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2006 ROME FILM FESTIVAL France

Wave of French films in the Eternal City

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With over 20 French (co-)productions selected for the first edition of the RomeFilmFest, French cinema is the leading partner at the Italian event, which takes place from October 13-21 in the Eternal City.

Of the 16 features selected in competition, four are majority French productions: Armenia [+see also:
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by Robert Guédiguian (see news), The Colonel [+see also:
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by Laurent Herbiet (see article), The Legacy [+see also:
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by Temur and Gela Babluani (see news) and Gardens in Autumn [+see also:
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by Georgia’s Otar Iosseliani (a Films du Losange production with Italy’s Cinemaundici and Russian outfit Cinema Without Frontiers).

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The minority co-production Cages [+see also:
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by Belgium’s Olivier Masset-Depasse (see interview), being sold by Parisian outfit Films Distribution, also features in competition.

The world premiere section will allow film lovers at Rome to discover Guillaume Nicloux’s The Stone Council [+see also:
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(see news), starring Monica Bellucci and Catherine Deneuve, while French outfit Babe Films sees its ties with Italian cinema recognised with screenings of N.: Napoleon & Me [+see also:
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by Paolo Virzi, starring Daniel Auteuil, and The Unknown [+see also:
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by Giuseppe Tornatore, two French minority co-productions.

Also in the same section is Spanish feature Alatriste [+see also:
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by Agustin Diaz Yanes, whose world sales are being handled by TF1 International.

Meanwhile, Catherine Corsini’s Les Ambitions [+see also:
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(see article) will be presented out of competition.

Those Happy Days [+see also:
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by Eric Toledano and Oliver Nakache will be screened in the Alice in the City section (see news), which will unveil five other French titles: Azur & Asmar [+see also:
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by Michel Ocelot, U [+see also:
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by Serge Elissalde and Gregoire Solotareff, Call Me Elizabeth by Jean-Pierre Ameris, A Year in My Life [+see also:
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by Daniel Duval and Red Needles [+see also:
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The alternative section Visions On Reality features Christian Volckman’s animated feature Renaissance [+see also:
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interview: Aton Soumache
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(see Focus); Blame it on Fidel [+see also:
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by Julie Gavras, starring Stefano Accorsi (see news); the documentary Héros Fragiles by Emilio Pacull (V.L.R. Productions, sales Films Distribution); and Le Dernier Caravansérail (lit. “The Last Caravan Stop”) by Ariane Mnouchkine.

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(Translated from French)

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