- Créteil International Women's Film Festival
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The Créteil International Women's Film Festival is an annual event in Créteil, Paris, France founded by Jackie Buet in 1978 to showcase the directing talents of female filmmakers who, at the time, had difficulty getting their films adequately distributed. The first festival was held in 1979 in Sceaux.[1] It transferred to Créteil in 1985.[1]
Located southeast of the center of the city of Paris, today the festival is 10 non-stop days premiering 50 or more new films directed by one or more women. The festival also offers film classes, thematic forums and debates. The competition is open to women from around the world who have made a feature-length documentary, a short length fiction and a documentary film. Their work is judged by a jury of 6 cinema professionals.
The festival offers a number of prizes including several Audience awards and the "Grand Jury Prize." There is a festival archive containing more than 10,000 films by women.
In 2005, recent directors featured include works from Hong Kong, Butterfly by MAK Yan Yan, Ho Yuk by YAU Ching and Lim Poh Huat by Lee Wong from Singapore.
Contents
Winners of the Grand Prix
- 1980: Germany Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter) (Germany)
- 1981: Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) (West Germany)
- 1982: A Question of Silence (De Stilte rond Christine M.) (Netherlands)
- 1983: Born in Flames (USA)
- 1984: Mit starrem Blick aufs Geld (West Germany)
- 1985: La Chambre de mariage (Turkey)
- 1986: By Touch (Przez dotyk) (Poland)
- 1987:
- Loyalties (Canada / United Kingdom)
- Seppan (Sweden, TV)
- 1988: Business as Usual (UK / USA)
- 1989: Celia (Australia)
- 1990: Memories of a River (Tutajosok) (Hungary / France)
- 1991: Vigour (Kracht) (Netherlands)
- 1992: Freud's Leaving Home (Freud flyttar hemifrån...) (Sweden / Denmark)
- 1993: Speak Up! It's So Dark (Tala! Det är så mörkt) (Sweden)
- 1994: The Sex of the Stars (Le Sexe des étoiles) (Canada)
- 1995: Eden Valley (UK)
- 1996: Summer Snow (Nu ren si shi) (Hong Kong)
- 1997: Floating Life (Australia)
- 1998: In That Land... (V toy strane...) (Russia)
- 1999: Happy Birthday (S dnyom rozhdeniya) (Russia)
- 2000: Seven Songs from the Tundra (Seitsemän laulua tundralta) (Finland)
- 2001: The Days Between (In den Tag hinein) (Germany)
- 2002: Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) (Italy / Germany / Austria / Switzerland)
- 2003: The Best Day of My Life (Il Più bel giorno della mia vita) (Italy / UK)
- 2004: Take My Eyes (Te doy mis ojos) (Spain)
- 2005: Sepet (Malaysia)
- 2007: How Is Your Fish Today? (Jin tian de yu zen me yang?) (China / UK)
See also
References
- ^ a b Kuhn, Annette; Susannah Radstone (1994). The Women's Companion to International Film. University of California Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-520-08879-5. http://books.google.com/?id=pjqOM04aGJ8C.
External links
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