President: Gérard PILET General delegate: Claude-Eric POIROUX

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1 Paris 54, rue Beaubourg PARIS Tel : Fax : paris@premiersplans.org Press department André-Paul Ricci / Tony Arnoux 6, place de la Madeleine Paris Tel : Fax: apricci@wanadoo.fr Angers 9, rue Claveau BP ANGERS Cedex 02 Tel : Fax : angers@premiersplans.org President: Gérard PILET General delegate: Claude-Eric POIROUX

2 Since 1989, the Premiers Plans Film Festival takes place each year in the city of Angers, France. Its competitive sections, programs and other events attract some filmgoers who discuss and share their passion of cinema with young European directors and other professionals. Through the years, the Festival has become a major meeting of European cinematographic creation, as numerous directors such as Fatih Akin, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Arnaud Desplechin, Xavier Beauvois, Nick Park, Cristi Puiu and Thomas Vinterberg were originally discovered in Angers with the screening of their first films. Each year, the Official Selection presents a hundred European first films divided in five competitive sections: European first feature films, European first short films, French first short films, student films, and European animated films, as well as two out of competition sections: free style and next shot. The official jury and the public award the laureates with euros in prize. Premiers Plans has two major characteristics: it enables the meeting between the public and filmmakers from one generation, and also gives the opportunity to discover or rediscover masterpieces of European cinema on screen through retrospectives highly appreciated and attended by journalists and professionals. The program of the 21 st edition of the Festival features five major retrospectives: -Todo Buñuel: 32 films of the Spanish director -Plans américains: a selection of films European directors made in the United-States -Belgian animated cinema: a choice of feature and short films -A tribute to Jean-François Laguionie -Cities of the future As well as other events: -Sneak preview -Director s forum: film crews meet the public after film screenings -Public readings of scripts from first feature and short films -Lessons, workshops, professional meetings... A public reading by Melvil Poupaud The 2008 jury : Frédéric Fonteyne, Mia Hansen-Løve, Jorge Semprún, Sandrine Bonnaire, Djamshed Usmonov 2

3 TODO BUÑUEL Thirty-two films by Luis Buñuel made from 1929 to An Andalusian Dog Age of Gold Land Without Bread (Las hurdes) Gran casino The Great Madcup (El gran calavera) The Forgotten Ones (Los olvidados) The Devil and the Flesh (Susana demonio y carne) Daughter of Deceit (La hija del engaño) Ascent to Heaven (Subida al cielo) A Woman without Love The Brute (El Bruto) Torments (El) Illusion Travels by Streetcar (La llusión viaja en transvía) Wuthering Heights (Abismos de pasión) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoé (Robinson Crusoé) That Is the Dawn Rehearsal for a Crime (Ensayo de un crimen) The River and Death (El río y la muerte) Death in the Garden Nazarín La Fièvre monte à El Pao The Young One Viridiana The Exterminating Angel (El angel exterminador) Diary of a Chambermaid Simon of the Desert (Simón del desierto) Beauty of the Day The Milky Way Tristana The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie The Phantom of Liberty That Obscur Object of Desire In partnership with the Cinémathèque française. The Forgotten Ones Ascent to Heaven 3

4 PLANS AMERICAINS A selection of feature films European directors made in the United States. Point Blank John Boorman Model Shop Jacques Demy Midnight Cowboy John Schlesinger Lions Love Agnès Varda Zabriskie Point Michelangelo Antonioni Punishment Park Peter Watkins One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest Milos Forman Stroszek Werner Herzog Pretty Baby Louis Malle Alien Ridley Scott Paris, Texas Wim Wenders Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone Bagdad Café Percy Adlon The Dangerous Liaisons Stephen Frears Fisher King Terry Gilliam Dead Again Kenneth Branagh Arizona Dream Emir Kusturica The Fifth Element Luc Besson The Shade Raphaël Nadjari Human Nature Michel Gondry Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni Bagdad Café by Percy Adlon Human Nature by Michel Gondry 4

5 BELGIAN ANIMATED CINEMA A dozen programs, mainly short films, relating the history of Belgian animated cinema. TRIBUTE TO RAOUL SERVAIS In his presence Some of his short films, as well as his feature film Taxandria. Suitable for children from the age of twelve. THE PIC PIC ET ANDRE SERIAL The famous serial which revealed Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier. Suitable for children from the age of nine. PANIQUE AU VILLAGE A few episodes from Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier s serial. As well as the world sneak preview of the pregeneric of their feature film currently being finished. TRIBUTE TO FILMS DU NORD Short films produced by this company specificaly dynamic in formal experimentation (traditional animation, 2D, 3D, watercolors, puppets ). Suitable for children from the age of 12. TRIBUTE TO ENSAV - LA CAMBRE Short films from filmmakers who trained at La Calmbre school. Suitable for children from the age of seven. THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE COLLECTIVE CAMERA ENFANTS ADMIS Short films since the creation of the production workshop Caméra, etc. in The collective encourages the creation of first pieces of work by children, young authors and adults. THE ZOROBABEL WORKING GROUP Presentation of short animated cartoons and films by this working group specialized in the production of young authors. Suitable for children from the age of twelve. PETITS PLANS BELGES 3 programs of short films for children from the ages of three and seven. And : PROGRAMS RELATING THE HISTORY OF BELGIAN ANIMATED CINEMA Among which films by Manu Gomez, Gérald Frydman, Yvan Lemaire, Louis Van Maelder, Daniel Wiroth, Paul Leeman Papillons de nuit by Raoul Servais L Evasion by Arnaud Demuynck 5

6 In his presence A TRIBUTE TO JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAGUIONIE LA FABRIQUE SUGGESTS Suitable for children from the age of six. A program of short films by La Fabrique, an association specialized in the production of animated auteur films, created by Jean-François Laguionie. La Demoiselle et le violoncelliste Jean-François Laguionie Potr et la fille des eaux Jean-François Laguionie Le Masque du diable Jean-François Laguionie Haut pays des neiges Bernard Palacios La Belle au bois d'or Bernard Palacios JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAGUIONIE S FIRST FILMS Suitable for children from the age of nine. La Demoiselle et le violoncelliste L'Arche de Noé Une bombe par hasard Plage privée L Acteur La Traversée de l Atlantique à la rame FEATURE FILM Black Mor s Island CITIES OF THE FUTURE Cinema has been showing new cities since its debut. They are unlikely, futurist, intriguing, fanciful... Metropolis Fritz Lang The Savage Planet René Laloux Soylent Green Richard Fleisher The King and the Mockingbird Paul Grimault Blade Runner Ridley Scott Brazil Terry Gilliam Taxandria Raoul Servais Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut The Fifth Element Luc Besson Howl s Moving Castle Hayao Miyazaki Renaissance Christian Volkman Tekon kinkurîto Michael Arias L Acteur by Jean-François Laguionie Brazil by Terry Gilliam 6