Film, který nehrajeme

sekce: Národní liga
Zeď / Die Wand
Rakousko, Německo / Austria, Germany
Režie: Julian Roman Pölsler
2011 / 108 min. / německá verze s českými a anglickými titulky
Hrají: Martina Gedeck, Ulrike Beimpold, Karl Heinz Hackl

Lapena uprostřed alpských vrcholků se ocitá žena, jejímž věznitelem se stala podivná, neviditelná bariéra. Na motivy stejnojmenného románu Marlen Haushoferové natočil Julian Pölsler mysteriózní snímek s až hororovými prvky. Prvotní zděšení a naděje v brzkou záchranu postupně přerůstají v jistotu, že ze svého žaláře již neunikne. Návrat k prostému životu v lesích, lovu a k nezávislosti na zbytku světa lze vnímat jako novodobou robinsonádu, ale i jako radikální kritiku moderní společnosti.

Ceny: MFF Monterrey 2013: Cena publika; Rakouská cena Romy Gala 2013: Nejl. režie; MFF Berlinale 2012: Cena Ekumenické poroty

The Wall

Section: National league
The Wall / Die Wand
Austria, Germany
Director: Julian Roman Pölsler
2011 / 108 min. / German version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Ulrike Beimpold, Karl Heinz Hackl

A woman finds herself trapped behind a strange invisible barrier in the middle of the Alpine peaks. Julian Polsler directed this mysterious film full of horror elements; the story is based on a novel by Marlen Haushofer. The initial shock of her situation and the hope for an early rescue gradually fade into a realization that she cannot escape from her prison. Her return to a simpler way of life in the woods, independent from the rest of the world, can be seen as a modern day Robinson Crusoe story, but also as a radical critique of modern society.

Awards: IFF Monterrey 2013: Audience’s Award; Romy Gala, Austria 2013: Best Director; IFF Berlinale 2012: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Enemies in Love

Section: Best Of
Enemies in Love / Verliebte Feinde
Switzerland
Director: Werner Schweizer
2012 / 112 min. / German version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Mona Petri, Fabian Krüger, Steven Buehler

 

Iris and Peter von Roten are perhaps the most famous, provocative and beautiful couple in recent Swiss history. Iris, a lawyer and feminist from Basel, caused an uproar in 1958 because of her book, Women in the Playpen. In the book, she called for economic, political and sexual equality between men and women, and was fully supported in this by her husband. They applied these convictions in their marital relationship which also included the principles of free love, and this in particular generated resistance from a bigoted society. The mixture of feature film, documentary and archival footage presents a love story comparable to that of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Contact: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, AG, Molkenstrasse 21, CH-8004 Zürich, Switzerland, T.: +41 44 4563 020, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague)

14.4.

Mo

18:15

Everybody in Our Family

Section: Best Of
Everybody in Our Family / Toată lumea din familia noastră
Romania
Director: Radu Jude
2012 / 107 min. / Romanian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Șerban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Mihaela Sîrbu, Gabriel Spahiu, Tamara Buciuceanu-Botez

 

Marius is divorced and only sees his little daughter Sophia on certain designated days… and today is one of them.  When he arrives, he is told that Sofia is sick and cannot go out with him.  When Marius insists, the situation begins to spin out of control.  Negotiation, persuasion, coercion, physical attacks and police intervention… this minimalist drama is a brilliant analysis of a precarious situation where nothing is as it seems. Is this the last desperate act of a hopeless father trying to pick up his daughter for the weekend or the psychopathic manifestations of an unbalanced man’s true personality?

Awards: IFF Sarajevo 2012: Best Film; CinEast 2012: Grand Prix; IFF Anonimul 2012: Grand prix

Contact: Films Boutique - Köpenicker Strasse 184, D-10997 Berlin, Germany, T.: +49 30 695 37850, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.filmsboutique.com

Světozor (Prague)	13.4.	Sun	18:15
Scala (Brno)	20.4.	Sun	20:30
Kino Centrum (Havířov)	24.4.	Thur	18:00

The Dinner

Section: Best of
The Dinner / Het Diner
The Netherlands
Director: Menno Meyjes
2013 / 88 min. / Dutch version with English and Czech subtitles
Cast: Jacob Derwig, Thekla Reuten, Daan Schuurmans, Kim van Kooten, Jonas Smulders

 

Former teacher Paul and his caring wife Claire join ambitious brother Serge and his wife, Babette, for a “friendly” dinner in a posh restaurant. Behind the small talk, we sense an undercurrent of some  much deeper problem involving their teenage children who are not as innocent as their parents believe.  Menno Meyjes directed and wrote the screenplay for this film and has also worked on several films with Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, among others). The film was adapted from a Herman Koch novel, which criticizes the hyprocrisy of society and denounces everything from politics to education. This bestseller was also translated into Czech and will be presented on 14 May at the Literature Night.

Lucerna (Prague)	11.4.	Fri	17:00
Scala (Brno)	21.4.	Mo	18:00

Ballymun Lullaby

Section: To the point
Ballymun Lullaby
Ireland
Director: Frank Berry
2011 / 72 min. / English version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Ron Cooney, Glen Hansard

 

The Disciple

Section: National league
The Disciple / Lärjungen
Finland
Director: Ulrika Bengts
2013 / 93 min. / Swedish version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Erik Lönngren, Niklas Grundstroem, Patrik Kumpulainen, Amanda Ooms

 

Karl, a boy from an orphanage, is sent to a small island to live with the local lighthouse keeper and his family as an assistant. Hasselbond, a strict and stern guardian, initially refuses to take Karl on because he’s not strong enough to do the job, but the boy soon becomes a friend of Gustav, Hasselbond’s son, who wants him as an ally against his tyrannical father. But …Karl will do anything not to be sent back to the orphanage. Due to his unquestioning obedience and execution of orders, Hasselbond begins to like him, which brings out Gustav’s hostility. A thrilling drama with an impressive setting and an evocative soundtrack that emphasizes the polarized relationship between the boys and the despotic father.

Awards: IFF Alice Nella Citta, Rome 2013: Best Film

Contact: Långfilm Productions Finland, Vislauskuja 13, FI-00520 Helsinki, Finland, T.: +358 10 4404800, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna  (Prague)	13.4.	Sun	20:45
Junior (Jablonec)	24.4.	Thur	20:00

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

Section: €Docs
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
Sweden, Denmark,  Norway, UK, Netherlandes, Germany
Director: Simon Klose
2013 / 81 min. / Swedish version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde

 

Swedish portal, The Pirate Bay, has become Hollywood’s biggest nightmare. It is the most popular file sharing website and you can illegally download almost anything from it. It’s not surprising that this “pirate bay” of the Internet is such a bane to all the big players, from record companies to Hollywood studios. Internet piracy is a phenomenon presented by the media as something negative that should definitely be condemned. However, there is a deeper issue behind this dispute between the three founders of The Pirate Bay and the entertainment industry, and that is the freedom of the Internet and the thinking, sharing and distribution of ideas. In this Age of the Internet, the question of ownership must be reconsidered.

Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.tpbafk.tv

Světozor (Prague)	16.4.	Wed	18:15
Scala (Brno)	22.4.	Tue	18:00

The Ghost Of Piramida

Section: Best Of
The Ghost Of Piramida / Efterklang: The Ghost of Piramida
Denmark
Director: Andreas Koefoed
2012 / 59 min. / Danish-English-Russian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: music group Efterklang

 

Danish indie pop band, Efterklang, who played several concerts in Prague, journeyed to Spitsbergen, to a place called Piramida, formerly a Russian mining town, now inhabited only by polar bears. The stories of former residents of Piramida connect the past to the present. The aim of the expedition was to find and record the sounds and noises of the crumbling buildings and to capture the „audio track“ of Piramida, which they later used for the recording of their last album, simply titled Piramida.  This album was indeed their last, as it came at the end of Efterklang’s career and both the film and the album became their swan song.

Awards: IFF Planete Doc Review, Warsaw 2013: Chopin's Nose Award

Contact: Koefoe Film; Tullinsgade 6, 3.t.v, 1618 København V, Denmark, +45 4091 4031, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall	11.4.	Fri	18:30
Bio Central (Hradec)	24.4.	Thur	18:00
Panorama (Boskovice)	25.4.	Fri	17:00
Junior (Jablonec)	27.4.	Sun	20:00

Profilers – Gaze into The Abyss

Section: EuroCrime
Profilers – Gaze into the Abyss / Blick in den Abgrund
Austria, Germany
Director: Barbara Eder
2013 / 88 min. / English-German-Finnish version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Helinä Häkkänen-Nyholm, Helen Louise Morrison, Roger L. Depue, Robert R. Hazelwood, Stephan Harbort, Gérard Labuschagne

John Gacy, Ed Gain, Ted Bundy and Henry Lee Lucas. The names of some the most famous serial killers the world has ever known.  What leads them to their actions? What motivates them? Are they really an embodiment of Evil itself? These and other questions are dealt with daily by the forensic psychologists who compile profiles of murderers and examine their motives. From Finland through Germany, South Africa to the USA, director Barbara Eder portraits top psychologists who come in contact with these killers, telling their stories and together with them, she reveals the dark side of the human soul.

Contact: Austrian Film Commission, Stiftgasse 6, A-1070 Vienna, Austria, T: +43 1 526 3323, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.afc.at

 

Světozor (Prague)

15.4.

Tue

18:15

The Shooter

Section: EuroCrime
The Shooter / Skytten
Denmark
Director: Annette K. Olesen
2013 / 89 min. / Danish version with Czech, English and Russian subtitles
Cast: Trine Dyrholm, Kim Bodnia, Kristian Halken, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lars Ranthe

 

Is it eco-terrorism or a last ditch effort to prevent an environmental disaster? Campaign promising favoring greener politics have disappeared a year after the election and when the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs presents a plan to drill for oil in the rich deposits of Greenland with significant cooperation from the USA, not even pressure from the media can change the situation, and a militant activist takes justice into his own hands. Is violence in extreme situations defensible against corruption and unfair political games? A tenacious journalist and a disaffected environmentalist are on “the warpath”.

Contact: TrustNordisk Filmbyen 28, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark, T: +45 3686 8788, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.trustnordisk.com

Lucerna (Prague)	12.4.	Sat	19:00
Bio Central (Hradec Králové)	23.4.	Wed	20:30

The Elderly Parasite or Who is Marko Brecelj?

Section: €Docs
The Elderly Parasite or Who is Marko Brecelj? / Ostareli parazit ali kdo je Marko Brecelj?
Slovenia
Director: Janez Burger
2013 / 83 min. / Slovenian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Marko Brecelj

 

How to label Marko Brecelj? Director Janez Burger answers this question: “Marko Brecelj is poetry. The kind of poetry called Life. And poetry can be expressed only in verse. ” Marko Brecelj is a legend on the Slovenian music scene, thanks to his participation in groups like Buldozer, Zlatni zubi and Marjanov cudni zajec. His avant-garde, experimental singer-songwriter style is characterized by bitter, cynical remarks, interjected with humorous comments aimed at society. Janez Burger artfully captures the „soft“ terrorism, personality and attitude of this distinctive Slovenian poet/singer-songwriter.

Awards: IFF Paklenica 2013: Best Director

Kontakt: Slovenia, T.: +386 1 2343 200, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

17.4.

Thur

18:30

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
France, USA
Director: Joann Sfar
2010 / 130 min. / French version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Eric Elmosnino, Laetitia Casta, Lucy Gordon

Serge Gainsbourg was a provocateur and a master of scandal, as well as a sublime musician and artist. He stunned proud France by singing the Marseillaise in the rhythm of reggae; he used banknotes to light up cigarettes live on air; he seduced the sex symbol Bridgitte Bardot; and his duet with Jane Birkin "Je t'aime... moi non plus" was banned in several countries for its obscene lyrics. This film, as entertaining and turbulent as his life, tells the story of those whom Ginsbourg offended or seduced, of the hits he wrote, and of the reach of his charisma.

 

CZ Distribution: HCE

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall	16.4.	Wed	20:45
Lucerna (Prague) / for seniors	11.4.	Fri	13:30

Velvet Terrorists

Section: €Docs
Velvet Terrorists / Zamatoví teroristi
Slowakia, Czech Republic, Croatia
Director: Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík, Peter Kerekes
2011 / 87 min. / Slowak version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Stanislav Kratochvíl, František Bednár, Vladimír Hučín

 

This documentary film charts individual terrorist acts in former Czechoslovakia. Stano, Vladimir and Fero - three men who tried to disrupt the stale uniformity of the gray civil masses during the Czechoslovak normalization, and were subsequently sentenced to imprisonment for terrorism. The film is balancing on the edge of documentary and fiction. All three heroes are re-acting their former actions and at the same time revealing what they do today. Against the background of their story loom the questions of morality, of the irrationality of terrorism and of the meaning of its deadly force in today's world.

 

Awards: IFF Berlinale 2014: Award of the readers of Tagesspiegel; IFF Karlovy Vary 2013: FEDORA Critics Award

Contact: Verbascum Imago, s.r.o., Černá 6, 110 00, Praha 1, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall	10.4.	Thur	18:30
Lucerna (Prague)	11.4.	Fri	20:45
Centum (Havířov)	24.4.	Thur	16:00
Bio Central (Hradec)	25.4.	Fri	20:30
Junior (Jablonec)	26.4.	Sat	19:30

October November

Section: Best Of
October November / Oktober November
Austria
Director: Götz Spielmann
2013 / 120 min. / German version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Nora von Waldstätten, Ursula Strauss, Peter Simonischek, Sebastian Koch, Johannes Zeiler

 

Lovely Sonja is a successful film actress. Because she isalways working, she rarely sees her family, but when she learns about herfather's deteriorating health, she immediately sets off to visit her relatives.She has never had a close relationship with her sister Verena who cares fortheir father at the small inn where they grew up, and although the meetingstarts off well, it gradually begins to uncover past wrongs and family secrets.This intimate family drama is a miniature work portraying the relationship oftwo sisters set against a back-drop of an autumn alpine landscape.

 

Contact: The Match Factory GmbH, Balthasarstr.79-81, D-50670 Cologne, Germany, e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague)	14.4.	Mo	20:30
Scala (Brno)	19.4.	Sat	14:00

Nobody’s Home

Section: Best Of
Nobody's Home / Köksüz
Turkey
Director: Deniz Akçay
2013 / 81 min. / Turkish version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Lale Başar, Ahu Türkpençe, Savaş Alp Başar, Melis Ebeler

 

A story of the very gradual disintegration of a family who cannot find a way to relate to each other. After her husband's death, Nurcan is left alone to raise their three teenage children: little Ozge, the youngest daughter, rebellious Ilkar who is suffering from the irreplaceable loss of his father, and the oldest daughter Feride who is the pillar of the family. As tensions in the family escalate, even Feride loses hope for a better future... a strong debut from director Deniz Akcay in this naturalistic chamber drama that analyzes in detail the destructive bonds between loved ones.

 

Awards: IFF Istanbul 2013: People's Choice Award, Best First Film; IFF Vesoul 2014: Grand Prize of the International Jury, High Schools Award

Contact: Mars Production, Sıraselviler Cad. No:78/2, Cihangir, Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey, T.: +90 212 244 8252, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.marsfilm.net

Lucerna (Prague)

17.4.

Thur

16:30

The Plague

Section: To the point
The Plague / La Plaga
Spain
Director: Neus Ballús
2013 / 85 min. / Catalan - Spanish - Moldavian - Russian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Raül Molist, Maria Ros, Rosemarie Abella, Iurie Timbur, Maribel Martí

 

Five characters, five stories slowly intertwining, burned by the hot Catalan sun. Raul is a farmer whose crop is being destroyed by pests. Moldovan immigrant Iurie is a professional wrestler who works at his farm in his spare time. Rosemarie, a Philippine woman, is a caregiver at the local retirement home where she meets Marie, who is almost ninety and cannot cope with the fact that she had to leave her own home. The last character is the prostitute Maribel, who is getting old and losing her clients. This film is balancing between documentary and fiction and captures real people from around Barcelona, who play themselves and allow the viewers to peek into their everyday lives.

 

Awards: Catalan Film Awards 2014: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing; Festival Opera Prima de Tudela, Navarra, 2013: Best Director; IFF Cali 2013: Best Film; IFF Cinespaña Toulouse 2013: Best Script; IFF Motovún 2013: Best Film and others.

Contact: El Kinògraf S.L., Bonavista 3, 1r 2a, Barcelona 08012, Spain, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna (Prague)	13.4.	Sun	19:00
Scala (Brno)	20.4.	Sun	16:00

The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears

Section: EuroCrime
The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears / L'étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps
Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Cast: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
2013 / 105 min. / French version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Elsebeth Steentoft, Klaus Tange, Jean-Michel Vovk, Sylvia Camarda, Sam Louwyck

 

Dan Kristensen returns home to find his apartmentempty and his wife missing. He starts a search with the help of a detectivebut, instead of resolving the case, he dives deeper into the mystery of thisold apartment house full of eccentric neighbors and hallucinatory visions,balancing between reality and dream. This surreal and visually refined thrillerfrom the creative duo of Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani is full of boldcolours, a sincere declaration of love and homage to the Italian thrillersubgenre called "giallo", where blood is as red as lipstick and beautiful womendie first.

 

Contact: BAC Films, rue de la Folie Méricourt ,F-75011 Paris, France, T.: +33 153 535 252, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna (Prague)	16.4.	Wed	20:45
Scala (Brno)	18.4.	Fri	22:30

Papusza

Section: Best Of
Papusza
Poland
Director: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze
2013 / 131 min. / Polish-Roma version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Jowita Budnik, Zbigniew Waleryś, Antoni Pawlicki, Artur Steranko, Sebastian Wesołowski

 

Bronislawa Wajs, known as Papusza, was a well respected Polish poet of Roma origin. This biographical film follows her difficult life in the context of historical events during the 20th century, the story of her love for writer JerzyFicowski, the traditional nomadic way of life with her family, the Nazi terrorduring World War II, and the sad end to her life during the communist regime. Yet, the film itself is one big visual poem, filmed entirely in black and white, with skilled use of chiaroscuro, the camera stunningly underscoring the melancholic mood of themovie.

 

Awards: IFF Karlovy Vary 2013: Special Mention; IFF Valladolid2013: Best director, Best actor; IFF Thessaloniki 2013: Open Horizons Award

 

Contact: New Europe Film Sales, Czerniakowska73/79, Biuro na Rampie, PL-00718 Warsaw, Poland, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.neweuropefilmsales.com

Světozor (Prague)

15.4.

Tue

20:30

Paper Souls

Sekcion: Best Of
Paper Souls / Les Ames De Papier
France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Director: Vincent Lannoo
2013 / 100 min. / French version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Stéphane Guillon, Julie Gayet, Pierre Richard, Jonathan Zaccaï, Jules Rotenberg

Widower Paul has a strange job: he writes funeral orations.Victor, his friend and neighbor, no longer knows what to do to shrug off hisloneliness. One day Emma, a young widow, asks Paul to do a curious thing andtell her 8-year-old son about his dead father. A relationship then formsbetween Paul and Emma, but the ghosts of the past come to haunt them.
A love story... with ghosts!

 

Contact: Films Distribution, 36 rue duLouvre, F-75001 Paris, France, T.: +33 1 5310 3399, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna (Prague)

12.4.

Sun

17:00

Oh boy

Section: Best Of
Oh Boy
Germany
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
2012 / 83 min. / German version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Feiderike Kempter, Justus von Dohnany, Katharina Schüttler

 

This film odyssey is a day and a night in the life of Niko Fischer, a young man drifting aimlessly through the uncertainties of his own existence: breakups and casual relationships, unexpected reunions, disillusionment... but it's also a satire on contemporary art and society. Thanks to its humor, representation and subject matter, it reminds us of the films of Woody Allen and Jim Jarmusch. Jan Ole Gerster's charming generational statement can be thought of as a parallel male version of Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha. Oh Boy completely dominated the German Film Awards and won the European Discovery title at the European Film Awards.

Awards: FF Munich 2012: Best Screenplay Award; FF Oldenburg 2012: Best Film, Audience Award; IFF Zurich 2012: Special Mention; IFF Bratislava 2012: Best Director, FIPRESCI Jury Award, Fedeora Jury Award; IFF Tallinn Black Nights 2012: Red Hering Award, Audience Award; Bavarian Film Prize 2012: Best Actor, Best Screenplay; IFF Angers 2013: Special Jury Prize, Audience Award; IFF Sofia 2013: Focus Fox Grand Prix; German Film Awards 2013: Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Score

Contact: Beta Cinema GmbH, Grünwalder Weg 28 d, D-82041 Oberhaching, Germany

Světozor (Prague)	11.4.	Fri	20:30
Lucerna (Prague) - Small hall	15.4.	Tue	18:30
Scala (Brno)	19.4.	Sat	16:00
Panorama (Boskovice)	24.4.	Thur	19:30

Delicacy

Delicacy
France
2011 / 108 min. / French version with Czech subtitles
Director: David Foenkinos, Stéphan Foenkinos
Cast: Audrey Tatou, François Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Mélanie Bernier, Joséphine de Meaux

 

Nathalie's life isamazing. She is young, beautiful, and her marriage is perfect. However, whenher husband dies in an accident, her world collapses. In the years that follow, Nathalieconcentrates on work, ignoring her emotions. Then suddenly, without knowingwhy, she kisses the most unlikely man ofall - her colleague Markus. The couple runs away from the unapproving community to give theirrelationship a chance.

CZ Distributor: DCinema

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

15.4.

Tue

20:45

All That Matters Is Past

Section: EuroCrime
All That Matters Is Past / Uskyld
Norway
Director: Sara Johnsen
2012 / 105 min. / Norwegian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Maria Bonevie, David Dencik

Thedead bodies of two men and a woman close to death are found in the middle of aforest. The viewer knows from the beginning how things will end, but how didthey actually begin? Janne and brothersWilliam and Ruud have known each other since childhood. They grew up together,played together and made love to each other. This dark story of a strange lovetriangle involving jealousy and envy, told in retrospect, is a mixture ofmelodrama and thriller, full of carefully hidden biblical allusions, dominatedby a kainabelian relationship between brothers. The dark side of the humansoul, a destructive relationship, and the inability to forgive, slowly leadthem all to perdition. Is Janne really so innocent?

Awards:  AmandaAwards, Norway 2013: Best Sound Design

Contact: Severský filmový klub, o.s., Jagellonská6, CZ-130 00 Praha 3, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna (Prague)	14.4.	Mo	19:00
Bio Central (Hradec Králové)	23.4.	Wed	18:00
Kino Centrum (Havířov)	27.4.	Sun	18:00

 

Feed Me With Your Words

Section: Best Of
Feed Me With Your Words / Nahrani me z besedami
Slovenia
Director: Martin Turk
2012 / 88 min. / Slovenian-Italian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Boris Cavazza, Sebastijan Cavazza, Jure Henigman, Masa Derganc, Miranda Caharija

Matej hasn’t spoken to his father Janez in nearly ten years. So, it’s quite a surprise when Janez asks him to help search for his younger brother Robert who has disappeared without a trace somewhere in Turin. Matej sends his wife and daughter to the countryside to care for his mentally ill mother while he and his father try to retrace Robert’s footsteps. Three parallel stories, three different perspectives which gradually reveal a dysfunctional family, its lost past, complicated present and perhaps, hopeful future.  A film about problematic family bonds and the relationships between children and parents.

Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna (Praha)	10.4.	Thur	21:45
Centrum (Havířov)	25.4.	Fri	18:00

For a Moment Freedom

For a Moment Freedom / Ein Augenblick Freiheit
France, Austria
Director: Arash T. Riahi
2008 / 110 min. / Presian-English-Turkish version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Navid Akhavan, Pourya Mahyari, Kamran Rad, Payam Madjlessi

 

A married couple with a baby, two young men who promissed to bring the kids to their parents in Vienna, and two men who are friends despite their differences manage to escape from Iran. But now they are stuck in a shady hotel in Ankara, where they spend their days waiting in vain for Austrian visas. The young Iranian director Arash T. Riahi, who himself has lived in Austria since the age of 10, captures perfectly the unpleasant hollowness of the transition state, in which all asylum seekers find themselves.

CZ Distributor: AČFK

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

13.4.

Ne

20:45

The Sea

Section: Best Of
The Sea
Ireland
Director: Stephen Brown
2013 / 90 min. / English version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling, Rufus Sewell, Sinéad Cusack, Natascha McElhone

As a means of coping with the sudden death of his wife, art historian Max Morden seeks solace at a cottage by the seaside where he spent his childhood. Immersed in grief, washing it down with alcohol like waves washing the beach, he struggles with his inner demons, returning to the safe realms of his past and his childhood. This intimate story about a man's struggle with sadness, narrated in two different time settings by Mr. Ciaran Hinds, is based on a Man Booker prize-winning novel by John Banville. This film is presented with the assistance of IFI International, an initiative administered by the Irish Film Institute and supported by Culture Ireland.

Contact: Independent Film Company, 32 Tavistock Street, London WC2E 7PB, UK, T.:+44 207257 8734, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague)	12.4.	Sat	20:30
Lucerna (Prague)	17.4.	Thur	20:45
Měšťanská beseda - Plzeň	24.4.	Thur	19:00

Master of the universe

Section: €Docs
Master of the Universe
Germany, Austria
Director: Marc Bauder
2013 / 88 min. / German version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Rainer Voss

 

The consequences of the recent global financial crisis are still resonating throughout Europe and this may not be the end of it. Has the world of high finance finally learned its lesson or will the same mistakes be repeated? Who are the people making the big decisions? Documentary film, Master of the Universe, is the testimony of a former highly successful investment banker who has in the past made transactions worth millions of dollars. He is now sitting in an empty bank talking about the shocking facts of the world of high finance, revealing the mechanisms of sales, large investments and artificially inflated banking bubbles that can lead an entire nation into bankruptcy.

 

Awards: German Critic's Prize for Best Documentary 2013; IFF Locarno 2013: Main Prize of The Jury

Contact: Autlook Filmsales, Spittelberggasse 3/14, A-1070 Vienna, Austria, T.: +43 720 34 6934, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall	12.4.	Sat	18:30
Scala (Brno)	19.4.	Sat	18:00
Měšťanská beseda (Plzeň)	24.4.	Thur	17:00

Tangerines

Section: Best Of
Tangerines / Mandariinid
Estonia, Georgia
Director: Zaza Urushadze
2013 / 87 min. / Russian-Estonian version with Czech and Engish subtitles
Cast: Giorgi Nakashidze, Elmo Nüganen, Raivo Trass, Lembit Ulfsak

 

In1992, Abkhazia is at war with Georgia. Old Ivo and Farmer Margus, the last twomen in the area, are trapped in a small village in the middle of a battle zone.The only thing keeping them from leaving is their crop of tangarines. The war reaches them even here when they findtwo wounded men from opposing sides, casualties of a firefight and Ivo decidesto help them despite their mutual hate for each other. His vigorous character and the fact that heis so fed up with the war encourages the two enemies to gradually accept eachother. This film is about personal courage, the meaninglessness and absurdityof war, and the power of dialogue.

 

Awards: IFF Mannheim-Heidelberg 2013: Audience Award; IFF Tallinn Black Nights 2013: Estonian Film Award, International Film Clubs Award; IFF Warsaw 2013: Audience Award, Best Director

Contact: Cinemavault, 1240 Bay Street, Suite 307,Toronto, Canada M5R 2A7
T: +416 363 6060, www.cinemavault.com

Lucerna	16.4.	Wed	19:00
Scala	20.4.	Sun	18:00

Mother, I Love You

Section: National league
Mother, I Love You / Mammu, es tevi mīlu
Latvia
Director: Jānis Nords
2013 / 83 min. / Latvian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Kristofers Konovalovs, Vita Vārpiņa, Matīss Livčāns, Indra Briķe

 

Twelve-year-oldRaimonds plays the saxophone in his school band. He is a boywho tends to solve all his problems by telling lies and half-truths. It's neverdifficult for his best friend Peteris to tempt him into all kinds of mischief,and so, one day Raimonds finds himself in the middle of a mess that can nolonger be stopped and will surely hurt those closest to him. Inevitably, thereis only one solution: face the situation and confess. But Raimonds does notwant to disappoint his mother. How will he get out of this one? This film isabout the problems of adolescence, boyhood pranks, and a strong bond between amother and son.

 

Awards: IFF Berlinale 2013: Grand Prix of the Generation KplusInternational Jury

Conatct: New Europe Film Sales, Słowicza 12/2, 05-075 Warsaw, Poland, T.: +48666 525 788, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna (Prague)

11.4.

Fri

19:00

Lollipop monster

Lollipop Monster
Germany
Director: Ziska Riemann
2011 / 96 min./ German version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Jella Haase, Sarah Horváth, Nicolette Krebitz, Thomas Wodianka

Ari and Oona are very different, and yet similar.Blond-braided Ari's family seem straight out of a Barbie dolls catalogue, whilethe dark-haired Oona is growing up in the artistic environment of Berlin'sunderground. Both girls are governed by their instincts, even to the point ofdestroying themselves: Ari through casual sex, Oona through morbid drawings.Their friendship helps them both to escape their dysfunctional families andhypocritical enviroment, but only until the moment when everything changes.

CZ Distribution: Cinemart

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

10.4.

Čt

20:45

Populaire

Populaire
France
Director: Régis Roinsard
2012 / 111 min. / French version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Romain Duris, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo, Shaun Benson, Mélanie Bernier, Nicolas Bedos, Miou-Miou

 

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall	12.4.	Sat	20:45
Lucerna (Prague) / for seniors	14.4.	Mo	13:30

Under The Pines

Section: Best Of
Under The Pines / Landes
France, Belgium
Director: Francois-Xavier Vives
2013 / 95 min. / French version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Marie Gillain, Miou-Miou, Jalil Lespert, Bernard Blancan, Christelle Cornil

 

Landes, a region in southwestern France, is the scene of a brilliant story about the determination and commitment of a woman who is able to stand up to the odds and the contemporary conventions of the 1920s. When Liena, suddenly widowed, inherits her husband's vast properties, she decides to go ahead with his dream – to bring electricity to the region. Surprisingly, she faces resistance from the local farmers, families and her companions. A power struggle begins. Will she manage to achieve her goal? Director Francois-Xavier Vives drew from his own family history.

 

Awards: Montreal World Film Festival 2013: Best Artistic Contribution

Contact: Cinexport, 49 Avenue Paul Doumer, 75016 Paris, France, T.:+33 1 45624945, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague)	10.4.	Thur	16:00
Panorama (Boskovice)	25.4.	Fri	19:30

Clownwise

Section: Best Of
Clownwise / Klauni
Czech Rep., Luxebmbourg, Slovakia, Finland
Director: Viktor Tauš
2013 / 120 min. / Czech version
Cast: Oldřich Kaiser, Jiří Lábus, Didier Flamand, Kati Outinen, Eva Jeníčková ad.

Oskar, Max and Viktor, once a superstar clown trio, which split up due to a heart-rending dispute come together after 40 years of separate lives both on and off the stage. Their irresistible sense of humor is challenged by the fear of death, family dysfunction and different sensations of old age. Now, they are ready to risk everything to prove, that they are still able to run a great show. This poignant comedy proves the fact, that there is no need to be scared if one can still laugh.

Contact: FALCON a.s., U Nikolajky 5,CZ-150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic, T: +420 224422244, www.falcon.cz

Světozor (Prague)

12.4.

Sa

18:00

Mobile Home

Section: Best Of
Mobile Home
Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Director: François Pirot
2012 / 95 min. / French version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Arthur Dupont, Guillaume Gouix, Jackie Berroyer, Catherine Salée

Sometimes you need to travel around the world to find that what you are looking for is right next door. Simon and Julien have been friends since childhood. Simon is an incorrigible dreamer with nothing to show for it. Julien is the opposite, standing firmly on the ground with his life mapped out clearly in front of him. When Simon's fiancée breaks up with him, the two men set out on a trip around the world in an old caravan in an effort to turn back the clock, getting only as far as the edge of the village where they were born. This film about two men in their thirties whose lives are passing them by is a funny road movie / "buddy" film.

 

Awards: IFF Locarno 2012: Junior Jury Award, 2nd place

Contact: Tarantula, Filmland, 25-27 Zone Industrielle, L-8287 Kehlen, Luxembourg, T. : +352 26 49611, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna (Prague)	13.4.	Sun	17:00
Scala (Brno)	19.4.	Sat	20:30

Submarine

Submarine
Great Britain, USA
Director: Richard Ayoade
97 min. / 2010 / English version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Paddy Considine, Gemma Chan, Sally Hawkins

 

Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate has two goals: To save his parents' marriage, and tolose his virginity before hisnext birthday. Becausehe fears that his mother is having an affair, he monitors the master bedroom and writes, in his mother's name,explicit love letters to his father.Also, he attempts to woo his classmateJordana, a fire starterwho personally oversees what Oliver writes in his diary - especially the passages thatrelate to herself.This unconventional and compelling storyabout growing up is based on Joe Dunthornea's famous novel.

CZ Distribution: Aerofilms

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

17.4.

Thur

20:45

How Strange To Be Called Federico!

Section: Best Of
How Strange To Be Called Federico! / Che strano chiamarsi Federico!
Italy
Director: Ettore Scola
2013 / 93 min. / Italian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Giulio Forges Davanzati, Ernesto D'Argenio, Tommaso Lazotti, Maurizio De Santis

 

Ettore Scola is a highly honored figure of Italian cinema, although it might seem that he has remained in the shadows of more famous directors like Michelangelo Antonioni or Federico Fellini. Scola and Fellini worked together as young men, forming a lifelong friendship and strong bond. Their many common experiences led Scola to the idea of making a film that would be an intimate tribute to the memory of a dear friend and a famous director. In a special collage of images, he blends archival footage and photographs to reconstruct the memorable spirit of Felini's films, with reference to specific films and their characteristic dreamy atmosphere. This is a personal, commemorative film full of fellinian humor and imagination.

 

Contact: Via Tuscolana, 1055, IT-00173 Roma, Italy, T.: +39 06 722861, www.cinecitta.com

Lucerna (Prague)	16.4.	Wed	17:00
Scala (Brno)	18.4.	Fri	20:30

Me Too

Me Too / Yo también
Spain
Director: Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor
2009 / 103 min. / Spanish version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Lola Dueñas, Pablo Pineda, Antonio Naharro, Isabel García Lorca, Pedro Álvarez Ossorio, Consuelo Trujillo, Daniel Parejo

 

34-year old Daniel is the first European with Down syndrometo graduate from a university. He starts to work for the social services in Seville,where he meets the free-spirited colleague Laura and becomes her friend.However, their friendship attract the attention of their colleagues andfamilies and it gets even more complicated when Daniel falls in love withLaura. In "their" worlds they are both outcasts, but together theyfind love and friendship, which they didn't know before.

CZ Distributions: AČFK

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

13.4.

Sun

18:30

Boy Eating the Bird's Food

Section: National league
Boy Eating the Bird's Food / To agori troi to fagito tou pouliou
Greece
Director: Ektoras Lygizos
2012 / 80 min. / Greek version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Yannis Papadopoulos, Lila Baklesi, Kleopatra Perraki, Vangelis Kommatas, Kharalambos Goyos

The camera follows a lonely young man and his ordinary, everyday life from an almost documentary-naturalistic perspective. Under the guise of a quiet life, the outlines of reality begin to take shape – three days in the life of a young man in Athens, fighting hunger, unemployment and finally, homelessness, without even a place to lay his head. This debut film from Ektoras Lygizos is an allegory of the times of crisis in Greece. Boy Eating the Bird's Food is a depiction of the poverty which can affect any one of us at any time, but also a look at the innate struggle to retain one's own dignity in every situation.

Awards: IFF Athens 2013: Best Director, Best Actor; IFF Karlovy Vary 2012: Special Mention, IFF Thessaloniki 2012: Best Actor, FIPRESCI Prize

Contact: Stefi Productions, Amyklon 24 Halandri, Athens, Greece, T.: +30 210 638 6200, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna (Prague) - Small hall

13.4.

Sun

18:30

Finsterworld

Section: Best Of
Finsterworld
Germany
Director: Frauke Finsterwalder
2013 / 91 min. / German version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Ronald Zehrfeld, Sandra Hüller, Michael Maertens, Corinna Harfouch

 

This peculiar mosaic of stories from contemporary Germany is a collection of deviations and obsessions, anxieties and neuroses. A pedicurist who carefully collects the hard skin from the feet of his female patients, a policeman with a secret obsession for animal costumes, a superficial documentary-maker searching for "the big topic", a spoiled brat taking advantage of his wealthy parents ... seemingly unrelated stories begin to intertwine brilliantly, resulting in an absurd finale. Is this a radically raised middle finger toward the viewer or a scathing satire on how cruel life can be?

 

Awards: IFF Montréal 2013: Bronze Zenith; IFF Zurich 2013: Critics' Choice Award , Best German Language Feature Film

Contact: Global Screen GmbH, Sonnenstr. 21, D-80331 Munich, Germany

Festival CLOSING

Lucerna (Prague)	17.4.	Thur	19:00
Scala (Brno)	19.4.	Sat	22:30
Panorama (Boskovice)	24.4.	Thur	17:00

The Double

Section: Best Of
The Double
Great Britain
Director: Richard Ayoade
2013 / 93 min. / English version with Czech subtitles
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jesse Eisenberg, Noah Taylor, Wallace Shawn, James Fox

Simon is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon's exact physical double and his opposite -confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon's horror, James slowly starts taking over his life. In a playful adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel the director Richard Ayoade (Submarine) mixes humor and distinctive aesthetics with Kafkaesque atmosphere.

Contact: Aerofilms, s.r.o., Biskupcova 31, Praha 3, 130 00, T./F: +420/224947566, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Festival OPENING

Světozor  (Prague) / OPENING - closed screening	10.4.	Thur	19:00
Lucerna (Prague)	10.4.	Thur	20:00

Traffic Department

Section: EuroCrime
Traffic Department / Drogówka
Poland
Director: Wojciech Smarzowski
2013 / 112 min. / Polish version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Bartłomiej Topa, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Julia Kijowska, Eryk Lubos, Robert Wabich

 

It's Darkest Under the Candlestick... this is a chilling thriller about the Warsaw police who think nothing of taking aim into their own ranks. Bribes, black market, blackmail, and other such offenses are daily occurences among the police officers. Traffic policeman Ryszard Krol is no saint, but compared to his colleagues, he's an angel. Hovewer, he is accused of the murder of a corrupt colleague and, since all evidence points to him, he has no choice but to start an investigation of his own. He stumbles upon a much larger conspiracy leading to the top ranks of the force, just as the criminal police are set to nab him and strange gangsters are about to rub him out.

 

Awards: Polish Film Award 2013: Best Script, Best Supporting Actor

Contact: Film it sp. z.o.o., Rozana 32, PL-02569 Warsaw, Poland, T.: +48 22 8538668, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , filmit.com.pl

Světozor (Prague)	11.4.	Fri	18:15
Lucerna (Prague) - Small hall	16.4.	Wed	18:30
Scala (Brno)	21.4.	Mo	20:30
Panorama (Boskovice)	23.4.	Wed	19:30

A Letter to My Father

Section: Best Of
A Letter to My Father / Pismo ćaći
Croatia
Director: Damir Čučić
2012 / 72 min. / Croatian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Milivoj Beader, Mate Gulin

A semi-autobiographical, semi-documentary and semi-fictitious interview between a father and son. The son, an unsuccessful actor, confronts his father, a stern and stubborn man, whom he blames for his own inability to make something of himself in life. At the same time, he sees with horror that he is becoming a copy of the man he so despises. This emotionally intense, almost experimentally tuned drama, based on a dialogue between two men blindly defending their own positions, dominated the International film festival in Pula, winning five awards, including an award for the best Croatian film.

Awards: MFF Pula 2012: IFF Pula 2012: Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Croatian Film

Contact: Croatian Film Association (HFS), Tuškanac 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: +385 (0)1 4848 771,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , www.hfs.hr

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

14.4.

Mo

18:30

The Long Road, Driving Through the Balkan History

Section: To the point
The Long Road, Driving Through the Balkan History / Dugo putovanje, kroz istoriju historiju i povijest
Serbia, Belgium, F.Y.R.O.M.
Director: Željko Mirković
2010 / 58 min. /Serbo-Croatian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Miljenko Jergovic, Marko Vidojkovic

 

It's been almost 20 years since the collapse of the old Yugoslavia and the time for the ultimate Balkan road movie has finally come. Two writers, a Croat and a Serb, take to the road once known as "the Highway of Brotherhood and Unity" in a Yugo car, the perfect symbol of their common past. It is a route moving from the past, to the present and into future, leading from Slovenia to Macedonia through Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. Their intention is to explore their common past in order to discover how history has divided them and where the present is leading them, and of course, to have a lot of fun doing it.

 

Awards: IFF Jahorina 2010: Grand Prix

Contact: Optimistic Film, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

14.4.

Mo

20:45

Divoši

Section: Best Of
The Wild Ones / Los Niños Salvajes
Spain
Director: Patricia Ferreira
2012 / 97 min. / Catalan-Spanish version with Czech, English and Spanish subtitles
Cast: Marina Comas, Àlex Monner, Albert Baró, Aina Clotet, José Luis García Pérez

 

Three teenagers who come from different backgrounds, share one common feature – they are completely misunderstood by the people around them. Alex, Gabi and Oki are too young to completely understand themselves and are continually in conflict with parents and teachers who still see them as little children and want to control them, but in fact don't care at all. Three young people on the threshold of adulthood defiantly push all the limits...their confusion and emotional isolation will have unexpected consequences that will shake the entire community.

Awards: Spanish FF Malaga 2012: Best Film, Best Script, Best Actor, Best Actress; Spanish FF Cinespaña, Toulouse 2012: Best Score; IFF Pamplona 2012: Audience Award; Catalan Film Award 2013: Best Actor

Contact: Alta Films, Cuesta de San Vincente, 4, E-28008 Madrid, Spain, T: +36 915 422 702, www.altafilms.com

Lucerna (Prague)	15.4.	Tue	16:30
Panorama (Boskovice)	23.4.	Wed	17:00
Junior (Jablonec)	23.4.	Wed	20:00
Central (Hradec Králové)	25.4.	Fri	18:00

 

 

 

The Daughter

Section: EuroCrime
The Daughter / I kóri
Greece, Italy
Director: Thanos Anastopoulos
2012 / 87 min. / Greek version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Savina Alimani, Aggelos Papadimas, Yorgos Simeonidis, Ieronymos Kaletsanos

Myrto,barely 15-years-old, is distraught after the collapse of her father's lumberbusiness and takes radical action – she kidnaps the young son of the man sheholds responsible for the bankruptcy and the disappearance of her father. Willthis act of revenge change anything? Greek cinema suffered greatly during theearly years of the Greek economic crisis, but now, on the contrary, it isgiving it strength, considering present-day Greek film topics. The Daughter is a good example. Itincorporates the feelings of social dissatisfaction of the nation into a classical thriller about revenge.

 

Awards: HellenicFilm Academy Awards 2012: Best Script, Best Cinematography, Best Director; IFFMotovun 2012: FIPRESCI Prize

Contact: Greek Film Center, 10 Panepistimou, 10671GR-Athens, Greece, T.: +30 210 3678 500, www.gfc.gr

 

 

Lucerna (Praha)	12.4.	Sat	20:45
Světozor (Prague)	17.4.	Thur	20:30

July

Section: Best Of
July / Krapec
Bulgaria
Director: Kiril Stankov
2012 / 96 min. / Bulgarian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Paraskeva Djukelova, Kasiel Noa Asher, Yana Titova, Ovanes Torosyan, Izhak Finzi

 

Dju, Dana and Lily haven't seen each other for many years. When they meet unexpectedly, the result is an impulsive trip to the seaside village of Krapetz where they spent their youth. For all three of them, it is a symbolic escape from the world, from the tediousness of work and the disappointments of life. The idyll on the shores of the Black Sea is suddenly disrupted by the local mafia. This random reunion of girlhood friends leads to an unexpected series of events involving old loves, the search for self identity, and confrontation with the past, but also the trafficking of women and a conflict with the underworld.

 

Awards: Golden Rose Film Festival 2012: Union of Bulgaria's Film Makers Award

Contact: Galafilm Ltd., 1B, Strumitza Str., Ap.11, BG-1000 Sofia, Bulgaria, T: +359 2 981 4209

 

Lucerna (Prague)	10.4.	Thur	17:00
Lucerna (Prague) - Small hall	14.4.	Mo	18:30

And If We All Lived Together

And If We All Lived Together / Et si on vivait tous ensemble?
France, Germany
2011 / 96 min. / French version with Czech subtitles
Director: Stéphane Robelin
Cast: David Bersanetti, Géraldine Chaplin, Jane Fonda, Claude Rich, Pierre Richard

Annie, Jean, Claude, Albert and Jeanne have been best friends for over 40 years. Their memories and hearts are not in top shape anymore and a future in a retirement home looms. To avert this unappealing possibility, they decide to start living together. It might seem like a crazy idea, but despite small differences and old, sometimes unpleasant memories, a beautiful adventure begins - life in a comunity. A comunity of 75 year olds!

CZ Distribution: Cinemart

Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

11.4.

Fri

20:45

Heavenly Shift

Section: EuroCrime
Heavenly Shift / Isteni műszak
Hungary
Director: Márk Bodzár
2013 / 100 min. / Hungarian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: András Ötvös, Roland Rába, Tamás Keresztes, Sándor Zsótér, Natasa Stork

 

Young Milan escapes from the war-ridden Balkans to Budapest where, because of his medical school experience, he lands a job as a medic in a night ambulance. As it turns out, the Hippocratic oath is just meaningless words to his two colleagues, who operate a profitable business, subsidised by the funeral industry, and based on the corpse trade. Milan is now faced with a dilemma – follow his conscience or take the money that can help him bring his girlfriend to Hungary. This thoroughly black crime-comedy debut from Mark Bodzsar is clearly inspired by Tarantino's explicitness and the Coen brothers' cynicism.

Awards: CinÉast Luxembourg 2013: Special Prize

Contact: EEAP - Eastern European Acquisition Pool GmbH, Alexanderstrasse 7, D-10178 Berlin, Germany, T.: +49 302 576 2330, www.eeap.de

Světozor (Prague)	16.4.	Wed	20:30
Lucerna (Prague) - Small hall	12.4.	Sat	18:30
Měšťanská beseda (Plzeň)	23.4.	Wed	19:00
Centrum (Havířov)	26.4.	Sat	18:00

Aglaya

Section: Best Of
Aglaya
Hungary, Poland, Romania
Director: Krisztina Deák
2012 / 116 min. / Hungarian verison with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Eszter Ónodi, Zsolt Bogdán, Babett Jávor, Piroska Móga, Iván Kamarás, Adél Jordán

 

Little Aglaya was raised in a circus since she was born. Her mother is an acrobat and her father, a clown. Aglaya too would have had a circus career there if her parents hadn't argued with the arrogant circus director and been forced to leave everything behind and flee the country. They manage to find work in a circus in Switzerland but the future is certainly not rosy for them there either. This poetic story is presented through the eyes of a child and set in a circus milieu with echoes of events from the second half of the 20th century. Despite its dreamy atmosphere, the story is based on real life events of writer, Aglaya Veteranyi.

 

Awards: Monte Carlo Television Festival 2013: Best Television Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Special Prize of the Monaco Red Cross; IFF Orenburg 2013: Grand Prix, Yar Club Special Prize; Porto Alegre Fantaspoa 2013: Best Director; IFF Stara Zagora 2013: Best Actress; IFF Antalya 2012: Best Film, Turkish Film Critics' Association (SİYAD) Prize

Contact: Opus Film, Łąkowa 29, 90-554, Łódź, Poland, T.: + 48 426 345 549, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Světozor (Prague)	13.4.	Sun	20:30
Central (Hradec Králové)	24.4.	Thur	20:30
Junior (Jablonec)	25.4.	Pá	20:00

Adria Blues

Section: Best Of
Adria Blues
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Director: Miroslav Mandić
2013 / 90 min. / Slovenian-Bosnian version with Czech and English subtitles
Cast: Senad Basic, Mojca Funkl, Peter Musevski, Iva Babic, Gregor Zorc

 

Former Bosnian rock star Toni Riff escaped to Slovenia during the war and married Sonia, one of his fans. Now, his music career over for more than two decades, Toni finds himself living off the earnings of his wife, who works as a phone-sex operator, much to his chagrin. One day, someone offers to organize a come-back concert for him. Will this opportunity save him and lead him out of his depression? Miroslav Mandic's tragicomedy looks at some of the less obvious consequences of war. Instead of dwelling on the horrors of war, he focuses on the emotional repercussions: the vanished dreams, the talent buried in the cemeteries, the destructiveness of burnout and the setting in of depression as a result of unfulfilled expectations.

 

Contact: Gustav film, Stegne 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, T.: +386 590 31995, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lucerna (Prague)	14.4.	Mo	17:00
Měšťanská Beseda (Plzeň)	23.4.	Wed	17:00

Graduates - Freedom Is Not For Free

Section: To the point
Graduates - Freedom Is Not For Free / Absolventi – Sloboda nie je zadarmo
Slovakia
Director: Tomáš Krupa
2012 / 83 min. / Slovak version with English subtitles
Cast: Filip Jurkovič, Pavol Kaniansky, Miroslav Mráz

 

A documentary film about the struggle of young graduates in the „real world". Thay have to adapt to the needs of society and must often accept tough conditions that do not meet their interests or expectations. Their ideals and dreams collide with the global financial crisis and they don't know how to adapt to market principles and feel they live in an unjust country... A graduated actor works as a flight attendant, a photographer runs a pet shop, a student wants to work in the field of visual modern arts. We are free, but to what extent are we able to control our own destinies?

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Světozor (Prague) - Small hall

16.4.

Wed

18:30