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The prestigious International Women's Film Festival will take place March 12-22 in Créteil and Val-du-Marne, with 50 international fiction features, documentaries and short films being screened for the first time in France and cash prizes to be awarded on March 20. The first and largest professional gathering of women film directors in the world, the festival will hold 300 screenings over the 10-day festival and anticipates some 25,000 attendees. This year's focus is on Australian and New Zealand films, with a retrospective of the films of Jane Campion, Tracy Moffatt, Gillian Armstrong, Margot Nash, Nadia Tass, Jeni Thornley and Martha Ansara, as well as screenings of films by Aboriginal women directors. Film previews will include "The Man with Rain in His Shoes" by Maria Ripoli (UK), and "Xiu Xiu" by actor Joan Chen (US/China.) International women film directors at the end of the millennium share several leitmotifs this year, a common theme being the preoccupation with remembering and the mastering of time or its slowing down. Fifty percent of the films have a young girl or adolescent heroine lead character and violence is a major theme running through many of the documentaries. A special tribute to legendary French actor/director Jeanne Moreau will commemorate her 50 years of film work, including that with directors Becker, Malle, Truffaut, Antonioni, Losey, Demy, Bunuel and Duras. A tribute will also be given to the 50th anniversary of the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's ground-breaking book, "The Second Sex." To commemorate the Women's Film Festival's 20 years, a book titled "Women's Films; Six Generations of Directors," will be published. M.K. Festival International de Films de Femmes , Maison des Arts de Créteil, pl Salvador Allende, Metro Créteil Préfecture, tel: 01.49.80.38.98, e.mail: www.gdebussac.fr/filmfem, filmsfemmes@wanadoo.fr |
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