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FESTIVALS France

European talents at Premiers Plans

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The 18th Premiers Plans festival, dedicated to young European cinema, opens today and will run until January 29 in Angers. In this year's programme of the feature competition – whose jury is headed by Radu Mihaileanu - eight filmmakers, who for the most part have stood out at the big festivals, will be represented. Heading the bill is Bodhan Slama with Something Like Happiness [+see also:
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interview: Bohdan Slama
interview: Pavel Strnad
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(Stesti), winner at San Sebastian and its country’s candidate in the run in for the Oscar 2006 Best Foreign Film (see Focus on the film by Cineuropa). Also screening at San Sebastian, Sauf le respect que je vous dois by Frenchwoman Fabienne Godet will bring to Angers her impressive cast for a first feature: Olivier Gourmet, Dominique Blanc, Marion Cotillard and Julie Depardieu. Produced by Le Bureau Films with a budget of 1,99m euros including an advance on receipts of 420,000 euros from the National Film Centre (CNC), the film will be distributed in France on February 15, 2006 by Haut et Court.

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The 2006 competition at Premiers Plans will also see the participation of young Belgian Fien Troch, recent winner at Thessaloniki with Someone Else's Happiness [+see also:
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, produced by Prime Time with Dutch Motel Films and aided to the tune of 625,000 euros by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund. Also in the running is Pavee Lackeen, The traveller girl [+see also:
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by Irishman Perry Ogden, a first feature much appreciated at the Venice Mostra (see the news and the interview) and the German-Austrian co-production Schläfer by Benjamin Heisenberg, screened at Cannes 2005 in the section Un Certain Regard (consult critique). The line-up for 2006 at the festival in Angers is completed by The Passenger by François Rotger (France - Canada - Japan) which was screened in the section Filmmakers of the Present at Locarno, by the Swiss-Romanian co-productionRyna [+see also:
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by Ruxandra Zenide (awarded at Cottbus, Bordeaux, Genève and Mannheim-Heidelberg) and by Melegin Düsüsü (La Chute de l'ange) by Turk Semih Kaplanoglu.

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(Translated from French)

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