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Under the direction of Paulo Branco, Estoril Film Festival 2008 celebrates cinema as an artistic creation, with a special highlight on its transversal characteristics and its glittering appeal to other arts. The Festival explores the 7th art by exalting its three specific components - art, entertainment and industry through the work of some of the most remarkable directors of our time. The Competition section focuses on the quality of European cinema. For the Out of Competition section, geographical boundaries are banned, thus showing what the cinematographic world has best to offer on a technical and artistic level. The Estoril Film Festival is also a place of exchanging knowledge, offering different ways of seeing cinema with masterclasses, public meetings with international artists, debates, concerts and exhibitions. The Festival will also host a meeting between the best European film schools, the annual meeting of Europa Distribution and a debate with some of the most well known international critics.