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Love, incest and childhood dreams for Cannes fringe festival
Love, incest and childhood dreams will be some of the themes in movies to be screened at the Cannes film festival's Director's Fortnight next month, organisers said Tuesday.
Love, incest and childhood dreams will be some of the themes in movies to be screened at the Cannes film festival's Director's Fortnight next month, organisers said on Tuesday.
Some 21 feature-length films from countries as diverse as Australia, Britain, Georgia, Iran, Norway, Singapore and South Korea will be shown at the out-of-competition show on the sidelines of the May 11-22 Cannes festival.
Japanese film The Buried Forest by Kohei Oguri will open this year's selection, organiser Olivier Pere said.
The Japanese film, in which childhood fantasies begin to invade adult realities, is also competing in the 'Un Certain Regard' section of the Cannes festival on the sidelines of the race for the coveted Palme d'Or.
Pere said the organisers had decided the film should be screened in both sections "because of the exceptional admiration and enthusiasm we share for this film."
Launched in the late 1960s by avant-garde directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, the Director's Fortnight puts the accent on discovering new and groundbreaking talent.
It can boast having helped propel to fame high-flyers such as Stephen Frears, Nagisa Oshima, Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders, who this year is competing for Palme d'Or for the first time since 1997.
Three of the feature-length films are debut directorial efforts, and 12 of them will be showing as world premieres, including a second Japanese film by Mitsuo Yanagimachi Who's Camus Anyway?
Fourteen short films will also be shown at the fringe festival which this year will be dedicated to the memory of French producer Humbert Balsan, who committed suicide in February in Paris aged just 50.
There will also be special screenings of the Italian film Family Diary by Valerio Zurlini and "Ride the High Country" by US director Sam Peckinpah, both of which were made in 1962.
