20/09/2011

Running from November 18-26, the Gijón International Film Festival will once again transform the city into the Spanish capital of independent cinema. To whet people’s appetite, the organisers have announced a few titles from the Official Selection, as well as some parallel sections, retrospectives and the co-production workshop Puentes.

France is strongly represented in the Official Selection competition, with Nicolas Klotz’s Low Life, about a love affair between a twenty-something Frenchwoman and an Afghan illegal immigrant; Bruno Dumont’s drama Hors Satan [+see also:
trailer
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interview: Mia Hansen-Love
film profile]. Staying with Francophone films, also screening is The Giants [+see also:
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interview: Bouli Lanners
film profile] by Belgian director Bouli Lanners, who is a regular at Gijón. The European contingent is completed by Ruben Östlund’s Swedish film Play [+see also:
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interview: Ruben Östlund
interview: Ruben Ostlund
film profile] (in competition for the LUX Prize of the European Parliament 2011).

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The event will also pay homage to Gallic directors Bertrand Bonello and Marie Losier, the latter of whom has been living in New York for many years.The “Géneros Mutantes” section will look at the evolution of traditional genres, how they are renewed and interwoven, asking if it is possible today to make a true genre film.

(Translated from Spanish)