fidmarseille's newsletter n°20 octobre 2005

ESTAMIRA by Marcos Prado

Mouvements

After ten dynamic years as president of the non-profit organization Vue sur les Docs, organizer of the FIDMarseille, Michel Trégan has chosen to resign. Turning a responsibility into a labor of love, Trégan took his task to heart all throughout these ten years, elaborating and developing this local event in Marseille that now garners international acclaim.

The FID’s entire staff joins together to express its gratitude.

He is succeeded by Aurélie Filippetti, a writer, the author of books such as Les Derniers Jours de la Classe Ouvrière (Livre de poche), and an eminent political figure as well, whowas elected as the new president by the  board of directors. The torch was passed during the closing ceremony of the 16th edition of the Festival, and was marked by an understandably emotional climate.

The nomination of a new president was accompanied by the following changes :
Vice-President: Alain Leloup
Treasurer: Henri Dumolié
Secretary: Solange Poulet

Executive board members : François Clauss, Paul Saadoun.

Board of Directors : Laurent Carenzo, Richard Copans, Dominique Gibrail, Florence Lloret, Emmanuel Porcher, Michel Trégan, Dominique Wallon.

The FID staff is also pleased to welcome Noémie Behr, previously Doctor in Economics for the CERNA at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, who succeeds Frédérique Westhoff as the Secretary General.

Remous

Filmmaking remains an activity which concerns more than just images. The filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara, selected for the FIDMarseille 2002 edition with LAND OF SILENCE and who had honored us as a member of the International Jury for the 16th edition of the FIDMarseille, recently presented his first full-length feature ABANDONED EARTH, nominated for the Caméra d’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival, in his homeland of Sri Lanka. Obviously indifferent to such distinctions, the Sri Lankan army threatened the director, wishing to discourage him to pursue making « films of this nature ». In an article published in a Sinahala-language journal, an officer in the Sri Lankan army declared that the director should be sentenced to death. Projected since September 9th in various movie-theaters throughout the island, the film was suddenly and inexplicably pulled out of circulation from the country’s five major theaters.

A modest but nonetheless genuine expression of solidarity goes out to Vimukthi Jayasundara.

Follow-up of films selected for the FIDMARSEILLE

AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES by Avi Mograbi, presented in the FID 2005 International Competition and winner of a Special Mention, was screened at the Cinéma Arenberg (Bruxelles) on Sunday October 2nd to accompany the filmmaker’s arrival in Belgium for the screening of several of his films by Le P’tit Ciné.

Les Rencontres du cinéma documentaire at Ciné 104 in Paris’ Pantin district also presented a retrospective of Avi Mograbi’s complete films on October 7th and 8th.

AN OPEN WINDOW by Khady Sylla, presented in the FID 2005 International Competition as a World Premiere and winner of the First Film Prize, was screened October 4th by Le P’tit Ciné at the Espace Delvaux de Watermael Boisfort (Belgium).

LIVING IN TAZMAMART by Davy Zylberfajn, presented in the FID 2005 National competition, was awarded the Grand Prize in the 10th edition of the Prix International du Documentaire et du Reportage Méditerranéen, organized by the CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle) in Syracuse (Italy) from October 9th to October 16th, 2005.

AN OPEN WINDOW  by Khady Sylla, presented in the FID 2005 International Competition, screened as a World Premiere and winner of the First Film Prize, will be shown in the context of the 3rd edition of the Festival des Cinémas d’Afrique du pays d’Apt, in the presence of the filmmaker, from November 4th to November 9th, 2005 (see Agenda)

EARS, OPEN. EYEBALLS, CLICK. by Canaan Brumley, presented in the FID 2005 International Competition, screened as a World Premiere and winner of the First Film Prize, was selected for the Hamptons International Film Festival (United States) as part of the Golden Starfish Competition.

MARSEILLE 1943 OPERATION SULTAN by Jean-Pierre Carlon, presented as a France 3 Méditerranée Special Showing at the FIDMarseille 2005 will be shown at the Espace de l’Autre Côté on Tuesday October 25th at 8 :15 pm. The director will speak after the screening, starting from 9 pm (Espace l'Autre Côté - 29 rue Saint Ferréol 13001 Marseille)
Information: 06 13 688 577

Sorties en salle

1/3 DES YEUX by Olivier Zabat, presented in the FID 2004 National Competition as a World Premiere, and Grand Prize winner of the French Competition comes out in France on November 9th 2005.
LA FRAGILE AMADA by Jacques Kébadian and Joani Hocquenghem, in the FID 2003 French Competition, screened as a World Première, comes out in movie theaters on November 16th, 2005.
AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES by Avi Mograbi, selected for the FIDMarseille 2005 International Competition, comes out in cinemas on November 30th to kick off Documentary Film Month.

EXTRA-MUROS Schedules

On September 24th, the Correspondances de Manosque Festival presented a screening of films selected by the FID: DETOUR by Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré and DREYER POUR MÉMOIRE- EXERCICE DOCUMENTAIRE by Olivier Derousseau, both present in the FID 2005 French Competition.

Cerbère’s Film Encounters were held from October 14th to October 16th at the Hôtel du Belvédère du Rayon vert (66290 Cerbère). As a guest, the FID presented a program on October 14th which included DETOUR  by Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré and BECKETT'S PRISONNERS by Michka Saäl, selected for the FID 2005 French Competition.

The « 22ème Festival International du film francophone Tübingen–Stuttgart » will take place from October 26th to November 7th, 2005. As part of the partnership between the FIDMarseille and the FIFF of Tübingen, a screening entitled «Window  on Marseille » will present four films:
OLIVA OLIVA by Peter Hoffman, recipient of the National Grand Prize and Soundtrack Prize in the 16th edition of the FID
BECKETT'S PRISONNERS by Michka Saäl
DETOUR by Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré
AN OPEN WINDOW by Khady Sylla, recipient of the First Film Prize Prix in the 16th edition of the FID
Informations : http://www.filmtage-tuebingen.de

The Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume presents “ Présences du documentaire contemporain ” from November 15th to December 30th, a screening of documentary films coming from the FIDMarseille 2005 selection.
EARS, OPEN. EYEBALLS, CLICK. by Canaan Brumley,
ESTAMIRA by Marcos Prado,
FLOATING DUST by Huang wenhai,
MADE IN CHINA by Julien Selleron,
BY THE WAYS (A JOURNEY WITH WILLIAM EGGLESTON) by Vincent Gérard and Cédric Laty,
DDR by Anne Amzallag,
OLIVA OLIVA by Peter Hoffmann,
RENE O. by Thomas Bauer,
AÏKIDO by Gilles Balmet,
LA DIALECTIQUE PEUT-ELLE CASSER DES BRIQUES ? by René Vienet,
THE 15th STONE by Rita Azevedo Gomes,
NOORD KOREA, EEN DAG UIT HET LEVEN by Pieter Fleury,
AN OPEN WINDOW by Khady Sylla,
WYSPA by Tae-young Park,
DREYER POUR MÉMOIRE- EXERCICE DOCUMENTAIRE by Olivier Derousseau with the assistance of Anne-Marie Faux
BECKETT'S PRISONNERS by Michka Saäl,
LIVING IN TAZMAMART by Davy Zylberfajn

Informations : http://www.jeudepaume.org

Agenda

The 3rd Festival des Cinémas d’Afrique du pays d’Apt will run from November 4th to November 9th, 2005 at Cinéma César (rue Scudéry – Apt). Its aim is to « promote African films in all their geographical and historical diversity, and facilitate encounters for the exchange of ideas and emotions with their makers”. Twenty films shall be shown, grouped under three themes: full-length and short fiction films and documentaries.
Informations : http://www.africapt-festival.fr ou au bureau du festival 04 90 04 09 46.

Jean- Pierre Rehm will serve as a member of the International Jury for the Jilhava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic) which will be held from October 25th to October 30th, 2005.
Informations : http://www.dokument-festival.cz

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