28/11/2007

The Gloria Palast Cinema in Munich is hosting the new Europa Filmfest (November 28-December 5), which aims to be a universal platform for European cinema, intended as much for a general audience as for auteur film enthusiasts.

The programme for the first edition of the festival features 35 European films, including the biographical UK title Control [+see also:
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film profile] by Anton Corbijn, starring Sam Riley and Alexandra Maria Lara; French musical Family Hero [+see also:
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film profile] by Thierry Klifa, starring Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Miou–Miou and Claude Brasseur; and Jacques Rivette’s latest, Don’t Touch the Axe [+see also:
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film profile].

Viewers will also have a chance to discover two Icelandic titles that have attracted attention: Children [+see also:
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film profile] and Parents by Ragnar Bragason; the Austrian/Hungarian/Romanian/German co-production The Beheaded Rooster by Radu Gabrea and Marijan Vajda; Belgian director Frank van Mechelen’s Hell in Tangier [+see also:
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film profile] by Johan Kling and Kill Your Darlings by Björne Larson; and Italian director Daniele Luchetti’s My Brother Is an Only Child [+see also:
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interview: Daniele Luchetti
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film profile].

For more information about the programme, please see the festival’s website (above).

(Translated from French)