Travelling European Cinema
To promote European cinema, especially films that have difficulty finding audiences in Poland: this is the main objective of the organisers of the 11th European Cinema Festival, which begins today in Warsaw. This year the travelling festival will take place in seven Polish cities through June 4.
As part of the event, audiences will be able to see 30 films. Twelve recent European productions, never before screened in Poland, have been chosen to feature in competition. Twelve other recent films that have yet to find a distributor will be presented as part of the Panorama of European Cinema. A third section, entitled Open Borders, includes a presentation of six films made as co-productions. The theme of the section is the role of Europe in the world today. An additional section, Masters of European Cinema, will take place in Warsaw, where the public can see films by Forman, Fassbinder, Pasolini, Tarkovsky, Kieślowski and others.
The European Cinema Festival is organised by the Silver Screen multiplex network in co-operation with the French and Portuguese embassies together with the Italian Cultural Institute. For the first time, films will also be shown in smaller theatres and arthouse cinemas.
In competition:
Iluzija (Mirage) by Svetozar Ristovski
(Macedonia/Austria)
Le couperet [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Costa-Gavras
(France)
Lemming [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Dominik Moll
(France)
Masz na imię Justine (Your Name Is Justine) by Franco de Peńa
(Poland/Luxembourg)
Los abajo firmantes (With George Bush on My Mind) by Joaquín Oristrell
(Spain)
Omagh by Pete Travis
(Ireland/UK)
Dalecarlians [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Maria Blom
film profile] by Maria Blom
(Sweden)
Saimir [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Francesco Munzi
(Italy)
Stiilipid (Shop of Dreams) by Peeter Urbla
(Estonia)
Enduring Love [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Roger Michell
(UK)
Ultranova [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Bouli Lanners
film profile] by Bouli Lanners
(Belgium/France)
Noite escura (In the Darkness of the Night) by João Canijo
(Portugal)
(Translated from French)
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