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52nd edition

Fortnight 2008

Directors’ Fortnight

The Directors’ Fortnight celebrated its 40th anniversary. This year’s three special screenings had a more or less direct connection to the Fortnight’s 40th anniversary. There was the 35mm restoration of Robert Kramer and John Douglas’s masterpiece Milestones, a beacon of American independent cinema in the 70s, as well as the two latest films by Jean-Marie Straub, Le Genou d’Artemide and Itinéraire de Jean Bricard, both made after the death of his wife and collaborator Danièle Huillet. And, of course, there was Olivier Jahan’s 40X15, produced by MK2TV and France 4, which related the birth of the Fortnight and described the ins and outs of the profession of programmer.This year’s somewhat special selection wouldn’t have been what it was without the opening film from a master of world cinema who had been silent for 17 years: Four Nights with Anna (Cztery noce z Anna) by Jerzy Skolimowski. Jim Jarmusch and Skolimowski were in a way the benign godfathers of this 40th edition.

Feature Film selection

  • World premiere
  • Film in competition for the Œil d'Or Award
  • Film in competition for the Caméra d'Or Award

Short & medium film selection

  • World premiere
  • Film in competition for the Œil d'Or Award
  • Film in competition for the Caméra d'Or Award

Re: Watch

Les Contrebandieres

Feature film / Fortnight 1969

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A Nous Deux, France

Feature film / Fortnight 1970

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Le Premier pas

Short film / Fortnight 1999

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With the support of

Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée

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The Directors' Fortnight is organised by the French Directors' Guild

French Directors' Guild

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