15th EDITION OF VESOUL ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL

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From February 10 th to 17 th, 2009, the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema will celebrate its 15 th anniversary with a huge selection of 75 rare or unreleased Asian films - in France – and lots of guests.

The official competition of feature films includes 11 recent movies mostly produced in 2008 from China, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Irak, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Sri Lanka,  Taiwan andIndonesia...

The section “ Dazzling Films” will propose some classic or recent beautiful dramas and historical dramas from China, Taiwan, Japan andIndia......and even some martial arts movies (but still “arthouse style”, to fit with the line-up of the festival, like Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time Redux, King Hu’s Raining in The Mountain or Masaki Kobayashi’s Hara-Kiri, and also a wrestling movie from Mongolia made in 1983, Garid Magnai, which looks very interesting).There will also be a couple of movies from the west in a special section (Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha and Fritz Lang’s The Indian Tomb).

The other sections are a tribute to the “ Makhmlbaf Films House” (18 Iranian movies),  “ French-speaking Asian countries : Lebanese women film directors” (12 movies), some Japanimationmovies......a special section for the kids (3 movies including Komaneko, so I’ll be there for sure) and a section with documentaries in competition (from Afghanistan, Birmania,  Iran, Syria, Taiwa, Thailand, Vietnam ad Cambodia).

My video camera and me will be in Vesoul to cover the whole festival...

Frédéric Ambroisine (Feb. 9th, 2009)