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CANNES 2014 Selection

Six films round off the showcase at Cannes

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- The Official Selection is spiced up with films by André Téchiné, Kornel Mundruczó, Tony Gatlif and Pablo Fendrik, among others

Six films round off the showcase at Cannes
In the Name of My Daughter by André Téchiné

As expected, the Official Selection of the 67th Cannes Festival (14-25 May 2014 – see news) has today been topped off with six more titles. In particular, In the Name of My Daughter [+see also:
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by French director André Téchiné (starring Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel – read the news – produced by Fidélité Films, to be distributed in France by Mars Films and to be sold internationally by Elle Driver) will be presented out of competition.

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Meanwhile, the Un Certain Regard programme (read the article) will finally include a total of 20 feature films, thanks to the addition of White God [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Kornél Mundruczó
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by Hungary’s Kornél Mundruczó (read the article), whose two previous films had been in the running for the Palme d’Or.

Lastly, four films will be shown at Special Screenings: Géronimo [+see also:
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by French director Tony Gatlif (starring Céline Salette and Rachid Yous, produced by Princes Films, distributed in France and sold internationally by Les Films du Losange), the documentary Of Men and War by his fellow countryman Laurent Bécue-Renard, The Owners by Kazakh director Adilkhan Yerzhanov and El Ardor by Pablo Fendrik (starring Gael Garcia Bernal, who is also a member of the competition jury this year), which is co-produced by Bac Films (also handling international sales) together with Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

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(Translated from French)

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