The sections at the 15th Titanic Film Festival are Discovery of America, Documentaries, Elements of Crime, Foam of the Days, French Shoals, Mexican Mosaic, Music for All, Sea of Japan and World Cinema, Vizer said.
Mexican ambassador to Budapest Pedro Conzalez Rubio said he considered it an honour that the festival organisers decided to include four Mexican films on the programme, among them one - Burn the Bridges - which will compete for the Breaking the Waves prize, which comes with a EUR 10,000 purse. Mexican cinema, he said, has awaken and made a global mark.
Head of the Japan Foundation's Budapest office Waketa Munehiro, speaking about Japanese film on the programme, said that Japan's film industry has expanded and Multiplex cinemas have proliferated in recent years. Though art films still account for only a small part of Japanese films.
Director of the French Institute's audiovisual department Simeon Mirzayntz said that visitors to the Titanic Film Festival will have a chance to see French films that are rarely seen in Hungarian cinemas.
Eight films will be in competition for the Breaking the Waves award, including the US film Shotgun Stories by director Jeff Nichols, Japanese director Hitoshi Yazaki's film Strawberry Shortcakes, Russian director Aslan Galasov's The Swallows Have Arrived, Iceland's Jar City, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, La France, directed by French's Serge Bozon, Swedish director Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In, Denmark's Just Another Love Story by director Ole Bornedal and Francisco Franco's film Burn the Bridges, from Mexico.
Several filmmakers will visit the festival to meet audiences, including Jeff Nichols, Aslan Galazov, Serge Bozon, Tomas Alfredson and Francisco Franco. Quang Hai, the actor and Golden Dragon-winning director of the Vietnamese film Ngo, will also come, as will the French director Olivier Assayas, who will show his film Boarding Gate.
The chief patrons of the festival are Minister of Education and Culture István Hiller and Budapest Mayor Gábor Demszky. The festival is supported by the National Cultural Fund and the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary.
Screenings will be held at the Uránia Film Theatre, Toldi Cinema, Vörösmarty Cinema and Örökmozgó Cinema. The festival runs until April 13
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
