Two- day French film screening of director Pierre Filmon

Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts recently hosted

films

by French film director, Pierre Filmon - a documentary Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond and feature film Long Time No See. Filmon’s work has been nominated for the Camera D’Or by Cannes and his films have been presented at festivals across the world.

The film screenings was presented by French actress Marianne Borgo in the presence of cultural attaché Institut Français, Juliette Grandmont. Filmon's flair for film-making promises to keep you intensely involved and entangled in the ambiguities of the lives of his protagonists and the relationships that unfold.



Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond (2016) which stars John Travolta, Isabelle Huppert, John Boorman, Peter Fonda was premiered at the 2016

Cannes Film Festival

in the Official Selection, this documentary explores the life and artistry of one of the virtuoso founding fathers of contemporary cinematography, the Hungarian-born neorealist Vilmos Zsigmond.

Long Time No See (2019) was a film which featured Laëtitia Eïdo, Pierre Rochefort, Ronald Guttman, Estéban, Alexia Séféroglou, Farid Cherchari. It was shot in five days. This film was recently screened during

IFFI

under the World Panorama section. It is about two people who, though for a brief time, were intensely in love in the past and quite unexpectedly, meet at a railway station after nine years and have only 80 minutes to spare.