04/10/2005

Since Saturday and until the 15th of October, 11 cinemas in the Essonne neighbourhood, in Parisian suburbs, will participate in the 7th European cinema festival of Cinessonne. A high quality competition bringing together 12 new features will be the highlight of the programme. Among the notable films in the running are Johanna [+see also:
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film profile] from Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó (read article), Gentille from French woman Sophie Fillieres, Vento di terra [+see also:
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film profile] from Italian Vincenzo Marra (awarded best film in 2004 by Fipresci; read l'interview), Guernsey [+see also:
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film profile] from Dutch woman Nanouk Leopold (see le compte-rendu), the German-French co-production Fantômes by Christian Petzold, Crash test dummies [+see also:
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film profile] by the Austrian Jörg Kalt, Le rivage des murmures by Portuguese Margarida Cardoso (read news), Sauf le respect que je vous dois by Fabienne Godet (France), the British German-French co-production L'accordeur de tremblements de terre from brothers Timothy et Stephen Quay, as well as the Belgian productions Nuit noire [+see also:
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interview: Olivier Smolders
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Tributes to Belgian and Dutch cinema are also on the festival’s menu with the screening of 32 Belgian features and 7 Dutch productions. Among the most recent films look out for the Belgian-French co-productions Aaltra by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern et Bunker Paradise [+see also:
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interview: Stefan Liberski
film profile] by Stefan Liberski, Les suspects by Kamal Dehane (read interview), Voir (Sans les yeux) by Marie Mandy and Ultranova [+see also:
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interview: Bouli Lanners
film profile] by Bouli Lanners.
Gaining in stature each year, Cinessonne has also programmed a section Europe as they perceive it based around four films, from André Téchiné, Jerzy Skolimowski, Lone Scherfig and José Luis Guerin. And the young public has not been ignored with 13 films being screened, including Les clefs de la maison by Italian Gianni Amelio. Finally, a debate will take place on Saturday 8th October on the theme of the theatrical distribution and exhibition of European films.

(Translated from French)