‘Lark’ to open Seville festival
Ponce’ Caer’ to have world premiere
Variety.com
October 18, 2007
By EMILIANO DE PABLOS
MADRID – Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s World War I drama `The Lark Farm’
will open the 4th edition of the 100% European Seville Film Festival,
which will also host the world premiere of Spanish helmer Jesus Ponce’s
social comedy `Dejate caer."
Closing night film at Seville will be claustrophobic thriller `The Man
>From London,’ directed by Magyar filmmaker Bela Tarr.
Fest’s official section will screen 16 film titles in competition –
often previously prized pics – including works from established European
auteurs such as Germany’s Volker Schlondorff (`Ulzhan’) and Fatih Akin
(`The Edge of Heaven’), Blighty’s Ken Loach (`It’s a Free World….’),
and France’s Claude Chabrol (`The Girl Cut in Two’) and Jacques Rivette
(`Don’t Touch the Ax’).
Festival earmarks Euros 240,000 ($339,360) to winners of the competition
sections, payable in coin for the pics’ distribution in Spain.
Presided by German helmer-producer Reinhard Hauff, the official section
jury also includes U.S. producer Letty Aronson, Karlovy Vary fest
artistic director Eva Zaoralova, U.K. producer Kevin Loader and from
Spain actor Juanjo Puigcorbe, helmer-journalist Javier Rioyo and TV
director Felix Pinuela.
Seville will screen tributes to Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo
Antonioni and will celebrate the film careers of German director
Alexander Kluge and Italian documentary helmer Gianni Mina.
Festival national cinema focus falls this year on the Czech Republic.
Fest will also honor Prague-born helmer Jiri Menzel, whose black comedy
"I Served the King of England" will also play in competition.
The Seville festival has programmed 150 film titles from 30 European
countries.
Underscoring the diversity of recent local production across Europe, the
section Europe_Europe include 24 pics from the long list of nominations
for this year’s the European Film Awards. For one more year, the
festival will unveil the EFA nomination shortlist, this time round on
Saturday, Nov. 3.
Fest runs Nov. 2-10.
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