13/12/2013 - The 5th edition of the European Film Festival des Arcs begins on Saturday, December 14, with Independent Distributors also in attendance

Theatres and ski-runs are ready in the Alpine resort of Les Arcs where, on Saturday, December 14, the 5^th edition of the European Film Festival will bring together many professionals from the Old Continent (read the news) around the official selection (article), the Co-production Village (article) and the Work-in-Progress event(read the interview of Frédéric Boyer, the festival’s artistic director).

The professional side of the event will also include the DIRE Days (United Independent European Distributors), which brings together distributors and theatre operators to discuss stakes in the diffusion of European films in France. As part of these encounters taking place between Tuesday 17 and Saturday 21, 14 films will be screened which are scheduled for release in France over the next few months. Among them, a surprise film stands out, distributed by Les Films du Losange (probably Nymphomaniac Part 1 [+see also:
film review
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interview: Louise Vesth
film profile] by Danish director Lars von Trier – to be released in France on January 1, 2014), together with Ida [+see also:
film review
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interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
film profile] by Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski (interview - Memento Films Distribution on February 12), Witching & Bitching [+see also:
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interview: Alex de la Iglesia
film profile] by Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia (interview - Rezo Films on January 8), Longwave [+see also:
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interview: Lionel Baier
festival scope
film profile]by Swiss director Lionel Baier (Happiness Distribution on February 12), Two Lives [+see also:
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film profile]by German filmmaker Georg Maas (his country’s candidate for the upcoming Best Foreign Language Film Oscar - news - Sophie Dulac Distribution on April 23) and In the Name of the Son [+see also:
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film profile]by Belgian director Vincent Lannoo (the recent laureate of the Golden Méliès for Best European Fantastic Film of the year - news - Eurozoom distribution on May 7).

DIRE will also present the American-British co-production 12 Years A Slave [+see also:
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making of
interview: Michael Fassbender
film profile] by English director Steve McQueen (Mars Distribution on January 22), the award-winning film from Berlin Gloria [+see also:
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film profile] by Sebastián Lelio (Ad Vitam on February 19) and the competitor from Cannes Only Lovers Left Alive [+see also:
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film profile] by Jim Jarmusch (a British-German co-production distributed by Le Pacte on February 19 – read the review). Five French titles complete the list: Tonnerre [+see also:
film review
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interview: Guillaume Brac
film profile] by Guillaume Brac (Wild Bunch on January 29), Un beau dimanche by Nicole Garcia (article - Diaphana Distribution on February 5), Wrong Cops [+see also:
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film profile]by Quentin Dupieux (read the news - UFO Distribution on February 26) and the documentaries La cour de Babel by Julie Bertuccelli (Pyramide on March 12) and La France au volant by Coline Serreau (Bac Films - TBD).
The DIRE Days’ programme for Les Arcs also features three workshops on the topic of “tools common to distributors and cinemas to promote films in the digital era".

(Translated from French)