The Festival Paris Cinéma is one of the most recent French movie festivals, started in

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. It is held annually in July. It was launched in 2003 after the municipal government withdrew funding for

Festival du Film de Paris The Festival du Film de Paris, also known as Paris Film Festival, was a film festival held annually in Paris, France. It was launched in 1986 as a youth-oriented festival. In 2002, the municipal government withdrew funding and began Festival Paris ...

.Staff report (October 15, 2002). Fest rivalry brewing in Paris. ''

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2003 Edition

* Tribute to

Terry Gilliam Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''B ...

Eliseo Subiela Eliseo Alberto Subiela (December 27, 1944 – December 25, 2016) was an Argentine film director and writer. His works are considered to be in the ' magic realism' genre. Subiela was the father of actress, Guadalupe Subiela (who acted in her f ...

retrospective * Post Cannes: "Shara" (

Naomi Kawase is a Japanese film director. She was also known as , with her former husband's surname. Many of her works have been documentaries, including ''Embracing'', about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and ''Katatsumori'', about ...

), "Uzak" (Nuri Bilge Ceylan), "Les Egares" (Andre Techine) * "Qui a tué Bambi?", directed by Gilles Marchand * Michelangelo Antonioni retrospective * Tribute to Leslie Cheung * Docus Dements: "Lost in La Mancha" (Fulton/Pepe), "Comandante" (Oliver Stone), "Soy Cuba" (Mikhail Kalatozov)

Films in Competition 2005

* ''

À travers la forêt ''Through the Forest'' (french: À travers la forêt) is a 2005 French film directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac. Plot After a motorcycle accident, Renaud dies. His girlfriend Armelle (Camille Berthomier) can't forget him. Her sisters suggest she cou ...

,'' directed by

Jean-Paul Civeyrac Jean-Paul Civeyrac (born 24 December 1964) is a French director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, ''Hymnes à l'amour'', with the title ''All the ...

* ''Adam & Paul,'' directed by Lenny Abrahamson * ''And Thereafter,'' directed by Hosup Lee * ''Beautiful City (Shahre Ziba),'' directed by

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* ''El Perro negro (Histoires de la guerre civile espagnole),'' directed by

Péter Forgács Péter Forgács (born 1950) is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest, Hungary. He is best known for his "Private Hungary" series of award winning films based on home movies from the 1930s and 1960s, which document ordinary li ...

* ''Home Sweet Home,'' directed by Nils De Coster * ''How the Garcia Girls Spent their Summer,'' directed by

Georgina Garcia Riedel Georgina Garcia Riedel is an American filmmaker and scriptwriter. Biography Riedel was born and raised in Arizona, a first generation American with Mexican parents. She attended the American Film Institute from where she graduated with an MFA i ...

* ''Odessa Odessa...,'' directed by

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* ''Pour les vivants et les morts (Eläville ja kuolleille),'' directed by

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* ''Pour un seul de mes deux yeux (Nekam achat mishtey eynay),'' directed by

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* ''Le Rivage des murmures (A costa dos murmurios),'' directed by

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* ''Ronde de nuit (Ronda nocturna),'' directed by

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* ''Silenzio,'' directed by

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* ''Le Soleil (Solnze),'' directed by

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* ''The Night is Bright,'' directed by

Roman Balayan Roman Gurgenovich Balayan ( hy, Ռոման Գուրգենի Բալայան, russian: Рома́н Гурге́нович Балая́н; born 15 April 1941, Nerkin Horatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian-Armeni ...

* ''

This Charming Girl ''This Charming Girl'' (; lit. "Woman, Jeong-hae" or "Girl, Jeong-hae") is a South Korean drama film written and directed by Lee Yoon-ki. Plot Jeong-hae's life is as monotonous as her job at the post office. Her apartment, which is not far from ...

(Yeoja, Jeong-hae),'' directed by Lee Yoon-ki * ''Un silenzio particolare,'' directed by

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* ''Voici venu le temps,'' directed by Alain Guiraudie * ''

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'' directed by Yaron Zilberman * ''Yesterday,'' directed by

Darrell James Roodt Darrell James Roodt (born in Johannesburg, 28 April 1962) is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer. He is probably most well known for his 1992 film '' Sarafina!'' which starred actress Whoopi Goldberg. Also regarded as Sou ...

References

External links

Official site Festival Paris cinéma
Film festivals in Paris Recurring events established in 2003 {{Europe-film-festival-stub