Shogo Rupert (Boy) on Champs de Mars.
With the festival president and directors Tia Lessin
(Trouble the Water) and Sima Urale (Apron Strings).
The jury announcesÉ
The Spanish team of El Patio de Mi Cárcel (director Belén Macías and her star) has won again!
(The Heart of No Place was an out-of-competition entry, guysÉ Also: while I was on stage, John was fumbling for the camera under the seat ÐÐ for my knack for missing grand photo-ops, see the Ankara fest page.)
Champagne and crowd following the Palmarès. The Heart screened right after this.
I'm not making a political statement.
With the wonderful Guest Hospitality Coordinator Laetitia Voirin.
Director Sima Urale
View from the hotel room. In the distance you can see the apartment building where Ornella Muti and Gerard Dépardieu lived in La Dernière Femme (1976).
The gorgeous spring weather was a blessing to us but a curse to the festival ("No one wants to sit in the dark cinema!").
John Payne (composer, The Artist Known as John) at the Peace Memorial, Champs de Mars. You know what this monument, with its multilingual cries for peace, is facing? The historical Military School.
Shogo as Winged Victory.
John on the second level of Eiffel Tower.
Shogo with the Créteil lake behind him.
Shogo at festival venue Maison des Arts.