The 43rd La Rochelle International Film Festival will take place from June 26 – July 5th, 2015 and will screen films from around world. There programs include: TRIBUTES, RETROSPECTIVE, TREASURES OF SHANGHAI ART STUDIOS, MUSIC AND CINEMA, YESTERDAY TODAY, HERE AND THERE & NIGHT with JOHN CARPENTER.

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A few of the Tributes the festival will showcase are for Olivier Assayas (France), Marco Bellocchio (Italy) and Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan) are just a few of the filmmakers showcased in this section.

In the YESTERDAY TODAY program they will be screening many restored or reissued classic films including The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed, The Dreamers (1961) Jack Clayton, The Birds (1963) Alfred Hitchcock, A Touch of Zen (1969) King Hu, Traffic (1971) Jacques Tati, The Audience (1971) Marco Ferreri, and The City of Hazards (1975) Robert Aldrich.

While in the HERE AND NOW program which showcases films from around the world young directors or established directors, a preview of their theatrical release or unpublished and presented for the first time in France they will be screening films that including 45 Years Old (Great Britain, 2015) Andrew Haigh , Amnesia (Switzerland / France, 2015) Barbet Schroeder, At Home (Greece / Germany, 2014) Athanasios Karanikolas, The Pearl Button (Spain / Chile / France, 2015, doc) Patricio Guzman , Caravaggio (France, 2015) Alain Cavalier – WORLD PREMIERE, El Club (Chile, 2014) Pablo Larrain – GRAND JURY PRIZE BERLIN FESTIVAL, Apache (France, 2015) Nassim Amaouche – WORLD PREMIERE, The Two Friends (France, 2015) Louis Garrel, Fatima (France / Quebec-Canada) Philippe Faucon, The Son of Saul (Hungary, 2015) Laszlo Nemes– GRAND JURY PRIZE CANNES, The Grief of Others (USA, 2014) Patrick Wang, Meteor (Quebec / Canada, 2013) François Delisle, Mia Madre (Italy / France) Nanni Moretti, White Nights Factor (Russia, 2014) Andrei Konchalovsky – SILVER LION VENICE FESTIVAL, Rabo de Peixe (Portugal, 2015, doc) Joaquim Pinto & Nuno Leonel, and The Reaper (Croatia / Slovenia, 2014) Zvonimir Juric.

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– Originally Poster June 22, 2015