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Thursday, May 10, 2012
8:00PM: Babette’s Feast (DENMARK)
The chef Babette flees France after the Paris Commune uprising of 1871. She is taken in as a housekeeper in the poor fishing village home of two puritanical spinsters who consider food beyond oatmeal almost sinful. When Babette by chance comes into money, she blows it all on serving up the ultimate gourmet meal for the dazed villagers. The film is based on a short story by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen). Babette’s Feast was the first Danish film ever to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was show in Un Certain Regard in Paris. (DRAMA)
Friday, May 11, 2012
6:00PM – Albert Schweitzer – Anatomy of a Saint (AUSTRIA)
Albert Schweitzer is a modern day saint of the 20th century, the Peace Nobel Prize laureate who created the concept of Reverence for Life. He was one of the few universal geniuses, excelling as theologian, philosopher, musician, medical doctor, and development worker, and one of the first campaigners against nuclear warfare and forefather of the ecological movement. This film discovers the person behind the public image with the ultimate goal to find the relevance he holds for our world today. (DOCUMENTARY)
Friday, May 11, 2012
8:00PM – Ben X (BELGIUM)
Ben is mildly autistic and a sitting duck for the school bullies. He wants to cry out his hurt to his tormentors and all the silent bystanders. Inspired by his mystery girl on the web and fuelled by his signature video game, he takes revenge. In their faces. (DRAMA)
Saturday, May 12, 2012
6:00PM – Kooky (CZECH REPUBLIC)
When asthmatic, six-year –old ONDRA is forced to throw away his scruffy, sawdust-stuffed old teddy bear, KOOKY, he prays for the safe return of his furry friend. Soon afterwards, across toWn, Kooky is about to be crushed in a rubbish dump when he suddenly comes to life, making his escape into a mysterious forest. The naive, cuddly Koody needs help to survive amongst the rough-and-ready creatures of the forest and he find it when he meets the crotchety forest guardian HERGOT. (COMEDY, FAMILY, CHILDREN)
Saturday, May 12, 2012
8:00PM – Letters to Santa “Listy do M.” (POLAND)
Letters to Santa is a Polish box office hit with 2 500 000 admissions. The film shows a new dimension of a romantic comedy where behind hilarious scenes there’s deeper universal truth. Letters to Santa is an enchanting story taking place on this special day of the year when five men and five women in their slightly tangled lives are truly finding out that there’s absolute no escape from love and Christmas. (COMEDY, DRAMA, ROMANCE)
Sunday, May 13, 2012
6:00PM – Moomins and the Comet Chase (FINLAND)
One day Moomintroll notices that something strange has happened in the Moomin Valley – everything is grey, not just the sky and the river, but the trees, the ground, and the Moominhouse too! Moomintroll runs to ask the well-read Muskrat if he knows what is happening. Muskrat declares that this is the way things tend to look before the earth faces an awful fate coming from the sky. (FAMILY / ANIMATION)
Sunday, May 13, 2012
8:00PM – Andalucia (FRANCE)
Yacine is a young Frenchman of Maghribian descent who lives in the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of escaping his world and travelling to Andalusia. Yacine lives life on the edge, between neighbourhood struggles and life experiences in a large city, the contradictions between immigration and the need to grow and find his own destiny. In his world, there is also room for love, which he finds to be riddled with problems. Yacine is on a journey to self-discovery in this world that he wishes to leave behind. His endless search leads him to Andalusia, the place he has dreamed of, the origins of his culture, the Mediterranean. (COMEDY / DRAMA)
Monday, May 14, 2012
6:00PM – The Educators (GERMANY)
Tjan and Peter share a flat in Berlin, a Volkswagen bus, and ideas on how to take action against the social injustice in the world. They spy on luxury mansions and break in when the owners are not at home. They don’t steal anything, instead they re-arrange the furniture and leave what they hope are unsettling notes, such as “You have to much money” or “Your days of plenty are numbered”, and sign themselves as “The Edukators.” Peter’s girlfriend Jule has just lost her flat because she fell behind with the rent, and moves in with Peter and Jan. (FEATURE FILM)
Monday, May 14, 2012
8:00PM – Inside I’m Dancing (IRELAND)
When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with celebral pasly and nearly unintelligible speech. Somehow, Rory understands Michael, and encourages him to experience life outside the confines of home. (COMEDY / DRAMA)
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
6:00PM – Il Vento fa il Suo Giro (The Wind Blows Round) (ITALY)
The aging conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. At first the villagers are suspicious of their unconventional ideas and lifestyle, then are conquered by the enthusiasm, kindness, helpfulness of the young family and start to see in them the possible rebirth of the place. But little by little, misunderstanding, envy and conflicts take over. (DRAMA)
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
8:00PM – The Dinner Club (NETHERLANDS)
A woman tries to save her self-respect and marriage despite the sinister pressure from the dinner club she once adored. Karen (32) and Michel (36) move with their daughter to an exclusive residential area. She soon finds a new close circle of friends: the women of the dinner club, and their husbands. But when two of the club members commit suicide under suspicious circumstances, Karen starts to have second thoughts about her new friends. She has to choose: will she reveal the truth and dish the dirt, or will she protect the interests of the dinner club? (THRILLER)
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
6:00PM – The Winner (POLAND)
Oliver (Pawel Szajda of Under the Tuscan Sun), a young, outstanding American pianist having breach his European tour contract has to return 250,000 euros to the German organizers. On his path he encounters in Poland an unusually vibrant character Frank, and old pensioner who gambles at horse races. They pursue this goal together, discovering real friendship and making dreams about a great winning and personal freedom come alive. But Prof Karloff, a famous pianist and influential man, cannot agree with that. He puts devil’s proposition to Oliver. (DRAMA)
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
8:00PM – Orient Express (ROMANIA)
At an old age, Prince Andrei Morudzi retreats to his castle in Romania, during the two World Wars, after having led an eventful youth. There he is seen upon as a rare bird by the local folks, due to his strange attitude towards life and his exquisite manners, which don’t fit in the way of life of the villagers. But, in the end, despite trying to distance himself for the local people, he can’t but influence their humble existence. (ROMANCE / DRAMA)
Thursday, May 17, 2012
6:00PM – Besa (Oath) (SERBIA)
At the very beginning of the first World War, Filip, a Serb and the principal of a gymnasium in a small Serbian town, is summoned urgently to Belgrade to serve in the war effort. He has no one to leave his wife, Lea, with. She is a young and pretty Slovenian, a teacher of dance he met while studying in Western Europe. (DRAMA)
Thursday, May 17, 2012
8:00PM – Camino (SPAIN)
Inspired by real events, CAMINO is the emotional adventure of an extraordinary eleven-year old who is faced simultaneously with two completely new situations in her life: falling in love and dying. Above all else, CAMINO is a radiant light that shines through every gloomy obstacle in her path, denying every attempt to shroud in darkness her desire to live, to love, and to feel the depth of her happiness. (DRAMA)
Friday, May 18, 2012
6:00PM – Let the Right One In (SWEDEN)
A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. He befriends a mysterious young girl whose appearance in town suspiciously coincides with a horrifying series of murders. Oskar soon realizes that Eli is a vampire. She cannot stand the sun and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when she realizes that she needs to drink other people’s blood to survive, he is faced with a choice. (DRAMA / FANTASY)
Friday, May 18, 2012
8:00PM – To Live Longer (SWITZERLAND)
They both have three months to live, at the most. Max Wanner needs new liver, Fritz Pollatschek a new heart. Only an organ transplant can save them. But how can two men roughly 70 years old become recipients of a donor organ? The arrangement is simple: whoever dies first donates his organ to the other. A crazy and comic friendship develops between the two men that, in the end, leads to a solution for both of them. (COMEDY)
Saturday, May 19, 2012
6:00PM – Storm Bound (NETHERLANDS)
A ripping adventure yarn about teenage boys who join the crew of a ship of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century. After a dramatic shipwreck and escape from an attack by natives, they must make their way to safety by themselves. (FAMILY / ADVENTURE)
Saturday, May 19, 2012
8:00PM – Oxygen (BELGIUM)
Suffering from an illness that is slowly destroying his lungs, Tom struggles with his short life expectancy and hangs out with petty criminals. Enter his hospital neighbour Xavier who suffers from the small illness but behaves like an athlete and infuses Tom with optimism. Tom enjoys his new friend and finds love with a quirky girl Eline. But when Tom’s brother dies during a lung transplant, he is devastated and breaks away from Xavier and Eline. (DRAMA)
Sunday, May 20, 2012
6:00PM – Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (FINLAND)
In the depths of Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. (FANTASY / ACTION / COMEDY)
Sunday, May 20, 2012
8:00PM – It’s a Jungle Out There (GERMANY)
After an argument with her father, 17-year old Anna spontaneously leaves her parents’ house in a provincial town in Bavaria and hitches to Munich to take part in a casting. While her parents drive to the city in search of their daughter, Anna has her first unpleasant encounters with members of the opposite sex. Both sides are wiser by the time Anna returns home the next morning. A funny film on the difficulties of growing up. (COMEDY)
Monday, May 21, 2012
6:00PM – You Are So Beautiful (FRANCE)
Ayme’s wife recently died in an accident at the farm. He’s overcome not by grief, but farm work; he can’t handle it alone. He must absolutely find another wife, but in his village it’s not an easy task. He therefore decides to seek help from a marriage agency. Understanding that his need is spurned by practical rather than emotional reasons, the bureau’s director sends him to Romania, where numerous young women are eager to be his wife so that they can start a new, more prosperous, life in France, making a useful contribution to French society as actors, singers and dancers. (COMEDY / DRAMA)
Monday, May 21, 2012
8:00PM – Cento Chiodi (One Hundred Nails) (ITALY)
One Hundred Nails emphasizes the need to return to the simple life and the joy of commonly shared friendships to counter the strident consumerism of our age. An Italian professor of philosophy seeks refuge in the quiet, peaceful ruins of a peasant house on the banks of the Po River after turning his back on his profession. Before leaving he nails 100 precious manuscripts to the floor with the type of heavy spikes used to nail Jesus Christ to the cross in Biblical literature. (COMEDY)
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
6:00PM –We Shall Be Overcome (DENMARK)
Thirteen year-old Frits has fallen out of favour with the headmaster of his school. The year is 1969. The world is changing rapidly, and corporal punishment has been banned. The tyrannical headmaster however has not bothered to notice. Frits spends his summer holidays in front of the family’s first television and in influenced by the winds of change. When the headmaster steps over the line, Frits takes up battle against the authorities. (FAMILY)
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
8:00PM – God Bless You (SERBIA)
Belgrade, Serbia, 1930. The story follows eleven passionate, mostly anonymous, but very talented soccer players and their journey from the cobblestone streets of impoverished Belgrade neighbourhoods to the formation of the national team before the very first World Cup in faraway Uruguay. (DRAMA)
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
8:00PM – Chico & Rita (SPAIN)
Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite them, but their journey in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero, brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood, and Las Vegas, two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite music and love. (ANIMATION)
