Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week lineup unveiledApril 22, 2013 - 21:12 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The Cannes Film Festival unveiled an international lineup of feature and short films for its highly selective, competitive section, Critics' Week, TheWrap said. The series is intended to highlight first and second films from directors of great promise and in the past has helped highlight such notables as Wong Kar-wai and Bernardo Bertolucci. Among the seven feature films vying for honors are "For Those in Peril," U.K. director Paul Wright's film about the lone survivor of a fishing boat accident; "The Major," Russian director Yury Bykov's account of a hunter who stumbles across a violent encounter; and "The Lunchbox," a romantic comedy from Indian director Dabba Ritesh Batra. American director David Lowery’s "Ain’t Them Bodies Saints" will screen out-of-competition. The drama about an escaped convict impressed when it screened this year at the Sundance Film Festival. "Suzanne," Katell Quillévéré's family drama about two sisters, will be the competition's opening night film. A closing night film will be announced shortly, the festival's backers said. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |