Fwd: European Film Festival Invitation
Hemlata Mistry
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Date: Thu, May 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM
Subject: European Film Festival Invitation
To: Hemlata Mistry <hem...@gmail.com>
Screening schedule
“Voices of Youth”
The 19th European Film Festival
Dates: 8th to 15th May 2014
Venue: Galerie Max Mueller, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai,
K Dubhash Marg, Kalaghoda, Mumbai 400001
Note: All films have English subtitles. Free Entry for all.
Friday, May 9
11.00 am
Easy (Italy) – 97 min
Directed by Francesco Bruni
This debut feature film from celebrated screenwriter Francesco Bruni is a touching comedy about two broken men who help each other find their way. A ghost writer for sports and television celebrities, he is currently writing the biography for former adult star Tina, while also tutoring privately to make ends meet. One of his students is Luca, a drifting and despondent teenager who is on the brink of failure at school. Luca's mother takes a six-month job in Mali, and asks Bruno to look after her son while she's away. Confused by the request, Bruno's world is turned upside down when she reveals he is Luca's father. A poignant yet fresh story about a man learning to become a father, and a son choosing to become a man.
2.00 pm
On The Sly (Belgium) 77 min
Directed by Olivier Ringer
In a world and in a time not so faraway lived a little girl who had the feeling to be invisible in her parents eyes. To be sure, she decided to disappear. - “A poetic mixture of fantasy and reality that reflects a child's confused sense of time and place.” - (Philip French, The Observer)
5.00 pm
Aching Hearts (Denmark) 125 min
Directed by Nils Malmros
Set in the early 1960s, the story evolves around highschool sweethearts Jonas and Agnete, their friendships and families, trials and tribulations. Jonas fails to give Agnete the kind of attention she craves, and when she decides to start a new romance, he feels for the first time a cold stab of jealousy. Their rocky relationship takes Jonas through the spectrum of emotions that arises with an aching heart. »Aching Hearts« is shot over a period of three years, taking into account the development of the young actors, some of whom are amateurs from the actual milieus Malmros is depicting.
Saturday, May 10
11.00 am
Snowboarders (Czech Republic)
Directed by Karel Janák
»Snowboarders«, the fast-paced teen comedy, full of suspense, romance and action thrills, explores the playful aspects of the new millennium's younger generation life.
Jáchym and Rendy are friends who really like snowboarding. And they're champions at it — although only on computer simulators. They're 16 and determined to change their lives. The first step is a fabulous trip to the mountains and their plan was to have a blast — on the slopes and off.
Great soundtrack, funny teen gags and charming winter atmosphere at the mountains made the film win the Czech Lion Audience Award of 2004 and made it the most popular Czech teen comedy for many years.
2.00 pm
Don't Be Afraid (Spain)
Directed by Montxo Armendáriz
Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. At the age of 25 she decides to rebuild her life and face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her struggle against adversity and against herself, she learns how to control her fears and becomes an adult woman, taking control of her own actions.
»Don't Be Afraid« it is Montxo Armendáriz's approach to the very difficult and sometimes taboo subject of child abuse.
5.00 pm
The Brides (Greece)
Directed by Pantelis Voulgaris
With the Greco-Turkish War and Russia Civil War still unfolding in 1922, many women from these countries attempt to find husband in the United States through correspondence. When the bride Eleni returns from the United States to Samothrace, Greece, since she has not adapted to the life in America, her sister Niki Douka is assigned as her replacement. She travels aboard the SS King Alexander to New York to marry the Greek immigrant Prodromos in Chicago. She becomes a leader of the brides and discovers the scheme of the crook Karabulat from Georgia with the Russian brides.
She also falls in love with the American photographer Norman Harris from Detroit. But Nikki is committed with Prodromos and she knows about the consequences if she runs away with Norman.
Sunday, May 11
11.00 am
Love like Poison (France)
Directed by Katell Quillévéré
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend.
Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a freespirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?
2.00 pm
Blind Spot (Luxembourg)
Directed by Christophe Wagner
The mysterious and charismatic Inspector Hastert takes on one final case before he retires: the death of a fellow cop. He is helped by Oliver Faber, who is also the brother of the dead cop. Corruption and deceit are on the menu, and that's just for starters…
5.00 pm
Bright Vision (Ireland)
Directed by Dónal Ó Céilleachair
This documentary focuses on ten-year-old Shahira Apraku, who has a German mother and a Ghanian father and who attends the local Irish speaking school. Shahira embodies an entire new generation of Irish speakers and sean-nós singers.
Sean-nós, a type of traditional Irish signing, is considered to be the holy grail of Irish traditional music and the Sean-nós singer is the living embodiment of a tradition that stretches far into Gaelic history.
Monday, May 12
11.00 am
Garbage Prince (Finland)
Directed by Raimo O. Niemi
Nineteen-year-old Jed walks out on his former life, without destination, without explanation, and gets on a train. He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life. Coping becomes a challenge for him almost to the point of being an obsession. Of all the people in town, Jed seems to constantly run across the prickly and quick-witted seventeen-year-old Lulu. Gradually, without either of them admitting it, their relationship changes from bickering, picking on each other and a battle of wills to friendship, and as can happen, finally to love.
2.00 pm
Breathing (Austria)
Directed by Karl Markovics
Eighteen-year-old Roman Kogler is serving time in a juvenile detention center. He has already served half of his sentence, and could be released on probation, but his chances are poor: he doesn't have a family, and he seems incapable of coping with society. After many failed attempts, Roman finds a probation job at the municipal morgue in Vienna.
One day, Roman is faced with a dead woman who bears his family name. Even though it soon turns out that she is not his mother, Roman wonders about his past for the first time and starts looking for his mother. Of all things, it is this job dealing with the death that shows him the path back to life.
5.00 pm
Hope is a strange Place (Portugal)
Directed by Joaquim Leitão
Lourenço is the son of Francisco Figueiredo, a soccer coach at the beginning of a very promising career. Everything goes well: Francisco's team is in the Portuguese Cup final and Lourenço is going to be class valedictorian in a very prestigious private high school. But everything starts to collapse. Francisco is fired and Lourenço is transfered to a public high school whose students are
predominantly from a ghetto near Lisbon. While Lourenço is fighting to fit into a new and harsh reality, he also helps his father find his lost dignity.
We look forward to your attendance!
Barbara Seyerl
Trainee
Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai
K. Dubash Marg, Kala Ghoda
Mumbai 400 001
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