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7 YEARS 5x2 shows five Deauville Film Then an older actress Director: Bram scenes from a Festival; Critics enters. She has a few Vergeer modern European Award for Best first lines in the play, and Kenya 2007 marriage, in which film, French wants to know -- Documentary 26 love has coagulated Syndicate of Cinema frankly, brutally -- if minutes into a poisonous duel. Critics; Lumiere her career as a Language: English But everything Award leading actress is PG happens in reverse PG 13 really over because Borders do not bound order: we see its An unmarried she is known as a homosexuality. It is a disintegration from pregnant teenager drunk. She cries, she fact of life that every the final calamity to finds an unlikely ally rants, she bares her community has to its genesis, gaining a in an older woman breasts to show the deal with. Kenya’s stunning insight into grieving over the old man that her rapidly modernizing an ordinary middle- death of her son. body is still sound, if society is still heavily class couple, Marion Provincial life of a sodden. The director influenced by tribal, (Valeria Bruni- less dramatic kind is is tempted: He was religious and neo- Tedeschi) and Gilles on display in Éléonore once this woman's colonial values. (Stéphane Freiss). Faucher's A Common lover, and perhaps Practising First, the divorce Thread in which the her daughter is his. homosexuality is proceedings, then a 17-year-old Claire 20-APR punishable with 7 tense dinner party, (Lola Naymark), 18:00 DORPSHUIS years imprisonment. then the birth of the daughter of 24-APR The film explores the couple's only child, smallholders in the 20:15 background of this then the wedding and French countryside, DORPSHUIS fact and shows how finally the first conceals her gays and lesbians meeting. The pregnancy from her AS IT IS IN HEAVEN manage to live in a resulting film is a family and fellow / Så som i hostile environment. shrewd, supermarket workers. himmelen From a pastor to a compassionate and 22-APR male sex worker, 7 quite brilliant essay in 17:00 HB THOM TEATER Years gives a voice to the secret theatre of 24-APR a group of people relationships. 11:00 who are normally 19-APR DORPSHUIS used to keep quiet. 19:30 HB THOM TEATER 26-APR AFTER THE 21-APR 11:00 Director: Kay Pollack 20:00 REHEARSAL DORPSHUIS JC LE ROUX Director: Ingmar Sweden 2004 24-APR AUDITORIUM Drama 132 minutes 19:30 Bergman NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 Sweden 1984 Players: Michael A COMMON Drama 70 minutes Nyqvist, Frida 5 X 2 THREAD/ Brodeuse Players: Erland Hallgren Director: Francois Josephson, Ingrid Language: Ozon Thulin, Lena Olin Swedish/English/Italia France 2004 Language: Swedish n (English subtitles) Drama 90 minutes (English subtitles) Awards: Guild Film Players: Melvil PG Award – Gold, Poupaud, Jeanne A young actress Audience Award Moreau returns to the stage at Tromsø Language: French for a missing International (English subtitles) bracelet. But of Film Festival Awards: Pasinetti course the bracelet is PG 13 Award, Venice Film an excuse, and she Internationally Festival Director: Éléonore wants to talk to the famous conductor R 18 S Faucher great man, and Daniel Dareus All marriages are a France 2004 perhaps to begin a (Michael Myquist) mystery to outsiders, Drama 89 minutes relationship with him goes from being a big they say. This superb Players: Lola (as, perhaps, she has fish in a big pond to film from François Naymark, Ariane heard that many being a big fish in a Ozon, the director of Ascaride other actresses have small pond when he Swimming Pool and Language: French done over the years). returns to his Under the Sand, (English subtitles) The old director was childhood village in shines a light into one Awards: Critics Week once the lover of the search of peace and such mystery while Grand Prize, SACD girl's mother. It is rest. But he stirs up somehow keeping its Screenwriting Award, even possible that painful memories and essential core of Cannes film festival; this girl is his jealousies, when he unknowability intact. Best French Script at daughter. They talk. takes on the role of 1 choir master in the great leader, that he daughter Eva, played BILLO IL GRAND tiny community. The has pride to defend by Liv Ullman. This DAKHAAR choir is a platform for his country, but it is would be the first and Director in bringing characters only when Danie only collaboration of Attendance together but also for meet up with Nick, an the two Bergmans as Director: Laura revealing the chasms chrismatic and cancer would take Muscardin within the village and rebelios Englishman, Ingrid's life five years Senegal/Italy 2006 within relationships. who doesn't believe a later. This would also Drama 90 minutes The rural setting word the army says, mark Liv Ullman’s last Players: Marco Bonini underlines the does Danie then start great role with Language: isolation of the to question which Bergman, whose Wolof/Italian (English village, focusing the side of the fence he child, Linn Ullman, subtitles) drama to its very core should be on. she bore and would PG elements: the nature 25-APR play the younger Eva An apparently - and the danger - of 19:30 in the film. Bergman, insoluble romantic KAYAMANDI community. A 22-APR known as the impasse resolves confrontation is 20:00 greatest director of itself into double triggered by the JC LE ROUX women along with domesticity in "Billo," sweeping changes AUDITORIUM Eric Rohmer, Laura Muscardin's that Daniel's passion continues his theme joyous tale of a for music has brought AUTUMN SONATA of discordance Senegalese fashion to the community. Director: Ingmar between females as designer in Rome. And feelings about Bergman seen in a number of Muscardin, whose religion are not the Sweden/Germany/Fra his previous pictures. considerably darker only kind she has nce 1978 19-APR AIDS drama "Days" repressed. A definite Drama 99 minutes 18:00 showed an equally DORPSHUIS MUST SEE film at the Players: Liv Ullman, impressive control of Ingrid Bergman 23-APR Festival 11:00 layered tone, has 19-APR Language: DORPSHUIS woven a lavishly 19:30 Swedish/English peopled tapestry that NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 (English subtitles) BEGIN feels at home in both 22-APR Awards: Bodil Award Director: Jaco Kosie 17:15 a Senegalese village NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 for Best European Smit and a Roman 24-APR film; David di South Africa 2007 junkyard. Neither an 10:45 Donatello Awards for Drama 21 minutes NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 illegal-immigrant Best Actress; Golden Language: Afrikaans horror story nor a Globe for Best PG AT THY CALL broad culture-clash Foreign Language ’n Visueel- comedy, quasi- Director: Christopher Film betowerende Lee Dos Santos documentary pic, PG liefdestorie gebaseer with extremely South Africa 2007 Ingmar Bergman op ’n ware verhaal – Drama minutes personable hip-hop directed a series of diè van regisseur Jaco designer Thierno Language: English films in the 70’s that Kosie Smit en PG Thiam as the star of have been referred to komponis Dwaid his own real-life story, South Africa, 1984. as "Chamber films" Boverhoff. Ontwerper Every white male skips gracefully (or "Chamber through good times from the age of 16 pieces" ). They that has completed and bad. – Ronnie involve only a handful Scheib high school is of actors and usually conscripted into the Courtesy of the focus on very intense Italian Institute of South African interpersonal National Defence Culture in Pretoria relationships and Smit en komponis force to answer their 22-APR situations. Loosely Boverhoff gebruik die 17:00 call of "National based on Bergman’s konvensies van die OUDE LIBERTAS Service". Danie own youth, Autumn stilfilm saam met AUDITORIUM Joubert, a young and 23-APR Sonata is one such skitterende kunsregie proud Afrikaner who's 12:00 film. Made in forty en ’n oorspronklike JC LE ROUX AUDITORIUM family name is well days during late 1977 musiekklankbaan om 25-APR respected in the army it starred Ingrid ’n juweel te skep. 19:30 due to his older KAYAMANDI Bergman in her last Moenie dit misloop brothers previous theatrical role. She nie! BLED NUMBER ONE accomplishments at 23-APR portrays a self- Director: Rabah the Battle of centered and 20:15 OUDE LIBERTAS Ameur-Zaïmeche Cassinga. Danie sophisticated concert proves to his corporal AMPHITHEATRE Algeria/France 2006 pianist Charlotte, who Drama 100 minutes (who is a hardcore visits her passive racist), that he is a 2 Players: Meryem India 2004 CAMP DE Senegal 1977 Serbah, Abel Jafri Drama 80 minutes THIAROYE Drama 120 minutes Language: French Players: Shivaji Director: Ousmane Players: Tabata (subtitles) Satam Sembene Ndiaye, Moustapha Awards: Award of the Language: Hindi Algeria/Senegal/Tunis Yade Youth, Cannes Film (English subtitles) ia 1987 Language: festival Awards: International Drama 175 minutes French/Wolof (English PG Jury Award at Golden Players: Sidiki subtitles) Barely released from Elephant Film Bakaba, Hamed Awards: Interfilm prison, Kamel is Festival, Hyderabad Camara Award, Berlin Film deported to his A Language: Festival birthplace, a small Ganatra’s delightful French/Wolof (English A village in Algeria film has been invited subtitles) The Ceddo try to stuck between by about 51 film Awards: Grand preserve their mountains and the festivals worldwide. Special Jury Prize, traditional African sea. This enforced South Africans will Venice Film Festival culture against the exile obliges him to get an opportunity to R 13 V onslaught of Islam, lucidly observe a experience this youth Ousmane Sembene Christianity, and the country undergoing drama. Sonu and retraces the slave trade. When change, split between Lakhmi, the camel breakdown of colonial King Demba War a desire for shepherd’s children rule in his persuasive sides with the modernity and the live in a hamlet in if deliberate historical Muslims, the Ceddo weight of ancient north-west India. One drama, "Camp de kidnap his daughter, traditions. Without day their camels Thiaroye." Set near Princess Dior Yacine, roots, he is looking stray over the the end of World War to protest their for a place in society, Pakistan border. Sonu II, the film eulogizes a forcible conversion to trying to find following them, group of African Islam. After trying to something to hang on unwittingly crosses veterans martyred rescue the princess, to, so that he can the border and ends when they rebel, as various heirs to the finally express up in a Pakistani they inevitably must, throne are killed, and himself. After all herdsman’s house. against the injustices the King is murdered these years of 22-APR of the supremacist during the night. submission and 19:30 system. The cheers Eventually the KAYAMANDI suffering, his 26-APR of the Frenchmen kidnappers are killed personality has been 12:00 they helped to and the princess is erased, as if polished JC LE ROUX liberate are still brought back to the by the passage of AUDITORIUM ringing in their ears village to confront the time. His loneliness when Sgt. Maj. Diatta Imam, as all the reflects the soul of BROTHERS IN (Iprahima Sane) and villagers assume Louisa, a young ARMS 1978 his men march into Muslim names. A singer who ran away Director: Dino the transit camp at powerful tale of from France, where Pappas & Chris Lee Dakar in French West contradictions of her husband didn’t let Dos Santos Africa. A proud and religious forces and her sing. South Africa 2007 polished unit, they its effects on African 21-APR Drama 48 minutes have attained an culture and tradition 17:00 Language: English equal status during 21-APR OUDE LIBERTAS R 13 V war that now 14:00 AUDITORIUM The Year is 1978, the OUDE LIBERTAS 26-APR threatens the war in Angola is AUDITORIUM 18:00 hidebound colonials, 26-APR JC LE ROUX reaching an all time who try to 11:00 AUDITORIUM high, Operation subordinate the men DORPSHUIS Reindeer is in full BLIND CAMEL before sending them swing and one man back to their villages CHILD OF THE learns the importance in the Congo, the TERRACES / of humanity and the Ivory Coast and the Halfaouine realities of war after French Sudan. Director: Férid the loss of his 22-APR Boughedir brother. 19:30 Tunisia/France/Italy 23-APR OUDE LIBERTAS 1990 20:00 AUDITORIUM Drama 98 minutes JC LE ROUX 26-APR AUDITORIUM 15:00 Players: Selim 26-APR DORPSHUIS Boughedir, Mustapha 15:30 Adouani JC LE ROUX CEDDO Language: Arabic AUDITORIUM Director: Vinod Director: Ousmane (English subtitles) Ganatra Sembene 3 Awards: Tanit d'Or, mounted powerful 18:00 Carthage Film resistance against — JC LE ROUX CONFESSIONS OF A AUDITORIUM Festival; Golden the men by hiding out 24-APR GAMBLER Palm, Valencia from the police, the 11:00 Director in Festival of women by simply NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 Attendance Mediterranean bathing together. 25-APR Director: Rayda 17:00 19-APR Cinema; Audience NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 Jacobs Award, Würzburg 14:00 South Africa 2007 OUDE LIBERTAS International AUDITORIUM Drama 87 minutes Filmweekend 21-APR COLD SHOWERS/ Players: Rayda R 13 N 11:00 Douches Froides Jacobs, Tauriq Jenkins The story of NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 Language: Halfouine: Child of English/Afrikaans the Terraces is, on CHILDREN OF (English subtitles) the surface, a GLORY/ Szabadság, PG relatively simple one: szerelem Abeeda Ariefdien is a young boy comes of Director: Krisztina 49-year old Muslim age in Goda Director: Antony woman who wears Hungary 2006 Cordier double scarves, prays Drama 123 minutes France 2005 five times a day, is a Players: Kata Dobó, Drama 102 minutes wonderful mother, Iván Fenyö Players: Johan and a good friend. Language: Libéreau, Salomé One day Abeeda goes conservative society, Hungarian/Russian/E Stévenin to the casino with a moving fromthe nglish (English Language: French friend, and wins innocence of youth subtitles) (English subtitles) R4,500. She is into the sensuality of PG Awards: Lumiere stunned by the adulthood. But Ferid Young director Award, Most winnings, and soon Boughedir's first Krisztina Goda makes Promising Young finds herself going feature film (he is a splash with her Actor; Prix Louis back. Her addiction also a widely tightly wound and Delluc, Best First spirals out of control respected African film breathtakingly solid Film; International when she discovers scholar) is actually Hungarian revolution New Talent her son Reza has quite complex, drama Children of Competition - Grand Aids. juxtaposing a sexual Glory (Szabadság, Prize at Taipei Film 18-APR awakening story with szerelem). Like Festival 19:30 a portrait of Tunisia Verhoeven’s recent R 18 N S KAYAMANDI as a deeply conflicted Zwartboek (Black The story of three Book) it offers a 21-APR society. Sultry and teenagers: A 19:30 gorgeous to look at, thrilling ride through beautiful girl, OUDE LIBERTAS it's also a very subtle recent European Vanessa, and two AUDITORIUM film about the history modelled on boys, Mickael and 23-APR the Hollywood 15:30 fissures not always Clement, one rich, JC LE ROUX AUDITORIUM visible in Islamic blockbuster but one poor. The story of 24-APR society. infused with a Mickael - judo fanatic 19:30 There's a tragic particular European and doomed lover - KAYAMANDI undercurrent to his sensitivity -- and in and his parents, both CRIES AND progress into szerelem’s case a convinced that the WHISPERS manhood. He's strong love story. sky will one day come surrounded by the Perhaps not crashing down on detritus of male- coincidentally, this their heads, and both dominated culture: reconfiguration of more than able to The women he loves events surrounding cope when it does. are unhappy and the 1956 revolution Blackly comic, oppressed, and the and two bloody brutally funny, Hungary-Russia water police drag off the heartbreaking, Director: Ingmar polo matches was villagers we come to truthful. A tragi- Bergman partially scripted by know in their comedy. About Sweden 1972 Joe Eszterhas, the occasional sweeps. happiness and Drama 90 minutes screenwriter on Halfaouine shows us hardship, sex, luck Players: Erland Verhoeven’s Basic that becoming a man and catastrophe. Josephson, Ingrid Instinct. in modern Tunisia 19-APR Thulin, Harriet means becoming part 21-APR 13:30 20:15 Anderson, Liv Ullman of something that NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 OUDE LIBERTAS 26-APR Language: Swedish many of these AMPHITHEATRE 13:30 (English subtitles) characters have 23-APR NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 4 Awards: Oscar for Screenplay, Sitges - Awards: OCIC Award, The Medicine Bag is Best Catalonian Amiens International an unusual and Cinematography; International Film Film Festival; Horus fascinating Bodil award for Best Festival Awards, Cairo documentary film European film; R 18 S V National Festival for that tells the story of Technical Grand If you go down to the Egyptian Cinema Letitia Petersen and Prize, Cannes Film woods today you're in PG 13 her relatives; the festival; Several for a big surprise. But Destiny takes place in Schwartz family who David di Donatello not as big as the one 12th century Spain, have been the Awards; and many that awaits the but could take place keepers of a medicine more! heroes of this twisted today. It is an odd, bag for many R 16 N V modern fairy-tale brave film, part generations. Legendary director from quirky French impassioned 19-APR Ingmar Bergman filmmaker François melodrama, part 19:30 KAYAMANDI creates a testament Ozon musical, taking a 24-APR to the strength of the At a small provincial broad popular 14:00 soul—and a film of high school, approach to OUDE LIBERTAS absolute power. Karin conniving sexpot questions of religious AUDITORIUM and Maria come to Alice (Natacha belief. It was directed EZRA the aid of their dying Régnier) persuades by an Egyptian, sister, Agnes, but her gullible young financed from France, jealousy, lover Luc (Jérémie set in the Spanish manipulation, and Rénier) to murder province of Andalusia, selfishness come classmate Saïd (Salim and photographed in before empathy. Kechiouche), whom Lebanon and Syria. Agnes, tortured by she claims raped her. The story involves the cancer, transcends Having offed the lad real-life Arabic the pettiness of her in the locker room, philosopher Averroes, sisters’ concerns to the couple drive into who believed that the Director: Newton I. remember moments the forest to dispose Koran was open to Aduaka of being—moments of the body. But interpretation. Yes, France/Nigeria/USA/U that Bergman, with things go pear- he taught his K/Austria 2007 the help of Academy shaped when the pair scholars, the book is Drama 110 minutes Award-winning get lost on their way the word of God, but Players: Mamoudu cinematographer back to the car. Help God gave us Turay Kamara Sven Nykvist, arrives in the form of intelligence so that Language: English translates into a hairy hermit (Miki we might reason Awards: Best Film, pictures of staggering Manojlovic) who about his words and FESPACO beauty and invites them back to not blindly follow PG 13 V unfathomable horror. his cabin. But this their literal meanings. A passionate, NOT TO BE MISSED!!! grim fable takes a After all, to assume harrowing drama 20-APR Grimm turn when he that the mind of God about rebellion, 15:00 locks the youngsters can be reduced to atrocity and child DORPSHUIS 25-APR in his cellar, saying ordinary human soldiering in Africa, 19:30 he intends to fatten language and "Ezra" is raw and OUDE LIBERTAS them up before contained in mere violent. Ezra AUDITORIUM eating them... words is itself a kind (Mamoudu Turay 26-APR 23-APR 18:00 of heresy. And those Kamara) is kidnapped 19:30 DORPSHUIS who oppose the as a child and forced NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 25-APR interpretation of the to join the army of CRIMINAL LOVERS 18:00 Koran are of course the rebellion; a Director: Francois JC LE ROUX imposing their own location is never Ozon AUDITORIUM interpretation upon it. specified, but Sierra 21-APR Leone was the film's France 1999 DESTINY/ Massir, 15:00 inspiration. Years Drama 96 minutes al- DORPSHUIS later, he takes part in Players: Natacha Director: Youssef an amphetamine- Régnier, Jérémie Chahine DIE MEDISYNESAK / fueled attack on his Renier Egypt/France 1997 The Medicine bag own village, Language: French Drama 135 minutes Director: Lieza Louw contributing to the (English subtitles) Players: Nour El- South Africa 2007 death of his parents, Awards: Grand Jury Sherif, Laila Eloui Documentary 40 and the mutilation of Award, L A Outfest; Language: minutes his sister Onitcha Best Actress Award at Arabic/French Language: Afrikaans (Mariame N'Diaye). Málaga International (English subtitles) (English subtitles) When he is brought Week of Fantastic A Cinema; Best before the nation's 5 Truth and Ingmar Bergman's Language: French Players: Robert Reconciliation Fanny and Alexander, (English subtitles) Atzorn, Heinz Commission, Ezra made for Swedish TV Awards: Grand Prize Bennent denies all -- even but shown here of the Jury, Cannes Language: German though his sister is a theatrically in a film festival; Jury (English subtitles) chief witness against shortened version, is Special Diploma for R 16 S V him. Through Bergman's most best film at Yerevan Filmed in Germany, flashback, Aduaka opulent production International Film during Bergman's shows the unwilling that well deserved its Festival tax-related exile with evolution of an Oscars for Winner of the Grand a predominantly African revolutionary, cinematography and Jury Prize at the 2006 German cast and the corruption of a costume design Cannes Film Festival, crew, From the Life of political movement Fanny and Alexander R 18 S V the Marionettes by the diamond trade is a family epic, a Bruno Dumont continues the story of and Katmandu-sized symphonic piece for a returns to the land of Katarina and Peter mountains of denial large cast. his childhood in Egermann, the and guilt. The film begins with a northern France to feuding, childless, 20-APR marvellously make what many are professional couple 19:30 sustained Christmas calling his most who appear in Scenes KAYAMANDI 23-APR party sequence in accessible film to From A Marriage. This 19:30 1907 at the home of date. André is an unusually raw OUDE LIBERTAS a wealthy ex-actress Demester shares his and explicit drama in AUDITORIUM in what is clearly the time between his which all the scenes university city of farm and walks with are shot in black and FANNY AND Uppsala and comes Barbe, his childhood white except the ALEXANDER to focus on the friend. He loves her opening sequence almost Dickensian life secretly and painfully, and the epilogue. of her grandchildren accepting from her Peter Egermann when their actor- the little that she can (Robert Atzorn), father suddenly dies give him. Along with outwardly stable and and their mother the others his age, well adjusted, suffers Director: Ingmar marries a puritanical Demester leaves from depression, Bergman bishop. Performed by feelings of sexual Sweden/France/Germ Bergman regulars, inadequacy, and any 1982 the film has much barey suppressed Drama 188 minutes that is rage toward his wife, Players: Kristina autobiographical Katarina (Christine Adolphson, Erland about it and involves Buchegger). This Josephson a contest between home to be a soldier eventually leads to Language: theatre and church, in a war in a far off the brutal rape and Swedish/German/Yidd between magic and land. Barbarity, murder of a ish/English (English dull diurnal reality. camaraderie and fear prostitute, known subtitles) During its three turn Demester into a only as Ka, a Awards: Oscars for hours, seasons come warrior. As the nickname for Best Foreign and go, friends and seasons go by, Barbe, Katarina. An intense Language film, relatives gather for alone and wasting and experimental cinematography, art funerals, weddings away, waits for the film, whose complex direction and and christenings, and soldiers to return. Will structure allows us to costume design; all human life is here. Demester’s explore the mind of a BAFTA film award for – Philip French boundless love for man driven to 20-APR cinematography; Barbe save him? extremes, From the 20:15 Life of the César Award for Best DORPSHUIS 24-APR Foreign Language 22-APR 19:30 Marionettes is one of 20:15 OUDE LIBERTAS Bergman's most Film; David di AUDITORIUM Donatello Awards for OUDE LIBERTAS daring works. AMPHITHEATRE 26-APR Best Foreign film, 17:00 22-APR NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 20:15 Best director and FLANDRES Best Screenplay; DORPSHUIS Director: Bruno FROM THE LIFE OF Golden Globe for Best Dumont Foreign Language THE MARIONETTES GAMES OF LOVE France 2006 Director: Ingmar AND CHANCE/ Film; FIPRESCI Prize, Drama 91 minutes Venice Film Festival, Bergman L’Esquive Players: Adélaïde Sweden/Germany Director: Abdel and many more! Leroux, Samuel PG 1980 Kechiche Boidin Drama 104 minutes France 2003 Drama 117 minutes 6 Players: Osman wants Lydia and he's Ikaya follows the Elkharraz, Sara far too smitten to be footsteps of a white, Forestier scared of looking Afrikaans family who Language: French ridiculous in front of has been living in (English subtitles) his crew. Rejection, Language: Kayamandi, a Awards: Special seduction, betrayal, French/Wolof (English Stellenbosch Award at Buenos and love are the subtitles) township, for almost Aires International heart of this universal Awards: The eight years. For many Festival of coming-of-age story. President of the a South African and Independent Cinema; 19-APR Italian Senate's Gold international visitors César Awards for 14:00 Medal, Venice Film a township is NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 Festival Best Film, director, 23-APR synonymous with screenplay and most 13:30 PG 13 V poverty, crime and promising actress; NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 The death of violence, but for this Grand Prix, Entrevues community leader unique family of five, Film Festival; GOOD BOYS/ and Catholic 'noble Ikaya means our FIPRESCI Prize and Yeladim Tovim man' Guelwaar home. Through the Special Jury Award at Director: Yair (Ndiaye) brings his eyes of the family we Istanbul International Hochner family back to experience the rowdy Film Festival; Lumiere Israel 2005 Senegal, but his sjebeen, the damp Award; Best Actress Drama 75 minutes funeral is delayed shacks, the buzzing Award at Mons Players: Daniel Efrat, when his body goes spaza and the dust International Festival Yuval Raz missing. A mix-up has alleys where children of Love Films; Étoile Language: Hebrew occurred, and it is play. d'Or (English subtitles) soon discovered that 20-APR PG 13 N S Awards: Special the man has already 19:30 KAYAMANDI This sensitive, Programming been buried in a Committee Award for Muslim cemetery. daringly original and JUS’ CALL ME deeply human Outstanding The family sets out to Emerging Talent, L.A. reclaim the body, but TJARRA portrait of a group of Director: Lieza Louw teenagers living in Outfest the Muslim R 18 N S community refuse to South Africa 2004 the projects outside Documentary 49 Paris and surviving in Meni and Tal, two have their burial Israeli prostitutes, grounds tampered minutes a world marginalized Language: Afrikaans by society. Set during find comfort in each with. As a local other's arms after an policeman is charged (English subtitles) preparations for a A school production, it unorthodox request with finding a from a john draws compromise before A wonderful captures their documentary about affections, quarrels them together. But sectarian differences can their fragile love flare into violent Hermanus, its people and jealousies as well and the crayfish as the budding survive a 24-hour conflict, we learn dose of harsh reality? more about the dead season. romance between shy 24-APR Krimo and Lydia, the Award-winning man, a political 14:00 fiery blonde star. filmmaker Hochner firebrand opposed to OUDE LIBERTAS Krimo, a pre-thug will keep you foreign aid. A funny, AUDITORIUM guessing about what articulate and moving 18-APR with great, big 19:30 dreams forms a tight happens next in this satire on the state of KAYAMANDI crew with his friends harrowing but modern Africa. that carries its weight ultimately moving 22-APR LA VIE EN ROSE gem. 14:00 around their OUDE LIBERTAS 21-APR dangerous ‘hood. AUDITORIUM 14:00 25-APR Confident and sassy, HB THOM TEATER 18:00 Lydia is a romantic, 26-APR DORPSHUIS stunning beauty 14:00 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 driven by passion. IKAYA Friends throughout GUELWAAR Director: Elsabe Director in their lives, as they Daneel Attendance move into Director: Ousmane Sembene South Africa 2006 Director: Olivier adolescence, Krimo Documentary 48 Dahan realizes he has fallen France/Senegal/Germ any 1992 minutes France 2007 in love. Using the Language: Drama 140 minutes show as a way to get Drama 115 minutes Players: Abou Afrikaans/English Players: Marion closer to Lydia, Krimo (English subtitles) Cotillard, Gérard persuades his friend, Camara, Marie Augustine Diatta A Depardieu Rachid, to give up the Language: French lead role. Krimo (English subtitles) 7 Awards: Oscars for Egypt/Germany 1993 PG with dramatised Trial Best Actress and Drama 90 minutes Love collides with Makeup; BAFTA Players: Mervat Amin, social class and Awards for Best Tamir Ashraf colonialism when Aba Actress, Costume Language: Arabic Appiah, born to Design, Makeup and (English subtitles) privilege, falls in love Music; Boston Society PG with Joe Quansah, son of Film Critics Award A 13-year-old boy of a fisherman. Her Statements, Fischer’s for Best Actress; Best follows his father's father, retired civil own and archive Actress at Cabourg ghost to the front line servant Kofi Appiah, footage tell this Romantic Film in "Little Dreams," a has other plans for courageous story Festival; Golden sure-footed first her, and seeks to spanning a century of Globe for Best feature by Egyptian block their marriage. South African history. Actress; Kansas City Khalid al-Haggar. The resulting conflict 22-APR 12:00 Film Critics Circle Powerfully conveying has complex and JC LE ROUX AUDITORIUM Award for Best a generation's unexpected 23-APR Actress; London disenchantment with consequences. 20:15 Critics Circle Film popular late-'60s 23-APR DORPSHUIS Award for Best leader Gamal Abdel 19:30 KAYAMANDI Actress; Los Angeles Nasser, the film LULLABY Director: Darrel Film Critics remains a LOVE, Association Award for compellingly human James Roodt COMMUNISM, South Africa 2007 Best Actress; and wartime drama. Set REVOLUTION & many more! in Suez, in the period Drama 105 minutes RIVONIA – BRAM Players: Melissa Leo, R 16 S leading up to and FISCHER’S STORY Olivier Dahan's La Vie during the six-day Lisa Marie Schneider, Director: Sharon Farr Renier Basson en Rose, one of the war against Israel in South Africa 2006 best biopics I've seen, 1967, the story pivots Language: English Documentary 80 An American mother tells Piaf's life story on plucky youngster minutes through the Ghareb. Captivating, receives word that Language: English her drug addled son extraordinary dreamlike opening Awards : Best South performance of scenes unfurl with Steven, has been African Documentary, kidnapped by a drug Marion Cotillard, who vivid splashes of Encounters looks like the singer. color, recapping his lord operating in Documentary Festival South Africa . T-Boy, The title, which parents' wedding, his 2007 translates loosely as birth and early a drug lord, is holding PG Steven hostage and "life through rose- childhood and his Bram Fischer led the colored glasses," is father's death as a will kill him if Defence at the Stephanie doesn’t from one of Piaf's Resistance hero in Rivonia Trial saving most famous songs, the 1956 Suez pay the money Mandela and other Steven owes him. which she wrote conflict. leaders from 21-APR Stephanie is assisted herself. She is known execution and when for countless other 10:45 in raising the cash by NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 all his comrades were songs perhaps most Steven’s girlfriend, 23-APR jailed or exiled, took a There is nothing a poignantly for "Non je 10:45 defiant solitary stand, NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 mother would not do ne regrette rien" living in disguise as ("No, I regret 25-APR to save her child. 19:45 Apartheid’s “most nothing"),which is NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 wanted” until his seen in the film as capture and life her final song; if it LOVE BREWED IN imprisonment in wasn't, it should have A AFRICAN POT 1966. been. Director: Kwaw Ansah Love, Communism, Ghana 1981 18-APR Revolution & Rivonia 20:15 Drama 118 minutes reveals Fischer’s Academy Award OUDE LIBERTAS Players: Anima Misa, journey from the nominee Director AMPHITHEATRE Reginald Tsiboe heart of Afrikaner Darrell James Roodt 19-APR Language: English directed Lullaby. His 19:45 aristocracy to leading NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 Awards: Omarou the SA Communist film Yesterday won Ganda Prize at Pan- Party in the struggle numerous LITTLE DREAMS/ African Film Festival against Apartheid. international awards Ahlam Saghira (FESPACO), UNESCO His daughters, and was selected as Director: Khalid Al- Film Award in France; comrades, colleagues one of the contenders Haggar Jury’s Special Silver and writers Nadine for best Foreign Peacock at the 8th Gordimer and Martin Language Film at the International Film Meredith combined 2005 Academy Festival of India Awards. Darrell’s 8 career spans some a bright red dress, purification ceremony three decades and he MEISIE Meisie (Abrina and 'the cut' - they has directed some of Director in Bosman) scurries take refuge with Collé South Africa’s most Attendance around the (Fatoumata loved motion pictures Director: Darrell surrounding hills and Coulibaly), a woman including Cry, the James Roodt one day sneaks into who refused to have Beloved Country South Africa 2007 an empty classroom. her own daughter and Sarafina. Drama 80 minutes 19-APR circumcised. She 23-APR Players: Renate 19:30 casts a mystical kayamandi 14:00 Stuurman, Abrina protection (the HB THOM TEATER 19-APR 24-APR Bosman, Raymond 20:00 Moolaadé of the title) 20:00 Basson JC LE ROUX and a standoff JC LE ROUX Language: Afrikaans AUDITORIUM follows. 23-APR AUDITORIUM 20-APR (English subtitles) 20:15 25-APR 14:00 Awards: Special Jury OUDE LIBERTAS 15:30 OUDE LIBERTAS AMPHITHEATRE JC LE ROUX Award at Durban Film AUDITORIUM AUDITORIUM festival; Audience 21-APR Award and Best 19:30 MAN OF ASHES/ Actress at Apollo Film KAYAMANDI Rih essed festival Director: Nouri MOOLAADÉ MOUNTAIN OF A Director: Ousmane Bouzid The smallest feature ASHES Tunisia 1986 Sembene Director: Jac Williams made by prolific, France/Senegal/Tunis Drama 109 minutes Hollywood- South Africa 2008 Players: Khadija ia/Morocco/Burkina Documentary 20 experienced South Faso/Cameroon 2004 Abaoub, Sarra African director minutes Abdelhadi Drama 120 minutes Language: English Darrell James Roodt Players: Fatoumata Language: Arabic (Cry, the Beloved A (English subtitles) Coulibaly, Maimouna An astonishing Country, Yesterday ) Hélène Diarra Awards: Un Certain is also one of his account of the fires Regard Award, Language: that ravaged the best. Minimalist tale French/Bambara Cannes Film Festival; of a remote-area mountains of Cape Tanit d'Or, Carthage (English subtitles) Town during the past schoolteacher Awards: Prize of the Film Festival befriending a gifted few years. Unusual R 16 S N Ecumenical Jury footage not seen girl who wants to - Special In the ensuing days learn but isn’t before! before his wedding Mention, Un 19-APR allowed to delivers 11:00 bridegroom Hachemi Certain Regard maximum emotional Award, Cannes DORPSHUIS faces both the 23-APR rewards for auds of Film Festival; anxieties of the future all ages. 14:00 and the shadows of Best Actress at OUDE LIBERTAS A schoolteacher Cinemanila AUDITORIUM the past. His best Esmerelda friend, Farfat, is the International September (Renate Film Festival; MUTUM topic of street graffiti Stuurman) arrives in Director in and local gossip, Jury Award at Riemvasmaak, an Los Angeles Pan Attendance which calls his isolated town on the manhood into African Film outskirts of the Festival; Special question. This ripples Kalahari. out to affect Hachemi Jury Award at Immediately Marrakech for, unbeknownst to embraced by locals, anyone, as International she begins teaching a Film Festival; apprenticed youths class of adorable they were molested National Society moppets and learns of Film Critics by Ameur, the local that during apartheid, carpenter. Farfat is Awards, USA, for Riemvasmaak’s Best Foreign banished from his residents were father's home and the Language Film; forcibly resettled in PG 13 S shared secret neighboring Namibia. Director: Sandra between the two Ousmane Sembene After just the right tackles the Kogut friends threatens to amount of meeting Brazil/France 2007 undo more than just controversy of female and greeting, the circumcision in a Drama 95 minutes the wedding, but screenplay introduces Players: Thiago da their very lives. passionate drama set the enigmatic title in a rural village in Silva Mariz, Wallison 19-APR character. A wild- 19:30 Burkina Faso. When Felipe Leal Barroso OUDE LIBERTAS haired girl of about 7, four little girls flee a AUDITORIUM permanently wearing 9 Language: Players: Han Lee, NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 11:00 Portuguese (English Young-hoon Lee 21-APR NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 19:30 subtitles) Language: Korean NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 Awards: Première (English subtitles) ONE OUT OF TWO/ Brazil for Best Film, R16 V N Uno su due NOOSE ENDS / Director: Eugenio Rio de Janeiro Su-Min, leaves the Matanda Cabos International Film confines of a rural Cappuccio Director: Alejandro Italy 2007 Festival orphanage and Lozano PG moves to the big city Drama 100 minutes Mexico 2004 Players: Fabio Volo, "Mutum" is a coming of Seoul. He takes a Drama 90 minutes of age story seen Ninetto Davoli Players: Tony Dalton, Language: Italian through the eyes of a Ana Claudia Talancon ten year old boy. (English subtitles) Language: Spanish PG Thiago lives with his (English subtitles) family on an isolated Lorenzo (Fabio Volo) Awards: Mexican has everything: a farm in the arid Cinema Journalists backlands of Minas successful career in low wage position as Silver Goddess Award law, a beautiful Gerais, Brazil. As the for Best story unfolds and a factory worker. He girlfriend (Anita also works part-time, Cinematography Caprioli) and a Thiago is forced to 3 x MTV Awards confront separations as a chauffeur for magnificent people who have had 2005 apartment and betrayal within R 16 V N the home, Thiago to much to drink in overlooking Genoa's bars. One of his Circumstances force harbour. He is on the begins, little by little, Jaque and Mudo, two to see and clients asks Su-Min to cusp of securing a come inside for a employees at a large business deal that will understand a place steel corporation, to that he had never drink after he is make him a wealthy driven home, but Su- kidnap their boss, the man when he one day been able to before, most feared man in thus slowly letting go Min leaves. The next faints and is rushed day at the factory Mexico. On the other to hospital where he of his innocence. hand, Botcha and "Mutum" is an plenty of people are wakes to discover laid off and Su -Min is Nico, who did have a that he has a adaptation of the premeditated plan to novel "Manuelzão e one of them. As he malignant brain leaves his job in kidnap the magnate, tumour. For a high Miguilim" by João deprive the wrong Guimarães Rosa. disgust, he crosses flying lawyer who paths again with the person of his liberty pulled himself up 20-APR without realizing their 14:00 man he drove home from working-class NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 the other night. That mistake. These roots, illness was not 22-APR person happens to be events give rise to a in Lorenzo's plans 13:30 black humor comedy NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 the son of the CEO at and lying back and the factory that Su- of errors and waiting for the test Min worked. Su-Min complications, to results is made more MY DOLL which several more Director: Nikos finds out shortly difficult, with afterwards that the characters will be everyone treating Kourouklis added before the Greece 2007 factory decided not to him like a delicate fire him, but instead unexpected end. time bomb. Lorenzo Drama 7 minutes Director Lozano uses Language: Greek fired a co-worker. Su- can only relate to his Min goes back to the the full range of hospital roommate, (English subtitles) cinematic trickery to A office of Jae-Min, Giovanni, a Roman quits, and throws his keep the fizz in his truck driver who Everything is not story: cross cutting, always what they business card back in seems to understand his face. Su-Min then instant flashback, Lorenzo better than seem. In a hotel parodies of other room, a lot could be winds up working as he ever understood a prostitute. His life is genres - and the one himself. going on… thing most 22-APR going relatively well The character of 14:00 under the filmmakers steal from Giovanni is NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 circumstances, until Quentin Tarantino - marvellously played 24-APR he meets Jae-Min and extraneous and by onetime Pasolini 14:00 entertaining dialogue NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 again at his regular, Ninetto workplace. that has nothing to do Davoli, who won the NO REGRET/ AlthoughSu -Min with the plot. Best Italian Actor 19-APR Huhwihaji anha pushes Jae-Min away, 10:45 Award at the Rome Director: Hee-il they eventually get NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 Film Festival 2006 for Leesong closer and a 23-APR his performance in South Korea 2006 relationship develops. 17:00 this film. Courtesy of NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 19-APR Drama 113 minutes 25-APR 11:00 10 the Italian Institute of garnering more from Hungary 2006 Culture in Pretoria each visit ... or less, Drama 110 minutes 22-APR depending on how Players: Sándor 17:00 you allow it to brush Csányi, Ildikó Tóth NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 25-APR your subconscious... Language: Hungarian 12:00 that part of you filled (English subtitles) JC LE ROUX with emotions which PG AUDITORIUM you rarely, if ever, A rare chance to see openly discuss." – a new film by the PERSONA Gary Tooze Oscar-winning Director: Ingmar 21-APR director of Mephisto, Bergman 18:00 Sunshine, Taking DORPSHUIS Sweden 1966 Sides and Being Julia. Drama 85 minutes 25-APR 15:00 Hungarian Players: Bibi DORPSHUIS heavyweight István Anderson, Liv Ullman, Szabó returns to his Gunnar Björnstrand PLEASE VOTE FOR home country after Language: Swedish ME the English-language (English subtitles) Director: Weijun Chen Being Julia for an Awards: National South adaptation of the Africa/Denmark 2007 classic Zsigmond Documentary 58 Móricz novel Rokonok minutes (Relatives). - István Language: Mandarin Kopjass (Csányi) (English subtitles) could not hurt a fly if A they showed him how To teach an to do it. When Society of Film Critics elementary school in Kopjass, Awards, USA, for Best China the meaning of unsuspectedly, is Film, Director and democracy and elected attorney actress voting, three 7-year- general, suddenly PG old students are half the town "Heavily artistically nominated to run for remembers he owes infused this chamber the position of class them some sort of piece from Bergman monitor (a decision favour because he is lauded numerous usually made each a distant relative. international awards year by staff). The Corruption and for both the film and three selected nepotism are things the performances. It's candidates: Luo Lei, from all ages and beautiful imagery the “incumbent” places, but as from Sven Nykvist's class monitor, is presented in Rokonok magnificent already known as a they are perhaps too cinematography, its tyrant within his rooted in the high level of position, but feels traditions of pre-WWII pretension and its secure in his success Hungary to feel inability to be and doesn’t want to instantly recognisable comprehensible have exert himself; Xu and resonant for given it a unique Xiaofei, the token girl, foreign audiences place in cinema is shy, easily hurt, beyond the fact that history. "Persona" can and reticent to attack this type of causes a myriad of her opponents; and corruption exists personal reactions. then there’s Cheng everywhere. The Perhaps its greatest Cheng (or as I call comic villains of the triumph is forcing the him, ‘Stalin’), who will piece are handled viewer to allow "it" to do anything - expertly, though, and penetrate... to open anything! - to win. the small comedy yourself to its deeply 26-APR that results from their felt expressions and 18:00 DORPSHUIS antics will delight perhaps have it touch 24-APR Hungarians and upon your own. 17:00 foreigners alike. "Persona" is rife with NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 20-APR universal emotions; 19:30 pain, love, desire, RELATIVES / NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 Rokonok 24-APR regret, longing. This 17:15 is a film that can be Director: István viewed multiple times 11 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 work that becomes films and stage sets 25-APR almost dizzying in its is associated with the 10:45 OUDE LIBERAS visual, cultural and interior life. AUDITORIUM filmic reference Long divorced and points. Salles self-centred in their ROOS VIR MARI launched the project different ways, a Director: Louis du as a personal effort to couple haven't met Director: Julie Lopes- Toit reconstruct the for 30 years until Curval South Africa 2007 generally happy three Marianne decides to France 2002 Drama 35 minutes decades his wealthy visit Johan at his Drama 90 minutes Language: Afrikaans family spent in a now- country house. Players: Bulle Ogier, (English subtitles) abandoned home, Spending the summer Ludmila Mikaël A with butler Santiago nearby is musician Language: France A sensitive short (retired and living and musicologist (English subtitles) drama from the alone in a small Henrik (Borje Awards: Golden director of the award- apartment in '92) the Ahlstedt), Johan's 61- Camera, Cannes Film winning When only living adult able year-old son by his Festival Tomorrow Calls. Roos to describe those first marriage. He is PG vir Mari deals with a years. accompanied by his Lopes-Curval makes young boy confronted 19-APR 19-year-old daughter filmaking look easy: by negativities in life 17:00 Karin (Julia OUDE LIBERAS Set entirely in a tiny, and how his sister, AUDITORIUM Dufvenius), a cellist. fading beach with her comedic 22-APR Father and son hate community interventions and 19:30 each other and the dependent upon a words of wisdom, NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 latter's confidence 24-APR local quarry operation assists him. As in the 15:00 has been destroyed that digs and sorts case of the first film DORPSHUIS by a lack of love and decorative rocks, the Du Toit has created paternal movie wanders visual poetry and a SARABAND encouragement. They among more than a deeply moving Director: Ingmar compete for Karin's dozen locals and account about loss. Bergman future. She feels that vacationers, catching Not to be missed – Du Sweden/Italy/German to break away from snippets of their Toit is one of the y/Finland/Denmark/A her recently widowed behavior and inner exciting new voices in ustria 2003 father would destroy tensions. Marie South African cinema. Drama 107 minutes him, though his (Hélène Fillières), a 21-APR Players: Liv Ullmann, incestuous desires young assembly-line 19:30 Erland Josephson and determination to KAYAMANDI stone sorter, seems Language: control her career are dissatisfied with SANTIAGO Swedish/German/Engl crippling her. everything, including Director: João Moreira ish (English subtitles) Meanwhile, Marianne her pushing-30 Salles Awards: Special is reluctantly drawn lifeguard boyfriend Brazil 2007 Condor, Argentinean into this family feud, Paul (Jonathan Documentary – 79 Film Critics while wondering what Zaccaï), whose lonely minutes Association Awards drew her to Johan in mother, Rose (Bulle Language: PG the first place, and Ogier), has blown her Portuguese, Spanish, Made two years ago why she suddenly retirement savings at English, Italian and one of only two decided to visit him. the town's small 19-APR (Piedmont dialect), films he has directed casino. Marie is in the past 20 years 11:00 Latin dialogue DORPSHUIS otherwise tempted by (English subtitles) (although he has 24-APR Albert (Patrick A worked steadily in the 18:00 Lizana), the son of DORPSHUIS An exemplary theatre and written the factory's original several screenplays), 25-APR postmodern 17:00 documentary that this is a superb film, OUDE LIBERTAS considers the limits for which no AUDITORIUM and potential of film concessions to age or to convey ideas, Joao medium need be SEASIDE/ Bord de Moreira Salles' made. Saraband Mer "Santiago" is a deeply touches on all the owner and now a human work of art. director's abiding powerless bureaucrat Three still themes and echoes a with the new photographs (black- dozen or more of his company. In the end, and-white, like the pictures. There is also though, Seaside's film itself) mark a a recurrent shade of about a place and humble start for a red in clothes and some people—as if walls that in Bergman 12 we were vacationing sweep without ever science geek, tells delivered by such ourselves, and the descending into the the dinner table he's legends of the other inhabitants merely picturesque. a "homo" and would Swedish screen as were merely passing These are always like to be excused. Gunnar Björnstrand, us on the boardwalk. people living in a real Mom is using the Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet 20-APR world. force of her maternal Andersson, and Ulla 17:15 26-APR sexuality to de-gay Jacobsson, Smiles of a NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 19:45 her son. Summer Night is one 22-APR NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 24-APR 10:45 20-APR of film history's great 15:30 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 13:30 tragicomedies, a JC LE ROUX NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 AUDITORIUM bittersweet view of SENTIMENTAL 26-APR the transience of DESTINIES/ Les SITCOM 11:00 human carnality. – Destinées NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 Gary Tooze Sentimentales 21-APR Director: Olivier SMILES OF A 20:15 Assayas SUMMER NIGHT DORPSHUIS France/Switzerland Director: Ingmar 2000 Bergman SPRING CACTUS / Drama 180 minutes Sweden 1955 ZHENG QING Players: Emmanuelle Director: Francois Drama 108 minutes KUANG AI Béart, Isabelle Huppert Ozon Players: Ulla Director: Yushan Language: France France 1998 Jacobsson, Harriet Huang (English subtitles) Drama 85 minutes Anderson, Gunnar Taiwan 1999 Awards: Best Director Players: Évelyne Björnstrand Drama 105 minutes Awards, Muscat Film Dandry, François Language: Swedish Players: Ching-wen festival Marthouret (English subtitles) Chia , Hu Ping A Language: French Awards: Bodil Award Language: Mandarin Sentimental Destinies (English subtitles) for Best European (English subtitles) is a long, attentive Awards: Golden film; Cannes Film Two girls of disparate epic about the span Bayard for Best Festival Award for class backgrounds of a life and the Actress and Best Best Poetic Humour suffer through seasons of a love. It Artistic Contribution, A teenage rebellion, is about youthful Namur International After fifteen films of drug abuse, and idealism, headstrong Festival of French- mostly local acclaim, prostitution in love and fierce Speaking Film, Best the 1956 prize- cutting-edge Taipei. ambition, and is Actress Award at winning comedy Xiao Lan grew up in pessimistic about all Sitges - Catalonian Smiles of a Summer an environment of them. At the end, International Film Night at last ushered similar to many of her its hero, who has Festival in an international friends. She had a accomplished a great R 18 S audience for director home she wasn't sure deal and always tried Sitcom is Ozon's first Ingmar Bergman. Set she could go back to. to do his duty, can feature. If nothing in turn-of-the-century She also had a group only say, "Everything else, Ozon has found Sweden, four women of friends she wasn't I've done is ways of ripping into and four men attempt sure she could trust. worthless. I was middle-class to juggle the laws of She never bothered always wrong." He's retentiveness with a attraction amidst to think over and wrong about that, wink and a smile, one their daily bourgeois analyze such time- too. The film follows that seems as single- life. When a weekend bound problems. For Jean Barnery (Charles minded as the in the country brings her, being young was Berling), born into a characters in this them all face to face, the only way one porcelain- shallow, shallow the women ally to could combat this manufacturing family family. force the men's environment. Only in the Limoges region Mom and Dad hands in their when her good friend of France. The ruling (Evelyne Dandry and matters of the heart, commits suicide, she families here make Francois Marthouret) exposing their finally realized that china and Cognac, are ringers for June pretentions and some things were laying down their and Ward Cleaver, insecurities along the heavier, much graver stocks, treasuring and the film is looking way. Chock full of than she had their vintages, for the Beaver in the flirtatious originally thought. transferring power in strangest places. The propositions and 22-APR an orderly way from rat Dad brings home sharp-witted wisdom 15:30 one generation to the is in the house for all JC LE ROUX AUDITORIUM 25-APR next. The film is of five minutes when 19:30 remarkable in the Nicolas (Adrien de NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 way it gains epic Van), the teen 13 SUMMER WITH Players: Mirjam Director: Apichatpong 19:45 MONIKA Masereeuw Weerasethakul NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 24-APR Director: Ingmar Language: Dutch Thailand/France/Austr 13:30 Bergman (English subtitles) ia 2006 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 Sweden 1953 R 16 V S Drama 105 minutes Drama 96 minutes This brilliant film is a Players: Arkanae TAXI TO THE DARK Players: Harriet low-key “teen drama” Cherkam, Jaruchai SIDE Andersson, Lars set in the sad and Iamaram Ekborg dreary, real-life Language: Thai Language: Swedish setting of the Dutch (English subtitles) (English subtitles) polder. The main Awards: Asian Film R 13 N themes are survival Award for Best Monika (Harriet and the redemption editing Director: Alex Gibney Andersson) is fed-up available in the acts PG 13 USA/South Africa with her job working of giving and The film is the work 2007 in a grocery store, accepting love. Even of the Thai director Documentary 106 constantly subjected in the toughest and installation-artist minutes to unwelcome circumstances, as Apichatpong Language: English advances of the male long as there is love, Weerasethakul. Awards: Oscar for co-workers, and is there is hope. Luna Syndromes and a Best Documentary; sick of the young men (16) lives with her Century is a poem on Gold Hugo, Chicago she goes out with, mother and six year screen: a film of ideas International Film her behaviour with old brother, Bas, in a and visual tropes that Festival; Best them all acquiring her dreary housing upends conventional Documentary Feature a certain bad estate. When Luna narrative and Jury Award; Ojai reputation. She’s also stands up for herself expectations, not out Film Festival; unhappy with her against teen gang of a simple desire to Documentary family situation and member, Laura, she disconcert but to Screenplay Award, the behaviour of her becomes the victim break through the Writers Guild of drunken father. of the gang’s carapace of America, USA Finally pushed past persecution. The normality, to give us R 16 V N her limit, she decides gang leaders exploit the knight's-move Photos and video of to run away with the situation and she away from reality torture at Bagram Harry (Lars Ekborg), a is forced to give in to that the Russian and Abu Ghraib are young man she has their demands. formalists said was the most viscerally just met who is Feeling unloved and the prerogative of art. disturbing elements similarly disillusioned abandoned, Luna It's a movie to be of "Taxi to the Dark with his work and finds the strength to compared with the Side," but the way family life. Together survive and discovers work of Antonioni - or soft-spoken soldiers they take a boat and Sergei Parajanov. were transformed leaving their troubles Perhaps, with its into beasts with the and civilisation freakiness and tacit approval of the behind, living in the scariness in those higher-ups is just as wilderness of the hospital basement profoundly chilling. Stockholm scenes, it is Hard-hitting archipelago and something that might love in a surprising documentary by Alex fending for have intrigued place.Only love can Gibney uses an themselves. There Kubrick. If you want a restores your hope . Afghan cab driver they spend an idyllic film as challenging Not to be missed !! beaten to death at few months together 21-APR and exhilarating as Bagram to explore before real-life comes 17:00 the most weird and the deliberately crashing back in on HB THOM TEATER wonderful exhibition ambiguous rules them. at Tate Modern, if you governing 21-APR 23-APR 20:00 are bored with all the interrogation, making 11:00 usual boilerplate DORPSHUIS JC LE ROUX clear the devastating AUDITORIUM material coming out psychological toll on 26-APR of Hollywood, or even everyone involved. SURVIVING / 15:30 if you're not, then this Gibney ("Enron: The Overleven JC LE ROUX AUDITORIUM is a film for you. Try Smartest Guys in the Director in 26-APR it. – Room") has crafted Attendance 20:00 22-APR more than just an Director: Heinrich JC LE ROUX 14:00 important document Dahms AUDITORIUM NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 of systemic abuse -- Netherlands 2007 23-APR 13:30 he's stripped the Drama 52 minutes SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 rhetoric from official 23-APR doublespeak to 14 expose a callous Awards: C.I.C.A.E. the apartment that combination of rich disregard for not only Award, Reader Jury of Noam shares with a detail and symbolic the Geneva the "Siegessäule, gay man and a motif that is a staple Conventions but the Berlin Film Festival; straight woman. How of his cinema. vision of the Founding Audience Award, will the meeting 20-APR Fathers. All enemies Torino International affect all of their 17:00 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 in wartime are Gay & Lesbian Film lives? 24-APR perceived as animals, Festival; Audience 20-APR 14:00 but Gibney uncovers Award 20:00 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 JC LE ROUX the ways the White R 18 S V AUDITORIUM House and Pentagon One of the most 23-APR THE EMIGRANT/ have encouraged exciting films at this 11:00 Mohager, al- torture while year's Cape NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 Director: Youssef 25-APR Chahine distancing Winelands Film 20:15 themselves from festival is The Bubble, OUDE LIBERTAS Egypt/France 1994 responsibility. – Jay winner for Best Script AMPHITHEATRE Drama 129 minutes Weissberg at last year's Durban Players: Ahmed 20-APR International Film THE EARTH / AL Bedir, Michel Piccoli 20:15 festival. Three young Ard Language: Arabic OUDE LIBERTAS Director: Youssef (English subtitles) AMPHITHEATRE Israelis, two guys and 23-APR a girl, share an Chahine A 14:00 apartment in Tel Egypt 1969 Featuring lush OUDE LIBERTAS Aviv's hippest Drama 130 minutes locales, this AUDITORIUM Players: Hamdy compelling import 24-APR neighborhood. Trying 12:00 to put aside political Ahmed, Yehia from director Youssef JC LE ROUX conflicts and focusing Chahine Chahine retells the AUDITORIUM on their lives and Language: Arabic Biblical story of loves, these (English subtitles) Joseph from an THE ADVENTURES progressive 20- A Egyptian perspective. OF TOBY MAKING somethings are often Adapted from Abdel After being sold to a FRIENDS accused of living in a Rahman al- regional military Director: Candice sort of escapist Sharqawi's well- leader's underling, a Argall bubble. known novel of the man's hard work South Africa 2007 Eytan Fox's moving same name, Al Ard quickly earns him Animation Drama 18 drama focuses on this was eight years in the recognition. But when minutes group of young making. Chronicling a he becomes a pawn Language: English friends in the city of small peasant in a dangerous game A Tel Aviv and is as village’s struggles of political and sexual Toby is bullied by his much a love song to against the careless interests, he is forced sister, ignored by his the city as it is an inroads of the large to examine his life mother, and scorned exploration of the local landowner, The and desires. by his cat. Retreating claim that people in Land shows why 22-APR 15:00 into his heart, he Tel Aviv are isolated political oppression meets his friend, DORPSHUIS from the rest of the does not necessarily 24-APR Jesus who takes him country and the lead to a sense of 17:00 on a journey to the turmoil it's going solidarity among the OUDE LIBERTAS AUDITORIUM beginning of creation through. The movie disinherited. This where Toby finds out looks at young contemplative, epic the truth about the film about feudalism THE EPIDEMIC people's lives in Tel Director: Niels truth about himself. Aviv through the in rural regions was 22-APR named the best Frandsen 19:30 point of views of gays Egyptian film ever Denmark 2001 kayamandi and straights, Jews Documentary 50 and Arabs, men and minutes THE BUBBLE women. It all begins Language: Director: Eytan Fox when Noam, a young English/English Israel 2006 Israeli soldier, serves (English subtitles) Drama 90 minutes in the reserve forces A Players: Ohad and meets at a check made in a recent poll of Egyptian film A deeply moving and Knoller, Yousef 'Joe' point a Palestinian beautiful Sweid, Daniela young man called critics. It is considered to be documentary about Virtzer, Alon Ashraf. Following an the film director Niels Friedman incident during which Chahine's greatest film by many. Frandsen, who was Language: Noam misplaces his stricken by polio Hebrew/Arabic/Englis ID card at the check Chahine brings the epic to vivid, filmic when he was one h (English subtitles) point, Ashraf shows year old during the up on the doorstep of life through the 15 great epidemic in 17:00 France 2006 Egyptian artifacts on Copenhagen, OUDE LIBERTAS Drama 35 minutes the black market to AUDITORIUM Denmark in 1952. 26-APR Players: Christophe sustain themselves. Not to be missed! 14:00 Vienne, Lou Castel, By presenting a story 19-APR OUDE LIBERTAS Vincent Lecompte that probes into 17:00 AUDITORIUM Language: French complex relationships OUDE LIBERTAS (English subtitles) between AUDITORIUM THE LAST METRO/ 20-APR A archeological grave 15:00 Le Dernier Métro Vladimir Cosmos and robbers and DORPSHUIS Director: Francois Teuze, both Egyptians, the film 22-APR Truffaut associates of an old challenges European 19:30 France 1980 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 ruined detectives accounts that equate 24-APR Romantic drama 131 agency, send Phil the removal of 15:00 minutes Buck, the best of all, ancient Egyptian DORPSHUIS Players: Catherine all around the world artifacts with claims Deneuve, Gérard THE FEAST/ in order to find a of "rescue" or Depardieu microfilm which "scientific progress". L’abbuffata Language: French Director: Mimmo would start an It provides more than (English subtitles) intercontinental a simple Calopresti Awards: BSFC Award Italy 2007 revolution. Journeys condemnation of for Best Foreign become individuals and Comedy 102 minutes Language Film; 10 Players: Paolo introspective, each institutions that César Awards one seeks and faces mounted and Briguglia, Elena A Bouryka an interior revolution. supported Paris, 1942. Lucas 21-APR Language: Italian Egyptology. The Steiner is a Jew and 17:00 central concern of the (English subtitles) HB THOM TEATER was compelled to film is exploring the PG leave the country. His 26-APR Three young men 20:00 Egyptian cultural wife Marion, an JC LE ROUX with a movie camera identity, a complex actress, directs the AUDITORIUM identity that depends theatre for him. She on "a synthesis of tries to keep the THE NIGHT OF THE Pharaonic past, theatre alive with a COUNTING OF THE Arabic language and new play, and hires YEARS/ Al- Islam”. Not to be Bernard Granger for Mummia, missed! the leading role. But Director: Shadi 19-APR Lucas is actually Abdelsalam 17:15 dream of putting a hiding in the Egypt 1969 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 local Calabrian story basement. Drama 102 minutes 22-APR on the bigscreen in 19:45 Bernard's Players: Ahmed NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 Mimmo Calopresti's membership of the Marei, Ahmad Hegazi charmer "The Feast." Resistance clashes Language: Arabic THE PORCELAIN An insider film par with Marion's laissez- (English subtitles) DOLL/ A excellence, stuffed faire attitude towards A porcelánbaba with friends and the Nazis, adding to A chance to see one Director: Péter colleagues and shot the tension and of the greatest films Gárdos in the southern strains within the in the history of world Hungary 2005 region of Italy company. As one cinema. Egyptian Drama 75 minutes Calopresti left as a would expect from critics consistently list Players: Lajos Bertók, child, the film is a lead actors of this it as one of the most Sándor Csányi love letter not just to quality, Deneuve and important Egyptian Language: Hungarian his roots, but to the Depardieu deliver films, and perhaps (English subtitles) concept that "history magnetic the most important PG is tangible; it clings to performances, and one. Visually stunning Based on three the land." Even those the details of the the film is based on fairytales by the not in the know period are exquisitely documented events Hungarian fabulist should be pleasantly observed. involving a French Ervin Lázár, the seduced by the 21-APR archeological earthy, lovable warmth radiating 13:30 expedition that farmers of The from the screen, NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 26-APR carried out Porcelain Doll live by highlighted by a 11:00 excavations in the their own laws, at complete lack of NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 Valley of the Kings least until they come pretension. – Jay near Thebes in 1881, up against the laws of Weissberg Courtesy THE LAST SHOT and local people who the surrounding of the Italian Institute Director: Antonin found themselves world. Resurrections, of Culture in Pretoria Peretjatko forced to sell revered magical villages, 20-APR 16 music and protagonist from Il with plague and the (FIPRESCI), Toronto bureaucratic bogs cuore altrove) who population panicking Film festival ensue. harbours expensive about the coming PG 21-APR filmmaking dreams, apocalypse. The TUNISIAN DIRECTOR 17:15 she accepts to see if knight is confronted Moufida Tlatli takes NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 26-APR there is any love left by the cowled figure us inside the 17:15 in her for Giordano, of Death, who agrees hierarchy of the NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 whose estate has to a game of chess, prince's palace where enough to eat for and lets the knight women servants are THE SECOND everyone. The story stay alive for as long expected to cook, WEDDING NIGHT/ uses many elements as he can stave off clean and sleep with Seconda notte di of classical Italian checkmate their masters. In The comedy to great The chess game is a Silences of the effect; most of the brilliant metaphor for Palace, the women laughs come from man's attempt to are for all practical hilarious antics of defy mortality's purposes slaves who Nino and the two sour gravity through his never leave the nozze, La aunts who live with accomplishments, estate and who bear Director: Pupi Avati Giordano and who perhaps most vividly children by their Italy 2005 harbour an ancient in the idea of artistic masters, to the Comedy Drama 103 grudge against genius, the need to eternal consternation minutes Lilliana. -- Courtesy create a vital work of their masters' Players: Antonio of the Italian Institute which will survive the wives. Born in the Albanese, Neri of Culture in Pretoria author's death. On his palace to a servant, Marcorè 22-APR journey home to his Alia (Ghalia Lacroix), 11:00 wife, the knight now 25, managed to Language: Italian NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 (English subtitles) 24-APR accumulates a escape the life her Awards: Silver Ribbon 17:00 raggle-taggle mother led. Living on for Best Actress and NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 entourage of strolling the outside, she 25-APR players, whose good- hears that Prince Sidi Best Costume Design 20:00 by Italian National JC LE ROUX natured innocence he Ali, the man she Syndicate of Film AUDITORIUM seizes on as a hopeful believes was her Journalists sign of humanity's father, has died. She R 13 S THE SEVENTH SEAL decency. Elsewhere, returns for the first Veteran Italian this is in short supply. time in 10 years to filmmaker Pupi Avati A corpse-robber turns the now rundown (Il cuore altrove/The out to be a lapsed palace on a Heart Is Elsewhere) Christian zealot; the condolence call. Sidi returns with La squire is revolted to Ali's widow is not seconda notte di Director: Ingmar recognise the same exactly happy to see nozze (The Second Bergman man whose firebrand her and the rejection Wedding Night), a Sweden 1957 oratory inspired them opens the windows of gentle, comedic Drama 96 minutes to go to the Crusades Alia's memory. melodrama set in Players: Max von in the first place. 20-APR 19:30 post-war Italy. The Sydow, Bibi 22-APR Andersson, Gunnar 18:00 OUDE LIBERTAS story focuses on DORPSHUIS AUDITORIUM Giordano (Antonio Björnstrand 22-APR Albanese), described Language: 11:00 THE SILENCES OF DORPSHUIS by producer Antiono Swedish/Latin (English subtitles) THE PALACE 26-APR Avati as “an Apulian 17:00 Awards: Jury Special Director: Moufida Forrest Gump”, who Tlati OUDE LIBERTAS gets a chance to Prize, Cannes Film AUDITORIUM Festival Tunisia/France 1984 relive his adolescent Drama 127 minutes infatuation with his PG THE STRAIT This film was released Players: Amel Hedhili, STORY / FU SHIH sister-in-law Lilliana Najia Ouerghi (Katia Ricciarelli), 50 years ago, but it's KUANG YING as fresh as a glass of Language: Director: Yushan when she returns to Arabic/French the family estate in ice-cold water. Max Huang von Sydow and (English subtitles) Taiwan 1999 the South as a war Awards: Golden widow. Greatly Gunnar Björnstrand Drama 105 minutes are the ascetic Camera - Special Players: Ding-ya An, pushed by both the Mention, Cannes Film poverty of the Crusader knight and Rachel Chang his cynical squire who Festival; Golden Language: Taiwanese immediate post-war Tulip, Istanbul Film period and her sly return from the wars / Mandarin / Japanese after 10 years to find Festival; International (English subtitles) son Nino (Neri Critics' Award Marcorè, the their country ravaged 17 The year is 1943 and Players: Max von 'CinemAvvenire' that leaves him with Taiwan is under Sydow Award, Venice Film weeks to live. He Japanese Language: Festival goes through the five colonization. After Swedish/German A stages described by finishing his studies (English subtitles) An engineer (so he Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in Japan, famous Awards: Oscar for claims) travels to in On Death and Taiwanese sculptor Best Foreign Kurdistan from Dying, one of the key and painter Ching- Language Film; Tehran to work on a texts of the new Cheng Huang Special mention, project which is never thanatology: denial, receives an offer to Cannes Film Festival; once specified. He is anger, bargaining, teach in Beiping Art Golden Globe for Best a silent, mysterious depression, School. He decides to Foreign Language character who acceptance. visit friends and Film befriends a young A most moving family back home R 13 S V schoolboy sitting sequence is his visit before leaving for The first Ingmar exams and wanders to his strong China on board the Bergman film to win about the countryside grandmother (Jeanne passenger liner the Best Foreign in his jeep. The only Moreau), for a while "Takachiho Maru" Language Film Oscar, regular hints of what the only person he with his girlfriend. The Virgin Spring might be going on are confides in. Why does Tragically, the (1959) is a given via his mobile he tell her? 'Because luxurious liner is spellbinding Medieval phone on which he you're like me,' he torpedoed by an morality play of has blunt, says. 'You'll be dying American submarine austere monosyllabic soon.' His oddest and sinks off the magnificence. Based conversations, at encounter, not coast of Keelung, on a 13th century least when he has a entirely convincing, is Taiwan. Decades Swedish ballad, this signal. Both with a woman and later, Shou-shou, a transcendently conversations and her sterile husband fine art restorer with beautiful story of acting are always who invite him to a crippling illness, revenge and very undramatic, very father their child. It's finds one of Huang's redemption depicts a real. A powerful, a frank, paintings in an world torn between mesmerising film unsentimental exhibition. As she paganism and where the surface picture. restores the painting, Christianity—and how details are redolent 22-APR Shou-shou learns a deeply pious man with meaning. 20:00 JC LE ROUX AUDITORIUM 21-APR about the artist, the suffers a life-altering 24-APR 19:45 stories behind his crisis of faith in the 18:00 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 JC LE ROUX AUDITORIUM work and his death at aftermath of a horrific 26-APR sea. She recreates crime. The film is 19:30 the story of the steeped in Christian NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 TWO ENGLISH painting "Woman in imagery and GIRLS/ Les Deux Black", and Scandinavian folklore Anglaise et le romantically imagines and offers a TIME TO LEAVE/ Continent the ways the artist profoundly haunting Temps qui reste, painted his girlfriend. tale of acute Le Restoring Huang's psychological insight. Director: Francois painting becomes – Tim Knight Ozon Shou-shou's way of 19-APR France 2005 restoring herself. 15:00 Drama 81 minutes DORPSHUIS 24-APR Players: Melvil 23-APR 19:30 Poupaud, Jeanne Director: Francois 18:00 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 DORPSHUIS Moreau Truffaut 19-APR Language: French France 1971 17:00 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 THE WIND WILL (English subtitles) Romantic drama 116 CARRY US/ Le Vent Awards: Silver Spike minutes THE VIRGIN SPRING nous Emportera and Best Actor Players: Jean-Pierre Director: Abbas Award, Valladolid Léaud, Kika Markham Kiarostami International Film Language: French Iran/France 1999 Festival (English subtitles) Drama 118 minutes R 16 S A Players: Behzad A handsome gay At the beginning of Dorani French photographer, the 20th century, Language: Persian 31-year-old Romain Claude Roc, a young Director: Ingmar (English subtitles) (Melvil Poupaud) middle-class Frenchman meets in Bergman Awards: Grand thinks he has Aids. In Sweden 1960 Special Jury Prize, fact, he has a rapidly Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. Drama 89 minutes FIPRESCI Prize and metastasising cancer 18 They become friends Marie dozes off on shoe shop to make and Ann invites him the beach while Jean ends meet. to spend holidays at goes for a swim. 21-APR the house where she When she wakes up, 14:00 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 lives with her mother he is nowhere in 25-APR and her sister Muriel, sight. Marie calls the 17:15 for whom she intends police, who mount a NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 Claude. During these full-scale search, but Director: Marisa holidays, Claude, Ann in vain. Marie has no Sistach WALK ON WATER and Muriel become choice but to return Mexico/Netherlands Director: Eytan Fox very close and he to Paris alone. 2001 Israel/Sweden 2004 gradually falls in love Did he drown? Was it Drama 90 minutes Drama 103 minutes with Muriel. But both suicide? Or was it his Players: Ximena Players: Lior families lay down a way of leaving her? Ayala, Nancy Ashkenazi, Knut one-year-long Unable to answer Gutiérrez Berger separation without these questions, Language: Spanish Language: any contact before Marie's life descends (English subtitles) Hebrew/Arabic/Englis agreeing to the into confusion as she Awards: Ariel Awards, h/German/Italian/Turk marriage. retreats into her own Mexico, for Best ish (English subtitles) 20-APR world. Actress, Art Direction, Awards: Award of the 19:45 22-APR Costume Design, Israeli Film Academy NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 18:00 for Best Music and 23-APR Script and Supporting JC LE ROUX Sound; Audience 17:15 AUDITORIUM Actress; National NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 2 Critics Award at Award at Washington VOËLVRY Guadalajara Mexican Jewish Film Festival UHAMBO Director: Liz Fish Film Festival; Martin R 18 S N Director: Mzukisi South Africa 2007 Luther King Memorial This honest, Ntantiso Drama 24 minutes Center Award, engrossing Israeli South Africa 2007 Language: English Havana Film festival; feature spins the tale Drama 24 minutes PG Don Quijote Award - of Eyal (Lior Language: Zulu Jannie Adams has Special Mention at Ashkenazi), a Mossad (English subtitles) spent 32 Christmases Karlovy Vary agent on the trail of PG 13 V in jail. His criminal life International Film Nazi war criminal Gilishe, a young Zulu started at the age of Festival Alfred Himmelman. warrior guided by his 15 when he joined R 16 V Alerted to a possible grandfather’s wisdom the Fancy Boys Gang Tough and sinewy lead, Eyal poses as a and insight, has to in Mannenberg. work from writer- tour guide to gain the embark on a journey Calling himself the director Maryse trust of Himmelman's to retrieve his ‘good looking boy Sistach. Set in Mexico über-liberal father’s remains from with the bad ideas’, City, it shows a grandchildren: Pia an unknown the anger and teenage girl, Yessica (Caroline Peters), who battlefield. vengefulness he felt (Ximena Ayala) in now lives on a 19-APR from years of neglect constant trouble at kibbutz, and her 14:00 brother Axel (Knut OUDE LIBERTAS and a lack of love, school, expelled from AUDITORIUM confirmed when not one for slapping the Berger), who is 24-APR one member of his principal and in visiting from 19:30 trouble at the next for Germany. Shuttling KAYAMANDI family came to see him during his first fighting with boys. between Jerusalem She finds unlikely and the Sea of UNDER THE SAND sentence, has seen friendship with quiet, Galilee, Eyal and Axel Director: Francois him serving six. studious Miriam strike up a hesitant, Ozon vengefulness he felt (Nancy Gutierrez) but friendship; director France 2000 from years of neglect is unable to tell her Eytan Fox nimbly Drama 92 minutes and a lack of love, the terrible secret navigates the thorny Players: Charlotte confirmed when not that makes her boil issues in their path Rampling, Bruno one member of his with perpetual, self- (suicide bombers, Cremer family came to see destructive rage - her German guilt, sexual Language: French him during his first stepbrother is forcing and racial (English subtitles) sentence, has seen her to be regularly intolerance, et al). Its R 16 S L him serving six. raped by his buddy, passion and humanity Marie (Charlotte 26-APR 19:30 from whom he gets make most other Rampling) and Jean KAYAMANDI money to buy movies seem pallid (Bruno Cremer) have trainers, ironically by comparison. been happily married VIOLET PERFUME / sold to him by 20-APR for 25 years. During a Perfume de Miriam's mother, 17:00 break by the sea, violettas HB THOM TEATER working hard at a 21-APR 19 17:00 structure, dividing the dissolves, and all of NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 film into four acts, the these are seamlessly first of which begins woven together, WATER DROPS ON with the arrival of aspects of his BURNING ROCKS Leopold (Bernard consciousness turned Director: Francois Giraudeau), a 50-ish to the light like the Ozon insurance salesman, facets of a flawed France 2000 and his pickup, 20- jewel. Drama 90 minutes year-old Franz (Malick Borg's childhood, Players: Bernard Zidi) at Leopold's young adulthood and Giraudeau, Malik Zidi apartment. Franz, present old age, Language: who is naive but not beset with anxiety French/German that naive, was on his and unacknowledged (English subtitles) way to meet his regret, are disclosed Awards: Teddy for fiancee, Anna, when to us in this Best Feature Film, he allowed himself to wonderfully Berlin Film Festival; be picked up by the composed movie in Best Feature at New older man. which Bergman is York Lesbian and Gay 23-APR able to vary the tone 17:00 from melancholy to HB THOM TEATER 25-APR gaiety in the most 14:00 deeply satisfying NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 way. A quarrelling, 25-APR neurotic couple 17:00 NEELSIE, PROTEA KINE 1 picked up en route reveal the hell of a Film Festival WILD bad marriage; a trio R 18 S V STRAWBERRIES of high-spirited Fassbinder fans will students amuse and especially be enchant the old man delighted with Ozon's with their generosity tribute to the director and innocence. (who died in 1982); 19-APR "Water Drops on 20:15 Burning Rocks" is DORPSHUIS directed much like a 25-APR Director: Ingmar 11:00 middle-period Bergman DORPSHUIS Fassbinder film, with Sweden 1957 the action confined to Drama 91 minutes WINE TOWN the apartment of the Players: Victor Director: James central character (not Sjöström, Ingrid Westcott a single exterior shot) Thulin South Africa 2007 and the camera Language: Drama 12 minutes unblinkingly Swedish/Latin Players: Munya recording the action (English subtitles) Chidzonga, Marcel head-on. The Awards: FIPRESCI Broodryk deadpan humor, also Prize and Golden Language: English, typical of Fassbinder, Berlin Bear, Berlin Afrikaans (English has been faithfully Film Festival; Golden subtitles) reproduced here, the Globe for Best PG only minor Foreign Language A white wine farmer incongruity being the Film; Italian Film (Gerhard) and his casting of French Critics Award, Venice black foreman actors as these Film festival (Thami) find quintessential A companionship in German characters. An elderly Professor each others arms, The scene-setting Borg, drives across thus causing inner opening credits are country with his conflict and printed over daughter-in-law to judgement from the delightfully cheesy, collect an honorary community. garishly colored degree, and 23-APR picture postcard encounters scenes 19:30 images of German KAYAMANDI from his past and also 20-APR cities in the early - in the form of 20:00 '70s. Ozon has kept disturbing dreams - JC LE ROUX to a theatrical his future. Time AUDITORIUM 20

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