Seated L-R Charge d'Affaires a.i of the Embassy of Belgium to Malaysia Matthias Vanheusden,
Ambassador of Croatia to Malaysia H.E. Mr Kreso Glavac, Ambassador of France to Malaysia H.E. Mr Frederic Laplanche, Ambassador & Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Malaysia H.E. Mrs Maria Castillo Fernandez, Ambassador of Norway to Malaysia H.E. Mrs Gunn Jorid Roset, and Charge d'Affaires a.i of the Embassy of Poland to Malaysia Mr Maciej Tumulec.
KUALA LUMPUR, 1 October 2019: The European Union Film
Festival (EUFF) returns once more to selected Golden Screen Cinemas.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in Malaysia, The EUFF remains one
of the most anticipated international film festivals in the country. This year, a more focused programme promises to
showcase the dynamism, breadth and innovation of contemporary European cinema,
as well as the cultural diversity of Europe, with critically-acclaimed films
from across the continent.
(Embassies and Partners) CinemaOnline Marketing Director Devinder Singh, Charge d'Affaires a.i of the Embassy of Belgium to Malaysia Matthias Vanheusden, Charge d'Affaires a.i of the Embassy of Poland to Malaysia Mr Maciej Tumulec, Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of Italy to MalaysiaMrs Silvia Marrara, Ambassador of France to Malaysia H.E. Mr Frederic Laplanche,
Ambassador of Croatia to Malaysia H.E. Mr Kreso Glavac, Ambassador & Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Malaysia H.E. Mrs Maria Castillo Fernandez, GSC Movies General Manager Tung Yow Kong, and Ambassador of Norway to Malaysia H.E. Mrs Gunn Jorid Roset
Ambassador of Croatia to Malaysia H.E. Mr Kreso Glavac, Ambassador & Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Malaysia H.E. Mrs Maria Castillo Fernandez, GSC Movies General Manager Tung Yow Kong, and Ambassador of Norway to Malaysia H.E. Mrs Gunn Jorid Roset
The European Union Film Festival will take place at
selected Golden Screen Cinemas outlets in Kuala
Lumpur (17 – 27 October) – GSC Mid Valley, GSC Pavilion KL, GSC 1 Utama -
and Penang (31 October - 6 November) –
GSC Gurney Plaza. Since its first edition in 2000, the EUFF has brought
together film enthusiasts, students, families and even people looking for their
first foreign-language film experience.
Spanning animation, drama, romance, comedy, adventure, family films and
documentaries, the wide ranging programme is a testament to Europe's continued
creativity and diversity and has something for everyone's tastes. "Europe has never been just one, but many
cultures, languages and lifestyles. Through EUFF, we celebrate our cultural
diversity. We put culture at the centre of our international partnerships
around the world, including with Malaysia," said H.E. Maria Castillo
Fernandez, Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to Malaysia. "We hope that these films not only entertain,
inspire and teach us about European culture but also open people's eyes to how
both European and Malaysian people enjoy cultural diversity," she added.
The 19 award-winning films this year come from 15
European countries. The festival line-up also features films from non-European
Union countries Switzerland and Norway. Most of the films are collaborations or
joint-productions between European countries and many are courtesy of a project
by the European Commission managed by a Consortium formed by Goethe-Institut
(lead), Institut Français and Cineuropa, the portal for the promotion of the
European cinema. These films bring to life the fact that Europe, just like
Malaysia, is united in our diversity and highlight that story-telling and art
have no barriers across cultures and countries. This year, Romania's inspirational feature film, Beside Me, will open the film festival
with a heart-breaking story that explores the idea of human connectivity.
Directed by the first Romanian disabled filmmaker, Tedy Necula, Beside Me is a telling reminder that we
are all strangers until something brings us together. It is a story about
empathy, self-awareness and tolerance, messages that are relevant today.
Les
Invisibles, the film screened
at the press conference, is a comedy about a group of social workers who do
everything in their power to help the homeless women within their shelter
reintegrate into society and is an example of Europe’s commitment to social
justice. Many of the main characters are played by former homeless women who
are not professional actors. The director, Louis-Julien Petit, spent a year
volunteering in women’s homeless shelters in Grenoble and Paris, saying he
wanted to get the tone of the film right. Six films –Lada
Kamenski (Croatia), Winter Flies
(Czech Republic), Ailo's Journey
(Finland), The Romantic Exiles (Spain), Don't Stop Me Now (Italy), and As
Needed (Italy) –– will be screened for free at all
participating cinemas. Coupons for the free screenings can be downloaded or
screenshot from www.euff.com.my and
redeemed at the participating GSC ticketing counters on a first-come,
first-served basis.
The 20th European Union Film Festival is organised by
the Delegation of the European Union to Malaysia, in collaboration with the
embassies and cultural institutions of 13 European Union Member States, and
Norway and Switzerland.The Film Festival is also supported by local partner
organisations Golden Screen Cinemas Sdn. Bhd., Golden Screen Cinemas
International Screens, GSC Movies and CinemaOnline.,EUFF tickets are sold at MYR9 (normal seats). Tickets
for GSC International Screens title Les Invisibles (France) are sold at
prevailing GSC prices. Tickets can be purchased via GSC E-payment at
www.gsc.com.my, GSC Mobile Apps or at participating GSC outlets. For movie
details, screening schedules and more information on the European Union Film
Festival, visit www.euff.com.my or www.gsc.com.my
EUROPENAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL 2019 MOVIE DETAILS
1. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, BULGARIA
Movie title: King of the Belgians
Language: Dutch
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 94 min
Genre: Drama, comedy
Cast: Peter Van Den Begin, Lucie Debay, Goran Radaković, Nathalie Laroche, Titus De Voogdt, Valentin Ganev
Director: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
Producer: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
Production Year: 2016
Classification : P13
Awards:
Language: Dutch
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 94 min
Genre: Drama, comedy
Cast: Peter Van Den Begin, Lucie Debay, Goran Radaković, Nathalie Laroche, Titus De Voogdt, Valentin Ganev
Director: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
Producer: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth
Production Year: 2016
Classification : P13
Awards:
❖ Avanca Film Festival 2018 (Best Feature Film & Best Screenplay)
❖ Cinequest San Jose Film Festival 2017 (Best Film)
❖ Créteil International Women's Film Festival 2018 (Best Feature)
❖ European Film Awards 2017 (European Comedy)
❖ European Parliament LUX Prize 2017 (Nominee)
❖ Film Festival Oostende 2017 (Best Screenplay)
❖ Magritte Awards 2018 (Best Actor)
❖ Odessa International Film Festival 2017 - Grand Prix (audience award)
❖ Rotterdam International Film Festival 2017
Synopsis of movie:
King Nicolas III is a lonely soul who feels he’s living the wrong life. He embarks on a state visit to Istanbul but a solar storm strikes the earth causing communications to collapse and airspace to shut down. No phones. No planes. To make matters worse, Turkish security coldly dismisses the King’s suggestion they return home by road. But the King has no intention of waiting out this storm. They hatch a dubious escape plan that involves flowery dresses and singing Bulgarians.
Movie trailer link:
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN BELGIUM
Movie title: So Help Me God
Language: French
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 100 min
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Anne Gruwez, David Derumier, Serge Graide, Marc Slavic, Eddy Wilmet
Director: Yves Hinant, Jean Libon
Producer: Le Bureau Films
Production Year: 2017
Classification : P13
Awards:
Language: French
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 100 min
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Anne Gruwez, David Derumier, Serge Graide, Marc Slavic, Eddy Wilmet
Director: Yves Hinant, Jean Libon
Producer: Le Bureau Films
Production Year: 2017
Classification : P13
Awards:
❖ César Awards 2019 (Best Documentary Film)
❖ Festival International du Film Grolandais de Toulouse 2017 (Amphore d'Or & Amphore du peuple)
❖ Magritte Awards 2019 (Best Documentary)
❖ San Sebastián International Film Festival 2017 (SIGNIS Award & Best Actress)
Synopsis of movie:
The extraordinary, offbeat judge Anne Gruwez takes us behind the scenes of real life criminal investigations. For three years the satirical team behind the cult TV series Strip-Tease captured what no one had dared film before. Unapologetic and politically incorrect. You won't believe your eyes. It's not cinema: it's worse!
Movie trailer link: https://vimeo.com/264207268
3, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVENIA, POLAND, SLOVAKIA
Movie title: Winter Flies
Language: Czech
Screening format: BluRay
Duration of movie: 82 min
Genre: Fiction
Cast: Tomáš Mrvík, Jan Uher, Lenka Vlasáková, Eliška Křenková, Martin Pechlát
Director: Olmo Omerzu
Producer: Antonín Šilar, Jiri Konecny
Production Year: 2018
Classification : 18
Awards:
Language: Czech
Screening format: BluRay
Duration of movie: 82 min
Genre: Fiction
Cast: Tomáš Mrvík, Jan Uher, Lenka Vlasáková, Eliška Křenková, Martin Pechlát
Director: Olmo Omerzu
Producer: Antonín Šilar, Jiri Konecny
Production Year: 2018
Classification : 18
Awards:
❖ Czech Lion Awards 2019 (Best Movie, Best Director, Best Screenplay & Best supporting actor and actress)
Synopsis of movie:
Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára's turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, and a story – before it ends at the police station – that tells of the elusive bond of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something, even if you don't exactly know what.
Movie trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVeehZwgm9Y
4, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN FINLAND
Movie title: Ailo's Journey
Language: Finnish
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 87 min
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Peter Franzén, Aldebert, Prinssi
Director: Guillaume Maidatchevsky
Producer: Gaël Nouaille, Laurent Flahault, Laurent Baudens
Production Year: 2018
Classification : U
Awards:
❖ European Cinema
❖ Ventana Sur Festival 2018
Synopsis of movie:
Follow the incredible odyssey of a newborn reindeer in Lapland. Throughout this one-year-long migration over hundreds of miles in the frozen immensity of the taiga, through the forests imprisoned in ice, from the majestic fjords to the high summits, Ailo will cross paths with foxes, lemmings, lynxes, eagles, wolverines, bears, wolves, squir- rels, elks and even ermines... friends and enemies. Relying on his mother’s help to escape from the many predators and dangers, little Ailo will learn to survive and become an adult reindeer.
Movie trailer youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZEhesLn4k
Movie title: Out
Language: Hungarian
Screening format: Blu-ray
Duration of movie: 89 min
Genre: Drama, fiction
Cast: Judit Bárdos, Attila Bocsárszky, Viktor Nemets, Guna Zarina, Éva Bandor, Ivars Brakovskis, Ieva Norvele, Varis Klausitajs, Sándor Terhes, Ieva Aleksandrova-Eklone
Director: Gyorgy Kristof
Producer: Ferenc Pusztai, Marek Urban
Production Year: 2017
Classification: P13
Awards:
Language: Hungarian
Screening format: Blu-ray
Duration of movie: 89 min
Genre: Drama, fiction
Cast: Judit Bárdos, Attila Bocsárszky, Viktor Nemets, Guna Zarina, Éva Bandor, Ivars Brakovskis, Ieva Norvele, Varis Klausitajs, Sándor Terhes, Ieva Aleksandrova-Eklone
Director: Gyorgy Kristof
Producer: Ferenc Pusztai, Marek Urban
Production Year: 2017
Classification: P13
Awards:
❖ Art Film Festival 2017 (Best Film - Nominee)
❖ Cairo International Film Festival 2017 (Best Film - Nominee)
❖ Cannes Film Festival 2017 (Nominee)
❖ Trieste Film Festival 2018 (Best Feature Film, Nominee)
❖ Sun in a Newt Awards 2018 (Best Supporting Actress)
Synopsis of movie:
After losing his job, fifty something family man Ágoston embarks on a journey through Eastern Europe to forge a new career and make one of his dreams come true – to catch a big fish. On the journey, he becomes increasingly tangled up in absurd events and encounters.
Movie title: Winter Flies
Language: Czech
Screening format: BluRay
Duration of movie: 82 min
Genre: Fiction
Cast: Tomáš Mrvík, Jan Uher, Lenka Vlasáková, Eliška Křenková, Martin Pechlát
Director: Olmo Omerzu
Producer: Antonín Šilar, Jiri Konecny
Production Year: 2018
Classification : 18
Awards: ❖ Czech Lion Awards 2019 (Best Movie, Best Director, Best Screenplay & Best supporting actor and actress)
Language: Czech
Screening format: BluRay
Duration of movie: 82 min
Genre: Fiction
Cast: Tomáš Mrvík, Jan Uher, Lenka Vlasáková, Eliška Křenková, Martin Pechlát
Director: Olmo Omerzu
Producer: Antonín Šilar, Jiri Konecny
Production Year: 2018
Classification : 18
Awards: ❖ Czech Lion Awards 2019 (Best Movie, Best Director, Best Screenplay & Best supporting actor and actress)
Synopsis of movie:
Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára's turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, and a story – before it ends at the police station – that tells of the elusive bond of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something, even if you don't exactly know what.
Movie trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVeehZwgm9Y
Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára's turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in winter, and a story – before it ends at the police station – that tells of the elusive bond of boyhood friendship and the irrepressible desire to experience something, even if you don't exactly know what.
Movie trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVeehZwgm9Y
7, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN SWITZERLAND
Movie title: The Last Touch
Language: Swiss German
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 96 min
Genre: Comedy, fiction
Cast: Monica Gubser, Delia
Mayer, Suly Röthlisberger, Peter Jecklin, Daniel Bill, Aniko Donath, Stella
Mayer
Director: Rolf Lyssy
Producer: Anne-Catherine Lang,
Olivier Zobrist
Production Year: 2017
Classification : P13
Awards:
❖
Montréal World Film Fetsival 2018 (Best Film in World
Competition - Nominee)
❖
Music + Sound Awards, International 2018 (Best Original
Composition - Nominee)
❖
Swiss Film Prize 2018 (Best Actress - Nominee)
Synopsis of movie: Gertrud (89) has only one thing in mind when she smiles at
the man online, even though she has no memory of doing so: to determine the
final stages of her life herself before winding up in the dementia ward. But
neither her end-of-life therapist or her family nor her suitor can be coaxed
into honouring
Movie trailer youtube link: http://dieletztepointe.ch/trailer
8. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN FRANCE
Movie title: Les Invisibles
Language: French
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 103mins
Genre: Drama, comedy
Cast: Fatsah Bouyahmed, Marianne
Garcia, Audrey Lamy, Déborah Lukumuena, Noémie Lvovsky, Corinne Masiero, Pablo
Pauly, Sarah Suco
Director: Louis-Julien Petit
Producer: Liza Benguigui
Production Year: 2018
Classification: P13
Awards:
❖
International Political Film Festival of Carcassonne
2018 (Best Director)
❖
Croisic Film Festival 2018 (Chabrol du jury, du
Public & Young Audience)
❖ Festival international du Film de
Pau 2019 (Audience Award )
Synopsis of movie:In three months a homeless shelter for women is set to close as the
result of an administration decision. The social workers running the centre
will do whatever it takes to reintegrate the women back into society. They have
no protocol, everything is permitted... but time is running out.
Movie trailer youtube link: https://youtu.be/05Fhc4WS48A
9, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN GERMANY
❖ German Film Awards 2018 (Best Actor & Outstanding
Feature Film - Nominee)
❖
German Screenplay Award 2015
❖
Guenter Rohrbach Filmpreis 2018 (Best Film & Best
Actor)
❖ Napoli Film Festival 2018 (Best
Film)
❖
Valladolid International Film Festival 2018
Synopsis of movie:
After the shy and reclusive
Christian loses his job, he finds work at a wholesale market. Bruno from the
beverage aisle takes him under his wing and quickly becomes a fatherly friend
to him. He shows him the ropes and patiently teaches him how to operate the
fork lift. Among the aisles of the store, Christian meets “Sweets”-Marion. He
is instantly smitten by her enigmatic charm. The coffee machine becomes their
regular meeting point, and the two start getting to know each other. But Marion
is married, and Christian's feelings for her seem to remain unrequited.
Christian slowly becomes a member of the wholesale market family, and his days
of driving fork lifts and stacking shelves mean much more to him than meets the
eye—especially when Marion does not return to work one day.
Movie trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMZxniJ0AEA
10. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, FRANCE
❖
(Best Actor & Best Cinematography)
Synopsis of movie: The years of exile in the life of
Stefan Zweig, one of the most read German-language writers of his time, between
Buenos Aires, New York and Brazil. As a Jewish intellectual, Zweig struggles to
find the right stance towards the events in Nazi Germany, while searching for a
home in the new world.
Movie trailer youtube
link: https://cineuropa.org/en/video/317618/
11, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ITALY
Movie title: Don’t Stop Me Now
Language: Italian
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 98 min
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Paola Cortellesi,
Stefano Fresi, Vinicio Marchioni, Lucia Mascino, Ricky Memphis, Paola
Minaccioni, Giampaolo Morelli, Claudia Pandolfi, Carla Signoris, Remo Gironi
Director: Riccardo Milani
Producer: Vision Distribution
Production Year: 2019
Classification: 18
Awards:
❖
Golden Ciak Awards 2019 (Best Supporting Actress -
Nominee)
❖
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists 2019
(Best Actor & Best Actress in a Comedy)
❖
Premio Internazionale Flaiano 2019
Synopsis of movie: Giovanna is a low-profile woman with a regular
and boring life, split between her accounting job at the Ministry, her daughter
Martina’s school commitments and the teases of her exuberant mother. But behind
this dull façade, Giovanna is actually a secret agent, engaged in extremely
dangerous and thrilling international missions. During a reunion with her former
high school classmates, among memories and laughter, Giovanna listens to her
friends’ stories realizing that all of them, just like her, is forced to suffer daily
absurd vexations. She can’t stand it any longer! That’s decided: her next
mission will be helping the people she loves and, among extravagant disguises
and hilarious situations, overturn this situation to do justice to her friends!
Movie trailer youtube link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWW8fd8goc
12, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ITALY
Movie title: Quanto Basta (As Needed)
Language: Italian
Screening format:
Duration of movie: 94 min
Genre: Drama, comedy
Cast:
Vinicio Marchioni, Valeria Solarino, Luigi Fedele, Nicola Siri, Mirko
Frezza, Benedetta Porcaroli, Gianfranco Gallo, Alessandro Haber, Lucia Batassa,
Giuseppe Laudisa
Director:
Francesco Falaschi
Producer: Andrea Borella, Fabiano Gullane,
Guglielmo Marchetti, Daniele Mazzocca
Production Year: 2018
Classification: 18
Awards:
❖
Italian National Syndicate
of Film Journalists 2018
Synopsis of movie: Arturo, a 40-year old chef with a
troubled past, is assigned to serve community services as a cooking teacher in
an institute for a group of youngsters with Asperger’s syndrome. Guido, 20-year
old with a great talent and a lot of passion for cooking, is one of the pupils.
The exceptional friendship between the two will help Arturo change his life.
13, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN NORWAY
Director: Erik Poppe
Producer: Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B. Kvae
Production Year: 2016
Classification: P13
Awards:
❖
European Film Awards 2017 (Feature Film Selection)
Synopsis of movie:
On the 9th of April 1940, German
troops invade Oslo. The king of Norway is faced with a choice which will change
his nation forever. The King's Choice is an epic film about the real events
which turned a brave man into the people's king.
14, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN NETHERLANDS
Movie title : Stranger in
Paradise
Language: Dutch
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 73 min
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Valentijn Dhaenens
Director: Guido Hendrikx
Producer: Frank van den Engel
Production Year: 2016
Classification : P13
Awards:
❖
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2016
(Special Jury Award)
❖
Bergen International Film Festival 2017
(Documentaire Extraordinaire - Nominee)
❖
Biografilm Festival 2017 (Audience Award & Best
Debut Film)
❖
European Film Awards 2017 (European Documentary -
Nominee)
❖
DocAviv Film Festival 2017
(Depth of Field Competition - Nominee)
❖
Madrid International Documentary Film Festival Fugas
2017
❖
Millennium Docs Against Gravity (Best Actor-Director Collaboration
in a Fiction/Non Fiction Film Award - Amnesty International Award)St. Petersburg
Message to Man Film Festival
❖
2017 (Russian Press Prize & Student Jury Prize)
Synopsis of movie:
In a classroom in Sicily, just inside the walls of Fortress
Europe, recently arrived refugees receive lessons from a teacher who has some
rather unbalanced traits. One moment he mercilessly rejects the refugees – the
next, mollifyingly, he embraces them.
Operating at the intersection of documentary and fiction, STRANGER IN PARADISE
investigates the power relations between Europe and refugees. Europe is
represented by a teacher who drags his class of refugees down into his despair.
A plea that borders on the immoral; a welcome charged with a guilt complex; and
the compromise between these, made policy: STRANGER IN PARADISE is an
unflinching film essay on the mechanisms through which Europe tackles the
refugees’ desire for happiness.
Movie trailer link: https://cineuropa.org/en/video/330431/
15, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN THE NETHERLANDS
Movie title: The Conductor
Language: English
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 140min
Genre: Drama
Cast: Christianne de Bruijn, Benjamin Wainwright
Director: Maria Peters
Producer: Dave Schram
Production Year: 2018
Classification : P13
Awards:
❖ SCENECS International Debut Film Festival 2018 (Best
Acting Talent Award )
Synopsis of movie: Based on the true story of Dutch
born, US raised Antonia Brico who was the first female conductor. Nobody takes
her ambition seriously because she is a woman and everyone around her
discourages her to follow her passion. Because of her incredible perseverance
she becomes the first woman to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. But
emotional strain threatens to overwhelm her, when the love of her life puts her
in a difficult position. What choice will Antonia make?
Movie trailer youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAk8JIygrEI
16, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN POLAND
Movie title: Jack Strong
Language: Polish, Russian, English
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 128 min
Genre: Drama/Political thriller/Fiction
Cast: Marcin Dorociński, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri
Bilov, Dagmara Dominczyk, Oleg Maslennikov, Krzysztof Pieczynski
Director: Władysław Pasikowski
Producer: Klaudiusz Frydrych, Roman Gutek, Sylwia Wilkos
Production Year: 2014
Classification : U
Awards:
❖
Camerimage 2014 (Polish Films Competition - Nominee)
❖
Polish Film Awards 2015 (Best Actress & Audience
Award - Nominee)
❖
Polish Film Festival 2014 (Best Costume Design &
Best Director)
❖
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 2014
(Nominee)
Synopsis of movie: A spy thriller telling a
historically based story of a man who alone dares to challenge Soviets being in
the middle of the communistic system himself. Planning the maneuvers of Warsaw
Pact forces he discovers that the American plans of nuclear counterattack
against Soviet forces is planned to be executed on Polish territory. Thanks to
his determination he starts a long, lonely and psychologically exhausting
cooperation with CIA. From that moment the life of his and his family is in
danger as one careless move can lead to tragedy.
Movie trailer youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if2V1iszwuA
17, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN ROMANIA
Movie title: Beside Me
Screening format: BluRay
Duration of movie: 84 min
Genre: Drama
Cast: Iulian Burciu, Grumăzescu Cezar, Victoria Cocias, Constantin
Cotimanis, Dana Porlogea, Constantin Drăgănescu
Director: Tedy Necula
Producer: Anca Vlasceanu, Tedy Necula
Production Year: 2018
Classification : P13
Awards:
❖
I Will Tell Film Festival London 2018 (Best Feature
Drama)
❖
Militello Film Festival 2018 (Best Editing Award)
Synopsis of movie:
A subway stops between the stations on the
morning after the fire in the Collective Club. Each one in its path, travellers
are together and are starting to interact. We're strangers until something
brings us together. If we open up, we notice that we have what to share with
those around us. At the end of the journey, at the next station, each one comes
out altered in its own way.
Movie trailer youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n4mDNp-e2A
18. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN SWEDEN, DENMARK, NORWAY
Movie title: Sami Blood
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 110 min
Genre: Drama
Cast: Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Erika Sparrok, Maj Doris Rimpi
Director: Amanda Kernell
Producer: Lars G. Lindström
Production Year: 2016
Classification : 18
❖
Guldbagge Awards 2018 (Audience Award, Best Actress,
Best Screenplay & Best Editing)
Synopsis of movie: Elle
Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breading Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the
1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming
of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and
break all ties with her family and culture.
Movie trailer youtube link: https://cineuropa.org/en/video/321175/
19, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Language: Spanish - French - Italian
Screening format: DCP
Duration of movie: 70 min
Genre: Drama/Fiction feature
Cast: Vito Sanz, Francesco Carril, Luis E. Parés, Renata Antonante,
Isabelle Stoffel, Miren Iza, Vahina Giocante.
Director: Jonás Trueba
Producer: Los Ilusos Films
Production Year: 2015
Classification : P13
Awards:
❖
Málaga Spanish Film Festival 2015 (Special Jury Prize
for Best Music)
Synopsis of movie: Three friends in their thirties,
dreamers and more preoccupied with themselves than anything else, set off on a
trip in an orange camper van. Their journey takes them to Paris, the dream city
of their youth, from Madrid, via Barcelona, Annecy and Toulouse. On the way,
they meet women with whom they have or have had a romantic story. They debate
and philosophize, joke a lot and spend twelve carefree, unforgettable days
during which they want to surprise themselves and feel alive again. The
Romantic Exiles is a charming and wonderfully told road movie full of literary
and cinematic quotations.
Movie trailer youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi6VMgnEXRY
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