Press Release

Cinéma du Réel - from March 10th to March 19th 2006 - 28th edition

In the Centre Pompidou Bibliotheque Publique d’information/Centre Pompidou www.cinereel.org

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: about 35 films, from around 30 countries, all French premieres.

FRENCH SELECTION: premieres of about 10 to 15 recently completed films.

WORKSHOPS: 5 programmes associating filmmakers and audiences, focusing on documentary scriptwritings and authors’ practises.
João Botelho and Jacques the Fatalist : literature, politics, cinema
A workshop accompanying the French release of A luz na Ria Formosa, first documentary film of the great portuguese author, and of his new feature film O Fatalista (premiere during the festival, French release: end of March 2006, Gémini Films) adapted from Diderot’s “Jacques the Fatalist“; a great topical text, often adapted for the screen.
In collaboration with Le Latina cinema theatre.
Amos Gitaï comes back to the “House”: News from Home, News from House
After the first House (1980) and his first “come back”, A House in Jerusalem (1997), Amos Gitaï’s new opus on the destiny of a Palestinian house.
In the heart of the Night/Die Nacht
Paul Ouazan’s Arte television magazine is one of the most innovative projects of these last years. “Live” invention of an anthology, a playful and mysterious new episode of the program.
Omar Amiralay’s masterclass, proposed by Addoc (French documentary filmmakers association)
Which scenarios and what kind of mise en scène when dealing with power and the powerful.
La Fabrique du Conte d’été
Jean-André Fieschi and Françoise Etchegaray’s film, using rushes and making of material, gives birth to a new fiction after Eric Rohmer’s film Summer Tale: Cinema (re)creates reality, a new story emerges. This session includes discussion with students and meeting with the filmmakers.

DETOUR: About ten films, most of them never seen in France, all connected with the relationship between cinema and literary or written texts.

OF SYRIA, SOME FILMMAKERS IN SEARCH OF REALITY
Retrospective
This retrospective will help discover or rediscover some authors caracterized by their original and refined point of view, such as Mohamed Malas and Oussama Mohamad. It will also help discover the creative vitality of the younger generation. The rare archive images of the country will make us remember a complex history , prefigurating today’s conflicts.
Tribute to Omar Amiralay
For 30 years, Omar Amiralay has been composing a unique, stylisticly rigorous filmography, with a demanding cinematographic eye. It has made him one of the most interesting contemporary author.
This programme will also be shown to the Institut du monde Arabe, on March 12th, 19th and 26th, 2006.
Audio Documentary
In the Centre Pompidou’s forum, a listening lounge will allow the audience to listen to ancient or recent audio documents taped in Syria or with Syrian artists. This radio shows and documents editing will bring up the country’s reality, using sound as part of cinema creation.
In partnership with INA and SCAM

MEETINGS
Music and Documentary
On the occasion of the Syrian documentary retrospective, and during the 10th Festival de l’Imaginaire, in partnership with the Maison des Cultures du Monde, a programme of documentary music, associating ancient images and live music.
At the Maison des Cultures du Monde, with the Syrian music master Muhammad Qadri Dalal.
Professional meetings
We wish today to make the festival one of the professionals’ yearly meeting point , by privilaging agendas likely to interest both audience and all those in charge of cultural activities: documentary films DVD edition philology (which bonus, which “collectors”, which distribution network), “non commercial” issues, the distribution systems evolution and consequences of technical developpements (VOD...), distribution strategies specificities.
Johan van der Keuken
A programme of Johan van der Keuken’s short films , on the occasion of the DVD release of his complete works by Idéale Audience/Arte Video.
Premiere of Jean-Louis Comolli’s new film The Last Utopia : Rossellini and Television.

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