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SOIREE DE GALA JOSIANE BALASKO (in her presence)
Saturday 15th March at 9 PM - screening of Sac de Noeuds by Josiane Balasko

Her selection:
- Les petites câlins by Jean-Marie Poiré (1977)
- Hôtel des Amériques by André Téchiné (1982)
- Sac de noeuds by Josiane Balasko (1985)
- Trop belle pour toi by Bertrand Blier (1989)
- Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes
by Jean- Jacques Zilbermann (1993)
- Gazon maudit by Josiane Balasko (1995)
- Un grand cri d'amour by Josiane Balasko (1998)
- Cette femme-là by Guillaume Nicloux (2003)
- Ruby Blue by Jane Dunn (2007)


Every year an important actress becomes our guest of honor. She is given the choice of a panel of films that best represents her work. These films are screened during the Festival. There is also a special guest star event with invited personalities as well as local and international press.

To celebrate the 30 years of our Festival, we are happy to Invite Josiane Balasko, a very important French actress of today, but also a director and a novelist, whose work and commitments we have always highly respected.

With her outspokenness, her unique way of being funny and attaching at the same time, Josiane Balasko has established herself as one of the leading figures, impossible to circumvent of the French cinema. She does not resemble anybody, and nobody resembles her. However she is source of a kind of modernity, which one could easily envy her, because as an actress, she is "gender" to the root of her wigs. Able to play an impressive pallet of roles, to change sex as one changes ones shirt, to get into the skin of a bush truck driver (Gazon Maudit) or of a non tamed spit-fire (the Ex-wife of my life)... she irradiates with funniness, but always in a benevolent way towards her fellow mankind.