French auteur cinema is in mourning today. A bright star who began his career in the 1997 film Les Corps ouverts for Sébastien Lifshitz and would later re-team with him on Wild Side (2004), Yasmine Belmadi also worked with François Ozon on Les Amants criminels (1999), Gilles Marchand's Who Killed Bambi? (2003), Au petit matin for Xavier Gens and most recently was in Cannes last May for Critic's Week presentation of Adieu Gary from Nassim Amaouche.
In the course of more than five decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the world's most respected film events - a place where filmmakers and artists such as Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Roman Polanski, Alexander Kluge and Werner Herzog, and more recently Ulrike Ottinger, Romuald Karmakar, Pipilotti Rist, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and François Ozon have presented their first films.
IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all...
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