsoo, and Don’t Come Knocking by Wim Wenders (ZDF/Arte took part in the budget plan).

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Arte France Cinéma —which invested, in 2004, 8.5M euros in co-productions and pre-sales on broadcasting rights for a total of 22 films— will also present Travaux, on sait quand ça commence... [+see also:
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film profile] by Brigitte Roüan (Directors’ Fortnight), C’est pas tout à fait la vie dont j’avais rêvé by Michel Piccoli (out of competition), and La Terre abandonnée by Vimukthi Jayasundara (Un Certain Regard). As for the mother company, Arte France, it co-produced some of the documentaries shown out of competition : Darshan by Jan Kounen and Les artistes du théâtre brûlé by Rithy Panh. Finally, the German branch ARTE/ZDF funded the Austrian production Schläfer by Benjamin Heisenberg (Un Certain Regard) and Factotum [+see also:
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film profile] by the Norwegian director Bent Hamer.
The 2005 edition of the festival, which in itself is a reward to the pertinent artistic choices made by the French and German channel, will also screen two co-productions in the Cannes Classics section (Takeshi Kitano by Jean-Pierre Limosin, and John Cassavettes by André-Sylvain Labarthe) and three shorts (two for the Directors’ Fortnight, one at the Critics’ Week).

(Translated from French)