Paris Cinema International Film Festival, ^7th edition

From July 2^nd to 14^th, 2009

The 7^th edition of the Paris Cinema International Film Festival, a Parisian summer highlight chaired by Charlotte Rampling and supported by the City of Paris, will be inventive, eclectic and open to everyone thanks to an exceptional admission price of 5€ per screening, the all-screening Paris CinéPass and many free events: the vintage cinema trade market “Brocante Cinéma”, silent film concerts and a ball on July 14 at CENTQUATRE…
Keeping with its tradition, the festival will take audiences on a 12-day trip around the world with, this summer, a stopover in Turkey - all this without leaving Paris!

From July 2 to 14, festival-goers will be able to discover new talents in about fifteen Parisian venues thanks to the International Competition, premieres of prestigious films with the presence of film crews, all time classics, and will meet major personalities of the film industry.
The first “Nuit du Cinéma” will officially launch the festivities on July 4!
The Paris Cinema International Film Festival is run by festival director Aude Hesbert and general manager Anne Barjot.

PUBLIC OPENING / NUIT DU CINÉMA

Saturday, July 4 – 8 pm until the break of dawn / 5€ per screening

This first Nuit du Cinéma officially launches the 7^th edition of the Paris Cinéma International Film Festival.

The program features genre cinema, rare films, premieres, prestigious guests, special events, not to mention convivial coffee breaks, croissants and many surprises until the dark hours of the night!

This original and festive event makes the best of Parisian venues with a program of B-movies and exclusive premieres in order to celebrate the City of Lights, the capital city of cinema… for the night lovers and movie buffs!

• Sexy Asian Comedies Night - Nouveau Latina

• Turkish Superheros Night - Max Linder
• Premieres Night - Gaumont Capucines
• Russ Meyer Night - Panthéon
• Japanese Animation Night - Studio des Ursulines
• New American Comedy Night - Champo

PUBLIC CLOSING / PARIS CINÉMA PARTIES AT CENTQUATRE

Tuesday, July 14 – 9:30 pm to 2 am / free entrance

The Paris Cinéma International Film Festival invites the public to come celebrate the end of the 7^th edition at CENTQUATRE, whose Halle Aubervilliers will be turned into a gigantic screening venue.

At nightfall, Japanese filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi’s Oyuki the Virgin will be screened accompanied by six talented musicians, for a special silent film concert.

Directed with poetry and delicacy, Oyuki the Virgin (1935) is a politically committed and poignant melodrama. During the screening, Nantais musician François Ripoche and his band “Francis et ses peintres” as well as Japanese singers Emiko Ota and Maia Barouh will provide live music.
After the silent film concert, Festival Paris Cinéma will turn Halle Aubervilliers into a dancefloor and host a wrap-up ball so everyone can celebrate the end of the 2009 edition and promise to be back in 2010!

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

The International Competition is a unique showcase of contemporary independent productions with both short and feature films (fiction and documentary). It takes place at MK2 Bibliothèque and the films are presented by their directors, coming from around the world.

• The Feature film Competition: Prix du Public (award given by the public) / Prix du Jury (award given by the jury) / Prix de l’Avenir (award given by students to a new filmmaker)

The awards are meant to encourage distribution of the award-winning films.

• The Short film Competition: Prix du Public / Prix du Jury CinéCinéma / Prix de l’Emotion – KOOKAIFILMS

The awards are meant to support French commercial release of the winning films.

PREMIERES

GUESTS OF HONOR

Every year, the Paris Cinéma International Film Festival welcomes prestigious personalities of world cinema and honors them through rich and lively retrospectives.

• Tribute to Claudia Cardinale      

Arlequin (6e arr.) / Bon Marché (6e arr.) / BNF (13e arr.) / Grand Action (5e arr.)
Claudia Cardinale, often associated with the heyday of Italian cinema, shines in demanding auteur films and blockbusters, going from intimist worlds to the Far West, while always perfectly playing her characters, with intense emotion. Given the extent and the incredible richness of her filmography, it seemed obvious that, this year, the Paris Cinéma IFF should pay a tribute to this brilliant actress.

The highlights
- Exhibition: “Divas Italia – Age d’Or, Mythe et Réalité du Cinéma Italien” at Bon Marché—Rive Gauche from May 5 to 13, followed by a photo exhibition of previously unexhibited photos of Claudia Cardinale at Bon Marché—Rive Gauche.
- Retrospective of about fifteen of her films from July 8 to 14 at Arlequin.
- Meeting with Claudia Cardinale at BNF-François Mitterand on July 3 at 5 pm (free entrance)
- The Lovemakers by Mauro Bolognini (restored copy) screens at Grand Action on July 3, with the presence of Claudia Cardinale.

• Tribute to Jean-Pierre Léaud                       

Reflet Médicis (5e arr.)
Tsaï Ming-liang’s new film, Visages, shot in the Louvre Museum, stars Jean-Pierre Léaud. The Paris Cinéma IFF has decided to celebrate this collaboration between the great Taiwanese director and outstanding actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, of whom Tsaï Ming-liang said: “I feel close to this man when I watch his films; he manages to convey a relationship of intimacy with cinema itself. (…) To me, the meaning of cinema can be read on Jean-Pierre Léaud’s face.”

Unforgettable hero at 14 in his debut film, François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Léaud will forever be the French New Wave icon. In the late 80s, his yearning for cinema always renewed by a variety of experiences was again brought to light. He met new directors and acted in films that range from comedy films to auteur films, unveiling new facets of his talent playing unexpected parts in Bertrand Bonello’s The Pornographer, Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep…
His casualness and his deadpan humor are a perfect match with Aki Kaurismäki’s world, with whom he shot I Hired a Contract Killer (1990) and Bohemian Life (1992). Far from being an outstanding performance, his peculiar and unconventional acting is a real revolution in modern cinema and keeps inspiring the greatest directors. In 2001, Taiwanese filmmaker Tsaï Ming-liang paid him a vibrant tribute in What Time Is It There?. The César d’honneur he received in 2000 confirmed that Léaud makes up his own “category” in today’s French Cinema—he is an eclectic persona who embodies a new way of acting as well as the demand for a cinema of research and poetry.

The Highlights
- Retrospective of about thirty films from July 4 to 14.
- Screening of Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore (1973) followed by a Q&A with Jean-Pierre Léaud on July 5.
- Carte Blanche Jean-Pierre Léaud: L’Atalante, by Jean Vigo (1934)
- Antoine Doinel Day :  Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed & Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979) by François Truffaut

• The Complete work of Tsaï Ming-liang           

The Louvre Auditorium (1er arr.)

Born in Malaysia, Tsaï Ming-liang graduated from Taiwan University with a degree in Cinema. He started his career as a stage writer, director and producer and then moved on to direct TV movies. Rebels of the Neon God (1993) initiated his shift to the silver screen. Because it is his favorite film, Ming-liang paid a vibrant tribute to Truffaut and his 400 Blows in What Time Is It There? (2001). It is a meditation imbued with darkness and burlesque about time disruption, in which he manages to instill grace and lightness, directing the iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud and Lee Kang-sheng, his alter-ego on the screen.

The Highlights

- Tsaï Ming-liang’s complete work: eight films to be screened from July 3 to 5 at the Louvre Auditorium.

- Screening of What Time Is It There? (2001) on July 3 at 8 pm, with the presence of the director and followed by a Q&A with the public.

- Masterclass with Tsaï Ming-liang at BNF on July 5 at 6 pm.

• Tribute to Lluis Miñarro / Eddie Saeta Production                       

Le Nouveau Latina (4e arr.)
The festival welcomes a big name of contemporary Spanish cinema who is also an outstanding producer: Lluis Miñarro (b. Barcelona, 1949).
After a successful career in advertisement, Miñarro, real patron of the arts, created Eddie Saeta, his own production company, in 1995. Not interested in huge box-office hits, he decided to give a free hand to his directors so they could work on their projects in total freedom. The films he produced undeniably constitute the renewal of contemporary Spanish auteur cinema.

The Highlights
Premieres of Lisandro Alonso’s Liverpool (2008) and Manoel de Oliviera’s Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (2009).

FOCUS ON A COUNTRY: TURKEY

-as part of the Turkish Season in France-

After Brazil, Korea, Lebanon and the Philippines, the festival puts Turkey in the spotlight in order to highlight the filmmakers’ creativity, the producers’ dynamism and to give a brief insight into the diversity of contemporary Turkish cinema.

From July 4 to 14 at MK2 Bibliothèque, attendees will enjoy a showcase of about thirty films and have the opportunity to meet the new talents of Turkish cinema—directors, actors, screenwriters.  Audiences will also have the pleasure to discover on the silver screen national hits as well as rare films and wonders of genre cinema: cult films and Z movies. To conclude, forays into History with great classics bring this journey through Turkey to a whole.

The Highlights
- 40 films screened and about twenty guests present from July 4 to 14 at MK2 Bibliothèque, Méliès (Montreuil) and Magic Cinema (Bobigny).
- Tribute to filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- German-Turkey Focus
- The spotlight’s on director Yesim Ustaoglu (in her presence)
- The spotlight’s on director Reha Erdem (in his presence)
- Turkish superheros Night, during Nuit du Cinéma on Saturday, July 4
- Co-production workshop around Semih Kaplanoglü’s and Yesim Ustaoglu’s films

PARIS CINEMÔMES

Children’s program

The festival has a program especially designed for children,
featuring many events:
film premieres, workshops, drawing contests…
Paris CinéMômes 2009 will take children on a trip around the world of animation!

This summer, Paris CinéMômes opens the door to the world of animation, screening mainly at Studio des Ursulines (5e arr.) about twenty animation films, standard or audacious, representative of the craft of a dozen countries, with a special focus on three generations of Japanese studios and many previously unseen films!

• Trip around the world of Animation

Films that honor animation cinema from China, Denmark, the UK, Iran, Latvia, Japan, the USA, the Czech Republic, Russia, Argentina, Poland and France.

• Focus on three generations of Japanese studios

These special screenings of PREVIOUSLY UNSCREENED FILMS will be using UNIQUE 35mm copies.

TOEI ANIMATION

Animal Treasure Island, directed by Hiroshi Ikeda and animated by Hayao Miyazaki and Yoichi Kotabe
Puss in Boots, directed by Kimio Yabuki and animated by Hayao Miyazaki and Yoichi Kotabe

STUDIO GHIBLI

Only Yesterday, by Isao Takahata

MAD HOUSE

Tokyo Godfathers, by Satoshi Kon

EVENTS

To further the pleasure of screenings and conviviality, and make the Festival Paris Cinéma a special moment of celebration, images and encounters!

• “Guests of Honor” Exhibition           

Parvis of MK2 Bibliothèque (13e arr.) / Free entrance

From June 24 to July 15, JCDecaux and Télérama become partners to offer an outdoor photo exhibition and “work in progress.” Everyday, photographer Jérôme Bonnet takes a snapshot of guests as they come to the festival. These shots are printed the following night (120x160 format) and exhibited the next morning in JCDecaux urban furniture.

• Mizoguchi silent film concerts                       

Balzac (8e arr.)

Rare and pivotal works of great Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi, Tokyo March (1929), The Water Magician (1933) and The Downfall of Osen (1935) will be screened during two silent film concerts at Balzac on Tuesday, July 7 and Thursday, July 9.

• La Brocante Cinéma – The vintage cinema market

Parvis of MK2 Bibliothèque (13e arr.) / Free entrance

For the first time, the festival organizes an outdoor vintage cinema trade market on Saturday, July 11 on the parvis of MK2 Bibliothèque (free entrance). Open both to professionals and amateurs, the Brocante Cinéma brings together collectors, cinema enthusiasts and neighborhood residents. Vintage posters, stills, DVDs, cinema magazines, screening equipment, and collector objects will be up for sale on the stalls.
Professionals and amateurs can book a space until June 12.
Terms and registration form available at www.pariscinema.org : here

• Retour de flamme                   

CENTQUATRE (19e arr.) / Free entrance

Like every year, Serge Bromberg and Lobster Films present Retour de Flamme, a show featuring silent films that were found in attics or on flea markets and were restored, accompanied by a live piano. This year, the show is scheduled on Monday, July 13. Audiences will be amazed once they step into that magical world that Retour de Flamme opens to them.

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