04/07/2005

Opened on Friday night with Free zone [+see also:
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film profile] by Amos Gitaï, the La Rochelle International Film Festival offers until the11th of July a rich programme of almost 180 feature films, among them many as yet unseen and a number of features hot from the Cannes festival. On the menu for the section "Ici et Ailleurs" are L'Enfant [+see also:
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interview: Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
film profile] by the Dardenne brothers, Hidden [+see also:
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interview: Margaret Menegoz
interview: Michael Haneke
film profile] by Michael Haneke, Crossing the Bridge [+see also:
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film profile] by Fatih Akin, Battle in Heaven [+see also:
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interview: Carlos Reygadas
interview: Jean Labadie
film profile] by Carlos Reygadas, Le Filmeur [+see also:
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film profile] by Alain Cavalier, C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé by Michel Piccoli, Factotum [+see also:
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film profile] by Bent Hamer et Zim and Co [+see also:
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film profile] by Pierre Jolivet. But European output is also represented from Portugal (The murmuring coast by Margarida Cardoso), from Greece (Avant la nuit by Timon Koulmasis), from Austria (Antares by Götz Spielmann), from Luxembourg (Bye bye Blackbird [+see also:
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film profile] by Robinson Savary) and also from Switzerland (Signers Koffer by Peter Liechti), and not forgetting Belzec by Guillaume Moscovitz et Oublier Cheyenne by Valérie Minetto.

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Elsewhere, other than the numerous tributes to the Norwegian Liv Ullmann, the festival is supported by the Media Programme of theEU and chose to dedicate a section entitled "Discovery of a Polish filmmaker living in the UK", Pawel Pawlikowski, maker of the recent My Summer of Love [+see also:
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interview: Jean-Paul Rougier
interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
interview: Tanya Seghatchian
film profile]. And the section "Du côté de l'Est" offers up 15 films produced between 2002 and 2005, among them Dallas among us by Robert Adrian Pejo (Hungary), Mirage by Svetozar Ristovski (Macedonia), Edi by Piotr Trzaskalski (Poland), The Death of Mr Lazarescu [+see also:
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film profile] by Cristi Puiu (Romania) the Czech features: Le Livre des records de Shutka by Aleksandar Manic, Vaterland, un carnet de chasse by David Jarab and Czech Dreams from the duo Vit Klusák - Filip Remunda.

(Translated from French)