The Directors Fortnight screened 21 features, 14 shorts and two special events. In addition to the Fortnight screenings two films were presented by the SRF: Claire Simon's Est-ce qu'on a gagné ou est-ce qu'on a perdu ? and Ousmane Sembene's Xala (1975), the Senegalese director who received the SRF's Carrosse d'Or Award.
The Fortnight held special screenings of Sam Peckinpah's great western, Ride The High Country and Valerio Zurlini's exceptional Cronaca familiare - two affecting cinephile highlights of the festival.
The opening film, Eric Khoo's Be With Me, moved first night audiences and remained one of the festival's major surprises. In the following days, the Fortnight scored again with Lodge Kerrigan's powerful third film, Keane. Other Fortnight highlights included Bent Hamer's Factotum, starring Matt Dillon and Lily Taylor, Mohammad Rasoulof's Jazireh Ahani (Iron Island, closing film), João Pedro Rodrigues's Odete (Portugal), Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi's Sisters In Law (a fabulous documentary about women judges in Cameroun), Greg McLean's Wolf Creek (an Australian horror film which enjoyed a sizeable turnout of genre fans).
The four French selections provided a good reflection of the ambition and diversity of local auteur films.
Feature films (21)
Alice
Portugal - 1h42 (2005)
Marco Martins
Be With Me
Singapour - 1h30 (2005)
Eric Khoo
Cache cache
France - 1h31 (2005)
Yves Caumon
Crying Fist
Ju-Meok-I-Woon-Da
South Korea - 2h15 (2005)
Seung-wan RYOO
Douches froides
France - 1h42 (2005)
Antony Cordier
Factotum
Norway, U.S.A., Germany - 1h33 (2005)
Bent Hamer
Geminis
France, Argentina - 1h25 (2005)
Albertina CARRI
Guernsey
Netherlands - 1h30 (2005)
Nanouk Leopold
Jazireh Ahani
Iron Island
Iran - 1h30 (2005)
Mohammad Rasoulof
Keane
U.S.A. - 1h33 (2005)
Lodge Kerrigan
La Moustache
France - 1h26 (2005)
Emmanuel Carrère
Odete
Portugal - 1h41 (2005)
João Pedro Rodrigues
Room
U.S.A. - 1h16 (2005)
Kyle Henry
Seven Invisible Men
Lithuania, France, Portugal - 1h59 (2005)
Sharunas Bartas
Sisters In Law
United Kingdom - 1h44 (2005)
Kim Longinotto
Florence Ayisi
Tbilisi-Tbilisi
Georgia - 1h27 (2005)
Levan Zakareichvili
The Buried Forest
La forêt oubliée
Japan - 1h33 (2005)
Kohei Oguri
The President's Last Bang
Gu Tte Gu Sa Ram Dul
South Korea - 1h42 (2005)
Sang-Soo IM
Travaux, on sait quand ça commence...
France - 1h35 (2005)
Brigitte Roüan
Who's Camus Anyway ?
Camus nante shiranai
Japan - 1h55 (2005)
Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Wolf Creek
Australia - 1h35 (2005)
Greg McLean
Short films (14)
A bras le corps
France - 19 min (2005)
Katell Quillévéré
A mains nues
France - 26 min (2005)
Agnès Feuvre
Consultation Room
Shinsatsu-shitsu
Japan - 9 min (2005)
Kei Oyama
Cosmetic Emergency
Netherlands, U.S.A. - 9 min (2005)
Martha Colburn
Da Janela Do Meu Quarto
From The Window Of My Room
Brazil - 5 min (2005)
Cao Guimarães
Du soleil en hiver
France - 17 min (2005)
Samuel Collardey
Etoile violette
France - 45 min (2005)
Axelle Ropert
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine
Austria - 17 min (2005)
Peter Tscherkassky
Kara, Anak Sebatang Pohon
Kara, The Daughter of A Tree
Indonesia - 9 min (2005)
Edwin
Majorettes
France - 16 min (2005)
Lola Doillon
Nits
United Kingdom - 11 min (2005)
Harry Wootliff
Résfilm
Slitfilm
Hungary - 19 min (2005)
Sándor Kardos
Trilogy About Clouds
Mittsu no Kumo
Japan - 14 min (2005)
Naoyuki Tsuji
Vinil verde
Brazil - 17 min (2005)
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Special screenings (2)
Cronaca familiare
Journal intime
Italy - 1h54 (2005)
Valerio Zurlini
Ride The High Country
U.S.A. - 1h34 (2005)
Sam Peckinpah
