22-08-2012

European cinema at Cinematik

    Cinematik focuses on European cinema from its very beginning. Film Europe section presents five feature films and one short film that gained attention at various festivals. The section is organized in collaboration with Film Europe Media Company.

    One of the highlights of whole festival is A Trip to the Moon by a first magician of silver screen Georges Méliès. The restored copy of the film was premiered at last year’s Festival de Cannes. It was coloured according to the original copies and a new soundtrack by French duo Air was added. The Extraordinary Voyage by Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange will accompany the film classic. It is a documentary about 109-years voyage of this film from its first screening in 1902 to its restoration.

    Pierre Schœller‘s The Minister is a story about the Minister of Transport who has to go to a place of a car accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a State official through an increasingly complex and hostile world.

    The main topic of Michale Boganim’s Land of Oblivion is Chernobyl. The film was shot at the nearby village where the story is also set. It begins on the day of the catastrophe: Anya and Piotr celebrate their wedding, but everything changes in an instant when Piotr is called to fight the flames at the power station and never returns. Ten years later, Anya still lives in the village; she works as a guide to the tourists who come to see destroyed land and is haunted by her “inner demons”.

     

    Last modified on 05-09-2012