James Franco pic bows at Rotterdam

The city -- James Franco's latest extracurricular film-making project will require its world bow in the Rotterdam Film Festival, which opens on Jan. 25. "Francophrenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Understand In which the Baby Is)" is referred to like a humorous psycho-thriller comprised of footage shot by Franco throughout the building of television series "General Hospital." Material continues to be reformed with a brand new script by Franco and co-director Ian Olds. Most widely known being an actor, Franco has created a steady flow of experimental films recently, reworking footage of River Phoenix in "My Very Own Private River" and probing the existence of Sal Mineo in "Sal." The film seems in Rotterdam's Spectrum section, including 72 features and documentaries by established filmmakers, including 16 world premieres. Also preeming within the section is "A Form of Error" by U.S. experimental filmmaker Abigail Child. Pic explores romanticism from the 1800s through imaginary films allegedly shot in Rome by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Rotterdam will even begin to see the world bows of Miike Takashi's "Ace Attorney," a movie adaptation of Nintendo's eponymous court docket vid game, and "Once the Lights Went" by Brit helmer Pat Holden ("Awaydays"). Pic concerns a Yorkshire family suffering from an evil spirit throughout energy power shutdowns from the seventies. They're became a member of by Davide Manuli's "The Legend of Kaspar Hauser," a publish-modern Western from Italia starring Vincent Gallo, and "Le reste du monde" by Gallic helmer Damien Odoul, starring Marie-Eve Nadeau, Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Beart. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com