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TV5MONDE collaborates with the educative sections of the festival

The international television network TV5MONDE and the Seville Institut Français sponsor the films’ projection 'The Grand Hotel Ballet' and 'The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily' this Tuesday 12th.

Collaborator with the Seville Festival, the international television network and producer TV5MONDE sponsors this Tuesday 12th, together with the Seville InstitutFrançais, the films’ projection The Grand Hotel Balletand The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicilyin the Zona Este Cinema (Palacio de Congresos roundabout, 1)

In this double session (framed in the Cinephiles of the future educative section), different education centres will watch at 9:30 am ‘The Grand Hotel Ballet’ by Jacques Deschamps, that deals with the running of a hotel as a carefully choreographed dancein which every tiny detail is important. In this film, a group of girls and boys learn the ins and outs of the craft at the prestigious French School in Lesdiguières. This film mixes two genres that are rarely touched: documentary and musical. Through the registry of their learning and the songs narrating their dreams and hopes, they dance to the exciting ballet of the grand hotel, and that of the initiation to life.

Following this projection, at 12:00 pm, it will be next to the film by Lorenzo Mattotti, The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily. In this work, the very personal visual universe of the illustrator and author of the graphic novel Lorenzo Mattotti (also collaborator of figures such as Lou Reed, Soderbergh y Antonioni) is merged here with that of Dino Buzzati, whose legendary book is adapted in this price jewel of the contemporary animation. They story of how the bears finally invaded Sicily to get the Bear King’s son back is actually a parable about colonisation, cultural appropriation and the despotic use of power whose potential took him to the Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. In conclusion, this work, as those by Sendak, Rodarior Saint-Exupéry, starts from the infantile to reach the universality.

Born in 1956 and graduate at the IDHEC, Jacques Deschamps has made about twenty documentary films, including titles such as La villed’HugoLe regard ébloui, Canova mutilé or Romanès. He has written and directed three fiction feature films: Méfie-toi de l'eau qui dort, which won two CinemAvvenire awards in Venice, La fille de son père and Tsunami. In the past, he has also made films whose genres intersect, such as Don Quichotteou les mésaventures d'un homme encolère, a hybrid between fiction and documentary. The Grand Hotel Ballet is his first musical-comedy documentary.

On his part, Mattotti(Italy, 1954) after studying architecture, he decided to work on comics and, nowadays, he is considered one of the most distinguished exponents of that art. His works has been translated all over the world; he is author of works such as El señorEspartaco,Estigmas y Fuegos, among others. He has also illustrated children’s book, he has worked in the fashion world, he has made advertising campaigns, he has illustrated front pages of publications as The New Yorker or Le Monde and he has been author of important posters, as that of Cannes in 2000. In the film industry, he collaborated in cartoon segments of Eros(film by Wong Kar Wai, Soderbergh y Antonioni in 2004) and as a director in Peur(s) du noir (2007) together with other important artists of the comic world. The famous invasion of bears in Sicily is his first feature film, realising in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes.