Declaration of War, She Monkeys play Paris Cinéma
Partly unveiled yesterday, the line-up for the 9th Paris Cinéma Festival (July 2-13) includes eight titles in international competition.
Highlights are French director Valérie Donzelli’s exhilarating Declaration of War [+see also:
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interview: Lisa Aschan
film profile], which was crowned Best Nordic Film at Gothenburg Film Festival and won acclaim last February in the Berlinale’s Generation 14Plus section (see review).
Three European co-productions will also vie for honours: Paula Markovitch’s Mexican/French/Polish/German film The Prize [+see also:
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Paris Cinéma will open with an out-of-competition screening of Maïwenn’s Poliss [+see also:
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The Parisian festival will pay homage to Italian star Isabella Rossellini (centred around the avant-premiere of Julie Gavras’s Late Bloomers [+see also:
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interview: Julie Gavras
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interview: Michel Ocelot
film profile]); Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski (with a full retrospective of his works); Mexican cinema (including Gael Garcia Bernal); and 25 years of Pixar animation.
Last but not least, the festival will host the co-production platform Paris Project (July 4-7).
(Translated from French)
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