LE WEEK-END

The 17th annual Bermuda International Film Festival taking place later this month, March 21 to 27, 2014, under the theme, Global Visions, unveiled its lineup including more than 25 feature-length and short films which will screen this year at Liberty Theatre in Hamilton, Bermuda. BIFF 2014 opens with “LE WEEK-END,” a British film set in Paris. It stars Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a fifty-something couple returning to the city of love, in which they honeymooned, in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.

For its centerpiece Gala, the festival will screen screen THE FRENCH MINISTER, described as an off-the-wall comedy about French politics is based on the award-winning graphic novel by Abel Lanzac, a former government speech writer. 

The festival closes with the Gala Presentation of ALAN PARTRIDGE, with Steve Coogan returning in his BBC television comic creation of Alan Partridge, a broadcaster at the edge of his own sanity. 

Other films on the lineup include three Oscar-nominated films, MISSING PICTURE, OMAR and THE SQUARE, which will be screened in Bermuda for the first time.

The narrative line-up includes GLORIA; LIKE FATHER LIKE SON, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival last year; ABUSE OF WEAKNESS; and THE DOUBLE, the latest film from director Richard Ayoade, who  won the Audience Choice Award at BIFF 2011 with SUBMARINE.

Documentaries screening at BIFF 2014 are AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ; FINDING VIVIAN MAIER; and THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN.

The Onion Patch strand which showcases Bermudian cinematic talent includes three films: Ben Watson’s DOWNING’S WRECK documentary about Bermuda’s most famous shipwreck, Sea Venture; Robert Zuill’s documentary AN ANCIENT WINDOW also about a shipwreck that tells the tale of early Bermuda; and Gareth Fletcher Pit Bull dog documentary, BULLIED BREEDS.

via Bermuda Sun