FESTIVALS: Eleven Films Compete for LIFFe Main Prize

23-10-2017

FESTIVALS: Eleven Films Compete for LIFFe Main Prize

By FNE Staff

Requiem for Mrs J by Bojan Vuletic

LJUBLJANA: Contenders for Oscar best foreign film nominations Men Don’t Cry and Requiem for Mrs. J are among the 11 films competing in the Perspectives section of the 28th Ljubljana IFF, which runs 8 – 19 November 2017.

The competition section is devoted to new filmmakers. The festival also holds a competition of short films. The 2017 festival will have a focus on recent French production. “France boasts a venerable tradition,” programme director Simon Popek said in a statement.

Alongside the film programme, the festival will host a three-day seminar on script analysis, 8 – 10 November, as well as a conference on Slovenian cinema, meetings with emerging producers and a case study on coproducing with Hungary.

The complete list of films in competition follows:

Araby (Brazil)
Directed by Affonso Uchoa, Joao Dumans

Colombus (USA)
Directed by Kogonada

Heartstone (Iceland, Denmark)
Directed by Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson

I am Not a Witch (UK, France)
Directed by Rungano Nyoni

Men Don’t Cry (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany)
Directed by Alen Drljevic
Produced by Deblokada Sarajevo
Coproduced by Iridium Film, Menderley Films, Produkcija Živa, Cineplanet

Menashe (USA, Israel)
Directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein

Montparnasse Bienvenue (France, Belgium)
Directed by Leonor Serraille