Jean-Jacques Annaud leads French delegation at Durban Film Festival

Academy Award Winner and internationally renowned French filmmaker, Jean-Jacques Annaud will attend the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) 2015 edition to present his new film, Wolf Totem, screened for the first time in South Africa and to be released in cinemas nationwide after DIFF by Videovision Entertainment. The director of Seven Years in Tibet, Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose and The Bear has worked with many stars like Brad Pitt, Sean Connery and Jude Law.

Jean-Jacques Annaud will premiere his new film in South Africa at DIFF as part of an exceptional line-up of French films and guests present this year at the festival, including Boris Lojkine (Hope) as part of a Cannes Critics' Week best-off and female director Euzhan Palcy. Her film, White Dry Season (1989), adapted from the novel by South African writer Andr Brink will be screened on the occasion of the Mandela Day (18th of July, 20.00).

For the first time, two prestigious Cannes Film Festival sections will be represented in Durban, the Critics' Week and the Directors' Fortnight, together with a delegation of Reunion Island and experts from Produire au Sud- 3 Continents Festival taking part to the Durban FilmMart industry programme for the third consecutive year.

The beautiful adaptation of the Chinese best-seller by Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem, will be screened on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 July at 20:00 at Supernova Cinema (Suncoast) in presence of the director.

Set in the magnificent landscape of the Inner Mongolia (China) and focuses on a relationship between a man and a wolf, the film has received critical acclaim with Variety calling the film a viscerally powerful drama,' while The Hollywood Reporter said that the film was spectacularly staged stunning' and Screen International pronounced the film to be a proud throwback in look and spirit to a kind of filmmaking we don't see much anymore.' Wolf Totem has also achieved box office success, reaping in US$ 111 million in China and US$9 million in France.

The French Institute of South Africa is proud to have made it possible for Jean-Jacques Annaud to attend the DIFF, together with UniFrance and Videovision, as part of its efforts to strengthen the links between France and South Africa in the film industry , says Fr d ric Chambon, Film and Media Regional Attach at the French Embassy in South Africa.

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