MONTHLY GUIDE NOVEMBER 2014 | ISSUE 66 | CENTRAL SWEETIE CROATIAN MONTH 72 DAYS DONKEY EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | NOVEMBER 2014 | 1 2 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | NOVEMBER 2014 | MONTHLY GUIDE| NOvEMbEr 2014 | ISSUE 64 Croatian Month Nina Badrić n November, Eurochannel pays tribute to Croatia and celebrates the one- yearI anniversary of their inclusion in the European Union with a special selection of films and documentaries that promise to entertain and reveal new knowledge about this enigmatic country. This month we also offer you a selection of independent documentaries and films from France. Portrait of a Nobel Prize The Croatian Month explores the many different, often hidden sides of Croatian culture and heritage through provocative documentaries and Table of breath-taking feature films. Never before has Croatia been the center of the main programming for a whole month on cable TV, and the time has contents come to discover its thrillingly engaging stories, and learn about its nearly forgotten struggles and nearly lost folk culture, as well as the genius of their 4 Croatian Month filmmakers. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind event! 17 Highlights In November we also present a touristic gem from France and the personal life of the Nobel Prize winner Christian de Duve. Through compelling 24 Week 1 documentaries, you will feel as if you were walking through the very halls of 26 Week 2 Mont St. Michel in Normandy, and as if the scientist Christian de Duve were part of your own family. 28 Week 3 30 An entertaining and informative approach to a country this month on Week 4 Eurochannel… Do not miss any of these engaging productions we have selected just for you! EUROCHANNEL GUIDE PUBLISHED BY Eurochannel, Inc. 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November 2014, www.kurzfilmtage.ch Parceiros Institucionais Patrocinadores Oficiais Parceiros Programação Parceiros Prémios Rent-a-car Oficial Hotel Oficial FAMILY MEALS Croatia A familial approach to homosexuality and family DIRECTOR Dana Budisavljević GENRE Documentary ORIGINAL TITLE Nije ti život pjesma Havaja Premiere: November 6th at 08:00 PM YEAR 2012 A Croatian middle-class family tries to talk about things that really matter to them — hippie style, parents in the 70s, the daughter’s homosexuality, the brother’s illness, the merciless war — during series of breakfasts and lunches. In the former Yugoslavia homosexuality was a subject experiences from the moment felt she was gay, to the to be avoided. But this documentary will take the moment she could admit it to herself, to the moment subject to the table, because when problems arise in she could tell her friends and her parents, and finally to a family, there is no better way to solve them than a the moment she said it through a film — a 20-year-long good, earnest talk. Come share some Family Meals! battle. Directed by Dana Budisavljević, Family Meals offers Told with plenty of humor and sincerity, served with an original view on homosexuality among traditional excellent food and spiced with love, Family Meals is families in Croatia. Dana, a gay woman, knew she had to an award-winning tale (Audience Award at ZagrebDox tell her personal story through a film. Defined as “a cute 2012, Best Balkan Newcomer at the DokuFest Prizren personal war” by Budisavljević herself, Family Meals 2012, among others) about acceptance that nobody presents an unexpected, yet traditional, cinematic should miss! voyage of self-discovery. We follow Budisavljević’s 6 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | NOVEMBER 2014 | CroatiaDonkey Croatia When stubbornness goes beyond reason Who ever thought that a donkey could be a peacemaker? Eurochannel invites you to travel through time and space to the Croatia of 1995, to meet a struggling family during the final days of the war in a tale of courage, forgiveness and hope: Donkey. Donkey is the second feature film of award-winning Bosnian- Premiere: November 6th at 08:00 PM Croatian film director and screenwriter Antonio Nuic. Viewers follow a family during a summer holiday in 1995: while Croatia is at war, a stubborn and ever-dissatisfied man drags his family from Zagreb to his village of birth, DIRECTOR Antonio Nuić Herzegovina, where he will have to face up to his own CAST Nebojša Glogovac, Nataša Janjić, Roko Roglić, Tonko demons and overcome them. Lonza GENRE Drama Focusing on disruptive family relations and machismo, ORIGINAL TITLE Kenjac Antonio Nuic makes a critical parable about the nationalist YEAR 2009 conflicts in the region. The sweltering heat, emphasized by the cinematography, which removes all the green from the It is 1995, the summer when Operation Storm will take place. landscape, also creates an oppressive atmosphere from Boro (Nebojša Glogovac) goes with his family to his home which only wisdom and respect offer any escape. village after seven years. He wants to see his brother, who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro constantly This Croatian award-winning feature (Best Foreign Language fights with his wife (Nataša Janjić), and he doesn’t speak at Film at Palm Springs Film Festival 2009, Golden Arena for all to his father Pako (Tonko Lonza). In two weeks in, Boro Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography at the 56th Pula will solve the year’s long dispute with his father and will learn to be a better husband and a father. Film Festival 2009, among other awards) proves that in Croatian and Bosnian, as in English, “donkey” has a double meaning — it refers not only to the mammal, but to a foolish, stubborn man. Premiere: November 6th at 08:00 PM EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | NOVEMBER 2014 | 7 Euroshorts Croatia A hand-picked selection of bite-sized Croatian productions Every legend has a humble beginning. In the world of movies, sharing their unique work with the world. Euroshorts Croatia many of the greatest directors have launched their careers is a special devoted to the art of the short film, and we are by producing short films. pleased to present these small, but wonderful stories. These bite-sized samples of genius are, in many ways, more This is a sampling of short films from Croatia, whose story difficult to create than a feature-length film. To tell a riveting is richer than its tragic recent past it has endured.. Today, story in such a short time takes both vision and skill, which Croatia boasts creative, innovative filmmaking. Genius can only the greatest among us possess. Eurochannel honors the emerge even in the most unexpected places! next generation of up-and-coming Croatian filmmakers by TELEPORT ZOVKO - Teleport Zovko, 2013 DIRECTOR Predrag Licina After all this waiting, it’s finally here, in Croatia: Teleport Zovko. Get anywhere in just four seconds! PRETTYBOY - Liepotan, 2013 DIRECTOR Sasa Ban The shooting of a commercial can be tedious, especially if you are an extra. Maja’s job is to take care of extras, and she has an unpleasant task of sorting them by their looks — pretty ones in the front, close to the camera, and the ugly ones in the back. To make things worse, her new boyfriend, Mladen, is among them. Mladen never considered himself a prettyboy. 8 | EUROCHANNEL GUIDE | NOVEMBER 2014 | LITTLE DaRLING - Balavica, 2013 DIRECTOR Igor Mirković Two kids at the top of a skyscraper. A view of the sea. He is Tom Sawyer and she is Alice in Wonderland. They walk along the edge of the roof, doing everything they’re not supposed to. In that hot summer, left under the care of her grandma, she will feel love for the first time. Luckily, grandma doesn’t have a clue about it; she barely leaves the apartment. Her parents are absent; they talk over phone and we notice that they’re hiding something. FIRST LADY OF DUBRAVA - Prva Dama Dubrave, 2010 DIRECTOR Barbara Vekarić Amra is an attractive and talented teenager living in the outskirts of Zagreb. Her dirty rap music has made her quite popular in the neighborhood. Her ʺmanagerʺ has plans to shoot a music video, but she is supposed to babysit her sister. Amra is not willing to sacrifice her big chance. TOGETHER - Together, 2014 DIRECTOR Daniel Kusan She is an unemployed mother with a two-year-old child, trying to find a job and lead a normal life in a crazy world in which relaxed moments are unusually valuable. The only sort of support she has is from her husband, with whom she talks on the phone during the day. He works at a car dealership and will soon lose his job. He is furious at a world which rejects him and does not allow him to take care of his family. Telephone conversations with his wife are superficial, discontinuous and not intimate enough. The only thing they can do is survive, until the end of the day, unimportant people and situations which only waste their time, and find peace in their home, in togetherness, in family.