Looking for Eric because the film festival was "in receipt of financial support from the State of Israel". The book for "Looking For Eric" is published by Route Publishing. It includes the full screenplay, extra scenes, colour photographs from the film and on set, and introductions from Paul Laverty, Ken Loach, Eric Cantona and production notes from the cast and crew. In July 2014, "Looking for Eric" had an 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film won the Magritte Award for Best Film in Coproduction. Roger Ebert, who had praised many of Ken Loach's previous works, gave the film two stars out of
The Search (2009 film) The Search (2009 film) The Search or Soul Searching () is a 2009 Tibetan romance film written and directed by Pema Tseden. "The Search" is the first-ever film made in Western China's Tibet Autonomous Region to have been shot entirely with a Tibetan crew and in the Tibetan language. The film picks up the story of a photographer and a director travels from village to village looking for actors to star in a film based on the Tibetan opera "Drimé Kunden", a legendary account of a prince who selflessly gives away his children and his own eyes to those in