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COVER- BOY WON BEST FILM PRIZE

The awards of the III Festival de Cinema Politic:

Best Film: Cover-Boy , directed by Carmine Amoroso (Italy)

Special Jury Mention & Audience Award : The International, directed by Sirri Süreyya Önder & Muharrem Gülmez (Turkey)

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The Closing of the Festival will take place in the French Institute of Barcelona, tonight, 2nd of October at 20.30. After the Awards Ceremony, Day Zero directed by Bryan Gunnar Cole will be the film that closes the Festival. The cast of the film includes Elijah Wood and Chris Klein. Day Zero follows the lives of three best friends in New York City who have thirty days to come to terms with their fate as the U.S. military draft is back and they’ve been called to serve. The other film of this last day of the Festival is Strike by engaged german director Volker Schlöndorff, at 18.00 also at the French Institute.

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30th September Sunday in Cinema Casablanca Kaplan:

18:00 - Cover Boy (in competition) & It gonna get worse (in competition)

20:00 - My father and my son (presented by its director Cagan Irmak) & El Custodio (avant première)

22:30 - The blue exile (Invited Country: Turkey) & Ezra (in competition)

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Thursday, 27 September, at 8.30 pm at the Cinema Casablanca Gracia, the third edition of the Festival of Political Cinema begins with the screening of ‘The Mark of Cain’ (United Kingdom, 2007, competition selection) presented by its director, Marc Munden and producer Lynn Horsford. The jury of the International Competition will be composed this year, of Daniela Aronica, Murathan Mungan, Marilyne Canto, Yolanda Olmos and Jo Sol.

The other international guests of who have confirmed their attendance are: Turkish actress and Turkish producer of 'Innowhereland’, Zuhal Olcay and Zeynep Ozbatur, the producer of ‘Day Zero’ (USA, 2007) Anthony Moody, Turkish director Cagan Irmak (‘My father and my son'’), the directors of ‘The International’ (Turkey, 2007, competition selection) Sirri Sureyya Onder and Muharrem Gülmez, and the producer of the film ‘Strike’ (Germany/Poland, 2006, competition selection) by Volker Schlöndorff, Jurgen Haase.

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‘Day Zero’, which wil be screened at the closing of the festival on 2 October is only one of the films in the section of the ‘Images of the World’ which the festival presents for the third time in Barcelona. Two other films in the section ‘Images of the World’ which, in addition, are sneak-previews in Spain, are the lesbian-themed film ‘Riparo’ by Marco Simon Puccioni with Maria De Medeiros, and ‘El custodio’ by Rodrigo Moreno which received the Alfred Bauer 2006 Award in the Berlin International Film Festival. Also will be presented in the festival the winner of the Golden Antigone 2006 Award (Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival), ‘The Melon Route’ by Branko Schmidt, a film inspired by the the true story of twelve illegal immigrants which was drowned in the Sava river. The political film with haunting musics ‘Day on fire’ by Jay Anania will be another one of the highlights of the section ‘Imágenes del Mundo’. The Peruvian film ‘La prueba (The Trial)’ by Judith Vélez will be another one of the premieres.

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Turkey to be Honorary Guest Country of the 3rd Festival of Political Cinema.
Considered to be so-called peripheral cinema, and associated as much with the Asian world as with the Islamic one, neither regular showings of Turkish cinema, nor encyclopaedic anthologies such as that which the Parisian Beaubourg offered in 1996 due to Europalia’97, and in which Turkey was the central focus, exist in Spain. Because of this, the third edition of the Festival of Political Cinema of Barcelona has chosen Turkey as the honorary guest country of this year.
Among other activities centered around the theme, a film cycle made up of 11 films made between 1962 and 2006 will be presented. The oldest film included is ‘ Yilanlarin öcü’ (The Revenge of the Serpents) by Metin Erksan (1962) and the most recent: ‘Takva’ (A Man’s fear of God) by Özer Kiziltan (2006).

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The FCP Premieres 6 Political Tv-Films Produced by ARTE
To see politics today through a cycle of made-for-television films is the objective of ‘Left/Right’, a collection of 6 films by ARTE that the Festival of Political Cinema premieres in Spain from 27 September to 2 October. According to Pierre Chevalier, director of the department of fictional programs for the Franco-German channel, “6 filmmakers were asked to work with a situation or dialogue that evoked the notions of the political right and of the left”.

The films included in the cycle are the following:
-‘Le Petit Voleur’ by Erick Zonca
-‘Retiens la nuit’ by Dominique Cabrera
-‘Le Détour’ by Pierre Salvadori
-‘Les Terres froides’ by Sébastien Lifshitz
-‘Tontaine et Tonton’ by Tonie Marshall
-‘La Voleuse de Saint-Lubin’ by Claire Devers