(Festival International des Cinémas d’Asie) 11-18th of February 2014
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The festival will present 100 short, long fiction and documentary features.
The official competition includes 20 previously unreleased titles in France from such different countries as China, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Iran, Turkey and many more... Filipino director BRILLANTE MENDOZA (DIRECTOR'S PRIZE at Cannes Film Festival in 2009 for KINATAY) will be head of the jury, also including Iranian actress TARANEH ALIDOOSTI, Chinese director WANG CHAO and Singaporean film critic PHILIP CHEAH.
Amidst other guests will attend Turkish director Deniz Akçai, Iraqi director Amer Alwan, Thai director Lee Chatametikool, Japanese director Kanai Junichi, Japanese director Kumakiri Kazuyoshi, Korean director Lee Yong-seung, Iranian actor & director Payman Maadi, Filipino director Eduardo Roy Jr, Lebanese director Jocelyne Saab, Indian director Anup Singh, illustrator & painter Marcelino Truong, Chinese director Shi Wei and many more...
A FOCUS ON THE CINEMA OF PHILIPPINES from 1975-2014 will include 21 features with several new restored classics. Cult actress and Queen of the independent Comedy EUGENE DOMINGO will attend along producer JOJI ALONSO and documentary filmmaker DITSI CAROLINO.
This year's Cultural Season focus on VIETNAM is a perfect opportunity to show 15 rarely-seen Vietnamese long-features, documentaries and 4 exceptional animation movies. Amidst many guests, we are proud to welcome Dang Nhat Minh, new young talent Bui Thac Chuyen and documentary filmmaker Lê Hong Chuong.
This year's main topic BEING 20 will present 20 movies from all over Asia to deal with the tender age of 20 – from first passions, first errors, the obligatory military service up to the sensible topic of becoming an adult.
The WIDE WILD CARD features 20 very own personal choices of the two directors, Martine & Jean-Marc Therouanne of older and brand-new beloved Asian titles never shown before in Vesoul.
The festival will also feature many, many other pleasant events, such as exhibits, debates, round tables, parties, as well as tributes to some of our invitees.
20 years of FICA Festival means more than 1.200 screened movies and over 300 guests amidst them Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhang-ke, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Tran Anh Hung, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Amos Gitaï, Jeon Soo-il, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Yoshida Kiju, Semih Kaplanoglu, Viet Linh, Elia Suleiman, Asoka Handagama, Auraeus Solito, Joana Hadjithomas, Stanley Kwan, …
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Information : FICA – Festival International des Cinémas d’Asiede Vesoul
25, rue du docteur Doillon - 70 000 Vesoul - France
Tel : 0033 3 84 76 55 82 – 0033 6 84 84 87 46 - Fax : 0033 3 84 96 01 43
Mail: festival.vesoul@wanadoo.fr Website: www.cinemas-asie.com