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OIFF2013 Programavis.Pdf facebook.com/NordiskFilmNorge BASERT PÅ JUSSI ADLER OLSENS BESTSELGER PÅ KINO I JANUAR! facebook.com/NordiskFilmNorge 23. OSLO INTERNASJONALE FILMFESTIVAL 20.↗24. NOVEMBER 2013 3 FILMER FILMER/FILMS LAND/COUNTRY SIDE/PAGE TOM AT THE FARM Canada, France 4 FINSTERWORLD Germany 7 TEENAGE Germany, USA 7 COMPUTER CHESS USA 8 UPSTREAM COLOR USA 8 KVINNEN I BURET Germany, Denmark, Sweden 9 PRISONERS USA 9 THE DIRTIES Canada 11 IRENES TO LIV France, Italy 11 MANAKAMANA USA, Nepal 12 FREMMED VED SJØEN France 12 IL FUTURO Chile, Germany, Italy, Spain 13 GERONTOPHILIA Canada 13 I USED TO BE DARKER USA 14 WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL? Japan 14 PROLOGUE TO THE GREAT DESAPARECIDO Philippines 15 REDEMPTION France, Germany, Italy, Portugal 15 UNG LØS GRIS Norway 16 KOPFKINO Norway 16 THE FORESTER Norway 17 DET ER IKKE SÅ LETT Norway 17 EGRESS Norway 17 Velkommen til 23. Oslo filmfestival Velkommen til en ny runde med sterke Den unge canadiske regissøren Xavier Dolan får Super dansk krim med Kvinnen i buret. Chilensk filmopplevelser, humor, spenning, filmkunst og det åpne årets festival med sin fjerde spillefilm, den film basert på roman av Roberto Bolaño. Italiensk unike fellesskapet i kinomørket. Filmen står i fokus psykologiske thrilleren Tom at the Farm, som fikk kvalitetsdrama om alternativ dødshjelp i Valeria i noen hektiske dager, og vi kan stolt presentere kritikerprisen for beste film i hovedkonkurransen Golino sikre regidebut. Bruce LaBruce med en fantastisk filmmeny. i Venezia i år. Nå midt i innspillingen av sin femte film, romantisk komedie. En Zenpreget reise i moderne og bare 24 år gammel. taubane over Nepals jungel til tempelet Manakamana 35 mm, ja det finnes fortsatt. To av verdens beste som gir filmen sin tittel. Pluss enda mer spenning filmkunstnere velger begge 35 mm til to av årets Frauke Finsterwalder har imponert oss med sin og humor. virkelige høydepunkter, Redemption av portugisiske kompromissløse tyske debutfilm, Finsterworld, Miguel Gomes (Tabu) skaper ren magi i sin en historie hun har skrevet sammen med sin mann, Les programmet, se mye film! behandling av arkivmateriale til noe mange har kalt forfatteren Christian Kracht. Vi har sikret oss årets beste film. Lav Diaz fra Filippinene er trolig skandinavisk premiere, og anbefaler filmen på det Tommy Lørdahl ukjent for de fleste, men denne mesteren blander sterkeste. Den sitter nok i kroppen en liten stund. Festivalsjef natur- og historiefortelling i en en utsøkt frittstående Vi feirer en rekke norske filmskapere som også fritt Oslo Internasjonale Filmfestival prolog til en stor film om en sentral figur innen beveger seg i kunstens verden. Opplev Lene Bergs filippinsk frigjøring og revolusjon. To hovedretter fantastiske Ung Løs Gris og Kopfkino, filmer med stor i en pakke. internasjonal oppmerksomhet. To utfordrende filmer for første gang samlet i en kinosal. Fortsatt er amerikansk indiefilm noe som kan glede og overraske. Three excellent Sundance films var Knut Åsdam har lenge vært en filmkunstner i tittelen på en artikkel i New Yorker magasinet tidlig verdensklasse. Vi har ventet spent på hans nye film på året. Det handlet om Shane Carruths Upstream Egress, laget på Grorud. Resultatet er meget bra, Color, Andrew Bujalskis Computer Chess og Matt og er en del av vårt avslutningsprogram. Der kan du Porterfields I Used to be Darker. Alle er med i årets også nyte resultatet av samarbeidet mellom Susanna program. Vi har tidligere vist filmer fra alle. Tre unike Wallumrød og Claus A. Breda-Gulbrandsen, stemmer. Alle med en egen originalitet til inspirasjon The Forester er blitt en strålende film. Det er ikke for oss alle. så lett heter en filmperle fra Tove Undheim. Kanskje dukker det opp en råfersk nyhet til i dette sterke norske selskapet. 23. OSLO INTERNASJONALE FILMFESTIVAL 20.↗24. NOVEMBER 2013 5 ÅPNINGSFILM OPENING FILM Tom at the Farm TOM AT THE FARM TOM À LA FERME Canada, France, 2013, 105 min. FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES REGI/DIRECTOR: XAVIER DOLAN MED/CAST: Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy WEBSITE: www.facebook.com/tomatthefarm Stjerneskuddet Xavier Dolan har med Tom at the Farm regissert sin fjerde spillefilm, en intens psykologisk thriller. Filmen hadde premiere på filmfestivalen i Venezia i høst, der den fikk kritikerprisen for beste film. Filmen er basert på et teaterstykke av den anerkjente forfatteren Michel Marc Bouchard. Dolan leker med genrekonvensjonene, og har skapt en utfordrende og interessant historie. Hele tiden holder regissøren kortene tett til brystet, slik at vi aldri føler oss helt trygge på hva som vil skje. Tom at the Farm forteller Tom at the Farm is the fourth film directed by rising star Xavier en fascinerende historie om sorg og tap, men også Dolan, an intense psychological thriller. The film premiered at begjær og bedrag. the Venice Film Festival, where it received the Critic's Award for the best film in competition. The film is based on a play by Tom (spilt av regissør Dolan selv) reiser ut til Michel Marc Bouchard. Dolan plays with the conventions of landsbygda for å delta i kjærestens begravelse. Når the genre, and has created a challenging and interesting story. han kommer dit oppdager han at til sin overraskelse The director hold his cards close to his chest, and makes sure at forholdet deres har vært en hemmelighet, og at we’re never quite sure what will happen next. Tom at the Farm ingen der vet hvem han er. Kjærestens homofobe tells an intriguing story of loss and grief, but also desire bror, Francis, er den eneste som vet sannheten om and duplicity. Tom. Francis innleder et sadistisk, psykologisk spill, der han tvinger Tom til å forlenge oppholdet og late Tom (played by director Dolan), travels out to the countryside som om han er en annen. Gradvis forstår Tom at to take part in his lovers funeral. When he arrives he suddenly det ikke er sikkert at Francis noen gang vil la ham discovers that their relationship has been a secret, and that reise derfra. nobody knows who he is. His boyfriend’s homophobic brother, Francis, is the only one who knows Toms story. Francis starts a sadistic and psychological game – forcing Tom to prolong his stay, and pretend he is someone else. Gradually, it becomes clear to Tom that Francis may not let him leave. REGISSØR/DIRECTOR Xavier Dolan (f. 1989), er en skuespiller og regissør fra Montreal, Canada. Han debuterte som filmskaper med filmen J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed my Mother) (OIFF 2009), som vant totalt tre priser ved Cannes Festivalen. Hans siste film Lawrence Anyways (OIFF 2012) vant flere priser, blant annet ved Toronto Internationale Filmfestival og Cannes. Xavier Dolan (b. 1989) is an actor and director from Montreal, Canada. His debut as a filmmaker was with the film J’ai tué ma mère (OIFF 2009), which won a total of three awards at the Cannes Film Festival. His last film, Lawrence Anyways (OIFF 2012), won several awards including at the Toronto International Film Festival and Cannes. TOM AT THE FARM ONSDAG 20. ↗ 19:00 ↗ FILMENS HUS, TANCRED CANADA, FRANCE les films du 23. OSLO INTERNASJONALE FILMFESTIVAL 20.↗24. NOVEMBER 2013 7 FINSTERWORLD TEENAGE Germany, 2013, 91 min. Germany, USA, 2013, 78 min. GERMANY WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ENGLISH WITHOUT SUBTITLES REGI/DIRECTOR: FRAUKE FINSTERWALDER REGI/DIRECTOR: MATT WOLF MED/CAST: Christoph Bach, Margit Carstensen, MED/CAST: Jena Malone, Ben Whishsaw, Jakub Gierszal, Johannes Krisch, Michael Maertens, Alden Ehrenreich Sandra Hüller, Ronald Zehrfeld WEBSITE: www.teenagefilm.com WEBSITE: www.finsterworld.com Ordet «tenåring» ble et eget begrep først i det 20. En mesterlig provokasjon, en ny type tysk film. Den århundre, befestet etter 2. verdenskrig da tusenvis skarpe historien er skrevet av Frauke Finsterwalder av USAs ungdommer hadde blitt sendt til Europa og i samarbeid med sin mann, den tyske forfatteren ut i kamp. Mange døde, og dette markerte en varig Christian Kracht (Norgesaktuell med sin nyeste konflikt mellom generasjonene. roman, Imperium på Karl Ove Knausgårds norske forlag Pelikanen.) Matt Wolf har laget et høyst levende collage bestående av arkivmateriale, filmede portretter og Regissør Frauke Finsterwalders debutfilm er full av stemmer fra dagbokinnlegg skrevet av 1950 tallets ondsinnede observasjoner og skarpe kommentarer, ungdom – fra Swing Kids og unge nazister til Sub- proppfull av ironi og beksvart humor fra begynnelse Debs. til slutt. Basert på punk-forfatteren Jon Savages bok og med I denne versjonen av Tyskland skinner alltid solen et moderne post-punk soundtrack i nytt originalt og alle er vakre, høflige og lykkelige – helt til de bidrag fra Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), beskriver Wolf avslører sine mørkere sider og vi oppdager hvor på ekspertvis den ikoniske og evig kule tenåringen, kort avstanden er fra idyll til inferno. En antologi som på ytterst kreative måter stadig fant nye veier å som tar oss med på en rundreise i et surrealistisk gjøre opprør mot foreldregenerasjonen, og som med Tyskland. Vi møter en rekke karakterer som er dette har satt permanente spor i dagens samfunn, tilknyttet hverandre via familie eller rene tilfeldigheter kultur og politikk. – politimannen i bjørnekostyme, dokumentaristen som ikke finner en interessant historie, pedikyristen The term “teenage” is fairly new, coined in the US in the 20th som samler på sin aldrende klients hudrester, det century after World War II, where thousands of teens had been velstående paret som nekter å sitte i en tysk bil, shipped out to fight and die in Europe, marking a permanent historiestudenten som er uinteressert i klassens intergenerational conflict. besøk i en konsentrasjonsleir, samt mannen som trener en ravn i skogen. Matt Wolf’s film is a vivid collage of archival material, filmed portraits and the voices of 1950’s teens through their diary Frauke Finsterwalder’s debut film is filled with vicious entries.
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