The 33rd Dinard British Film Festival (Ille-et-Vilaine) opens on Wednesday September 28 with in particular around thirty feature films screened, including “original nuggets”according to the organizers.
Six films will compete in competition: All My Friends Hate Me by Andrew Gaynord, Emily by Frances O’Connor My Old School by Jono McLeod Pirates by Reggie Yates, Winners by Hassan Nazer and The Almond and the Seahorse by Celyn Jones and Tom Stern, which will be presented during the opening ceremony. This edition, which runs until Sunday October 2, will present around twenty European previews, according to the organizers.
“The films are divided into separate sections. It’s Raining Men and Girl Power! have as protagonists men or women whose passions and fights are often universal. Eccentrics & Free Spirits highlights the different ways of being. Cinema – Past Present and Future follows the evolution of cinema from a great classic black and white film directed by the late Peter Brook, through blockbusters, DVDs, and up to a recent phenomenon: the interactive film”, specifies in a press release the artistic director of the festival, Dominique Green, who promises “original nuggets”.
The Franco-British jury, chaired by French actor José Garcia, is made up of French actresses Alice Pol, Oulaya Amamra and Sofia Essaïdi, as well as director and producer Hugo Gélin. On the British side, there is the British actor and director Adrian Lester, seen in Primary Colors by Mike Nichols, and actor George Blagden, in the cast of hit series Versailles and Vikings.
A tribute will be paid to director and British theater legend Peter Brook, who died on July 2 at the age of 97, with the screening of his adaptation of William Golding’s novel His Majesty of the Flies (1963).
News obliges, a tribute is also planned after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, on September 8. Three archival documents from the INA collections, dating from her visit to France in April 1957, will be screened during a free screening on Sunday: the arrival of Elizabeth II for her official trip, the dinner of the queen at the Louvre and her official speech.
The five prizes, the Hitchcocks, will be presented on Saturday. In 2021, this festival, intended to promote British cinema to the public and French distributors, had rewarded in particular Limbo by Ben Sharrock and Sweetheart by Marley Morrison.