The films include Argentine director Esteban Sapir's The Aerial, a black-and-white fairy tale about a totalitarian regime imposed by the media, and Never on a Sunday, a colour film with lots of black humour, by Mexican director Daniel Gruener.
From Korea comes Joon-ho Bong's The Host, about a sea monster. The film won one of the main prizes in Hong Kong in March and has already generated USD 90 million in box office receipts.
In the Titanic's Discovery of America section will be Goran Dukic's Wristcutters: A Love Story, a comedy about suicides in purgatory. The film was well received at the Sundance Film Festival.
Among the European competitors are director French director Bruno Dumont's new romance Flanders and Paul Andrew Williams' first feature, the thriller London to Brighton, hailed by critic Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian as the best British film of 2006. Polish director Slawomir Fabicki shows the tough underworld of Silesia in Retrieval and Belgian director Koen Mortier's Ex Drummer mixes rock 'n' roll with a big dose of irony.
The films will be assessed by a jury comprised of UK film critic Ronald Bergan, Göteborg International Film Festival director Marit Kapla and Hungarian director György Pálfi, whose films include Hukkle and Taxidermia. The festival's top prize carries a EUR 10,000 purse.
Winners will be announced on April 22.
Source: Port.hu
