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Richard Gere to open Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival
14/04/2017
BARCELONA-SANT Jordi International Film Festival will be officially opened by Pretty Woman actor Richard Gere, who will première his production Norman, in which he plays a homeless man.
Gere, whose partner Alejandra Silva (pictured) is Spanish, is a regular visitor to the country with a Buddhist centre he set up in Pedreguer (Alicante province) and homeless shelters in the Basque Country and Madrid – a city whose mayoress, Manuela Carmena, he has huge praise for because of her humanitarian conscience.
The BCN Film Fest, as it is known in shorthand, will take place from next Friday (April 21) and run until the following Friday inclusive.
It will take in Saint George's Day, April 23, which falls on a Sunday this year and is celebrated in Catalunya as well as England as 'Dia de Sant Jordi', where book and flower stalls fill the streets.
Gere will be accompanied by Norman director Joseph Cedar and will host a charity party during his short stay in Barcelona.
The film festival is a new feature, seeking to celebrate cultural diversity, and the productions shown will nearly all be premières in Spain.
They include Lone Scherfig's Her best story with Gemma Arterton and Sam Claflin; Maudie, by Aisling Walsh, starring Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins; and Japanese director Yôji Yamada's Nagasaki: Memories of my son.
Seven comedies will be shown in the Cinema amb Gràcia section, with the lead film being an Italian box-office smasher co-written and starred in by Checco Zalone, An Italian in Norway.
Other films include director Jacques Becker's Les Amants de Montparnasse ('The lovers of Montparnasse'), and a documentary by his compatriot and fellow director Bertrand Tavernier, Les filmes de ma vie ('The films of my life').
BCN Film Fest will be held at the Verdi Cinemas in Barcelona's Gràcia neighbourhood.
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BARCELONA-SANT Jordi International Film Festival will be officially opened by Pretty Woman actor Richard Gere, who will première his production Norman, in which he plays a homeless man.
Gere, whose partner Alejandra Silva (pictured) is Spanish, is a regular visitor to the country with a Buddhist centre he set up in Pedreguer (Alicante province) and homeless shelters in the Basque Country and Madrid – a city whose mayoress, Manuela Carmena, he has huge praise for because of her humanitarian conscience.
The BCN Film Fest, as it is known in shorthand, will take place from next Friday (April 21) and run until the following Friday inclusive.
It will take in Saint George's Day, April 23, which falls on a Sunday this year and is celebrated in Catalunya as well as England as 'Dia de Sant Jordi', where book and flower stalls fill the streets.
Gere will be accompanied by Norman director Joseph Cedar and will host a charity party during his short stay in Barcelona.
The film festival is a new feature, seeking to celebrate cultural diversity, and the productions shown will nearly all be premières in Spain.
They include Lone Scherfig's Her best story with Gemma Arterton and Sam Claflin; Maudie, by Aisling Walsh, starring Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins; and Japanese director Yôji Yamada's Nagasaki: Memories of my son.
Seven comedies will be shown in the Cinema amb Gràcia section, with the lead film being an Italian box-office smasher co-written and starred in by Checco Zalone, An Italian in Norway.
Other films include director Jacques Becker's Les Amants de Montparnasse ('The lovers of Montparnasse'), and a documentary by his compatriot and fellow director Bertrand Tavernier, Les filmes de ma vie ('The films of my life').
BCN Film Fest will be held at the Verdi Cinemas in Barcelona's Gràcia neighbourhood.
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