Deauville Asian Film Festival Press Release 1

PRESS RELEASE No.1
Monday January 24th, 2011
PRESIDENT OF THE JURY
AMOS GITAI
“What could be more beautiful than the blossoming of the almonds trees on the spring!
This is what asian cinema will show us in Deauville”
TRIBUTE AND COMPLETE WORKS
HONG SANGSOO
Once again this year, a jury made up of distinguished members of the artistic community will award the
Lotus du Meilleur Film (Best Film Prize) and the Lotus du Jury (Jury Prize) to one of the ten or so films in
competition.
After Pascal BONITZER in 2010, the jury will be chaired by Israeli screenwriter, director and producer:
AMOS GITAI
SELECTIVE FILMOGRAPHY
2010 ROSES À CRÉDIT (Roses on Credit)
2009 LA GUERRE DES FILS DE LUMIÈRE CONTRE LES FILS DES TÉNÈBRES (The War of the Sons of Light
against the Sons of Darkness)
2009 CARMEL
2008 ONE DAY YOU’LL UNDERSTAND
2007 DISENGAGEMENT – Venice Film Festival / Out of competition
2005 FREE ZONE - Cannes Film Festival / Competition
2004 PROMISED LAND – Venice Film Festival / Competition
2003 ALILA – Venice Film Festival / Competition
2002 KEDMA – Festival de Cannes / Competition
2001 EDEN – Venice Film Festival / Competition
2000 KIPPUR – Festival de Cannes / Competition
1999 KADOSH – Festival de Cannes / Competition
1998 YOM YOM – Venice Film Festival / Out of competition
1995 ZIHRON DEVARIM – Venice Film Festival / Competition
1993 GOLEM, THE PETRIFIED GARDEN
1991 GOLEM, THE SPIRIT OF THE EXILE
1990 BIRTH OF A GOLEM
1989 BERLIN-YERUSHALAIM – Venice Film Festival / Competition
1986 ESTHER – Cannes Film Festival / Critics’ Week Competition
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TRIBUTE
TRIBUTE TO HONG SANGSOO
The Festival will honour in his presence South Korean director Hong Sangsoo, whose sensitive and
unsettling films are somewhat reminiscent of Eric Rohmer. His complete works will be shown for the
occasion, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque Française.
HONG SANGSOO
Born on January 25th 1961 in South Korea, Hong Sangsoo attracted a lot of attention in 1996 at the
Rotterdam Film Festival with his first film “The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well”. Since then, he has written and
directed ten feature films which have been shown in many world-renowned festivals like Cannes, Venice
or Berlin. The characters and situations he creates seem at first to originate in improvisation and chance,
but on closer examination, you discover that the director has set up his own coherent and calculated
aesthetics, in complex and detailed fashion. With every film, Hong Sangsoo keeps on nurturing his own
cinematic language and original visual style. He is acknowledged as one of the masters of contemporary
Korean cinema.
FILMOGRAPHY
1996 THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL
1998 THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE
Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard
2000 VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS
Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard
2002 TURNING GATE
2004 WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN
Cannes Film Festival – Competition
2005 A TALE OF CINEMA
Cannes Film Festival – Competition
2006 WOMAN ON THE BEACH
Festival de Berlin – Panorama
2008 NIGHT AND DAY
Berlin Film Festival – Competition
2009 LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL
Cannes Film Festival – Quinzaine des réalisateurs
2010 HAHAHA
Cannes Film Festival – Un Certain Regard
OKI’S MOVIE
Venice Film Festival – Orrizonti
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GENERAL ORGANISATION OF THE FESTIVAL
THE CITY OF DEAUVILLE
Philippe AUGIER, Mayor of Deauville
Le Centre International de Deauville (C.I.D)
Jacques BELIN, Managing Director
LE PUBLIC SYSTEME CINEMA
40, rue Anatole France – 92594 Levallois Perret Cedex / France
PRESIDENT OF THE FESTIVAL
Lionel CHOUCHAN
DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL
Bruno BARDE
PRESS RELATIONS
Alexis DELAGE-TORIEL / Céline PETIT
Agnès LEROY / Annelise LANDUREAU / Clément RÉBILLAT / Hédi ZARDI
Tel: +33 (0)1 41 34 21 26 / 22 01 – Fax: +33 (0)1 41 34 20 77
E-mail: [email protected]
www.lepublicsystemecinema.fr
PUBLIC INFORMATION
TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE - Tel: +33 (0)2 31 14 40 00
CID – Tel: +33 (0)2 31 14 14 14
FESTIVAL OFFICIAL WEBSITE
http://www.deauvilleasia.com
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