29/09/2010

The 12th Bratislava International Film Festival (BIFF) will present Here & There, a panorama selection of films both near to and far from Slovakia.

The selection of 10 films will open with Brazilian director Walter Carvalho’s Budapeste. Set in Hungary and in Brazil, Budapeste is an adaptation of Chico Buarque’s bestselling novel about a Brazilian ghostwriter who falls in love with Budapest and the Hungarian language.

Romania is represented in the selection by two films about family: Radu Muntean's Un Certain Regard title Tuesday, After Christmas [+see also:
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Oleg Novkovic’s White White World [+see also:
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Marcin Wrona, named Best Director award at the Gdynia Film Festival, will present his film The Christening [+see also:
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Vit Klusak and Filip Remunda’s documentary Czech Peace [+see also:
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Other films in the selection are set in locations far from Bratislava: City of Life in Dubai, Tehran Has No More Pomegranates in Tehran, I Wish I Knew in Shanghai, and The Dreamer in Manggar, Indonesia.

The 12th edition of BIFF will run November 5–11 in Bratislava, before moving on to Košice (November 12–14), Banská Bystrica (November 15–16) and Žilina (November 17–18).