MUMBAI: The 34th edition of the Northwest Film Center‘s Portland International Film Festival will start on 10 February with the screening of director Francois Ozon‘s Potiche a French melodrama starring the formidable duo of Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu.

The event, that will run through 27 February will include films from Abbas Kiarostami, Bertrand Tavernier, Apichatpong Weerasethaku, Carlos Saura, John Turturro, Takeshi Kitano and Susanne Bier.

A notable contingent of Oregon-made features is in the programme of the fest that will debut this month at the Sundance Film Festival like Peter H. Richardson‘s How to Die in Oregon as well as Aaron Katz‘s Cold Weather and Matt McCormick‘s Some Days Are Better than Others.