The opening ceremony takes place at the cinema Les 7 Parnassiens with the presentation of The Walls Can Talk / Las paredes hablanla (French premiere), Carlos Saura’s last film. The Festival pays tribute to the great filmmaker who died last February. Carlos Saura is considered as one of the great Spanish directors of the history of contemporary European cinema, dedicated to telling the evolution of his country’s society and its opposition to the Franco dictatorship.
126 films selected the programming of the 18e edition of the Festival. The 7e art has never been better named. Directors, authors, actors but also producers and critics from all over Europe commit themselves, through the cinematographic prism, to make discover European culture in all its difference and its multiformity and strengthen the professional European audiovisual network.
© poster of the festival "Europe around Europe"
Several venues and venues participate in the event and host European masterpieces from all eras: The 7 Parnassians, The 5 Caumartins, The Lincoln, The Ursuline Studio, The Latin Quarter Film Library, The Jérôme Seydoux – Pathé and Le Méliès Foundation, art and essay cinemas, foreign cultural centres.
Three competitions constitute the architecture of the festival : the WILD PRICE for the best fiction film, the Price PRESENT for the best documentary and the WILD CORTO PRICE for the best short film.
Three women president these three awards in competition : Ildikó Enyedi, Hungarian director and screenwriter, president of the SAUVAGE Prize Jury, Eva Stefani, Greek video artist and director for the PRESENT Jury and Samantha Leroy, responsible for the programming of silent film cycles at the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation for the SAUVAGE CORTO Prize).
The event, founded by filmmaker Irena Bilic, also pays tribute to the "Masters"This year, the work of Hungarian director Istvan Szabo is celebrated with four films: The temptation of Venus, Mephisto, Father and Final report while retrospectives focus on documentaries by Eva Stefani and fiction directed by the Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson
The theme "Portraits, landscapes, world…", section out of competition, highlights three documentaries:The death of the worker", six-part documentary, "The Wars of Christine S. by Philippe Vallois and The Walls Can Talk by Carlos Saura, presented in opening and "My twentieth century", a fiction directed by the Hungarian filmmaker, Ildiko Enyedi.
Out of competition, the Festival also offers: Connections - Experimental exhibition - Meetings and events.
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