Critically acclaimed Filipino director Brillante Mendoza at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in 2009 where he won Best Director for his film, ‘Kinatay’ AFP PHOTO
The weeklong French Film Festival from June 10 to 15 at the Greenbelt 3 Cinema in Makati City was a resounding success with consecutive full house screenings of titles like Venus in Furs (La Venus a la Fourrure) by controversial Polish director Roman Polanski; Mood Indigo (L’Ecume des Jours) by Academy Award winner, director and screenwriter, Michel Gondry; as well as the highly recommended political satire on the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Quai d’Orsay.