British director and scriptwriter Sir Alan Parker will be granted our Lifetime Achievement Award to the Director with Unique Visual Sensitivity. The presentation of the Award will be accompanied by the publication of the book on his life and workand an exhibition of the stills from his movies and photos from the set taken by different photographers.

More information on Alan Parker is available here

The programme of the 16th edition of Plus Camerimage will also include the retrospective review of Alan Parker's films. The following will be presented:




BUGSY MALONE
cin. Peter Biziou, Michael Seresin
UK; 1976; 93 min.
The Prohibition-era story of Bugsy Malone, a penniless boxing promoter, whose love life gets complicated when he becomes involved in a New York turf war between two rival gangsters. Uniquely, though, all the parts are played by children who chase in pedal cars and use whipped cream machine guns.







MIDNIGHT EXPRESS
cin. Michael Seresin
UK, USA; 1978; 121 min.
A harrowing film based on the real-life story of a young American tourist who, arrested for hashish smuggling, endures 4 years of sadistic torture and inhumane treatment in the Turkish prison. As he is about to regain his freedom, his sentence is extended to 30 years. Owing to his extraordinary fortitude and the support of his fellow inmate, he manages to persevere and pluck the courage to take the “midnight express" (jailhouse slang for escape).





FAME
cin. Michael Seresin
USA; 1980; 134 min.
Young artists selected for the prestigious New York City’s High School for the Performing Arts push their talents to the limit to make it big in the cutthroat world of show business. This episodic tale follows eight characters as they struggle to achieve their dreams of stardom while coping with the universal teenage problems of loneliness, insecurity, and embattled, mercurial identity.






PINK FLOYD THE WALL
cin. Peter Biziou
UK; 1982; 95 min.
Based on Pink Floyd’s successful album, and highly autobiographical of Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, a cinematic account of the psychic turmoil faced by fictional rock star Pink. Unable to balance personal success and spiritual emptiness, he descends into madness by building a mental wall between himself and the rest of the world. His haunting memories combine in a disturbing mix of episodic live action and surreal animation.





BIRDY
cin. Michael Seresin
USA; 1984; 120 min.
The title character is a Vietnam vet hospitalized for postwar trauma. Lying in a state of catatonic stupor, Birdy regresses into belief that he is a bird, an animal that has obsessed him since childhood. After his psychiatrist’s efforts fail to cure him, his childhood friend Al Columbato is brought in to try to coax Birdy out of his hallucinations.

ANGEL HEART
cin. Michael Seresin
USA, Kanada, UK; 1987; 113 min.
Seedy gumshoe Harry Angel is hired by mysterious Louis Cyphre to locate a missing jazz singer. A trail of dead leads takes him into an underworld of voodoo magic, murder and forbidden desires so as to ultimately reveal the horrifying answer that he had all along...




MISSISSIPPI BURNING
cin. Peter Biziou
USA; 1988; 128 min.
When three civil rights activists disappear without a trace in Mississippi, two FBI agents are sent to break the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town torn apart by racial segregation. Solving the case will require not only overcoming the hostility of the local authorities and the black community but contending with their own differences as well.






COME SEE THE PARADISE
cin. Michael Seresin
US; 1990; 138 min.
An interracial romance set against the backdrop of World War II and the internment of Asian-Americans in relocation camps. One of the few American films to deal with the inglorious episode in American history.








THE COMMITMENTS
cin. Gale Tattersall
Ireland, UK, USA; 1991; 118 min.
In the hope of bringing soul music to Dublin, Jimmy Rabbitte forms a band of motley musicians on his inspirational logic: “The Irish are the blacks of Europe. Dubliners are the blacks of the Ireland. North Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin." Despite a nationwide success, the group’s situation grows bittersweet as they are torn apart by rivalries off-stage.






EVITA
cin. Darius Khondji
USA; 1996; 134 min.
A film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s popular Broadway musical portraying the life of Eva Peron. With her move to Buenos Aires at the age of 15, she begins her gradual rise from a dance-hall girl and presumed prostitute to the hypnotically powerful first lady of Argentina. Initially distrustful of her, millions of Argentinians came to respect and adore Peron for her intensive social action, while others perceived her as a populist facade for a fascist dictatorship.





ANGELA'S ASHES
cin. Michael Seresin
USA, Ireland; 1999; 145 min.
The film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of Frank McCourt, who was born amid the squalor of Depression-era Brooklyn and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Tragedy after tragedy haunts his family’s every waking moment as exile, hunger and suffering wedge them into a cruel existence. A grown-up Frank narrates his childhood and his desperate quest to leave Ireland for the golden shores of America.





THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE
cin. Michael Seresin
USA, Germany; 2003; 130 min.
David Gale is a man who has tried hard to live by his principles, but in a bizarre twist of fate, this devoted father, popular professor and respected death penalty opponent finds himself on death row for the rape and murder of a fellow activist, Constance Harraway. With only three days before his scheduled execution, Gale agrees to give reporter Elizabeth Bloom an exclusive interview. Believing in his innocence, she races against the clock to prove that he has been unjustly convicted.