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Competition
Ten Nordic film previously unreleased in France competing for five Prizes awarded by a jury of national and regional artists.
The Jury will award the Grand Prix du jury and the Prizes for Best Actress and Best Actor.
- Prize of Young Audience awarded by a jury of European students.
- Audience Award allows the audience to vote for their favourite film.
The trophies are made this year by Gabrielle Baëcile, Nicole Baillehache, Frédérique Burel, Marie-Pierre Lamy, Armelle Normand et Maguy Seyer
News form the North
This section puts together feature and documentary films that have never been shown in France as well as a selection of Nordic films released in France during the year..
Nicolas Winding Refn season (Danish director)
Born in 1970, he has already directed eight films including the famous Pusher trilogy. After studying film in New York and Copenhagen, he became scriptwriter, director, producer and actor. His film Bronson was released on French screen in September 2009. This gives the opportunity to discover his latest film Valhalla Rising.
A tribute to Théo van Gogh (Dutch director)
Great grand nephew of painter Vincent Van Gogh, this controversial director, polemicist and editorial writer, the “Dutch Michael Moore” had been making films since 1981. In 2004, he directed a short film exposing the subordination of women in Islam. He was murdered on November 2, 2004.
Women documentarists in Finland
It seems to be a Finnish characteristic. Since the eighties, we have noticed that there is a significant number of women documentary directors emerging. They explore without prejudice a large variety of subject and use cinematographic means in an innovating way.
Unlikely homes in Norway
Come and meet these people living in remote places, isolated at the far end of a fjord or on a desert island in the Lofoten.
A series of very unusual portraits.
Nordic choirs
It is always the right time to meet and sing together.
A strong tradition in Nordic countries, singing is carved in everyone’s daily life and is a part of popular culture. From Iceland to Estonia, a selection of documentaries about “screaming” or “revolutionary” choirs.
A look on Iceland
Timeless Iceland and the one caught in the global financial storm.
War on film: resistance/freedom
Wars leave behind permanent traces and inspire films.
For the first time, we present the audience with several documentary and feature films on these hidden soldiers.
Paris’ Centre Wallonie Bruxelles’ 30th anniversary
We offer a free hand to Louis Héliot, the person in charge of cinema. He will make a point of making us discover some wonders of French-speaking Belgian film.
Cinema in Lower Saxony
In collaboration with Pôle Image de Haute-Normandie, a selection of short and long feature as well as archives films.
The Festival and the young
- School screenings in the Eure and Seine-Maritime area.
- Animated film direction workshops for primary school classes.
- Conception of the dialogue lines for a short film (high school).
- Video daily news directed by the audiovisual class of Lycée Corneille.
Screenings at
All screenings take place ar downtown cinema Le Melville in Rouen