Special Guests 2009
Bruno Dumont
(Bailleul, Francia, 1958)
Bruno Dumont was born in 1958 in Bailleul, France, and has directed and written the scripts for five feature films: Hadewijch (2009), Flanders (2006), Twentynine Palms (2003), Humanity (1999) and The Life of Jesus (1997). He has won some of the most respected awards in the film industry, including the Jury Grand Prize at Cannes for Flanders and Humanity as well as the Golden Camera prize for The Life of Jesus also at the Cannes Film Festival.
Dumont, who was a philosophy teacher when he was young, is considered to be the most important and respected contemporary French filmmaker in the international cinematographic world. His work has even been compared with that of Luc Bresson.
The director has received considerable praise for the aesthetic quality of his films, although on several occasions he has said he is not interested in making beautiful films, rather he wants “to provoke the viewer.”
Hadewijch, his most recent work, won the FIPRESCI prize at the Toronto International Film Festival and was the official selection at San Sebastián.
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- 2009 | Hadewijch
- 2006 | Flandres
- 2003 | Twentynine Palms
- 1999 | Humanity
- 1996 | La Vie de Jésus
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