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Paris brings “l’Europe autour de l’Europe” into the limelight

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- The 9th edition of this event debuted in the presence of Jim Sheridan. On the menu, nine unreleased films in competition and numerous tributes

Paris brings “l’Europe autour de l’Europe” into the limelight
Free Range, by Veiko Ounpuu

Focusing on films from Greater Europe (47 countries), works by great masters of emerging trends, the 9th edition of the L’Europe autour de l’Europe Festival opened last night in Paris in the presence of Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan. Until 13 April, 60 full-length feature films will be screened in 15 cinemas in the French capital. Nine films are in competition and will be decided on by a jury chaired by Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi, and including, among others, Italian singer and filmmaker Franco Battiato.

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Among the films featured in competition are A Thousand Times Good Night [+see also:
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interview: Erik Poppe
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by Norwegian Erik Poppe (with Juliette Binoche as lead – read news), Free Range [+see also:
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by Estonian Veiko Ounpuu (well-received at the 2014 Berlinale Forum), The Last Sentence [+see also:
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by Swedish Jan Troell (who will give a master class during the festival), The Enemy Within [+see also:
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by Greek Yorgos Tsemberopoulos (review), El futuro [+see also:
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by Spanish Luis López Carrasco (discovered in Locarno - review), The Gambler [+see also:
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interview: Ignas Jonynas
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by Lithuanian Ignas Jonynas (coproduced with Latvia - review) and Shirley: Visions of Reality [+see also:
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by Austrian Gustav Deutsch.

The festival will also focus on new Greek films with, among others, Wild Duck [+see also:
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by Yannis Sakaridis, Attractive Illusion by Pétros Sevastikoglou and September [+see also:
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by Penny Panayotopoulou.

Numerous tributes are also expected, in particular to Norwegian director Anja Breien, to Hungarian filmmaker István Szabó and to Ukrainian Kira Mouratova, all of whom will be attending in Paris, as well as to Miklós Jancsó and Nico Papatakis, who will not be present. Among the guests also worth mentioning are Dutch Jos Stelling and Norwegian documentary filmmaker Knut Erik Jensen.

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(Translated from French)

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