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FESTIVALS Belgium

From Cannes to Virton

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The 29th Virton European Film Festival (November 6-15) kicks off today.

The festival – which attracts a rather limited audience – is offering the 10,000 inhabitants of the town in the province of Luxembourg the chance to see over 30 films from 13 European countries. The eclectic line-up puts the spotlight on European auteur films and includes avant-premières, unreleased titles and recent must-see European works hardly shown in theatres.

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The festival programmers seem to have looked to Cannes for inspiration in their quest to attract audiences. Several gems from different sections of the 2007 and 2008 editions will screen at Virton. In official competition are Ulrich Seidel’s Import/Export [+see also:
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(Austria), Andry Zvyagintsev’s The Banishment (Russia), Emir Kusturica’s Promise Me This [+see also:
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(Serbia), Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah [+see also:
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interview: Domenico Procacci
interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Matteo Garrone
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(Italy) and Kornel Kundruzco’s Delta [+see also:
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interview: Kornél Mundruczó
interview: Orsi Tóth
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(Hungary).

Claire Simon’s God’s Offices [+see also:
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(France), Jan Bonny’s Counterparts [+see also:
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(Germany) and Lenny Abrahamson’s Garage [+see also:
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interview: Ed Guiney
interview: Jean-François Deveau
interview: Lenny Abrahamson
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(Ireland) will give viewers a taste of the Directors’ Fortnight, while Andreas Dresen’s Cloud 9 [+see also:
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(Germany) and Bent Hammer’s O’Horten [+see also:
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(Norway) offer a glimpse of the Un Certain Regard.

Cannes Critics’ Week will also be represented at Virton, in particular on Belgian Film Day (November 9), which will present Séraphine [+see also:
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(recently released in theatres). The event will also offer viewers the opportunity to (re)discover Rumba [+see also:
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interview: Charles Gillibert
interview: Dominique Abel and Fiona Go…
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and see the avant-première of Swiss director Ursula Meier’s Home [+see also:
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interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Thierry Spicher
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, which will be launched in theatres next week.

Among the avant-premières are Antonio Luigi Grimaldi’s Italian title Quiet Chaos [+see also:
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interview: Antonello Grimaldi
interview: Domenico Procacci
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, starring Nanni Moretti; the intriguing Unspoken [+see also:
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by young Flemish filmmaker Fien Troch; and Louise Michel [+see also:
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interview: Benoît Delépine and Gustav…
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by Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delepine, which won an award at the latest San Sebastian Film Festival.

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(Translated from French)

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