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President of the Association: Yves-Gérard BRANGER President of the Festival: Jérôme CLÉMENT

General Delegate: Claude-Éric POIROUX www.premiersplans.org

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THE PREMIERS PLANS FESTIVAL Dedicating itself to the discovery of new talent in European cinema and allowing others to discover European film heritage since 1989, the Angers Premiers Plans Festival has become an emblematic cultural meeting that is recognized by film professionals, followed by a large inquisitive audience, and supported by many big names.

THE AIMS OF FESTIVAL

To convey new European directors through a selection of a hundred first films presented in seven competitive sections.

To discover film history and heritage thanks to retrospectives on national cinematographies, tributes to major and unrecognized authors and actors, programs on specific themes.

Highlighting the diversity of European cinema by gathering professionals on questions relative to the production and circulation of European films.

To educate a new public on European cinema by favoring the young public to participate to the Festival

To support scriptwriters and directors in their writing work by inviting professional actors to read scripts of first short and feature films in public before shooting the film.

The Festival is sponsored by Fanny ARDANT, Dominique BESNEHARD, Pierre BOUTEILLER, Patrice CHEREAU, Jérôme CLEMENT, Gérard DEPARDIEU, Christophe GIRARD, Alain ROCCA et Hélène VINCENT.

The Presidents of the juries since 1989 Feature Films Jury: 2012 Christophe HONORÉ, 2011 Robert GUÉDIGUIAN, 2010 Lucas BELVAUX, 2009 Claire DENIS, 2008 Sandrine BONNAIRE, 2007 Abderrahmane SISSAKO, 2006 Radu MIHAILEANU, 2005 Jacqueline BISSET / Claude MILLER, 2004 Benoît JACQUOT, 2003 Jeanne MOREAU, 2002 Nathalie BAYE, 2001 Pavel LOUNGUINE, 2000 Agnès VARDA, 1999 Lucian PINTILIE, 1998 Claude CHABROL, 1997 Agnieszka HOLLAND, 1996 Freddy BUACHE, 1995 Bertrand TAVERNIER, 1994 Andrzej ZULAWSKI, 1993 Jane BIRKIN, 1992 André TÉCHINÉ, 1991 Vojtech JASNY, 1990 Henri ALEKAN, 1989 Théo ANGELOPOULOS.

Short Films Jury : 2012 Mathieu DEMY, 2011 Tonie MARSHALL, 2010 Matthias LUTHARDT.

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Robert GUÉDIGUIAN © Sandrine Jousseaume

Jeanne MOREAU© Sandrine Jousseaume

Radu MIHAILEANU© Hervé Goemaere

Christophe HONORÉ © Raphaël Neal

Among those discovered at Angers

AUSTRIA Barbara Albert Jessica Hausner Hubert Sauper

BELGIUM Alain Berliner Joachim Lafosse Olivier Masset-Depasse Patrice Toye

BELARUS Lidiya Bobrova

BULGARIA Kamen Kalev

CZECH REPUBLIC Saša Gedeon Bohdan Sláma Jan Sverak Petr Václav

DENMARK Christopher Boe Annette K. Olesen Thomas Vinterberg

ESTONIA Veiko Õunpuu

GERMANY Fatih Akin Valeska Grisebach Benjamin Heisenberg Christoph Hochhäusler Ulrich Köhler Pia Marais Christian Petzold

GREECE Athina Rachel Tsangari

FRANCE Mathieu Amalric Danièle Arbid Xavier Beauvois Emmanuelle Bercot Laurent Cantet Emmanuel Carrère Yves Caumon Fred Cavayé Sylvain Chomet Jean-Paul Civeyrac Marina de Van Arnaud des Pallières Arnaud Desplechin Valérie Donzelli Olivier Ducastel Karim Dridi Eléonore Faucher Delphine Gleize Eric Guirado Lucile Hadzihalilovic Gérald Hustache-Mathieu Abdellatif Kechiche Sophie Letourneur Noémie Lvovsky Gilles Marchand Jacques Martineau Patricia Mazuy Orso Miret Gaël Morel Emmanuel Mouret Valérie Mréjen Jacques Nolot François Ozon Melvil Poupaud Philippe Ramos

HUNGARY Benedek Fliegauf Agnes Kocsis Kornél Mundruczό György Palfi

ICELAND Dagur Kari Rúnar Rúnarsson IRELAND Jim Sheridan Perry Ogden

ITALY Matteo Garrone Vincenzo Marra Mario Martone Paolo Sorrentino

KAZAKHSTAN Guka Omarova Nariman Turebayev Sergei Dvortsevoy

KYRGHYZSTAN Aktan Abdykalykov

NORWAY Joachim Trier Rune Denstad Langlo

NETHERLANDS David Verbeek

POLAND Andrzej Jakimowski Slawomir Fabicki

PORTUGAL Inês Oliveira Teresa Villaverde Miguel Gomes

ROMANIA Marian Crisan Catalin Mitulescu Cristian Nemescu Cristi Puiu Corneliu Porumboiu Adrian SItaru

RUSSIA Nicolaï Khomeriki Vassili Pitchoul

UNITED KINGDOM Danny Boyle Duane Hopkins Shane Meadows Peter Mullan Nick Park

SLOVAKIA Martin Šulik

SPAIN Roberto Castón Fernando Leon de Aranoa Marc Recha Daniel Sanchez Arevalo Benito Zambrano

SWEDEN Suzanne Bier

SWITZERLAND Milagros Mumenthaler

TADJIKISTAN Djamshed Usmonov

TURKEY Nuri Bilge Ceylan Zeki Demirkubuz Semih Kaplanoglu Özcan Alper Seren Yüce

Among the feature films selected in 2012

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OFFICIAL SELECTION More than 100 first films are screened, directed by 100 new European filmmakers. The official selection will be announced the 11th of December.

Films in competition Around 70 films in the 6 categories of the Official Competition. More than 200,000 Euros in awards are given out by juries and the public at the end of the Festival.

EUROPEAN FIRST FEATURE FILMS FRENCH FIRST FEATURE FILMS EUROPEAN FIRST SHORT FILMS FRENCH FIRST SHORT FILMS

EUROPEAN STUDENT FILMS EUROPEAN ANIMATED FILMS

Screenplay readings FEATURE AND SHORT FILMS Screenplays (before production) are read by professional actors in front of an audience.

Out of competition films More than 20 other films are screened out of competition, in other categories: Free Form, Next Shots, Stereoscopic 3D and Beijing First Film Festival.

FREE FORM: A selection of audacious and innovative new films NEXT SHOTS: Films by young directors since being discovered at Premiers Plans Festival

STEREOSCOPIC 3D: panorama of first short films in stereoscopic 3D BEIJING FIRST FILM FESTIVAL : A selection of Chinese first short- and feature-films discovered at the Beijing First Film Festival.

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TRIBUTES AND RETROSPECTIVES John Boorman

Seeing the films of John Boorman means exploring the great diversity of universes and genres. From science fiction (Zardoz) to the legendary mediaeval epic (Excalibur), from the Californian film noir (Point Blank) to the story of a child living through the blitz (Hope and Glory), John Boorman has developed a fascinating, protean body of work, punctuated with cult films (Deliverance, The Emerald Forest), films which are audacious, sometimes mystical, and spectacularly inhabited by nature and wonder. Catch Us If You Can 1965 91’ United Kingdom

Point Blank 1967 93’ United States

Hell In the Pacific 1968 104’ United States

Leo the Last 1970 104’ United Kingdom

Deliverance 1972 109’ United States

Zardoz 1974 104’ United Kingdom

Exorcist 2 : The Heretic 1977 117’ United States

Excalibur 1981 142’ United States

The Emerald Forest 1985 114’ United Kingdom

Hope and Glory 1987 114’ United Kingdom

I Dreamt I Woke Up 1991 48’ Ireland

Where the Heart Is 1990 108’ United States

Beyond Rangoon 1995 100’ United Kingdom

Two Nudes Bathing 1995 30’ Ireland

The General 1998 125’ Ireland

The Tailor of Panama 2001 110’ United States

Country of my Skull 2003 105’ United States / Ireland / South Africa

The Tiger's Tail 2006 107’ Ireland List of films subject to be changed

The Emerald Forest Point Blank

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Marcello Mastroianni

For half a century, Italian actor par excellence Marcello Mastroianni worked with a vast majority of the greatest filmmakers of his native country, playing characters from Italian comedy, along dramatic, heroic and whimsical characters who have marked the collective memory. Beyond the borders of Italy he soon became a very endearing figure in European cinema who remains familiar to filmgoers worldwide. Le Notti Bianche Luchino Visconti 1957 Italy/ France I Soliti Ignoti Mario Monicelli 1958 Italy I’ll Bel Antonio Mauro Bolognini 1959 Italy / France La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini 1959 Italy / France La Notte Michelangelo Antonioni 1961 Italy / France Divorcio all’italiana Pietro Germi 1961 Italy Cronaca familiare Valerio Zurlini 1962 Italy I Compagni Mario Monicelli 1963 Italy / France / Yugoslavia Otto e mezzo Federico Fellini 1963 Italy / France Matrimonio all’italiana Vittorio de Sica 1964 Italy / France La decima vittima Elio Petri 1965 Italy / France Break up Marco Ferreri 1968 Italy / France Leo the Last John Boorman 1970 United Kingdom Liza Marco Ferreri 1972 Italy / France La Grande Bouffe Marco Ferreri 1973 France / Italy Allonsanfan Vittorio et Paolo Taviani 1973 Italy Touche pas à la femme blanche Marco Ferreri 1974 France / Italy La Nuit de Varennes Ettore Scola 1982 France / Italy O Melissokomos Théo Angelopoulos 1986 Greece / France / Italy Oci Ciornie Nikita Mikhalov 1987 Italy / United States / USSR

Le Pas suspendu de la cigogne Théo Angelopoulos 1991 France / Italy / Greece / Switzerland

Un, deux, trois, soleil Bertrand Blier 1993 France Trois vies et une seule mort Raul Ruiz 1996 France / Portugal

List of films subject to be changed

Liza Le Notti Bianche

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Good Work!

Work has always been a source of inspiration for filmmakers interested in joint creation or individual action, collective struggle or individual achievement. The situations depicted provide as many human portraits and stories as there are sensitivities and filmmakers. The fight against injustice with Ken Loach, alienation with Chaplin, changes in the rural world with Raymond Depardon or the brutal effects of globalisation with Kiyoshi Kurosawa will illustrate this retrospective. Der Letzte Mann Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau 1924 86’ Germany

Modern Times Charlie Chaplin 1936 85’ United States

Animal Farm John Halas / Joy Batchelor 1954 73’ United Kingdom

I Compagni Mario Monicelli 1963 130’ Italy / France / Yugoslavia

Les Grandes Gueules Robert Enrico 1965 125’ France / Italy

Adalen 31 Bo Widerberg 1969 105’ Sweden

La classe operaia va in paradiso Elio Petri 1971 125’ Italy

Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1976 110’ RFA

Portraits (Sélection) Alain Cavalier 1987-91 France

Shadows in Paradise Aki Kaurismäki 1990 76’ Finland

Bian lian (Le Roi des masques) Wu Tian-Ming 1998 101’ China

Ressources humaines Laurent Cantet 1999 10’ France / United States

Rosetta Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne 1999 90’ United States / France / Belgium

La Moitié gauche du frigo Philippe Falardeau 2002 90’ Québec

It's a Free World Ken Loach 2007 93' United Kingdom

Les Lip, l’imagination au pouvoir Christian Rouaud 2007 118’ France

La Vie moderne Raymond Depardon 2008 90’ France

Louise Michel Gustave Kervern / Benoît Delépine 2008 90’ France

Tokyo Sonata Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2008 120’ Japan

Entre nos mains Mariana Otero 2010 88’ France

También la lluvia Iciar Bollain 2011 103’ France / Mexico / Spain List of films subject to be changed

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Les Grandes Gueules

Denis Lavant After Isabelle Carré and Jacques Gamblin, this year Denis Lavant will be the guest of Premiers Plans and the Nouveau Théâtre d’Angers. He will perform Louis-Ferdinand Céline on stage and will present several films, notably by Leos Carax, for whom he remains a recurring and iconic actor.

Boy Meets Girl Leos Carax 1984 100’ France Mauvais Sang Leos Carax 1986 116’ France Beau Travail Claire Denis 2000 92’ France Capitaine Achab Philippe Ramos 2007 100’ Sweden / France

Tokyo ! (Merde) Leos Carax 2008 107’ France / Japan / Germany / South Korea

Holy Motors Leos Carax 2012 115’ France List of films subject to be changed

Faire danser les alligators sur la flûte de Pan: Denis Lavant portrays Dr Destouches alias Louis-Ferdinand Céline. He is prodigious with his tics, airs of a bitter old fool and bumbling gait. On stage, Lavant gives voice to the powerful, rich language of this great misanthropic author with his often unacceptable ideas. From Wednesday 23 to Friday 25 January 2013 – 7.30 p.m. In partnership with the Nouveau Théâtre d’Angers and Le Quai - Forum des Arts Vivants

Claude Miller The Festival will be paying tribute to director Claude Miller, who died last April (1942 - 2012), and who took part in the Festival Premiers Plans and Ateliers Jeanne Moreau as a jury member and speaker many times. Several works from his brilliant filmography will be presented.

La Meilleure façon de marcher 1976 82’ France Garde à vue 1981 86’ France L’Effrontée 1985 96’ France La Petite Voleuse 1988 109’ France La Chambre des magiciennes 2000 80’ France Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante 2009 90’ France

60 years of Positif Founded in Lyon in 1952 by Bernard Chardère and directed by Michel Ciment, the review Positif has always stood out from other reviews on account of its economic independence, enabling it to have much greater freedom and an original critical vision. The Festival will be working with the review to celebrate its 60th anniversary.

Pokolenie Andrzej Wajda 1955 Poland Le Combat dans l’île Alain Cavalier 1962 France I Pugni in tasca Marco Bellocchio 1965 Italy The Draughtsman’s contract Peter Greenaway 1982 United KingdomPetits arrangements avec les morts Pascale Ferran 1992 France

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AND ALSO

Cine-concert The Chabada and Premiers Plans are inviting Saul Williams, an American poet and comedian, for the premiere of the cine-concert Aujourd’hui, a film by Alain Gomis, an award-winner at the 2002 Premier Plans with his first feature L’Afrance.

Installation: THEFLOW FOR THESHOW « BACKSTAGE » Cinema is going on stage and taking us backstage. The duo Christian Volckman and Raphaël Thierry have created a cinematic dialogue based on an exquisite corpse. From Wednesday 9 January to Friday 9 February, Forum le Quai. In partnership with Le Quai - Forum des Arts Vivants, the NTA, the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud and Angers Nantes Opéra.

Films d’ici A selection of short films shot in the region and/or directed by filmmakers from the region. Proposed by Cinéma Parlant (Angers) and the Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire.

Nouvelles images en région The Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire is proposing a selection of films, multimedia works, and extraordinary videos, to show festival-goers the most innovative forms of creation in the region.

Carte blanche for Fontevraud A programme of short films presented by Xavier Kawa-Topor, Director of the Abbaye de Fontevraud. The site of a unique residency for writing for animated film, the Abbaye de Fontevraud will be presenting a selection of short films it has supported.

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