09/11/2009

The Arras L’autre Cinéma Festival (November 6-15), which has a growing reputation, is in full swing in the Picardy city. In a new addition for its 10th anniversary, there will be a European competition whose jury is presided by director Philippe Lioret and includes Belgian actor Olivier Gourmet, German director Emily Atef, French actress Anne Consigny and producer Christophe Rossignon.

Films vying for honours include German director Maren Ade’s Berlin competition title Everyone Else [+see also:
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interview: Maren Ade
film profile]; Scratch [+see also:
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film profile] by Poland’s Michal Rosa (unveiled at Venice Days: see review); The Other Irina by Romania’s Andrei Gruzsniczki (see news); Who’s Afraid of the Wolf by Czech filmmaker Maria Prochazkova (see interview); Croatian/German co-production Buick Riviera by Goran Rusinovic (see interview); Serbian/German/US feature Here and There [+see also:
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film profile] by Darko Lungulov (see interview); and two Finnish titles: Dome Karukoski’s Forbidden Fruit [+see also:
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film profile] (lauded at Karlovy Vary: see review) and Fredrik Edfeldt’s The Girl [+see also:
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interview: Fredrik Edfeldt
film profile] (see interview).

In the European Discoveries section are Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev’s Eastern Plays [+see also:
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interview: Kamen Kalev
film profile] (LUX Prize 2009 competition); Made in Hungaria by Hungary’s Gergely Fonyo (see interview); A Woman’s Way [+see also:
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film profile] by Greece’s Panos H. Koutras; The Over the Hill Band by Belgium’s Geoffrey Enthoven; Black Sea [+see also:
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film profile] by Italian director Federico Bondi; three UK productions (Duncan Jones’ Moon [+see also:
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film profile], Jan Dunn’s The Calling and Paul Cotter’s Bomber [+see also:
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film profile]); and three Romanian films: Corneliu Porumboiu’s Cannes award-winner Police, Adjective [+see also:
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interview: Corneliu Porumboiu
film profile], Radu Jude’s The Happiest Girl in the World [+see also:
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film profile] and the collective work Tales from the Golden Age [+see also:
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film profile].

The Arras festival will pay homage to Patrice Chéreau and Pavel Lounguine, who will both be in attendance.

The line-up of 18 avant-premieres includes Vincere [+see also:
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interview: Cannes 2009 Marco Bellocc…
interview: Filippo Timi - actor
film profile] by Italy’s Marco Bellocchio; Storm [+see also:
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interview: Alexander Fehling
interview: Hans-Christian Schmid
film profile] by Germany’s Hans-Christian Schmid (LUX Prize 2009 competition); Xavier Giannoli’s Cannes competition title In the Beginning [+see also:
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film profile] (see review); Chéreau’s Persecution [+see also:
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interview: Mia Hansen-Løve
film profile] (prize-winner in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes - see review).

The programme also includes Tony Gatlif’s Freedom [+see also:
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film profile].

(Translated from French)