Currently he is working on a documentary about Ingmar Bergman. Melik Saracoglu studied film and literature in Austria and France. Nothing Personal Muller, a pharmaceutical company, wants to introduce a new product; therefore it organizes an extravagant party and invites their senior managers, managers and other employees.
During the night the guests are invited to take part in a role-play which, however, turns out in a different way. It just seems to be a massive stimulating training of management. Soon there are rumours that the company is in bankruptcy. Panic rises and everyone wants to save their own skin. Mathias Gokalp brings a sober view on an environment where everyone is convinced about their place until they suddenly lose it; an environment where people unintentionally hurt and humiliate each other simply for their self-preservation.
Nothing Personal, in a comedy tone, awakes company demons. A joy to watch! Mathias Gokalp, born in , has already been fascinated by the silver screen and books since his childhood. He has successfully continued to create short movies. Nothing Personal is his feature debut.
The attack appears just like a simple traffic accident and it is its consequences what matter: how can you survive when your loved one dies, how not to feel guilty for having survived, how to accept to love again? Not seeming quite alive, but not dead yet, Galia is roaming as a ghost in search of the one who rescued her. Seven Minutes in Heaven is a valuable one as it avoids the films repoussoir that it bears virtually in itself, and particularly focuses on passing the different moods of his character onto their facial expressions.
The final turn of events brings profound feelings of nostalgia. Omri Givon, Israeli writer and director has been, as he says, fascinated by film since his childhood. Seven Minutes in Heaven is his full-length directing debut.
Je to krik odporu. Leo Seosanto, Les Inrockuptibles. The old man appears as a messenger behind the wheel of his van. His messages are of Kurdish identity which is the game of this beautiful visual, panoramic poem full of fulgurating and stylized sequences. It is a cry of resistance. He is a recognized painter, interior designer as well as theatre and film set designer.
Then he started to study animation. His short film The Last Innombrable Village encountered a great success. Tale in the Darkness Angelina, a thirty years old policewoman, is not really in favour of all the couples kissing in the streets of Vladivostok. It is that the happy people, or at least those who look like happy, remind her of her own monotone and gloomy existence that resumes into taking kids out of the clutches of dysfunctional families with no greater conviction.
A revelator: Angelina then decides to take care of herself, to love and to make her be loved. For the problem is not of seducing but of accepting her emotions. Wonderful portrait of a woman, a second film by Nikolai Khomeriki, captures moments of both cruel brutality and mercy. Nikolay Khomeriki began as an assistant director. The stark and raw drama Tale in the Darkness is his second feature film. Brian Hu, Asia Pacific Arts. Master Lin makes giant, elaborate origami houses which get burned down during funerals.
His son Xiao Gang passes out real estate flyers in the streets while dressed as a giant tiger. Lou Yi-an debuted as a screenwriter with God Man Dog. Priority is given to works that stand out for the way they sense the world, carrying unique and in-depth visions. A ceremony is organized in the memory of the martyrs of war by supporters of the regime. For almost three years, Mehran Tamadon immersed himself in the very heart of the bassidjis, the first defenders of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mehran Tamadon has devoted himself to art since He creates installations and writes. Bassidji is his first documentary feature.
Police station Everybody knows how institutional spaces exert a great fascination on documentary cinema. Filmmakers usually try to dissect the moving forces of these enclosed environments, which are metaphors for actual power. Not much is revealed about the daily routine of a police station, nor is it glorified or denounced. In this film shot in Normandy, a human comedy is being played out right before your eyes.
There is no pathos, no spectacular angle. Small offences, neighbor quarrels, where the grotesque and the absurd meet, familial drama or melodrama; the most varied tales intersect in this place which has become the ultimate stage where people come to talk and ask questions.
Ilan Klipper studied contemporary history at the Sorbonne and is the director of several documentaries. He is currently shooting Sainte-Anne, a feature-length documentary about the psychiatric hospital in Paris. Virgil Vernier was born in Paris in In his fiction short Thermidor, was chosen for the Directors Fortnight sidebar at Cannes.
Constantin a Elena Constantin miluje Elenu. Elena miluje Constantina. Maartje Alders. Constantin and Elena Constantin loves Elena. Elena loves Constantin. They live in a little house with a smoking chimney; talking about the past, but not too much. They provide their own needs, take care of their animals and grow vegetables, very slowly.
They belong to another time, where everything is like it always was, just slowing down, little by little, like an old machine. The camera beautifully observes their small movements, their almost indecipherable signals that they have perfected over the years. The theme is as old as the world. Dasdalescu defines his grandparents so delicately, so sweetly, like a classic song that suddenly makes you melancholic, a song to which they dance their humble swan dance with grace.
Andrei Dascalescu started as an editor and recording director and cooperated with the director Francis Ford Coppola. Jerusalem, Israel , e-mail: hilla ruthfilms. The Worst Company in the World Three divorced middle aged men with glasses work together in a small, failing insurance agency, located in the rented apartment of the manager. The film begins on December 31, the last day of the year — and the most stressful one for an insurance company.
Although highly intelligent, holding a strong sense of humour, and well educated, the threesome led by the father of the director himself have absolutely no idea about running a business. Their company is losing a good deal of money and is continually on the verge of bankruptcy.
Encirclement —Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy Encirclement — Neo — Liberalism Ensnares Democracy, the fruits of nearly twelve year lasting labour, wants to throw light on the true nature of neoliberalism. Richard Brouillette in his many interviews has shown that neoliberalism, although wrapped in a cover of scientific neutrality, is evidently an ideology. An ideology of a new kind, because it is less related to a specific geographical area and historically shaped by networks that supported it so massively that it could become an unparalleled idea apt to draw massive support from all social classes.
Encirclement — Neo — Liberalism Ensnares Democracy does not aspire to be an anti-capitalist pamphlet, as it may be believed; it rather urges with questions of possible dangers of a political idea of merely economic nature, which does not go any longer arm in arm with ethical aspect.
Richard Brouillette is a film producer, director, editor and programmer. In he founded Casa Obscura, an art centre which is a multicultural space. His activities mainly concerns production. Encirclement —Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy was awarded several prizes at home as well as foreign festivals. Marilyn Ferdinand. Clouzot, scorned by the authors of the French New Wave for his tightly scripted and controlled film style, immersed himself in the pop culture of the s.
The film floundered, and Clouzot abandoned it after he suffered a heart attack during shooting. Serge Bromberg is recognized as an expert in the field of film restoration. In he was dubbed knight of French Art and Literature Order. Ruxandra Medrea was born in Romania but later on she has lived in Austria and France.
The Mirror Viganella is a little mountain village in northern Italy that is located in such a deep valley it receives no sunlight at all from November 11 to February 2. This would reflect the sunlight, thus illuminating the village square in winter. David Christensen, Canadian producer, director and writer, founded the production company Agitprop Films.
He made a documentary called War Hospital , and his next film Six Figures was included among the ten best Canadian films of the year. Paolo Bertolin. Petition An admirable example of what great documentary filmmaking can distil: with Petition, Zhao Liang signs a powerful indictment of social injustice, which also plays as an immensely humane and touching portrait of people whose resilient will to obtain justice pushed to the most undesired margin of society.
Zhao filmed for over a decade the crowd of petitioners who came to Beijing from the farthest provinces of China, in order to denounce abuses and misdemeanours from local authorities, and ended up parked for years in a shantytown near the complaints office.
Zhao Liang lives and works in Beijing. He studied at Beijing Film Academy and made several successful full-length documentaries, the most known being Crime and Punishment Agrarian Utopia Agrarian Utopia focuses on several peasant families who work persistently but their income hardly covers debts which they have run to. Despite their profound relationship with their ground the peasants are inevitably forced to leave and extent the queue of exiles heading for Bangkok or somewhere else.
However, Agrarian Utopia only marginally deals with the burden of problem announcing. The film is quite elaborated; visual beauty, space play and pace are dominant and celebrate elements of nature, documenting a simple way of life which is at once exhausting as well as satisfactory. The title of Agrarian Utopia does not refer to an ideal imaginary society but to the reality of communities living in harmony who now have been facing their decline.
Uruphong Raksasad comes from Northern Thailand and studied journalism and mass communication in Bangkok, with specialization in film and photography. He started his career as an editor and post-producer for several Thai films. Finally he discreetly backed out of film industry to make his own film taking place in his home village. High - Rise High — Rise explores the social and cultural mindset of the Brazilian upper class through dialogues with the owners of penthouses in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Recife.
The Dona Marta slum looks quite different now that it has become more colourful. This is just one among many bewildering confessions that director Gabriel Mascaro managed to grab. Gabriel Mascaro has been engaged in video art and new media. Lee Marshall, Screen International. However, unlike the Michigan mauler, Gandini mostly keeps himself out of the picture and lets a well-chosen array of subjects — TV agents, paparazzi, wannabe stars — carry his message that the unhealthy concentration of media and political power in the hands of a single man has pushed Italy to the brink of moral meltdown.
Erik Gandini studied in Sweden. Then he came back to Italy, the country of his origin, and worked as a camera assistant in the famous Cinecitta film studios. His documentary Sacrificio — Who betrayed Che Guevara aroused international discussion.
Film nie je autobiografiou. The Windmill Movie Two hundred hours of footage, dusty boxes of film, a broken editing computer: these were the pieces of filmmaker Richard P. An autobiography, that is not. A documentary which is fiction.
A lifetime of questions, finally answered. Alexander Olch is a designer and conceptual artist whose exhibitions can be seen in some of the most significant world galleries. The Windmill Movie is his feature debut.
How can two strangers begin a conversation full of recriminations, argue until they get hoarse, and passionately reconcile as if they were a couple? Say me is a perfectly written, acted and paced comedy on the importance of saying the right thing at the right time! These days he is working on his next film Blackthorn.
Sun Koh mainly focuses on television, she makes films of various genres and also documentaries. Twelve years after the end of the conflict, the traces of altercation are still present. Dilapidated houses act as unintentional memorials, warding off oblivion.
Eni Brandner studied multimedia art in Salzburg, animation and new media in Zagreb. She lives and works in Austria. Her job is mainly about experimental and animated films production, and cooperates with a wide range of artists.
Robert has to take a jar of black caviar to Mrs. Zina, a rich lady, the owner of a modelling agency. Maybe Mrs. Zina could help He works in television as a director and screenwriter of successful programs, he has also co-operated with a private Czech television station. He works as a theatrical director.
Woman Caught in a Room with Tempes A writer holds into life thanks to his pen. His characters and his past inhabit him, trapping him in a room with a storm. A visually stunning rough shape about passion and self-destruction, Woman Caught in a Room with Tempes somehow captures the essence of certain sensuality typical of Mexico.
Ianis Guerrero studied film direction in Paris. Then he returned to Mexico where he founded a production company in which supports young local filmmakers, and later he decided to make his own films. Guerrero lives and works in Paris again. Reunion Two ex-classmates talk about their respective lives in a coffee shop after a long time not seeing each other. Two school boys skip class and one of them can see the ocean for the first time.
Whether the two stories feature the same protagonists at different ages of not, friendship is always at stake. A moving essay on the feelings of intimacy and detachment. He made short films during his studies; Reunion is his first professional short film. These days he is working on writing his full-length debut. Rita Rita, a blind child, lives in a neighbourhood of Palermo. She is stubborn, curious and feels thwarted by her overprotective mother.
The claustrophobic world of her home is suddenly breached by a mysterious presence. It is a small time crook on the run and wounded. The meeting between the two of them, highly enigmatic, ends at the sea.
Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza have worked as writers, development and acquisition consultants for major Italian production companies, such as Fandango and Filmauro.
Salvo, their current feature film project, awarded a special mention by the Solinas Prize, will be shot in the same Palermo neighbourhood where they directed Rita. Stealing the Corn It is a sunny summer day.
Three teenage boys are picking up corn in a vast field, when the farmer arrives with his tractor. They try to escape, but one can see nothing in the endless vegetal labyrinth.
Stealing the Corn is a very cinematic and beautiful fable on punishment and deliverance through solitude and fear. Martin Turk studied direction in Slovenia. His graduation film The Excursion won several international prizes.
His debut film A Slice of Life won the prize for best Slovenian film , his second film Every Day Is Not The Same premiered in Cannes and was screened at more than 25 international film festivals. Rakowiecka 4, Warszawa, Tel. Tourist The impoverished pensioners of Tourist, who live in a dull and gloomy block of flats, certainly cannot afford summer vacations far away. Despite this they manage to indulge themselves with great holidays on a sunny sandy beach Memorable times from a distant past come alive once again.
With a small difference - now, the beach is manmade and… on the roof! In he won the Golden Lion at Cannes and other notable prizes in the advertising industry. Later he decided to make his own films, these days he is working on writing his own full-length feature screenplay.
Party A girl and her friends are enjoying a careless summer day in the sunlit streets of Vukovar and quiet river-banks of Danube, where light-heartedness and leisure make everything seem nice and simple.
They are not aware that the youthful idyll might be easily broken. Dalibor is a member of the European Film Academy. A Man Overboard Tristan is convinced he is no longer a man. He is unable to communicate with his father, even his girlfriend does not look at him anymore and the fish he tries to catch treat him with total disregard.
He gets caught up in and sinks into his own dark anxiety, to an absurd degree. Fabien Gorgeart is a director and screenwriter making short films. Yellow Belly End A cliff top, blue sky, multiple deaths, and a man keeping a meticulous note of it all. The man lives a relatively peaceful and tidy existence, spending his time watching others ending theirs as they jump from the top of the cliff. Soon, however, he finds circumstance plotting against him as he is drawn ever nearer to the edge of the cliff himself Philip Bacon, fresh film school graduate, according to his own words he wants to focus on making commercials, videoclips and short films.
He works in London. Tales from the Golden Age adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime. This was an era during which food was more important than money, and survival more important than principles. Humour is what kept Romanians alive, and this omnibus film produced by Golden Palm winner Cristian Mungiu aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship.
Los Angeles, CA , Tel. Source: Venice Film Festival. Capitalism: A Love Story With Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore returns to the issue he has examined throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans and citizens of the world. But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene far wider than Flint, Michigan. With both humour and outrage, he explores the vexing question of what price America pays for its love of capitalism.
What he finds are the all too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal His movies focus on current problems facing the American society. She encourages them in their belief that they have more potential than their schoolmates, and also encourages a crush held by one of them, Di. As and actress she appeared in White Squall. The Last Days of Emma Blank In a large country house, the owner Emma Blank is very ill and is cared for by her household staff: Haneveld the head housekeeper, Bella the cook, Gonnie the maid and Meier the man-servant.
Despite her desperate need for loving care, Emma is a steely, avaricious dictator whose demands become ever more absurd, to the extent that her staff is driven to madness. Until the day that they discover that they stand to inherit nothing and they drop off their charade of caring and concern and instead plot their revenge This is a deliciously cruel look at greed and manipulation.
Alex van Warmerdam is a Dutch writer, designer, director and actor, graduated in graphic design. Finally, the director won once again the Jury Prize. It seems that there is another director to the group of independent British filmmakers of respectable names like Ken Loach, Mike Leigh or Lynne Ramsay; the one group having the aptitude to precisely survey the life of uprooted individuals from the outskirts of society.
Fish Tank is a strong realistic drama which depicts 15year-old Mia yearning for breaking away from her family and dreaming of becoming a dancer. A harsh language and an authentic simplicity characterise this personal tragedy of a girl who prematurely enters the world of adults.
Andrea Arnold is one of the most talented directors of modern British cinema. Fish Tank, also competed in Cannes this year and was awarded the Jury prize again. This is the story of two men, Little and Griffen, who should conciliate in front of TV cameras, thanks to a special programme of British and Irish governments.
Griffin was an eyewitness of the planned, brutal murder. Obviously no one is aware of the plan. Five Minutes of Heaven, awarded with two prizes at Sundance, deals with the scope of violence heritage. Oliver Hirschbiegel began in television; he also made several episodes of Der Komissar Rex. He made a name with The Downfall , which caused an extensive discussion and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
USA, e-mail: amber shorelineentertainment. Shot almost claustrophobically and focused on introvert and maniacal Raquel, The Maid finally questions: How can you live your life if all your existence is dedicated to serving the others?
This uniquely talented Chilean director precisely describes comportment, supported by work with outstanding actors. The film set design reveals his extraordinary sense of detail.
Debutoval filmom Vida me mata. He started his film studies in Chile; however, a year later he left for Montreal with great artistic ambitions which ended up selling shoes.
Vida me mata is the title of his debut. Micmacs Bazil is an optimistic dreamer. Then he loses his job as well as the roof over his head. Therefore he has to live in the streets with the bullet in his head; surgeons have not taken it out as the intervention could damage his brain. For Bazil, it is a second time to have encountered a lethal weapon; a landmine killed his father in Moroccan desert and now Basil has had to face death and been put on the periphery of society by the accidental bullet.
Bazil meets several losers who accept him as one of them. A peculiar group composed of an artist, a contortionist, a mechanic, a stunt man, a writer and a woman cook; they live in a shack build of iron garbage in the middle of a dump. In this bizarre place full of magic things and crazy tricks, they altogether hatch revenge on the whole armaments industry. Film Nanking Nanking rezonuje ako rekviem v obrazoch. City of Life and Death China and Japan are at war again. Japanese imperial army is at the gates of Nanking, the Chinese capital.
The siege lasts several weeks and then turns to a massacre of tens of thousands soldiers and civilians. The movie City of Life and Death comes back in history to the most tragic events of Asia in the 20th century. How to make a film about the horror of war? The question is still relevant for all the filmmakers. Lu Chuan responds with a colossal historical epic lacerated by a litany of atrocities. An abstraction recalling the terrible absurdity of the facts. The movie City of Life and Death resounds as a requiem in images.
Sublime and heart-breaking at the same time. Lu Chuan is considered one of the most talented Chinese directors. He graduated in English literature in Beijing and worked as an army interpreter. In he left the army and began to study at Beijing Film Academy. In he directed Kekexili: Mountain Patrol. Persecution Daniel, 35, seems fairly busy with his job as a building worker.
This troubled affair gets challenged, though very indirectly, when out of nowhere a mysterious man shows up in his apartment. What Daniel believes to be a one-time event starts happening more and more. Soul Kitchen Young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover!
Fatih Akin comes from a family of Turkish immigrants who settled in Germany. From auxiliary jobs he gradually worked his way up to become a screenwriter, director and actor. He attracted attention with his first full-length debut Kurz und schmerzlos but his most successful films were Head On and The Edge of Heaven in which he reflected the issue of Turkish minority living in Germany. The film won Grand Prize in Cannes and proved the screenplay cooperation of the duo Audiard and Thomas Bidegain to be one of a million.
A young Arab called Malik, nineteen, is sentenced to six year imprisonment. In jail he finds himself among treacherous groups of murderers of various nationalities and confessions, each of them following his own rules in order to survive.
He must do nothing but adapt. After a murder he commits by order of Corsica mafia he becomes a different man; a man of ability to foresee and to read between the lines. The experience turns him into an impressive diplomat in this savage world. He enters the prison as an illiterate and leaves it as a Prophet. Jacques Audiard born in a famous family of filmmakers, Jacques Audiard he did not want at first to be connected with cinema himself. However, his debut Regarde les hommes tomber was awarded three Cesars.
A Prophet was awarded Grand Prize at Cannes film festival. The Exploding Girl. Esra Demirkiran. West Of Pluto Quebec, one of the countless residential areas. In this very low-budget but highly entertaining coming of age story, the teenagers talk also about Ben Affleck, music, babysitting or peanut butter!
Eventually, they all end up at a house party thrown by an introverted girl, get drunk and things go very wrong. The existentialist problems of these youngsters, their ideas about French and English, their self-expression, are some of the many motives of this very charming, fresh and well-judged debut. Henry Bernadet, producer, director and writer has already made 20 short films, mainly comedies. He also makes movies for Canadian television and websites for which he was nominated for various awards.
West of Pluto is his first feature film. Myriam Verreault is a producer, writer, director and editor. She is a member of Spirafilm, an association of independent filmmakers and a founder of independent Vostok Films productions. T F mk lesfilmshatari. Kto je to? Jayasundara once again depicts with stunning visuals and a richly textured sound design the sorrowing state of turmoil in which his country has been left after decades of war.
In his highly metaphorical tale, a young man literally falls from the sky to the troubled shores of a country torn by an unstoppable insurrection. Who is he? A reincarnated deity? A fallen angel? Or simply a young, innocent man caught in the maze of the ever-repeating madness and atrocities of human warfare? Vimukthi Jayasundara was born in Sri Lanka. Altiplano Two ministrants standing on sides of the Virgin Mary statue are staring at us; then they put on masks of the Sun and the Moon.
The camera is turning around its axe and capturing a small gathering in a church in the Andes. It is a fiction taking place at several continents Peru, Iraq, and Belgium ; the actors are excellent to bring unbelievable intense emotions, at the same time joyful as well as lamenting, tragic and lyric, not corresponding to any of canons.
Altiplano, a series of projected images beautiful enough to take your breath away, praises the idea that redemption is a matter of self-sacrifice. Peter Brosens was born in Leuven, Belgium As a director and screenwriter he debuted in with State of Dogs. He attracted attention with his next film Khadak about a young Mongolian nomad, on which he co-worked with Jessica Woodworth.
Her first film The Virgin Diaries was presented at the Amsterdam documentary festival. The workshop takes place in the city of Sulaimaniyah. In a country that is one of the major oil producers, they survive recycling cans used to sell gasoline at the haste.
Pesheraw Faik survived the detention and the inhuman treatments, but became sterile. Every time Salar Fatah is passing by the market of Sulaimaniyah, he sees a little girl, Rojgar, spending hours at the same place with his father. Salar discovers that they are homeless, following a family dispute. A bell rings just then.
A strange man asks for water and promises that he will stay just for five minutes. But suddenly he calls for two other villains. A great mix of horror, experimental and burlesque films! They all enjoy themselves telling how they have ended up there.
Yet, someone with deep cinema knowledge and a nice music archive, a friend of Chris Marker, is missing Guillaume Giovanetti and Cagla Zenciri have cooperated as a director-author duo since Go Get Some Rosemary With freestyle camerawork that makes you smell the pavement of New York, the brothers Safdie paint Lenny, a man on a high rope with right his personal urges and left his — temporary — responsibility for his two young sons.
In the opening scene he light-heartedly buys hotdogs to Sage and Frey, and ends up eating them himself. The Safdies created a grim but often funny story with charm that will put a smile on your face, like a child bringing you a disgusting bug as a present.
Brothers Ben and Josh Safdie cooperated in making many shorts, as well as in production as authors. Ben works with photography, while Joshua draws and makes statues. Huacho On a summer day four members of a Chilean peasant family struggle to adapt to the world which they live in, a world where a video game can be as precious as a liter of milk. Values are quickly changing in a new global environment. First and foremost it is the monstrousness of capitalism that is indeed dismaying through small details.
What a nice way of seizing the symbolism in this significant film. He worked as a film critic, photographer and journalist. His shorts have been successfully presented at several international festivals and awarded a few prizes e. Desde Lejos was a winner at film festival in Santiago as the best short movie. His feature debut is Huacho. Currently he is working on his new film Sentados Frente al Fuego.
Vincent Thabourey, Positif. The filmmaker returns to a tragedy of passion which gives his project a salutary openness to the world, transfiguring this intimate story which is painfully ephemeral and guilt-evoking into a universal story. Always enough elaborated — the initial titles are chalk-drawn — his movies, shot using a small digital camera, remain movies of objects, revealing traces and imprints of our lives.
Misook is on her way to Jeonju to see her friend JinYoung. Later on, she spends the night with Sangoak, her teacher and her ex-boyfriend. Hong Sang-soo was born in Lourdes Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle. Lourdes is a cruel fairy tale. Ill people of the entire world go to Lourdes hoping to get their health back, hoping for a miracle, because Lourdes is a place where the existence of miracles is still asserted, a place synonymous of hope, comfort and recovery for the desperate and the dying.
But the ways of God are unfathomable, and the hope that on the verge of death, everything may turn out alright is one that seems absurd when life is drawing to an end.
Lourdes is the stage on which this human comedy plays out. Jessica Hausner, Austrian director and screenwriter has made six films. Lovely Rita was screened within Un Certain regard section at Cannes Her other films are Inter-View , Hotel , and Toast Police Adjective Corneliu Porumboiu, a minimalist endowed with great talent is telling us a story full of amazing feats in a film in which he is presenting all his precious gifts and a unique world of his imagination.
Who else would wager on a story that is built on a dictionary yes, the book! Fascination grows with observing of how so many things could be expressed in such a minimal material. Even later on he attracted attention with his full-length debut East of Bucharest for which he won Cannes Golden Camera. The Exploding Girl Ivy, a year-old college student, comes home to Brooklyn for summer break.
Along the way, she stops to pick up a friend, Al. When Al gets stranded without a place to stay, Ivy convinces her mother to let him crash at their apartment. Although Ivy feels anxious about her relationship with her boyfriend Greg, she hides her concern from Al. Having juvenile epilepsy, Ivy has learned to manage her feelings in order to reduce the stress on her body. But this bottling of emotions eventually takes its toll as Ivy continues to lose control over her personal life.
A love story and a poetic study of friendship, unpretentious and seemingly effortless. Bradley Rust Gray is a versatile filmmaker. From the classics comedy, horror, thriller to the more topical ones Bollywood, blaxploitation, porn, etc. Yi ngoi Young Victoria. Porn industry drives America and still does well though California is getting closer to bankruptcy. Parents are not really proud of their kids, but the girls do not mind when at the height of their fame.
The next film to come was a documentary 20 Seconds of Joy which has been selected for HotDocs, the biggest documentary festival in North America. Todd Brown, Twitch. His skills in kung fu are prodigious, his skills with the ladies even more so. They have captured the spirit of a long gone era and done so in hugely entertaining fashion. No mere regurgitation or mimicry here, Black Dynamite is strong enough that it could be a lost nugget from the blaxploitation era itself.
Even though he is a master at ground travel he still cannot overcome his deep fear of flying. He dreams big but takes no action, listening to his favourite 70s French pop singer Joe Dassin, and spending time with his son, ex-wife and her new husband. Immediately falling in love, Yigal becomes brave: he gets into a small plane for a test flight - his dream is to make it to Paris with his son for his Bar Mitzvah.
Lina also knows of stuffing dreams away having given up on her dreams of being a concert pianist. A remarkable debut, Five Hours from Paris is a very sweet and mature romance. Five Minutes From Paris is his fulllength debut; these days he is working on writing his second film for which he got grant support from the Israeli Film Fund. He is being brought up by his father, three uncles and grandmother; a typical Flemish family, the adolescent must lead a tough fight against social predetermination of high extent.
The Strobbes like to drink a lot of beer, to eat quite fat meals and to seduce everything that moves. It is a kind of folklore where Gunther has to try hard to develop his own attitudes. However, tough masculinity reveals beautiful tenderness.
Belgicko nominovalo film Smoliari na Oscara He is also a writer and director of plays, e. The Misfortunates is the official entry of Belgium for Oscars In the Corner. He does not live in a luxurious apartment but a tiny flat with his recording machines and old broken piano towering over his bed. Gonzales is extraordinarily talented, blending various genres such as French impressionism, Viennese waltz or tango argentino.
Labelled by fans as the most insane and brilliant pianist in the world, Gonzales entered the Guiness Book of Records last May when he entertained Parisian audience with a concert of 27 hours 3 minutes and 44 seconds! Before that performance the poetic musician had already drawn attention of Laure Flammarion, who shot hours of recordings. Fortunately she distilled these rushes into a fascinating minute portrayal. Meenakshi Shedde. Akhtar comes from a distinguished Bollywood family her screenwriter-lyricist father Javed Akhtar wrote the dialogues , and though her feet are firmly in Bollywood, she stylishly rises above it as well.
Luck by Chance is her full-length debut. This time it is a very significant woman poet, singer and political activist Patti Smith. Steven Sebring is a renowned fashion photographer. His style is characterized by connection of harsh reality, world of fantasy and fashion design. The documentary Patti Smith: Dream of Life is his feature debut. Tento film je Transmitter!
Stop Making Sense There are bands about which myths exist even while they are still active and give performances on stage, thus making them cult bands. This goes definitely true when talking about Talking Heads.
Not just because of their cooperation with Wim Wenders or Brian Eno, but also for Radiohead who took their name from their song. The band was active since till and recorded 8 studio albums which strongly influenced the post-punk scene. This film is Transmitter!
Jonathan Demme began as a film publicist. He got his first directorial opportunities from famous independent producer Roger Corman, and thanks to commercial success of his documentary about the band Talking Heads he made videoclips for artists like Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
He won world renown for Oscar winning films Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia. A bohemian painter and musician called Marek has just come back from the busy city to the countryside of his childhood to find peace and quiet. The lonely, secluded house seems to be an ideal asylum and Marek finds his lost artistic inspiration again. A relationship with a girl from neighbourhood helps as well. However, the gloomy atmosphere of both the house and the region starts to affect Marek more and more.
He successively learns about drastic events and secret rituals that took place in the house as well as the village nearby in the past. Tragic death of his parents, childhood secret rituals practised together with his sister; all of this is now back and connected with the recent strange events. Juraj Herz, Slovak native, got himself among the most inventive directors with his debut Junk Shop based on a short story by Bohumil Hrabal. In he emigrated to Germany where he mainly worked for television.
Plagued with guilt, he is also suspicious and morbid by nature. After one mission accidentally goes wrong, causing the life of one of his men, The Brain is convinced that this accident has been choreographed: someone is plotting to terminate him and his team.
He becomes increasingly paranoid. When he is accosted by a mysterious insurance agent, The Brain becomes obsessed that this man must be the mastermind behind the conspiracy to take him out.
Soi Cheang started as an assistant of director Johnnie To. His debut Diamond Hill was already marked with a unusual visual style. His horror films have been commercially successful on his home market. He earned an international reputation with the movie Dog Bite Dog in Zdroj: Toronto International Film Festival. Beautifully directed and exquisitely acted, The Young Victoria is a memorable, sophisticated and very charming exploration of English history.
Source: Toronto International Film Festival. Nasledovali filmy Los Locos a Loser Love. He studied at the film university in Montreal. His film debut Les fleurs magiques was nominated for nine Genie Awards. Later he made Los Locos and Loser Love. His next film C. Replika divadelnej hry. A play replica. Julia is a beautiful and smart actress, quite a bit younger than he is; Heitor confessed to her he would pass the rest of his life with her Milky Way is an intimate diary of a strange kind which is balancing somewhere in between the ego and the openness towards others.
Od tej doby sa premietal na viac ako tich festivaloch. Lina Chamie studied and worked in New York. Upon coming back to Brazil she has directed several videos. Milky Way premiered at Cannes Film Festival in Since that it was presented at more than 60 festivals. David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, M.
Gutto Barra graduated in journalism and worked as a cultural journalist in Brazil. In New York he started a successful company called Planet Pop. Sparked by a double suicide, a group of Guarani-Kaiowa Indians leave their reserve to set up a ramshackle camp. But, as a wealthy farmer called Moreira sees the land as his and when neither his farmhand nor lawyer are able to remove them he turns to other, more sinister, means. Birdwatchers is a veritable laundry list of the problems facing the natives that touches on poverty, alcoholism, racism, teen suicide, deforestation and the erosion of their ancient culture.
Bechis makes it clear whose side he is on but never stoops to preaching or sentimentalism. Marco Bechis grew up in Brazil. In he was deported from Argentina due to his political views. Bechis cooperated with Federico Fellini on Ginger and Fred. Delicate Crime Antonio Martins is a respected theatrical critic whose life is marked by his methodical control.
Not a single detail escapes his astute analysis. A chance encounter in a bar presents Antonio with a disturbing element of this order: the young Ines. The intelligent narrative never stops being surprising, scenes of naturalistic improvisations are challenged with descriptions of fragile human relations. Delicate Crime is at once a delicate as well as a subversive movie. Sunstroke Sunstroke tells stories of unrequited love. In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion.
Felipe Hirsch is a young progressive theatre director. His works are focused on survey and experiment. Daniela Thomas works in cinema, theatre and opera switching from graphic designer, passing by director or writer. She wrote the script and co-directed with Walter Salles Linha de passe which was awarded at Cannes festival in , with Best Actress for Sandra Corveloni.
She relies on him for everything. He is fun-loving, outgoing, a free spirit. He has been in London for three years and boasts about how easy it has been for him to make money as an electrician. To him, London is a land of opportunity. She works long hours as a cleaner, does not speak the language and misses her boyfriend in Brazil. Then London is turned upside down by a series of suicide attacks. It is summer ; the police are everywhere and paranoia envelops the city.
Henrique Goldman comes from Sao Paulo in Brazil. No one has favorited this theater yet. Cinema City Israel Official. Previously operated by: UCI Kinowelt. Phone Numbers: Box Office: Cinema City AuPark is the largest multiplex cinema in Slovakia as of It has 12 screens and a total capacity of 2, seats.
Besides AuPark the Israeli operator also owns two other multiplexes in the capital city of Slovakia Bratislava, the March opened Eurovea theater which has nine screens and the oldest multi-screen theater in Slovakia Polus which has eight screens. By the number of seats it was the 5th largest site of the Palace Cinemas chain by the end of , when the central European Palace Cinemas cinema chain had 22 sites and screens total.
The multiplex is situated in the western part of the AuPark Shopping Center. Other entertainment establishments in the mall include a casino, bowling alleys and a fitness center.
In the autumn of that year it changed its name to Cinema City AuPark. Between 30th January and 15th March the multiplex was in a total reconstruction. Its auditoriums were refurbished, but the theater remained open and only decreased the number of daily showings.
This is an evidence of the fact that the AuPark cinema is one of the most effective theaters of the Cinema City International chain. All twelve screens are digital.
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