FID Marseille 2014
15 films from 12 countries, 15 world and international premieres… that is what the FID (Festival International de Cinema) in Marseilles presents in the international competition programme, when it takes off July 1 and runs until July 7. The festival also has a section for French films and one for First Films as well as a FidLab – ” FIDlab offers a meeting place for discussing film projects selected from all over the world, in order to offer film-makers an opportunity to make useful contacts and network with producers, distributors, international sales agents, sponsors, and broadcasters. ”
And films by Marguerite Duras will be screened – it’s all very well put together as the website link proves.
Back to the international competition – what a joy to see that Croatian “Mitch – the Diary of the Schizophrenic Patient” has been chosen. This is the beginning of my review of the film:
… It is rough. It is provoking. It is touching, poetic and shocking because you experience the difficulties of a man’s aim to come to terms with himself and life as it goes on in his head and around him in the psychiatric hospital, where he is, has been for 12 years and where he in a film, he is making himself, expresses his despair. Outstanding it is, nothing less!…
