CPH PIX Catalogue 2013

ENGLISH CATALOGUE

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FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 11 — 24 2013

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COMPETITION AND CURATED SERIES

MORE THAN FILM

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MAIN PROGRAMME

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DISTRIBUTORS

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New Talent Grand PIX Politiken’s Audience Award Reworked 3x3 - Matías Piñeiro - Ben Wheatley - George Sluizer Manhunt: A Collective Ceremony Ulrich Seidl Family Business Music+Video

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Live On Location For Fans Only PIX on Stage Debates & Talks

108 120 128 136 148 158 164 168 172 182 194 198 202 208 216

PIX Specials PIX Specials Prereleases Maestros Front Runners Middle East The French Art of Pleasure Spotlight Italy Spotlight Germany Asian Connection American Indies Thrilling North British Beats New Danish Talent Thrills & Kills Midnight Madness

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KOLOFON Editor: Thure Soldthved Munkholm Festival Director: Jacob Neiiendam Head of Programme: Thure Soldthved Munkholm Marketing Manager: Lars B. Frahm Event Manager: Louise Højgaard Johansen Programme and film screening: Michael Bo, Niels Lind Larsen, Mike Lamb, Morten Jensen, Daniel Riis Nielsen, Henrik Rytter, Kasper Kristensen, Antonia Fritze Skov, Jacob Hansen, Camilla Solkær Buskov, Kasper Wurtz Programme assistants: Nina Greve Roesen, Nikolaj Sonqvist Other contributors: Mads B. Mikkelsen, Katrine Sommer Boysen, Kim Foss, Jesper Andersen, Nikolai Schulz, Niels Lind Larsen, Kasper Kristensen, Michael Bo, Morten Jensen, Henrik Rytter Trasnslation: Andrew Blackwell Programme- and print co-ordinator: Casper Andersen Producer: Andreas Steinmann Event assistants: Maggie Christensen, Pernille Grønnegaard Møller, Søren Brunsgaard Marketing assistants: Jacob Brodthagen Foldberg, Pernille Bendt Knudsen, Mads Lopes Guest co-ordinator: Rikke Braderup Co-ordinator of volunteers: Ditte Drehn Exhibitions: Riina Spørring Zachariassen PR & Press coordinators: Sarah Trebbien Gottlieb, Lena Bøgild Willard, Madeline Stürup-Toft PR & Press assistant: Sofie Bjerregaard Advisory Board: Michael Fleischer (formand), Lars Langballe, Mette Søgaard, Michel Schønnemann, Birgitte Stærmose, Mads Nedergaard Layout og grafic design: Sarah Trebbien Gottlieb, Andreas Steinmann Grafisk design: India Web: E-types Festival trailer & Festival-TV: Michael Panduro Festival trailer music: MOERCH CPH PIX is part of COPENHAGEN FILM FESTIVALS: CEO: Lars Hermann Chief accountant: Lars Sørensen Board of Directors: Erik Stephensen (chairman), Stig Andersen, Nina Crone, Elin Schmidt, John A. Tønnes Thanks: Dagmar Teatret, Empire Bio, Gloria, Grand Teatret, Palads Biograferne, Cinemateket, Øst for Paradis, Imperial, Vester vov vov, Jakob Havemann, Klaus Kastbjerg Unionkul, Sven Schwarz, Maria Månson, Peter Sevel, Torben Eik, Kirstine Barfod, Loa Opstrup, Lars Winther, Jakob Havemann, Steve Holmgren, Merete Jankowski, Kevin Lytsen, Anna Holm, Thomas Ladeby, Jon Holtze, Nanna Bjerre, Michaela Weisskirchner-Barfod, Choki Lindberg, Susanne Thygaard, Louise Kidde Sauntved, Peter Bakker, Lone Garde, Anne Schmidt, Bastien Ehouzan, Julien Sigalas, Alexandre Perrier, Maude Deschambres, Peter Due, Brian Larsen, Hanne Støvring, Carsten Mørch-Bentzen, Lene Johansen, Leisure Management, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Tom Kroos, Minna Stenhøj Maltesen, Susannah Carlsson, Lise Christensen Bjerno, Niels Ladefoged, Maja Quist Hansen, Rikke Hedeager, Charlotte Værnesen, Carsten Rousing, Karl Hákun, Michael B. Clausen, Troels Leth Petersen, Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen, Søren Høy, Lars Top-Galia, Lars Romann Engel, Jesper Andersen, Dorthe Tronier, Japser, Birgir Thor Møller, Angle Films, Camerafilm, Miracle film, Smile, Another World Entertainment, Mis Label, Disney, Scanbox, SF Film, Rialto, Nordisk Film Biografdistribution, Fox, Reel Pictures

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WELCOME TO PIX 2013 Over the five years that CPH PIX has worked in the service of cinema audiences, the film industry has been in a state of rapid development, but the cinema continues to be the centre of great film experiences.

Feature films are a motley bunch, and one has easy access to them all the time, be it in the cinema, on television or, not least, via VoD. But even if the supply has never been larger, it has not become easier to find exactly what you want to see, or the kinds of films that have qualities beyond the purely commercial.

At PIX we spend a lot of time watching, deselecting and finally selecting the films we feel deserve to meet a Danish audience. We hand-pick among the top talents, both young and old, and reflect the trends that the film world has dealt with over the past years.

We want the audience to take part in the debate about what fiction films can and should be about in the year 2013, to make sure that we secure the artistic, cultural and political relevance of the narrative films of the future.

We are keen to challenge and surprise the audience, but this does not mean that the films always have to be either provocative or highbrow. An Italian comedy

can actually be hilarious for audiences outside Italy, and a Belgium drama about love and bluegrass music can bring tears to the hardest viewers. These are also the kinds of films that audiences rarely get a chance to see in Danish cinemas. PIX gives you this chance.

That is why we are an audience festival.

Jacob Neiiendam, Festival Director

FILM IS FICTION FILM IS ART FILM IS MUSIC ... FILM IS CPH PIX

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PIX-GUIDE Tickets Tickets can be purchased at the cinema box offices or on the Internet. Links to the ticket sales on the Internet can be found on cphpix.dk. Tickets cost 80 kr., unless stated otherwise.

Please note that 3D screenings have a 3D surcharge of 30 kr.

Student and Pensioners Discount – 64 kr.

Students and pensioners (65+) can enjoy a discount for all ordinary screenings. The price is 64 kr. (instead of 80 kr.).

Audience Centre The PIX audience centre is this year situated in Cinemateket on Gothersgade.

Here, you can find additional information about the films and the festival, meet the people behind the festival and receive answers to any questions you might have, as well as share your experiences with us.

The audience centre is by Asta Bar on the basement level.

PIX will be at Cinemateket from April 11 to 24. The Audience Centre is open every day from 11.30am to 6pm.

You can also contact us by phone on +45 3345 4749

Rebate Card The rebate card gives you six tickets at a reduced price. Rebate vouchers are not personal, so they can be shared with friends.

Rebate cards can be bought at the cinema box offices and cost 395 kr.

Rebate vouchers can only be exchanged at the cinema box offices. For screenings with an increased price (over 80 kr.), vouchers can not be used. The exception is 3D screenings, where a 3D surcharge of 30 kr. is charged in addition to the voucher.

Unused vouchers are not refunded.

Festival Pass For the ultimate film aficionado, the Festival Pass is the best solution. The pass gives you access to all the screenings from March 14 until April 24, and is personal.

The pass can not be used for screenings with an increased ticket price (over 80 kr.).

The exception is 3D screenings, where a 3D surcharge of 30 kr. can be paid.

The Festival Pass costs 850 kr. and can be purchased via cphpix.dk.

Visiting Directors Naturally, the Danish and international film directors, who present their films to the audience and take part in Q&As, are also a part of the festival experience.

We will constantly update the list of the participating directors on cphpix.dk as they confirm their participation.

Social Media and Newsletter If you’d like to have news and background information about the festival, then sign up for our newsletter on cphpix.dk or find us on facebook.com/cphpix. You can also follow us on twitter.com/CPHPIX. Tweet about your film experience using #PIX13 or write to us directly @CPHPIX.

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CINEMAS AND VENUES

NØRREBRO

ØSTERBRO

EMPIRE BIO Guldbergsgade 29 Tlf. 3536 0036

CINEMATEKET Gothersgade 55 Tlf. 3374 3412

PALADS Axeltorv 9 Tlf. 7013 1211

GLORIA Rødhuspladsen 59 Tlf. 3312 4292

INDRE BY

IMPERIAL Ved Vesterport 4 Tlf. 7013 1211 VESTER VOV VOV Absalonsgade 5 Tlf. 3324 4200

VESTERBRO

GRAND TEATRET Mikkel Bryggers Gade 8 Tlf. 3315 1611 DAGMAR TEATRET Jernebanegade 2 Tlf. 7013 1211

OTHER CINEMAS AND VENUES BISPEBJERG COMEDY CORNER Lygten 2

FREDERIKSBERGSCENEN Smallegade 2

SKUESPILHUSET Sankt Annæ Plads 36

BYENS LYS Christiania

HELLIG KORS KIRKE Kapelvej 38

STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST Sølvgade 48-50

DEN RØDE PLADS Ved Nørrebrohallen

HF DANO STOPPESTED Jyllingevej, Rødovre

WAREHOUSE9 Onkel Dannys Plads 1

DR. LOUISES BRO Ved Nørrebrogade

MARMORKIRKEN Frederiksgade 4

ØST FOR PARADIS Paradisgade 7-9, Aarhus

ENGHAVEPARKEN Ved Enghavevej, Vesterbro

OVERGADEN Overgaden Neden Vandet 17

FORTUNEN – FESTIVALBAR Ved Stranden 18

PLANETARIET Gl. Kongevej 10

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COMPETITION AND CURATED SERIES

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NEW TALENT GRAND PIX 10 DEBUT DIRECTORS COMPETE FOR NEW TALENT GRAND PIX

CPH PIX has a soft spot for new talents.

The talent competition programme New Talent Grand PIX is therefore reserved for new directors. The award is worth 15,000 Euros and is intended to help the director make his next film. The award is presented by an international jury, which rewards a clear vision and personal signature.

In line with tradition, the 10 films in New Talent Grand PIX come from far and wide, both in terms of geography, style and genre.

There is an unprecedented level of Danish participation in the talent competition at this year’s CPH PIX. Michael Noer’s hard-boiled gangster drama ’Northwest’ and the Danish-produced ’The Weight of Elephants’, which is directed by the New Zealand director Daniel Joseph Borgman, have both gained a place in the competition programme. With his first solo feature, Noer has struck a fine balance between everyday realism and the gangster genre,

in a riveting tale about Copenhagen’s criminal underworld. In spite of the almost unbearable reality, there is sensitivity, poetry and a visual nerve in Daniel Josph Borgman’s ’The Weight of Elephants’, which is a Danish debut with a rarely seen level of power.

Stéphane Cazes’s painful prison drama ’Ombline’ is an intense and sober punch in the stomach, which tells the story of a woman who has to experience the first years of her son behind bars. The obvious sentimental pitfalls are avoided, but there is hope in the midst of all the bleakness.

A phenomenal soundtrack enshrouds Leonardo Brzezicki’s hypnotic fever dream ’Night’. Miguel has committed suicide, and the tensions rage in the dense Argentinian forests, as friends and ex-lovers meet up to pack his things.

There is plenty of social commitment in the Canadian director Frédérick Pelletier’s

’Diego Star’, which is a refreshing embrace of social realism. Through a small, empathetic story about two people who are trapped by their circumstances, ’Diego Star’ tells a tale with a global relevance.

Social realism in top modern clothes.

The great story can also be contained in a small drama like ’The Interval’, a heartfelt story about two teenagers in poor Southern Italy, whose paths cross. A sensitive film about life under the street dictatorship of the Mafia.

Less is more in the German director Ramon Zürcher’s minimalist gem ’The Strange Little Cat’. In a small Berlin apartment, we meet a family of three generations and an orange cat. A distant but heartfelt story, which is also incredibly funny without trying too hard to be so.

Emir Baigazin’s Kazakh ’Harmony Lessons’ is unpredictable and tightly composed.

Aesthetic world film meets high school

revenge drama in this raw and poetic look at ordinary, incomprehensible life.

A foolproof kidnapping plan gets derailed in the Israeli filmmaker Tom Shoval’s ’Youth’ – an exciting and deeply funny film, where the laughter soon turns into the nervous variety.

The Spanish ’The Plague’ is a slice-of-life tale about five people who are struggling through the trials of life in the northern Spanish summer. Naus Ballús portrays his five real characters with a lively camera, an atmospheric soundtrack and a documentary style.

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FRÉDÉRICK PELLETIER

DIEGO STAR THE RUSSIAN CARGO SHIP Diego Star encounters machine problems and has to dock at the Canadian port city of Saint Lawrence River. The machinist Traoré from the Ivory Coast is temporarily accommodated at the house of the local single mother Fanny, and the two quickly develop a liking for each other. In the meantime, Traoré is being given the blame for the ship’s problems, while in reality they are due to the fact that the ship’s owner has been neglecting the motor. Traoré is fired and is now literally out in the cold – many miles away from home. He refuses to be cowed, takes up the battle against the ship’s owners and tries to get help from the Canadian maritime authorities. ‘Diego Star’ is an unpredictable and sensitive, admirable and socially committed worker’s tale about ruthless exploitation and the conditions for the working class of the global economy. With ‘Diego Star’, the Canadian debutant Frédérick Pelletier elegantly continues the legacy of the Dardenne brothers and shows that social realism has a future.

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April 17 16:30 CINEMATEKET April 19 21:30 DAGMAR April 23 21:30 DAGMAR

DIEGO STAR Canada, Belgium 2013, 91 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Frédérick Pelletier Script: Frédérick Pelletier Camera: Philippe Roy Editing: Marie-Helene Dozo Sound: Frédéric Cloutier Production: Man’s Films, Metafilms Producer: Sylvain Corbeil, Pascal Bascaron, Nancy Grant, Marion Haensel Cast: Issaka Sawadogo, Chloe Bourgeois, Yassine Fadel, Abdelghafour Elaaziz Distr.: FiGa Films, LLC.

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EMIR BAIGAZIN

HARMONY LESSONS THE KAZAKH ‘HARMONY LESSONS’ has been called Hitchcock in the Himalayas, and even if this is a bit gimmicky, there is something to it. Either way, it is an unexpected and powerful experience, which starts as an aesthetically beautiful world film about family life and rites in Kazakhstan’s harsh nature, but slowly changes into an intense and disturbing high school revenge drama somewhere between ‘The Story of the Weeping Camel’ and Gus van Sant’s ‘Elephant’. 13-year-old Aslan lives alone with his grandmother and languishes at school, which is controlled by a hierarchy of extorting thugs. After being a victim of a practical joke, he is frozen out by his schoolmates and isolates himself even more, while he torments cockroaches and plots revenge. We will not reveal any more, for one of the strengths of ‘Harmony Lessons’ is the fact that it is quite unpredictable, in spite of its ultra-tight structure.

It brilliantly lets a stream of spontaneous surrealism run in parallel with the clinical realism, so we don’t only see Aslan’s world, but also the world as he sees it through his eyes. ‘Harmony Lessons’ has been compared to both Bresson and Kieslowski for its simultaneously precise, raw and poetic look at life – the entirely normal, incomprehensible life. But it is also a beautiful film that exploits its exotic setting to emphasise the disturbing unknown in the recognisable emotions.

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April 18 14:00 CINEMATEKET April 19 19:00 DAGMAR April 24 19:00 CINEMATEKET

UROKI GARMONII Kazakhstan, Germany, France 2013, 120 min.

Kazakhstani, Russian with English subtitles Director: Emir Baigazin Script: Emir Baigazin Camera: Aziz Zhambakiyev Editing: Emir Baigazin Sound: Markus Krohn, Sergey Lobanov Production: CS Kazakhfilm, The Post Republic Halle, Rohfilm, Arizona Productions Producer: Anna Katchko Cast: Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov, Anelya Adilbekova Distr.: Films Distribution

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LEONARDO DI COSTANZO

THE INTERVAL AN ABANDONED FACTORY ON the outskirts of Naples is the run-down setting for an intimate and intense (hostage) drama where distrust turns into trust between two teenagers, who have both taken their first, fatal steps into a hopeless life at the bottom of the merciless hierarchy of the underworld. Salvatore is a henchman of a local gang, Veronica has flirted with the wrong man and is now waiting to receive her punishment. He has reluctantly been sent to watch over her, and as the hours pass, a fragile confidence slowly develops between them. None of them really knows what will happen, and neither do we as spectators of a film where the overall picture is only revealed as the two protagonists open up to each other. But as time passes, the threatening and uncertain punishment is also drawing closer. ‘The Interval’ is an exciting and suspense-filled piece of realism from the edge of a society where it is more profitable to get involved with the Camorra than to embark on a future that from every angle looks completely hopeless.

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April 14 12:00 DAGMAR April 18 16:15 CINEMATEKET April 24 19:00 DAGMAR

L’INTERVALLO Italy, Switzerland, Germany 2012, 90 min.

Italian with English subtitles Director: Leonardo di Costanzo Script: Leonardo di Costanzo, Maurizio Braucci, Mariangela Barbanente Camera: Luca Bigazzi Editing: Carlotta Cristiani Sound: Daniela Bassani , Marzia Cordò Production: Tempesta Film, Amka Films Productions, Rai Cinema Producer: Carlo Cresto-Dina Cast: Francesca Riso, Alessio Gallo, Carmine Paternoster, Salvatore Ruocco Distr.: Rai Trade

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LEONARDO BRZEZICKI

NIGHT MIGUEL WAS OBSESSED WITH recording sounds.

The silence in an empty church, the sound of a train, his dreams. And now his recordings are everything his young group of friends and ex-girlfriends have left of him. After his suicide, they meet on a farm in Argentina’s dense forests to pack his things, while his recordings hang like a ghost of sound in the mist and twilight that enshrouds the film. But Miguel’s absence doesn’t bring the people he has left behind any closer to each other. On the contrary, the tensions smoulder and rage in Leonardo Brzezicki’s hypnotic fever dream of a film, whose hauntingly beautiful images throw a surreal glow on the pale bodies, which restlessly stray around in the densely grown nature in search of a form of (at least sexual) redemption, which refuses to materialise.

Gloomy and lingering, romantic and fatal. ‘Night’ is a total sensory experience with a phenomenal soundtrack, which creeps in on you from all sides. A transcendental film of the rare kind that is meant to be seen in the dark space of the cinema.

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April 17 21:30 CINEMATEKET April 20 12:00 CINEMATEKET April 22 16:30 CINEMATEKET

NOCHE Argentina 2013, 85 min.

Spanish with English subtitles Director: Leonardo Brzezicki Script: Leonardo Brzezicki Camera: Max Ruggieri Editing: Filip Gsella Music: Ismael Pinkler Sound: Leandro de Loredo Production: Rewind My Future, Asmara Films Producer: Leonardo Brzezicki, Ginevra Elkann, Filip Gsella Cast: Flavia Noguera, Jair Jesus Toledo, Maria Soldi, Nadyne Sandrone Distr.: Leonardo Brzezicki

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MICHAEL NOER

NORTHWEST EVEN THOUGH ‘NORDVEST’ IS Michael Noer’s first solo project as a fiction director, he has already earned a reputation with his documentaries and, not least, with his prison drama ‘R’ (PIX ‘10), which he directed with Tobias Lindholm (‘A Hijacking’). It is therefore not surprising that his film balances on a knife’s edge between harsh everyday realism and effectively gripping gangster film. The story of Copenhagen’s notorious ‘Northwest’ neighbourhood revolves around the 18-yearold petty criminal Casper, played by a formidable Gustav Dyekjær Giese, who bumps into Bjørn, a gangster boss and pimp, and sees an opportunity to advance in the underworld. But one does not run away from ones past in Nordvest, and Casper can not continue keeping his younger brother away from his world. A hard-boiled, riveting and sadly realistic drama driven by the strong performances that Noer gets out of his untested actors, especially the two Dyekjær Giese brothers, but also the rapper Nicholas Westwood Kidd. Ones sympathy for them makes it even harder to see them being swallowed up by the intoxicating life as criminals.

Please note: No English subtitles at the screening at Imperial April 10.

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April 10 21:30 IMPERIAL April 13 22:30 EMPIRE April 15 21:30 GRAND

NORDVEST Denmark 2013, 91 min.

Danish with English subtitles Director: Michael Noer Script: Rasmus Heisterberg, Michael Noer Camera: Magnus Nordenhof Jønck Editing: Adam Nielsen Music: Babe Black (Dj Buda & Dj T.O.M.) Sound: Kasper Janus Rasmussen, Rasmus Winther Production: Nordisk Film Production Producer: René Ezra, Tomas Radoor Cast: Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Roland Møller, Lene Maria Christensen Distr.: Nordisk Film

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STÉPHANE CAZES

OMBLINE MOST PRISON FILMS HAVE a distinctly masculine tone, so already the fact that the centre of Stéphane Cazes’s ‘Ombline’ is a woman makes it interesting. But it certainly isn’t the only interesting thing about the film.

It is set in the modern, almost docu-realistic tradition of Jacques Audiard’s ‘A Prophet’ and our own ‘R’, and is about 20-year-old Ombline, who is sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a police officer who was about to arrest her boyfriend for drug possession. But she has not served for long before finding out that she is pregnant, and when she gives birth to her son Lucas, her life in prison takes on an entirely new dimension.

Naturally, it is no bed of roses to be a new mother behind bars, and Ombline’s aggressive temperament is pushed to the extremes, as Lucas time and again is woken up by the loud inmates. Ombline’s boyfriend is dead, her father has served time since she was 13, and back in the real world she only has her friend Rita, who constantly promises more than she can keep. Stéphane Cazes’s debut is an intense and sober stomach punch of a film, which wisely avoids the otherwise so obvious sentimental pitfalls. It hurts, but hope is allowed to live in the midst of all the gloom.

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April 16 21:30 DAGMAR April 19 16:30 DAGMAR April 24 16:30 DAGMAR

OMBLINE France, Belgium 2012, 96 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Stéphane Cazes Script: Stéphane Cazes Camera: Virginie Saint-Martin Editing: Jeanne Kef Music: Cyrille Aufort Sound: Christophe Penchenat Production: Dibona Films, Arsam International, Entre Chien et Loup Producer: Jeremy Zelnik, Ilann Girard, Diana Elbaum, Sebastien Delloye Cast: Melanie Thierry, Corinne Masiero, Catherine Salee, Nathalie Becue Distr.: The Festival Agency

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NEUS BALLÚS

THE PLAGUE IN NEUS BALLÚS’S FEATURE debut, the people living on the fringes of Spanish society are given a voice. We meet a good-natured Eastern European wrestler. A prostitute on the roadside, where her husband drops her off every day. A farmer struggling to get the dry soil to produce a crop. A dedicated Philippine home help who is homesick, and not least the weary old woman Maria, who after a long life on the farm must face up to the fact that her last days will be lived in a nursing home.

‘The Plague’ is a film about their lives and concerns, with stories that slowly come together. A film about whole people with real problems, namely how to get food on the table and how to find the energy to live just one more day. Their stagnation in a Europe under pressure is striking, and when the farmer’s fields become invaded by lice, it is clear that this is not the only “plague” lurking.

Neus Ballús’s feature was made in an unconventional way. It started as a short documentary, but in the process evolved into a fiction film. Maybe fiction can after all come closer to the people it is trying to capture and portray? In ‘The Plague’, all roles are played by amateur actors using their own names, and it is precisely here, on the border between documentary and fiction, that the film’s magic takes place.

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April 18 12:00 CINEMATEKET April 19 17:00 GLORIA April 24 21:45 CINEMATEKET

LA PLAGA Spain 2013, 85 min.

Catalan, Spanish, Moldavian, Ilocano, Russian with English subtitles Director: Neus Ballús Script: Neus Ballús Camera: Diego Dussuel Editing: Neus Ballús, Domi Parra Music: David Crespo Sound: Pau Subirós Production: El Kinògraf SL Producer: Pau Subirós Cast: Raül Molist, Maria Ros, Rosemarie Abella, Iurie Timbur Distr.: El Kinògraf SL

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RAMON ZÜRCHER

THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT IF THE HARDEST THING is to make things look easy, then this minimalist gem of a German film is pure magic.

Three generations of a family (and an orange cat) meet during the course of a long day for something that, if all things go according to plan, is meant to end with a dinner. We are in a small apartment in Berlin, and nothing is too insignificant to become a part of the symphony of chain reactions and coincidences that progress as the day passes, seemingly directed by an invisible hand.

In short, this is a both homely and deeply eerie sitcom, which could have been directed by Jacques Tati. With perfect precision and a sense of paradoxical, prosaic poetry, the debut filmmaker (and former video artist) Ramon Zurcher guides us into the surreal mystery of everyday rituals. An absurd world that you have to experience for yourself to believe. Distanced, but warm, and incredibly funny without trying to be so.

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April 14 19:00 DAGMAR April 16 16:30 CINEMATEKET April 21 15:00 GLORIA

DAS MERKWÜRDIGE KÄTZCHEN Germany 2013, 72 min.

German with English subtitles Director: Ramon Zürcher Script: Ramon Zürcher Camera: Alexander Haßkerl Editing: Ramon Zürcher Sound: Benjamin Kalisch, Ramon Zürcher Production: German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) Producer: Silvan Zürcher, Johanna Bergel Cast: Jenny Schily, Anjorka Strechel, Mia Kasalo, Luk Pfaff Distr.: German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB)

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DANIEL JOSEPH BORGMAN

THE WEIGHT OF ELEPHANTS 11-YEAR-OLD ADRIAN DOES NOT have many bright moments in his life. His parents have left him, he lives with his grandmother and sick uncle, and he is being bullied at school. At the same time, three children in the neighbouring town have disappeared, and Adrian’s otherwise so creative and imaginative uncle gets more and more ill. In the spirit of Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Ratcatcher’ and the Gabriele Salvatores’ ‘I’m Not Scared’, the big and strange world is seen through the eyes of a child, as Adrian seeks refuge in the fantasies and daydreams that he finds in nature, its sounds, smells and lights. He plays on his own in the neighbourhood until he one day makes friends with his new neighbour, Nicole, a wild and unusual girl of his age with a mysterious past.

Even if the film takes place in New Zealand, where the director Daniel Borgman comes from, the majority of the film’s crew is Danish. In spite of its almost unbearable reality, the film is imbued with a raw sensitivity, poetry and visual zest that is rarely seen in Danish cinema.

A beautiful film about hope – and lack thereof – in desperate surroundings.

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April 12 21:30 GRAND April 16 19:00 GRAND

THE WEIGHT OF ELEPHANTS Denmark, New Zealand, Germany, France 2013, 83 min.

English with Danish subtitles Director: Daniel Joseph Borgman Script: Daniel Joseph Borgman Camera: Sophia Olsson Editing: Molly Malene Stensgaard Music: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen Production: Zentropa Entertainments5, Severe Features, Film I Vast, Zentropa Sweden Producer: Katja Adomeit, Leanne Saunders Cast: Demos Murphy, Matthew Sunderland, Catherine Wilkin, Angelina Cottrell Distr.: New Zealand Film

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TOM SHOVAL

YOUTH THE PLAN IS FOOLPROOF! Two brothers decide to kidnap a girl from a rich family to save their own family from financial ruin. Shaul and Yaki (who are also brothers in real life) live in a dreary suburb of Tel Aviv with a likeable but unemployed father, and they face having to vacate their own home soon. When Yaki is drafted to the army and given a gun, the two also find a new sense of confidence. The family must be saved, whatever the cost may be. But the problems only begin when their plan actually succeeds, and they suddenly have a hostage in their basement. ‘Youth’ is both highly exciting and funny, but ones laughter soon turns into the nervous variety. Shoval balances his film between the hopeless absurdity of the two brothers’ desperate plan (the girl’s orthodox parents won’t pick up the phone because it’s Sabbath) and the increasingly realistic possibility that things might actually spin completely out of control.

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YOUTH Israel, Germany 2013, 107 min.

Hebrew, English with English subtitles Director: Tom Shoval Script: Tom Shoval Camera: Yaron Scharf Editing: Joelle Alexis Sound: Gil Toren Production: Green Productions, United King Films, One Two Films Producer: Gal Greenspan, Roi Kurland, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Sol Bondy, Jamila Wenske Cast: Eitan Cunio, David Cunio, Moshe Ivgy, Gita Amely Distr.: The Match Factory

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I et ruineret USA, hvor bankmænd stjæler, og politikere lyver, rejser gangsteren sig som ny samfundskritiker.

I hvert fald i Andrew Dominik og Brad Pitts ’Killing Them Softly’.

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HVAD SKAL VI MED HOBBITTEN? Peter Jackson mødte verdenspressen i New York, og Politiken var med. Interview side 8-9

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Med ’Django Unchained’ viser Quentin Tarantino, hvad det vil sige at være tarantinoesque.

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I ’Jagten’ spiller han Lucas, der udsættes for så meget uretfærdighed, at han ikke kan fortrække en mine, selv om han raser indeni.

Og Mads Mikkelsen er god til ikke at fortrække en mine.

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Der er ingen over Abraham Lincoln i den amerikanske selvforståelse.

I dag er der premiere på Spielbergs film om den mytiske præsident.

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ANMELDELSER THE MASTER, LINCOLN, ALLE FOR TO, MIN SØSTERS BØRN I AFRIKA INTERVIEW PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON INTERVIEW RASMUS HEIDE OG MICK ØGENDAHL VIL FORNY DANSK KOMEDIE

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LYDEN AF EN BRISTET ILLUSION For Michael Haneke er film og musik uløseligt forbundet. Nu har han komponeret en elegi med Guldpalmevinderen ’Amour’.

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POLITIKEN’S AUDIENCE AWARD 10 GREAT FILM EXPERIENCES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD COMPETE FOR THE FAVOUR OF THE AUDIENCE – AND THUS FOR AN AFTERLIFE IN DANISH CINEMAS

In Politiken’s Audience Award it is you, the spectator, who chooses the winner.

We have selected 10 films, which could all fare well in Danish cinema distribution.

The films might be different, but they all share the fact that they are great cinema experiences.

The winning film is rewarded with support to be launched in Danish cinemas and will be shown on Danish television, DR – so your voice can make a huge difference as to whether the winning film finds its way to the Danish cinemas after the festival.

The films in this year’s competition are marked by great dramas. They are relevant stories that all come into their own on the big screen, in the darkness of the screening theatres. So lean back and let yourself be overwhelmed.

On the dark end of the spectrum we find the Belgian family drama ’Our Children’

by the former Dardenne student Joachim Lafosse, who confidently depicts a small family’s chilling and fatal downfall in the aftermath of great love.

Things are not quite so bleak with the 23-year-old Canadian Xavier Dolan, who with his third film in just three years is represented with the epic and stylish love melodrama ’Laurence Anyways’, which tells the story of a woman and her husband, who wants to live as a woman. Grand emotion in a stylish framing.

Using both contemporary video formats and archive material, Pablo Larraín tells the true historical story ’No’ – about the advertising executive René (Gael García Bernal), who used the power of commercials to take up the fight against Pinochet’s military dictatorship during Chile’s first democratic elections in 1988. The film fought side by side with ’A Royal Affair’ at this year’s Oscars, and you understand why: a seamless and compelling work.

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In the spirit of the Italian master Federico Fellini, his compatriot Salvatore Mereu has created an offbeat, funny and mad character gallery in ’Pretty Butterflies’. We follow 12-year-old Cate, who adolescently philosophises about life’s many hardships.

Adult life is seen from a slightly different perspective in this funny film about the many antics of everyday life.

From Sweden, the director Gabriela Pichler contributes with her debut ’Eat Sleep Die’, which is a bitter battle with the realities of the crisis - a laconic document of globalised Europe, where humanism is ignored in order to save money. Pichler sends a nod to her fellow countryman Lukas Moodysson’s early films and the Dardenne brothers’ social realism.

From Norway, we have chosen yet another debut, this one by the Kurdish-Iraqi filmmaker Hisham Zaman. In his sensitive family revenge drama ’Before Snowfall’, we follow 16-year-old Siyar, who is tasked with

restoring his family’s honour by killing his older sister, who has run away from the family.

The Indian contribution to the audience competition is Dibakar Banerjee’s ’Shanghai’ – a vibrant update to Costa-Gavras’s classic ’Z’. A densely told and clever political thriller with a fabulous orchestration of several narrative threads.

And, finally, we have the intense Belgian drama ’The Broken Circle Breakdown’, which is directed by Felix Van Groeningen (’The Misfortunates’). Seductive, sensitive bluegrass tones and sparkling performances shine through in the story of a passionate relationship, which is paralysed by devastating grief.

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HISHAM ZAMAN

BEFORE SNOWFALL WHEN THE YOUNG BOY Siyar becomes the head of his family in a small Kurdish-Iraqi village at the age of just 16, it is suddenly also his responsibility to marry off his older sister. And when she instead decides to run away from her arranged marriage, it is also expected that Siyar restores the honour of his family, and not least that of her promised husband’s powerful clan. The trip first takes the boy to Istanbul, and subsequently through Europe, from Greece to Berlin, and finally to Norway. His route follows the same path that many other refugees take in hope of a new life, but Siyar is blind to the opportunities until he meets Evin, who becomes his companion. The question is whether he can betray the family that is pressing him on in the search for his sister? The Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf was chairman of the jury that gave the Kurdish-Norwegian director Hisham Zaman’s debut the main award at the film festival in Gothenburg, where it, in the words of the jury, won because it avoids clichés and easy solutions in its realistic portrayal of the geographic and human journey that Siyar is sent on.

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FØR SNØEN FALLER Norway, Germany, Iraq 2013, 105 min.

Kurdish with English subtitles Director: Hisham Zaman Script: Kjell Ola Dahl, Hisham Zaman Camera: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen Editing: Sverrir Kristjánsson Music: David Reyes Production: Paradox Spillefilm, Mîtosfilm Producer: Finn Gjerdrum, Svein B. Kvae, Mehmet Aktas Cast: Taher Abdullah Taher, Suzan Ilir, Bahar Özen, Nazmi Kirik Distr.: Det Norske Filminstitut (NFI)

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THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN THE FACT THAT A film has been a great hit in its home country is far from being a guarantee that it will also work anywhere else. But fortunately, there are exceptions, like ‘The Intouchables’ – and this succinct Belgian drama has similar qualities and potential, even though the potent ingredients here are love, grief, friendship, sex and bluegrass. You cry, laugh and get swept away by the story, which starts off with a blow, when a six-year-old girl is diagnosed with incurable cancer. However, the film is about the girl’s parents, their turbulent relationship with both ups and down, and their spellbinding joie de vivre. He is a scraggybearded cowboy and lead singer of a band, she is a headstrong tattoo artist who becomes a member of the band. Infatuation, relationship, pregnancy, the first years with the daughter and their lives during seven years are told with elegant leaps forward and backward in time. And with the gripping performances by Veerle Baetens and Johan Heldenbergh in the lead roles, we are with them all the way. The film deservedly won the audience award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

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THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN Netherlands, Belgium 2012, 100 min.

Flemish with English subtitles Director: Felix Van Groeningen Script: Carl Joos, Felix Van Groeningen Camera: Ruben Impens Editing: Nico Leunen Music: Bjorn Eriksson Sound: Michel Schöpping Production: Menuet Producer: Dirk Impens Cast: Johan Heldenbergh, Veerle Baetens, Nell Cattrysse Distr.: The Match Factory

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GABRIELA PICHLER

EAT SLEEP DIE YOU DON’T STAND A chance. Take it! reads the tagline in Gabriela Pichler’s bold feature debut ‘Eat Sleep Die’, which was a hit at the Toronto International Film Festival last autumn. Ras’’a is in her early 20s, and although she grew up in Sweden, both her parents come from the Balkans. In the crisis-torn Swedish working-class community, it is not easy for Ras’’a to find her feet. Yet, she proudly goes to work, has a loving relationship with her family and is befriended to a group of Eastern Europeans work colleagues. One day, however, Ras’’a finds out that the factory will be made more efficient, which roughly means that the workers from the East, who like Ras’’a have been there for a long time, are to be replaced by newcomers, who can work for a far lower salary. The situation leaves Ras’’a in a dilemma: should she leave her father to try to find work somewhere else in Sweden, or should she get bogged down in everlasting unemployment? ‘Eat Sleep Die’ is a laconic document of globalised Europe, where humanity is neglected to save money. Pichler sends a nod to her fellow countryman Lukas Moodysson’s early films and the social realism of ‘Rosetta’, while still having her own unique voice in a troubling but deeply moving film.

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ÄTA SOVA DÖ Sweden 2012, 104 min.

Swedish with English subtitles Director: Gabriela Pichler Script: Gabriela Pichler, Gabriela Pichler Camera: Johan Lundborg, Johan Lundborg Editing: Gabriela Pichler, Gabriela Pichler, Johan Lundborg Music: Andreas Svensson, Jonas Isaksson Sound: Martin Hennel Production: Anagram, Anagram Producer: China Åhlander Cast: Nermina Lukac, Milan Dragi’ic, Peter Fält, Ru’ica Pichler Distr.: The Yellow Affair

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SION SONO

THE LAND OF HOPE IN ‘LAND OF HOPE’, the new film by Sion Sono (‘Cold Fish’, ‘Himizu’), the fictional town of Nagashima becomes isolated after the dramatic nuclear spill at Fukushima. You don’t need much of an imagination to see that the town’s name is put together from three cities: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima, and Sono thereby quickly makes it clear that he thinks that the nuclear leak should be understood historically in line with the nuclear bombs. Quite a statement from the old punk poet, Sion Sono, who has never been afraid of tackling taboo subjects in his films. After the spill, the city is divided down the middle by a high fence: radioactive on one side, safe on the other. Comic, maybe, but these are the kinds of absurdities by the authorities that the inhabitants of Nigashima have to get used to.

Soon, they will be completely isolated and only have themselves and each other left. The style is realistic and unsentimental, with glimpses of poetry, and on the whole this is an exemplarily subdued disaster film by the often so feisty Sion Sono.

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KIBOU NO KUNI Japan, UK, Germany, Taiwan 2012, 133 min.

Japanese with English subtitles Director: Sion Sono Script: Sion Sono Camera: Shigenori MIki Editing: Jyunichi Ito Music: Sion Sono Sound: Hajime Komiya Production: Dongyu Club, Bitters End, Pictures Dept.

Producer: Yuko Shiomaki, Yuji Sadai, Mizue Kunizane Cast: Isao Natsuyagi, Naoko Otani, Megumi Kagurazaka, Jun Murakami Distr.: Pictures dept. co. ltd.

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XAVIER DOLAN

LAURENCE ANYWAYS THE THIRD FEATURE BY the merely 23-year-old enfant terrible Xavier Dolan (‘I Killed My Mother’, ‘Heartbeats’) is also his most ambitious. ‘Laurence Anyways’ takes place over ten years, starting at the end of the 1980s, and is an epic love story between a woman and a man who dreams of becoming a woman. Laurence is a young writer and popular lecturer, who on his birthday reveals to his girlfriend Fred his secret desire to live like a woman. She is both shocked and furious, but eventually also convinced that she still loves Laurence, and she decides to help him in his transition to a new life as a woman. The question is just if the rest of the world is ready to accept his transformation. ‘Laurence Anyways’ has all the soaring ambitions that one can rightly expect/demand of a young director, and each image is taken to the extremes. And it is also a style orgy for anyone with a taste for the early 1990s. There is plenty of new wave spirit and a good dose of Wong Karwai. A modern melodrama, where the grand emotions are served in a stylish setting.

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LAURENCE ANYWAYS Canada, France 2012, 161 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Xavier Dolan Script: Xavier Dolan Camera: Yves Bélanger Editing: Xavier Dolan Music: Noia Sound: Sylvain Brassard, Olivier Goinard Production: Lyla Films, MK2 Productions Producer: Lyse Lafontaine, Carole Mondello Cast: Nathalie Baye, Melvil Poupaud, Monia Chokri, Suzanne Clément Distr.: MK 2

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PABLO LARRAÍN

NO GAEL GARCÍA BERNAL IS the advertising man René, who during the Chilean military dictatorship’s first ‘democratic’ elections in 1988 used advertising language as a political weapon and against all odds gave the Pinochet regime a struggle to the hilt. The election campaign is held on TV, and every day up to the elections, the opposition and the government are given 15 minutes of broadcasting time each – and for the remainder Pinochet’s people are heavily in control of what was being broadcast. An impossible situation, and at the beginning René isn’t even that interested in politics. But as things gradually start to move for him and his ‘No’ campaign, René not only starts awakening people’s (and his own) political consciousness. He also attracts the attention of a regime that will do anything to avoid losing power. ‘No’ is a true and immensely compelling story, which deservedly has been one of last year’s most talked-about films. And on top of that, it has the unusual trait of being filmed on the prehistoric U-matic video format, which gives the images a patina like a TV programme from the 1980s, and which has been seamlessly cut together with archive material of those days’ demonstrations, TV spots and everyday life.

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NO Chile, USA, Mexico 2011, 117 min.

Spanish with English subtitles Director: Pablo Larraín Script: Pedro Peirano Camera: Sergio Armstrong Editing: Andrea Chignoli Sound: Miguel Hormazabal Production: Fabula, Participant Media, Funny Balloons, Canana Films Producer: Juan de Dios Larraín, Daniel Dreifuss, Pablo Larraín Cast: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco Distr.: Funny Balloons

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JOACHIM LAFOSSE

OUR CHILDREN BELGIUM’S OFFICIAL OSCAR CANDIDATE ‘Our Children’ is an unforgettable, grim tale of a young couple’s inescapable downfall. Already from the very first sequence it becomes clear that there will not be a happy ending. Four small coffins are carried onto an aircraft, and thus the chilling mood is set. The Moroccan Mounir and French Murielle are in love, and his youthful exuberance makes Mounir propose to his beautiful girlfriend. In spite of initial resistance, the impending wedding is accepted by Mounir’s rich adoptive father, the doctor André, and he also offers the couple, which soon turns into a small family, to live in his house. Mounir and Murielle are content with the comfortable arrangement, but as they become more and more dependent on André’s financial goodwill, they discover that everything comes at a price. Mounir reacts snappily to his wife, who slides further and further into a fatal depression. Joachim Lafosse, who was also behind the PIX’09 hit ‘Private Lessons’, makes a virtue out of not succumbing to obvious sentimental shortcuts, but guides his chilling drama with such a confident hand, that it is impossible to remain unaffected by it.

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A PERDRE LA RAISON Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland 2012, 111 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Joachim Lafosse Script: Joachim Lafosse, Matthieu Reynaert Camera: Jean-François Hensgens Editing: Sophie Vercruysse Sound: Henri Maikoff, Ingrid Simon, Thomas Gauder Production: Versus Producer: Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart, Jani Thiltges, Sylvie Pialat, Thierry Spicher Cast: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Emilie Dequenne, Baya Belal Distr.: Les Films du Losange

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CARLOS REYGADAS

POST TENEBRAS LUX THE LATEST FILM BY Carlos Reygadas (‘Japon’, ‘Stellet Licht’), is without doubt one of the most bizarre and controversial works in a long time. Since its premiere in Cannes, there has only been agreement about one thing: ‘Post Tenebras Lux’ is truly strange. And the opening sequence is one of the most beautiful and scary moments in cinema since Murnau. If you dare submit to it, you can definitely expect an experience far beyond the ordinary. A partially autobiographical family film, an almost plot-less experiment and probably the closest you’ll ever get to dreaming while awake. Tensions rise in a small family that lives in the Mexican outback, where a romantic dream of living in close proximity to nature has a dark flip side in the violent and primal forces of the very same nature. The scenes are at times linked by a symbolic and hallucinatory logic, and at other times by an intimate familiarity (the family’s two small girls are played by Reygadas’s own daughters). A truly personal film, that must be seen in the cinema.

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POST TENEBRAS LUX Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany 2012, 120 min.

Spanish with English subtitles Director: Carlos Reygadas Script: Carlos Reygadas Camera: Alexis Zabé Editing: Natalia Lopez Sound: Gilles Laurent, Sergio Diaz Production: NoDream, Mantarraya, Le Pacte, Arte France Cinéma Producer: Jaime Romandia, Carlos Reygadas Cast: Rut Reygadas, Eleazar Reygadas, Adolfo Jiménez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo Distr.: Mantarraya Producciones

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SALVATORE MEREU

PRETTY BUTTERFLIES 12-YEAR-OLD CATE WANTS TO be a rock star when she grows up. She definitely doesn’t want to end up being a whore like her older sister, who became pregnant aged 13. And once she has become a star, as the adolescent ruminates to the bathroom mirror, she will choose her own husband. A very special tenderness is at stake in Salvatore Mereus’s irresistible ‘Pretty Butterflies’. Cate and her equally cocky girlfriend Luna live in Sardinia, in a poor neighbourhood of Cagliari. One summer night, they are awakened by the loud screams of an eccentric neighbour, and this only increases Cate’s desire to get away. Away from her hopeless parents, her countless siblings and a vision of the future that is not exactly rosy. Cate has thrown her unconditional love on Gigi, and when his life is suddenly in danger, a bit of magic is needed. Sara Podda is formidable as the persevering Cate, and Mereus’s film is populated with characters that are so wonderfully crazy, funny and frightening that Fellini would be envious.

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BELLAS MARIPOSAS Italy 2012, 100 min.

Italian with English subtitles Director: Salvatore Mereu Script: Salvatore Mereu Camera: Massimo Foletti Editing: Paola Freddi Music: Train to Roots, Balentes, Antonio Castrignanò, Rosalba Piras Sound: Valentino Gianni, Stefano Sabatini Production: Viacolvento, Rai Cinema Producer: Elisabetta Soddu, Salvatore Mereu Cast: Micaela Ramazzotti, Sara Podda, Maya Mulas, Davide Todde Distr.: Pascale Ramonda

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SHANGHAI PIX ALREADY DEMONSTRATED WITH the mini-festival ‘Indian Indies’ in 2012 that Indian film is far more than Bollywood – and one of the forces in this development is Dibakar Banerjee, who with ‘Shanghai’ has created a gifted, intense political thriller, which can easily live up to its French and American role models. He has based his film on Costa Gavras’s masterful paranoia thriller ‘Z’ and the novel it is based on, but here the action is moved to a chaotic and colourful Indian metropolis, which politicians want to turn into a new Shanghai – whatever the cost. Corruption and abuse of political power are the means that are supposed to force ahead the modernisation and get the residents to sell their land. But when a civil rights activist is killed during a demonstration, several dangerous elements enter into the picture. The versatile (h)indie star Abhay Deol plays the prosecutor who is tasked with investigating the death, but it quickly becomes clear that not everyone wants the truth to be told. ‘Shanghai’ has, understandably, caused quite some debate in India due to the critical light it casts on the downside of India’s new economic boom.

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SHANGHAI India 2012, 110 min.

Hindi with English subtitles Director: Dibakar Banerjee Script: Urmi Juvekar, Dibakar Banerjee Camera: Nikos Andritsakis Editing: Namrata Rao Music: Vishal & Shekhar Sound: Pritam Das Production: Dibakar Banerjee Productions Pvt. Ltd., PVR Pictures, National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) Producer: Dibakar Banerjee, Ajay Bijli, Sanjeev Bijli, Priya Sreedharan Cast: Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Kalki Koechlin Distr.: Dibakar Banerjee Productions Pvt., Ltd.

REWORKED WHAT HAPPENS, WHEN DIRECTORS RETURN TO THEIR OWN FILMS – AND USE THEM AS A BASIS FOR ENTIRELY NEW WORKS?

Few genres are – from an artistic point of view – as unpopular as remakes. With the American film industry as the undisputed champion, the dream factory remakes film after film each year, from old classics to Asian horror hits, and often with the same two arguments: to adapt the films to an audience that would never see the originals otherwise, and as a financially stable way to produce a film – based on familiarity as opposed to innovation.

But this is far from how it has to be. With this year’s big PIX retrospective we are demonstrating that you can go back to earlier works without sacrificing either creativity or originality.

We have compiled a series of directors, from David Lynch, Michel Gondry and Gus van Sant to Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Luc Godard and James Franco, who have

returned to their own – and in some cases other people’s – works with fresh eyes and have recreated them with surprisingly creative results.

The REWORKED series offers neither alternative versions, sequels or director’s cuts, nor outright remakes, but instead looks at a creative process that has long been recognised in music, painting and theatre – namely to revisit earlier works to see how one can reveal new sides of oneself with a bit of creative trickery and a different temperament.

So join us on an alternative trip through film history, as we have collected a series of rarely seen films, which show unknown, surprising and above all refreshing new sides of some of the greatest directors of our times.

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JÚLIO BRESSANE

APERANA STREET 52 PHOTOGRAPHS AND CINEMATIC FRAGMENTS from a single street corner in Rio de Janeiro, and from almost an entire century, have, in the hands of the Brazilian veteran and new wave genius Júlio Bressane, been turned into a kaleidoscopic work, where film and family history cross each other’s paths. ‘52 Aperana Street’ is not just the title of his latest film, it is also where he grew up – in the neighbourhood where the young Brazilian directors of the new wave of the 1970s, after Cinema Novo, lived and made their films. A deeply personal film, in other words, but paradoxically also a film that does not deny that all images are eventually filled with illusions and fictions over time. The photographs we see are from the Bressane family’s own collection, shot between 1909 and 1955, followed by extracts from no less than fourteen of Bressane’s own films made between 1957 and 2005, which add their bit to the (self) portrait that ‘52 Aperana Street’ also is. An ageing master’s laid-back and reflective film, with a welcome touch of melancholy about the ephemerality of time.

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RUA APERANA 52 Brazil 2012, 80 min.

Portuguese with English subtitles Director: Júlio Bressane Script: Júlio Bressane Camera: David Pacheco Editing: Rodrigo Lima Music: Livio Tragtenberg, Guilherme Vaz Sound: Aurélio Dias Production: TB Produções Producer: Júlio Bressane Cast: Joel Barcellos, Fernando Eiras, Giulia Gam, Maria Gladys Distr.: TB Produções

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TRENT HARRIS

THE BEAVER TRILOGY THE ROAD FROM REMAKE to pure genius is short in Trent Harris’s ‘The Beaver Trilogy’ – a gritty masterpiece from the proliferating American independent scene about the Olivia Newton John impersonator Groovin’ Gary – in three incarnations. The first part of the trilogy is a low budget documentary, shot in Utah in 1980 about the self-promoting and embarrassingly flamboyant Groovin Gary, also known as The Beaver Kid, who lives and breathes Olivia Newton John. In the second part of the trilogy, Trent Harris has restaged his old documentary, with a young Sean Penn in the lead role as the sexually confused Beaver Kid. Sean Penn is replaced in the third part of the trilogy by an equally young Crispen Glover, who in the role of Beaver Kid has been tasked with remaking not the documentary, but Sean Penn’s remake of the documentary! ‘The Beaver Trilogy’ is a both bizarre and entertaining adventure, which with a refreshing quirkiness and originality portrays the eternal outsider.

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THE BEAVER TRILOGY USA 2000, 83 min.

English Version Director: Trent Harris Script: Trent Harris Camera: Bill Fishman, Trent Harris, Claes Thulin Editing: Trent Harris Music: Joel Iwataki, Denise Kaufman, Don Peake Production: Strand Releasing Producer: Elizabeth Grey Cloud, Trent Harris Cast: Sean Penn, Crispin Glover, Stefan Arngrim, John Bluto Distr.: Trent Harris

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ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET

EDEN AND AFTER EDEN IS A DECADENT and labyrinthine night club, where a group of students is entertaining itself with Russian roulette and kinky s/m games. An artificial paradise surrounded by post-industrial wasteland, and an enclave of apathy in a world of decay – right up to the moment when a mysterious stranger dies of an overdose and sends the beautiful young Violet (Catherine Jourdan) off to an Arab island to find out who he (and she herself) is. A symbolic and trippy hybrid of horror, softcore and psychedelic pop – and as if this wasn’t wonderful enough, the intellectual provocateur and ‘Nouveau Roman’ pioneer Alain Robbe-Grillet has structured his film according to Arnold Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique, where all his own aesthetic obsessions enjoy the same intense attention as the bizarre plot. ‘Eden and After’ has the logic of a surreal game, whose obscure rules only gradually become clear to the player, and could easily have been devised by Lewis Carroll and Marquis de Sade in collaboration – and which the following year was given another meta-layer with the rare, alternative version ‘N. Took the Dice...’, which we will also be showing.

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EDEN ET APRÈS France, Czechoslovakia 1970, 93 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet Script: Alain Robbe-Grillet Camera: Igor Luther Editing: Bob Wade Music: Michel Fano Sound: Michel Fano Production: Como Film, Studio Hranych Filmov Bratislava Producer: Samy Halfon Cast: Catherine Jourdan, Lorraine Rainer, Sylvain Corthay, Richard Leduc Distr.: Reel Suspects

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N. TOOK THE DICE...

IF ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET’S PREVIOUS film ‘Eden and After’ took the form of a kind of game, this open form is here taken to its logical extremes. Scenes and alternative takes from ‘Eden and After’ are edited together to form a new film with a random order, which is determined in the film itself by casting a pair of dice! That ‘N. Took the Dice’ was actually produced by and for French TV is only one of the smaller surprises in an in every way boundary- and self-transcending film, where rules and variations form their own, perverse pattern. Coloured pop art, Euro-trash erotica and philosophical flights of fancy: Robbe-Grillet’s project might resemble a minefield of contradictions, but in that case it is just because we after forty years still think that the director’s job is to think for us. In other words, this is probably not a film for everyone, but if you have read this far, you should definitely grab this extremely rare chance to see it in the cinema.

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N. A PRIS LES DÉS...

France, Czechoslovakia 1971, 75 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet Script: Alain Robbe-Grillet Camera: Igor Luther Editing: Bob Wade Music: Michel Fano Sound: Michel Fano, Andrej Polomsky Producer: Samy Halfon Cast: Sylvain Corthay, Catherine Jourdan, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer Distr.: Reel Suspects

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ERASED JAMES FRANCO “THIS IS MY FAVOURITE performance of any that I have ever done.” The words are James Franco’s, and he is referring to the film ‘Erased James Franco’, which he made in 2009 with the American artist Carter. Here, the iconic actor was invited to re-shoot some of his best film moments – but in an entirely new context. The result is as seductive as it is thought-provoking. For the occasion, Carter wrote a screenplay based on dialogues from previous James Franco films (as well as some lines from Todd Haynes’s ‘Safe’ and John Frankenheimer’s ‘Seconds’), and after that the task was simple: Franco was to play himself in his former roles – but at the same time turn down the acting by 50%. A wonderful concept film about Franco, his previous roles and performance in general, and the British critic Ben Walters from The Guardian has fittingly described it as “an exercise in conceptual cine-karaoke.” The director and artist Carter has taken the film, which is only rarely screened, along with him to Copenhagen and will introduce it to the audience.

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ERASED JAMES FRANCO USA, 63 min.

English Version Director: Carter Script: Carter Cast: James Franco Distr.: Carter

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JAMES FRANCO, GUS VAN SANT

MY OWN PRIVATE RIVER FEW FILMS FROM THE 90s have been as defining for a generation as Gus van Sant’s ‘My Own Private Idaho’ – with Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix in the roles of two rootless petty criminals who drift their way through the United States, life and love. River Phoenix gives his best performance and was quickly called the James Dean of the 1990s, but died tragically of an overdose at the age of just 23. As a tribute to both Gus van Sant’s films and to River Phoenix, the actor, artist and director James Franco has made this alternative version – based on unused material and alternative takes, which Van Sant shot, but never used in the final film. The result is an independent work and a dreamily beautiful portrait of – and tribute to – both the film and its iconic lead actor – with a newly composed soundtrack by Michael Stipe (R.E.M.). Asked about the re-adaptation project ‘My Own Private River’ in Paris Review, James Franco explained that “’Many filmmakers would consider the discarded material worthless, but sometimes’as when they feature an actor like River Phoenix in a film like My Own Private Idaho, the best of his generation giving his best performance’every scrap is gold. It was overwhelming to be able to cut the raw material of my favorite film, a film that had moved me, that had helped shape me as a teenager.”

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MY OWN PRIVATE RIVER USA 2012, 102 min.

English Version Director: James Franco, Gus Van Sant Camera: John J. Campbell, Eric Alan Edwards Editing: James Franco Music: Michael Stipe Cast: Wilmer Calderon, Jim Freivogel, River Phoenix, Brian Lally Distr.: James Franco

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JACQUES RIVETTE

DIVERTIMENTO THE HEADSTRONG FRENCH FILMMAKER Jacques Rivette had a kind of ‘comeback’ in 1991 with the charming and four hour long Balzac adaptation ‘La Belle noiseuse’, which attracted a relatively large audience.

‘Divertimento’ is a shorter adaptation of the same material – an ageing painter (Michel Piccoli) who lives in a country house with his wife (Jane Birkin) recovers the inspiration to complete a long-abandoned masterpiece when a beautiful young woman (Emmanuelle Béart) visits them and ends up modelling for him – but consists primarily of alternative takes in an entirely different framework. This is therefore not as much an abridged version (as Rivette was contractually obliged to edit), as it is a radically different film in its own right. A film about the artistic process, which turns exactly the intuitive and creative impulse into its principle in a form that just like a painting can be compared to a game – or a piece of music. Depending on who you ask, it is the kind of stuff that genius is made of.

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DIVERTIMENTO France 1992, 130 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Jacques Rivette Script: Pascal Bonitzer, Honoré de Balzac, Christine Laurent, Jacques Rivette Camera: William Lubtchansky Editing: Nicole Lubtchansky Music: Igor Stravinsky Sound: Florian Eidenbenz Producer: Martine Mariganc, Pierre Grise Cast: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart, Marianne Denicourt Distr.: New Yorker Films

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JEAN-LUC GODARD

GERMANY YEAR 90 NINE ZERO EDDIE CONSTANTINE IS BACK in the role of the secret agent Lemmy Caution in Godard’s essayistic sequel to ‘Alphaville’ – this time set in Berlin after the collapse of the Wall. But where ‘Alphaville’ let its science fiction allegory of a totalitarian, fascist future state take place in a stylised pop art universe, Godard here presents a very real Berlin, which acts as the worn backdrop for Lemmy’s lonely march from East to West, and from the collapse of communism to the dubious triumph of liberal capitalism. The Cold War may be over, but the ideological hangover is still making its presence felt, and with a direct reference to Rosselini’s disheartening postwar film ‘Germany Year Zero’, the period is portrayed as yet another absolute zero moment of the 20th Century – and also in Godard’s own cinematic and philosophical practice, where not least the editing since the 1990s has been the fundamental syntax in a political reflection that continues to be expressed in pictures and sound.

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ALLEMAGNE 90 NEUF ZÉRO France, Germany 1991, 62 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Jean-Luc Godard Script: Jean-Luc Godard Camera: Stepan Benda, Andreas Erben, Christophe Pollock Editing: Jean-Luc Godard Music: Alexander Balanescu, Bill Frisell Sound: Pierre-Alain Besse, François Musy Production: Antenne-2, Production Brainstorm Gaumont, Périphéria Producer: Nicole Ruellé Cast: Eddie Constantine, Hanns Zischler, Claudia Michelsen, Nathalie Kadem Distr.: La Cinématèque de Toulouse

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HEART BEATING IN THE DARK (1982) A DIRTY AND PUNK no-budget film from the 1980s Japanese underground. A young couple on a desperate escape with a terrible secret haunting them are hiding in an apartment, which they have borrowed from one of their friends. Here, they spend a single night, which develops into an obscure role-play, where the gender roles are turned upside down. The director Shunichi Nagasaki is one of Japanese cinema’s best kept secrets.

And it is maybe not so strange why. For Nagasaki’s film does not fit into any of the typical categories between arthouse, genre film and the ‘Asian Extreme’ wave, which for many westerners have been a portal to the underground of Japanese cinema. ‘Heart, Beating in the Dark’ was in fact a new beginning for Shunici Nagasaki after a period making exactly the kind of low-budget films that were typical for those times, shot on Super 8 and transferred to video. And a good reason why it sticks to your memory is also that you immediately sens that it is made by a filmmaker who has gambled everything on something new and unknown. A furious, nihilistic film with a moral core – which he returned to in 2005.

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YAMI UTSU SHINZO (1982) Japan 1982, 75 min.

Japanese with English subtitles Director: Shunichi Nagasaki Script: Shunichi Nagasaki Camera: Kiichi Mutô Editing: Shunichi Nagasaki Production: Bungeiza, Cinema Hauto, Sodai Sinekan Producer: Shunichi Nagasaki Cast: Takashi Naitô, Shigeru Muroi, Tarô Suwa Distr.: Bandai Visuals

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HEART BEATING IN THE DARK (2005) SHUNICHI NAGASIKI’S ORIGINAL ‘HEART, BEATING IN THE DARK’ is a film that has been lying and smouldering in the black depths of the Japanese underground since 1982 – as well as in the subconscious of the few who actually had the chance to see it. But in 2005, Nagasaki returned to his film and – together with the two actors Shigero Muroi and Takashi Naito, who meanwhile have become stars – followed up on the story about a young couple’s desperate escape from themselves, each other and their shared secret. However, this is not a metacinematic sequel, nor a remake, but something far more ingenious – and surprisingly radical. 25 years after the original film, Murio and Natio’s paths cross with two young lovers, who are in the same situation they were in at the time: a chance to see the past and the future in the eyes, respectively. The new ‘Heart’ is a meditation about making films, and about the way their importance shifts with the passage of time. The two versions, which are both shown at the festival, can be seen together – or each on its own.

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YAMI UTSU SHINZO (2005) Japan 2005, 104 min.

Japanese with English subtitles Director: Shunichi Nagasaki Script: Shunichi Nagasaki Camera: Masami Inomoto Editing: Sumiyo Mihashi Music: Yoshihide Ohtomo Production: Bandai Visual Company, Office Shirous Producer: Yasuhiko Higashi, Satoshi Kôno Cast: Noriko Eguchi, Shoichi Honda, Kaori Mizushima, Shigeru Muroi Distr.: Bandai Visuals

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INLAND EMPIRE – MORE THINGS THAT HAPPENED DIRECTLY FROM DAVID LYNCH’S own archives, and for the first time on the big screen, we are proud to present the work that Lynch made in the aftermath of ‘Inland Empire’ – which with its mysterious love story about adultery, lust, abandoned film projects and, not least, mysterious rabbits is probably the American director’s most experimental and thought-provoking film to date. Historically seen, ‘Inland Empire’ marked Lynch’s complete surrender to the digital format, and apart from writing, filming and directing, he has also produced – and to a great extent also distributed – the film himself. This has given him a tremendous level of freedom, which can be felt in the loose but intensely atmospheric film, which bears Lynch’s fingerprint so distinctly, that it would rather ask questions than answer them. It is therefore no surprise either that there are many untold stories in the film, several of them assembled here, in ‘More Things That Happened’, which extends the ‘Inland Empire’ universe with unused scenes and takes from the original film. The result both illuminates the original’s mysterious plot – and can be enjoyed as a disturbing film in its own right.

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INLAND EMPIRE – MORE THINGS THAT HAPPENED France, Poland, USA 2006, 90 min.

English Version Director: David Lynch Script: David Lynch Camera: David Lynch Editing: David Lynch Music: David Lynch Production: Studio Canal, Camerimage, Asymmetrical Productions Producer: Jeremy Alter Cast: Karolina Gruszka, Peter J. Lucas, William Maier, Krzysztof Majchrzak Distr.: David Lynch

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RESTLESS – SILENT VERSION IN HIS FIRST FILM after the critically acclaimed ‘Milk’, the American director Gus van Sant (‘My Own Private Idaho’, ‘Elephant’) returned to two of the themes that he has revolved around most of his career: rootlessness and youthful love. We follow the two teenagers Enoch and Annabel, who meet for a common, somewhat bizarre hobby: they both turn up to the funerals of people unknown to them. He has lost his parents, and she has a brain tumour, which means that she has only three months left to live. But love still blossoms between the two – even if it is deemed to be short from the start. There is no lack of melodrama in ‘Restless’, which more than any other Gus van Sant film plays on the big emotions, as we know them from the great silent film dramas of the 1920s. It is therefore not surprising that Van Sant has chosen to make an alternative, silent film version of ‘Restless’. The film is made on the same sets and with the same actors as the original. Every time a scene was shot, van Sant asked his actors to replay it – this time without saying anything. The focus is turned to the great emotions, and Van Sant’s beautiful tale of youthful love against all odds has only been given a few extra emotional touches in this alternative silent film version, which won’t leave a dry eye in the house.

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RESTLESS – SILENT VERSION USA 2011, 73 min.

English Version Director: Gus van Sant Script: Jason Lew Camera: Harris Savides Editing: Elliot Graham Music: Danny Elfman Sound: Felix Andrew Production: Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, 360 Pictures Producer: Brian Grazer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard Cast: Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ry’ Kase, Schuyler Fisk Distr.: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Denmark A/S Still: Scott Patrick Green

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SMOKING ALAIN RESNAIS IS POSSIBLY best known as one of French cinema’s heavy weights, but here he shows one of his refreshingly light sides – with a playful comedy based on the British playwright Alan Ayckbourne. The two classic Resnais actors Sabine Azema and Pierre Arditi play all the roles in the two films about a married couple and their many marital entanglements in a small British village. But if the plot is impossible to convey, it is because the film’s ingenious idea is to constantly change it. In short, we follow the characters for a while, until the ‘what if?’ question appears on the screen, following which the plot jumps back slightly, and we now see what would happen if one of the characters had chosen to do something completely different than they did! Based on this basic idea, Resnais unfolds an entire universe around life’s great choices and omissions – which is both hilarious and fabulously seductive. ‘Smoking’ and ‘No Smoking’ are both closely related and yet two highly different versions of the same story, which can easily be seen on their own, but which only become even funnier seen side by side.

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SMOKING France 1993, 140 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Alain Resnais Script: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri Camera: Renato Berta Editing: Albert Jurgenson Music: John Pattison Sound: Bernard Bats Production: Arena Films, Caméra One, France 2 Cinéma Producer: Michel Seydoux Cast: Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi Distr.: Pathé Still: Jeanne Delaporte

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NO SMOKING ALAIN RESNAIS IS POSSIBLY best known as one of French cinema’s heavy weights, but here he shows one of his refreshingly light sides – with a playful comedy based on the British playwright Alan Ayckbourne. The two classic Resnais actors Sabine Azema and Pierre Arditi play all the roles in the two films about a married couple and their many marital entanglements in a small British village. But if the plot is impossible to convey, it is because the film’s ingenious idea is to constantly change it. In short, we follow the characters for a while, until the ‘what if?’ question appears on the screen, following which the plot jumps back slightly, and we now see what would happen if one of the characters had chosen to do something completely different than they did! Based on this basic idea, Resnais unfolds an entire universe around life’s great choices and omissions – which is both hilarious and fabulously seductive. ‘Smoking’ and ‘No Smoking’ are both closely related and yet two highly different versions of the same story, which can easily be seen on their own, but which only become even funnier seen side by side.

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NO SMOKING France 1993, 142 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Alain Resnais Script: Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri Camera: Renato Berta Editing: Albert Jurgenson Music: John Pattison Sound: Bernard Bats Production: Arena Films, Caméra One, France 2 Cinéma Producer: Michel Seydoux Distr.: Pathé Still: Jeanne Delaporte

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THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP – VERSION B THE PLAYFUL CHILD OF a director Michel Gondry firmly cemented his reputation as one of film history’s most quirky brains, when he in 2006 directed the creative love comedy ‘The Science of Sleep’. Here, Gael Garcia Bernal plays the daydreamer Stephane, who goes to Paris with a suitcase full of creative ideas, which he tries to find an audience for, while he falls head over heels in love with his new neighbour, Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg).

The result is every arts and crafts teacher’s wet dream, as Gondry joyfully illustrates his extraordinary adventure with everything from cardboard and paper maché to papercutting. With ‘Version B’, Gondry has made an alternative version of the film, based entirely on all the creative ideas and scenes that didn’t make it to the finished film. The result is an independent film with its entirely own plot, which turns up the creative fun while slightly toning down the melodrama.

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LA SCIENCE DES RÊVES – VERSION B France, Italy 2005, 70 min.

French, English, Spanish with English subtitles Director: Michel Gondry Script: Michel Gondry Camera: Jean-Louis Bompoint Editing: Juliette Welfling Music: Jean-Michel Bernard Sound: Guillaume Sciama, Dominique Gaborieau, Benoit Gargonne Production: Partizan Films Producer: Georges Bermann Cast: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou Miou Distr.: Gaumont Still: Etienne George

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3X3 MATÍAS PIÑEIRO REFRESHING STORIES

BY ARGENTINA’S NEW AUTEUR

Matías Piñeiro is a name you should take note of. The merely 30-year-old Argentinian director has already directed four films, and for good reason he has been called his country’s Jacques Rivette – he shares a number of traits with the French directing legend, including a love of fresh fusions of theatre and film. Piñeiro can be recognised by his talkative characters, fluid camera movements and strangely interwoven stories, as well as for his ability to revitalise historical texts and plays. His films are populated with characters that are usually part of an artistic community, and whose paths cross inexplicably. He is especially interested in the female universe, and often uses the same actresses. Age-old questions about fate, free will and cause and effect are asked in a brand-new way.

The past and the present, reality and fiction melt together cleverly in Piñeiro’s films, but the gravity of history is always mixed with a light and youthfully silly touch of playfulness.

MATÍAS PIÑEIRO Born 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina Studied at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and makes independent films. He made his debut with the film ’Regarding Buenos Aires’ in 2006, which he directed together with 10 other young directors.

Since then, he has directed the films ’The Robbed Man’ (2007), ’They All Lie’ (2009), the short film ’Rosalinda’ (2010) and his latest film, ’Viola’ (2012).

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THE STOLEN MAN ALREADY IN PIÑEIRO’S FIRST feature film, ‘The Stolen Man’, one could sense a stylish and personal approach that is reminiscent of the French new wave’s great directors such as Eric Rohmer and, especially, Jacques Rivette. A group of young people work at a historical museum, from where they steal antiques while being involved in entangled romances. Piñeiro’s penchant for history, and above all his admiration for the Argentinian writer and politician Sarmiento can clearly be felt: it is in his museum that the characters work, and they are deeply fascinated by his books, which they buy, quote and take with them wherever they go – and the film’s chapters correspond to the chapters in Sarmiento’s diary. Echoes from the past interfere with their lives and reveal a magical world far from the rest of society – a world where the laws of cause and effect seem to be out of action. Alongside Piñeiro’s fascination for history and literature, one senses a delightfully exuberant love for today’s age – for the spontaneous human being and its unpredictable actions.

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EL HOMBRE ROBADO Argentina 2007, 91 min.

Spanish with English subtitles Director: Matías Piñeiro Script: Matías Piñeiro Camera: Fernando Lockett Editing: Alejo Moguillansky Sound: Daniela Ale, Hernán Hevia.

Producer: Pablo Chernov Cast: María Villar, Romina Paula, Julia Martínez Rubio, Francisco García Fauré Distr.: Revolver Films

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THEY ALL LIE IN A MASTERFULLY EXECUTED juggle with the past and the present, the young Argentinian director Matias Piñeiro seduces us into a strange universe filled with intrigue and mystery. A group of young artist types has settled in a house in the country, where they become part of a network of romantic entanglements, while mysterious conspiracies take shape. They live a bohemian life, where secretive alliances are formed between the sexes, while they tell stories, find hidden bottle messages, play music, record mysterious cassette tapes, paint pictures, get drunk and make out. The past and history blends into their youthful existence, and Piñeiro’s fascination with Argentina’s history can be clearly felt. The Argentinian writer and politician Sarmiento is apparently the ancestor of one of the female protagonists, and they read aloud from his diaries while trying to form a link between the past and the present. There is something directly numbing about the aimless events and the surreal, dreamlike universe, which one can’t resist yielding to.

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TODOS MIENTEN Argentina 2009, 75 min.

Spanish with English subtitles Director: Matías Piñeiro Script: Matias Piñeiro Camera: Fernando Lockett Editing: Delfina Castagnino Sound: Daniela Ale, Emilio Iglesias Producer: Ivan Granovsky, Lionel Braverman, Pablo Chernov, Maria del Carmen Fernandez Montes Cast: Romina Paula, Julian Tello, Maria Villar, Julian Larquier Tellarini Distr.: Revolver Films

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VIOLA VIOLA IS THE LATEST addition to Piñeiro’s evergrowing opus. A seductive, fresh and extremely intelligent take on Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identities about lust and longing, ‘Twelth Night’. Viola lives in Buenos Aires with her boyfriend Javier, and together they live off delivering packages with pirated CDs. Meanwhile, a theatre company that consists of young actresses is in the process of preparing a piece that combines fragments of Shakespeare’s plays, and their paths cross inexplicably. ‘Viola’ bears all of Matias Piñeiro’s trademark features: smooth camera movements, kaleidoscopic narrative structures and an unmistakable love of literature, theatre and film – and the lived life. Through an intoxicating and sensual play with the past and the present, we are drawn into an enchanting game of entanglements – entirely in Shakespeare’s spirit.

SCREENED WITH ROSALINDA: ‘Rosalinda’ is the first installment in Matias Piñeiro’s series of films based on Shakespeare’s comedies. A bunch of vagrant youths live a heavenly life in the country during the summer, where they play theatre, kiss and play music. A poetic and enjoyable celebration of life, film, theatre and literature.

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VIOLA Argentina 2012, 65 min.

Spanish with English Subtitles Director: Matías Piñeiro Producer: Melanie Schapiro Cast: María Villar, Agustina Muñoz, Elisa Carricajo, Romina Paula Distr.: Cinema Guild

ROSALINDA Argentina 2013, 40 min.

Spanish with English Subtitles Director: Matías Piñeiro Producer: Iván Granovsky Cast: María Villar, Alberto Ajaka, Agustina Muñoz, Julián Larquier Tellarini Distr.: Revolver Films

3X3 BEN WHEATLEY SOCIAL REALISM, GENRE FILMS AND HAIR-SPLITTING BLACK HUMOUR

In record time, the British director Ben Wheatley has established himself as one of England’s most distinguished filmmakers. True to the English tradition of social realism, he also fosters pure genre elements. A contradiction? Yes! But with Wheatley it all comes together in a way that you didn’t think was possible.

Everyday hard work, pitch-black humour and rampant murder stories seem to be recurring themes in his always arch-British films. ”Imagine ’Sopranos’ being made by Mike Leigh” is how an American film critic accurately described his debut film ’Down Terrace’, which follows a working-class gangster family in Brighton. The kitchen sink realism is sharp and sarcastically funny, and a toxic cocktail of booze, drugs and paranoia makes the tensions in the

small home escalate into a murderous spiral. But his breakthrough only came with ’Kill List’, which enjoyed an unexpectedly high level of attention. The bold play with genres continues, and what starts off as a realistic drama ends in deeply disturbing horror. The last of Wheatley’s features is this year’s ’Sightseers’, a black, social realist serial murder comedy.

BEN WHEATLEY Born 1972 in Essex, England. Started his career as an animator and commercials director. Alongside his three feature films, all of which you can see in this series, he has among other things directed several episodes of the TV series ’Modern Toss’ and ’The Wrong Door’.

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DOWN TERRACE PITCH-BLACK HUMOUR, KITCHEN SINK realism and a family of losers. Yes, Wheatley’s debut is arch-British and about a father and son who are kingpins of a corrupt gangster world, which is infiltrated by an informer.

But who? Karl is a chubby and lazy drug dealer, who together with his paranoid father, Bill, is up against the law on the one hand, and their unreliable gang of friends, acquaintances and family members on the other. It soon becomes clear to everyone that nobody can trust anybody, and fuelled by a toxic cocktail of booze, drugs and paranoia, the tension in the small home escalates into a spiral of murder and worse things still.

Most of ‘Down Terrace’ takes place in a run-down flat in Brighton, and what Wheatley at that time lacked in budget, he and his cast of amateur actors made up for in authenticity: Bob and Robin Hill are really father and son. Witty, sharp and stylish.

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DOWN TERRACE UK 2009, 89 min.

English Version Director: Ben Wheatley Script: Ben Wheatley, Robin Hill Camera: Laurie Rose Editing: Robin Hill Music: Jim Williams Sound: Rob Entwistle Producer: Andy Starke Cast: Julia Deakin, Sara Dee, Robert Hill, Robin Hill Distr.: Magnolia Pictures

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KILL LIST BEN WHEATLEY’S BREAKTHROUGH WAS a complete surprise in every sense when it was made, and it took both critics and audiences by storm. And the reason is very simple: ‘Kill List’ is a true original. The story starts as a solid hit-man thriller, but soon develops into something far more frightening. Jay and Gal are old soldier buddies, now colleagues in the contract killing business, which they run alongside their normal life in a townhouse with their respective wife and girlfriend.

Jay needs money, Gal has got them a job. A ‘kill list’ with three names, a contract signed with blood – both delivered by an elderly man whose dark intentions only slowly begin to become clear to his two henchmen. And by then it might be too late. It is important to have your wits about you, for it is all the small, worrying details that gradually come together to form a cryptic web of a plot. A modern British cult classic along the line of ‘The Wicker Man’.

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KILL LIST UK 2011, 95 min.

English with Danish subtitles Director: Ben Wheatley Script: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump Camera: Laurie Rose Editing: Robin Hill, Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump Music: Jim Williams Sound: Rob Entwistle Production: Rook Films, Electric Works, Sheffield Digital Campus Producer: Claire Jones, Andrew Starke Cast: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson, Michael Smiley Distr.: Protagonist Pictures

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SIGHTSEERS AS THEY ROLL THROUGH England’s idyllic nature with their mobilehome towed behind them, Tina and Chris resemble the perfect Mr. and Mrs. Camping. But beneath the surface this is the couple from hell. After a brief altercation with her rather domineering mother, Tina and her jovial, bearded boyfriend Chris embark on a road trip through England to visit some of the country’s more humble tourist attractions, including a tram museum and a pencil museum. But after a seemingly innocent traffic accident, Tina finds out that Chris is not quite the innocent cuddly bear that she thought he was. Behind the knitted sweater and full beard hides an angry man.

Angry at people who do not respect traffic rules, who throw candy wrappers on the street and who put their feet on the opposite seat in the bus. And now it’s time for them to pay for their sins! So the two lovers soon end up leaving behind a trail of blood and splattered brains in the slipstream of their trailer. With his black, social realist serial murderer comedy Ben Wheatley has done it again. He has created a truly original, genrebending, pitch-black comedy with occult undertones. A film that challenges the convenient truth that all people are fundamentally idiots, who need to be put in place.

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SIGHTSEERS UK 2012, 89 min.

English Version Director: Ben Wheatley Script: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram Camera: Laurie Rose Editing: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump, Robin Hill Music: Jim Williams Sound: Rob Entwistle Production: Film4, Big Talk Pictures, Rook Films Producer: Nira Park, Claire Jones, Andy Starke Cast: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Jonathan Aris Distr.: Protagonist Pictures

3X3 GEORGE SLUIZER VISIONARY SURPRISES FROM A NEGLECTED DUTCH MASTER

”For me, making movies is a combination of my personal vision and what I think the audience wants to see,” the Dutch director, George Sluizer has said about himself. An apt description, not least for his breakthrough ’Spoorloos’, which both shamelessly subscribed to the hair-raising thriller genre, and demonstrated that this can also be great art. Since then, many directors have followed in his footsteps, and together with films such as ’Reservoir Dogs’ and ’Man Bites Dog’, ’Spoorloos’ was trendsetting for the wave of personal genre films of the 1990s. But in spite of the film’s enormous success, the director has remained an unknown entity – and the bulk of his filmography, which stretches

all the way back to the 1960s, is sadly still completely inaccessible. Together with the new classic ’Spoorloos’, we will show the western ’Dark Blood’, which due to the sad death of the lead actor River Phoenix only saw the light of day this year. As the last film, Sluizer himself has chosen the 1992 production ’Utz’.

GEORGE SLUIZER Born 1932 in Paris of Dutch and Norwegian parents. Graduated from L’Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris.

In addition to directing, he has written screenplays and produced several films – including Werner Herzog’s ’Fitzcarraldo’.

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THE VANISHING SPOORLOOS WAS A SHOCK when it came out, and it has deservedly earned a status as a modern classic that would have made Hitchcock proud. Se or re-see Georg Sluizer’s enduring stroke of genius – if you dare! Saski and Rex are a young, infatuated couple on a romantic trip. But when they stop at a bus station on the way, Saskia disappears without a trace. Three years later the still desperate Rex receives a post card from her abductor. Here, the investigative work begins, and the thrilling story twists and turns as it heads towards a final, terrible conclusion – and you need not know any more than this. ‘Spoorloos’ is one of those films that can send a shiver down your spine – even long after you’ve watched it – and it has been a trailblazer for the cold, modern thriller genre. Sluizer also directed the American remake from 1992 with Sandra Bullock, Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges, but the original is the real thing, and this is a unique opportunity to see it in the cinema.

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SPOORLOOS Netherlands, France 1988, 107 min.

Dutch, French, English with English subtitles Director: George Sluizer Script: Tim Krabbé, George Sluizer Camera: Toni Kuhn Editing: Lin Friedman, George Sluizer Music: Henny Vrienten Sound: Piotr van Dijk Production: Ingrid Productions, MGS Film Producer: Anne Lordon, George Sluizer Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Johanna ter Steege, Gene Bervoets, Gwen Eckhaus Distr.: Sluizer Films BV

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UTZ A LOST ART COLLECTION becomes the focal point for a piece of detective work, which takes us through a decadent world that is shrouded in the shadow of an eccentric aristocrat. Baron von Utz is a womaniser and collector of priceless porcelain figures, with the ego of Orson Welles and a similarly mysterious charisma. When the Baron falls seriously ill, his friend, Marius Fischer, who is an art dealer from New York, travels to Prague to visit him. But when he arrives, he learns that both Baron von Utz’s art collection and housekeeper have disappeared. To find out what has happened, Marius has to ally himself with the baron’s old friend Dr. Orlick.

Together, they uncover many unknown sides of their friend. ‘Utz’ is designed in a clever flashback structure, masterfully orchestrated by the director George Sluizer.

With Armin Mueller-Stahl in the lead role, we also move backwards in Czech history to a time when Soviet control was still very recent.

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UTZ Germany, Italy, UK 1992, 94 min.

English Version Director: George Sluizer Script: Hugh Whitemore, George Sluizer Camera: Gerard van den Berg Editing: Lin Friedman Music: Nicola Piovani Sound: David John Production: Viva Pictures Producer: John A. Goldschmidt Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Paul Scofield, Peter Riegert Distr.: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

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DARK BLOOD TO SEE RIVER PHOENIX’S name at the top of a film poster feels like taking a trip back to the early 90s, when the young star was named the James Dean of his age. But when he died of an overdose of cocaine and heroin at the far too tender age of 23 in 1993, he suddenly became a fallen star. When River died, he was in the middle of filming George Sluizer’s ‘Dark Blood’, a film which was then never completed because of the actor’s death. The rights to the film was taken over by an insurance company, until last year when the director managed to repurchase it and complete ‘Dark Blood’.

The result is what you can enjoy here! To say that ‘Dark Blood’ is a strange film is a bit of an understatement.

The young Boy (Phoenix) lives alone in the American desert, which is ravaged by nuclear testing. He is waiting for the end of the world. But before he gets that far, he is joined by Harry and Buffy, a couple that have gone off together for the weekend to save their ailing marriage. When their Bentley breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Boy offers them his help, but starts to treat the increasingly anxious couple as hostages.

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DARK BLOOD USA, UK, Netherlands 2012, 86 min.

English Version Director: George Sluizer Script: Jim Barton Camera: Edward Lachman Editing: Michiel Reichwein Music: Florencia Di Concilio Sound: Harold Jalving Production: Fine Line Features, Scala Productions Producer: JoAnne Sellar Cast: River Phoenix, Judy Davis, Jonathan Pryce, Karen Black Distr.: EYE Film Institute Netherlands

MANHUNT: A COLLECTIVE CEREMONY THIS YEAR’S EXHIBITION AT OVERGADEN USES (FILM) HISTORY TO EXAMINE THE CONCEPT OF MANHUNT

Missing people and dead languages are the consequences of millennia of manhunt in the French directing duo Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval’s cinematic and site-specific installation, which examines manhunt in a subtle blend of enigmatic atmosphere, film history and the sound of dead languages.

The exhibition is an installational mirror image of the two directors’ ongoing international film ’Ceremony’, which is exactly about the cultural history of manhunt – and its inherent dehumanisation of both the hunter as well as his prey. Three contiguous spaces lead the audience through an abandoned room, a corridor with the sound of silent languages, and a ”black hole” with a mosaic of fragments from known and unknown films.

The installation at Overgaden is the result of a collective collaboration, where the two artists among other things have worked with philosophers, actors and musicians, as well as with a Danish team of technicians, set designers, architects and a linguist. The David Lynch-like spaces of the installation will be the setting for various events and debates during the exhibition.

MANHUNT: A COLLECTIVE CEREMONY April 20 – June 9 2013

ULRICH SEIDL: FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE THE AUSTRIAN MASTER DIRECTOR IS BACK WITH A PROVOCATIVE TRILOGY ABOUT FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE

Ulrich Seidl really broke through internationally in 2001 with his film ’Dog Days’, in which his relentless style castigated Austria’s petit bourgoisie.

The uncompromising Austrian is back in his usual controversial top form with his Paradise trilogy. The three films premiered at Cannes, Venice and Berlin respectively.

The first part of the trilogy, ’Paradise: Love’, is a boundary-transgressing and piercing look at sex tourism, which follows 50-yearold Teresa, who travels to Kenya to live out her desires of the (flabby) flesh with virile black men.

In the second part, ’Paradise: Faith’, it is Teresa’s sister, the neo-Christian fundamentalist Anna Maria, who sets off to the suburbs to spread the Christian

message, and in the surprisingly sensitive finale, ’Paradise: Hope’, Teresa’s 13-yearold daughter Melanie is sent to an obesity camp, where she falls in love with the camp’s doctor, who is 40 years her senior.

MASTERCLASS WITH ULRICH SEIDL In connection with the screenings of the ’Paradise’-trilogy, Ulrich Seidl will give a masterclass on his films and methods.

Exact time and place will be announced at cphpix.dk

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PARADISE: FAITH AFTER HAVING TACKLED SEX tourism, Ulrich Seidl continues his ‘Paradise’ trilogy with a film about religious fanaticism, now with the sister of the protagonist of the ‘Love’ part. Anna Maria is taking time off work at a medical laboratory to do missionary work and spread the Catholic faith to the remote suburbs of Vienna, where she goes from door to door with her Bible and a statue of the Virgin Mary. But when her Muslim husband suddenly comes into the picture by coming back after two years of travels to find his wife having become a radicalised neo-Christian fundamentalist, the story takes a completely unexpected turn. As always, Seidl’s gallery of characters is a slice of humanity’s least likeable sides, but it is framed sharply with long takes, where one as a spectator is left to ones own judgement. A forceful and topical film by a director who has a diabolical ability to find and prod the weakest spots of contemporary society.

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PARADIES: GLAUBE Austria, Germany, France 2012, 113 min.

German with English subtitles Director: Ulrich Seidl Script: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz Camera: Wolfgang Thaler, Ed Lachman Editing: Christof Schertenlieb Sound: Ekkehart Baumung Production: Ulrich Seidl Film (AT) Producer: Max Linder, Konstantin Seitz Cast: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, Natalya Baranova, Rene Rupnik Distr.: Coproduction Office

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PARADISE: LOVE ALREADY FROM THE FILM’S total knock-out of an opening scene, it is obvious that Ulrich Seidl (‘Hundstage’, ‘Import, Export’) is back in controversial top form. And this is only the first film in an already completed trilogy, whose individual parts can easily be seen on their own. The uncompromising Austrian’s three ‘Paradise’ films are about three different women from the same family, and in the first instalment he turns his piercing gaze on sex tourism. Teresa is a 50-year-old woman, unencumbered by intellect and with a carnal taste for anything that comes her way.

On a trip to Kenya, she falls in with the local men, who encircle her and her chubby girlfriends on the beach.

The most virile among them is called Munga, and he quickly becomes her favourite. But even though he doesn’t directly ask her for money for his services, it is hard to ignore the question as to whether he is truly in love with her. Margarethe Tiesel delivers a ruthlessly self-deprecatory performance in the role as Teresa, and the film is just as much hers as it is Seidl’s.

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PARADIES: LIEBE Austria, Germany, France 2012, 120 min.

German with Danish subtitles Director: Ulrich Seidl Script: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz Camera: Wolfgang Thaler, Ed Lachman Editing: Chrostof Schertenlieb Sound: Ekkehart Baumung Production: Ulrich Seidl Film (AT) Producer: Max Linder Cast: Margarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz Distr.: Coproduction Office

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PARADISE: HOPE WHEN HER MOTHER TRAVELS to Kenya during the summer holiday, 13-year-old Melanie is sent to an obesity camp to shed some of her many extra pounds.

And knowing that this is the last, but independent part of Ulrich Seidl’s ‘Paradise’ trilogy, there is hardly much hope for the puppy-fat teenager. Nonetheless, ‘Hope’ surprises us in that it is the gentlest of the three films of the trilogy, and it shows a warmer and more indulgent side of Seidl’s vision. Melanie slowly finds new girlfriends in her fellow camp-attendants, and together they smuggle snacks and booze into their rooms, while flirting shyly with the local boys. The first, cautious attempts at a sexual affair only come with Melanie’s growing infatuation with the doctor at the camp, who is 40 years her senior. A potential Lolita scandal, which is nevertheless depicted with a hitherto unseen level of vulnerability and sense of subtle tact.

But the cinematic signature is still Seidl’s own, and the morale is never spelled out. Whether you dare invest in faith, hope and love after seeing the ‘Paradise’ trilogy is therefore entirely up to you.

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PARADIES: HOFFNUNG Austria, Germany, France 2012, 100 min.

German with English subtitles Director: Ulrich Seidl Script: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz Camera: Wolfgang Thaler, Ed Lachman Editing: Chrostof Schertenlieb Sound: Ekkehart Baumung Production: Ulrich Seidl Film (AT) Producer: Max Linder Distr.: Coproduction Office

FAMILY BUSINESS ARTISTIC PATRICIDE LOOMS AS THE CHILDREN OF FAMOUS DIRECTORS FOLLOW IN DADDY’S FOOTSTEPS

The directors invited to this year’s thematic series have a lot to live up to. For they are all sons and daughters of some of the film world’s leading figures, and we dare promise that there will be a playful approach to both genres and the parental heritage.

A generational rebellion is to be expected, but much more is at stake when the offspring of directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Louis Malle, David Cronenberg, Armando Bo and John Cassavetes continue where their parents left off.

The apple does not fall far from the tree in Brandon Cronenberg’s ’Antiviral’. It falls much further, on the other hand, with Xan Cassavetes, who with ’Kiss of the Damned’ has made a sexy vampire film, which is miles away from her father John’s improvised New York masterpieces of the 1960s

and 1970s. David Lynch’s daughter, Jennifer, sticks to the spirit of her father as she renews the serial murder genre with ’Chained’, while Roman Coppola’s crazy comedy ’A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III’ is probably quite far from what Francis himself would have made.

The most direct dealings with the fatherchild relationship can be found in Justine Malle’s beautiful and brutally honest ’Jeunesse’, which is inspired by the director’s last summer with her father, Louis Malle (’Murmur of the Heart’, ’Au revoir les enfants’). And, finally, the Argentinian director Armando Bo (son of the legendary Victor Armando Bo, who made films such as ’Fuego’ and ’Carne’) marks his debut with the unsentimental but touching ’The Last Elvis’.

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BRANDON CRONENBERG

ANTIVIRAL IN A “NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE”, celebrity hysteria has reached new heights with the latest trend: get a disease directly from a star. Companies have specialised in getting samples of illnesses from tabloid darlings and selling them for staggering amounts, so people can become infected with their favourite celebrity’s bout of herpes, flu or worse still. To prevent piracy, the companies have made the viruses non-contagious, but the protagonist Syd has found a way around the copy protection. It is a method that implies that he has to infect himself with what turns out to be a lethal virus, which slowly breaks down his body. He therefore soon sees himself being hunted by both old friends and new enemies. The mutating and genetically modified apple does not fall far from the tree as Brandon Cronenberg, the son of the Canadian body horror legend David Cronenberg, gives us a satirical rubbishing of our sick celebrity mania in his feature debut.

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ANTIVIRAL Canada, USA 2012, 110 min.

English Version Director: Brandon Cronenberg Script: Brandon Cronenberg Camera: Karim Hussain Editing: Matthew Hannam Music: E.C. Woodley Sound: Philip Stall, Lou Solakofski Production: Rhombus Media Producer: Niv Fichman Cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith, Malcolm McDowell Distr.: The Festival Agency

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JENNIFER CHAMBERS LYNCH

CHAINED WHEN A MOTHER AND her young son, Tim, take a taxi home after a trip to the cinema, Tim’s life takes a gruesome turn. For the taxi is driven by the retarded Bob, who refuses to let them out, but instead drives them to his secluded villa, where he brutally murders the mother, while Tim is forced to listen from the adjoining room. But Tim’s torments are not over. Bob would normally have disposed of the boy, but he instead decides to make him his slave. He renames him Rabbit and chains him to the house. ‘Chained’ is a claustrophobic film about how a monster is made, and a welcome renewal of the serial killer genre, which often exhibits a certain type of fascination with the killer as the strong and intelligent hunter of humans. But this is not the case here, where the killer is stupid, lisping and retarded. The game between the boy and his “owner” Bob is portrayed in a grippingly realistic way by the underrated Vincent D’Onofrio, and his performance alone is almost worth the price of the cinema ticket.

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CHAINED USA 2012, 102 min.

English Version Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch Script: Damian O’Donnell Camera: Shane Daly Editing: Daryl K. Davis, Chris A. Peterson Music: Climax Golden Twins Production: Envision Media Arts, Myriad Pictures, RGB Productions Producer: Rhonda Baker, David Buelow, Lee Nelson Cast: Conor Leslie, Eamon Farren, Evan Bird, Gina Philips Distr.: Myriad Pictures

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ROMAN COPPOLA

A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD to a crazy comedy with great cult potential when The Godfather’s own son – inspired by Spike Jonze’s spaced-out universes, Michel Gondry’s playfulness and Wes Anderson’s visual style – invites us inside the head of Charles Swan III. Comfortably seated in his inner universe, we follow the playboy and star graphic designer Charles Swan III, who embarks on a spectacular personal journey to remote corners of past relationships. Always transported in his eggs-and-bacon-shaped Cadillac, of course. In his second feature after the sci-fi comedy C.Q. (2001), the director Roman Coppola, son of Francis Ford Coppola, has embarked on an almost anarchistic collection of crazy ideas with the forever mad Charlie Sheen in the lead role – and numerous major American celebrities in the supporting roles. Like an old Leslie Nielsen film, it all takes place in a modern, American offbeat culture. And the inspiration from Anderson, Jonze and Gondry is not quite accidental either. Coppola has co-authored and co-directed several of Anderson’s films, most recently ‘Moonrise Kingdom’, and Jonze’s Fat Boy Slim music video ‘Praise You’, just like Coppola’s name is listed in the thank you section of several of Gondry’s films.

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A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III USA 2012, 86 min.

English Version Director: Roman Coppola Script: Roman Coppola Camera: Nick Beal Editing: Robert Schafer Music: Liam Hayes, Roger Neill Production: American Zoetrope, The Directors Bureau Producer: Roman Coppola, Youree Henley Cast: Charlie Sheen, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza Distr.: Independent Film Sales

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JUSTINE MALLE

JEUNESSE JEUNESSE IS THE STORY of a beautiful young woman aged 20, who innocently and naively enters into a Paris summer, but comes out the other end a great deal richer in knowledge about life, love and death. Justine Malle, the daughter of the French master director Louis Malle (‘Au revoir les enfants’, ‘Murmur of the Heart’) celebrates her debut with a brutally honest story, which seems to be largely inspired by her own life during the time up to her father’s death in 1995. The film’s protagonist, the melancholy Juliette, falls head over heels in love with the class’s charming boy, but her naive approach to love makes her vulnerable. In spite of the inevitable defeat, she undauntedly continues her quest for love, but when her father is diagnosed with a fatal disease and moves out into the countryside, the summer takes on a more serious twist. She is caught between the feelings that her father’s illness and decline give her, and her own burning desire to feel and understand the emerging desire for love, which her life at the same time offers her. By simply exposing the weaknesses of youth and highlighting its infinite resources, Justine Malle follows in the footsteps of the French director Mia Hansen-Løve, who was director in focus at PIX ‘12.

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JEUNESSE France 2012, 75 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Justine Malle Script: Cécile Vargaftig & Justine Malle Camera: Nicolas Pernot Editing: Olivier Ferrari Music: Dakota Suite Sound: Christophe Penchenat Roman Dymny Production: Tupelo Films Producer: Justine Malle Cast: Esther Garrel, Didier Bezace, Emile Bertherat, Lucia Sanchez Distr.: Pyramide International

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XAN CASSAVETES

KISS OF THE DAMNED WHEN THE VAMPIRE DJUNA hands in a film at the local video store, she falls head over heels in love with the gorgeous writer Paolo. So much so, that she has to lure him into her vampire’s web. But Paolo naturally doesn’t complain, for vampire bites are like viagra with fangs. But there is a downside to the adventure in the shape of Djuna’s dark mirror image, her sister Mimi. ‘Kiss of the Damned’ is an empathetic tribute to the manic, colourful and sexy vampire films of the 1960s and 1970s, with films and directors such as ‘Daughters of Darkness’, ‘The Hunger’, Jean Rolin, Mario Bava and Jesus Franco as obvious sources of inspiration. It is a return to the more outgoing version of the female vampire, a role that has otherwise become a bit more subdued in today’s more restrained vampire films. The cast, which is almost entirely made up of women, includes Joséphine de la Baume as Djuna, Milo Ventimiglia (‘Heroes’ very own Peter Petrelli) as Paolo and Roxane Mesquida (‘Fat Girl’, ‘Rubber’, ‘Kaboom’) as the sister Mimi. The director, Xan Cassavetes, is the daughter of the legendary American master of improvisation, John Cassavetes, and one can safely say in this case that the apple falls far from the tree.

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KISS OF THE DAMNED USA 2012, 97 min.

English Version Director: Xan Cassavetes Script: Xan Cassavetes Camera: Tobias Datum Editing: Taylor Gianotas, John F. Lyons Music: Steve Hufsteter Sound: Casey Genton, Eric Offin Production: Deerjen Films, Verisimilitude Producer: Jen Gatien, Alex Orlovsky Cast: Josephine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis Distr.: Magnolia Pictures Still: Alisha Wetherill

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ARMANDO BO

THE LAST ELVIS CARLOS, PHENOMENALLY PLAYED BY the virtually unknown John McInerny, is a middle-aged Elvis impersonator and fanatic, who is fighting a tough battle to make ends meet. The jobs are fewer and further between, and when an accident forces him to take care of his daughter from a previous marriage, he has to make a choice. But it is hard to be something for others when ones entire life has been lived through another person. ‘The Last Elvis’ is the Argentine director Armando Bo’s feature debut, but he is far from an upstart. The son of one of Argentina’s most famous directors, Victor Armando Bo (‘Fuego’, ‘Carne’), it was almost predetermined that he would end up in the movies. In 2010, he wrote the screenplay for Alejandro González Iñarritu’s award-winning ‘Biutiful’, and with ‘The Last Elvis’ he marks his debut with a tremendously likeable and beautiful film about life’s lies, and about the consequences of trying to be someone other than oneself. It is touching without being sentimental – and of course with lots of the King’s music.

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EL ÚLTIMO ELVIS Argentina 2012, 89 min.

Spanish with English subtitles Director: Armando Bo Script: Armando Bo & Nicolas Giacobone Camera: Javier Julia Editing: Patricio Pena Music: Sebastian Escofet Sound: Martin Porta Production: Rebolucion Producer: Steve Golin, Hugo Sigman, Patricio Alvarez Casado, Victor Bo y Armando Bo Cast: John Mc Inerny, Griselda Siciliani, Margarita Lopez Distr.: FilmSharks International

Byens bedste Croissanter og friskbrygget Kaffe 1 sæt

Tilbuddet gælder til og med den 24. april 2013

35,Folk på farten fortjener noget godt

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MUSIC + VIDEO FEAT. VAMPIRE BLOW DENMARK IS BRIMMING WITH good music videos and unestablished directing talents, but the exposure, recognition and earnings are meagre compared to the high quality level of music videos produced in Denmark.

PIX, again this year, grabs the initiative and invites you to MUSIC + VIDEO in a cool audio-visual setting with this year’s most interesting Danish music videos, which all know how to tell a story! We will focus on directors who work with plot structures, actors, and an occasional green screen. Aspiring as well as established directors from all over the country have sent in their contribution, and based on these submissions the festival has put together tonight’s programme. Danish music video directors fall somewhere between worlds and industries.

Lacking support, they often have to produce their videos with their own funds in the hope that the result will open doors in the future. The results are finely crafted audio-visual narratives with plenty at stake, and as the fiction film festival that PIX now happens to be, we are happy to pay tribute to these particular kinds of narrative directing talents. With its chilled-out cinema environment, Byens Lys in Christiania will set the scene for what already after last year’s music video night has become a fixed PIX tradition. As culmination of the evening, Vampire Blow (who have just released an EP) will serve their speciality: a smoking hot bowl of rock’n’roll to top off an evening of delicious Danish music videos.

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OUANANICHE + MELODY OF TERROR OUANANICHE’S SECOND CONTRIBUTION TO the festival, and the dessert for the remix work ‘Ana’ (see page 108) is his tribute to dustily beautiful and kitschy horror films. Like a second Victor Frankenstein, he sews the most sweaty and macabre scenes together from 9 lost and forgotten horror films and creates this entirely monstrous and entertaining beast of a horror event.

Grab a beer and surrender to the insistent electronic beats as the Canadian VJ and DJ Cedric Chabuel aka Ouananiche takes you back to the past ‘take’ on horror, and live-remixes a collage of 60s-70s films against a heavy bass and women’s cries – one might as well be mainstream, no?! Before the afterparty, Ouananiche is also behind the mixer in the cinema, where he presents his remix of the PIX winner from 2010, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s ‘Amer’, followed by a short film programme by the Belgian directors, who will also be present. If you only want to come to the party and ‘Melody of Terror’, you are of course welcome, and admission is free to Asta Bar.

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DAKHABRAKHA + DOVZHENKO’S ‘EARTH’ AT THE PLANETARIUM DISCOVER ALEKSANDR DOVZHENKO’S SILENT film classic ‘Earth’ from 1930 with a newly composed score by the renowned ethno-band DahkaBrakha. Dovzhenko is a master of composition, and the film – with its intense, almost Dreyer’esque close-ups and the impressive expanses of the landscape – is a passionate tribute to the countryside, to nature and to the people that work on it. The Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha has garnered international acclaim for its genre-transgressing music and earlier they have performed at WOMEX, and will play at Roskilde ‘13. At PIX however, they can be experienced in a very special cinematic context as they perform their beautiful, newly composed score for one of their homeland’s heroes, Dovzhenko. The quartet’s music is both minimalistic and percussiondriven, with roots in Ukrainian folk music, but with clear inspiration from the rest of Eastern Europe, Asia and Australia. The work played at Berlinale earlier this year, and in Denmark ‘Earth’ with live music has to be experienced in the Planetarium!

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ERIK ENOCKSSON + SVARTE GREINER THE ECCENTRIC OF SWEDISH film music, Erik Enocksson, will hold a rare concert at PIX in April.

Enocksson virtually never plays live! As part of the Swedish film collective Fasad, he has created a number of magnificent film scores, including Jesper Ganslandt’s modern classic ‘Falkenberg Farewell’, which is borne

by Enocksson’s charismatic humming and free-folk instrumentation, and for Fredrik Wenzel’s ‘Man tänker sitt’ (aka ‘Burrowing’). In the music film ‘Skinnskatteberg’, Erik and his band can be seen in a forest, where only the trees are allowed to listen – it isn’t just the Beatles that have managed to pull the plug from the live amplifier for a few years! But now Enocksson is getting ready for his first concert in a long time, and PIX, in collabroation with Fanø Free Folk Festival and artFREQ., is extremely proud to supply the context. Enocksson is performing with a live world premiere of the rearranged film music for ‘Man tänker sitt’ – for church organ, two pianos, vocals and, not least, the Tritonus choir’s 40 singers conducted by Lise Christensen Bjerno. The Norwegian sound artist Svarte Greiner (aka Erik Knive Skodvin/ Deaf Center) will earlier in the evening, for the first time in Copenhagen, produce cinematic and ambient soundscapes, where the cello’s notorious darkness is allowed to play the main role. It will be a double concert with two of Scandinavia’s most ambitious composers and sound artists, set in the beautiful surroundings of Hellig Kors Kirke. Doors open at 7.30 pm.

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April 19 20:00 HELLIG KORS KIRKE

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MANOREXIA IN THE MARBLE CHURCH JG THIRWELL’S MUSICAL RANGE is extreme, and his alias Manorexia, which at the concert in Marmorkirken consists of a classic/electronic septet, refers to a genretransgressing and deeply varied musical expression with a dramatic intensity and a cinematic dimension. The Australian-born composer has spent most of his creative life in New York, and here he has been crucial for the experimental music and film scene, as part of the Cinema of Transgression movement where he collaborated with Richard Kern and Lydia Lunch. Musically, he moves from big band to cacophonous noise rock, abstract electronica and chamber music – often on the same album – and he has written works for both Kronos Quartet and Bang on a Can. Thirlwell is known by several names, perhaps best as Foetus with his pioneering industrial samples. He was an early member of Nurse With Wound, and has since collaborated with a host of bands – Sonic Youth, Melvins, Swans, Coil, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Marc Almond, Arto Lindsay, and this year he was Oscar-nominated for his production of Karen O’s (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) original song for Tim Burton’s ‘Frankenweenie’. In The Marble Church, on the last night of the festival, his ensemble consisting of world-class musicians on violin, viola, cello, vibraphone, piano and percussion will perform with Mr. Thirlwell himself swinging the baton and operating the electronic machinery. Presented in association with artFREQ. and Wundergrund on Tour. Doors open at 8 pm.

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April 25 21:00 MARMORKIRKEN

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NED OLDHAM & KIM TAYLOR + I USED TO BE DARKER GRAND TEATRET’S BIG AUDITORIUM will once again be the setting for one of PIX’s special features: the cinema concerts. You can look forward to this intimate event with the American singer-songwriters Ned Oldham and Kim Taylor. The two musicians are also self-taught actors, and in Matt Porterfield’s new Baltimore-based film ‘I Used to be Darker’, which premiered at Sundance, they play a middle-aged musician couple, which is in the process of breaking up – and where the wife draws the long straw and runs off with the amplifier! Beyond the fiction, the film was the starting point for a musical collaboration between the two musicians. Kim Taylor has released solo works under her own name and is still an unknown entity in this part of the world. Ned Oldham has several years under his belt as a touring musician, travelling with bands such as Palace Brothers/ Palace Music (with his younger brother Will Oldham aka Bonnie Prince Billy), Anomoanon and Old Calf. The vocals and lyrics are crisp and potent, and this evening of film and live music is guaranteed to ooze bittersweet indie atmosphere.

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PINK FLAMINGOS – A TRIBUTE TO BAD TASTE 25 YEARS AGO, THE world lost Miss Divine, also known as The Queen of Filth, and she can now be experienced in the setting she both demands and deserves: on a night that pays tribute to all things filthy and dirty. In 1972, John Waters made a name for himself as the director with the world’s worst taste with the film ‘Pink Flamingos’ – a boundary-transgressing work about Miss Divine and her quest to keep the title as “the filthiest person alive”. During this night at Warehouse9, a universe will be created that includes both Miss Divine, her mother with the slightly sick urge for eggs, and all the other film-historically unforgettable eccentrics from Baltimore. After the 16mm reel has run empty, there will be drag queen bingo and an afterparty with the Copenhagen-based performer Miss Fish, and DJ Gul will keep the night going with great tracks. The ticket gives you access to the whole lot, but there are only 100 of them, so hurry up to secure a place in Divine’s and John Waters’s irresistible, disgusting universe!

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April 19 19:00 WAREHOUSE 9

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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN MOUND – FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY F.U.B.A.R. IS MILITARY SLANG for ‘Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition’, and is possibly the best term to describe the mechanical Nazi zombie robots that are created in a lab in Richard Raaphorst’s splatter mockumentary ‘Frankenstein’s Army’. A platoon of Russian soldiers come across a mad Nazi doctor’s lab and discover his horrible experiments in an old bunker.

Forget Frankenstein’s sad freak – this army, which is made of mechanical Nazi zombies, is Mengele’s wet dream. The Dutch first-time feature director Richard Raaphorst knows his genres to the hilt and playfully drags the literary classic through the dirt of bloody entrails and a handheld shakycam. PIX has got hold of the splatter film’s ‘found footage’ – and we have also tracked down the bunker where the bloody experiments took place. If you dare come along and experience the film’s fear and horror up close, then meet us at HF Dano bus stop on Jyllingevej (both bus 142 and 161 stop there) at 21:30 hrs, sharp! The limited number of tickets are put on sale as from 1 April at 00:01 hrs, and we promise that this heavy-handed portion of blood pudding will satiate even the most monster-hungry film freaks.

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PRETTY WOMAN IN THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT THAT FILMS CHANGE CHARACTER depending on the context they are viewed in is no secret. This has been the core thought of our On Location series since 2009, and this year it is given a political edge, as we move the mother of all feel good films, ‘Pretty Woman’, out from the girl’s room and away from its status as ‘guilty pleasure’ and screen it in the environment around which its adventure is built – namely in the tough reality of street prostitution. Skelbækgade in Copenhagen’s Vesterbro district is not just infamous and notorious for being dominated by street prostitution. On 12 April it will also be the setting for this special screening of ‘Pretty Woman’. Here, reality will be put to the test. The contrast between the brutal reality of the street and the rosy dream of finding ones millionaire prince in a limousine and escaping the street could thus not be drawn more clearly. And this is a part of the problem. After the screening, we will therefore deliberately position ourselves in the grey area that has been created by the war of opinions, for an honest and nuanced look at Danish street prostitution. The focus will return to what it is all about: the girls on the street.

This is done in co-operation with the political magazine RÆSON as well as the affected parties, organisations and politicians. The debate is organised in dialogue with the prostitutes’ shelter “Reden”.

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April 16 21:00 SKELBÆKGADE

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RUN THIS TOWN COPENHAGEN OOZES FILMS. AND we have by no means emptied the city’s archive of good film locations.

We are therefore repeating last year’s success. So put on your trainers and follow the running guide and film enthusiast from Running Tours Copenhagen through the streets of the capital. This year’s route will still be 7.5 km, but the places we are visiting are entirely new. Anyone can run along, no matter if you are an experienced jogger or a cosy exerciser, as there will be a break every time we pass a location of film history. But note that only a limited number of tickets will be available!

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April 23 19:00 ENGHAVE PARKEN April 24 19:00 ENGHAVE PARKEN

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A WALL IS A SCREEN – NØRREBRO WE ARE REPEATING THE success from 2011, when the guerilla cinema A Wall Is A Screen invited us on a one-and-a-half hour city walk with moving images in central Copenhagen. This year, you can experience the mobile cinema in Nørrebro. Everyone is welcome to join as we pack the trailer with projectors, sound gear and short films selected from a vast archive, and wander through the streets we thought we knew so well – and discover new aspects of the city’s surfaces. For a wall is not just a wall, but an opportunity to create a symbiosis between film and facade with often surprising messages as a result.

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KILL YOUR DARLINGS IV FOR A FORTH CONSECUTIVE year, PIX is hosting the great film-exchange day. This day has become a strong festival tradition and will offer ample opportunities to inject fresh blood into your DVD collection. You can hand in your used DVDs, and for every film you will receive a ticket that entitles you to choose a new film from the submitted titles. This all takes place on Sunday, 21 April in Cinemateket from 12:00 to 15:00 hrs. Films can be submitted at PIX’s festival centre at Cinemateket from 11 to 21 April. As a new feature, you can also swap blu-rays. But note: burned DVDs and pirated copies will not be accepted! Maximum 10 films per person.

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April 21 12:00 CINEMATEKET

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PIX QUIZ BATTLE A FILM QUIZ FOR the far-sighted as well as the nostalgics. We have let loose our programme experts and given them free rein to put together the optimal film quiz – with lots of relevant gifts. The different rounds of the quiz offer both trivia, general mental gymnastics on all things cinema, and demand the ability to think quick, when required. And we promise that everyone can enjoy the fun. So whether you’re generally interested in films or the ultimate movie geek, there is a chance that you and your partner can go home with the title as this year’s ultimate PIXperts. The rules are simple: You compete in teams of at most 3 people, and if you don’t have your own team, you will be put together with others when you arrive. There will be bonus prizes along the way – and the winning team will, apart from the title and the prestige, win VIP accreditations for PIX 2014. The quiz takes place in PIX’s festival centre in Cinemateket’s Asta Bar. Admission is free, and teams can pre-register by writing to quiz@cphpix.dk – or sign up on the day itself.

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April 21 14:30 CINEMATEKET

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RICHARD SANDLING’S PERFECT MOVIE WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between film and comedy?

Not much, if you ask Richard Sandling, and therefore he and his stand-up crew present the perfect combination, flown in directly from London’s subculture. ‘Perfect Movie’ is a comedy show that was started by the English stand-up comedian, and for several years it has been performed once a month at various pubs, including one at Trafalgar Square. On the occasion of his Copenhagen visit, Sandling has taken two of his regular guests, Nathaniel Metcalfe and Brett Goldstein, along with him to show how film and comedy can easily go hand in hand – in a hilarious set-up at Bispebjerg Comedy Corner. In ‘Perfect Movie’, nothing is sacred, and the concept is to take scenes from movie classics, churn them through Sandling’s warped brain and send them back in an alternative version, like when both ‘Terminator’ and ‘Back to the Future’ are given his affectionate treatment. And let’s be honest: haven’t you always wanted to see an alternative ending of ‘Dead Poets’ Society’?

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WES ANDERSON BINGO BINGO IS ON ITS way back. Albeit in a slightly different form. Imported directly from The Bronx, NYC, PIX presents the fabulous, colourful ‘Wes Anderson Bingo’.

Through his films, Anderson has created a vivid and yet very distinctive universe, which has long since given rise to numerous parodies. The list of elements that recur from one film to another is enormous, and it is these elements – the very symbols of Wes Anderson’s twisted and adventurous universes – that you have to keep an eye out for in ‘Wes Anderson Bingo’! Which of Wes’s classic films that are shown will remain a surprise, but the game is simple – it is bingo according to entirely classical rules. Each participant receives a card with Anderson’s signature elements: if you are a hardcore fan, you can probably name all the elements that are included in the game. If not, don’t worry. PIX has already made the cards, so everyone can join in, and of course we have also made sure that there are great prizes for one-two-three-four rows and a full card. The fun is led

by Filmselskabet’s ever-enthusiastic Maria Månson.

There will be extra bingo cards for everyone who comes dressed up as a character in Anderson’s universe.

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April 14 19:00 GRAND

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TUE BIERING

B/W B/W – A WORLD of slapstick, dreams and silent film is a love letter to the characters of classic silent films: heroes, villains, divas and the acrobats who risked life and limb to make their audiences laugh in the most daring slapstick sketches the world had ever seen.

Against a nostalgic backdrop of old cinema lamps, projectors and instruments, the Flying Pigs will imitate the perilous art of the masters of silent film. Using a formal language that everyone could understand, the films of those days triumphed all over the globe. Most actors were willing to give their right arm to be famous on the big screen – and some gave more than just an arm! For the eight artistes of the Flying Pigs, theatre is more than just words. They make use of movement, space, music, video and technology to tell a good story and to give their audiences a poetic experience. With ‘B/W’, the troupe strives to recreate the atmosphere that was present among the crowds in the days when the very first silent films were projected onto the canvas.

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S/H – EN VERDEN AF SLAPSTICK, DRØMME OG STUMFILM No dialogue Director:

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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN is the ultimate musical, which makes you smile and take a leap into the air – in love and convinced that everything is possible. For only joy is good enough on Broadway, where life is beautiful, simple and carefree, and where you can always overcome your problems with a song, a pun and a dance. With their usual contempt for death and employing few means, Eventministeriet and director Tue Biering will try to recreate the world’s most beautiful musical film in a very short space of time – on stage! This requires insane amounts of talent, precision and, not least, good shape to get through all of the film’s song, dance and slapstick numbers. Three actors (Troels Thorsen, Laus Høybye and Marie Dalsgaard), who have absolutely no experience of show biz, will recreate the film’s most difficult and acrobatic numbers. In their attempt to remake the film as authentically as possible, they dive into the anecdotes of Gene Kelly’s classic from 1952 and find an entertaining, frightening drama about how “the show must go on” – no matter what the cost may be!

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April 21 20:00 SKUESPILHUSET April 22 20:00 SKUESPILHUSET April 23 20:00 SKUESPILHUSET

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Denmark 2013, 70 min.

Danish Director: Tue Biering Script: Betty Comden og Adolph Green Music: Songs by Nacio Herb Brown og Arthur Freed Production: Eventministeriet Producer: Rikke Hedeager Matthiesen Cast: Laus Høybye,Troels Thorsen, Marie Dalsgaard

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FILM MUSIC IN THE MAKING FILM MUSIC IN THE Making is a collaboration between film directors and musicians and composers, who all have something at stake as they reveal their creative process – in the middle of the process. A film crew has followed a film-musical experiment, where three Jazz, World and Folk bands are put together with three filmmakers with the aim of composing film music live in the studio. The film provides an insight into their first meeting, the dialogue during the course of a day in the studio, as well as the final product. PIX has singled out three directors who represent different voices and genres within Danish film. The three bands all have a special focus on improvisation in their approach to composition, and the film depicts how the musicians’ improvisational approach can be used to express the moods, themes and feelings that the directors are aiming for. The players are the directors Christina Christensen and the musicians’ collective Bagdad Beat; Johan Knattrup Jensen and the vocal ensemble IKI, which consists of seven women; as well as Martin Barnewitz and the folk band Fjärin. The project is organised

by KODA, World Music Denmark, JazzDanmark and ROSA’s Secretariat for Folk Music, and it is presented in collaboration with DR K, and today we are inviting all the interested spectators to a film viewing (28 min), project presentation and an exchange of experiences with all the participants. Admission is free.

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FILM AND MUSIC IN THE MIX ARE THE STUDENTS OF the Danish film and music training programmes equipped to deal with the industries on the other side of the final exams? The National Gallery of Denmark, Statens Museum for Kunst, provides the setting for a three-stage rocket of an event dedicated to the conditions of film music at the crossroads between the worlds of music and filmmaking. In the first part, we take a look at the film music composer’s studio, with the composers and sound designers for films and computer games, Martin Stig Andersen and Simon Ravn. Afterwards, we will present some notable film case studies, including the Robert winners Tobias Lindholm and Morten Green, who will let us in on their creative dialogue and the challenge of working on ‘R’ and ‘A Hijacking’. The day is rounded off with an ambitious debate with a panel consisting of teachers and students from Denmark’s creative music and film training programmes. Lene Johansen will moderate, and the day is presented by PIX, Rytmisk Center, BFM and SMK.

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April 18 10:00 STATENS MUSEUM FOR KUNST

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FILM, MUSIC AND COPYRIGHT MUSIKPARLAMENTET, RYTMISK CENTER AND PIX welcome you to an after-work get-together, where we focus on the path from composer to screen. Over the past years, this area has witnessed major developments, and all creative parties benefit from original music and sync productions being used in films. We ask the questions of how you, as a composer, can get your music to be used in a film, and how you as a film producer can find the right music? The debate provides an insight into business models, copyright issues and the different ways a piece of music moves from a composer to the screen – via publishers, production companies and music supervisors – and not least what the financial side of it looks like. The panel includes Frans Bak (musician, film composer), Anne Sophie Schrøder (KODA), Ole Dreyer (chairman of DMFF) and Mikkel Maltha (Zentropa Music), chaired by the moderator Andreas Marchmann.

Everyone is welcome at the festival centre, Asta Bar in Cinemateket, and after the debate, Steen Rock will spin some film-musical records on the turntables.

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April 16 16:30 CINEMATEKET

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ANA – OFFICIAL REMIX OF AMER WE ARE PROUD TO present the Canadian DJ and VJ icon, Ouananiche, who has been invited to Copenhagen to present his remix of the winner film of PIX’10, the stylish horror movie ‘Amer’. The film will be the subject of a live remix in front of the audience when Ouananiche transforms ‘Amer’ into a visual and auditory bombardment of the senses, completely in the spirit of the film. Ouananiche himself began his career as a musician, DJ and radio reporter (for companies such as the French cultural channel ARTE) and over the past few years he has expanded his audio-visual performances to include moving images, which are remixed live in the spirit of the very best turntable artists – think The Chemical Brothers with celluloid under the pickups.

The evening progresses as a tribute to the images and sounds of horror, as Ouananiche performs his live remix, which gets the best out of both the film’s horror, the superior treatment of scratch art and the cinema’s space and sound. Subsequently, the award-winning directors behind the original film, Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet, will present a rare collection of their short, experimental horror films. For those who feel like it, the night continues outside the cinema, where Ouananiche will entertain at the late-night bar with ‘Melody of Terror’ – a funny music and video performance based on the horror movies of the 60s and 70s (read more about ‘Melody of Terror’ on page 82).

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April 13 21:00 CINEMATEKET

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PETER WEBBER

EMPEROR A RARE CHAPTER IN post-war history is the legal battle that took place in Japan just after Emperor Hirohito surrendered to the U.S. commander, General Douglas MacArthur. Even if World War II was finally over, and Japan was now occupied by the United States, the big question was whether the emperor could or should be treated as a war criminal and therefore face execution.

In this gripping historical drama by British director Peter Webber (‘The Girl with the Pearl Earring’) it is General MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) and his aidede-camp, General Bonner Fellers, who have to find the truth or come up with a solution to this very complex problem in the bombed-out country. Fellers (played by Matthew Fox from ‘Lost’) has tremendous knowledge of Japan, its people and their history, but he also has a very personal reason to find a solution that doesn’t push the country further over the edge into total collapse.

For he hopes to find the woman he was in love with before the war broke out.

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EMPEROR Japan, USA 2012, 98 min.

English, Japanese with English subtitles Director: Peter Webber Script: David Klass, Vera Blasi Camera: Stuart Dryburgh Editing: Chris Plummer Sound: Tim Prebble Production: Fellers Film, LLC Producer: Yoko Narahashi, Gary Foster, Eugene Nomura Cast: Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune Distr.: Sierra Affinity

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DAN ALGRANT

GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY THE YOUNG JEFF GETS a call from New York about a tribute concert for his father. The last name is Buckley, and Dan Algrant’s well-made and well-acted biopic about the beloved and missed musicians slowly unfolds, just as Tim Buckley’s musical universe reveals itself to his son. The year is 1991 – three year’s before Jeff’s own unique debut ‘Grace’ first saw the light of day – and all of Tim’s old gang is gathered to honour the memory of the deceased legend. They hug his son and tell him about life ‘on the road’ with Tim. The songs suddenly talk to Jeff in a new way, and his own musical talent unravels before the eyes of a dedicated audience. ‘Greetings from Tim Buckley’ portrays the life and tenderness of the songs, while at the same time capturing the thoughts that go through Jeff’s mind: his inner rebellion against his father, the world of musicians and his slow turnaround before his career takes off – and the rest, as they say, is history.

The soundtrack is packed with original Buckley songs in an understated cinematic hymn to two of the greatest songwriters of our times. – The evening opens at 8 pm in Asta Bar with happy hour and vinyl on the turntable.

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GREETINGS FROM TIM BUCKLEY USA 2012, 99 min.

English Version Director: Dan Algrant Script: Daniel Algrant, Emma Sheanshang, David Brendel Camera: Andrij Parekh Editing: Bill Pankow Production: From A to Z Productions, Smuggler Films Producer: John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Amy Nauiokas, Fred Zollo Cast: Penn Badgley, Imogen Poots, Kate Nash, Bill Sadler Distr.: Celluloid Dreams

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BILL JONES, JEFF SIMPSON, BEN TIMLETT

A LIAR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY COMEDIAN, ACTOR, DOCTOR, MOUNTAINEER, rugby fan, pipe smoker, alcoholic, homosexual and Englishman to the bone. Graham Chapman was it all. And for connoisseurs of the Monty Python legends, it was no surprise that he, more than any of the others, felt he had to write a completely absurd, hilarious and mostly madeup autobiography in 1980. This has now been turned into an equally wacky animation, and with the help of John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam, it has become an sparkling tribute to a creative genius of humour. And on top of it all, it is narrated by Chapman himself. Bacause the soundtrack is his own reading of the book, and on the basis of this (and other madness by the other Pythons), 15 terrific animation studios have been allowed to present their visual interpretation under the supervision of, among others, Bill Jones (son of Terry). The plot follows Chapman’s all too short life before, during and after Python, with appropriate doses of sex, spacemen, drunkenness and madness. It might all be a lie, but it sure is an insanely funny one.

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A LIAR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY (3D) UK 2012, 82 min.

English Version Director: Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett Script: Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson Editing: Bill Jones Music: John Greswell, Christopher Taylor Sound: Andre Jacquemin Production: Bill & Ben Productions Producer: Bill Jones, Ben Timlett Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Michael Palin Distr.: SC Films International

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JOSS WHEDON

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING IT IS HARD TO exaggerate the importance writer, director and producer Joss Whedon, who has made films such as ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’, has had on the development of TV series over the past 15 years – and thereby the importance he has had for youth culture in the same period. It is only recently that he became a big name on the big screen with the critical and commercial hit ‘The Avengers’, but this does not prevent him from throwing all his ingenuity and his solid grasp of witty dialogue onto a radically different project while he is waiting to make the next blockbuster. Using a minimal budget, his own home as the setting and one of Shakespeare’s most beloved and funny plays as the basis for the script, he delivers the most stylish modernisation of the bard since Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’. It doesn’t take more than a few moments to get used to seeing the classical text be recited by actors who some people will recognise from various TV series – the extremely enthusiastic team of actors is so amazing that you forget the open kitchen and the mobile phones, which are not normally part of the romantic intrigues between Beatrice (Amy Acker) and Benedick (Alexis Denisof).

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING USA 2012, 107 min.

English Version Director: Joss Whedon Script: Joss Whedon Camera: Jay Hunter Editing: Daniel Kaminsky, Joss Whedon Music: Joss Whedon Sound: Victor Ennis Production: Bellwether Pictures Producer: Daniel Kaminsky, Joss Whedon Cast: Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion, Fran Kranz Distr.: Kaleidoscope Film Distribution Ltd

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GWANG HUN KIM, NICHOLAS BONNER, ANJA DAELEMANS

OPEN AIR – COMRADE KIM GOES FLYING THERE IS NOT MUCH that we in western Denmark have in common with North Korea, but the open blue skies (more or less free of missiles) are common to us all, and at Den Røde Plads (The Red Square) the conditions are perfect to experience an Open Air film screening in true Pyongyang style. ‘Comrade Kim Goes Flying’ is a classic underdog story about the female miner Kim, whose only desire is to be able to fly like the doves. In spite of her hard day job, she moves through life with a spring in her step, happily convinced that in spite of all adversity there are no people with bad intentions.

When she is forced to leave her village and seek job in the city, she accidentally ends up taking part in an audition for a trapeze troupe, and her talent is spotted in no time! There is plenty of workers versus acrobats, and the comedy is loaded with thick symbolism, which plays with the rosy storytelling of the dictatorship. Kim suddenly becomes the positive sunshine story at home, while she deservedly moves towards the stars. Keep in mind that the film is the first western production made with the consent of the regime – and what better place to experience North Korea nostalgia than on Røde Plads (‘Red Square’) in Nørrebro? The evening is presented in collaboration with DR K during the 48 hours of Nørrebro Festival. Admission is free, the film runs for 85 min and everyone is welcome to join.

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COMRADE KIM GOES FLYING Belgium, North Korea, UK 2012, 150 min.

Korean with English subtitles Director: Gwang Hun Kim, Nicholas Bonner, Anja Daelemans Script: Myong Sik Sin, Chol Kim Camera: Jin Sok Hwang, Tom Mulder, Stefan Rycken Editing: Alain Dessauvage, Yun Sim Kim, Bing Gao, Jia Ren Music: Chol Ham, Frederik Van de Moortel Production: Another Dimension of an Idea, KFEIC, Koryo Group Producer: Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bonner, Mi Hwa Ryom Cast: Jong Sim Han, Chung Guk Pak, Yong Ho Ri, Son Nam Kim Distr.: Another Dimension of an IDea

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PEACHES

PEACHES DOES HERSELF ENFANT TERRIBLE PEACHES MEETS the audience at PIX. The Canadian musician and performer has gone to the theatre and now also to film, and in this meltingpot ‘Peaches Does Herself’ has been made – a true rock musical in the best ‘Tommy’ style. Shot on stage in Berlin, her autobiographical musical explores the images, perceptions and misconceptions that her artistic work has been exposed to over the years, and the musical is packed with her repertoire from the past 10 years as Peaches. She invites her audience inside her pink, caricatured world without inhibitions – and not least to witness the creation of Peaches as a character. Her story starts in the bedroom, where she teaches herself to make music and develops into a full-on glam-rock star! Tina Turner as Acid Queen pales in comparison to Peaches, and not least her hardcore sidekick Naked Cowgirl, a completely breathtaking old stripper, who does the helicopter while she sings a tribute to her husband Dick! You can look forward to enjoying sing-along and pure decadence, accompanied by the backing band Sweet Machine and introducing The Fatherfucker Dancers. We are showing the film with a presentation by Peaches herself, who will subsequently (wo)man the turntables.

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April 23 19:00 GRAND

PEACHES DOES HERSELF Germany 2012, 80 min.

English Version Director: Peaches Script: Peaches Camera: Robin Thomson Editing: Robin Thomson Music: Peaches Sound: Cornelius Rapp Production: I U She Productions Producer: Peaches, Hau Theater Cast: Danni Daniels, Sandy Kane, Peaches Distr.: I U SHE MUSIC GmbH

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PARK CHAN-WOOK

STOKER THE CLICHÉ THAT YOU by definition sell out as a foreign director if you make films in Hollywood, is emphatically rubbished in ‘Stoker’. The acclaimed South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s (‘Oldboy’, ‘Sympathy for Mr Vengeance’) first English-language film is a solid example and role-model for how one can transgress the language barrier and still make a film that in no way sells out. When the young daughter from a wealthy family, India, loses her father, her world changes from one day to the next. Until her father’s aristocratic-looking brother Richard, India’s unknown uncle, suddenly appears and brings with him a host of exciting stories. Suddenly, the world looks very different. For the charming Richard has more than just good stories inside him, and when India discovers his murderous inclinations, the stage is set for a somewhat alternative coming of age story.

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April 17 19:00 DAGMAR

STOKER USA, UK, Canada 2013, 98 min.

English Version Director: Park Chan-wook Script: Erin Cressida Wilson, Wentworth Miller Camera: Chung-hoon Chung Editing: Nicolas De Toth Music: Clint Mansell Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Scott Free Productions, Indian Paintbrush Producer: Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver Distr.: Fox Film Still: Macall B. Polay

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KIM NGUYEN

WAR WITCH BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN Wild might have been a sensation this winter, but that film was not the only Oscar nominee for 2013 that combined surreal poetry with real-life tragedy – or which did so with a dazzling child actor at its centre. The film of the month in April, selected and presented in collaboration with Cinemateket, earned the debutant Rachel Mwanza an award as best actress at the Berlin Film Festival last year. She delivers a powerful performance as the 14-year-old African child soldier Komona, who is forced to shoot her own parents, to save them from being slaughtered by machetes. She is enrolled in a central African guerilla army and is given a Kalashnikov with the words: “Here are your new parents.” ‘War Witch’ is a tragic coming-of-age story, but also a film about great courage and indomitable hope. And it is filled with magical, picturesque images and tremendous Angolan soul music and Congolese guitar pop.

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REBELLE Canada 2012, 90 min.

French, Lingala with English subtitles Director: Kim Nguyen Script: Kim Nguyen Camera: Nicolas Bolduc Editing: Richard Comeau Sound: Martin Pinsonnault Production: Item 7, Shen Studio Producer: Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin, Kim Nguyen Cast: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Mizinga Mwinga Distr.: Films Distribution

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PIX OPENING CPH PIX OPENS ITS fifth in style and with plenty of life and energy, as we invite you to the Danish premiere of Michael Noer’s ‘Northwest’ – his firecracker of a solo debut as a feature film director. But before we roll the projector, and thereby kick off this year’s festival, the Nordic Film Prize will be awarded for the 18th time.

Michael Noer, who himself won the award in 2010 together with Tobias Lindholm, will present the award and the accompanying cheque worth 107,000 kroner (the age of Nordic Film x 1000 kroner). This is the fourth time the award is given to a Danish talent at the opening of PIX. Kronenbourg 1664 will supply tonight’s beer and the afterparty will take place in Bremen. Michael Noer’s ‘Nordvest’ is participating in this year’s main competition at PIX. Read more about the film under New Talent Grand PIX.

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April 10 21:30

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GOLDEN AGE OF MONSTER MOVIES OVER A REMARKABLE 10-YEAR period, which started in 1931, Universal Pictures was the driving force in the golden age of horror films. This small Hollywood studio created the definitive portraits of Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, ‘The Wolf Man’, ‘The Mummy’ and other memorable monsters. A number of horror films were produced in the silent film era, and Dracula and Frankenstein also appear on the big screen in more modern versions, but Universal’s monsters from the 1930s remain the most famous and beloved of them all. Professor Steven Prince from Virginia Tech talks about Universal’s horror production and about how the characteristic monsters were made. He also explains how Universal’s horror films differed from other horror productions of the day, and from horror films made today. His lectures are organised in collaboration with Cinemateket and will take place in English, and will include a series of still photos and extracts. The lecture will be followed by a screening of Tod Browning’s classic ‘Dracula’ (1931).

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April 16 19:00 CINEMATEKET

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KENNETH BRANAGH

KENNETH BRANAGH’S HAMLET AT KRONBORG THE SETTING IS LITERALLY asking for it. Kronborg Castle’s large square courtyard behind the historic walls and under the open sky. HamletScenen is repeating last year’s success and is showing open-air films in collaboration with PIX and Cinemateket. This year, the choice fell on Kenneth Branagh’s massive 4-hour interpretation of ‘Hamlet’ from 1996 – with Branagh himself in the lead role, accompanied by stars such as Judi Dench, Julie Christie, Kate Winslet and Billy Crystal.

Branagh’s dogma was to include Shakespeare’s entire text in his screenplay, and tonight we will, of course, be showing the full original version, which runs for 4 hours, plus a break of 20 minutes. And that’s not all. We have been digging in the archives and have found an impressive and rarely shown 70mm print! It promises to be a great and unforgettable night under the open sky.

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KENNETH BRANAGHS HAMLET PÅ KRONBORG UK, USA 1996, 260 min.

English Version Director: Kenneth Branagh Script: Kenneth Branagh Camera: Alex Thomson Editing: Neil Farrell Music: Patrick Doyle Production: Castle Rock Entertainment Producer: David Barron Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Riz Abbasi, Richard Attenborough

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KEN LOACH

THE ANGELS’ SHARE KEN LOACH HAS MADE a kind of ‘Sideways’ with Scottish highlands whisky. The film’s main characters are a small group of socially challenged good-for-nothings, who come together for community service. The plan is to have them pay back their dues to society and to cast the foundations for a more responsible life in the future. This is especially true for the troublemaker Robbie (Paul Brannigan), who is expecting a baby with his girlfriend Leonie (Siobhan Reilly), but who keeps being beaten up by his in-law family. A lot really needs to be done, but under the protective wings of the social worker Harry (John Henshaw), Robbie’s hidden talent for whisky tasting is awakened, and Robbie sees a way out of their social deroute.

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April 21 14:20 GRAND

THE ANGELS’ SHARE UK, France, Belgium, Italy 2012, 106 min.

English with Danish subtitles Director: Ken Loach Script: Paul Laverty Camera: Robbie Ryan Editing: Jonathan Morris Music: George Fenton Sound: Ray Beckett Production: Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch Producer: Rebecca O’Brien Cast: Paul Brannigan, Siobhan Reilly, John Henshaw, Gary Maitland Distr.: Wild Bunch

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ROGER MICHELL

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON IT WAS HARDLY THE first time, and we know it was not the last, that an American president used his position to attract women, but the story of Franklin D. Roosevelt is still unique. As the only US president ever, he held the office for three consecutive periods, guiding the country through both the Depression and World War II, and his legendary first lady Eleanor managed at least as much from the sidelines. Also, it turns out, the many affairs he had, in spite of being wheelchair-bound.

The veteran Roger Michell (‘The Mother’) has made a charming, intelligent and, at least to some extent, true story from this material. Here, Bill Murray and Laura Linney are in top form as the president and his younger, distant cousin, who have an affair one crucial summer in 1939, when the King and Queen of England come to visit, and the outcome of World War II is determined.

The film shares quite a few qualities with ‘The King’s Speech’, not just because it deals with the same king, but because it also features some terrific actors who carry the film.

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April 13 16:30 DAGMAR

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON UK 2012, 95 min.

English with Danish subtitles Director: Roger Michell Script: Richard Nelson Camera: Lol Crawley Editing: Nicolas Gaster Sound: Danny Hambrook Production: Film4, Free Range Film, Daybreak Pictures Producer: Kevin Loader, Roger Michell, David Aukin Cast: Bill Murray, Laura Linney Distr.: Universal Pictures International

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NABOLANDSKANALERNE - KVALITET, VIDEN OG INDSIGT

JOACHIM RØNNING, ESPEN SANDBERG

KON-TIKI KON-TIKI IS THE DRAMATIC story of a man who is obsessed with challenging himself and showing to the world that his theories are correct. And to reach this goal, he is willing to sacrifice everything: his marriage as well as his own life and the lives of his men. Thor Heyerdahl was both a scientist and a daredevil, and this incredible but true story about his 1947 voyage across the Pacific Ocean on the Kon-Tiki raft has been turned into a fascinating and captivating film about the great adventure that most people dream of embarking on, but which only very few actually set about trying. The Norwegian directing duo, which has previously made the successful ‘Max Manus’, have turned the 8,000 km long sea voyage into a grand and colourful story about how the world would be a much smaller and uninteresting place, if it wasn’t for the scientists, adventurers and daredevils like Thor Heyerdahl, who gamble everything and hit the jackpot. ‘Kon-Tiki’ has beaten all box office records in Norway and was nominated for an Oscar together with the Danish feature ‘A Royal Affair’.

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March 19 19:00 DAGMAR

KON-TIKI Norway, Denmark, UK 2012, 119 min.

Norwegian with Danish subtitles Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg Script: Petter Skavlan Camera: Geir Hartly Andreassen Editing: Perry Eriksen, Martin Stoltz Music: Johan Soderqvist Sound: Baard H Ingebretsen, Tormod Ringnes Production: Recorded Picture Company, Nordisk Film Producer: Aage Aaberge, Jeremy Thomas Cast: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgard, Odd Magnus Williamson Distr.: Hanway Films

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CATE SHORTLAND

LORE IN THE SPRING OF 1945, the protected and idyllic world of 14-year-old Lore and her four younger siblings is shattered forever. Her father, a high-ranking SS officer, suddenly has to burn all his papers, and the family is forced to escape head over heels from the previously so privileged life. First the father is arrested, and then the mother, and suddenly Lore is alone with the children, the smallest of them just a baby. The grandmother’s house is 900 km away, and in the war-torn country, nobody wants to help anyone but themselves. The children are confronted with the terrible consequences of their parents’ beliefs – and are forced to put their lives in the hands of one of the people they have been taught to hate. Even though many films have been made about the consequences of Nazism, the Australian director Cate Shortland (‘Somersault’) has managed to turn Rachel Seiffert’s novel into a harsh and moving study of guilt, blind obedience and forgiveness – a powerful film in the spirit of ‘Come and See’, with the dazzling débutante Saskia Rosendahl in the lead role.

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March 26 19:00 GLORIA

LORE Australia, UK, Germany 2012, 108 min.

German with Danish subtitles Director: Cate Shortland Script: Robin Mukherjee, Cate Shortland Camera: Adam Arkapaw Editing: Veronika Jenet Music: Max Richter Sound: Sam Petty Production: Porchlight Films, Rohfilm, Edge City Films Producer: Karsten Stöter, Liz Watts, Paul Welsh, Benny Dreschel Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi Distr.: Memento Films

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MATTEO GARRONE

REALITY THE EXPECTATIONS FOR MATTEO GARRONE, who in 2008 made the superb Mafia drama ‘Gomorra’, have been massive, and even if he is moving into a different genre (and that is putting it mildly), the surehanded sharp talent hits the mark again. In ‘Reality’, which competed at last year’s festival in Cannes, the subject is the celebrity fix of reality culture. The stage is once again Naples, where Garrone at the beginning of the film takes us to a grandiose, kitschy wedding, which is bathed in technicolor and bad taste. The highlight of the wedding is a guest appearance from Big Brother star Enzo, who is milking his 15 minutes of fame. The local fisherman Luciano (played with a perfect poker face by the debutant Aniello Arena), dreams of being able to take part in the bliss of the reality cult and becomes obsessed with the thought of being a participant in the next edition of Big Brother. Encouraged by his family, he sets off on an audition, and is convinced that he will be chosen to take part. But during the wait for the jury’s decision, Luciano’s sense of reality is distorted beyond recognition. ‘Reality’ is razor-sharp contemporary satire by one of Italy’s most interesting directors.

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April 19 19:00 AARHUS ØST FOR PARADIS April 19 21:30 CINEMATEKET

REALITY Italy, France 2012, 115 min.

Italian with English subtitles Director: Matteo Garrone Script: Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti, Massimo Gaudioso, Maurizio Braucci Camera: Marco Onorato Editing: Marco Spoletini Music: Alexandre Desplat Sound: Maricetta Lombardo Production: Archimede, Fandango, Rai Cinema, Le Pacte, Garance Capital Producer: Domenico Procacci, Matteo Garrone Cast: Aniello Arena, Nando Paone, Nunzia Schiano, Claudia Gerini Distr.: Fandango Portobello Sales

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MIRA NAIR

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST INDIAN FILMMAKER MIRA NAIR (‘Monsoon Wedding’ (2001) and ‘Amelia’ (2009)) is back in great form with the star-studded hostage drama ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’. The film begins in Lahore in Pakistan in 2011, where Changez (Riz Ahmed) is interviewed by the American journalist Bobby (Liev Schreiber) about his position as a presumably militant academic. Changez is suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of an American. His story takes us back ten years in time, when the young, successful Changez chases the American dream on Wall Street. His life seems perfect, with an honourable university degree from Princeton and a beautiful artist girlfriend Erica (Kate Hudson). But when the Al Qaeda planes crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the young Pakistani goes from having every thinkable opportunity to being a scapegoat. The terrorist attack creates a great chasm between Changez and the United States, which had previously welcomed him with open arms.

Mira Nair demonstrates plenty of cinematic force in her complicated narrative framework, and with ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ she has created a terrifying, real-life political thriller.

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April 21 14:00 AARHUS ØST FOR PARADIS April 24 19:00 GRAND

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST India, Pakistan, USA 2012, 128 min.

English, Urdu with English subtitles Director: Mira Nair Script: Mohsin Hamid, William Wheeler, Ami Boghani Camera: Declan Quinn Editing: Shimit Amin Music: Michael Andrews Sound: PM Sathessh, Dave Paterson Production: Mirabai Film, Cine Mosaic Producer: Lydia Dean Pilcher, Anadil Hossain, Ami Boghani Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber Distr.: K5 International GmbH

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STEVEN SODERBERGH

SIDE EFFECTS STEVEN SODERBERGH HAS PREVIOUSLY lambasted the hypocrisy of American drug policy in his Oscarwinning ‘Traffic’. Now, he is having a go at the legalised psychotropic drugs industry, which is not an iota less cynical or ruthless. Dr. Banks (Jude Law) is a highly successful psychiatrist, who gets the young, suicidal Emily (Rooney Mara) as a patient. She should be happy, because her husband has just been released from a prison sentence for insider trading, but Emily is far from it, and the brand-new antidepressants that Banks gives her have bad side effects. So bad, that Emily in a blackout brutally stabs her husband to death. It might look like an unfortunate case with nothing but victims, but for the responsible psychiatrist it can mean both his reputation and his license, and thus an intense chase ensues to identify the true villains and save his own skin.

Nothing is what you think it is in ‘Side Effects’, one of Soderbergh’s more commercial works, which develops from being a political drama to an adrenaline-pumping thriller, where even the audience is forced to swallow a few bitter pills along the way.

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April 12 19:00 DAGMAR

SIDE EFFECTS USA 2013, 106 min.

English with Danish subtitles Director: Steven Soderbergh Script: Scott Z. Burns Camera: Peter Andrews Editing: Mary Ann Bernard Music: Thomas Newman Production: Endgame Entertainment Producer: Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Gregory Jacobs, Scott Z. Burns Cast: Jude Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum Distr.: SF Film

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RUFUS NORRIS

BROKEN IT IS ENTIRELY NATURAL to compare the former theatre director Rufus Norris with the great veterans of social realism, Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, given the many awards he has won for his first feature. The 11-year-old girl Skunk lives with her father and an au pair.

The summer holidays have just begun, and everything is bright and shiny, until she becomes a witness of an assault on her street and is drawn deeply into a conflict that affects all her neighbours. Her carefree childhood is gone, replaced without warning by a harsh reality.

Seen through the eyes of the girl, it’s a chaotic time, but it also leaves space for budding romance and new friendships. But ultimately it’s a confrontation with the raw and unfair world of adults. Norris gets impressive performances out of the young, untested actors, but they are also supported by the strong presence of Tim Roth, as Skunk’s father, and Cilian Murphy as her teacher.

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April 22 21:30

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BROKEN UK 2012, 90 min.

English with Danish subtitles Director: Rufus Norris Script: Mark O Camera: Rob Hardy Editing: Victoria Boydell Music: Electric Wave Bureau Production: Cuba Pictures, BBC Films, Bill Kenwright Films Producer: Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston, Bill Kenwright Cast: Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Eloise Laurence, Zana Marjanovic Distr.: Wild Bunch Still: Nick Wall

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JAN TROELL

THE LAST SENTENCE SWEDISH VETERAN JAN TROELL has turned 81, but his age does not seem to be an obstacle to make powerful, moving films. ‘The Last Sentence’ is based on the true story of the journalist Torgny Segerstedt, a “fallen” theologian, who was destined to become one of Sweden’s most famous journalists. Together with a group of like-minded friends, he established a strongly left-wing newspaper in 1933, with its raison d’être being an unstoppable crusade against Hitler. Segerstedt’s most fervent desire was to stop Sweden from being neutral during the war, and even if both the Swedish King and the Prime Minister tried to convince him to tone down his heated rhetoric, he was never cowed. For he who is silent consents. But ‘The Last Sentence’ is not just a political film about World War II, it is also a personal portrait of one of Sweden’s great personalities and his private relationship with three women: his mother, his wife and his lover. The film’s undisputed centre is Jesper Christensen, whose furrowed face becomes more expressive, the more the years pass. He gives the role of Segerstedt the necessary credibility and edge. One can only hope that there are many more films in Troell.

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April 13 12:00 DAGMAR April 17 19:15 DAGMAR

DOM ÖVER DÖD MAN Sweden, Norway 2012, 126 min.

Swedish with Danish subtitles Director: Jan Troell Script: Klaus Rifbjerg, Jan Troell Camera: Mischa Gavrjusjov, Jan Troell Editing: Ulrika Rang, Jan Troell Music: Gaute Storaas Sound: Olle Tannergård Production: Filmlance International AB Producer: Francy Suntinger Cast: Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August, Ulla Skoog, Björn Granath Distr.: TrustNordisk Still: Nille Leander

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MARCO BELLOCCHIO

DORMANT BEAUTY THE ITALIAN MASTER DIRECTOR Marco Bellocchio once again castigates contemporary Italy in the mosaic narrative ‘Dormant Beauty’. The film centres around the notorious case of Eluana Englaro, who woke up in 2009 after spending 17 years in a coma after a car accident. In the meantime, her father had repeatedly been to court to obtain permission to turn off the life-support machine.

Based on the case of Eluana Englaro, Bellocchio reveals a multifaceted story on the endlessly controversial topic of euthanasia, told from three different perspectives.

On the one hand there is the senator, who is in two minds about the impending decision on Englaro’s fate.

His daughter is a fierce opponent of euthanasia and is willing to man the barricades for her beliefs. In the second story, a successful singer has sacrificed her career for her daughter, who is in a coma – something her alive-and-kicking son finds completely pointless; while the third story tells about a doctor who tries to prevent his methadone-addicted and suicidal patient from taking his own life. There are no easy solutions or unambiguous answers in Bellocchio’s controversial film about the complex question of when we should be allowed to become masters of life and death.

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April 14 16:40 GRAND April 20 19:00 DAGMAR

BELLA ADDORMENTATA Italy, France 2012, 115 min.

Italian, French with English subtitles Director: Marco Bellocchio Script: Marco Bellocchio, Veronica Raimo, Stefano Rulli Camera: Daniele Ciprì Editing: Francesca Calvelli Music: Carlo Crivelli Sound: Gaetano Carito Production: Cattleya, Babe Films Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Stabilini, Marco Chimenz Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Toni Servillo, Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino Distr.: Celluloid Dreams

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MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA

GEBO AND THE SHADOW ACTING LEGENDS AND DIVAS Jeanne Moreau and Claudia Cardinale excel in this chamber piece about fatal family secrets in the romantic and decadent Paris of the 1920s. Gebo is an ageing accountant whose wife Doroteia (Cardinale) is worried about their lost son, João, who has been missing for a while. Gebo and his daughter-in-law Sofia suspect that he is living a shabby life on the streets, but they choose to hush up the truth for fear of breaking his mother’s heart. The half-truths, however, start taking on a life of their own, when João suddenly turns up at the family home and is subjected to a temptation that rocks the entire house of cards, with all its white lies and hidden alliances. The no less than 104-year-old Portuguese master director Manoel de Oliveira has staged his film with a refined sense of picturesque composition and a theatrical sensitivity that is not just his very own trademark, but which also bears witness to a (very) long life in the service of art and human drama.

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April 18 21:30 DAGMAR April 23 16:30 DAGMAR

GEBO ET L’OMBRE Portugal, France 2011, 95 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Manoel de Oliveira Script: Manoel de Oliveira Camera: Renato Berta Editing: Valérie Loiseleux Sound: Henri Maikoff Production: Mact Productions, O som e a Furia Producer: Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Luis Urbano Cast: Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale, Ricardo Trepa, Leonor Silveira Distr.: Pyramide International

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HONG SANG-SOO

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY IN A QUIET YEAR, the South Korean Hong Sang-soo makes roughly one film on average, and the festival has been following him intensely throughout the years. In his latest effort, ‘In Another Country’, Hong could not restrain himself and indulges in three stories in one.

The story of a young girl, who lives with her mother in a grey-weather-plagued tourist resort, and writes a script about the visit of a French exotic woman, forms the framework for the rest of the film’s quirks. In her boredom, the girl fantasises about the woman, and there is no lack of saccharine clichés about life in the West.

Isabelle Huppert plays Anne in all three roles, vis-à-vis South Korea’s answer to George Clooney, Kwon Haehyo, and there is no limit to her beauty and wisdom – at least in the girl’s imagination. Anne, a successful French film director, and a local director have an affair behind the back of his pregnant wife. Anne has an affair with a semi-known and pompous Korean director, but he is highly paranoid about their relationship and about being caught in flagrante by the local community. And Anne has been abandoned by her husband and meets a monk, who tries to help her back on track after the break-up. The film is highly potent, sharply executed, and all the stories are borne by snappy dialogues and sparkling interplay. Each time we are lulled by Huppert’s charm, we awake abruptly when the girl’s and thus the storyteller’s fantasy comes to a halt, and it is more than just a bit amusing to witness her Reader’s Digest philosophy set the limits to how deep the conversation between Anne and the monk can be.

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April 17 19:00 GRAND April 20 17:00 GLORIA

DA-REUN NA-RA-E-SUH South Korea 2012, 89 min.

Korean, English with English subtitles Director: Hong Sang-soo Script: Hong Sang-soo Camera: Hongyeol Park, Yunejeong Jee Editing: Hahm SungWon Music: Yongjin Jeong Sound: Mir Kim Production: Jeonwonsa Film Co. Producer: Kyounghee Kim Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Yu Junsang, Jung Yumi, Kwon Hae-hyo Distr.: Finecut / Cineclick Asia

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ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE AKIKO IS A YOUNG woman who keeps a secret from her mechanic boyfriend Noriaki: she is financing her studies with a side job as an escort. When she is one day sent to a Tokyo suburb, where her client turns out to be a shy, elderly professor, and an unexpected trust arises between them. But what in a traditional film would have been the beginning of a beautiful friendship becomes a mysterious and slightly disturbing role play in the hands of Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami. What we hear and see does not necessarily give us the full or true image of things. ‘Like Someone in Love’ is an enigmatic film, whose beautiful and pure images leave many things unexplained. And to the music of Ella Fitzgerald’s title song, doubt gradually arises as to who is actually in love. And in whom? Kiarostami, who has a certain fundamental melancholy in common with several of his Japanese colleagues, and who has previously paid tribute to Ozu, is clearly spiritually at home in the Japanese metropolis.

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April 12 17:00 GLORIA April 21 19:00 GRAND

LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE Japan, France 2012, 109 min.

English Version Director: Abbas Kiarostami Script: Abbas Kiarostami Camera: Katsumi Yanagijima Editing: Bahman Kiarostami Sound: Reza Narimizadeh Production: Eurospace Producer: Marin Karmitz, Kenzo Horikoshi, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert Cast: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase, Denden Distr.: MKL pour MK2 Diffusion

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RAOUL RUIZ

NIGHT ACROSS THE STREET TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENS in Raoul Ruiz’s last film is like trying to explain a surrealist poem or a dream.

Don Celso is an elderly gentleman, who realises that his life is nearing its end. Episodes from his childhood make themselves known in his daily life, together with images and impressions from a long life at the service of film, art and fantasy. After making over one hundred films, ‘The Night Across the Street’ has become the Chilean master director’s cinematic testament – but a testament that in his usual unpretentious and generous way prefers celebrating life to mourning the finality of death. The essence of Ruiz’s opus is that everything is possible, and in this respect his latest film also keeps its promise, just like all his previous films. The wisdom of old age and the open mind of childhood are the two poles of the work, where one doesn’t exclude the other.

On the contrary. The last film does therefore not end Ruiz’s lifetime opus with a full stop, but rounds it off with a question mark.

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April 15 21:30 GLORIA April 20 19:00 VESTER VOV VOV

LA NOCHE DE ENFRENTE France, Chile 2012, 110 min.

Spanish with English subtitles Director: Raoul Ruiz Script: Raúl Ruiz Camera: Inti Briones Editing: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento, Christian Aspee Music: Jorge Arriagada Sound: Roberto Espinoza, Felipe Zabala Production: Margo Cinema / Suricato Producer: François Margolin, Christian Aspee Cast: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernandez, Valentina Vargad, Chamila Rodriguez Distr.: Pascale Ramonda

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TAKESHI KITANO

OUTRAGE BEYOND TAKESHI KITANO IS A remarkable director, who deftly switches between art cinema and more solid genre films, and ‘Outrage Beyond’ absolutely belongs to the latter. The Japanese gangster universe is in no way a sentimental romanticising of Japanese gangsters, but a study of vociferous macho attitudes, a chaos of double deceptions, intrigues and a perpetual quest for money, power and prestige. The powerful Sanno clan has assumed power in Tokyo, but is rapidly running into problems both internally and in relation to the rival Hanabishi family, corrupt policemen and, not least, the lone wolf Otomo (played by Kitano himself), who is released in haste from prison, so that he can be thrown out into the new power struggle that is brewing. There are quite a few characters and plot threads to keep track of along the way, but Kitano manages to make the complicated chess game a piece of solid and wellmade entertainment. As always, there is plenty of raw, stylised and violent elegance (and a baseball sequence that is hard to forget!). We are eagerly awaiting the third film, which will complete the ‘Outrage’ trilogy, so until then it is just a question of jumping on board.

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AUTOREIJI BIYONDO Japan 2012, 110 min.

Japanese with English subtitles Director: Takeshi Kitano Script: Takeshi Kitano Camera: Katsumi Yanagijima Editing: Takeshi Kitano, Yoshinori Ohta Music: Keiichi Suzuki Sound: Kenji Shibazaki Production: Bandai Visual, TV Tokyo Omnibus Japan, Warner Bros. Pictures Japan, Office Kitano Producer: Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida Cast: Beat Takeshi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tomokazu Miura, Ryo Kase Distr.: Celluloid Dreams

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TERRENCE MALICK

TO THE WONDER HAPPINESS IS FICKLE. THE Eastern European Marina and the American Neil (Ben Affleck) have found each other in a strong and stormy infatuation. They live buried in each other’s embrace in Paris, until they decide to move and try their luck as settlers in the United States.

Here, everyday life is harder, the plains around their newly built house is windswept, and slowly the dreams fade away and are forced to give way to reality. Marina’s gorgeous, dreamy persona suddenly takes on a naive, almost childish outlook to life, and the contrast to Neil’s down-to-earth approach and craftsman’s mentality puts an almost insurmountable strain on the relationship. At the same time, we meet the doubting priest, Quintana, played convincingly by Javier Bardem. Terence Malick is a great cinematic master. He tries to embrace life and memory in all its nuances. ‘To the Wonder’ unfolds as a both quiet and stormy love tragedy to the music of Wagner, Gorecki, Penderecki and Arvo Pärt.

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TO THE WONDER USA 2012, 112 min.

English with Danish subtitles Director: Terrence Malick Script: Terrence Malick Camera: Emmanuel Lubezki Editing: A.J. Edwards, Keith Fraase, Shane Hazen, Christopher Roldan, Mark Yoshikawa Music: Hanan Townshend Sound: Craig Berkey Production: Redbud Pictures, LLC Producer: Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green Cast: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem Distr.: Creative Artists Agency

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PETER STRICKLAND

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE mentality behind the Italian horror film boom of the 1970s was seriously twisted – but ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ takes this claim literally! The phenomenal Toby Jones plays Gilderoy, a prudent and highly British special sound effects engineer, who has been hired for a job at a shabby film studio, which mostly resembles an insane asylum (and quite possibly is one). Here, sex and violence are the main drivers, and it is Gilderoy’s job to get both elements to sound sufficiently juicy. But even if the film’s creepy bastard of a producer assures him that he is a divine ‘maestro’, Gilderoy’s world slowly begins to crumble. Peter Strickland, who won the New Talent Grand Pix award at CPH PIX in 2009, is back with an ambiguous and (at least for anyone with a taste for black British humour) incredibly funny film, where the laughter, however, takes the form of a lump in ones throat. And where you ultimately feel like all the sound is coming from within your own head. Low on budget, but highly original.

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BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO UK 2012, 92 min.

English, Italian with English subtitles Director: Peter Strickland Script: Peter Strickland Camera: Nicholas D. Knowland Editing: Chris Dickens Music: Broadcast’s James Cargill, Trish Keenan Sound: Joakim Sundström, Stevie Haywood Production: Illuminations Films, Warp X, Optic Circle Production, UK Film Council Producer: Keith Griffiths, Mary Burke Cast: Toby Jones, Guido Adorni, Susanna Cappellaro, Eugenia Caruso Distr.: The Match Factory

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JAIME ROSALES

THE DREAM AND THE SILENCE JAIME ROSALES IS A filmmaker who normally sets himself formal limits, to let in the unexpected. ‘The Dream and the Silence’, on the other hand, is a more open, enigmatic and in its own way shimmeringly light film than anything we have seen before by the Spanish director. Oriol and Yolanda are a Spanish couple living in Paris with their two young daughters. He is an architect, she is a teacher. They are hit by a double tragedy: an accident and his subsequent memory loss. We find out very little. Like in Antonioni and Ozu, the absence is not just the film’s dramatic core, but also its human core.

The reactions take the form of improvised spontaneity in scenes that are often kept in one take, and where each image follows the previous one with clarity and elegance. Oscar Duran’s downright masterful camera work culminates in a virtuoso floating and several minute long walk through a park, but never becomes a sport in itself: the human drama is at the heart of it all, so one even understands what cannot be described with words.

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SUEÑO Y SILENCIO Spain, France 2012, 110 min.

Spanish, French, Catalan, English with English subtitles Director: Jaime Rosales Script: Enric Rifas, Jaime Rosales Camera: Óscar Durán Editing: Nino Martínez Sosa Production: Fresdeval Films, Wanda Vision, Balthazar Producer: Jaime Rosales, Jose Maria Morales, Jerome Dopffer Cast: Yolanda Galocha, Oriol Rosello, Jaume Terradas, Laura Latorre Distr.: The Match Factory

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ALEXEY FEDORCHENKO, HARMONY KORINE, JAN KWIECINSKI

THE FOURTH DIMENSION THREE FILMS IN ONE, by three directors given the same set of bizarre dogmas defined by the founder of Vice magazine, the producer of the film. The aim: to explore the ‘fourth dimension’! The dogmas: to dissolve the boundary between reality and fiction, to shoot at least one scene blindfolded, to tell bad but good jokes along the way – and that is just the beginning!

Harmony Korine kicks off the game with a bang with Val Kilmer in a failed version of himself as a speedball self-help guru for the unemployed in the microcosmic ‘Lotus Community Workshop’, which seduces everyone with its surreal advice to fully live the American dream.

The journey through time and space continues to a Russian apartment block, where an eccentric scientist has invented a TV that can see into the past – and perhaps even the future! – before ending with four Polish hipsters who are alone in the world, moments before it goes under. A raving mad project, which nonchalantly quotes Einstein, Eisenstein and ‘Back to the Future’ in one breath.

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THE FOURTH DIMENSION Poland, Russia 2012, 106 min.

English Version Director: Alexey Fedorchenko, Harmony Korine, Jan Kwiecinski Script: Harmony Korine, Alexey Fedorchenko, Jan Kwiecinski, Oleg Loevsky, Yaroslava Pulinovich Camera: Kamil Plocki, Christopher Blauvelt, Shandor Berkeshi Editing: Leo Scott, Roman Vazhenin, Tymek Wiskirski Psm Music: Val Kilmer, Nick Zinner Production: Vice Films Cast: Val Kilmer, Igor Sergeev, Darya Ekamasova, Tomasz Tyndyk Distr.: Vice Films

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JEAN-CLAUDE BRISSEAU

THE GIRL FROM NOWHERE THE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL woman, who, as the title promises, turns up out of nowhere, does so in a bloody and battered state on the doorstep of a retired mathematics professor (played by the director JeanClaude Brisseau himself). He takes her in and tries to find out who she is. But the mystery has only just started, and is followed by unexplained supernatural phenomena. For who is she really, this young beauty?

And is she even a person made of flesh and blood?

Brisseau is both famous and infamous for his erotic sensibilities, which are articulated not just in picturesque compositions, but also in an unmistakably French, intellectual superstructure, where the female body in both cases acts as a muse. ‘The Girl from Nowhere’ is something of an auteur film, where the lifeblood is invested in the ideas and not in the technique. It is therefore all the more surprising that it is also a piece of low budget horror in a tradition that is so classic that it dates back to before cinema was even invented. And, of course, it won the main prize at the prestigious film festival in Locarno last year.

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LA FILLE DE NULLE PART France 2012, 91 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau Script: Jean-Claude Brisseau Camera: David Chambille Editing: Maria-Luisa Garcia, Julie Picouleau Music: David Chambille Production: La Sorcière Rouge Producer: Jean-Claude Brisseau Cast: Jean-Claude Brisseau, Virginie Legeay, Claude Morel, Sébastien Bailly Distr.: Wide Management

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NICOLÁS PEREDA

GREATEST HITS REALITY AND STAGING DANCE an awkward waltz in the story about a small family that is shaken out of its comfortable life when the vanished and drunken father Emilio returns after a journey of several decades and starts telling cock-and-bull stories. His now adolescent son Gabino has grown up without a father and has supported himself and his mother by selling CDs in the metro (hence the film’s title). None of them have much trust in, or patience with, the returning father, but when they finally find the courage to confront him, they find that he has disappeared again. But ‘Greatest Hits’ is far from being the great melodrama that it sounds like it could be. For Pereda places invisible question marks by even the most basic things, so that one slowly and in a both amused but also disturbed way starts doubting what is real – if anything. Mexican deadpan meets meta-cinematic playfulness in one of our times’ great young directing talents.

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LOS MEJORES TEMAS Mexico, Canada, Netherlands 2012, 103 min.

Spanish with English subtitles Director: Nicolás Pereda Script: Nicolás Pereda Camera: Alejandro Coronado, Pedro Gómez Editing: Nicolás Pereda Sound: José Miguel Enríquez Production: Interior13 Cine, IMCINE Producer: Sandra Gómez, Maximiliano Cruz Cast: Gabino Rodríguez, Teresa Sánchez, José ‘Rolo’ Rodríguez, Luis Rodríguez Distr.: Interior 13

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MATT PORTERFIELD

I USED TO BE DARKER CINEMATIC BLUES FOLK BY one of the American indie scene’s great young talents. The Irish girl Taryn turns up for an unannounced visit at her aunt and uncle’s home in Baltimore, without knowing that the by now middleaged musician couple (played by the musicians Kim Taylor and Ned Oldham) is in the middle of a divorce.

Taryn’s aunt Kim has held onto the dream of living the free life of a musician and has left Taryn’s uncle, Bill, who has compromised his ideals to earn a living for both of them. In other words, it’s all a downright mess – even for Taryn’s cousin Abby, who she passes her time with, while the crisis intensifies in the former home. But there is little sentimentality, tear-jerking and grand gestures in ‘I Used to Be Darker’, which instead approaches the real and human drama with calm and intimate takes. Matt Porterfield, whose ‘Putty Hill’ could be seen in competition at PIX’10, masters the silent understanding between his characters perfectly, and in his film a fleeting glance says more than any piece of dialogue ever could. A suppressed creative urge is the simmering power that has undermined the small family, but it comes to the fore more strongly in the scenes that are accompanied by a melancholy guitar and an attentive camera. On April 17th, the screening will be followed by a double concert in the cinema with Ned Oldham and Kim Taylor.

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I USED TO BE DARKER USA 2013, 90 min.

English Version Director: Matt Porterfield Script: Amy Belk, Matthew Porterfield Camera: Jeremy Saulnier Editing: Marc Vives Music: Kim Taylor, Ned Oldham, Jack Carneal, Dope Body, Bill Callahan, Dustin Wong, The Entrance Band, and Jana Hunter.

Production: Hamilton Film Group, Steady Orbits, Nomadic Independence Pictures Producer: Eric Bannat, Steve Holmgren, Ryan Zacarias Cast: Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Ned Oldham, Kim Taylor Distr.: UnionDocs, Steve Holmgren

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GIOVANNI COLUMBU

THE KING A FRESCO OF WEATHER-BEATEN faces and harsh rocky landscapes, shot in Sardinia with amateurs in all roles. The Passion has been told on film before, but rarely in such a dark and timeless version as here. Referring to all four gospels, ‘The King’ highlights the differences between them in an adaptation that is distantly related to both Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Rashomon’ and the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, and you definitely don’t have to be a believer to appreciate it. The Jesus of the film is not portrayed as a glorious saint, but as an ugly looking person, whose physical sufferings easily compare to his spiritual ones – in other words, a human being like everyone else. Giovanni Columbus’s approach is correspondingly down-to-earth in its uncompromising favouring of the dramatic faces and landscapes, which fill the canvas with an almost painterly intensity. A film that both acknowledges and renews an ascetic tradition, but which by describing the same events from four different perspectives also opens up to a (self-)criticism of the historical interpretation of the Jesus myth.

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April 13 14:30 DAGMAR April 21 21:30 DAGMAR

SU RE Italy 2012, 87 min.

Italian with English subtitles Director: Giovanni Columbu Script: Giovanni Columbu, Michele Columbu Camera: Massimo Foletti, Emilio Della Chiesa, Uliano Lucas, Francisco Della Chiesa Editing: Giovanni Columbu Production: Luches Film, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna Producer: Giovanni Columbu, Luches SRL Cast: Fiorenzo Mattu, Pietrina Menneas, Gavino Ledda, Giovanni Frau Distr.: Sacher Distribuzione

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JEM COHEN

MUSEUM HOURS THE PORTRAYAL OF A friendship, which is gently taking shape, is authentic and warm in ‘Museum Hours’, the American experimental and documentary director Jem Cohen’s new and wonderfully laid-back feature.

Anne, a middle-aged woman, who has travelled from Canada to Vienna to visit her seriously ill cousin, meets the same-aged museum custodian Johann, who works at the vast Kunsthistorisches Museum in the heart of the city. They quickly become so comfortable with each other that he ends up showing her around the city. All things major and trivial are discussed in their conversations and musings, which are captured by the unobtrusive proximity of Cohen’s camera. Cohen, who has previously worked with musicians such as Patti Smith, R.E.M. and Fugazi in a punk and unpolished snapshot style, knows like few others how to capture the nuances of the characters he portrays. A talent for working with the spontaneous and impulsive is here expanded to include a humour and a human sensitivity rarely seen in fiction films these days. Just how rarely only becomes clear afterwards.

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MUSEUM HOURS Austria, USA 2012, 107 min.

German, English with English subtitles Director: Jem Cohen Script: Jem Cohen Camera: Jem Cohen, Peter Roehsler Editing: Jem Cohen, Marc Vives Sound: Bruno Pisek Production: Little Magnet Films, Gravity Hill, KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production Producer: Paolo Calamita, Jem Cohen, Gabriele Kranzelbinder Cast: Mary Margaret O’Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits Distr.: Austrian Film Commision

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HARMONY KORINE

SPRING BREAKERS IN ‘SPRING BREAKERS’ WE meet four school girls, who will give everything to be able to join the annual spring break. The only problem is that they don’t have any money to pay for the ticket. So, to the tune of Britney Spears and with guns that are reloaded again and again, they set off to rob the local kiosks, and suddenly they have enough cash to celebrate the holiday with their friends. From then on it’s all about beer bongs, nudity and nihilism. But the intoxication ends abruptly when they suddenly end up in prison. But only until the local gangster Alien – played unforgettably by James Franco with dreads and gold teeth – gets them released. And then the party starts again. The one-of-a-kind director Harmony Korine’s latest film more than skims the surface of the rich, wealthy and pretty life that these potent teenagers come from and turns it inside out. In the spirit of ‘Gummo’ and ‘Trash Humpers’, this is a cinematic feast from beginning to end! After the screening on April 11th, we will host a ‘Spring Breakers’ after party at the festival bar Fortunen.

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SPRING BREAKERS USA 2012, 92 min.

English Version Director: Harmony Korine Script: Harmony Korine Camera: Benoît Debie Editing: Douglas Crise Music: Cliff Martinez, Skrillex Production: Muse Productions, Division Films Producer: Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Jordan Gertner, Chris Hanley, David Zander Cast: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson Distr.: Creative Artists Agency

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DENIS CÔTÉ

VIC + FLO SAW A BEAR AN ORIGINAL, UNPREDICTABLE AND hilarious film full of true originals – and with an air of lurking brutality.

The tone is struck from the very first scene, where Vic, a woman around 60, who has just been released from a life sentence for an unknown crime, arrives at a sleepy village in the Canadian wilderness looking for a life of peace and quiet with her lesbian lover Flo. They move in with her uncle, who after a stroke has lost his ability to speak, but not his whims, which he shares with all the people who get close to the small trio and all turn up at the most inopportune moments: a teenager employed by the uncle to help him, a social worker, a former cellmate / lover, and other ghosts from the past, and they all have their own agenda. Denis Côté’s directing omits great parts of the real action in favour of the eccentric details and a unique logic, which drives the absurd plot towards its explosive finale.

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April 11 16:40 GRAND April 20 17:30 EMPIRE

VIC + FLO ONT VU UN OURS Canada 2013, 90 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Denis Côté Script: Denis Côté Camera: Ian Lagarde Editing: Nicolas Roy Sound: Frédéric Cloutier Production: La maison de prod, Metafilms Producer: Stéphanie Morisette, Sylvain Corbeil Cast: Pierrette Robitaille, Romane Bohringer, Marc-André Grondin Distr.: Films Boutique

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QUENTIN DUPIEUX

WRONG THINGS GETS OFF ON a completely wrong note when Dolph wakes up one morning to find that his beloved dog has disappeared. First he thinks that the dog has run away, but he soon discovers that its disappearance is part of a much larger conspiracy of kidnapped pets, because their owners no longer appreciate them enough. Dolph now embarks on an absurd inner and outer journey, which among other things includes the charismatic animal guru, Master Chang (William Fichtner in his best role ever), a detective who can trace a shit’s last journey. Confused? Believe us, it gets even more strange when ‘Rubber’ director Quentin Dupieux lets loose his inner mad dog. It is not for nothing that Dupieux has been compared to Charlie Kaufmann and David Lynch, but his true kindred spirits are Hitoshi Matsumoto (the man behind the PIX films ‘Big Man Japan’, ‘Symbol’ and ‘Scabbard Samurai’) and Ben Wheatley (who is hailed in this year’s 3x3 series), directors who belong to a new generation of genre directors who have created their own unique cinematic language and absurd universes. Watch it, or we will kidnap your dog.

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April 17 16:40 GRAND April 22 21:30 GRAND

WRONG France, USA 2012, 94 min.

English Version Director: Quentin Dupieux Script: Quentin Dupieux Camera: Quentin Dupieux Editing: Quentin Dupieux Music: Tahiti Boy, Mr Oizo Sound: Valerie DeLoof Production: Realitism Films Producer: Gregory Bernard, Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Nicolas Lhermite Cast: Jack Plotnick, Éric Judor, Alexis Dziena, William Fichtner Distr.: Kinology

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YOUSRY NASRALLAH

AFTER THE BATTLE THE UNREST IN CONNECTION with the Arab Spring has given rise to a large number of films, which courageously try to grapple with the intricate problems. In the Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah’s ‘After the Battle’, an almost documentary realism is used to portray the events in the wake of the riots on Tahrir Square in early 2011. Mahmoud, the father of two sons, can barely make ends meet with his semi-miserable job of giving tourists a ride on his horse. Spurred by Mubarak’s henchmen, he becomes one of the so-called ‘Tahrir Knights’, who storm the square on camel- and horseback. As we all know, this didn’t end successfully for Mubarak and his regime, and Mahmoud is left with a feeling of inadequacy and humiliation. For the charming young Reem, on the other hand, the events take on a totally different significance.

She is divorced and works in an advertising agency in Cairo, but the revolution transforms her into a zealous militant activist. In the meeting between the two diametrical opposites, Nasrallah unfolds a captivating perspective, which demonstrates the far-reaching consequences of the revolution for both sides.

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BAAD EL MAWKEAA Egypt, France 2012, 122 min.

Arabic with English subtitles Director: Yousry Nasrallah Script: Yousry Nasrallah, Omar Shama Camera: Samir Bahzan Editing: Mona Rabei Music: Tamer Karawan Sound: Ibrahim Dessouky Production: France 3 Cinéma, Studio 37, New Century Productions, Siècle Productions Cast: Nahed El Sebaï, Bassem Samra, Menna Shalabi, Salah Abdallah Distr.: MKL pour MK2 Diffusion

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ZIAD DOUEIRI

THE ATTACK THE SUCCESSFUL PALESTINIAN SURGEON Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman), who lives and works in Israel, is forced to watch his world collapse when a suicide bomber one day detonates in a café in Tel Aviv, where his wife is a patron. She is not only killed in the attack, Amin also has to deal with the police’s unambiguous theory that she was the bomber. Plagued by guilt, shame and a complete lack of understanding, he does everything he can to clarify the situation, and he follows in the footsteps of his wife’s recent trip to the West Bank.

But where the journey starts out as an investigation, it slowly turns into a painful and revealing process of self-recognition, as Amin is forced to confront his status as a Palestinian Israeli. ‘The Attack’ is based on the critically acclaimed novel by the Algerian author working under the pseudonym of Yasmina Khadra, and the director Ziad Doueiri gives us a unique look at the multifaceted prism of terrorism, and he elegantly manages to undermine the stereotypes which topics like these often end up confirming.

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L’ATTENTAT Lebanon, France, Qatar, Egypt, Belgium, 102 min.

Hebrew, Arabic with English subtitles Director: Ziad Doueiri Script: Joëlle Touma, Ziad Doueiri Camera: Tommaso Fiorilli Editing: Dominique Marcombe, Ziad Doueiri Music: Eric Neveux Sound: Pierre Gauthier, Olivier Walczak, Philippe Baudhuin, Rami Doueiri Production: 3B Productions Producer: Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin Cast: Ali Suliman, Reymonde Amsellem, Evgenia Dodina, Karim Saleh Distr.: Wild Bunch

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NADIR MOKNÈCHE

GOODBYE MOROCCO SEX, MYSTERIOUS DEATHS AND a sinister legend are just some of the elements in Nadir Moknèche’s elegant, classic genre drama ‘Goodbye Morocco’. The forever irritable Dounia works together with her boyfriend on a construction site, where they supervise the work.

When their team of illegal workers one day discover a beautiful fresco that can be dated back to 400 BC, Dounia is quick to realise that the valuable discovery represents exactly the amount of money she is lacking to smuggle herself and her son abroad – away from the father. They therefore lure the workers to dig up the fresco, but their plan is thwarted when the team comes up with its own plans for the ancient artwork, and suddenly Dounia is at the centre of an escalating love triangle. Moknèche elegantly plays with the various branches of the story and creates a tense dramatic core with money, murder and sex, and the excellent performances make it all eerily credible.

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April 13 17:00 GLORIA April 21 16:40 GRAND

GOODBYE MOROCCO France, Belgium 2012, 102 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Nadir Moknèche Script: Nadir Moknèche Camera: Hélène Louvart Editing: Stéphanie Mahet, Olivier Gourlay Music: Pierre Bastaroli Sound: Marc Engels Production: Blue Monday Producer: Blue Monday Cast: Lubna Azabal, Rasha Bukvic, Faouzi Bensaidi, Grégory Gadebois Distr.: Les Films du Losange

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NABIL AYOUCH

HORSES OF GOD HOW DOES A YOUNG person come to the point where he decides to be a martyr in the service of Al Qaeda?

Tired of the never-ending simplistic depictions of Muslim terrorists in films, the director Nabil Ayouch decided to give a realistic take on the circumstances that lie behind such a fateful decision. There are not many bright spots in Morocco’s dusty and hectic slums, where the two brothers Hamid and Yachine grow up in bleak poverty. Early on, crime and drugs become a part of their everyday lives in one of Casablanca’s poorest neighbourhoods. They are so furious at their hopeless situation that they are easy targets when a group of Islamic fundamentalists one day introduce them to their mission, and they decide to embark on a dubious future as martyrs. Ayouch’s film is in no way a defence of terrorism, but a sober depiction of the fact that the basis for terrorist recruitment can often be found in desperate living conditions. For no one is born a martyr.

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April 18 16:30 DAGMAR April 23 19:00 DAGMAR

LES CHEVAUX DE DIEU Morocco, France, Belgium 2012, 115 min.

Arabic, French with English subtitles Director: Nabil Ayouch Script: Jamal Belmahi Camera: Nabil Ayouch Editing: Damien Keyeux Music: Malvina Meineir Sound: Zachari Naciri, Eric Lesachet Production: Ali n’ Productions, Les films du Nouveau Monde, Stone Angels, YC Aligator Films, Artemis Production Producer: Nabil Ayouch, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam, Eric Van Beuren, Patrick Quinet Cast: Abdelhakim Rachid, Abdelilah Rachid, Ahmed El Idrissi Amrani, Hamza Souidek Distr.: Wild Bunch

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ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE

INCH’ALLAH THE YOUNG CANADIAN OBSTETRICIAN Chloé works at a women’s clinic on the West Bank. The clinic is located on the Palestinian side, but Chloé’s apartment is located on the Israeli side, so she has gotten used to waiting in long queues at the heavily guarded checkpoints to get from one side to the other. Constantly aware of the simmering violence that surrounds her, Chloé has nonetheless found a place in her hectic life, which is further defined by the friendships that she has built on both sides of the border. She makes friends with her neighbour, Ava, who is serving compulsory military service as a control post guard, while she on the Palestinian side befriends her patient Rand, an impoverished and young pregnant woman, who can’t make ends meet. Rand’s family, especially her brother Faysal, are strongly preoccupied by the liberation of Palestine and are willing to resort to any means to achieve it. Through the eyes of Chloé, the director Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette has made a sober and intelligent drama and treats the inherent dilemma with great finesse. The result speaks for itself.

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April 15 16:40 GRAND April 18 19:00 DAGMAR

INCH’ALLAH Canada 2012, 101 min.

French, English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette Script: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette Camera: Philippe Lavalette Editing: Sophie Leblond Music: Levon Minassian Sound: Jean Umansky, Sylvain Bellemare, Jean-Paul Hurier Production: micro_scope, micro_scope, ID Unlimited (Happiness Distribution) Producer: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw Cast: Evelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Sivan Levy, Yousef Sweid Distr.: eOne Films International

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ERAN RIKLIS

ZAYTOUN A MORE THAN USUALLY odd duo is at the centre of the Israeli director Eran Riklis’s (‘Lemon Tree’, ‘The Syrian Bride’) latest film, a road and buddy movie about a Palestinian boy and an Israeli pilot. The story takes place in Beirut in 1982. Lebanon is tormented by civil war and overrun with Palestinian refugees, who risk life and limb to get to Beirut. The nosy 12-year-old Fahed (played by the experienced Abdallah El Akal) tries to make ends meet by selling chewing gum and cigarettes, before he and the other youths are driven back into the squalid refugee camp. But when an Israeli jet one day crashes close by, and the pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff from Sofia Coppola’s ‘Somewhere’) is captured, Fahed sees an opportunity to escape. The two potential enemies therefore reach an agreement: Fahed helps Yoni out of town if Yoni can get Fahed over the border and home to the village he comes from. The strange alliance develops into a strong friendship, and together they have to overcome several threats. Riklis’s distinctive trademark of treating violent themes with a humorous bite once again shines through, and the images by the Danish cinematographer Dan Laustsen paint a soulful portrait of a conflict that never seems to end.

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April 16 21:30 GLORIA April 20 14:20 GRAND April 23 19:00 VESTER VOV VOV

ZAYTOUN UK, Israel, France 2012, 107 min.

English, Arabic, Hebrew with English subtitles Director: Eran Riklis Script: Nader Rizq Camera: Dan Laustsen Editing: Herve Schneid Music: Cyril Morin Sound: Ashi Milo Production: Pathé, Bedlam Productions, Far Films Producer: Gareth Unwin, Fred Ritzenberg Cast: Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioni, Loai Nofi Distr.: The Festival Agency

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JAFAR PANAHI, KAMBOZIYA PARTOVI

CLOSED CURTAIN THE DIRECTOR JAFAR PANAHI is currently under house arrest in Tehran. Nonetheless, he has now for the second time defied the complete film ban he has been sentenced to, with a both courageous and funny allegory about silencing art to death. The film was shot in secrecy in Panahi’s own villa by the Caspian Sea, and with a satirical bite it portrays an author who entrenches himself in a remote villa to rescue his dog, after a complete ban on dogs has been introduced by the Iranian theocracy. But the comedy quickly turns into a mystery, when he is suddenly visited, first by a woman on the run from the army and subsequently by Jafar Panahi in the role as himself. And the rest is an exercise in mental gymnastics in this simultaneously tragic, funny and not least deeply crucial film about the necessity of sticking to ones guns – against all odds. For even if ‘Closed Curtain’ is signed by one of our time’s greatest directors and has won the award for best screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, it has subsequently had major consequences for the participants, who like the director Panahi have now also been sentenced to house arrest.

On top of this, the Iranian government has officially tried to get the Berlin Film Festival to withdraw the prize, as ‘Closed Curtain’ was not ‘officially approved’ by the regime!

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April 11 16:15 CINEMATEKET April 14 21:30 GRAND April 22 19:00 CINEMATEKET

PARDÉ Iran 2013, 106 min.

Farsi with English subtitles Director: Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi Script: Jafar Panahi Camera: Mohamad Reza Jahanpanah Editing: Jafar Panahi Sound: Javad Emami Production: Jafar Panahi Film Production Producer: Jafar Panahi Cast: Kamboziya Partovi, Maryam Moghadam, Jafar Panahi, Hadi Saeedi Distr.: Pascale Ramonda

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MOHAMMAD SHIRVANI

FAT SHAKER IN MOST PARTS OF the world, Iranian film equals the great masters Makhmalbaf, Kiarostami, Panahi, Ghobadi. But for a young generation of Iranian directors, the heritage of these masters has become a burden.

Mohammad Shirvani was sick and tired of the naturalistic style of Iranian cinema. This soon turned into hatred, according to Shirvani himself, and the hatred was channelled to make a film that radically breaks with the usual habits and narrative structures in favour of a far more surreal and unexplained vision. ‘Fat Shaker’ does definitely not look like a Kiarostami film. In a series of absurd tableaux, whose order one must piece together oneself along the way, we follow an exaggeratedly fat and troubled man and his deaf and dumb adult son, whom he treats with strongly varying degrees of affection. They are literally like night and day, but dependent on each other in their aimless life, which is disturbed when a beautiful and determined woman moves in with them. In a grotesquely entertaining and abstract way, Shirvani challenges the inept men in Iran (and Iranian cinema) – both the old snorting patriarchs and the young whimpering mannequins who don’t have the guts to say no – and instead places his hopes in strong women. For this reason, ‘Fat Shaker’ has been judged to be perverted and un-Iranian by the country’s fundamentalists. And it won the main prize at this year’s film festival in Rotterdam.

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April 16 16:40 GRAND April 18 19:00 AARHUS ØST FOR PARADIS April 21 21:30 GLORIA

LARZANANDEYE CHARBI Iran 2013, 85 min.

Farsi with English subtitles Director: Mohammad Shirvani Script: Mohammad Shirvani Camera: Mohammad Shirvani Editing: Mohammad Shirvani, Pouya Parsamagham Sound: Bahman Ardalan Producer: Mohammad Shirvani Cast: Levon Haftvan, Maryam Palizban, Hassan Rostami, Navid Mohammadzadeh Distr.: Mohammad Shirvani

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VAHID VAKILIFAR

TABOOR TO CALL ‘TABOOR’ CLASSIC science fiction would be stretching things a bit, but we are definitely in a lonely and alienating universe, at once familiar and unknown.

A lonely old silver fox wakes up in a home covered in aluminium foil, which is meant to protect him from the heat. He takes on his protective gear and wanders out into the night, where he sprays chemicals against cockroaches, while slowly straying through the dark labyrinths and hidden nooks of Tehran. Reminiscent of both Bela Tarr and David Lynch, ‘Taboor’ is a dream of a film. Mesmerising, and almost without dialogue and music – one is drawn along and surrenders to the isolation, loneliness and darkness together with the old and taciturn pest control officer. Its minimalist approach to the sci-fi genre highlights its point about the role of the human being, caught between technology and nature, like only good, intelligent sci-fi can.

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April 14 21:30 DAGMAR April 18 19:00 VESTER VOV VOV

TABOOR Iran 2012, 84 min.

Farsi with English subtitles Director: Vahid Vakilifar Script: Vahid Vakilifar Camera: Mohammad-Reza Jahanpanah Editing: Vahid Vakilifar Music: Keyhan Kalhor Sound: Hossein Mahdavi Producer: Vahid Vakilifar, Fariba Rostami Cast: Mohammad Rabbanipour Distr.: DreamLab Films

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BANI KHOSHNOUDI

ZIBA ZIBA IS A MARRIED woman from the Iranian upper class. In spite of her comfortable lifestyle, she is always exhausted and irritated, and at the same time she is unable to talk about herself. On her way to a weekend trip to the sea, Ziba and her slightly irritable husband stop by one of their many properties to sign a contract with a family that has just moved in. They lose each other, and Ziba is left with the inhabitants of the building.

In her encounter with them, she is confronted with her choices in life, or lack thereof. With ‘Ziba’, Bani Khoshnoudi has made a film that at first glance is a character study of a woman who is being suffocated by her everyday life. But the subject is so pervasive that Ziba’s state of mind acts as a metaphor for the constant oppression and disempowerment that Iranian women continue to endure. A strong character study from a film nation that never fails to impress.

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April 12 16:45 CINEMATEKET April 18 19:00 CINEMATEKET

ZIBA Iran, France 2012, 82 min.

Farsi with English subtitles Director: Bani Khoshnoudi Script: Bani Khoshnoudi Camera: Shahriar Assadi Editing: Miguel Schverdfinger Music: Andy Moor, Yannis Kyriakides Sound: Roman Dymny, Claire-Anne Largeron Production: Pensée Sauvage Films Producer: Bani Khoshnoudi, Christie Molia Cast: Mohammad Ali Zolfaghari, Morteza Sokhangou, Neda Razavipour, Zahra Sadeghi

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LUCAS BELVAUX

38 WITNESSES

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A DARK AND GRUESOME story about a young woman who is brutally murdered, and 38 potential witnesses who, in spite of her persistent cries for help, for some inexplicable have not seen or heard anything. The police is stalling completely in its investigations, and the witnesses’ collective ignorance and unwillingness to present any information is in stark contrast to the many people who were in the vicinity. The film is loosely based on the young woman Kitty Genovese, who was murdered in New York in 1964, where 38 people heard and saw what happened, but did nothing to prevent it, and where the police subsequently met with a wall of silence – a socio-psychological phenomenon that has later become known as The Bystander Syndrome or the Genovese Syndrome. Simply put, it states that the more people who witness something terrible happening, the lower the likelihood that somebody is likely to interfere.

‘38 Witnesses’, however, takes place in the French port city Le Havre, where the story takes place in an affluent French neighbourhood. Employing gloomy images and sounds, Lucas Balvaus (‘La Trilogie’) in the best way emphasises the socio-moral dilemmas that the film’s characters are confronted with, and makes them frighteningly relevant to the audience.

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April 14 15:00 GLORIA April 23 21:30 GRAND

38 TÉMOINS France 2012, 104 min.

French, English with English subtitles Director: Lucas Belvaux Script: Lucas Belvaux Camera: Pierric Gantelmi D’Ille Editing: Ludo Troch Music: Arne Van Dongen Sound: Henri Morelle Production: gat Films, Artemis Productions et Cie Producer: Patrick Sobelman, Patrick Quinet, Yvan Attal Cast: Yvan Attal, Sophie Quinton, Nicole Garcia, Francois Feroleto Distr.: Films Distribution

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ALICE WINOCOUR

AUGUSTINE

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WE SEE FAR TOO few costume dramas of the sensual variety, but this is an excellent example. The Hollywood Reporter described it aptly as ‘A Dangerous Method’ meets ‘The Elephant Man’. The film’s title character, a 19-year-old hysteric (of sorts), is played by the singer Soko, while Vincent Lindon is the psychiatrist and hysteria expert Charcot, who takes her under his expert treatment – and of course ends up being more involved with his patient than is good for him.

The two actually end up performing for the medical establishment, because the ‘Napoleon of Neuroses’ – as Lindon’s authentic figure was referred to in those times (the story takes place in the 1890s) – needs to demonstrate his skills to the people who will fund his future research.

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April 8 19:00 GRAND April 14 21:30 GLORIA

AUGUSTINE France 2012, 102 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Alice Winocour Script: Alice Winocour Camera: Georges Lechaptois Editing: Julien Lacheray Music: Jocelyn Pook Sound: Jean-Luc Audy Production: Dharamsala, ARP Selection, France 3 Cinema, Darius Films Producer: Isabelle Madelaine, Emilie Tisné, Laurent Petin, Michele Petin Cast: Soko, Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni Distr.: Kinology

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OLIVIER ASSAYAS

SOMETHING IN THE AIR

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COLOURS #1 Pantone 282 #2 Pantone 485 #3 Pantone 877

OLIVIER ASSAYS COULD LAST be seen in the cinemas with the enchanting ‘Summertime’. Now he is back with a tender and bittersweet, but also unsentimental look at his own and his friends’ formative years in the aftermath of the May 1968 protests in Paris. Gilles, Christine and their friends are all electrified by the lure of revolution.

They write texts for radical left-wing publications during the daytime and cover their school with slogans and graffiti at night-time. When a guard is wounded by a Molotov cocktail, the group breaks apart and several of them escape abroad, where new alliances are formed, also on the romantic front. Slowly, the staunch political activism starts to give way to the first ‘private’ projects – compromises, socialisation and identity struggles follow.

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April 22 19:00 GRAND

APRÈS MAI France 2012, 122 min.

French with Danish subtitles Director: Olivier Assayas Script: Olivier Assayas Camera: Eric Gautier Editing: Luc Barnier, Mathilde Van de Moortel Sound: Nicolas Cantin, Nicolas Moreau Production: MK2, France 3 Cinéma, Vortex Sutra Producer: Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert Cast: Clement Metayer, Lola Créton, Felix Armand, Carole Combes Distr.: MK 2

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JACQUES DOILLON

LOVE BATTLES

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AN UNNAMED WOMAN (SARA FORESTIER) meets a nameless man (James Thiérrée) when she returns to her home village to take care of things after her father’s death. Her relationship with her father, who never really loved his daughter, was complex, and she doesn’t seem to get on particularly well with her siblings either. But when she meets her father’s nurse, the film’s ‘boy’, she suddenly releases the pent-up conflicts and submits herself to him in a series of highly physical therapy sessions, where he tries to get to the bottom of her father complex, and she tries to get in his pants. But what begins as playful exploration quickly turns into a ritual where a lot is at stake, and where they both use their respective weapon to protect themselves. The French directing veteran Jacques Doillon serves up long foreplay, which progresses into continuous intercourse, which in turn is seasoned with almost acrobatic sex stunts. Forestier and Thiérrée are utterly convincing in the difficult roles and deliver Doillon’s signature dialogues with empathy and the so familiar stinging bite.

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April 11 19:00 CINEMATEKET April 13 16:45 CINEMATEKET

MES SÉANCES DE LUTTE France 2013, 103 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Jacques Doillon Script: Jacques Doillon Camera: Laurent Chalet, Laurent Fenart Editing: Marie de Costa Sound: Ivan Dumas Production: Doillon & Cie, Groupe 2 Producer: Daniel Marquet, Jacques Doillon Cast: Sara Forestier, James Thierree, Louise Szpindel, Mahault Mollaret Distr.: Doc & Film International

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SANDRINE BONNAIRE

MADDENED

BY HIS ABSENCE DURING THE OPENING CREDITS of the actress Sandrine Bonnaire’s feature debut, we hear a classic English nursery rhyme. But when the film begins, there is no longer a child, just the absence of one. Eight years earlier, Jacques’s young son died in a terrible car accident. The tragedy destroyed his marriage with Mado, and Jacques moved back to the United States to try and forget. Now his father has died, and Jacques is back in France for the first time since the accident. He gets in touch with Mado, who has remarried and has a new son, Paul, and she has no idea that something is wrong when Jacques says he would like to meet her son. But she manages to get the boy to keep it a secret from his father to avoid misunderstandings. But the lie sheds new lies, and suddenly Jacques visits Paul on his own. ‘Maddened By His Absence’ is a grim drama about the process of overcoming a grief that has not been given a chance to exist. William Hurt plays Jacques with convincing vulnerability, and his pent-up emotions quiver in his worn face, while Philippe Guilbert has shot the scenes with an ominous chiaroscuro aesthetic, which emphasises the story’s painful complexity.

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April 14 14:20 GRAND April 19 16:40 GRAND April 20 19:00 AARHUS ØST FOR PARADIS

J’ENRAGE DE SON ABSENCE France 2012, 98 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Sandrine Bonnaire Script: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jérôme Tonnerre Camera: Philippe Guilbert Editing: Svetlana Vaynblat Music: André Dziezuk Production: Mon Voisin Productions, Mosaique Films, Iris Productions, Iris Films, France 3 Cinéma Producer: Dominique Besnehard, Michel Feller, Jesus Gonzalez, Nicolas Steil, Thomas Schmitt Cast: William Hurt, Alexandra Lamy, Augustin Legrand, Norbert Rutili Distr.: Films Distribution

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CLAUDE MILLER

THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX

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THE FRENCH DIRECTOR CLAUDE MILLER died immediately after having completed his incomparable adaptation of François Mauriac’s skewering of provincial life ‘Thérèse Desqueyroux’ from 1927. In the film of the same name, Audrey Tautou plays the title role of Thérèse, who is married to a land owner who is far more interested in hunting than in his young wife. Thérèse is languishing and suffocating in her loveless marriage in the stagnant province. Things only get worse when Thérèse’s best friend Anne (Anaïs Demoustier) falls head over heels in love with a beautiful young Portuguese, and Thérèse begins to realise what she is missing out on. She therefore begins her own struggle against her oppressive husband. Miller’s ‘Thérèse Desqueyroux’ is a soulful costume drama, and his portrayal of the tormented heroine sends a nod to both ‘Madame Bovary’ and ‘Anna Karenina’. The wonderful French landscape adds a further element of beauty to the film, which first and foremost is Tautou’s credit, and her masterfully expressive incarnation of Thérèse Desqueyroux shows how strong an actress Tautou is; here in a role that fully matches her talent.

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April 13 19:00 DAGMAR April 22 16:40 GRAND

THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX France 2012, 110 min.

French with English subtitles Director: Claude Miller Script: Natalie Carter, Claude Miller Camera: Gérard De Battista Editing: Véronique Lange Sound: Eric Rophe, Gwenole Leborgne Production: Les Films du 24 for UGC, UGC IMAGES Producer: Yves Marmion Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier Distr.: TF1 International

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IVANO DE MATTEO

BALANCING ACT 40-YEAR-OLD GIULIO IS HAPPY with his comfortable life. He lives in a nice apartment with his wife Elena and their two children, has a relatively well-paid municipal job, and their biggest problems seem to be the teenage daughter Camilla’s desire to go to Barcelona with her new boyfriend, and the younger Lucas’s insanely expensive tooth brace. But then there’s the detail that Giulio has been systematically unfaithful to Elena with one of his colleagues. So far, she has forgiven him, but one day it all becomes too much. Giulio understandingly concedes and decides to move out. This is the beginning of a downward spiral for Giulio, who has told Elena that he will take care of all the expenses related to the separation. But his modest salary is not nearly enough to pay for two households, and when the bank refuses to lend him any more money, he turns to dubious patch-up solutions and borrows money from friends and colleagues, until he has lost everything. His pride refuses to let him tell his family about his situation, and instead he pushes them away from him. With ‘Balancing Act’, Ivano Matteo has created a moving and frighteningly relevant financial crisis drama about how little it takes for everything to crumble.

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April 11 16:30 DAGMAR April 20 21:30 GLORIA

GLI EQUILIBRISTI Italy, France 2012, 100 min.

Italian with English subtitles Director: Ivano De Matteo Script: Valentina Ferlan, Ivano De Matteo Camera: Vittorio Omodei Zorini Editing: Marco Spoletini Music: Francesco Cerasi Production: Rodeo Drive, Babe Films, supported by MiBAC Producer: Marco Poccioni, Marco Valsania Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Barbora Bobulova, Maurizio Casagrande, Rolando Ravello Distr.: Rai Trade

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MASSIMO ANDREI

BENUR THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, EXPLOITATIVE society and the Italian economy are thoroughly investigated in Massimo Andrei’s reckless and witty comedy ‘Benur’. Sergio is a former stunt man. Due to a back injury he is forced to earn a living dressing up as a centurion and posing for pictures with tourists in front of the Colosseum.

He and his sister Maria, who to Sergio’s great irritation works for a telephone sex line, live together and their finances are disastrous. One day, the illegal Belorussian immigrant Milan moves in, and things take a turn for the better. Milan’s working spirit and zeal mean that their financial situation gets better, and the future no longer looks quite as hopeless. Even love starts to shine through in the crisis-ridden home. ‘Benur’ is a social realist comedy, which with its mischievous twinkle in the eye focuses on some of the financial, political and social problems that are at stake in Italian society today.

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April 19 16:30 CINEMATEKET April 21 19:15 CINEMATEKET

BENUR Italy 2012, 90 min.

Italian with English subtitles Director: Massimo Andrei Script: Giovanni Clementi, Massimo Andrei Camera: Vittorio Omodei Zorini Editing: Claudio Di Mauro, Shara Spinella Music: Nicola Piovani Production: Combo Produzioni, MiBAC, Rai Cinema Producer: Flavia Parnasi Cast: Nicola Pistoia, Paolo Triestino, Teresa Del Vecchio, Elisabetta De Vito Distr.: Intramovies srl

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EDOARDO GABBRIELLINI

THE LANDLORDS A SUNBURNED FILM NOIR from Italy. The brothers Elia and Cosimo have travelled from Rome to a small town in Tuscany, where they hope to succeed with their construction company. The local star crooner Fausto Mieli has hired them to renovate his villa, while he prepares his comeback concert. Elia and Cosimo are highly eager to do a good job, but inadvertently cause turmoil in the small village society. Miele is married to Moira (the fabulous Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), who is bound to a wheelchair because of an illness, but who still shows more interest in the newcomers than she does in her dictatorial husband. And in the meantime, Elia has started flirting heavily with the local belle, Adriana, whose former boyfriend definitely doesn’t care too much about her new flame. With ‘The Landlords’, Eduardo Gabriellini skewers the hostility of village society towards outsiders and portrays a conflict whose consequences become more far-reaching than anyone could have expected.

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April 13 12:00 GRAND April 18 17:00 GLORIA

PADRONI DI CASA Italy 2012, 90 min.

Italian with English subtitles Director: Edoardo Gabbriellini Script: Edoardo Gabbriellini, Francesco Cenni, Michele Pellegrini, Valerio Mastandrea Camera: Daria D’Antonio Editing: Walter Fasano Music: Cesare Cremonini, Gabriele Roberto, Stefano Pilia Production: First Sun, Relief, Rai Cinema, supported by MiBAC Producer: Massimiliano Violante, Marco Morabito, Luca Guadagnino, Valentina Avenia Cast: Elio Germano, Valerio Mastandrea, Gianni Morandi, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Distr.: Rai Cinema

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HANNA DOOSE

DUST ON OUR HEARTS AFTER MAKING A SERIES of award-winning shorts, the German director Hanna Doose is now ready with her autobiographical feature film debut ‘Dust on Our Hearts’.

30-year-old Kathi dreams of succeeding as an actress in Berlin, but neither the coveted film or the theatre worlds show any particular interest in her. Kathi’s mother is a therapist and finds it difficult to shed her professional cloak vis-à-vis her daughter, whose life she constantly interferes with. Not least, by having an opinion about how Kathi should treat her 4-year-old son. Things just get even more complicated when Kathi’s father suddenly returns after a long absence, and expects to be able to take up his place in the family again. Caught in the crossfire of the parents’ internal conflict, Kathi’s own problems seem to be larger than she can deal with, and things go badly wrong when her son suddenly disappears. ‘Dust on Our Hearts’ is an honest, sincere and incredibly well-played piece about being caught between the people you love. Hanna Doose’s fine debut film was also the great actress Susanne Lothar’s (‘The White Ribbon’ (2009) and ‘Funny Games’ (2007)) last film, before her far too untimely death last summer.

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STAUB AUF UNSEREN HERZEN Germany 2012, 91 min.

German with English subtitles Director: Hanna Doose Script: Hanna Doose Camera: Markus Zucker Editing: André Nier Music: Florian Loycke, Stephanie Stremler Sound: Jochen Jezussek Production: dffb – Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin Producer: Ben von Dobeneck, David Keitsch Cast: Susanne Lothar, Stephanie Stremler, Michael Kind Distr.: German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB)

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THOMAS ARSLAN

GOLD IN THE SUMMER OF 1898, a group of German settlers comes to Canada with the carts loaded with their few belongings. They leave from the train station in Ashcroft and the aim is to reach Dawson in northern Canada, hoping to get a share of the gold that has recently been found in the area. Their flamboyant leader, the businessman Wilhelm Laser, paves the way, but not before he finds out more about the dangers they will encounter on their 2,500 km long, perilous journey. As the journey progresses, the group is overcome with exhaustion, and uncertainty also begins to get hold of them, and with it the conflicts start to escalate. The German director Thomas Arslan’s (‘In the Shadows’) characters are constantly on the move in ‘Gold’, which proceeds like a road movie in a carriage. At the centre of Arslan’s ambitious genre film is the young, divorced Emily (Nina Hoss), who has joined the group in hope of better times. But as greed slowly starts eating its way into them, bloodthirsty bandits are lurking in the bushes and the hopes of greener pastures are slowly dwindling, ‘Gold’ becomes an ever more captivating interpretation of the classic Western genre. Thomas Arslan was a director in focus at PIX ‘10, where he showed three films as part of the 3x3 series.

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April 16 18:45 CINEMATEKET April 20 12:00 GRAND

GOLD Germany 2013, 113 min.

German with English subtitles Director: Thomas Arslan Script: Thomas Arslan Camera: Patrick Orth Editing: Bettina Böhler Sound: Christian Obermaier, Jochen Jezussek Production: Schramm Film Koerner & Weber Producer: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber, Henrik Meyer Cast: Nina Hoss, Marko Mandic, Uwe Bohm, Lars Rudolph Distr.: The Match Factory

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NICO SOMMER

SILVI – MAYBE LOVE WHAT DO YOU DO with your life when your first and only husband of 30 years suddenly stops the car, has a beer and tells you that from now on he’s going to sleep in a hotel? The 47-year-old abandoned Silvi, who takes her friend’s word of starting afresh quite literally, places an ad in the newspaper: Abandoned woman seeks husband. This throws her straight into dating mayhem, where she is really put to the test, and through latex, whips and hiding games is forced to face up to what she really wants. The first-time feature director Nico Sommer uses intelligent humour to portray the state of confusion and the expectation that Silvi, in the middle of her search for meaning, finds herself in. Sommer elegantly blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary by breaking the story with interview sequences with Silvi, and in this way creates a refreshingly different and amusing story about finding oneself – and about something as difficult as getting up after falling.

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April 16 21:30 CINEMATEKET April 21 12:00 DAGMAR

SILVI Germany 2013, 97 min.

German with English subtitles Director: Nico Sommer Script: Julia Stiebe, Nico Sommer Camera: Alexander du Prel Editing: Nico Sommer, Bernhard Strubel Sound: Anton Weranow Production: Suesssauerfilm Producer: Nico Sommer Cast: Lina Wendel, Thorsten Merten, Harald Polzin, Iván Gallardo Distr.: Suesssauerfilm

3 days of outsider folk, sonic adventures and musical meetings in Denmark’s most beautiful village Sønderho Meet us at this years filmfestival when Fanø Free Folk Festival, CPH PIX & artFREQ proudly present: Erik Enocksson + Svarte Greiner Hellig Kors Kirke // 19th of April

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RAMON MEZ DE GUZMAN

DIABLO FOR LOVERS OF ASIAN cinema, it is a joy to behold the Philippines make itself known in the world for its distinct cinematic profile, as has been the case the past few years. Ramon Mez de Guzman is the man behind this excellent and extremely well-produced drama, which oozes humour and lures us with a dose of magic realism. An old landowner and a strongly Catholic widow is sitting alone in her big house, and every night sees a motionless stooping shadow in the bedroom move closer and closer. A demon? The ghost of her husband?

Or maybe just a figment of her imagination? Her five sons visit her whenever they feel like it, but when she hires two young crooks, who robbed the house late one night, to help her with practical matters, the sons make themselves known. As the woman becomes weaker and weaker, the sons start having more and more of an opinion as to what should happen with their inheritance.

And we are slowly given a look at the sons’ individual stories with their mother.

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April 17 17:00 GLORIA April 20 19:00 CINEMATEKET

DIABLO Philippines 2012, 113 min.

Tagalog with English subtitles Director: Ramon Mez de Guzman Script: Ramon Mez de Guzman Camera: Tristan Salas Editing: Ronald Acal, Abbas Tabas Music: Alma Deo Sound: Harrold Buaron, Mon Ching Production: Cinelarga, Cinemalaya, Sampaybakod Productions, Colorista Producer: Rhea Operaña de Guzman, Gay Ace Domingo Cast: Ama Quiambao, Jose Escobedo, Roeder Camañag, Fredie De La Cruz Distr.: Cinelarga Production

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JOHNNIE TO

DRUG WAR THERE IS STILL PUNCH in the Hong Kong miracle maker Johnnie To, who for more than three decades has been a guarantee for spectacular, breathtaking entertainment of the colourful kind. In his latest film, ‘Drug War’, which was the talk of the town at the Rotterdam film festival in January, he has shifted to mainland China, and they will not forget this so soon. The policeman Zhang leads an undercover unit that aims to reveal the city’s ruthless drug lords. When he finally captures his arch enemy, the hard-boiled Timmy Choi, he strikes a deal with the young gangster. Choi can avoid the death penalty – in China you can be sentenced to death for producing just 50 grams of drugs – if he in turn helps to dismantle the network of a large drug cartel. Zhang is helped by the young female police officer Xiao Bei, and together they play the roles of the cheerful drug shark Ha-ha (indeed!) and his vulgar wife. As always with Johnnie To, the fun is wrapped in beautifully orchestrated action that is a joy to behold.

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DU ZHAN Hong Kong, China 2012, 107 min.

Mandarin with English subtitles Director: Johnnie To Script: Wai Ka-fai, Yau Nai, Ryker Chan, Yu Xi Camera: Cheng Siu-keung Editing: David Richardson, Allen Leung Music: Xavier Jameux Sound: Ricky Yip Production: Milkyway Image (HK) Ltd., Hairun Media Producer: Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai Cast: Sun Honglei, Louis Koo, Huang Yi, Gao Yungxiang Distr.: Media Asia Distribution

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O MUEL

JISEUL THIS YEAR’S SUNDANCE WINNER is a piece of humanist cinema, based on far too real events. After World War II, the US army and South Korea’s nationalist regime declared that anyone who lived outside a radius of eight kilometres from the mainland was a communist, who was to be arrested and executed – and this as quickly as possible. The inhabitants of a small village must therefore literally go underground and hide in a cave to avoid the regime’s soldiers, and the film alternates in following the two groups, with all their human faults and shortcomings. There is not one second of sentimentality in ‘Jiseul’, which uses absurd tragicomedy and banal brutality to launch a furious attack against blind faith in authority and moral callousness. But the panoramic, black and white images inspire a certain sense of hope, and together with the film’s critique, they send an affectionate nod towards the Japanese directors Kenji Mizoguchi and Masaki Kobayashi. The human tragedy does not lack its own, black sense of humour, however: the title’s ‘potatoes’ refer to the displaced villagers’ wretched refuge underground.

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JISEUL South Korea 2012, 108 min.

Korean with English subtitles Director: O Muel Script: Muel O Camera: Yang Jung-Hoon Editing: Do-hyun Lee Music: Song-e Jeon Sound: Sang-min Lee Production: Japari Film Producer: Ko Hyuk-Jin Cast: Sung Min-Chul, Yang Jung-Won, Oh Young-Soon, Moon Suk-Bum Distr.: Japari Film

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ASHIM AHLUWALIA

MISS LOVELY WE ARE FAR FROM Bollywood’s cheerful and glittery dancing in Ashim Ahluwalia’s controversial ‘Miss Lovely’, which is about two brothers, Vicky and Sonu, in 1980s Mumbai. They are both involved with the city’s softcore porn industry and have specialised in porn films with a twist of horror, which is a fast growing genre in the unstoppable underground market. The naive Sonu is coerced by the more ruthless Vicky, who doesn’t have many qualms about being a part of an industry that is inextricably linked to human trafficking, police corruption and mysterious gangsters. But when Sonu falls in love with the debutant star Pinky and decides to finance a mainstream film for his new muse, the brothers’ lives are turned upside down. Ahlusalia had actually planned to make a mockumentary about the subject, but when it started to take shape, he decided to go all out and turn up the insanity. The result is an unparalleled C movie.

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MISS LOVELY India 2012, 115 min.

Hindi with English subtitles Director: Ashim Ahluwalia Script: Ashim Ahluwalia, Uttam Sirur Camera: K. U. Mohanan Editing: Ashim Ahluwalia Sound: Tarun Bhandari Production: Future East Producer: Pinaki Chatterjee, Shumona Goel, Sanjay Shah Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh, Anil George, Zeena Bhatia Distr.: Fortissimo Film Sales

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KIYOSHI KUROSAWA

PENANCE TIME DOES NOT HEAL all wounds. This is a bitter truth that four women get to feel in ‘Penance’, an epic and top-modern revenge thriller, which is conceived and created as both a TV series and a feature film. A schoolgirl is brutally murdered, but even though four of her friends have seen the killer’s face, they all refuse to testify out of fear. Fifteen years later, the victim’s mother Asako has neither forgotten nor forgiven the four now adult women, who finally have to face up to the past, as Asako seeks them out one by one in the film’s five chapters. But if she is ready to get the answer to the mystery of what actually happened on that day fifteen years ago, only becomes fatally clear in the last chapter, where the horrifying mystery is given one final twist. The auteur and J-horror icon Kiyoshi Kurosawa (‘Tokyo Sonata’, ‘Pulse’, ‘Cure’) gets something close to absolute suspense out of the long format’s condensed, psychological spaces. If TV series are the new films, then ‘Penance’ is an example worth following. Stylishly crafted and with a solid sense for both plot and characters.

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SHOKUZAI Japan 2012, 270 min.

Japanese with English subtitles Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Script: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Camera: Akiko Ashizawa Editing: Koichi Takahashi Music: Yusuke Hayashi Sound: Shinji Watanabe Production: WOWOW, Nikkatsu Corp., Django Film Producer: Tomomi Takashima, Yumi Arakawa, Nobuhiro Iizuka Cast: Kyoko Koizumi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi, Eiko Koike Distr.: Free Stone Productions

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KIM KI-DUK

PIETA KIM KI-DUK IS STILL one of the most unique voices in Korean cinema. With ‘Pieta’, he has returned in force to the international scene, which was also confirmed by the fact that the film won the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival. Gang-do (played brilliantly

by Lee Jung-jin) works as a henchman for a loan shark and makes short shrift of people who can’t pay back their high-interest loans by first disabling them and subsequently collecting their insurance payments. But in the midst of this universe of both physically and mentally stunted individuals, a woman appears who claims to be his long-lost mother. This forces Gang-do to reconsider his own callous and depraved lifestyle. But who is she exactly, this woman? ‘Pieta’ is an exceptionally harsh, but also well-told story, where the economy becomes an image of moral, human and social decay. But it is also a story that fascinates us thanks to its absurd and disturbed characters, with whom one in no way ought to identify, but nonetheless develops an understanding for. Kim Ki-duk’s favourite themes are all rolled out in one of the key scenes: love, honour, violence, anger, hatred, jealousy, revenge and death – and there are plenty of controversial scenes with all these elements elsewhere in the film. Kim Ki-duk’s film is the kind of film you either hate or you love – but which you will never forget!

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PIETA South Korea 2012, 104 min.

Korean with English subtitles Director: Kim Ki-duk Script: Kim Ki-duk Camera: Jo Yeong-jik Editing: Kim Ki-duk Music: Park In-young Sound: Lee Seokjun Production: Good Films, Finecut Producer: Kim Soon-mo Cast: Cho Min-soo, Lee Jung-jin, Kim Jae-rok, Kang Eunjin Distr.: Finecut / Cineclick Asia

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ANTOINETTE JADAONE

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION FROM LILIA CUNTAPAY WE AREN’T GIVING AWAY too much by revealing here that Antoinette Jadaone’s charming film is a mockumentary, as you’ll forget it anyway once you sit in the cinema. It feels so real, and its story is so honest.

We meet a toothless old woman, who for decades has played witches, ghosts and other horror visions as an extra in countless Filipino horror B-movies. Nobody knows her name, but everyone shudders a little when they recognise her distinctive face. The woman, Lilia Cuntapay, is real enough and has actually made all these films, but the fact that she is nominated for an award as best supporting actress is a part of the script, and this is where the film turns into fiction. It follows her in the weeks leading up to the awards ceremony, as she movingly buys her dress for the red carpet and prepares her acceptance speech, and one must constantly remind oneself that all this is not real. The great party in the slum, when a small interview with her is shown on TV, and where she has invited the whole neighbourhood, is classical in its construction and painful in its anticlimax.

Intensely moving and extremely relevant.

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6 DEGREES OF SEPARATION FROM LILIA CUNTAPAY Philippines 2011, 93 min.

Tagalog with English subtitles Director: Antoinette Jadaone Script: Antoinette Jadaone Camera: Ma. Solita Garcia Editing: Glenn Ituriaga, Leo Valencia Music: Ayn Marie Dimaya Sound: Ditoy Aguila, Mark Locsin Production: Cinema One Originals, Post Manila Producer: Joenathann Alandy Cast: Neil Colango, Lilia Cuntapay, Raymond Rinoza Distr.: Cinema One Originals

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JANG KUN-JAE

SLEEPLESS NIGHT A BITTERSWEET AND ATMOSPHERIC Korean love story about a young couple who are considering if they should have a child – as do their parents and everyone around them. Two years into their marriage, there is a strong consensus among everyone other than themselves that it’s about time they had a baby. The young couple’s considerations are meanwhile also burdened by more prosaic problems such as work, money and, not least, the prospect of a shortage of both. And on top of this, they generally live a happy and fulfilled life as it is, with time for things like bike trips at night and sharing a glass of beer in their apartment. It sounds low-key, but it is far from it. The director Jang Kun-jae has built the film around episodes from his own life, and with a featherlight ease and a uniquely sensitive precision he manages to create all the small details that make ‘Sleepless Nights’ magically evocative. A universal story about making ones own choices, happily freed from pathos.

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JAM MOT DEUNEUN BAM South Korea 2012, 65 min.

Korean with English subtitles Director: Jang Kun-jae Script: Jang Kun-Jae Camera: Kim Byeong-soo Editing: Kun-jae Jang, Yeon-jeong Lee Music: Kim Dong-Uk Sound: Jang Kun-Jae Production: Mocushura Producer: Jang Kun-Jae, Kim Woo-ri Cast: Kim Ju-Ryoung, Kim Soo-hyeon Distr.: Pascale Ramonda

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BRILLANTE MENDOZA

THY WOMB WITH ‘THY WOMB’, THE Philippine film industry’s frontrunning maverick returns to what he’s best at: quirky everyday stories told with great humanist flair and abundant imagination. We literally start between the legs of a woman in labour – right at eye-level with the quick-witted, elderly midwife Shaleha (convincingly portrayed by actress and musical icon Nora Aunor).

When she isn’t handling new-born babies, she weaves mats and lives a plain life with her husband. They themselves, however, can not have children, which makes her suggest, that he gets married to a younger woman, but without divorcing her. “Instead of seeing him be unfaithful I would rather find him a wife”, as she says. But it is expensive to woo a young woman, and things develop dramatically for the elderly couple, whose quirky goals in life carry the oddly tantalising drama forward. ‘Thy Womb’ is set in the South Philippine island community of Tawi-Tawi, and as we know from Mendoza, the environment is a key element in a film, which on the basis of open-minded realism manages to tell a human drama with major consequences.

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SINAPUPUNAN Philippines 2012, 106 min.

Tagalog with English subtitles Director: Brillante Mendoza Script: Henry Burgos Camera: Odyssey Flores Editing: Kats Serraon Music: Teresa Barrozo Sound: Albert Michael Idioma Production: Center Stage Productions Producer: Larry Castillo Cast: Nora Aunor Distr.: Centerstage Productions

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MAMORU HOSODA

WOLF CHILDREN WOLF CHILDREN IS THE story of the single mother Hana, who after a love affair with a “wolf man” is left alone with the two human wolf children Yuki and Ame. But living in the city with the two wild children is not without its problems, so they move to the countryside, where the litter can grow up. But moving so close to nature comes at a price, for the forest calls, especially for the rootless Ame, and before long the mother has to say good-bye to her children, maybe forever. With Hayao Miyazaki as the most wellknown representative here in Denmark, the Japanese animated films have always been good at blurring boundaries between films for children and adults. Mamoru Hosoda, who previously made ‘Summer Wars’ (PIX’12) and now ‘Wolf Children’ is certainly no exception. The film’s simple and recognisable fable about human destinies evokes both horror, tears and laughter among anyone with a heart that beats for animation, and with his modern but at the same time quiet and poetic style, Mamoru Hosoda shows that he has really stepped out of the shadows of the old masters such as Miyazaki and Satoshi Kon, and is ready to make a name for himself in the anime scene.

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OKAMI KODOMO NO AME TO YUKI Japan 2012, 117 min.

Japanese with English subtitles Director: Mamoru Hosoda Script: Mamoru Hosoda, Satoko Okudera Editing: Animation: Music: Production: Producer: Cast: Distr.:

Shigeru Nishiyama Takaaki Yamashita, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Takagi Masakatsu Studio Chizu, Madhouse Takuya Itô, Yuichiro Sato, Takafumi Watanabe Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Osawa, Haru Kuroki, Yukito Nishii Nippon Television Network Corporation

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JOEL POTRYKUS

APE PUNK SLACKER HUMOUR ON a low budget. The young man Trevor is white as a sheet and thin as a rake, and lives off slush ice from 7-eleven and a job as a stand-up comedian at a miserable bar. There is just one problem: nobody thinks he’s funny. On the other hand, things are going great with his part-time job as a pyromaniac. With his pockets filled with firecrackers and lighter fluid, he ambles around the small town in Michigan, where the director Joel Potrykus himself grew up, and sets things on fire, while he sees visions and cracks jokes to anyone willing to listen. But it is only when he enters into a pact with the devil that things really start moving for our young slacker of an antihero – and from then on there is no turning back! Joshua Burge is a discovery in the role of Trevor, who with his sleepy eyes and gangly physique is a comedian we no doubt will get to see more of. But above all, ‘Ape’ shows that gorilla masks, thrash metal, Molotov cocktails and stoned jokes are all you need to make a both funny and disturbing film.

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April 17 22:30 EMPIRE April 18 21:30 GLORIA

APE USA 2012, 86 min.

English Version Director: Joel Potrykus Script: Joel Potrykus Camera: Tim Saunders Editing: Jeffrey Bauer Sound: Mike Saunders Production: Sob Noisse Movies Producer: Joel Potrykus, Ashley Young, Kevin Clancy Cast: Joshua Burge, Gary Bosek, Teri Nelson, Jason Roth Distr.: Sob Noisse Movies Still: Katy Batdorff

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RAMIN BAHRANI

AT ANY PRICE HENRY WHIPPLE IS ONE of those people who has everything under control. He is a successful farmer, who sells seeds to the other farmers in the region.

His wife is beautiful and supports him loyally in all his decisions, and his two sons are healthy boys. There are grand gestures from daddy across the board, and Henry throws himself carelessly into an affair with the far younger Meredith (Heather Graham). But that kind of good fortune is destined to come to an end, and Henry – brilliantly portrayed by Dennis Quaid – is suddenly hit by adversity. It is revealed that he has cheated and “washed grain” for several years, so the company holding the patent on the grain sues him for breach of contract, and suddenly Henry faces losing it all. His slightly over-tanned appearance – with sweat forming on his forehead and his nerves lying bare – crumbles, while the family slowly falls apart. Henry’s lover won’t back off, and his son (Zac Efron), who lives at home, declares that he does not have the slightest intention of taking over the farm. He would rather drive a racing car. The James Dean references are obvious, but the portrait is at eye-level with the older generation, and Ramin Bahrani’s ‘At Any Price’ is a surprisingly strong psychological portrait of a man’s drastic fall from grace.

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AT ANY PRICE USA 2012, 105 min.

English Version Director: Ramin Bahrani Script: Hallie Elizabeth Newton, Ramin Bahrani Camera: Michael Simmonds Editing: Affonso Gonclaves Music: Dickon Hinchliffe Sound: Tom Efinger Production: Black Bear Pictures, Killer Films, TreeHouse Pictures, Noruz Films Producer: Kevin Turen, Teddy Schwarzman, Justin Nappi, Christine Vachon, Ramin Bahrani, Pamela Koffler Cast: Heather Graham, Clancy Brown, Chelcie Ross, Maika Monroe Distr.: Exclusive Media

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ALEX ROSS PERRY

THE COLOR WHEEL IT ISN’T JUST QUENTIN TARANTINO who has learned to make films by working in a video store. 26-yearold Alex Ross Perry also has a background as one of those kinds of film geeks who can tell you anything you don’t need to know about the French New Wave.

And this is apparent in his black-and-white road movie ‘The Color Wheel’, which could not be further from Tarantino’s colourful genre universe, however. Perry himself plays the young loser Colin, who together with his more extroverted sister J.R. (co-writer Carlen Altman) goes on an awkward road trip through a world of ex-girlfriends, ex-friends and egoists, where all people hate themselves as much as they hate each other. But the misanthropy both makes sense and has its own comic touch, subtly expressed in the dialogue, which is closer to screwball than mumblecore. A constant stream of introspection and searching pervades the film, with a surgical precision of the kind that can be found in authors such as Philip Roth (whose debut novel, the black, sexual-satirical ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ is the basis for this film) or Daniel Clowes. Little happens, but much is said. If you are tired of films that are over-told, then ‘The Color Wheel’ might be just your thing.

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THE COLOR WHEEL USA 2012, 83 min.

English Version Director: Alex Ross Perry Script: Carlen Altman and Alex Ross Perry Camera: Sean Price Williams Editing: Alex Ross Perry Music: John Bosch Sound: John Bosch Production: Dorset Films Producer: Alex Ross Perry Cast: Carlen Altman, Alex Ross Perry, Kate Lyn Sheil, Anna Bak-Kvapil Distr.: Cinema Conservancy – A Division of Artists Public Domain

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STACIE PASSON

CONCUSSION THE LIFE OF 42-YEAR-OLD Abby is set to be perfect.

She is happily married to her lesbian partner, Sam. They have two children, and everything seems to be running smoothly. But one day Abby is hit on the head by the heavy ball while playing baseball with the kids. This changes everything. On the way to the hospital, she repeats “I don’t want this!” with increasing desperation, and it becomes clear that she is referring to her life in general. After recovering, she puts her bourgeois existence behind her and starts a radically new life – where being a housewife, a healthy lifestyle, spinning and this imaginary version of modern self-fulfilment is replaced with a liberating sexual awakening under the pseudonym of Eleanor! She first visits a few prostitutes and then goes on to sell sex herself – only to women, of course. Robin Weigert from ‘Deadwood’ is excellent and sincere as Abby, who turns misfortune into an opportunity, or whatever you want to call it. Elements of the weariness of life and the lascivious desire for sexual exploration in Luis Buñuel’s brothel classic ‘Belle de Jour’ permeate Stacie Passon’s courageous feature debut about an alternative mid-life crisis. Passon portrays Abby’s sexual escapades without sensationalism and, of course, without the masculine perspective, which otherwise so often defines cinematic sex between women.

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CONCUSSION USA 2012, 93 min.

English Version Director: Stacie Passon Script: Stacie Passon Camera: David Kruta Editing: Anthony Cupo Music: Barb Morrison Sound: Jacob Ribicoff Production: Concussion LLC Producer: Rose Troche Cast: Robin Weigert, Julie Fain Lawrence, Emily Kinney, Johnny Tchaikovsky Distr.: Content Media Corporation plc

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MEGAN GRIFFITHS

EDEN 18-YEAR-OLD KOREAN-AMERICAN HYUN JAE is abducted after a drunken night out on the town.

She suddenly finds herself at the mercy of a criminal organisation that forces her into prostitution. As time passes, Hyun Jae, or Eden, as she is now called, finds out what is needed to survive in the cold and cynical world surrounding her. She starts co-operating with her manic and crack-smoking pimp and captor. But this comes at a cost. She is now confronted with a series of choices, which involve the fates of her fellow prisoners, and the distinction between victim and perpetrator becomes blurred. Eden takes place in 1990s USA and is a bleak and dystopian tale based on a true story. The film depicts the darkest sides of mankind and society in a liberatingly unsentimental and unsensational way, making the story even stronger.

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April 16 17:00 GLORIA April 21 19:00 CINEMATEKET

EDEN USA 2012, 98 min.

English Version Director: Megan Griffiths Script: Richard B. Phillips, Megan Griffiths Camera: Sean Porter Editing: Eric Frith Music: Jeramy Koepping, Joshua Morrison Production: Eden Productions, Centripetal Films Producer: Jacob Mosler, Colin Harper Plank Cast: Jamie Chung, Matt O’Leary, Beau Bridges, Jeanine Monterroza Distr.: Cinema Management Group

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ADAM LEON

GIMME THE LOOT A FOUL-MOUTHED STREET TALE about two graffiti painters, Malcolm and Sophie, who get lost in New York, as they consider what the greatest opus of their career should be. The plan: to sneak unnoticed into the baseball giants New York Mets’ stadium and tag the team’s iconic Home Run Apple. The path into the stadium, however, goes through bribery, and they therefore have to hurry up to get hold of 500$. But the question is whether they have what it takes to be petty criminals, just because they have enough attitude to move on the street, or if they are ultimately unwilling to put their money where their mouth is? With ‘Gimme the Loot’, the first-time feature director Adam Leon continues the legacy of Spike Lee and Woody Allen. The two inexperienced graffiti gangsters definitely have the gift of the gab, but when the urban romanticism suddenly swells to disfigured proportions, the surface of even the most hardened teenager starts to crumble. For no matter how hard your statements are, you can never put the right words on love.

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April 15 17:00 GLORIA April 20 16:30 DAGMAR

GIMME THE LOOT USA 2012, 81 min.

English Version Director: Adam Leon Script: Adam Leon Camera: Jonathan Miller Editing: Morgan Faust Music: Nicholas Britell Production: Seven For Ten Productions, in association with Flagstone Features, D.O.T. Pictures, Badminton Stamps Films Producer: Natalie Difford, Dominic Buchanan, Jamund Washington Cast: Tashiana Washington, Ty Hickson, Meeko Gattuso, Zoë Lescaze Distr.: Urban Distribution INT.

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CARTER

MALADIES A FAMILY DRAMA OF the more outlandish kind. Set in a strange mix of 1950s and -60s USA, ‘Maladies’ is the second collaboration of the American visual artist Carter with James Franco (the first one, the rarely screened ‘Erased James Franco’ can also be seen at this year’s festival). Franco here plays the role of the mentally unstable former actor James, who hears voices and also thinks that his career as a writer is just about to take off. His everyday life in a small suburban villa is shared with his no less special sister, Patricia, and the painter Catherine, who is a thorn in the side of the community as she loves dressing like a man. Only supported by their neighbour, an elderly gentleman, who harbours a secret crush on James, we follow everyday life in this far from normal home. With fabulous performances by the trio James (James Franco), Catherine (Catherine Keener) and Patricia (Fallon Goodson), ‘Maladies’ is a subtly told comedy with a sting – about the eccentrics of society and our ways of dealing with them.

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MALADIES USA 2012, 96 min.

English Version Director: Carter Script: Carter Camera: Doug Chamberlain Editing: Curtiss Clayton Music: J. Ralph Production: RabbitBandini Productions, Dot Dot Dot Productions, Stardust Pictures, Most Films, Jeff Rice Films Producer: Vince Jolivette, Miles Levy, Marni Zelnick, Jeff Most, Jeff Rice Cast: James Franco, Catherine Keener, Fallon Goodson, David Straithairn Distr.: Voltage Pictures

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LEE DANIELS

THE PAPERBOY DAMP AND SWEAT ALMOST drip down the walls of ‘Precious’ director Lee Daniels’s latest film ‘The Paperboy’, based on Pete Dexter’s book about lust, love, secrets and deception in 1960s Florida. With no restraint it depicts the various excesses in a both colourful and shameless mix of mystery, South state drama and civil rights struggle. We follow two brothers, Ward and Jack, who have decided to prove that Hillary van Wetter has been wrongly convicted (and sentenced to death) for the murder of a local sheriff. Intense and well-played by a formidable trio consisting of Zac Efron, John Cusack and Matthew McConaughey, and flanked by a fabulous Nicole Kidman, ‘The Paperboy’ offers a shuddering portrayal of a hot Florida, where racism is still alive and kicking.

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THE PAPERBOY USA 2011, 107 min.

English Version Director: Lee Daniels Script: Pete Dexter, Lee Daniels Camera: Roberto Schaefer Editing: Joe Klotz Music: Mario Grigorov Sound: Robert Hein Production: Millennium / Nu Image, Inc., Lee Daniels Entertainment Producer: Lee Daniels, Avi Lerner, Hilary Shor, Ed Cathell III, Cassian Elwes Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, David Oyelowo Distr.: Mis. Label / Midget Entertainment

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MIKE OTT

PEARBLOSSOM HWY THE AMERICAN INDIE DIRECTOR Mike Ott could be seen with his first three films at CPH PIX in 2011. This year, he is back with ‘Pearblossom Hwy’, which adds some dark tones to Ott’s special sensitivity towards the dreamy vulnerability of youth life. The title’s highway extends through southern California’s desert landscapes, and it is down this highway that the young friends Cory (the regular Ott-character Cory Zacharia) and Anna decide to escape from their deadly suburban lives. He wants to be famous on TV through the video diary that he tirelessly confesses to. She wants to find a way to return to Japan to see her dying grandmother, before it’s too late. Cory’s older brother Jeff suggests that they pass by San Francisco to visit the father that Cory has never met, and this becomes the beginning of an existential road trip in the American tradition, where the journey itself is the destination. An independent film in the most literal sense of the word.

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PEARBLOSSOM HWY USA 2012, 78 min.

English Version Director: Mike Ott Script: Mike Ott, Atsuko Okatsuka Camera: Mike Gioulakis Editing: David Nordstrom Music: Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir Production: Small Form Films, Haos Films Producer: Fredrick Thornton, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Mike Ott, Molly Hansen Cast: Atsuko Okatsuka, Cory Zacharia, John Brotherton, Stephen Tobolowsky Distr.: Small Form Films

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ANTONIO CAMPOS

SIMON KILLER WITH A BACKPACK FULL of heartaches, Simon heads from New York to Paris. Away from his girlfriend, family and homeland to drown his pain in the city of love. But the days are long, and redemption fails to materialise, until he one day meets the champagne girl Victoria at a bar. He quickly goes from being just a customer to starting a relationship with her, and soon the two see new financial opportunities in blackmailing her married clients for money. But while Victoria slowly falls in love with her new pimp, Simon slowly wakes up from his stupor and shows entirely new sides of himself. With ‘Simon Killer’, the stylish ‘Afterschool’ director Antonio Campos delivers a gripping study of the difficult art of manipulation and its consequences. A subdued and dark tale of finding love in the wrong places, and about the mysterious Simon, who like a wounded wolf slowly sheds his sheep’s hide and reveals his true instincts.

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SIMON KILLER USA 2012, 105 min.

English, French with English subtitles Director: Antonio Campos Script: Antonio Campos, Brady Corbet, Mati Diop Camera: Joe Anderson Editing: Zac Stuart-Pontier, Antonio Campos, Babak Jalali Music: Saunder Jurriaans, Danny Bensi Sound: Coll Anderson, Micah Bloomberg Production: FilmHaven Entertainment, BorderLine Films Producer: Sean Durkin, Josh Mond, Matt Palmieri Cast: Mati Diop, Brady Corbet, Michael Abiteboul, Constance Rousseau Distr.: Fortissimo Film Sales

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MICHEL GONDRY

THE WE AND THE I FRENCH DIRECTING MAGICIAN AND music video whiz kid Michel Gondry (‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’) is back in New York City – this time in the company of a school bus full of hormone-stricken teenagers on their way through the Bronx after the school bell has tolled in their summer holidays. They are all main characters in ‘The We and the I’, which is a reallife-comedy playing out in real-time. From the moment the bus sets off to when the last person gets off, the air is electrified by verbal jabs and secret feelings in a film that doesn’t turn a blind eye to all the forms of peer pressure and bullying that are a part of (youth) life in the urban jungle. And if you think that the youths’ tone sounds especially authentic, there is in fact something to it. For the film is a result of a workshop on art and social activism, which Gondry himself ran, and where all the actors took part. Many small stories are thereby intertwined into a big mixtape of quirky stories, which are ultimately about finding oneself.

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THE WE AND THE I UK, USA, France 2012, 103 min.

English Version Director: Michel Gondry Script: Michel Gondry, Paul Proch, Jeff Grimshaw Camera: Alex Disenhof Editing: Jeff Buchanan Sound: Paul Hsu, Matt McLarty Production: Partizan Films, in association with Kinology, Mars Films Producer: Michel Gondry, Julie Fong, Raffi Adlan, Georges Bermann Cast: Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Laidychen Carrasco, Raymond Delgado Distr.: Kinology

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AKU LOUHIMIES

8-BALL PIKE IS RELEASED FROM prison and journeys out into the world in an attempt to make a fresh start. But the past – and not least its notorious acquaintances – are not so easy to shake off, and the single mother of a baby is fighting a courageous struggle to keep them at bay. She entrenches herself in the bleak suburban apartment she has been given by the authorities, and for a brief moment one can glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel. But Pike’s ex, the father of her child, and also her only great, passionate love, Lalli, tracks her down in no time, and their relationship resumes – with everything it implies in terms of sex, hard drugs, petty crime and violence. But their relationship also has a striking tenderness. In a parallel story, we meet the ageing detective Elias, who does what he can to protect her in the best illegal, but dedicated way. Aki Lohimies’s (‘Frozen Land’) classic Nordic gangster film lives through its close portrayal of the woman with the angelic face, who repeatedly makes the wrong choices – with her own life and that of her child at stake.

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April 11 19:00 PALADS April 18 19:00 PALADS

8-PALLO Finland 2013, 107 min.

Finnish with English subtitles Director: Aku Louhimies Script: Jari Olavi Rantala Camera: Mika Orasmaa F.S.C. Editing: Samu Heikkilä Sound: Kirka Sainio Production: Blind Spot Pictures, Mjölk Producer: Tero Kaukomaa, Marko Antila Cast: Jessica Grabowsy, Eero Aho, Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Mikko Leppilampi Distr.: Finnish Film Foundation

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EVA SØRHAUG

90 MINUTES AFTER HER BOLD DEBUT ‘Cold Lunch’ (2008), the Norwegian director Eva Sørhaug is back with an equally well-made and interesting sequel. In ‘90 Minutes’, she indirectly tackles Breivik’s senseless massacre in July 2011. The starting point is three different stories, which all revolve around male frustration and anger, for which – like in Breivik’s case – there is no immediate explanation.

Sørhaug has purged her story of psychological and social constructivist air bags, and the title’s 90 minutes refer to the last period of time up to the three murders, which are unavoidable in the film’s logic. The middleaged businessman Johan meticulously prepares a last meal for his wife, the policeman Fred loses control during his weekly visit to his ex-wife and children, and the drug-addict Trond terrorises his young wife and their newborn child. Sørhaug’s style is cool, almost clinical, and the immaculate homes that the characters find themselves in quickly turn into prisons. ‘90 Minutes’ is not a pleasant film, but a persistent and important splinter, whose painful reality can not be ignored.

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April 12 19:00 PALADS April 16 21:30 PALADS

90 MINUTTER Norway 2012, 92 min.

Norwegian with English subtitles Director: Eva Sørhaug Script: Eva Sørhaug Camera: Harald Gunnar Palgaard Editing: Vidar Flataukan Music: Henrik Skram Sound: Bent Holm Production: 4 1/2 Fiksjon AS Producer: Håkon Øveraas Cast: Aksel Hennie, Kaia Varjord, Bjørn Floberg, Annmari Kastrup Distr.: Det Norske Filminstitut (NFI)

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MIKAEL MARCIMAIN

CALL GIRL IN THE MIDDLE OF 1970s Stockholm – an era marked by the optimism of the welfare state, nuclear power, Swedish neutrality, women’s liberation and sexual emancipation – the 14-year-old orphan Iris ends up in the clutches of the unscrupulous brothel dame Dagmar Glans and her escort agency. She is initially lured by easy money, expensive clothes and free booze and parties.

But the flip side of this existence soon rears its ugly face. At the same time, the police is on the trail of a prostitution ring, but a web of political corruption and abuse of power make it almost impossible to solve the case. The story is inspired by the political scandal that became known as Bordellhärvan, which could trace lines from the prostitution of minors to the top of Swedish society – including the Swedish Justice Minister Lennart Geijer. The whole story is told in a rapid pace, and is beautifully wrapped in an authentic 70s look and a disco-driven soundtrack.

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April 19 21:15 GLORIA April 21 11:30 GRAND April 21 16:30 AARHUS ØST FOR PARADIS

CALL GIRL Sweden, Ireland, Norway, Finland 2012, 140 min.

Swedish, English with English subtitles Director: Mikael Marcimain Script: Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten Camera: Hoyte van Hoytema Editing: Kristofer Nordin Music: Mattias Bärjed Production: Garagefilm International AB, Newgrange Pictures, Friland Produksjon A/S, Yellow Film & TV Oy, Film i Väst, SVT, The Chimney Pot, Dagsljus AB, Nouvago Capital Producer: Mimmi Spång Cast: Pernilla August, Sofia Karemyr, Simon J Berger, Sven Nordin Distr.: TrustNordisk

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NATIONAL DAYS AT PIX GERMAN DAY

16:30 THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT - Ramon Zürcher — p.20

CINEMATEKET APRIL 16

18:45 GOLD - Thomas Arslan — p.169

PROGRAMME OF THE DAY:

21:30 SILVI – MAYBE LOVE - Nico Sommer — p.170

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ITALIAN DAY

16:30 BENUR - Massimo Andrei — p.165

CINEMATEKET APRIL 19

19:00 PRETTY BUTTERFLIES - Salvatore Mereu — p.34

PROGRAMME OF THE DAY:

21:45 REALITY - Matteo Garrone — p.124

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FRENSH DAY

16:30 THÉRÈSE DESQUEYROUX - Claude Miller — p.163

GRAND TEATRET APRIL 22

19:00 EFTER REVOLUTIONEN - Olivier Assayas — p.160

PROGRAMME OF THE DAY:

21:30 WRONG - Quentin Dupieux — p.146

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CRAIG VIVEIROS

THE LIABILITY 20-YEAR-OLD ADAM (JACK O’CONNELL), who is more captivated by the video game ‘Grand Theft Auto’ than is good for him, dreams of becoming a murderer. When he one day comes to harm as he wrecks the car of his mother’s ruthless boyfriend, Peter (played by the forever awe-inspiring Peter Mullan), he is no longer far from his semi-romanticised ideas of living a life in the underworld.

For Peter forces Adam to be the chauffeur for his shady friend Roy (Tim Roth), a contract killer who is looking at getting his last hit out of the way. Roy employs a method of knotted entanglements to keep the police investigators at bay, and Adam is sucked further and further into Roy’s macabre world. Everything seems to be going according to plan, until an unexpected witness turns up. The pretty young Carly has apparently seen what happened, and Roy and his cronies feel they are forced to eliminate her. But this is more easily said than done. Tim Roth delivers a top-notch performance in Craig Viveiro’s bloody action thriller ‘The Liability’, which subtly plays with Roth’s previous performances in films like ‘The Hit’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’.

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April 18 21:30 PALADS April 21 18:00 EMPIRE

THE LIABILITY UK 2012, 95 min.

English Version Director: Craig Viveiros Script: John Wrathall Camera: James Friend Editing: Pia Di Ciaula Music: Vicky Wijeratne Sound: Vincent Watts, Stu Wright Production: Corona Pictures, Starchild Pictures Producer: Richard Johns, Rupert Jermyn Cast: Tim Roth, Jack O’Connell, Talulah Riley, Peter Mullen Distr.: Another World Entertainment

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JOSHUA BAGNALL, HERMAN YAU

ROCK AND ROLL FUCK ‘N’ LOVELY THE ULTIMATE ROCK’N’ROLL TOUR disguised as the ultimate (or at least a pretty unforgettable) horror movie. The fictional band The Fuckin’ Lovelies goes on tour, and in classic rock style the devil is on board the tour bus, where there are three simple rules that you obviously have to be an Englishman to understand. Or maybe you just have to be loaded! In any case, the bus teeters along with a crew of pleasure seekers, crack heads and psychopaths on board, heading towards a legendary festival, which is possibly no more than the product of a collective rock star fantasy – or which might also be a diabolic mirage that leads the whole troupe into a macabre, parallel nightmare world of death and mutilation. In addition to giving us this year’s most punchy title, Josh Bagnall’s film can boast names such as Pete Doherty, Mich Whitnall (Babyshambles) and Morgan Nichols (The Streets) in the cast list. Someone should invent a drinking game based on this film.

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April 12 22:30 EMPIRE April 23 17:00 GLORIA

ROCK AND ROLL FUCK ‘N’ LOVELY UK 2013, 80 min.

English Version Director: Joshua Bagnall, Herman Yau Script: Joshua Bagnall, Yin-Yee Tin, Herman Yau Camera: Joshua Bagnall, Robert Horwell Editing: Robert Horwell, Yan Miles Production: Fish-Pot Productions Producer: Spencer Leven, Josh Bagnal,l Yan Miles, Robert Horwell Cast: Joel Fry, Anton Saunders, Crispian Belfrage, Lee Whitlock Distr.: Spencer Leven

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ROWAN ATHALE

WASTELAND HARVEY (LUKE TREADAWAY) IS a young man from Yorkshire in North England. His life is almost perfect, and his dream of becoming a lawyer seems to be within reach, until he one day is imprisoned for drug possession. Harvey is convinced that he has been framed by the local sadist of a drug lord, Roper, so when he is finally released, his primary goal is revenge.

He gathers his old friends and entrusts them with his plan of committing a devastating act of revenge, which will restore Harvey’s dignity, raise money to open a café and, with a bit of luck, get him his girlfriend back. But the path from thought to action is long when one is up against the sinister figures of Yorkshire’s wastelands. In his feature film debut, Rowan Athale shares his insider knowledge to take us down into the underworld of the working class, and draws thematic and aesthetic inspiration from films such as ‘The Usual Suspects’ and ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’.

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April 16 19:00 PALADS April 20 22:30 EMPIRE

WASTELAND UK 2012, 106 min.

English Version Director: Rowan Athale Script: Rowan Athale Camera: Stuart Bentley Editing: Kim Gaster Music: Neil Athale Sound: Tarn Willers Production: Moli-Mischief Ltd Producer: Ed Barratt, Gareth Pritchard, Mark Foligno Cast: Luke Treadaway, Iwan Rheon, Matthew Lewis, Gerard Kearns Distr.: Bankside Films

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NEWS FROM NEW DANISH SCREEN THE LATEST CROP FROM the talent support initiative of the Danish Film Institute New Danish Screen

We 2 GIRLS 1 CAKE Denmark 2013, 13 min.

Director: Jens Dahl Cast: Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Amalie Lindegård

AFTERPARTY Denmark 2013, 13 min.

Director: Jens Dahl Cast: Mette Christoffersen, Julie Christiansen, Adam Brix

HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN Denmark 2013, 52 min.

Director: Kræsten Kusk Cast: Signe Egholm Olsen, Mads Riisom, Lars Simonsen, Jens Jørn Spottag

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SUPER 16 – BLOCK A WE PRESENT ANOTHER IMPRESSIVE series of first year film from the alternative vocational training programmet Super16.

BOYS IN THE HOOD Denmark 2013, 20 min.

Director: Emil Næsby Cast: Mark Emil Poulsen, Jack Alexander Grassov, Mark Wilhardt-Kruse, Elliot Hove

A DOLL’S HOUSE Denmark 2013, 27 min.

Director: Tobias Gundorff Boesen Cast: Thomas Levin, Camille-Cathrine Rommedahl

BEST MAN Denmark 2013, 20 min.

Director: Tommy Oksen Cast: Sargun Oshana, Jens Frederik SætterLassen, Danica Curcic, Zinnini Elkington

Tu Tu Tu

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SUPER 16 – BLOCK B WE PRESENT ANOTHER IMPRESSIVE series of first year film from the alternative vocational training programmet Super16.

NOW, LET’S HAVE FUN Denmark 2013, 25 min.

Director: Emil Falke Cast: Sebastian Bull Sarning, Coco Hjardemaal, Thomas Ernst, Ramadan Huseini

TRUE LOVE Denmark 2013, 24 min.

Director: Heidrik a Heygum Cast: Wiktor Strand Hansson, Jenny Kragesteen, Eivør Palsdottir

YOLO Denmark 2013, 20 min.

Director: Marie Grahtø Sørensen Cast: Julie Brochorst Andersen, Stephania Potalivo, Frederikke Dahl Hansen

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SUPER 16 – BLOCK C WE PRESENT ANOTHER IMPRESSIVE series of first year film from the alternative vocational training programmet Super16.

Tu TOGETHER ALONE Denmark 2013, 45 min.

Director: Charlotte Madsen Cast: Anette Støvelbæk, Michael Asmussen, Helena Quist Kristensen, Gordon Kennedy

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SUPER8 PRESENTS COME AND SEE WHAT the alternative, Århus based film school, Super8, is made of when we show their films, free of charge.

AMBULO Denmark 2013, 7 min.

Director: Mathias Elmose Andersen Cast: Andrea Vagn Jensen, Julie Brochorst Andersen

THE TASTE OF LIFE Denmark 2013, 13 min.

Director: Chadi Abdul-Karim Cast: Lars Høy, Maj Lise Rosendal, Bente Rind, Katrine Beck

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PIND’S CAFÉ Denmark 2013, 10 min.

Director: Johannes Guttorm Thomsen Cast: Ulla Henningsen, Dick Kaysø, Sara Line Møller Olsen, Johannes Guttorm Thomsen

IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Denmark 2013, 15 min.

Director: Andreas Steen Sørensen Cast: Ove Pedersen, Bodil Lassen, Anders Baggesen

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CIARÁN FOY

CITADEL TOMMY AND HIS PREGNANT wife live in a grey and bleak ghetto in Ireland. On a day that is almost like every other, life is changed forever, when his wife is brutally attacked by a small group of hooded youths, while he has to look on helplessly. She is stabbed to death, but the unborn child survives, and after the incident he develops a serious and life-threatening agoraphobia, which makes him isolate himself completely. But the past will not let go of him, and the small hooded mannequins return, now in an even more demonic form, and this time they’re after his child. ‘Citadel’ is based on the debut director Ciaran Foy’s own experiences after an assault, and is an effective and highly personal horror film without too many gratuitous effects. It is a truly grim experience, which feeds off the primal fear of the unknown, here personified by the repulsive souland ageless hooded demons. It is a ‘hoodie horror’, packed with atmosphere and effective shocks, which is guaranteed to ruin your next few walks through the more derelict parts of your neighbourhood.

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CITADEL Ireland, UK 2012, 84 min.

English Version Director: Ciarán Foy Script: Ciarán Foy Camera: Tim Fleming Editing: Tony Kearns, Jake Roberts Music: Tomandandy Sound: Steve Fanagan Production: Blinder Films, Citadel Films Producer: Katie Holly, Brian Coffey Cast: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Jake Wilson, Wunmi Mosaku Distr.: Films Distribution

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CRAIG ZOBEL

COMPLIANCE A MOBILE PHONE AND a burger joint. These are the two simple ingredients in Craig Zobel’s minimalist and controversial psychological thriller, which explores how far we as human beings are willing to go as long as we believe in an authority, even if this authority is not even physically present. ‘Compliance’ is played out over a few hours at an American burger restaurant, where the already stressed manager gets a call from a police officer who claims that one of the employees, the pretty young Becky, has been stealing from the customers. But what starts out as an innocent routine call ends in psychological terror and physical abuse.

On the surface, ‘Compliance’ is a simple film, but its minimalism is precisely its strength. No artistic trickery is used to divert attention from the essence of the story and the intense psychological games. A film that is likely to stir up quite a discussion.

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April 14 15:00 EMPIRE April 21 20:00 EMPIRE

COMPLIANCE USA 2012, 90 min.

English Version Director: Craig Zobel Script: Craig Zobel Camera: Adam Stone Editing: Jane Rizzo Music: Heather McIntosh Sound: Christof Gebert Production: Bad Cop Bad Cop Film Productions, Muskat Filmed Properties, Dogfish Pictures Producer: Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin, Lisa Muskat, Theo Sena, Craig Zobel Cast: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp Distr.: Memento Films

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KIM JEE-WOON, YIM PIL-SUNG

DOOMSDAY BOOK THE ANTHOLOGY FILM ‘DOOMSDAY BOOK’ has been Jee-woon Kim (‘I Saw The Devil’, ‘A Tale of Two Sisters’) and Pil-Sung Yim’s (‘Hansel & Gretel’) pet project over the past six years. The title alludes to the film’s three pretty alternative takes on what the apocalypse might look like, and it isn’t a quiet affair, if we are to believe the two crazy Koreans. The first segment offers a classic zombie apocalypse in a witty Asian style, when a rotten apple kicks off an epidemic of death and destruction. In the second and more philosophical segment, we meet a robot who has achieved Buddhist insight and seeks a monastery. But the creators of the robot believe it to be a software error and show up to stop it. But can the robot convince them that its beliefs are real or is it just trying to save its own metal skin? In the third and funniest segment, a small girl inadvertently orders the end of the world on the internet – and there is no cancel button.

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April 15 21:30 CINEMATEKET April 20 19:30 CINEMATEKET

IN LYOO MYEOL MANG BO GO SEO South Korea 2012, 113 min.

Korean with English subtitles Director: Kim Jee-Woon, Yim Pil-Sung Script: Pil-sung Yim, Hwan-hee Lee, Jiwoon Kim, Jong-ah Jang Camera: Sung-min Ha, Ji-yong Kim, Sangyun Jo Editing: Sun-kyoung Im, Se-gyeong, Mun Na-yeong Nam Music: Mowg Production: Zio Entertainment Producer: Hyeon-muk Choi, Myeong-eun Kim, Yeong-hun Oh Cast: Kang-woo Kim, Seung-beom Ryu, Sae-Byeok Song, Gyu-ri Kim Distr.: M-Line Distribution

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ROB ZOMBIE

THE LORDS OF SALEM TAKE A SLIGHTLY CRAZY radio hostess in Salem and a mysterious record with satanic chanting – and add a few old, but not yet rusty, horror heroes and heroines, including Ken Foree (‘Dawn of the Dead’, ‘From Beyond’) and Dee Wallace (‘The Howling’, ‘Critters’, ‘Cujo’). Round it off with bizarre witchcraft rituals, drugs of your own choice and a few demons, and mix it all together well to the tunes of dangerous beat music, and you roughly end up with Rob Zombie’s occult witches’ brew of a film.

With ‘The Lords of Salem’, Zombie takes a step away from his more rock’n’roll grindhouse antics and remakes, and moves into a more dark and occult territory. And let it be said from the outset: its completely spaced-out and raving mad style (especially in the film’s last act, which could be described as “Ken Russell goes amok in Photoshop”) is likely to divide opinions, especially among his avid fans, but this is – for better or for worse – his most personal and therefore most interesting film to date, so sceptics of his previous works will benefit from giving this one a try.

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April 14 19:00 PALADS April 20 20:00 EMPIRE

THE LORDS OF SALEM USA, UK, Canada 2012, 101 min.

English Version Director: Rob Zombie Script: Rob Zombie Camera: Brandon Trost Editing: Glen Garland Music: John 5 Production: Alliance Films, Automatik Entertainment, Haunted Films, IM Global, Blumhouse Productions Producer: Rob Zombie, Oren Peli, Jason Blum, Andy Gould Cast: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison, Jeffrey Daniel Phillips, Ken Foree Distr.: IM Global Still: Daniel C. McFadden

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NICHOLAS MCCARTHY

THE PACT AFTER HER MOTHER’S DEATH, the hardened motorbike girl Annie travels back to her childhood home to prepare for the funeral and say a last farewell. But already after spending a few nights in the house, she feels that she is not alone, and a series of unexplained experiences and nightmares make her delve into the family’s past and look for her lost sister, who never showed up at the funeral. A hunt that leads her onto the trail of the mysterious serial killer Judas and some terrible family secrets. ‘The Pact’ is a classic horror film, packed so damned efficiently and enthusiastically, that you can do little else than submit to it. Its complex plot alternates perfectly between doubt and a chilling horror that makes you wish that you had taken your adult diapers with you to the cinema. Old-school thrill based on classic virtues such as a strong protagonist, solid directing and good old-fashioned horror tricks.

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April 11 22:30 EMPIRE April 19 22:30 EMPIRE

THE PACT USA 2012, 95 min.

English Version Director: Nicholas McCarthy Script: Nicholas McCarthy Camera: Bridger Nielson Editing: Adriaan van Zyl Music: Ronen Landa Sound: Chris Terhune, Chris Howland Production: Preferred Content Producer: Ross M. Dinerstein Cast: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Agnes Bruckner, Haley Hudson Distr.: Content Media Corporation plc

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JUAN CARLOS MEDINA

PAINLESS AFTER A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT, the neurosurgeon David Martell finds out that he is suffering from lymphoma.

A bone marrow transplant is his only hope, and he therefore has to seek out his biological parents, whom he hasn’t had any contact with. The meeting with the parents uncovers threads all the way back to the Spanish civil war and experiments with children who were unable to feel pain. The roots of Fascism are explored in a fantastically dark and disturbing allegory in a script by the man behind the Spanish genre hit ‘Rec’ – and of course with a certain spiritual kinship with new classics such as ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ and ‘The Orphanage’. Without hesitating, the debut director Juan Carlos Medina mixes various genres, ranging from fantasy to gothic horror, and in this way manages to create a captivating puzzle of a film, which goes from shocking to sad and back again. Told with great beauty and an enormous flair for surprise.

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INSENSIBLES Spain, France, Portugal 2012, 100 min.

Catalan, Spanish, German, English with Danish subtitles Director: Juan Carlos Medina Script: Luiso Berdejo, Juan Carlos Medina Camera: Alejando Martinez Editing: Pedro Ribeiro Music: Johan Soderqvist Sound: Frédéric Le Louet Production: Les Films dAntoine, Tobina Film, Fado Filmes, A Contracorriente Films, Canal+, Cofimage, Eurimages, ICIC, Ibermedia, ICAA, Roxbury Pictures Producer: Adolfo Blanco, Antoine Simkine, Francois Cognard, Miguel A. Faura Cast: Àlex Brendemühl, Derek de Lint, Irene Montalà, Tómas Lemarquis Distr.: Elle Driver

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BRIAN DE PALMA

PASSION THERE IS PLENTY OF passion in Brian de Palma’s latest thriller. In a ruthless Berlin-based advertising agency, the young Isabelle (Noomi Rapace) is taken under the wing of her slightly older boss, Christine. The hierarchical relationship between the blond boss and the young apprentice is quickly established, but the presumption as to who is on top is quickly challenged. For Isabelle enters into a daring affair with Christine’s husband. While Christine, on the other hand, steals her apprentice’s ideas and promotes herself with them, in the hope of advancing and thereby moving her career to NYC. But Isabelle is not as naive as her dark doe-eyed persona would make us think, and she promptly takes revenge.

‘Passion’ changes directions constantly, and this sets the pace for a highly entertaining, shocking and liberatingly hysterical film. It is de Palma like we know him – with a love triangle, lesbian relationships and caricatured contrasts in the blond boss, the dark apprentice and the red-haired secretary, who are always on the border between parody and saucy pastiche.

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April 17 20:00 EMPIRE April 21 21:30 PALADS

PASSION France, Germany 2012, 98 min.

English Version Director: Brian De Palma Script: Brian De Palma Camera: José Luis Alcaine Editing: François Gédigier Music: Pino Donaggio Sound: Nicolas Cantin Production: SBS Productions Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd Cast: Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams, Paul Anderson, Karoline Herfurth Distr.: Wild Bunch Still: Guy Ferrandis

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JUSTIN BENSON, AARON MOORHEAD

RESOLUTION IT IS SAID THAT the devil is in the detail, and this is especially true for the intelligent thriller ‘Resolution’; a film that at first glance looks like classic American indie, but which soon develops into what one might call occult mumblecore, where it is hard to distinguish fantasy from reality. The expectant father Michael travels to a secluded cabin in an Indian reservation to get his old friend Chris to stop taking drugs. But Chris has no plans to go clean, so Michael has to resort to tough measures and quite simply chains his best friend to a pipe to watch over him, until he is clean. But they are not alone. Someone or something is observing them and leaving small messages. But is it Chris’s old drug friends, the local Indians, or is there really an occult presence?

Michael’s paranoia quickly spreads to the audience, and soon you can’t keep your eyes off the many details which maybe are, maybe are not pure imagination working overtime. A rare case of an intelligent horror film, which plays effectively with the genre’s conventions.

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RESOLUTION USA 2012, 93 min.

English Version Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead Script: Justin Benson Camera: Aaron Moorhead Editing: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead Sound: Derrek Jones, Andrea Kao Producer: David Clarke Lawson Jr., Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead Cast: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Kurt David Anderson Distr.: Raven Banner

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ANDREWS, BETTIS, CATTET, ESPINOZA, EISENER, FORZANI, ABOGLIANO, GENS, HARDCASTLE, IGUCHI, MALLING, GRAU, MORGENTHALER, NISHIMURA, PISANTHANAKUN, RUMLEY, SARMIENTO, SCHNEPP, SPASOJEVIC, TJAHJANTO, TRAUCKI, VIGALONDO, WEST, WEST, WHEATLEY, WINGARD, YAMAGUCHI

THE ABCS OF DEATH THE TITLE “W IS FOR WTF” summarises well what one can expect from the short film anthology ‘The ABCs of Death’. 26 short films, one for each letter of the alphabet, directed by 26 of today’s most talented, innovative and experimental genre directors, including Nacho Vigalondo (‘Timecrimes’), Ben Wheatley (‘Kill List’, ‘Sightseers’), Adam Wingard (‘A Horrible Way to Die’) and Srdjan Spasojevic (‘A Serbian Film’), to name but a few. No artistic guidelines, no censorship, as long as the time limit, budget and criminal law is adhered to, and this is a challenge that many have obviously taken to its absolute limits. The films on offer include classical shock, French gore, Japanese fart humour and Spanish slapstick, and then there are those like Jason ‘Hobo With a Shotgun’ Eisener’s ‘Y is for Young Buck’, which quite simply pushes the boundaries of bad taste, or the beautiful experimental film ‘O is for Orgasm’ by the New Talent PIX 2010 winners Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (‘Amer’). Even the Danish animator Anders Morgenthaler has made a segment. And as one of the producers proclaimed when he presented the film at the genre festival in Sitges: “If you haven’t been repulsed by at least one of the films, then there is something seriously wrong with you.”

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April 14 19:30 EMPIRE April 22 21:45 EMPIRE

THE ABCS OF DEATH USA, New Zealand 2012, 123 min.

English Version Director: Kaare Andrews, Angela Bettis, Hélène Cattet, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Jason Eisener, Bruno Forzani, Adrián García Bogliano, Xavier Gens, Lee Hardcastle, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Jorge Michel Grau, Anders Morgenthaler, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Ben Wheatley, Adam Wingard, Yudai Yamaguchi Cast: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Kyra Zagorsky, Erik Aude, Iván González Distr.: Magnolia Pictures

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DON COSCARELLI

JOHN DIES AT THE END PAUL GIAMATTI, A HOTDOG telephone and huge amounts of drugs are just some of the ingredients in Don ‘Phantasm’ Coscarelli’s anarchic, logic-defying horror film ‘John Dies at the End’. A film about aliens, unknown dimensions, a dog that must save the world and, not least, a mysterious substance called soy sauce.

And that’s only scratching the surface of the film’s plot.

Or lack thereof? For let it be said from the outset: ‘John Dies at the End’ is not a film for everyone. Its raving madness will certainly mean some people will give up along the way, but for those with the right mindset, it will be well worth the trip. It is like having all B, horror, sci-fi, drug and slacker movies ever made injected directly into your cerebral cortex.

Mo Sa

April 15 22:30 EMPIRE April 20 19:00 PALADS

JOHN DIES AT THE END USA 2012, 99 min.

English Version Director: Don Coscarelli Script: Don Coscarelli Camera: Mike Gioulakis Editing: Don Coscarelli Animation: David Hartman Music: Matthew Llewellyn Sound: Andy Hurtado Production: M3 Alliance Producer: Brad Baruh Cast: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Clancy Brown Distr.: Magnolia Pictures

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MARCO MAK

NAKED SOLDIER ‘NAKED SOLDIER’ IS THE third part of the action trilogy that began in 1992 with ‘Naked Killer’ and was followed up in 2002 with ‘Naked Weapon’. But now it’s the soldiers’ turn to strip naked. The action takes place in the 1990s, when a little girl is kidnapped to be trained as a killing machine for a crime syndicate led by Madame Rose. 15 years later, her father – a renowned police officer played by the veteran Sammo Hung – is hot on the trail of his daughter and a massive conspiracy, where she is set to kill all rivals. Violence, corny humour and hard-hitting babes in tight leather bikinis. ‘Naked Soldier’ might not live up to past Hong Kong masterpieces, but it does a good job – and fortunately resists taking itself too seriously. So even though the plot and the dialogue are often thinner than the girls’ clothing, you can still look forward to a wonderful mental break in the company of crazy and energetic Hong Kong nostalgia.

Fr Sa

April 12 21:30 April 20 21:30

PALADS PALADS

NAKED SOLDIER Hong Kong 2011, 95 min.

Cantonese, English, Chinese with English subtitles Director: Marco Mak Script: Wong Jing Camera: Man-po Cheung, Kin-fai Miu Editing: Kar-wing Lee, Marco Mak Music: Ying-Wah Wong Production: Mega-Vision Pictures (MVP) Producer: Wong Jing Cast: Sammo Hung, Jennifer Tse, Andy On Distr.: Mega-Vision Pictures Ltd.

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CALVIN LEE REEDER

THE RAMBLER IF YOU IMAGINE DAVID LYNCH, Werner Herzog and Monte Hellman teaming up to remake ‘Evil Dead II’ as a road movie on peyote, then ‘The Rambler’ is roughly what you end up with. The silent cowboy with the ironic name The Rambler (Dermot Mulroney) has just been released from prison. He is bored at work and decides to look for his brother’s farm, but the road is long and windy, filled with temptations and diabolic pacts, and before long it dawns on us that his trip is not linear, but that he is caught in an endless circle, where the same people are gliding in and out of his half-awake, absurd nightmare. On his way, he meets various reptiles, a mad scientist who can record thoughts on VHS tapes and the same girl who repeatedly catches his eye. Dermot Mulroney, whom we best know as the ‘handsome guy’ in mainstream films, is brilliantly cast and makes a risky career move in ‘The Rambler’, a true midnight film, which is surprising for all the right reasons.

Sa Th

April 13 21:30 PALADS April 18 22:30 EMPIRE

THE RAMBLER USA 2013, 97 min.

English Version Director: Calvin Lee Reeder Script: Calvin Lee Reeder Camera: Dave McFarland Editing: Buzz Pierce Music: Scott Honea, Jed Maheu, Heather McIntosh Production: Also Known As Pictures, Brooklyn Reptyle Films, WindowLight Pictures, XYZ Films Producer: Nate Bolotin, Christo Dimassis, James Lejsek, Roger M. Mayer, Clayton Young Cast: Dermot Mulroney, Ali Larter, Lindsay Pulsipher, Peter Stomare Distr.: The Festival Agency Still: Juliana Halvorson

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GIULIA BRAZZALE, LUCA IMMESI

RITUAL – A PSYCHOMAGIC STORY PSYCHOMAGIC IS A FORM of therapy developed by the Chilean comic book writer, film and theatre director, therapist et al. Alejandro Jodorowsky (‘El Topo’, ‘Holy Mountain’) and, in short, is about being able to cure traumas by performing certain rituals that are formulated in a symbolic language. ‘Ritual – A Psychomagic Story’ is loosely based on this theory – as well as on Jodorowsky’s autobiography ‘The Dance of Reality’. We follow the fragile woman Lia’s psychomagical journey and insights after she escapes to the city of Mason, because her sadistic boyfriend Viktor tries to force her to have an abortion. Here, her aunt Agata, who is the wise woman of the city, introduces her to the ancient customs, myths and rituals of the field. Like an inner therapeutic road movie in slow motion, ‘Ritual’ jazzily weaves its way through a number of strong and beautiful tableaux and rituals, and borrows elements from everything ranging from Italian horror to experimental films and contemporary video art. The soundtrack is composed

by Moby, and Jodorowsky himself plays a minor role.

Mo Fr

April 15 21:45 April 19 21:45

CINEMATEKET CINEMATEKET

RITUAL Italy 2012, 90 min.

Italian, Spanish with English subtitles Director: Giulia Brazzale, Luca Immesi Script: Giulia Brazzale, Luca Immesi Camera: Luca Coassin Editing: Giulia Brazzale, Luca Immesi Music: Michele Menini Production: Esperimento Cinema Producer: Giulia Brazzale, Luca Immesi Cast: Désirée Giorgetti, Ivan Franek, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Anna Bonasso Distr.: Reel Suspects

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DISTRIBUTOR INDEX Another Dimension of an IDea info@anotherdimension.be

Films Distribution info@filmsdistribution.com

Another World Entertainment mads@anotherworldent.com

FilmSharks International alpha@filmsharks.com

Austrian Film Commision office@afc.at

Finecut / Cineclick Asia cineinfo@finecut.co.kr

Bandai Visuals takenari@po.iijnet.or.jp

Finnish Film Foundation jenni.domingo@ses.fi

Bankside Films films@bankside-films.com

Fortissimo Film Sales info@fortissimo.nl

Carter carter@carteroffice.com

Fox Film hanne.nielsen@foxfilm.dk

Celluloid Dreams hengameh@celluloid-dreams.com

Free Stone Productions miyukit48@live.jp

Centerstage Productions ignatiusfilmscanada@yahoo.ca

Funny Balloons info@funny-balloons.com

Cinelarga Production cinelarga@yahoo.com

Gaumont abuhl@gaumont.fr

Cinema Conservancy – Artists Public Domain perlin@artistspublicdomain.org

German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) l.tinette@dffb.de@dffb.de

Cinema Guild info@cinemaguild.com

Hanway Films info@hanwayfilms.com

Cinema Management Group en@cinemamanagementgroup.com

I U SHE MUSIC GmbH cyndy.villano@gmail.com

Cinema One Originals ourcinema@gmail.com

IM Global info@imglobalfilm.com

Content Media Corporation plc london@contentmediacorp.com

Independent Film Sales mail@independentfilmcompany.com

Coproduction Office festivals@coproductionoffice.eu

Interior 13 jessy@interior13.com

Creative Artists Agency rsutherlandasst@caa.com

Intramovies srl mail@intramovies.com

Det Norske Filminstitut (NFI) Stine.Oppegaard@nfi.no

Japari Film ddd618@naver.com

Dibakar Banerjee Productions Pvt., Ltd. dibakarbanerjee@hotmail.com

K5 International GmbH info@k5international.com

Doc & Film International assistant@docandfilm.com

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution Ltd sales@kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com

DreamLab Films info@dreamlabfilms.com

Kinology festivals@kinology.eu

El Kinògraf SL info@elkinograf.com

La Cinématèque de Toulouse contact@lacinemathequedetoulouse.com

Elle Driver festival@elledriver.eu

Le Pacte contact@le-pacte.com

eOne Films International internationalsales@entonegroup.com

Leonardo Brzezicki leobrzezicki@yahoo.com

Exclusive Media info@exclusivemedia.com

Les Films du Losange l.zipci@filmsdulosange.fr

EYE Film Institute Netherlands info@eyefilm.nl

M-Line Distribution sales@mline-distribution.com

Fandango Portobello Sales fandango@fandango.it

Magnolia Pictures nfuruichi@magpictures.com

Films Boutique info@filmsboutique.com

Media Asia Distribution wwdist@mediaasia.com

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Mega-Vision Pictures Ltd. sales@mvphk.biz

Small Form Films soundvirus@aol.com

Memento Films festival@memento-films.com

Sob Noisse Movies joelpotrykus@gmail.com

Mis. Label / Midget Entertainment lars@mislabel.dk

Spencer Leven spencer@rockandrollfucknlovely.com

MK 2 intlsales@mk2.com

Suesssauerfilm mail@suesssauerfilm.de

MKL pour MK2 Diffusion sales@mk2.com

TB Produções tbproducoes@gmail.com

Mohammad Shirvani mim.shirvani@gmail.com

TF1 International sales@tf1.fr

MPI Media Group sales@mpimedia.com

The Festival Agency info@thefestivalagency.com

Myriad Pictures alyssa.brunman@myriadpictures.com

The Match Factory info@matchfactory.de

New Yorker Films emilio.oliveira@newyorkerfilms.com

The Yellow Affair miira@yellowaffair.com

New Zealand Film marketing@nzfilm.co.nz

Trent Harris harristrent@yahoo.com

Nippon Television Network Corporation eiga@ntv.co.jp

TrustNordisk info@trustnordisk.com

Nordisk Film jan.lehmann@nordiskfilm.com

UnionDocs, Steve Holmgren steve.holmgren@gmail.com

Pascale Ramonda pascale@pascaleramonda.com

Urban Distribution INT. contact@urbandistribution.com

Pathé muriel.sauzay@pathe.com

Vice Films emma.yuille@vice.com

Pictures dept. co. ltd. picturesdept@picturesdept.com

Voltage Pictures sales@voltagepictures.com

Protagonist Pictures info@protagonistpictures.com

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Denmark A/S mads.nedergaard@disney.com

Pyramide International pricher@pyramidefilms.com

Wide Management wide@widemanagement.com

Rai Cinema c.damico@raicinema.it

Wild Bunch ycornu@wildbunch.eu

Rai Trade info@raitrade.it Raven Banner info@ravenbanner.ca Reel Suspects info@reelsuspects.com Revolver Films matiaspineiro@hotmail.com Sacher Distribuzione alethiele.sacher@gmail.com SC Films International mark@scfilmsinternational.com SF Film slt@sf-film.dk Sierra Affinity info@sierra-affinity.com Sluizer Films BV sluizerfilms@neuf.fr

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TITLE INDEX 2 Girls 1 Cake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 38 Witnesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 8-Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 90 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Eden and After . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Emperor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Erased James Franco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Erik Enocksson + Svarte Greiner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

The ABCs of Death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 After the Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Afterparty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 All Quiet on the Western Mound - Frankenstein’s Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Ambulo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Ana - Official Remix of Amer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 The Angels’ Share. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Antiviral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Ape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Aperana Street 52 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 At Any Price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 The Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Augustine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Fat Shaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Film and Music in the Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Film Music in the Making. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Film, Music and Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The Fourth Dimension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

B/W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Balancing Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 The Beaver Trilogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Before Snowfall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Benur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Berberian Sound Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Best Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Boys in the hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Broken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 The Broken Circle Breakdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

27 Call Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Chained. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

74 Citadel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Closed Curtain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 The Color Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Concussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 DakhaBrakha + Dovzhenko’s Earth at the Planetarium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Dark Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Diablo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Diego Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

13 Divertimento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 A doll’s house . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Doomsday Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Dormant Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Down Terrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 The Dream and the Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Drug War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Dust on Our Hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Eat Sleep Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Eden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

28 186

Gebo and the Shadow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Germany Year 90 Nine Zero. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Gimme the Loot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 The Girl From Nowhere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III. .

75 Gold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Golden Age of Monster Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Goodbye Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Greatest Hits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Greetings from Tim Buckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Harmony Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

14 Heart Beating in the Dark (1982) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Heart Beating in the Dark (2005). . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Horses of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 How the Light Gets In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Hyde Park on Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 I Used to Be Darker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 In Another Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 In the Countryside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Inch’Allah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Inland Empire - More Things That Happened. . . 48 The Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

15 Jeunesse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jiseul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

John Dies at the End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

76 174 217

Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet at Kronborg . . . . . . .

Kill List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kill Your Darlings IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kiss of the Damned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kon-Tiki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

119 60 96 142 77 122

The Land of Hope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Landlords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Last Elvis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Last Sentence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Laurence Anyways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A Liar’s Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman. . . . . . .

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The Lords of Salem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Love Battles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

132 211 123 161

Maddened by His Absence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Maladies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Manorexia in The Marble Church. . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Miss Lovely. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Much Ado About Nothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Museum Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Music + Video feat. Vampire Blow . . . . . . . . . . . .

My Own Private River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

162 188 89 175 112 143 81 43

N. Took the Dice.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

41 Naked Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Ned Oldham & Kim Taylor + I Used to be Darker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

16 Night Across the Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 No . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

31 No Smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

51 Northwest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

17 Now, let’s have fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Ombline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Open Air - Comrade Kim Goes Flying . . . . . . . . .

Ouananiche + Melody of Terror . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Our Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Outrage Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

18 113 82 32 134

The Pact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Painless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 The Paperboy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Paradise: Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Paradise: Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

71 Paradise: Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Passion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Peaches Does Herself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Pearblossom Hwy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Penance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Pieta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Pind’s Café . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Pink Flamingos - A Tribute to Bad Taste . . . . . . .

91 PIX Opening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 PIX Quiz Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The Plague . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

19 Post Tenebras Lux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Pretty Butterflies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Pretty Woman in the Red Light District . . . . . . . 93 The Rambler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Reluctant Fundamentalist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

219 124 125 215

Restless - Silent Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Richard Sandling’s Perfect Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Ritual - A Psychomagic Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Rock and Roll Fuck ‘n’ Lovely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Rosalinda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

57 Run This Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 The Science of Sleep - Version B . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Shanghai. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Side Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Sightseers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

61 Silvi - Maybe Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Simon Killer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Singin’ in the Rain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Six Degrees of Separation from Lilia Cuntapay 178 Sleepless Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Something in the Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Spring Breakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Stoker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 The Stolen Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 The Strange Little Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Taboor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Taste of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Thérèse Desqueyroux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

They All Lie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Thy Womb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

To the Wonder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Together Alone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

True Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

156 206 163 56 180 135 205 204

Utz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

64

The Vanishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vic + Flo Saw a Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

63 145 57

A Wall Is A Screen - Nørrebro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 War Witch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Wasteland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 The We and the I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 The Weight of Elephants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

21 Wes Anderson Bingo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Wolf Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Yolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Zaytoun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Ziba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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