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My Sex Life / Viata mea sexuala
PerspectivesDir. Cornel George PopaA very tired woman strolls before the video camera in the Budapest park with the microphone attached to her skirt from behind. She is a single mother of 26. A guy whom she knew in the nursery school and has completely forgotten since, learns that she is…
Snowchild
PerspectivesDir. Uta ArningWhen there is a multi-storied parking on the screen, the viewer has good reason to expect a car chase in the near future and almost certainly there will be a shoot-out. In the same way a lonely hotel or house spells imminent death at the hands of a…
Undercurrent / Brim
PerspectivesDir. Árni Ólafur ÁsgeirssonIt is rewarding to observe that the invigorating winds of political correctness have penetrated the territories which were earlier off limits to them. Like, for example, a frail Icelandic fishing vessel where the sturdy crew should be sure that a woman on board forebodes trouble. But far…
Anarchy in Zirmunai / Anarchija Zirmunuose
Anarchy in Zirmunai (Anarchija Zirmunuose) PERSPECTIVESDir. Saulius Drunga The detective-like plot development is what fuels our interest in the movie, the title of which includes the word “anarchy” and the name of the dormitory district in Vilnius dating back to the late Soviet period. On the soundtrack we hear the…
American translation
American TranslationCOMPETITON Dir. Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr A youth named Chris drives across France in a van, in which he also lives and sleeps, changing his only two shirts. But those are real party slim line shirts, one is yellow with red and blue flowers, the other is brown with…
Revenge: A Love Story / Fuk sau che chi sei
CompetitionDir. Wong Ching PoThe viewer who is at least superficially familiar with Asian cinema of the past decade will have no difficulty in taking the movie into its constituent parts which he has already seen elsewhere. The lovers – she is, to put it plainly, nuts, and to put it…
First winners of the 33rd MIFF
First winners of the 33rd MIFF were announced on Saturday morning in "Khudozhestveny" cinema:”Viewers’ sympathy” award was given to “MONTEVIDEO, TASTE OF A DREAM” (MONTEVIDEO, BOG TE VIDEO) by a Serbian director Dragan Bjelogrlic. FIPRESCI jury awarded a film by Alberto Morais “THE WAVES” (LAS OLAS). “Kommersant” magazine gave its…
Queen
Julie Taymor's version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest secured its place in the cinema history due to innovation: the main character is now a woman named Prospera. The helmer explained this twist in adaptation by a simple fact: she couldn’t find a male performer who’d be comparable with Helen Mirren. By…
What´s Slovak in Karlovy Vary in 2011 - put this on our festival page
Dear Colleagues & Friends, Let me inform you about the strong presence of Slovak films at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2011 (direct link). Please, find attached the newsletter and here a link to more information at the information website www.aic.sk:SLOVAK FILMS – KARLOVY VARY 2011 (direct link) Slovak…
Chapiteau-show
Competition Dir. Sergei Loban Pretty, but lonesome girl meets a nihistic guy nicknamed Cyber Ranger on the Internet. First she drags him out of the virtual space on a real date, and then – to Cremea, where she continues to draggle him around with her – to the beach, dinner…
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…
