Here’s a round-up of the Cannes line-up and the filmmakers who have previously screened work at l’Alternativa
Director’s Fortnight
Galician filmmaker Oliver Laxe, whose Paris # 1 was in the short film competition at l’Alternativa last year, presents his debut feature film Todos vós sodes capitáns.
Michelangelo Frammartino, who screened his first feature film Il dono in competition at l’Alternativa 2004, presents his second film Le Quattro volte.
Katell Quillevéré, winner of short film prize at l’Alternativa in 2005 with A bras le corp, screens her debut feature film Un Poison violent.
Olivier Masset-Depasse, whose short film Dans l’ombre screened at l’Alternativa in 2004, screens his second feature film Illégal.
Un Certain Regard and International Competition
Ágnes Kocsis, whose first film Friss levegö won a prize at l’Alternativa 2006, screens her second feature Pál Adrienn in Un Certain Regard.
Radu Muntean, director of The Paper will be Blue screened at l’Alternativa last year, presents his new film Tuesday, After Christmas in Un Certain Regard.
Cristi Puiu, director of The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu also screened at l’Alternativa last year, presents his new film Aurora in Un Certain Regard.
Sergei Loznitsa, whose films Portrait (2002), Factory (2004) and Artel (2006) have all screened at previous editions of l’Alternativa, shows his latest film My Joy in the main competition at Cannes.
The Director’s Fortnight
13th-23rd May 2010
Cannes Film Festival
12th-23rd May 2010
L’Alternativa proyecta un programa especial en el marco del EMAF (European Media Arts Festival) en Osnabrück. La proyección forma parte del proyecto Cine Trans Europa, una red de intercambio de programación entre 5 festivales europeos. El programa de l’Alternativa incluye:
My Dear Grandma (Marta Abad Blay), Nous (Olivier Hems)
, Den Fremden lange anstarren (Sylvia Winkler & Stephan Köperl),
Dager av kjærlighet (Eric Magnusson), Dialogos (Ülo Pikkov)
, Lapsus (Juan Pablo Zaramella)
y Rif (Eric Steegstra)
.
21-25 Abril 2010
European Media Arts Festival
Yes! It’s open, abierto, obert
Competition for feature films (fiction / documentary) and shorts Cash prizes No entry fee Entry deadline 1st July 2010 Online registration
Competición de largos de ficción, largos documental y cortmetrajes Fecha límite de admisión 1 de julio 2010 Premios en metálico Inscripción online
Competició de llargs de ficció, llargs documentals i curtmetratges
Data límit 1 de juliol de 2010 Premis en metàlic Inscripció online
L’Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona
12-20 nov. 2010
L’Alternativa will present a programme of short films at AAVE (Alternativa Audiovisual Event) at Malmitalo Cultural Centre in Helsinki. The event, organised by Kino Kaiku, will screen rarely seen films from Italy, Spain, South America and Japan, as well as Finnish live cinema performances.
15th – 18th April 2010
AAVE
Malmitalo
Ala-Malmin tori 1
00700 Helsinki, Finland
Free entry
Corneliu Porumboiu’s Politist, Adjectiv (feature film winner at l’Alternativa last year), picked up 6 prizes at the Romanian Gopo Awards last week, including best film, best director, best screenplay and best photography. The film has found distribution in North America and throughout most of Europe, but is still waiting for distribution in Spain. The film is screening in competition at the BAFICI, which starts this week.
Confrontation 46, the annual festival organised by the Institut Jean Vigo in Perpignan has programmed a series of screenings around the theme of film and art. Pedro Costa will be in town to present his new film Ne change rien, and Peter Greenaway will present Rembrandt’s j’accuse, Nine Classic Paintings Revisited and Nightwatching, as well as giving a free conference on Friday 9th April.
8th-14th April 2010
Confrontations 46
Palais des Congrès &
Arsenal de l’Institut Jean Vigo
Perpignan, France