Women at Angers
At the beginning of the week, the 18th edition of the festival Premiers Plans put on show two films from Belgium whose directors will soon be at Rotterdam, accompanied by the EFP within the framework of "Passions and Promises". Guillaume Malandrin presented out of competition his first feature Ça m'est égal si demain n'arrive pas (read article) in the section "Figures libres". This section, which brings to the public daring films, often close to experimental and far from the classic narrations, this year screen the works of another Belgian, the writer François Weyergans, as well as a large retrospective of the works of Frenchman Jean-Claude Rousseau.
In official competition with seven other features is another Belgian work at the rendez-vous: Someone else's happiness [+see also:
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Two other films dedicated to women are in competition. Ryna [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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