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Programme for 1996


41 Valladolid International Film Festival, October 18/26 1996

41 Semana 1996

We are delighted to present the full film listings for the 41st Valladolid International Film Festival. The choice of films this year is better than ever, a fascinating panorama of world cinema. Alongside the Official Section and Meeting Point which feature the latest releases, there are the many Sidebars, each one with its own focus - on a particular film maker, a country's cinema or a film school.

This year we are screening a grand total of 218 films - 134 features and 84 shorts in 12 cinemas, with 34 screenings every day and 295 screenings over the nine days of the festival.

Map of the Festival

OFFICIAL SECTION
MEETING POINT
TIME OF HISTORY
PLUS THE FOLLOWING SIDEBARS:
PUBLICATIONS

StarOFFICIAL SECTION


Official Section (feature lengths and shorts)
which offers a panorama of current world cinema. An international jury will award the following prizes to the films in competition -
The Golden Spike
which is the top prize and for which the Spanish distributor will receive three million pesetas (sponsored by Caja España)
Caja España

The Best New Director
will receive a prize of one million pesetas.

The Best Short
will receive a prize of half a million pesetas (sponsored by Spanish Television - TVE)
TVE

For the first time in 1996, Valladolid will be among the small group of festivals to which FIPRESCI will send a jury of critics from different countries to present an award.

Opening Gala

BREAKING THE WAVES
Lars Von Trier,Denmark (Not in competition)

In competition:
FAMILIA
Director: Fernando León
Starring: Juan Luis Galiardo and Amparo Muoz
Country : Spain

GRACE OF MY HEART
Director: Alison Anders
Starring: Illeana Douglas and John Turturro
Country : Australia

HALK-EL-WAD (A Summer in La Goulette)
Director: Férid Boughedir
Starring: Gamil Ratib and Sonia Mankaï
Country : Tunisia/France/Belgium

HAMSUN
Director: Jan Troell
Starring: Max von Sydow and Ghita Nrby
Country : Denmark/Germany/Norway/Switzerland

UN HÉROS TRÈS DISCRET
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Mathieu Kassovitz and Anouk Grinberg
Country : France

ILONA VIENE CON LA LLUVIA
Director: Sergio Cabrera
Starring: Imanol Arias and Pastora Vega
Country : Italy/Spain

INSIDE
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne and Louis Gosset.Jr.
Country : United States

LOVE SERENADE
Director: Shirley Barrett
Starring: Miranda Otto and Rebecca Frith
Country : Australia

LUST OCH FÄGRING STOR (The Beauty of Things)
Director: Bo Wideberg
Starring: Johan Wideberg and Marika Lagercrantz
Country : Denmark

LA PROMESSE
Director: J.P and Luc Dardenne
Starring: Jérémie Renier and Olivier Gourmet
Country : Belgium/France/Tunisia/Luxemburg

THE QUIET ROOM
Director: Rolf De Heer
Starring: Chloe Ferguson and Paul Blackwell
Country : Australia

LA SECONDA VOLTA (The Second Time)
Director: Mimmo Calopresti
Starring: Nanni Moretti and Bruni Tedeschi
Country : Italy

STAGONA STON OKEANO (A Drop In The Ocean)
Director: Eleni Alexandrakis
Starring: Amalia Moutoussi and Giorgios Sfyrides
Country : Greece

LA VIDA PRIVADA (Private Life)
Director: Vicente Pérez Herrero
Starring: Carmen Elfas and Fernando Guillér
Country : Spain/Italy/France

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Heather Matarazzo and Matthew Faber
Country : United States


Not in competition:
CELLULOIDE
Director: Carlo Lizzani
Starring: Giancarlo Giannino and Lina Sastri
Country : Italy
This screening will be followed by a screening of ROMA CITTÀ APERTA

PARTY
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Starring: Michel Piccoli and Irene Papas
Country : Portugal

RIDICULE
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Fanny Ardent and Jean Rochefort
Country : France

SHINE
Director: Scott Hicks
Starring: Noah Taylor and Armin Mueller-Staht
Country : Australia

SPIKLENCI SLASTI (The Conspirators of Pleasure) (Part animation)
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Starring: Petr Meissel and Gabriela Wilhelmov
Country : Czeck Republic

LES VOLEURS (The Thieves)
Director: André Téchiné
Starring: Catherine Deneuve and Daniel Auteuil
Country : France

Closing Gala
THE VAN
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Colm Meaney and Donal O'Kelly
Country : Great Britain
(Out of Competition)

Shorts
BODEN DER REALITÀT (Animation)
Olaf Böhme, Germany

BROOMS
Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, UK

DNA (Animation)
Giorgio Valentini, Italy

DO AS I SAY
Bob Coleman, United States

ESTÓRIA DO GATO A DA LUA
Pedro Serrazina, Portugal

HOW DINOSAURS LEARNED TO FLY (Animation)
Munro Ferguson, Canada

IL GIORNO DELLA PRIMA DI `CLOSE UP'
Nanni Moretti, Italy (Out of Competition)

MACHINATION
Ralph Seiler, France

MATHILDE, LA FEMME DE PIERRE
Stephan Streker, Belgium

PLANET MAN
Andrew Bancroft, New Zealand

ROBO EN EL CINE CAPITOL
Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Spain

SANDBURG'S ARITHMETIC (Animation)
Lynn Smith, Canada

SHOOT ME ANGEL
Amal Bedjaoui, France

THE SHORT WALK
Jon Hacker, UK

TRAINSPOTTER (Animation)
Jeff Newitt & Neville Astley, UK

WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A TIGER (Animation)
An Vrombaut, Germany/UK

StarMEETING POINT

is a non-competitive section which features films worthy of special attention either for their subject matter or their style.
AGNES
Egill Edvardsson, Iceland

AIRE LIBRE (Open air)
Luis Armando Roche, Venezuela/Canada/France

AMERICAN BUFFALO
Michael Corrente, USA

BEIM NÄCHSTEN KUSS KNALL ICH IHN NIEDER (One more kiss and die!)
Hans-Christoph Blumemberg, Germany

BLUE SKIES ARE A LIE
Gregory Ruzzin, United States

CLOSER TO HOME
Joseph Nobile, United States

COMPAGNA DI VIAGGIO (Travelling companion)
Peter del Monte, Italy

HUSTRUER III (Wife III)
Anja Breien, Norway

ISLA NEGRA (Black island)
Cecilia Bartolome, Spain

LIEBE,LEBEN,TOD (Love, life, death)
Matthias Allary, Germany

LO DEL OJO NO ES NADA
Sigfrid Monleón, Spain

THE MONKEY KID
Xiao-Yan Wang, USA

NERVOUS ENERGY
Jean Steward, UK

ROMANZO DI UN GIOVANE POVERO (Story of a poor man)
Ettore Scola, Italy

TAR UR STEINI (Tears of stone)
Hilmar Oddson, Iceland

Colleccions of shorts:
EUROPE ON SHORTS
A programme of 8 shorts selected by the European Coordinators of Cinema Festivals

FROM SAND TO CELLULOID
6 shorts by Aborigine film makers

`MADE IN HEAVEN'
8 shorts on songs by Queen

MOVEMENTS OF THE BODY
Three shorts on the human body - Wayne Traudt, Canada

StarTIME OF HISTORY
El Norte de Castilla


features documentaries dealing with moments or periods of history from the privileged viewpoint of cinema. This section has its own jury of three specialists who award a first prize of one million pesetas (sponsored by the regional daily paper El Norte de Castilla), and an additional two second prizes.
ANTARTICA - A TICKET TO ETERNITY
Rolf Orthel, Netherlands

ARIA OU LES RUMEURS DE LA VILLE MÉDICIS
Evelyne Clavaud, France

THE BATTLE OVER `CITIZEN KANE'
Thomas Lennon & Michael Epstein, United States

UN BESO A ESTA TIERRA
Daniel Goldberg, Mexico

THE CELLULOID CLOSET
Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, United States

LA COMÉDIE-FRANCAISE OU L'AMOUR JOUÉ
Frederick Wiseman, France

DEVILS DON'T DREAM!
Andreas Hoessli, Switzerland

DU LING-TURINO
Ning Ying, Italy

FIDDLEFEST
Allan Miller, United States

KRYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI: I'M SO-SO
Krysztof Wierzbicki, Denmark (Out of Competition)

MY NAME IS KAHENTILOSTA
Alanis Obomsawin, Canada

PAPIEROVÉ HLAVY
Dusan Hanak, Slovakia

PARIS WAS A WOMAN
Greta Schiller, UK/USA/Germany

PERSONAL BELONGINGS
Steven Bognar, USA

I SKUGGAN AV SOLEN (Sunshadow)
Susanna Edwards, Switzerland

SYNTHETIC PLEASURES
Iara Lee, USA

UNBOUND
Claudia Morgado Escanilla, Canada

VELO NEGRO
Arjanne Laan, Holland

VIRGEN DE LA ALEGRÍA
J.M.Campos, Spain

WILD BILL - HOLLYWOOD MAVERICK
Todd Robinson, USA

THE WRITTEN FACE
Daniel Schmidt, Switzerland

StarPLUS THE FOLLOWING SIDEBARS:


FOCUS ON AUSTRALIAN CINEMA (1975 - 1995)

In the second half of the seventies, Australia burst on to the international cinema scene with surprising vigour. Since then, it has continued to produce films of quality characterised by the impact of their imagery, their almost industrial strength and the personality of their directors. Twenty features and twenty shorts will be on show, including well-known titles alongside films not previously released in Spain.

Shorts:

This sidebar has been arranged with the assistance of the Australian
Film Commission

JOSÉ NIETO

One of Spain's most famous musicians, José Nieto has written over fifty scores for the cinema and television. He has collaborated with some of Spain's most outstanding directors (including Vicente Aranda, Imanol Uribe and Pilar Mir - to name but a few) and has won a Goya Award (the Spanish equivalent of a Oscar) no less than five times. He has also composed for many television programmes, both for Spanish television and the BBC.

From all the films to which José Nieto has contributed we have chosen:


For television:

Historias de Pepe Carvalho -

This sidebar has been produced with the financial support of the General Society of Authors and Editors
SGAE

GORAN PASKALJEVIC

"Someone Else's America" won the Golden Spike at the 1995 festival - but that isn't our only reason for presenting this sidebar, since we believe that since his work is so little known in Spain, and as he is undoubtedly one of Europe's foremost directors, it's time to dedicate this part of our festival to his work with his ten feature length films and a selection of his best shorts.


In coloboration with Centar Film (Belgrade)

Raoul ServaisRAOUL SERVAIS

Two years ago, we had fully intended to screen all the films of this Belgian master of animation, but the long production time of "Taxandria" meant that we were unable to do so. At long last, we can finally offer his eleven shorts and one feature - a small output in terms of numbers but a large crop as far as creative talent is concerned. This is a chance to view the complete works of a filmmaker who imaginative capacity runs on a par with his consistent denouncement of all forms of oppression and dictatorship.

MASSIMO TROISI

The enormous success of IL POSTINO, premiered in Spain at last year's festival, has created a special interest in the figure of Massimo Troisi, who died last year when he was only 41. Valladolid is dedicating this postumous tribute with the screening of five films that he directed and starred in (of which only one is known in Spain), and four in which he took the main lead, three of them with Ettore Scola as director.

As director and actor:


Only as actor:

Sidebar jointly organised by the Centre Sperimentale di Cinematografia/Cineteca Nazionale and Cinecittà International/Ente Cinema

THE DANISH FILMSCHOOL
(Copenhagen)

The internationally regarded National Danish Film School is based in Copenhagen. A maximum of six students are accepted each year in each of the five departments - Direction, Photography, Design, Sound and Production. The students' final projects have a quality noticeably better than that usually found in these places, and we have chosen a small selection of eight films, including one by Lars Von Trier, whose "Breaking The Waves" opens this year's festival.

SPANISH CINEMA 1995/6

Last year is reckoned to have been one of the best for Spanish cinema for some time. Judge for yourself with our selection of the latest and most outstanding Spanish films that have been released over the previous twelve months. All the films have English or French subtitles, since this section is particularly geared towards those visiting professionals and journalists who want to take a closer look at what our national cinema has to offer.



StarPUBLICATIONS

The festival produces the following books as well as the main festival catalogue and the daily programme guide:

The festival also presents an exhibition on the works of Raoul Servais and an accompanying catalogue.

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