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Gijón prepares for wave of films

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Everything is ready for the 46th Gijón International Film Festival (November 20-29), in which a wave of European titles and co-productions is expected to hit the Asturian coastal city.

The competition line-up features a total 21 films, most of them previously seen at Cannes, Locarno and Venice, and now shown for the first time in Spain.

The titles vying for the €25,000 prize include Bouli Lanners' Eldorado [+see also:
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, Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum [+see also:
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, Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan [+see also:
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, Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir [+see also:
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, Sylvie Verheyde's Stella [+see also:
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and three titles directed by Argentinean filmmakers co-produced by Europe's companies: Lisandro Alonso's Liverpool, Pablo Aguëro's Salamandra [+see also:
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and the highly anticipated third title by Lucrecia Martel, La Mujer sin Cabeza [+see also:
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The sidebar sections also have impressive titles in store. Una parte del cielo: Directoras europeas en el Nuevo Milenio will focus on the work of female directors. Without a common theme apart from the fact that selected films may reveal a potentially common female perspective on reality, Gijón selected Angelina Maccarone's Hounded [+see also:
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, Aneta Lesnikovska's Does it Hurt? and Claire Simon's latest film, God’s Offices [+see also:
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. In the same section, Libanese directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khali Joreige will present the French documentary Je veux voir [+see also:
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, featuring Catherine Deneuve.

Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky will be the subject of a retrospective that will include some of his recent titles, such as Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine.

The programme is rounded out by the competitive section Enfants Terribles, of children films, and with a series of concerts in the Casino of Asturias.

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