CHRISTIAN VINCENT
Director Christian Vincent Isabelle Carré and José Garcia
in Quatre Etoiles 
CHRISTIAN VINCENT has shown through his films his ability to treat different aspects of human relationships: the dramatic, comic, and light-hearted as well as socially aware subjects. This year the French Film Festival UK is devoting a retrospective to his work. He will visit the festival, and besides meeting the public and answering their questions after screenings of his latest film Four Stars, he will also give Masterclasses to cinema students in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.
Director Christian Vincent will be present at these screenings:
Edinburgh Filmhouse 19 April 8.30pm
Glasgow GFT 20 April 8.15pm
London CinéLumière 21 April 8.30pm
PATRICK GRANDPERRET
Director Patrick Grandperret Céline Sallette and Hande Kodja in Murderers

This is the sixth feature by Patrick Grandperret who was an assistant to Pialat on Passe ton bac d'abord (1979) and Loulou (1980). Grandperret directed notably Mona et moi (1989 – Prix Jean Vigo) and L’enfant lion (1993).

Director Patrick Grandperret will be present at these screenings:
London CinéLumière 24 April 6.30pm
Glasgow GFT 25 April 6.30pm
Edinburgh Filmhouse 26 April 6.15pm
BERENICE BEJO
Berenice Bejo in Cannes in 2006 Berenice Bejo and Jean Dujardin in
OSS 117:nest of Spies
MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS
Director Michel Hazanavicius Berenice Bejo and Jean Dujardin in
OSS 117:nest of Spies

MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS & BÉRÉNICE BÉJO will come to talk about their work together on OSS 117: Cairo – Nest of Spies which they will present to the Scottish public. The director had his roots with the comic group Les Nuls on the TV channel Canal+ and then worked in the publicity arena before directing his first feature film My Friends in 1999. His lead actress was nominated at the Césars for Meilleur espoir feminin in 2000 and here she makes her presence felt as an irresistible OSS girl (think James Bond).

Actress Bérénice Béjo and director Michel Hazanavicius will be present at these screenings:
Glasgow GFT 24 April 8.15pm
Edinburgh Filmouse 25 April 6.00pm
Edinburgh Vue Ocean Terminal 26 April 8.30pm
SYLVAIN CHOMET
Director Sylvain Chomet Paul Putner in Paris, je t'aime.

SYLVAIN CHOMET has been the honorary patron of the French Film Festival UK since 2004.
He received international attention and an Oscar nomination with his animated film Belleville Rendezvous. At the moment he is working in Scotland on his next animated project The Illusionist, adapted from a script by the late Jacques Tati. But it’s for the live-action portmanteau film Paris je t’aime that he will take part in the festival in Edinburgh, not far from his studios in the centre of the city. Chomet will talk about his segment Tour Eiffel.

Gala screening at Edinburgh Filmhouse only on 28 April at 8.30pm in the presence of director Sylvain Chomet and producer Claudie Ossard.
CLAUDIE OSSARD
Producer Claudie Ossard Paris, je t'aime is Claudie Ossard's last project

Claudie Ossard began her career in advertising and it wasn’t until 1980 when she broke into cinema by producing Telephone Public, a feature directed by Jean-Marie Perier. She followed this up in 1986 with Betty Blue (37°2 Le Matin) which created a sensation not just in France but overseas and helped to make stars of Beatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade and forged the reputation of director Jean-Jacques Beineix. Her collaboration with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet in 1991 also proved significant – she produced three of his ground-breaking films comprising Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children ( La Cite Des Enfants Perdus) and Amelie ( Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain). She has also worked with such film-makes as Emir Kusturica on Arizona Dream. The ambitious portmanteau project Paris je t’aime is her latest offering. Last year FFF UK screened another of her films Mon Ange with Vanessa Paradis by emerging film-maker Serge Frydman.

Gala screening at Edinburgh Filmhouse only on 28 April at 8.30pm in the presence of director Sylvain Chomet and producer Claudie Ossard.