11/03/2016 - Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang to open festival

Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins [+see also:
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interview: Louis Hofmann
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film profile] (Denmark/Germany), Rachael Moriarty and Peter Murphy’s Traders [+see also:
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Further European films in the New Cinema strand include Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights [+see also:
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interview: Miguel Gomes
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interview: Joachim Trier
film profile] (Norway/Denmark/France), László Nemes’ Son of Saul [+see also:
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Q&A: László Nemes
interview: László Rajk
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film profile] (UK), Omer Fast’s Remainder [+see also:
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film profile] (UK/Germany), Anders Thomas Jensen’s Men and Chicken [+see also:
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film profile] (Denmark), Esther May Campbell’s Light Years [+see also:
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film profile] (UK), Danielle Arbid’s Parisienne [+see also:
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film profile] (France), Andrew Steggall’s Departure [+see also:
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film profile] (UK/France), Nikias Chryssos’ The Bunker [+see also:
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European choices in the Altered States strand include Grace Schwindt’s Only A Free Individual Can Create A Free Society (UK), Ben Charles Edwards’ Set the Thames on Fire (UK) and Lucile Hadžihalilovic’s Evolution [+see also:
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film profile] (France). The Talking Films strand will include a conversation with local casting director Georgia Simpson (Good Vibrations [+see also:
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The Documentary Panorama features Jerzy Sladkowski’s Don Juan [+see also:
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