10Th Édition Body and Soul
presents The Europe by Europe Festival of films of Greater Europe 10th édition Body and Soul From March 16 to April 15 www.evropafilmakt.com “Nothing is so dangerous in diplomacy as loose talk about peace! Every time the demand for peace has reached a certain pitch and was no longer to be contained, it’s led straight to war!” Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, 1933 Dear friends, spectators and partners, This is the 10th edition of the festival Europe by Europe (L’Europe autour de l’Europe). The The newly restored version of Serguei Parajanov’s Sayat Nova (The Color of the Pomegranate) festival began in 2006, in Normandy, as a screening of 12 films. It was born out of a passion will open the festival, and announce our collaboration with the Golden Apricot Yerevan Interna- for cinema and the desire to bring peripheral Europe – the Europe “by” Europe, that Central tional Film Festival that will present the Harutyan Khachatryan retrospective and engage us in European countries tend to disregard – closer to official Europe. commemorating the tragic events in Armenia in 1915. I believe the audacity to launch the festival came to me from my admiration for the work and personality of Henri Langlois, after I read his words “Show the whole world the wonderful The Competition section for The Prix Sauvage (the Dancing Wolf) and the Prix Luna will present films that no one has ever seen”. At first, the festival was basically a family initiative, supported 9 films that have not been distributed in France by directors coming from Germany, Armenia, by the volunteer work of some friends, film directors, and linguists, and the first important Austria, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.
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