Competition - Exhibition
Rose Camune
9 recently produced films, young authors, not yet known directors and productions.
Golden, silver and bronze prizes will be awarded according to audience preferences.
Saturday 10th March - 20.30
Sista dagen - Last Day - by Magnus Hedberg (Sweden, 2006, 120’)
Peter
is involved in a drug affair. A pusher has been killed and Peter realizes
he must flee. In a rush he picks up his girlfriend, Minna, and they catch
a train to Nörköping. They head for the countryside to his father’s
summerhouse, which he now shares with his brother Markus. Peter and Markus
have distant lives: Peter lives on his wits, Markus has a good job but is
in trouble with his wife, Karin. A psychologist suggests that they spend a
few days in an isolated place, so that they may become closer. The family
cottage seems a perfect place to go; Markus and Karin unpack, have dinner,
silently go to bed. Then Peter and Minna suddenly arrive, upsetting their
plans. The four of them find a solution: they will spend three days together,
despite their different ways of life.
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Sunday 11th March - 20.30
Vidange perdue - The Only One by Geoffrey Enthoven (Belgium, 2006, 90’)
Lucien is eighty years old and lives with his daughter Gerda. It is not easy
for them to live together. Moreover, Lucien stubbornly refuses to be helped
and does crazy things such as taking tablets on whisky, playing billiards
until late at night, getting drunk and coming home to have more beer. Lucien
suddenly decides to move to his former house, the one he shared with his wife.
Gerda tries in vain to talk him out of it. Mathilde, his friend Félix’s
solid wife, helps Lucien clean the place and cooks for him. They have had
an intimate relationship for years, which is still very vivid. After making
love, she says that she would kill him, should he fall in love with another
woman. Lucien’s new neighbour, Sylvia, is forty-six. He does not notice
her for a while. But then…
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Monday 12th March - 20.30
Trešeta - Tressette by Dražen Žarkovic and Pavo Marinkovic (Croatia, 2006, 80’)
How long will people survive on a small Dalmatian island? Few inhabitants
are left, in fact, most of whom are old. Four friends are playing cards in
a tavern. Then one afternoon, at the end of the game, Milan dies. Martin,
Šime and Nikša need a fourth player. A fishing warden refuses to
put money on the game. Then the three friends talk him into playing, he pays
for his debt but tries to arrest them for gambling and cheating. Someone else
will be the fourth player… and the island will go on surviving as usual,
with little secrets coming to light from time to time.
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Tuesday 13th March - 17.30
Sieh zu daß du Land gewinnst - Crossing fields – by Kerstin Ahlrichs (Germany, 2006, 86’)
Nineteen year-old Nike lives with her father on a small farm close to Hannover.
She is training for a position with the Immigration Authority with her best
friend Suse. Nike is forced to take over her parents' business when her father
is left bed-ridden by a heart attack. To her horror, Nike discovers that the
farm is on the verge of bankrupcy and that most of the workers are illegal
immigrants. Nike's life, along with her relationship to her best friend Suse,
changes rapidly. Despite Suse's reservations, Nike initiates a careful friendship
with the Bosnian Milena. For the first time in her life, at the brink of making
a fundamental decision, Nike knows what she's fighting for.
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Tuesday 13th March - 20.30
I Said So Little - Ho detto così poco by Lydzia Englert (Italy/Uk, 2006, 90’)
A
small village in the Apuan Alps. A woman is lying in her bed. “It happened
this way”, she says. Her name is Rachel Miller, her husband has died
not long ago. She is very upset, looks at his picture, puts it by her side
on the bed, cries desperately. A postman comes closer to her, but she repeatedly
ignores him until he comes closer and touches her. She is silent. They make
love in a violent way. She apologizes and sends him away. Four months later
Rachel gets a piano. She passionately plays a ragtime. In her bed she touches
her belly, looks for her encyclopaedia, goes to see a doctor, has an echography.
She is pregnant. Her husband and she couldn’t have any children…
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Wednesday 14th March - 20.30
Sve džaba - All for free – by Antonio Nuic (Bosnia/Croatia/Serbia 2006, 94’)
A
small town in Bosnia. Goran is thirty years old and lives in his parents’
house with his friend Miro, who lost both of his arms during the war. Josip,
a hopeless contractor, is also a friend. Marko, too, has been a friend of
Goran’s since primary school. When Marko finds out that Josip is his
wife’s lover, he throws a party and kills Josip (the lover) and Miro,
the one who knew but told him nothing. Goran’s best friends are thus
gone, and he has got no reason to keep on living in town. He has never left
it, but cannot bear to live here any longer. Utterly upset, he sells all of
his belongings and plans something memorable: he will drive from town to town
and offer drinks for free, one single day per town, until his money lasts.
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Thursday 15th March - 15.00
Wstyd - Shame - by Piotr Matwiejczyk (Poland, 2006, 76’)
Asia is a fifteen-year-old girl. In the first scene of the film she is raped
by a man. She’s living with her father, who is overwhelmed by sorrow
and pain after his wife’s death. At her father’s instigation,
Asia starts taking private violin lessons from her music school teacher. She
sexually provokes him and flirts with him. At the same time she feels observed
by his father’s former colleague, a gynaecologist whose wife, has just
lost her unborn child. The relationship between Asia and the three men gets
more and more complicated and will lead to a tragic final.
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Thursday 15th March - 22.00
Restart by Julius Ševcík (Czech Republic/Finland 2006, 85’)
Sylvia is in her mid thirties and lives in Prague. Life seems to be one single
party for her, her greatest terror being to be late and miss social events.
Her relationship to her boyfriend is a playful balance between closeness and
distance. No ties should be imposed on her freedom, as that would be far too
conventional and middle class, she thinks. No dreams of marriage. Then one
night, at the beginning of April, a mishap occurs. Now, if you experience
a computer crash you can use the ‘restart’ button which, if you
are lucky, will allow you to recover at least your temporary files. But what
is it like in real life? Can one just stop time and start it all over again
where the error occurred?
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Friday 16th March - 17.30
Oda do radosci - Ode to Joy
by Anna Kazejak-Dawid, Jan Komasa, Maciej Migas (Poland, 2006, 110’)
The
film features three stories of young Poles from Silesia, Warsaw and Pomerania,
as well as three different visions of contemporary reality. Aga comes back
home from London with many hopeful expectations. Peras is a Warsaw rapper
who enters a radio competition with his friends, performing a hip-hop number.
After his studies Wiktor comes back home to his seaside village…
