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Leaving / Odcházení
CompetitionDir. Václav Havel“Leaving” is the feature film version of the Vaclav Havel’s play, the draught of which he had written in the late ‘80s. At that time the play wasn’t completed since the author had been driven away with something more important: the former dissident, persecuted writer and a political…
The Other Family / La otra familia
CompetitionDir. Gustavo LozaTaking into consideration that his mother is a crack-addict, it is not difficult to guess why the round-faced big-eyed 7-year-old protagonist of the movie has such a strange and not at all Mexican name Hendrix. In the song written by Serge Gainsbourg back in 1978 and called “Ex…
In the Name of the Devil / W imieniu diabła
CompetitionDir. Barbara SassTo begin with, in reality the events turned out to happen in a much notorious way. The noted filmmaker Barbara Sass intentionally avoided the most chocking circumstances, which had taken place in 2007 in one of the Polish nunneries in the provincial town of Kazimierz Dolny. Anyhow, according…
Tabou - The Soul Is Stranger on Earth / Tabu - Es ist die Seele ein Fremdes auf Erden
CompetitionDir. Christoph Stark“Do you think it’s a sin?” – asks Margareta (Grete) in pensiveness of her brother, an expressionist poet Georg Trakl, after they’ve just had a sexual intercourse in the background of picturesque falls. “I don’t know”, - answers the poet straightly. During the course of the film these…
The Steppes
PerspectivesDir. Rob NilssonA small sketch from the life of Ukrainian emigrant woman Miri, who – after her husband had deceased – is trying to contrive the small hotel she owns, placed in a porch of a house in some troubled district of San Francisco suburbs. There is an international cacophony…
Hora menos
Perspectives Dir. Frank Spano The starting point for the action in the film is the real extremal situation, resurrected on screen with documentary shots of the wild outrage of nature. Streams of rain water, sweeping away bridges, houses, streets. Unprecedented flood happened on the North cost of Venezuela in 1999…
Postcard / Ichimai no hagaki
CompetitionDir. Kaneto ShindoKaneto Shindo is the holder of the absolute record in the history of the Moscow Film Festival. He is the only one who took he main trophy three times: in 1961 (“The Naked Island”), in 1971 (“Live Today, Die Tomorrow”) and 1999 (“Will to Live”). On the 28th…
Heart's Boomerang / Serdtsa bumerang
CompetitionDir. Nikolay KhomerikiOnce upon a time lived a young man named Kostya – employee of subway, with apartment, mother, girlfriend, and other standard features of normal life. One day Kostya went to see doctor to make EKG, which resulted in doctors telling him that he’s almost perfectly healthy, except for…
The short film contest on 33 MIFF
This year we have finally made a short film contest, and we made it in the Internet. This is importaint for two reasons: first, short films section has never been a contest before, and we are happy that this first competition is users' choice, because viewers are usually the most…
Joanna
CompetitionDir. Feliks FalkThe fascist occupation of Krakow. Another anti-Jewish raid catches little Róza and her mother in a café, where she is enjoying cakes on the occasion of her sixth birthday. Mother tells her to run to the church and wait for her there. Róza’s mother never comes but Joanna,…
I’ll Die Without You/ Ushenod mgoni movkvdebi
Competition Dir. Levan TutberidzeYou must be a football fan to understand how the protagonist, a 38-year-old writer Zaza, managed to make a large scoop. Otherwise his exclamations about sir Alex Fergusson and Jose Alvalade, who owns a stadium in Lisbon, will be gibberish to the viewer. Even more so because…
Montevideo, Taste of a Dream / Montevideo, Bog te video
CompetitionDir. Dragan BjelogrlićThe characters in the film are often wiping out their tears. One would say – isn’t it usual for a Eastern European film about some events of the 20th century? – and would be completely wrong. Because those are the tears of joy. Dragan Bjelogrlić’s film is unique…
Secrets, Objects / Samoolui bimil
PerspectivesDir. Lee Young-miA woman in her forties, a university professor, is carrying out scientific research on a relevant theme: “Changes in female psychology following marital unfaithfulness”. The story of her unfortunate personal life (but that is a big “secret”) is told by… an inanimate object, by a copier, so let…
Huvelin street / Rue Huvelin
Perspectives Dir. Mounir MaasriAny director is flattered when he turns out to be a prophet. At a meeting some two years ago a young filmmaker was passionately insisting that the scenes with “bad cops” had been shot in that very precinct which later became notorious because of the major Yevsyukov’s…
Komasa awarded at Art Film Fest 2011
Jan Komasa awarded at ART FILM FEST 2011. The Blue Angel for Best Director went to Polish director Jan Komasa for his "Suicide Room" (Sala samobójcow). The five-member international jury summed up the picture as: "[a] violent film steeped in the loneliness of a young generation lost in modern technology,…
"Mother" by Jakub Piatek awarded in Bulgaria
The documentary movie "Mother" by Jakub Piątek won Best Documentry award during 9th In the Palace International Short Film Festival in Bułgaria, one of the biggest documentary event in Balcan region.In the Palace International Short Film Festival took a place in Balchik, Bulgaria between 18-25 June. 250 movies up to…
Escalation / Escalade
Competition Dir. Charlotte SilveraIn 2008 after a prolonged interval French cinema won back the Palme d’Or in Cannes with the movie “Klass”. The event was followed by an avalanche of movies about discontent at school, which – just to be objective – reflected the real importance of the problems in…
The waves / Las olas
Competition Dir. Alberto MoraisThe film by the Catalonian Morais is preceded by an epigraph of the legendary photographer Robert Capa. It is taken from his impressions of the inhuman conditions the prisoners of the French concentration camp of Argelès-sur-mer suffered in March 1939. For a non-Spanish viewer, who is nonetheless…
The perfect life / La vita facile
CompetitionDir. Lucio PellegriniTo the traditionally disturbing sounds of tango performed in an intentionally carefree way (bravo the composer Gabriele Roberto!) the white introductory titles speed away along the white separator (hello, Almodovar and the final titles in “Kika”) alternately chasing two vehicles. The cool shining auto with sleek doctor Mario…
Gakku
PerspectivesDir. Gaziz Nasyrov Certain year of the 2000s. A journalist of some big paper, Tamerlan finds himself tied to a battery in some basement premise, after he was taken and kept hostage by mysterious group of men in black masks with eye holes. Tamerlan is instinctively preparing himself to lie…
