Launched yesterday by Abdellatif Kechiche’sCannes winner, Blue Is the Warmest Colour [+leggi anche:
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Kechiche’s love story of two young women is not the only festival winner or prize candidate in town; 14 of the films shortlisted by the European Film Academy for the European Film Awards 2013 will screen in the showcase, and five submissions for the Oscar 2014: Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket (Australia), Ulrika Bengts’ Disciple [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nana Ekvtimishvili e Simon…
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intervista: Srdan Golubovic
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intervista: China Ahlander
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Surprise films announced just prior to the festival opening include US directors Zak Knutson’s and Joey Figueroa’s Milius, a documentary about Hollywood writer-director John Milius, and US director Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects, with Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum and Jude Law. US director Nicole Holofcener’s romantic comedy Enough Said will unspool as a tribute to the recently deceased actor James Gandolfini.

Copenhagen-based US director Joshua Oppenheimer will introduce his award-winning documentary The Act of Killing [+leggi anche:
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scheda film]). 50 international film professionals have registered for the second edition of the Finnish Film Affair to see 30 Finnish recent and upcoming films and 16 works-in-progress.