First ever film festival to take place on a deserted island in the Bora Bora Lagoon, French Polynesia, showcasing romance films from around the world

With a reputation as one of the most romantic places in the world, Bora Bora will be home to the first annual Tahiti Film Festival for romance films. The week long Festival premieres on December 2, 2006 on a deserted island in the Bora Bora lagoon, with outdoor screenings every night under the stars on a giant inflatable screen set up on the beach.

Twelve full-length feature films will be competing for most outstanding romantic movie of the year.
MOVIES IN COMPETITION:
• Les Filles du Botanistes (France)
• Lovelorn (Turkey)
• I could never be your woman (USA)
• David & Layla (Irak/Kurdistan/UK/USA)
• The Promise (China/USA)
• Cidade Baixa (Brazil)
• L'Audition (Canada)
• Kontakt (Macedonia/Germany)
• Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (France)
• Water (India/Canada)
• O Maior Amor Do Mundo (Brazil)
• Pollen (Tahiti)

The Tahitian Minister of Culture, Mr Tauhiti Nena, and Bora Bora’s Mayor, Mr Gaston Tang-Song will be organizing out of competition screenings in Papeete and Bora Bora during the weeklong festival.

MOVIES OUT OF COMPETITION:
• Retrospective on Director Jacques Demy’s work:
- Lola 1961, 85 min
- La Baie des anges 1963, 89 min
- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg 1964, 91 min
- Les Demoiselles de Rochefort 1967, 120 min
- Peau d’âne 1970, 89 min
- L’Evénement le plus important depuis que l’homme a marché sur la lune 1973, 94 min
- Le Sabotier du Val de Loire 1955, 26 min
- Le Bel Indifférent 1957, 29 min
- Ars 1959, 18 min
- La Luxure 1962, 14 min

• The Thomas Crown Affair
• Modigliani
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
• Tabu (1931)