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GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Tous Écrans Programme Revealed! Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015 FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS PROGRAMME REVEALed! www.tous-ecrans.com The 21st Festival Tous Ecrans returns from 6 to 14 November with an ambitious and entertaining programme including: Swiss premieres of major films by Peter Greenaway, Takeshi Kitano, Jerzy Skolimowski, the Larrieu brothers, Arturo Ripstein, Dibakar Banerjee, Johnnie To, Jay Roach, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Sarah Gavron; a new section, Rien que pour vos yeux, dedicated to unknown gems unearthed by the Festival’s team; a tribute to Anton Corbijn; the year’s best new TV series and digital virtual reality projects designed to let festivalgoers share in demonstrations against police brutality in New York, or witness first-hand daily life in a Syrian refugee camp. This year’s programme will take you deep into the heart of the audiovisual cosmos with the addition of the Digital Garden – a dome for 360-degree screenings set up in the courtyard of the Pitoëff building – and our already-famous ‘Nuits Blanches’ events with the complicity of artists such as Serge Bozon, Asia Argento and Kid Chocolat, and DJ Cam. The Festival is also expecting a host of guests, including Claire Denis, Ingrid Caven, Anna Karina, Carl Barât, Stuart Staples, the Larrieu brothers, Michael Nouri and Anton Corbijn. Altogether, over 180 celebrities from television, cinema and the digital world have confirmed their attendance. The full programme is available online and the online ticket office opens today. CINEMA Opening Night Friday 6 November at Cinerama Empire The Assassin / Nie yin niang by Hou Hsiao-Hsien - Swiss Premiere (Best Director Award – Cannes 2015) Closing Night Saturday 14 November at Cinerama Empire Office / Hua Li Shang Ban Zou by Johnnie To - Swiss Premiere (3D screening) International Feature Film Competition With ten World, International or Swiss Premieres, this year’s programme features a particularly rich selection that defies the codes of fiction and documentary by flirting with docudrama and mockumentary: Kosovar Visar Morina’s Babai takes a blunt look back on the tyranny his native country has suffered; Ivan Ostrochovský’s melancholy road-tripKoza is based on the life of Czech boxer Peter Baláž; The Other Side by Roberto Minervini shows JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER America’s poorest while French filmmakerE milie Brisavoine discreetly makes intimate 2015 FOR THE 21ST revelations in Pauline s’arrache (Oh la la Pauline) – screened in the presence of the FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS filmmaker. Other filmmakers have also confirmed their attendance for this competition. These include Lukas Valenta Rinner for the apocalyptic and iconoclasticParabellum ; #FTE_2015 Damien Odoul for La Peur (The Fear); Switzerland’s own Kim Seob Boninsegni for Occupy The Pool and Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ortega-Beck for the beautifully touching God TOUS-ECRANS.COM Bless The Child. Nathan Nicholovitch will take us to Cambodia with De l’ombre il y a (Where There is Shade), while Alex Ross Perry will present his unsettlingQueen of Earth, starring the mesmerising Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men and Top of The Lake). Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015 FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS Out-of-competition GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL www.tous-ecrans.com Highlight Screenings Back for the second time, Highlight screenings has established itself as a major out-of-competition section and featuresa dozen Swiss Premieres including the highly-anticipated Ryuzo and His Seven Henchmen (Ryuzo to Shichinin no Kobun tachi) by Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano who tells the trials and tribulations of an ex-gang of retired yakuzas; Sarah Gavron’s equally awaited Suffragette starring a mysterious Meryl Streep; Jay Roach’sTrumbo featuring Diane Lane, Helen Mirren and John Goodman; Calcutta Detective (Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!) by India’s ‘new wave’ filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee; a tribute by British maestro Peter Greenaway to his Slav alter ego in Eisenstein in Guanajuato; a beautiful black- and-white film set in Mexico with Arturo Ripstein’sLa Calle de la Amargura and the Larrieu brothers’ latest opus featuring Isabelle Carré and Karin Viard,Vingt et une nuits avec Pattie, in the presence of the filmmakers. Retrospective:C inéastes, de notre temps The Festival presents the third and final part of theC inéastes, de notre temps (‘Filmmakers, of our times’) Retrospective, which consists of a series of portraits of cult filmmakers coproduced by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe. Discover over 35 major filmmakers, including Jacques Rivette, Martin Scorsese, Claude Autant-Lara, Manoel de Oliveira and many others. The Festival will also paytribute to André S. Labarthe, in the presence of the filmmaker and producer. In addition, a Round table discussion mediated by HEAD - Geneva Cinema and Fine Arts teacher Cyril Neyrat on the topic of ‘What is a Filmmaker?’ will take place on Tuesday 10 November with the participation of Claire Denis, Françoise Etchegaray, Adolfo Arrietta and André S. Labarthe. Rien que pour vos yeux The Festival’s new sectionRien que pour vos yeux ( For your eyes only) offers five feature films including twoE uropean Premieres for De l’autre côté de la mer (Across The Sea) by Swiss filmmaker Pierre Maillard andThe Sandwich Nazi by Canadian Lewis Bennett; twoS wiss Premieres for Philippe Fernandez’s Cosmodrama in the presence of main actor Jackie Berroyer and Armel Hostiou’s Une histoire américaine (Stubborn), in the presence of the French filmmaker and actress Kate Moran. And finally, aWorld Premiere with Paule Muret’s For This is My Body, in the presence of the filmmaker and The Libertines and The Jackals’ frontman Carl Barât, who portrays a rock icon in Muret’s film. JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER Tribute to Anton Corbijn 2015 FOR THE 21ST Guest of honour of this 21st Festival,A nton Corbijn will receive the Film & Beyond FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS Award during a ceremony – in association with our watchmaking partner 88 RUE DU #FTE_2015 RHÔNE. On this occasion, the Festival will present theFrench- Swiss Premiere of his latest feature film,Life , as well as some of the Dutch photographer and filmmaker’s most representativemusic videos, created for artists such as U2 and Depeche TOUS-ECRANS.COM Mode. Press release, under embargo until 11 am Geneva, 12 October 2015 FESTIVAL TOUS éCRANS TELEVISION GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL www.tous-ecrans.com International TV Series Competition Iceland, Denmark, Israel, Germany, Italy, Norway, France and Switzerland are every bit as good as their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in terms of TV series, as evidenced by the general trend in this year’s competition. The Festival is especially proud to present the Premiere of RTS’ new series Anomalia by Pilar Anguita-Mackay, the first episode of which will be screenedin the presence of the main actor, Natacha Régnier, and the production team. Members of the jury will also have to consider the Swiss Premieres of The Refugees (Refugiados); Old Money (Altes Geld); Deutschland 83; Acquitted (Frikjent); False Flag (Kfulim); Occupied; Trapped (Ófærð) and Show Me a Hero, the latest series by cult filmmaker David Simon. Out-of-competition Serial Day & Night From Saturday 7 to Sunday 8 November For one day and one night, the Festival has organised a huge TV and web series marathon including Bipedes and Anomalia, in partnership with RTS and SSR SRG. The programme features TV and web series from international competitions as well as four other out-of-competition TV series: 1992 by Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi and Stefano Sardo (Italy); Catastrophe by Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan – Swiss Premiere (United Kingdom); The Party (De Fractie) by Alessandro Fabbri, Ludovica Rampoldi and Stefano Sardo – Swiss Premiere (Italy); Trepalium by Antarès Bassis and Sophie Hiet – Swiss Premiere (France). Furthermore, during this event, festivalgoers will also discover theE uropean Premiere of the latest series on Canal+, Versailles by David Wolstencroft and Simon Mirren, as well as thecomplete series of ARTE’s Au service de la France, created by the OSS 117 scriptwriter Jean- François Halin, who will be present. Finally, actorM ichael Nouri (Damages, NCIS, CSI, and close to a hundred films and series) will give the public an insight into what goes on behind the scenes of the greatest American series during aC onversation with Michael Nouri. DIGITAL International Web Series Competition This year, the Festival presentsfifteen international web series from: Japan (Yukata Cowboy by Atsuhi Ogata), South Korea (We Broke up by Eugene Shin), Lebanon (Zyara by Denise Jabbour and Muriel Aboulrouss), Syria and Turkey (Umm Abdo Al-Halabiya by Adnan Haddad), the United States (Gary Saves The Graveyard JOIN US FROM 6 TO 14 NOVEMBER by Todd Bieber), Canada (Whatever Linda by Hannah Cheesman and Julian De Zott, 2015 FOR THE 21ST and World Away by Elias Campbell and Maxim Gertler-Jaffe), France (La Nuit du FESTIVAL TOUS ÉCRANS vivant by Geneviève Anhoury; La Parade by Mehdi Ahoudig and Samuel Bollendorff; #FTE_2015 Hell Train by Mathieu Rochet and Nicolas Venancio, Swiss Premiere), Belgium (Euh by Benjamin Dessy, Brieuc de Goussencourt and Gregory Beghin), Spain (Números by Fátima de los Santos and Jesús Perujo) and Germany (Polyglot by Amelia TOUS-ECRANS.COM Umuhire). The selection also includes Swiss web series, such as theWorld Premiere of Charles Nouveau’s Bipèdes, and Hellvetia by Antoine Tinguely, Laurent Fauchère and
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