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FICM Program 2009

Mungiu was a member of the jury in Morelia last year and proposed a program of Rumanian films consisting of 9 features, 3 documentaries and 13 short films. Directors Hanno Höfer and Nae Caranfil, as well as actress Anamaria Marinca, will also be present at FICM.

The 7th FICM will exhibit, as it has since its first edition, a selection of films from the International Critics? Week of the Cannes Film Festival 2009, including Lascars by Albert Pereira-Lazaro and Emmanuel Klotz (Francia-Alemania); Mal día para pescar by Álvaro Brechner (España-Uruguay); Rien de personnel by Mathias Gokalp (Francia); Whisper With the Wind by Shahram Alidi (Iraq); and Adieu Gary by Nassim Amaouche (France). The last film won the Grand Prize of the Critics? Week sponsored by Cinépolis.

Daniela Michel, general director of FICM, said there will be 45 international premieres, among them: Looking for Eric, by Ken Loach; Los abrazos rotos, by Pedro Almodóvar; The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, by Terry Gilliam; The Limits of Control, by Jim Jarmusch; Coco antes de Chanel, by Anne Fontaine; and The White Ribbon, film by Michael Haneke, winner of the Palm d




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Or at the Cannes Festival 2009.

National premieres at the 7th FICM will include Daniel y Ana by Michel Franco, official selection of the 15 filmmakers at Cannes 2009,  the documentary La transformación del cine en música by Julián Hernández and Roberto Fiesco about singer Eugenia León; El general by Natalia Almada; Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo by Julián Hernández; Redención by Juan Pablo Cortés and José Antonio Hernández;  Sobreviviendo a Warhol by David Pablos and Viaje Redondo by Gerardo Tort.