Luc Dardenne, Arnaud Desplechin, Stéphane Brizé, Thomas Salvador, and Tarik Saleh are the special guests of Les Films de Cannes à Bucharest 13
Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest is honoring Luc Dardenne, Arnaud Desplechin, and Stéphane Brizé this year with a national premiere of their latest films as well as other landmark titles from their careers screened in three special…
Maiavankline · Journalist
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Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest is honoring Luc Dardenne, Arnaud Desplechin, and Stéphane Brizé this year with a national premiere of their latest films as well as other landmark titles from their careers screened in three special retrospectives.
Directors Thomas Salvador and Tarik Saleh will also be presenting their films at the festival, the organizers have announced, according to News.ro. Additionally, because this year marks the one-century anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini's birth, the festival will dedicate a fourth retrospective to him.
Thomas Salvador is a director and screenwriter, who often stars in his own films. He has directed six short films which were awarded at numerous festivals, most notably Petits Pas (Quinzaine des réalisateurs 2003) and De sortie (Jean Vigo prize in 2006). La Montagne, his second feature film, had its world premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the SACD prize.
On Friday, October 21, at 18:00, the director will be at the Elvire Popesco Cinema for an open discussion in two parts: during the first part he will discuss his film La Montagne with critic Ionuț Mareș, and in the second part he will talk with Mihai Zotta - a forestry engineer with over 20 years of experience in the field of nature conservation. Thomas Salvador will also meet the public on Saturday, October 22, at 17:00, at the Peasant Museum Cinema.
Tarik Saleh started out as one of Stockholm's leading graffiti artists in the 1980s. He directed and wrote the screenplay for The Nile Hilton Incident, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2017, received a Guldbagge Award for Best Film in 2018, and was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the César Awards.
The filmmaker will meet festival audiences at screenings of Boy from Heaven on Saturday, October 29, at 20:00, at Cinema Elvire Popesco, and Sunday, October 30, at 18:00, at the Peasant Museum Cinema.
The Belgian Dardenne brothers are filmmakers who have always kept their same thematic and stylistic obsessions. Two-time winners of the Palme d'Or, they have become famous for their scrupulously realistic social dramas, following a lesser-known career in documentaries. The filmmakers have tried from the outset to blend their liberal political views, with a masterful, unostentatious style, and the often breathtaking denouement of spiritual redemption.
