The French Film Week opens today in Vitebsk

May 21, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The French Film Week opens today in Vitebsk, the cinema "Mir", which will host screenings of films of French and Swiss production, informed a BELTA correspondent. The festival program will open with an afternoon screening of the 2010 animated film "A Cat in Paris" (directors Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol), which was nominated for an Oscar. The first to see it will be students of grades 4-7 of Secondary School No. 40 and Secondary School No. 3. Schoolchildren from other educational institutions of the city will also be able to watch it, as the cartoon will be shown throughout the week and will be the final chord of the festival on May 26. Adult fans of French cinema will be able to get acquainted with the dramas "The Refuge" (2009, director François Ozon), "Belle Épine" (2010, director Rebecca Zlotowski), "The Beast in Love" (Switzerland, 2009, director Severin Corneanus) and "The Little Room" (Switzerland, 2010, directors Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond) in the coming days. These are stories that tell about how drugs change a person's life, about the problems of loneliness of young and old people, and the crisis of marital relations. Among the festival works, there is also a comedy for family viewing, "Liberté-Oléron" (2000, director Bruno Podalydès). All films are provided by the French Embassy in Belarus and will be shown in French with Russian subtitles. -0-