For the second consecutive year, at the initiative of the European Commission, Europe is celebrating its cinema: between 10 and 24 October nearly 600 cinemas, film archives, associations, festivals, regions and schools in 310 towns in 24 European countries, as well as 41 television channels, will be showing European films both the great classics and recent films organising debates, competitions and lessons in cinema. Following the success of the first festival which involved over 100 000 young people on the theme of education in the visual image Cinedays 2003 features greater involvement by the future Member States of the Union.
The mission of Cinedays is to give young people the chance to discover the richness and diversity of cinema in Europe, past and present, and encourage them to see European films.
"European films are often of very high quality; they should be better known by the European public and therefore should be better distributed beyond their national borders", said Viviane Reding, European Commissioner responsible for Education and Culture. "That is the role of the European Media Plus programme, and I am very pleased with the great European success of films supported by this programme, such as "Good Bye Lenin" from the German director Wolfgang Becker or "The Magdelene Sisters" by Scotland's Peter Mullan".
Approximately 50 personalities from the world of European cinema have agreed to act as patrons for Cinedays 2003, including Mike Leigh (United Kingdom), Luc Dardenne (Belgium), Penelope Cruz (Spain), Runas Matelis (Lithuania), Claude Miller (France), Wolfgang Becker (Germany) and Manuel de Oliveira (Portugal).
Examples of programmes:
Between 15 and 21 October, the Consortium des instituts culturels européens en Belgique (CICEB) will present at the Vendôme cinema a selection of 16 recent films taking an original look at European societies. It will also organise a European competition for short films, aimed at students from 15 cinema schools. The films offered will include "In this world" by Michael Winterbottom and "Sauve-moi" by Christian Vincent;
In France, the ADRC (Agence pour le développement régional du cinéma) will allow the showing of films from its heritage in 65 cinemas in small and medium-sized towns, including works by Michelangelo Antonioni and Carl Dreyer;
in Luxembourg, the Utopia cinema will devote two weeks to European cinema, with a homage to Ken Loach and a retrospective dedicated to films dealing with Nazism and neo-Nazism;
in the United Kingdom and some 10 other countries, the "One Film, One Day" initiative will enable a young audience to see two films throughout 10 October which are examples of European cinema: "Kirikou et la sorcière" and "Good Bye Lenin";
in the Czech Republic and Lithuania, a number of cinemas will highlight the work of François Ozon;
in Latvia, the Riga Cinema will show films by René Clément and Lars von Trier;
in Poland, the Muranow cinema in Warsaw will pay homage to Hungarian director Istvan Szabo through the showing of films such as "Mephisto" and "Hanussen";
in Ireland, the Irish Film Centre will offer films by Jacques Tati and Jean-Pierre Melville.
The Europa Cinémas network, supported by the Media Plus programme for its promotion of European films, will be particularly active during this fortnight, with over 110 cinemas involved, some 2 000 films being shown and a competition organised on the Internet to help young people discover European cinema (150 000 participants in 2002).
Some examples of television programming are as follows:
the international French-language channel TV5 will show a special series of European cinema classics from directors such as Ettore Scola, Luis Buñuel and Joseph Losey;
ERT, the Greek television channel, will show films such as "Fanny and Alexander" by Ingmar Bergman and "Bread and Roses" by Ken Loach in addition to programmes devoted to European cinema;
Canal +, via its "Cine Cinemas" cable-satellite package, will devote part of its programming to European cinema classics such as "Europa 51" by Roberto Rossellini or "Casque d'Or" by Jacques Becker;
BBC 4 (United Kingdom) will show a film trailer advertising Cinedays, as well as special programmes on European cinema.
Other major European channels such as Pro Sieben / SAT 1 in Germany, ORF in Austria, ARTE, France Télévision and TF1, TVE in Spain, and RAI and the Mediaset group channels in Italy will support the operation.
Some events linked to Cinedays:
9 October: in Brussels, launching of Cinedays on the Grand'Place with a "son et cinéma" ("sound and cinema") show aimed at young people, and inauguration of the "Italian cinema past and present" festival with the showing of "Il cuore altrove" by Pupi Avati;
24 October: for the closure of Cinedays, a major gala event organised by the Italian Presidency of the European Union, with particular emphasis on cinema in the future members of the Union.
For further information: http://www.cinedays.org
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