18/04/2012 - Juliette Binoche, Marjane Satrapi, Maïwenn, Julie Delpy, Cédric Kahn, Frédéric Jardin, and Tomer Sisley are taking their films to New York.

What an artistic delegation accompanying French films to the 11th Tribeca Film Festival, on since today under the guidance of its new artistic director Frédéric Boyer (read more)! None other than Juliette Binoche, Marjane Satrapi, Maïwenn, Julie Delpy, CédricKahn, Frédéric Jardin, and Tomer Sisley will attend the event in New York to represent the nine French feature films (of which seven will be screened in an American premiere) out of the 82 films selected this year for the festival.

Franco-Qatari film The Virgin, the Copts and Me by Namir Abdel Messeeh, discovered at the Panorama of the last Berlinale, will be screened as part of the documentary film competition.

But French productions will especially shine in the Spotlight section of the festival, where seven films are in the line-up: 2 Days in New York [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (photo) by Julie Delpy, Cannes award-winner Polisse [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Maïwenn
film profile] by Maïwenn, A Better Life [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Cédric Kahn
film profile] by Cédric Kahn, Franco-German-Belgian co-production Chicken with Plums [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by the duo Marjane Satrapi -Vincent Paronnaud, and Franco-Belgo-Polish film Elles [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Malgorzata Sumowska
film profile] by Malgorzata Szumowska, as well as the co-productions Headshot [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruanget, and Hysteria by American director Tanya Wexler.

Finally, the Cinemania section will feature a France-Belgium-Luxembourg co-production: Sleepless Night [+see also:
trailer
making of
interview: David Grumbach
film profile] by Frédéric Jardin.

(Translated from French)