communique de presse 1 - Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville

PRESS KIT
THE PREVIOUS TRIBUTES
SINCE 1999
1999
SHIN SANG-OK (Director - South Korea)
2000
SHABANA AZMI (Actress - India)
2001
LESTER JAMES PERIES and SUMITRA PERIES (Directors - Sri Lanka)
SUNG TSUN SHOU (Director - China)
2002
JOHNNIE TO (Director - Hong Kong)
AKIRA KUROSAWA (Director - Japan)
2003
AMITABH BACHCHAN (Actor - India)
TREASURES OF THE CHINESE CINEMATHEQUES
2004
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF KIM KI-DUK (Director - South Korea)
CLASSICS DE LA SHAW BROTHERS
2005
CHRISTINE HAKIM (Actress - Indonesia)
TAKASHI MIIKE (Director - Japan)
A GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF FRUIT CHAN (Director/Screenwriter - China)
2006
CHEN KAIGE (Director/Producer/Screenwriter - China)
A GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF RYUICHI HIROKI (Director/Screenwriter - Japan)
2007
PARK CHAN-WOOK (Director/Screenwriter - South Korea)
A GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF JAMES LEE (Director/Screenwriter - Malaysia)
2008
IM KWON-TAEK (Director/Screenwriter - South Korea)
JOE HISAISHI (Composer - Japan)
KOJI YAKUSHO (Actor - Japan)
JIANG WEN (Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Actor - China)
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JIA ZHANG-KE (Director/Screenwriter - China)
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2009
LEE CHANG-DONG (Director/Screenwriter - South Korea)
A GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF LEE YOON-KI (Director/Screenwriter - South Korea)
2010
BRILLANTE MA. MENDOZA (Director/ Philippines)
LOU YE (Director/Screenwriter - China)
A GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF LU CHUAN (Director/Screenwriter - China)
2011
HONG SANGSOO (Director/Screenwriter - South Korea)
A GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF KIM JEEWOON (Director/Screenwriter - South Korea)
2012
KIYOSHI KUROSAWA (Director/Screenwriter - Japan)
A GLANCE AT THE WORKS OF PEN-EK RATANARUANG
(Director/Screenwriter - Thailand)
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FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
CAUGHT IN THE WEB (Su Suo) by Chen Kaige (China)
Ye Lanqiu is a beautiful and successful young woman who is diagnosed with an
advanced lymphatic cancer. On the bus back to the office, still numb with shock, she
ignores the conductor's request that she gives up her seat to an elderly pensioner.
This moment of perceived incivility is recorded on a mobile phone by an assistant of
a journalist who decides to flood the web with the footage. Ye Langiu becomes the
target of a massive hate-media campaign affecting her personal and professional
life. But a chain of coincidences will eventually bring her face to face with the person
who made her a public pariah.
Contact : MOONSTONE ENTERTAINMENT
Tel +1 818 985 3003 Email [email protected]
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PIETA by Kim Ki-duk (South Korea)
Born an orphan, Kang-do is a lonely man without any family or friends. He lives as a
merciless and pitiless loan shark, threatening or mutilating people for paybacks in a
derelict neighborhood that is about to be torn down. One day, a woman appears in
front of him claiming to be his mother. For the first time in his life, he is seized by
doubt…
Contact : PRETTY PICTURES
Tel +33 (0)1 43 14 10 00 Email [email protected]
SHOKUZAI (Penance) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
Fifteen years ago, tragedy struck a Japanese small town when a young elementary
school girl named Emili was killed by a stranger. Four girls, Sae, Maki, Akiko and
Yuka, who were playing with her at the time, are the first to discover her body. The
abductor is never found and the crime goes unsolved. Crazed with grief, Emili’s
mother Asako condemns the four girls, none of which can remember the killer’s
face. She tells them, “Do whatever you have to do to find the killer. Otherwise, you
can pay a penance that I approve.” Deeply affected by Asako’s condemnation, the
four girls become adults burdened with the curse of “penance” which eventually
triggers a chain of tragic events.
Contact : VERSION ORIGINALE
Email [email protected]
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THY WOMB (Sinapupunan) by Brillante Ma. Mendoza (Philippines)
Shaleha hails from a Muslim water-village in Sitangkai, a seaweed-rich community in
the southernmost province of the Philippines. Shaleha has had three miscarriages;
her youth and fecundity are all gone. She is distraught that now she will never bear a
child and never allow her husband to be a father. Believing that to fulfill her
husband’s greatest wish of having a son is a tangible proof of Allah’s grace, she
resolves to find the right fertile woman who will bear her husband a child.
Contact : CENTER STAGE PRODUCTIONS
Tel +632 747 67 42 Email [email protected]
MEKONG HOTEL by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
Mekong Hotel is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River in the north-east of
Thailand. The river there marks the border between Thailand and Laos. In the
bedrooms and terraces, director Apichatpong Weerasethakul held a rehearsal with
his crew for a movie that he wrote years ago called Ecstasy Garden.
Contact : JOUR2FÊTE
Tel +33 (0)1 40 22 92 15 Email [email protected]
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THE LAND OF HOPE (Kibo no Kuni) by Sono Sion (Japan)
An earthquake strikes Japan causing a nuclear power plant to explode. Inhabitants
of a village within the range of the accident are forcibly ordered to evacuate by the
government. But the Ono family has only half of their garden designated as within a
security perimeter drawn by a yellow line. They then have to decide whether to take
refuge or not. The parents, an elderly couple, choose to stay while their son and his
spouse agree to leave to avoid radiation poisoning...
Contact : METROPOLITAN FILMEXPORT
Tel +33 (0)1 56 59 23 25 Email [email protected]
The following films will also be presented out of competition :
FLYING SWORDS DRAGON GATE (Long Men Fei Jia) by Tsui Hark (China)
In the middle of the desert lies the Dragon Inn where many gangs of marauders
have established themselves. The inn is the rumored location of a lost city buried
under the sand and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm
every sixty years. The storm is now arriving and rivalry between gangs intensifies
until the inevitable confrontation…
Contact : SEVEN SEPT
Tel +33 (0)1 56 43 12 00 Email [email protected]
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BUDDHA : THE GREAT DEPARTURE (Tezuka Osamu no Buddha - Akai Sabakuyo
Utsukushiku) by Kozo Morishita (Japan)
After meeting Migaila, a lower-caste girl, Siddharta decides to leave the palace and
travel through countryside and villages to cope with the realities of poverty.
Meanwhile, Chapra, a young boy rescued from slavery, is becoming the military
leader of Kosala, a kingdom which is coveting the natural resources of Shakya, a
neighboring kingdom. Siddharta and Chapra will confront each other through war.
Siddharta will become the prince of Shakya’s kingdom, better known as Buddha.
Contact : VIZ MEDIA EUROPE / KAZE
Tel +33 (0)1 44 08 77 55 Email [email protected]
THE THIEVES (Do-Duk-Deul) by Choi Dong-hoon (South Korea)
Forced to keep a low profile after their last robbery, Popeye and his band of five
Korean thieves leave for Macao. They receive there an irresistible offer from Macao
Park, Popeye’s former partner who went away several years ago with 68 kilos of
gold: to steal “Tear of the Sun”, a 318-carat diamond worth more than USD 20
million, hidden in a casino of the city. Together they do not hesitate to take up the
offer but everyone wants to walk away with the loot…
Contact : SHOWBOX
Tel +82 2 3218 5649 Email [email protected]
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TRIBUTE to
WONG KAR WAI
in his presence
Not everyone gets to become a logo. For
filmmakers, only a few have achieved this
distinction: JLG; HHH; GVS; PTA... And of course
WKW.
For a filmmaker, becoming a logo requires a style,
a flair, a signature that stands out among a
thousand others, that lets us know immediately,
in a shot or two, who we are dealing with. Among
the directors cited, WKW is the one who most
completely matches this criterion. From his first
film As Tears Go By (1988) to his most recent The
Grandmaster, which opened the Berlinale and is
now to have its French preview at the Deauville
Asian Film Festival, very little has changed. The
formal touch, between languid grace and pure,
glam, video-clip instinct, is still there. Still present
as well are his taste for slow motion and pouring
rain, and for men and women who watch each
other, stalking, making a connection, but so often
missing each other.
And sometimes they cry. As some people may
shed tears of joy or sorrow, emotion or rage,
WKW's characters cry their regrets. It is not time
that passes, it is them. They pass nearby, pass by,
move on to something else, just passersby with a
painful awareness, which makes them
inconsolable.
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With WKW, the characters are inherently melancholic; they are melancholy
personified, a feeling sometimes pushed to a tragic extreme (Days of Being Wild,
Happy Together), sometimes to existential boredom (In the Mood for Love, 2046),
and sometimes to a stunning romanticism, like the finest Chungking Express
sequences or the kung fu scenes in The Grandmaster, in which mortal enemies
battle in the falling snow, wrapped in fur coats, like a Doctor Zhivago high on martial
arts.
WKW has become a brand. He is also a sly little look hidden behind rock star model
sunglasses, which he takes off only to go unnoticed. What a superb paradox: the
accessory that he hides behind is what makes him unmistakable. The same thing
could be said about his films. A number of effects of style and signature are piled on,
not truly mastered, masking the essential: the lack of assurance of an artist who is
searching, but who never knows exactly where he is going. WKW films like no one
else, but he does not really know how to make films, systematically delivering works
that are uncompleted projects, works in progress, working versions that could still
be perfected. WKW is as much an apprentice as he is a master. Except perhaps for
As Tears Go By, each of his films has a history of incompleteness: Days of Being Wild
and the second part, for which in the end he only filmed one shot, Tony Leung
looking in a mirror preparing to go out; Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, and My
Blueberry Nights, these collections of movie fragments, pieces of unresolved ideas
scribbled on table corners; Happy Together, which never quite adapted the novel it
was supposed to adapt (The Buenos Aires Affair) and wound up being improvised in
the editing; Ashes of Time, interrupted just long enough to make Chungking Express
in order to recoup enough funds to start filming again, with half of the stars
disappearing to work on other projects; and then In the Mood for Love, 2046 and
The Grandmaster, with filming stretching over several months or even years, driving
his actors, technicians, and financial partners quite insane.
Out of all this, WKW has been able to forge a strength, a poem, a method, almost.
This is what fascinates us and seduces us. The melancholy of his characters is first of
all his own. Wong Kar Wai does not agree to just pass by. If he were given free rein,
he would probably film without stopping, stacking up the rushes of a single movie
that he would leave unfinished, uncompleted, infinite. If he could, yes, this is
probably what he would do. Filming, as ceaselessly as he breathes, like a spinning
top that, eventually falling off the table, would still be in motion.
Léonard Haddad - French film critics
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BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1958 in Shanghai (China), Wong Kar Wai moved to Hong Kong with his
parents when he was five. After graduating in graphic design from the Hong Kong
Polytechnic College where he becomes fascinated with photography, he entered the
film industry as a scriptwriter and began directing his own scripts in 1988. His debut
feature As Tears Go By was invited to the Critics’ Week in the Festival de Cannes. His
second feature Days of Being Wild won five Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best
Director and Best Film.
He founded his own production company, Jet Tone, in 1992 and spent the next two
years working on Ashes of Time, shooting mostly on remote locations in China. The
director went against all the standards of the genre to successfully make a period
martial arts drama. Chungking Express, made very quickly during a break in the postproduction of Ashes of Time, became his first global success and a cult hit in many
countries. He followed it with the related ‘diptych’ movie Fallen Angels. Shot mostly
in Argentina, Happy Together premiered at the 1997 Festival de Cannes and won the
Best Director prize. All of his subsequent features have premiered in Cannes: In the
Mood for Love in 2000, winning the Best Actor prize for Tony Leung Chiu Wai, 2046
in 2004, which continued to follow the life of In the Mood for Love lead character
Chow Mo-wen played by Leung, and his English-language debut My Blueberry Nights
in 2007, a road movie with Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz.
Wong served as President of the Jury of the Festival de Cannes in 2006. In addition
to his features, he made a number of shorter films, including Six Days (2002, for the
musician DJ Shadow), The Follow (2003, starring Clive Owen, for the BMW on-line
series The Hire), and There’s Only One Sun (2007, starring Amelie Daure, for the
company Philips). In 2004, he contributed with the episode The Hand to the
portmanteau feature film Eros, alongside episodes from Michelangelo Antonioni
and Steven Soderbergh. In 2007, he directed the short I Traveled 9000 km to Give It
To You for Gilles Jacob’s project To Each His Own Cinema, which premiered at the
Festival de Cannes.
Last February, Wong’s new film, The Grandmaster, opened the 63rd Berlin
International Film Festival on which he was the president of the Jury.
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Selected filmography
2013 THE GRANDMASTER (Yi Dai Zong Shi)
2007 MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
2004 2046
2000 IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Huayang Nianhua)
1997 HAPPY TOGETHER (Chunguang Zhaxie)
1995 FALLEN ANGELS (Duoluo Tianshi)
1994 ASHES OF TIME (Dongxie Xidu)
1994 CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Chongquing Senlin)
1990 DAYS OF BEING WILD (A-Fei Zhengzhuan)
1988 AS TEARS GO BY (Wangjiao Kamen)
To honour this tribute, the Festival will screen Wong Kar Wai’s latest film, THE
GRANDMASTER, that will soon be released in France.
THE GRANDMASTER by Wong Kar Wai (China & Hong Kong)
The story of Ip Man, the legendary teacher of Bruce Lee and a master of the Wing
Chun school of kungfu.
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TRIBUTE to SONO SION
in his presence
How can filmmakers shoot Japan today? That is the
question asked by Sono Sion from the outset. When
he began his career in the early 90s, the last great film
movement (the Japanese new wave) was long gone,
and the hard-hit studios had already begun to revert
to their tried-and-true formulas. For young filmmakers
such as Shinji Aoyama, Shinya Tsukamoto, and Sono
Sion, the only choice was the path to independence.
On his own, Sono found the political and artistic
turmoil that stimulated filmmakers such as Oshima,
Wakamatsu, and, above all, Terayama, whose
multidisciplinary activism resembled his own. In
addition to making films, Sono is also a writer, a poet,
and was the director of a situationist theatrical troupe,
Tokyo Gagaga. There is a glimpse of their work in Bad
Film, featuring performances (sometimes with
hundreds of people) in which a motley crowd invaded
the Shinjuku and Shibuya neighborhoods. He seemed
to say, "If the studios, gangrened with television
aesthetics, are closed to us, we'll film in the street
without asking permission." Punk filmmaker, Sono
started off using all the resources of lightweight
cameras — super 8 for his short films (I Am Sion
Sono!), 16mm, and Hi8 video. The Japanese reality
that he records is both concrete, related to urbanism
and nature, and also psychological. He has filmed the
anguish of students stuck in the suburbs of Tokyo (his
first feature film, Bicycle Sighs), a young girl's
depression (I Am Keiko), the existential crisis of an
actor whose reality evaporates (Into a Dream), as well
as the mass suicide of teenagers and their refuge into
virtual worlds (Suicide Club, Noriko's Dinner Table).
One of his most ambitious works, Love Exposure, a
four-hour epic, explores the religious fanaticism and
sectarian excesses revealed by the Aum sect attack.
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In Guilty of Romance, Sono Sion presents enslaved heroines, trapped by a male authority
that transforms them into housewives, sausage sellers, pornographic models,
prostitutes... When their alienation becomes too unbearable, Sono's characters embark
on long breathless runs, as if they wanted to break through the invisible walls of society.
Their rage is such that they sometimes explode the film image itself, as in Guilty of
Romance where colors explode over the bodies of characters screaming like demons.
Sono Sion's enraged camera captures the rebellious energy of his characters,
accompanying their sprints and their outbursts. This energy is initially negative, like the
energy that circulates in Suicide Club and pushes teenagers to their deaths. It
encompasses the black forces that fill the adolescents in Love Exposure and Himizu,
pushing one toward a frantic search for sin and compelling the other to murder his
torturer father. "I wish you didn't exist," said the latter to his son, leaving him an
inheritance consisting of nothingness and the inability to find his place on earth.
Although destruction is a part of Sono Sion's films, it does not constitute an end in itself,
which saves them from nihilism. It is possible to escape the spiral of misery. In Himizu,
the girl has the difficult task of converting the boy's existential anguish into positive
energy. She achieves this through poetry and language, which are opposed to
inarticulate, prehistoric impulses.
In Cold Fish, Sono describes the almost cannibalistic savagery of liberalism, and in Himizu
he depicts a world of mud and slums in which human relationships amount to nothing
but violence. The tsunami on March 11, 2011 brought civilization tumbling to the ground,
and nothing remained except the ruins that Sono made his way through using long
elegiac tracking shots. The Land of Hope, the second part of what he called his chaos
trilogy, takes place after a new nuclear disaster, evidence that nothing was learned from
Fukushima. When the elements go awry and the air is poisoned, what is this hope that
Sono Sion speaks of? It is what allowed the lovers in Love Exposure to get back together
after passing through the hell of sects and psychiatry. It is the love that develops
between two girls in the midst of gang warfare in Bad Film. In Himizu, rather than doing
themselves in, returning to the wild, or becoming ghosts howling amid the rubble, the
young lovers choose to go on believing in the possibility of a society. In The Land of Hope,
hope is symbolized by the parents, the eccentric elders that we have already met in Ozu's
films, who, in a last whim, refuse to leave their home. Their decision is just the opposite
of the one made by the old man whom Toshiro Mifune played in Akira Kurosawa's Living
in Fear, who, foreseeing a nuclear disaster, wanted to flee to Brazil. The forbidden zone
where the old parents decide to end their days becomes a magic territory, finally free
from the law of men, where hope can finally be reborn.
Stéphane du Mesnildot - Les Cahiers du Cinéma
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BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1961 in Aichi (Japan), Sono Sion graduated from Hosei University where he
began writing and making 8mm films. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, he made his
debut as a poet at the age of seventeen. In 1985, he directed his first film, the 30
minutes short I am Sono Sion!, a selection of his poetry being read by him on the
screen.
His first feature film, A Man’s Flower Road, won the Grand Prize in 1987 at the Pia
Film Festival in Japan. Consequently, he received a fellowship from Pia which he
used to write, direct, and star in the 16mm feature entitled Bicycle Sighs in 1990.
The film toured the festival circuit for two years and played at over thirty venues in
Europe and Asia, including the Berlin Film Festival. His next film, The Room, won the
special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1993. The year after, Sono caught
the attention of French film director Jean-Jacques Beineix who used footage of his
poetry group in street performances and outgoing activities and interviewed him for
their documentary Otaku, about the otaku lifestyle and post-modernism in Japan.
Otaku was a success and made Sono gain fame as both a poet and prominent figure
in Japanese independent filmmaking. Coming back to his poet roots, in 1997 he
staged a controversial guerrilla performance poetry-reading project named Tokyo
GAGAGA. The project itself was an extended performance that Sono and a group
which he founded had been doing before in short periods of times. The performance
featured a protest-like mass poetry reading and painting around various popular
places in Tokyo, where the two-thousand GAGAGA members placed themselves
with poems painted in black ink in huge flags. Although the police appeared quite
frequently during the GAGAGA project, it lasted a few weeks, and also became a
book by the end of the performance with immediate success.
Sono made his international breakthrough in 2001 with Suicide Club, a shocking film
about Japanese youth and its high suicide rate. Afterward, Sono’s works have been
highly appreciated, not only in Japan but also overseas. Love Exposure (2009) won
the Agnes B. Award as selected by the audience of the Tokyo Filmex. It was also
screened at the 59th Berlin Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI and Caligari awards.
His next film, Cold Fish, was world-premiered in the Orizzonti section of the Venice
Film Festival in 2010 and presented in competition at the Deauville Asian Film
Festival in 2011. Guilty of Romance, starring actress Megumi Kagurazaka with
whom he got married, was premiered at the Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2011.
Himizu, which was rewritten to include the consequences of the tsunami, was also
selected in competition at the Deauville Asian Film Festival last year. His last feature
film to date, The Land of Hope, depicting one family trying to face the hard, but true
reality of Tohoku tsunami earthquakes and nuclear power plant explosion, was
presented at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival.
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Sono, a maverick in the Japanese film industry, is still very active in various genres
including poetry and novel writing, while developing several feature films and TV
series.
Selected Filmography
2012 THE LAND OF HOPE
(Kibo no Kuni)
2011 HIMIZU
2011 GUILTY OF ROMANCE
(Koi no Tsumi)
2010 COLD FISH
(Tsumetai Nettaigyo)
2009 BE SURE TO SHARE
(Chanto Tsutaeru)
2008 LOVE EXPOSURE
(Ai no Mukidashi)
2007 EXTE: HAIR EXTENSIONS (Exte)
2006 HAZARD
2006 LE TESTAMENT DE NORIKO
(Noriko’s Dinner Table –
Noriko no Shokutaku)
2005 STRANGE CIRCUS
(Kimyo na Circus)
2005 INTO A DREAM (Yume no
Nakahe)
2001 SUICIDE CLUB (Jisatsu Circle)
2001 KAZE *
1999 UTSUSHIMI
1999 0CM4 *
1998 DANKON THE MAN
1997 I’M KEIKO (Keiko Desu Kedo)
1995 BAD FILM
1993 THE ROOM (Heya)
1990 BICYCLE SIGHS
(Jitensha Toiki)
1988 DECISIVE MATCH!
BOY’S DORM VS GIRL’S DORM
(Kessen! Joshi-ryo tai Danshiryo)
1986 A MAN’S FLOWER ROAD
(Otoko no Hanamichi)
1986 LOVE (Ai )*
1985 I AM SONO SION!*
(Ore wa Sono Sion da!)
* Short film
After Lee Chang-dong in 2009, Brillante Ma. Mendoza in 2010, Kim Jee-woon in
2011 and Kiyoshi Kurosawa in 2012, a masterclass will be chaired by SONO SION on
Saturday, March 9, 2013, at the CID.
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The following films will be screened as a part of this tribute:
1985 I AM SONO SION! never-seen in France
1986 LOVE* never-seen in France
1993 THE ROOM never-seen in France
1995 BAD FILM never-seen in France
1997 KEIKO DESU KEDO never-seen in France
2001 SUICIDE CLUB
2012 THE LAND OF HOPE never-seen in France
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PAST JURIES & PREVIOUS WINNERS
2000
JURY Tony Rayns (president), Tran Anh Hung, Yves Boisset, Yun Chung-hee and Shan Sa
WINNERS Grand Prix NOWHERE TO HIDE by LEE Myung-se (South Korea)
2001
JURY Alain Corneau (president), Maruschka Detmers, Wang Du, Kenizé Mourad and Vincent Perez
WINNERS Grand Prix J.S.A: JOINT SECURITY AREA by PARK Chan-wook (South Korea)
2002
JURY Shin Sang-ok (president), Jacques Chancel, Caroline Ducey, Jacques Fieschi, Karen Mok and
Marie-France Pisier
WINNERS Grand Prix FAILAN by SONG Hae-sung (South Korea)
2003
JURY Pierre Jolivet (president), Jean-Marc Barr, Christy Chung, Clotilde Courau, Antoine de Caunes,
Sandrine Dumas and Denis Robert
WINNERS Grand Prix BLIND SHAFT by LI Yang (China, Hong Kong & Germany)
2004
JURY Olivier Assayas (president), Sophie Fillières, Vincent Ravalec, Ludivine Sagnier, Serge
Toubiana and Bruno Wolkowitch
JURY ACTION ASIA Gérard Krawczyk (president), Marie Guillard, Camille Japy, Cut Killer and
Moebius
WINNERS
Grand Prix UNE FEMME COREENNE by IM Sang-soo (South Korea)
Prix du Jury 15 by Royston TAN (Singapoure)
Grand Prix Action Asia ONG-BAK by Prachya PINKAEW (Thailand)
2005
JURY Régis Wargnier (president), Solveig Anspach, Vahina Giocante, Christophe Honoré and
Christopher Thompson
JURY ACTION ASIA Eric Serra (president), Alain Berberian, Isabelle Giordano, Jean-Pierre Lorit and
Brian Molko
WINNERS
Grand Prix HOLIDAY DREAMING by HSU Fu-chun (Taïwan)
Prix du Jury THIS CHARMING GIRL by LEE Yoon-ki (South Korea)
Grand Prix Action Asia ARAHAN by RYOO Seung-wan (South Korea)
2006
JURY Jacques Weber (president), Marilyne Canto, Benoît Cohen, Jean-Marie Duprez, François
Guérif, Bernard Rapp, Romain Slocombe and Florence Thomassin
JURY ACTION ASIA Jérôme Paillard (president), Ida Daussy, Julie Gayet, Olivier Megaton and LinhDan Pham
WINNERS
Grand Prix DAM STREET by LI Yu (China)
Prix du Jury THE PETER PAN FORMULA by CHO Chang-ho (South Korea)
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Grand Prix Action Asia A BITTERSWEET LIFE by KIM Jee-woon (South Korea)
2007
JURY Benoit Jacquot (president), Bruno Coulais, Marina De Van, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Laure
Marsac, Mazarine Pingeot, Dominique Pinon, Gilles Taurand and Gaspard Ulliel
JURY ACTION ASIA Alain de Greef (president), Aurore Auteuil, Julie Dreyfus, Loo Hui Phang, Gérard
Pirès and Jocelyn Quivrin
WINNERS
Grand Prix SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY by Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL (Thailand)
Prix du Jury LE ROI ET LE CLOWN by LEE Jun-ik (South Korea)
Grand Prix Action Asia DOG BITE DOG by SOI Cheang (Hong Kong)
2008
JURY Patrice Chéreau (president), Jean-Hugues Anglade, Lucas Belvaux, Enki Bilal, Mélanie Doutey,
Irène Jacob, William Sheller and Anne-Louise Trividic
JURY ACTION ASIA Jan Kounen (president), Marc Caro, Vahina Giocante, Mylène Jampanoï and
Franck Vestiel
WINNERS
Grand Prix WITH A GIRL OF BLACK SOIL by JEON Soo-il (South Korea)
Prix du Jury ex-æquo WONDERFUL TOWN by Aditya ASSARAT (Thailand)
& FLOWER IN THE POCKET by LIEW Seng Tat (Malaysia)
Grand Prix Action Asia HEROS DE GUERRE by FENG Xiaogang (China)
2009
JURY Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (president), Véronique Cayla, Bruno Dumont, Vincent Elbaz, Marie
Gillain, Didier Long and Ludivine Sagnier
JURY ACTION ASIA Xavier Gens (president), Fred Cavayé, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Anaïs Demoustier,
Adrien Jolivet and Marie-Amélie Seigner
WINNERS
Grand Prix BREATHLESS by YANG Ik-june (South Korea)
Prix du Jury ex-æquo ALL AROUND US by HASHIGUCHI Ryosuke (Japan)
& THE SHAFT by ZHANG Chi (China)
Grand Prix Action Asia THE CHASER by NA Hong-jin (South Korea)
2010
JURY Pascal Bonitzer (president), Raja Amari, Elie Chouraqui, Anne Consigny, Sara Forestier, Safy
Nebbou, Clémence Poésy, Frédéric Schoendoerffer and Bruno Todeschini
JURY ACTION ASIA Florent Emilio Siri (president), Vikash Dhorasoo, Thierry Frémont, Samuel Le
Bihan, Cécile Telerman and Malik Zidi
WINNERS
Grand Prix JUDGE by LUI Jie (China)
Prix du Jury ex-æquo AU REVOIR TAIPEI by Arvin CHEN (Taïwan/United States/Germany)
& PAJU by PARK Chan-ok (South Korea)
Grand Prix Action Asia THE SWORD WITH NO NAME by KIM Yong-gyun (South Korea)
2011
JURY Amos Gitaï (president), Jacques Fieschi, Mia Hansen-Love, Reda Kateb, Pavel Lounguine,
Noémie Lvovsky, Catherine Mouchet, Anne Parillaud and Marc Weitzmann
JURY ACTION ASIA Pierre Morel (president), Yannick Dahan, Lola Doillon, Lika Minamoto, Yves
Montmayeur and Jules Pelissier
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WINNERS
Grand Prix - ETERNITY by Sivaroj KONGSAKUL (Thailand)
Prix du Jury ex-aequo - SKETCHES OF KAITAN CITY by Kazuyochi KUMAKIRI (Japan)
& THE JOURNALS OF MUSAN by PARK Jungbum (South Korea)
Grand Prix Action Asia - TRUE LEGEND by Yuen WOO-PING (China)
2012
JURY Elia Suleiman (president), Alex Beaupain, Dominique Blanc, Olivier Ducastel, Isild Le Besco,
Jean-Pierre Limosin, Jacques Martineau, Corinne Masiero and Tahar Rahim
JURY ACTION ASIA Isabelle Nanty (president), Fabienne Babe, Arié Elmaleh, Didier Long and Bruno
Wolkowitch
WINNERS
Grand Prix MOURNING by Morteza FARSHBAF (Iran)
Prix du Jury BABY FACTORY by Eduardo ROY Jr. (Philippines)
Grand Prix Action Asia WU XIA by Peter Ho-Sun CHAN (China)
CRITICS’ PRIZE
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
MATRUBHOOMI by Manish JHA (India)
HOLIDAY DREAMING by Hsu FU-CHUN (Taiwan)
CITIZEN DOG by Wisit SASANATIENG (Thailand)
AD LIB NIGHT by LEE Yoon-ki (South Korea)
WITH A GIRL OB BLACK SOIL by JEON Soo-il (South Korea)
BREATHLESS by YANG Ik-june (South Korea)
MY DAUGHTER by Charlotte LIM LAY KUEN (Malaysia)
COLD FISH by Sono SION (Japan)
HIMIZU by Sono SION (Japan)
THE AWARDS
During the Closing & Award Ceremony, the following Prizes will be awarded:
LOTUS DU MEILLEUR FILM Grand Prix/Best film
LOTUS DU JURY The Jury Prize
LOTUS AIR FRANCE The Critics’ Award
LTHE PUBLIC AUDIENCE OF THE CITY OF DEAUVILLE
given for the first time this year
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FILMS IN COMPETITION
APPARITION (Aparisyon) by Vincent Sandoval (Philippines) 2nd film
It is 1971, and the sisters of the Adoration monastery lead quiet, insulated lives in a
remote town hours away from Manila. Mother Superior Ruth leads the group in its
prayers and daily rituals and prides herself in keeping the nuns removed from the
vices and vicissitudes of the outside world. Young and fairly new, Lourdes joins the
monastery and gets introduced to the cloistered life. Shortly after, Remy, an extern
nun, gets an unexpected visit from her mother telling her that her activist brother
has been snatched away. Behind Ruth’s back, Remy starts attending meetings of
families whose relatives have gone missing…
Contact : AUTODIDACT PICTURES
Tel +63 917 549 67 11 Email [email protected]
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FOUR STATIONS (Sathanee Si Pak) by Boonsong Nakphoo (Thailand) 2nd film
Low society people living along the railway in four parts of Thailand are fighting for
their lives. In the North, Tu Pu, an old monk, attempts hardly to teach younger
monks, novices and temple boys to be more calm and self-controlled. In the Central,
Too, a Myanmar labor has to resign from his job in a farm to ransom his wife or she
will be sent back to Myanmar. In the Northeast, Boonkong, an orphan, tries his best
to gain acceptance from his aunt and her husband. In the South, Chuan and Klaew,
previously a lovely neighbor, turn to be the opponents.
Contact : PLA PEN WAI THUAN NAM STUDIO
Tel +66 81 567 37 10 Email [email protected]
I.D. by Kamal K.M. (India) 1st film
Charu and her friends share a rented apartment in a sky-rise in Mumbai. All in their
mid-twenties, and each hailing from different parts of the country, they have come
here to make this bustling metro their home. One day a laborer comes to paint a
soiled wall at her house. Irritated that her flatmates did not inform her, Charu asks
the man to hurry up. A few minutes later, she finds him unconscious on the floor.
Panicked and desperate to do what’s right, she gets entwined in a series of incidents
that take her through the city. Anywhere that might lead her to some identity of the
man…
Contact : COLLECTIVE PHASE ONE
Tel +91 944 702 0313 Email [email protected]
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THE LAST SUPPER (Wang De Sheng Yan) by Lu Chuan (China) 4th film
Yu is a young noble: handsome, brave, admired. Commander of the era’s most
powerful army, he leads the revolt against the cruel Qin dynasty. Yu recognizes great
potential in Liu, a peasant, and gives him command of 5,000 soldiers. Liu breaks an
agreement with Yu by entering and ransacking the Qin capital alone. The Qin
dynasty falls and Yu rules. Wary of treachery, his advisers plot to kill Liu at a great
banquet…
Contact : WILD BUNCH INTERNATIONAL SALES
Tel +33 (0)1 53 01 50 32 Email [email protected]
MAI RATIMA by Yoo Ji-tae (South Korea) 1st film
Opening film
Unemployed and hopeless, Soo-young witnesses a Thai woman named Mai Ratima
in danger and helps her out. Having come to Korea through international marriage,
Mai is physically and emotionally abused by her in-laws in Korea. Mai and Soo-young
fall in love with each other and end up eloping together to Seoul. Their days of
happiness are soon shattered, however, when attractive Young-jin seduces Sooyoung…
Contact : LOTTE ENTERTAINMENT
Tel +82 2 3470 3540 Email [email protected]
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SONGLAP by Effendee Mazlan & Fariza Azlina Isahak (Malaysia) 2nd film
Brothers Am and Ad struggle to get by in the huge metropolis of Kuala Lumpur. As
couriers of a baby-dealing gang, they bring the longed-for offspring to their rich new
parents. The babies’ actual mothers are all prostitutes, whom the brothers also
transport to the brothels of Malaysia’s capital city. Am is fine with his role, but his
younger brother Ad yearns for a life outside the underworld.
Contact : PRIMEWORKS STUDIOS
Tel +603 77 246 520 Email [email protected]
TABOOR by Vahid Vakilifar (Iran) 2nd film
A man seeks to protect his hypersensitive body from a daily rise in temperature
caused by pervasive electromagnetic waves. He concocts an aluminum jumpsuit
which he wears under abundant layers of clothing. Despite his fragile health, as
darkness falls he rides his motorbike to keep appointments with his customers. His
mission: to destroy cockroach nests. Every night the man plunges into the dark heart
of the city, crisscrossing the far flung streets of a megalopolis in which time has
stood still and from which the tumult of the day has disappeared. While awaiting
the dawn, he must confront the many intrigues of the night.
Contact : DREAMLAB FILMS
Tel +33 (0)4 93 38 75 61 Email [email protected]
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THE TOWN OF WHALES (Kujira no machi) by Keiko Tsuruoka (Japan) 1st film
Machi is a high school student who continues to think about her older brother who
disappeared six years ago. Convinced that he is now living in Tokyo, Machi and her
best friends, classmates Tomohiko and Hotaru, decide to go to the capital city with a
scant clue and anticipation in their hearts…
Contact : PIA FILM FESTIVAL
Tel +33 (0)9 54 52 55 72 Email [email protected]
THE WEIGHT (Muge) by Jeon Kyu-hwan (South Korea) 5th film
Born with a hunchback and raised at an orphanage, Jung is a mortician at the
morgue who has to heavily rely on medicine for his severe tuberculosis and arthritis.
Despite his illness, cleansing and dressing the dead is a noble and even beautiful
work. For him, his life at the morgue is both a reality and a fantasy while the corpses
are his models and friends for his paintings, his sole living pleasure. Under the
weight of life and death carried by the dead bodies that he faces each day, Jung
endures the pain and thirst that he feels like a camel crossing a desolate desert in
silence.
Contact : FINECUT
Tel +82 2 569 8777 Email [email protected]
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THE JURY
Once again this year, a jury panel made up of
distinguished members of the artistic
community will award the LOTUS DU MEILLEUR
FILM (Best Film Prize) and the LOTUS DU JURY
(Jury Prize) to one of the nine films in
competition at the Deauville Asian Film Festival.
After Elia SULEIMAN in 2012, the jury will be
chaired by JÉRÔME CLÉMENT.
PRESIDENT OF THE JURY
Jérôme CLÉMENT
Chairman of the Board of Directors - Théâtre du Châtelet - Paris
Jérôme Clément was Advisor to the Prime
Minister for Culture and Communication in
1981, then Managing Director of the National
Center of Cinematography in 1984. He took part
in the negotiations leading to the establishment
of ARTE, of which he became the first president,
through 2011. From 1997 to 2000, he was
Managing Director of La Cinquième, which later
became France 5. Administrator of FEMIS and
the Musée d'Orsay, he has chaired the boards of
the Théâtre du Châtelet since 2010 and the art
auction firm PIASA since 2011. He created the
consulting company Culture et Conseils and has
regularly participated in France Culture's radio
program "Des Papous dans la tête". He has
published numerous books (La Culture
expliquée à ma fille, Plus tard, tu comprendras,
Le Choix d’Arte…) and has been decorated
several times (Commander of the Order of the
Legion of Honor, Knight of the National Order of
Merit, Commander of Arts and Letters); he is
also Commander of Merit of the Federal
Republic of Germany and of BadenWürttemberg.
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THE MEMBERS OF THE JURY
Djamel BENSALAH
Director, screenwriter & producer
z Filmography
2011 BEUR SUR LA VILLE
2007 BIG CITY
2005 IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS DANS L’OUED
2002 LE RAID
1999 LE CIEL, LES OISEAUX,…ET TA MÈRE !
1996 Y’A DU FOUTAGE DE GUEULE DANS L’AIR - short film
As a screenwriter
2009 NEUILLY SA MÈRE ! by Gabriel Lafferrière*
* also producer
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Évelyne BOUIX
Actress
z Selected filmography
2007 MUSÉE HAUT, MUSÉE BAS by Jean-Michel Ribes
1996 TEMPS DE CHIEN by Jean Marboeuf
1996 BEAUMARCHAIS L'INSOLENT by Edouard Molinaro
1992 TOUT ÇA...POUR ÇA by Claude Lelouch
1992 LE CIEL DE PARIS by Michel Bena
1992 BEN ROCK by Richard Raynal
1990 BIENVENUE À BORD by Jean-Louis Leconte
1989 RADIO CORBEAU by Yves Boisset
1986 UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME VINGT ANS DÉJÀ by Claude Lelouch
1985 PARTIR REVENIR by Claude Lelouch
1984 NI AVEC TOI, NI SANS TOI by Alain Maline
1983 VIVA LA VIE (Long Live Life) by Claude Lelouch
1983 EDITH ET MARCEL by Claude Lelouch
1982 LES MISÉRABLES by Robert Hossein
1981 LES UNS ET LES AUTRES (Bolero) by Claude Lelouch
1980 HAINE by Dominique Goult
1980 ALORS HEUREUX ? by Claude Barrois
1979 RIEN NE VA PLUS (The Swindle) by Jean-Michel Ribes
1979 BOBO JACCO by Walter Bal
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Julie GAYET
Actress & producer
z Selected filmography
As an actress
2012 AFTER by Géraldine Maillet
2011 NOS PLUS BELLES VACANCES by Philippe Lellouche
2010 L'ART DE SÉDUIRE by Guy Mazarguil
2009 SANS LAISSER DE TRACES by Gregoire Vigneron
2007 CARRÉ BLANC by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti
2007 UN BAISER S’IL VOUS PLAÎT by Emmanuel Mouret
2006 LE LIÈVRE DE VATANEN by Marc Rivière
2006 MON MEILLEUR AMI by Patrice Leconte
2005 CAMPING À LA FERME by Jean-Pierre Sinapi
2004 BAB EL WEB by Merzak Allouache
2003 CLARA ET MOI by Arnaud Viard
2003 APRÈS LA PLUIE, LE BEAU TEMPS by Nathalie Schmidt
2002 LOVELY RITA by Stéphane Clavier
2002 UN MONDE PRESQUE PAISIBLE by Michel Deville
2002 NOVO by Jean-Pierre Limosin
2002 LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES by Manon Briand
2001 MA CAMÉRA ET MOI by Christophe Loizillon
2000 LA CONFUSION DES GENRES by Ilan Duran Cohen
1999 LES GENS QUI S'AIMENT by Jean-Charles Tacchella
1999 NAG LA BOMBE by Jean-Louis Milesi
1999 POURQUOI PAS MOI ? by Stéphane Giusti
1998 LE PLAISIR (ET SES PETITS TRACAS) by Nicolas Boukhrief
1997 DELPHINE 1 - YVAN 0 by Dominique Farrugia
1997 LES DEUX PAPAS ET LA MAMAN by Jean-Marc Longval & Smain
1996 SELECT HOTEL by Laurent Bouhnik
1995 LES CENT ET UNE NUITS by Agnès Varda
As a producer
2011 BONSAÏ by Cristian Jimenez
2010 THE BACK by Lu Bingjian
2009 8 FOIS DEBOUT by Xabi Molia *
FIX ME by Raed Andoni - doc
* also actress
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Michel LECLERC
Director & screenwriter
z Selected filmography
2011 TÉLÉGAUCHO
2010 LE NOM DES GENS (The Names of Love)
2005 J'INVENTE RIEN
2003 LA VALSE DES ÉTIQUETTES - short film
2002 LE POTEAU ROSE - short film
1999 FACTURE DÉTAILLÉE - short film
1998 OH LA LA LA LA - short film
1996 LE TUTU - short film
1995 HÉLÈNE ET LULU - short film
1993 LE MAL EN PATIENCE - short film
1991 LE TEST ROBERT - short film - Animation film
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Géraldine MAILLET
Author, director & screenwriter
z Filmography
As a director & screenwriter
2012 AFTER
2009 UNE DERNIÈRE CIGARETTE - short film
2007 UN CERTAIN REGARD - short film
z Bibliography
2012 J’AI VÉCU DE VOUS ATTENDRE (Editions Grasset)
2011 IL FERAIT QUOI TARANTINO À MA PLACE ? (Editions Grasset)
2009 LE MONDE À SES PIEDS (Editions Grasset)
2008 FRENCH MANUCURE (Editions Flammarion)
2006 PRESQUE TOP MODEL (Editions Flammarion)
2005 ACOUPHÈNES (Editions Flammarion)
2003 PRIME TIME (Editions Flammarion)
2002 TROIS JOURS POUR RIEN (Editions Balland)
2001 IMMERSION - play
UN AMOUREUX SILENCE (Editions Flammarion)
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Atiq RAHIMI
Director, screenwriter & writer
z Filmography
As a director & screenwriter
2013 SYNGUÉ SABOUR - PIERRE DE PATIENCE
(The Patience Stone)
2004 TERRE ET CENDRES (Earth ans Ashes)
2002 AFGHANISTAN, UN ETAT IMPOSSIBLE - doc
z Bibliography
2011 MAUDIT SOIT DOSTOÏEVSKI (Editions P.O.L)
2008 SYNGUÉ SABOUR PIERRE DE PATIENCE (Editions P.O.L)
2005 LE RETOUR IMAGINAIRE (Editions P.O.L)
2002 LES MILLE MAISONS DU RÊVE ET DE LA TERREUR (Editions P.O.L)
2000 TERRE ET CENDRES (Editions P.O.L)
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CONFERENCES & ECONOMIC MEETINGS
« France-China: economic perspectives »
Economic meetings
Friday, March 8th, 2013
Rely on a major cultural event to encourage economic relations between countries
Since five years, the Festival adds to its large cultural programme an economic dimension which
aims at encouraging and developing economic relations between France and Asian countries.
These economic meetings, open to the public and primarily organised for companies developing
or wishing to develop their relations with Asia, are carried by CreActive Place - the foresight center
of Deauville, a center that helps businesses and communities to lead foresight works and stay
aware of economic and socio-cultural trends. The meeting is co-organized with the International
Center of Deauville and the city of Deauville.
Each year, the Festival celebrates an Asian country in particular. After Korea in 2009, China in
2010, India in 2011, and Japan in 2012, the 2013 edition of this economic meeting is dedicated to
China, and stands with the exceptional presence of His Excellency KONG Quan, Ambassador of
China in France, and many economic personalities and representatives of French and Chinese
firms.
During the conferences and roundtables planned during the day, and through the testimony of
many business leaders, the debates endeavor to highlight the economic relationships that are
developed today between China and France, the specificities of Chinese market and its evolution,
and the opportunities of investment and partnerships between our two countries.
Since their inception, these economic days encounter a real success and mobilize more and more
participants each year, who come to learn, listen to the experts, interact with each other, and also
enjoy the screenings of the festival in the evening.
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Programme of the meeting « France-China: economic perspectives »
Opening speech by Philippe AUGIER, Mayor of Deauville, and Laurent
SODINI, Vice-president in charge of economy at the LOWER NORMANDY
REGIONAL COUNCIL.
10.15am The relationship between the Region of Lower Normandy and China, with L.
SODINI.
11.15am Roundtable n°1: «China's contemporary geopolitical challenges» : directed
by Jacques BELIN, Director of the International Center of Deauville, Jean-Luc
DOMENACH, Professor at SCIENCES PO, François GODEMENT, Director of
strategy, ASIA CENTRE, Professor at SCIENCES PO, Philippe GUELLUY, ex
ambassador of France in China, and François HEISBOURG, Special Adviser of
the President, FOUNDATION FOR STRATEGIC RESEARC.
Afternoon: 14pm
Introduction of the economic roundtables, by Jean-François DI MEGLIO,
President of ASIA CENTRE.
14.15pm Roundtable n°2: « French investments and partnerships in China »,
directed by Arnaud RODIER, Associate Editor, Le Figaro.
With André-Benoît DE JAEGERE, Vice-president in charge of innovation,
CAPGEMINI CONSULTING, Gilles GROLLIER & Lara VINAUGER, Deputy
Morning: 10am
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director in charge of quality, evaluation and legal affairs, CHU CAEN, Henry
HIE, Director in charge of relations with China, AIR FRANCE, Françoise
ONILLON, General manager, CARRÉ D’ART INTERNATIONAL, Xiaoqing
PELLEMELE, General Secretary, COMITÉ D’ÉCHANGES FRANCO-CHINOIS, CCI
PARIS-ILE-DE-FRANCE..
16pm
Roundtable n°3: « Chinese investments and partnerships in France »,
directed by Laurent CHEMINEAU, Economy and Finance Journalist- Agefi.fr.
With Anne KIEFER, President & CEO, ANNE DE PARIS, Linda LEE, President &
CEO, EQUEX CHINA, Yun QIAN, Communication director, MINDRAY FRANCE,
Yazhong LIU, General manager, PHOENIX SATELLITE TV.
17.30pm Closing speech by His Excellency KONG Quan, Ambassador of China in
France.
Evening:
18pm
19pm
Cocktail reception offered by the International Center of Deauville,
Screening of a Chinese film in the Asian Film Festival.
Meeting organized with the support of the Lower-Normandy Regional Council
Debates and round tables organized in relation with: Embassy of the Republic of China in France, the FrancoChinese Exchange Committee of CCI Paris Ile-de-France, CCI International Normandie, and the Association of
Chinese companies in France.
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THE PARTNERS
Le Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville remercie
THE PARTNERS
Lucien Barrière Hôtels et Casinos
Air France
La Cinémathèque française
La Ville de Deauville
Euronews
L’Express
France Culture
LVT
Mazda
THE SUPPORTS
Allociné
Calvados Père Magloire
Chambre Syndicale des Cinémas de Normandie
Cristalleries Saint Louis
JC Decaux
Mac Cosmetics
Office de Tourisme de Deauville
Région Basse-Normandie
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Lucien Barrière Hôtels et Casinos celebrates
the Deauville Asian Film Festival’s 15th year!
As it has done ever since the Film Festival’s 1999 launch, the Company will once again loyally
sponsor the festival from 6th to 10th March 2013, keeping a watchful eye over films from the Far
East! The main focus is on Chinese films this year but of-course not forgetting Thai, Philippine,
Korean and Japanese films.
Through this sponsorship Lucien Barrière Hôtels et Casinos highlights its commitment to film
makers from around the world, as exemplified by its longstanding backing of prestigious French
film events including Cannes Film Festival, Deauville American Film Festival, Dinard British Film
Festival and the French Film Awards (les César) at Fouquet's in Paris.
Lucien Barrière Hôtels et Casinos has always contributed to all these wonderful artistic events for
the public. Indeed, since it was founded in 1912, the Company has striven to support creativity
and films, which are underpinned by values of excellence, expertise, sharing and modernity.
Our long-standing commitment extends to backing young directors’ and producers’ first films via
the Diane Barrière Foundation, which rewards and promotes an annual winner.
Back to Deauville, where our hotels are once again delighted and proud to host the oriental
festival’s jury and participants for a 15th year of curiosity and discovery in Normandy!
Press contacts
Nathalie Sénécal: +33 (0)2 31 14 31 41, [email protected]
Baptiste Jamet: +33 (0)2 31 14 31 92, [email protected]
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Air France celebrates Asian film in Deauville
At the heart of a town which is well connected with the arts, Air France is proud to be
sponsoring the 15th edition of the Asian Film Festival in Deauville, which it has been supporting
since its creation in 1999.
Air France is Europe’s biggest flying cinema, and offers a broad selection up to 100 films on board
its long-haul flights, some of which are translated into 9 languages, with another 14 films in the
“World Cinema” section, including original language films in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Indian
on Asian routes. In March, The Bullet Vanishes, by Chi-Leung Law,The Thieves by Choi Dong-hoon
and Chakravyuh by Prakash Jhawill will be shown on board.
Deauville world film, The Public system, Air France and Air France-KLM Asia Pacific Area, are four
partners with close ties, and 2013 looks to be an exciting and eventful year. During this edition the
Festival honors China.
To ensure it constantly meets the cultural needs of its Asian customers, Air France also offers
dishes designed by the biggest names in Chinese and Indian cuisine (South Beauty & Oberoi) on its
flights to Asia. Furthermore, flight translation agents are available on board of Air France's flights
to China and Japan in order to provide a better adapted service.
Air France currently operates 114 weekly non-stop frequencies to 14 destinations in Asia, in Japan,
South Korea, China, Thailand, Vietnam, India and Singapore. Amongst these 14 destinations are 5
to China: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Wuhan.
On 22 April 2013, Air France will be launching a new route between Paris-Charles de Gaulle and
Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
In this way, Air France is continuing to expand in Asia and invest for the benefit of its Asian
customers.
Press office : + 33 (0)1 41 56 56 00 - corporate.airfrance.com - Twitter : @AFnewsroom
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About EURONEWS
Euronews is delighted to be partner for the third consecutive year to the Asian Film Festival in
Deauville and to pay tribute to the Asian Cinema.
Every day, Euronews’ editorial teams, which consist of 400 journalists from more than 25 different
nationalities, work together reporting on relevant stories to serve its global audience, driven by
solid uncompromising journalism.
The channel gives light to culture within programmes such as “Le Mag” and “Rendez-Vous”, each
week on air and can be re-watched on www.euronews.com. Euronews is also freely available on
all digital platforms and just launched its new IPad application.
Launched in January 1993, Euronews is a multiplatform media covering world affairs 24/7 in
twelve editions* with close to 10 million daily viewers in Europe, Euronews is one of the leading
international news hub, reaching more than 350 million households in 155 countries.
* Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Greek
and Farsi.
www.euronews.net / www.nocommenttv.com / www.facebook.com/euronews.fans
Press Contact:
Grégoire OLIVERO de RUBIANA
Director of external relations
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 96 92 78
Email: [email protected]
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Entertainment, literature, design, photo, music, arts, cinema: every
Wednesday, a unique selection and a different glance.
L’Express supports many happenings related to cinema: this is why, this year
again, L’Express is happy to be in Deauville for its 15th Asian Film Festival.
L‘Express Styles, the feminine magazine with pleasure and sense. A
journalistic treatment translated by inquiries, exclusivities and scoops on
fashion and trends.
L’Express.fr/culture, a website dedicated to cultural information. Listed
among the first websites of information, lexpress.fr has more than 5.1 millions
of unique visitors every month, offering to internet users the best exclusive
information: scoops, daily video editorials, web magazines, blogs.
Since January 2012, a new interactive website: Express Yourself, a unique
place where internet users can give their opinion and post on line as Express
journalists can.
3 important web partners:
Main figures:
Audience: 2 139 000 readers
Lexpress.fr/culture: 5. 1millions of visitors every month.
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OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE DEAUVILLE ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
LVT is passionate about Asian cinema and has been supporting it for many years now.
For this year’s festival, our subtitles will help cinemagoers discover and explore many different
cultures. And as films are made to be shared, we are also constantly involved in subtitling French
films in Japanese and Chinese.
Press Contact:
President: Denis Auboyer
www.lvt.fr
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Mazda on the big screen at the Festival du Film Asiatique in
Deauville
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1st March 2013. For the second year in a row, Mazda is the official sponsor of
the Festival du Film Asiatique in Deauville, for its 15th edition.
The genesis of Mazda is closely linked to its homeland due to the historical roots of the brand in Hiroshima.
Mazda's wish is therefore logically to promote far-eastern culture to the French public, and is involved in
the festival as a support for its development.
At Mazda, as elsewhere in Japan, the designer's hand is irreplaceable and his talent is continually striving
for perfection. As with the Festival du Film Asiatique which highlights new talents, Mazda encourages its
engineers to make continuing progress in the optimisation of their know-how. This results in such leading
edge technologies as the SKYACTIV systems as fitted to the new Mazda6, on show at the Deauville Festival,
and which will be used to convey celebrities during the event.
With this partnership, Mazda wishes to promote the values which are an integral part of its ADN and
which are specific to far-eastern culture. Quite simply, the attention to detail and the importance of the
aesthetic approach are also dimensions to which Mazda is particularly attached for the design of its
vehicles.
Twelve Mazda6's will be used for transporting the different celebrities and will be on show at the
Festival.
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Mazda France press contact:
David Barrière
Directeur des Relations Extérieures
+33 (0)1 61 01 65 95
[email protected]
Marie de Mauduit
Attachée de presse
+33 (0)1 61 01 65 92
[email protected]
A few words on Mazda
Mazda Motor Corporation is one of the leading Japanese automobile manufacturers with a production of 1.3 million vehicles
per year. The company was founded in 1920 and its Head Office is located in Hiroshima in Japan, where the company has 3
production plants. Research and Development occupy a large part of operations with 5 dedicated centres across the world.
Innovation is at the heart of the company's strategy, which enabled Mazda to win the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours with a rotary
engine vehicle, or, more recently, to develop SKYACTIV Technologies which are now fitted to all new Mazda models. The
brand is established in 130 countries and has 38,117 employees.
Mazda Automobiles France employs some 50 persons and a network of 125 dealerships.
The new Mazda6 The thoroughbred lines of a large saloon
The new Mazda6 incorporates the ‘KODO – Soul of Motion’ style which the designers have built into its clean, efficient and
fluid lines.
This saloon has all the advantages of the full range of SKYACTIV Technologies: engines, transmissions, body and chassis; all of
which mean that the new Mazda6 is immediately compatible with the Euro6 standard, without resorting to expensive
polluting particle post-treatment systems (NOx).
As one of the safest and most economical models in the market segment (4.2l/100km and 108g/km CO2 in the 150 ps
SKYACTIV-D 2.2 version with manual transmission), the new Mazda6 incarnates the brand philosophy in its most advanced
form in terms of performance and environmental efficiency.
Press Department - Mazda Automobiles France SAS
34, rue de la Croix de Fer - 78 122 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Cedex / France
Tél: +33 (0)1 61 01 65 95/94 - Fax: +33 (0)1 61 01 65 60
www.mazda-presse.fr
Société par actions simplifiée au capital de 304.898 € - RCS Versailles 434 455 960
www.mazda.fr
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M.A.C Cosmetics provides On-Call services at the World’s most
prestigious Festivals.
The M.A.C pro team will attend the Asian film festival of
Deauville and offering make-up services to the talents, guests of
the festival.
Creative, self-expressive and technically astute, each M·A·C PRO team artist provides the artistic
vision, support and training for M·A·C worldwide.
M·A·C Cosmetics (Make –up Art Cosmetics), founded in 1984 to
support the needs of professional makeup artists, is one of the
most influential and successful companies in the global cosmetics
industry. For more than 20 years, M·A·C has constantly asserted
its ability to fuse fashion, fun and fantasy.
M·A·C
products
are
a
fusion
of
artistry,
rich
colours,
professional formulas and specialized craft.
The outstanding products, social consciousness initiatives, and
uniquely individualistic spirit of M·A·C. continue to attract
customers of all races, sexes and ages across the globe.
For any information: www.maccosmetics.fr
Press contact and Artist Relation :
Isabelle Lévy –Director of Communication:
+33(0)1 40 06 37 92 [email protected]
Véronique Chabourine – Artist Relation Manager :
+33(0)1 40 06 37 66 [email protected]
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GENERAL ORGANIZATION
LE CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE DEAUVILLE (C.I.D)
Jacques BELIN, General Manager
LE PUBLIC SYSTÈME CINÉMA
40, rue Anatole France - 92594 Levallois Perret Cedex / France
PRESIDENT OF THE FESTIVAL
Lionel CHOUCHAN
DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL
Bruno BARDE
PUBLICITY
Alexis DELAGE-TORIEL / Céline PETIT
Agnès LEROY / Annelise LANDUREAU / Clément RÉBILLAT / Elsa LEEB / Youmaly BA
Tel: +33 (0)1 41 34 18 36 - Fax: +33 (0)1 41 34 20 77
E-mail : [email protected]
www.lepublicsystemecinema.fr
PUBLIC INFORMATION
TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE - Tel: +33 (0)2 31 14 40 00
CID - Tel: +33 (0)2 31 14 14 14
OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE FESTIVAL
www.deauvilleasia.com
@DeauvilleAsia
Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville
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