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CINÉAST 2017

The tenth-anniversary edition of CinÉast kicks off in Luxembourg City

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- Running from 5-22 October, the festival highlights recent Central and Eastern European cinema

The tenth-anniversary edition of CinÉast kicks off in Luxembourg City
Directions by Stephan Komandarev

Albania has been added to the list of Central and Eastern European countries that the CinÉast Festival in Luxembourg City covers through its film programming, besides Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. This year, the gathering is hosting its tenth edition in the Luxembourgish capital, with over 100 screenings in a dozen cinemas. Directors like Tereza Nvotová (Filthy [+see also:
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), Arkadiusz Jakubik (A Simple Story About Murder) and Alexandra Balteanu (Prowl [+see also:
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) are guests of the festival, hailing from Slovakia, Poland and Romania, respectively. They are joined by actors of the likes of Adrian Titieni (The Fixer [+see also:
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interview: Adrian Sitaru
interview: Tudor Aaron Istodor
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), Boris Isaković (Requiem for Mrs. J. [+see also:
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interview: Bojan Vuletić
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) and Jowita Budnik (Birds Are Singing in Kigali [+see also:
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interview: Joanna Kos-Krauze
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]
).

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Luxembourg-born French director Anne Fontaine will preside over the competition jury, consisting of Luxembourgish director Bady Minck, Romanian actor Adrian Titieni, French producer Philippe Carcassonne and programme director of the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Oliver Baumgarten. This year, the competition comprises ¾ [+see also:
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interview: Ilian Metev
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]
 (Ilian Metev), Birds Are Singing in Kigali (Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze), Daybreak [+see also:
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interview: Gentian Koçi
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 (Gentian Koçi), Directions [+see also:
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interview: Stephan Komandarev
film profile
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 (Stephan Komandarev), Filthy (Tereza Nvotová), Miracle [+see also:
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interview: Eglė Vertelytė
film profile
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 (Eglė Vertelytė), November [+see also:
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interview: Rea Lest
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 (Rainer Sarnet) and Soldiers: Story From Ferentari [+see also:
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interview: Dawid Ogrodnik
interview: Ivana Mladenovic
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]
 (Ivana Mladenović). For the third time, a press jury will award the Film Critics’ Prize. This year, the jury consists of Valerija Berdi (radio 100.7), Pablo Chimienti (Le Quotidien) and Matthew Boas (Cineuropa).

Besides regular film screenings, accompanied by Q&As with visiting guests, CinÉast is also hosting three projections followed by thorough debates on the films’ subject matter. After The Art of Loving [+see also:
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by Maria Sadowska, a debate will be held on women's sexuality, sexual education and the affirmation of women's rights in Eastern and Western Europe over the last half-century. The participants will be Isabel Scott, an expert in gender studies and a sexual educator, and Anne Schaaf, a journalist focusing on cultural and social subjects. The debate will be moderated by trainer Martyna AdamskaRoland Vranik, director of The Citizen [+see also:
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 and an expert in political science, will host a discussion on the complex relationship with foreigners and minorities in the CEE countries, and the origins of the current tense situation in some of them. Finally, after Normal Autistic Film [+see also:
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has been shown, a debate will take place with Czech expert (and the film’s protagonist) Michal Roškaňuk, diagnosed as autistic, and Conny Therwer, a psychomotricity specialist from the Fondation Autisme Luxembourg (FAL), focusing on the current perception of autism and autistic children, the various practices and approaches in the field, and the question of what we can learn from people with Asperger syndrome.

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