The Fortnight has a new team. Marie-Pierre Macia is appointed artistic director by the SRF. In the foreword to the 1999 catalogue she writes: "My ambition for the Fortnight is to preserve its free spirit and the means required to fulfill its vocation as a prospector".
The 1999 selection attracts a good deal of attention, in particular Emmanuel Finkiel's Voyages, which wins the Youth Prize at Cannes, the French César as best first feature, and France Inter radio's Masque et la Plume Prize; Sólveig Anspach's Haut les coeurs ! and The Blair Witch Project, which goes on to enjoy an international success; as well as Anjelica Huston's Agnes Browne.
There are also films from as far afield as Bhutan (Khyentse Norbu's The Cup) Japan (Nobuhiro Suwa's M/other), and Chile (Ricardo Larraín's El entusiasmo).
Feature films (26)
A mort la mort !
France - 1h35 (1999)
Romain Goupil
Agnes Browne
Irland - 1h31 (1999)
Anjelica Huston
Charisma
Japan - 1h44 (1999)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
East Is East
Great Britain - 1h36 (1999)
Damien O'Donnell
El entusiasmo
L'enthousiasme
Chile, France, Spain - 1h56 (1999)
Ricardo Larraín
Fever
U.S.A. - 1h35 (1999)
Alex Winter
Haut les coeurs !
France - 1h40 (1999)
Sólveig Anspach
Heian Zhi Guang
Darkness And Light
Taiwan - 1h42 (1999)
Chang Tso-Chi
Kiemas
La Cour
Lithuania, France - 1h30 (1999)
Valdas Navasaitis
La petite vendeuse de soleil
Swiss, France, Senegal - 45 minutes (1999)
Djibril Diop Mambety
Le Bleu des villes
France - 1h45 (1999)
Stéphane Brizé
Le Franc
Swiss, France, Senegal - 45 minutes (1999)
Djibril Diop Mambety
Les Convoyeurs attendent
Belgium, France, Swiss - 1h34 (1999)
Benoît Mariage
M/other
Japan - 2h27 (1999)
Nobuhiro Suwa
Phörpa
The Cup / La Coupe
Bhutan, Australia - 1h33 (1999)
Khyentse Norbu
Qui plume la lune ?
France - 1h40 (1999)
Christine Carrière
Scenery
Vues
China - 1h40 (1999)
Zhao Jisong
Sud
France, Belgium - 1h15 (1999)
Chantal Akerman
Summer of Sam
U.S.A. - 2h22 (1999)
Spike Lee
The Blair Witch Project
Le projet Blair Witch
U.S.A. - 1h30 (1999)
Daniel Myrick
Eduardo Sanchez
The Five Senses
Canada - 1h45 (1999)
Jeremy Podeswa
The Last September
Irland, Great Britain - 1h40 (1999)
Deborah Warner
The Virgin Suicides
U.S.A., Canada - 1h35 (1999)
Sofia Coppola
The War Zone
Great Britain - 1h39 (1999)
Tim Roth
Voyages
France - 1h55 (1999)
Emmanuel Finkiel
Wege in die Nacht
Chemins dans la nuit
Germany - 1h38 (1999)
Andreas Kleinert
Short films (6)
La Tentation de l'innocence
France - 43 mn (1999)
Fabienne Godet
Le Premier pas
France - 23 mn (1999)
Florence Vignon
Marée haute
France - 17 mn (1999)
Caroline Champetier
O Trouble
France - 10 mn (1999)
Sylvia Calle
Un château en Espagne
France - 25 mn (1999)
Delphine Gleize
Un petit air de fête
France - 35 mn (1999)
Eric Guirado
