South African cinema audiences will be treated to nine international films which have graced the world’s top festivals, at the Festival of Festivals which commences its run from 7 to 13 November at Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau theatres at Cedar Square in Fourways and Brooklyn Mall in Pretoria.
Thereafter, Festival of Festivals travels to Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront and Durban’s Gateway Theatre of Shopping from 14 to 20 November.
The nine films on the programme have been shown at the Cannes, Toronto, Berlin and Venice film festivals. Stars Penelope Cruz, Catherine Keener and Patrcia Clarkson each star in two films. It is highly conceivable that some of the films might end up as frontrunners in next year’s Oscar race.
On the menu are: Mike Leigh’s latest venture, Happy-Go-Lucky; Woody Allen’s comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona, starring Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson; The Stone Angel, based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Laurence; the English comedy Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution; Elegy with Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz; Colin Firth and Catherine Keener in the love story Genova; The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, about the young son of a Nazi officer; Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman; Atom Egoyan’s intriguing and haunting drama Adoration and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
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