08/05/2003

The 8 members of the 26th Caméra d’Or jury who will serve under the guidance of this year’s president, Wim Wenders are French director, Christian Vincent, DP Agnès Godard, film industry executive Alain Champetier, critic Laurent Aknin, film experts Claude Makovski, Gianluca Farinelli and Bernard Ulhmann and Géraldine D’Haen, the secretary of the jury.
It will be up to them to name the best first film screening in either the official selection - both in and out of competition - and Un Certain Regard, and sidebar sections Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
Last year Julie Lopes-Curval won the Caméra d’Or for Bord de mer. This year twenty first films are in competition, 13 of which are European : two are out of competition, four in Un Certain Regard and seven each in Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
The most eagerly awaited titles are Qui a tué Bambi? by France’s Gilles Marchand, Kiss of Life by the UK’s Emily Young, Las Horas del dia by Spain’s Jaime Rosales , B. B. e il Cormorano by Italy’s Edoardo Gabbriellini, Reconstruction by Denmark’s Christoffer Boe and French animation Les Triplettes de Belleville [+see also:
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(Translated from French)