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A Woman’s World Cinema Nouveau JHB, PTA, CPT, DBN www.cinemanouveau.co.za # E u ro F i l m F e s t S A #EuroFilmFestSA
Contents
01 - Welcome Note 03 - Programmer’s Note 04 - Films 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
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Amour Fou Two Days, One Night A Second Chance Concrete Night 3 Hearts Beloved Sisters Human Capital Frailer Ida Blood of my Blood Blancanieves My Brother the Devil
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Johannesburg Pretoria Cape Town Durban
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Welcome Note With the theme “A Woman's World”, the 2015 European Film Festival celebrates women in cinema.
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he role of women in film and the lack of recognition for them in the industry have been in the headlines recently, leading female directors and actors to raise their voices against this situation at the occasion of international film festivals and award ceremonies like The Oscars or the Cannes Film Festival.
In this context, the idea behind this edition's theme is to pay tribute to the role of women in film, both behind and in front of the camera. The 12 selected films reflect the way female directors see and show the world in their films, how they share their own vision and insight into our society, shifting perspectives and giving different views as directors. The actresses featured in the festival selection demonstrate how women can translate on screen dramas of everyday life or extraordinary destinies in a very powerful and unique way. All the films presented have been awarded prizes in their own countries and have been selected in top international film festivals. They represent the best of today's European cinema. As per last year, this very special movielover treat is hosted by Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau nationwide, with a 10day screening programme taking place concurrently in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria. The festival is co-ordinated by the French Institute of South Africa and organised in partnership with the European Union and 12 other European cultural agencies or embassies in South Africa: the British Council, the Camões Institute, the Goethe-Institut, the Italian Cultural Institute, WallonieBruxelles International and the Embassies of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain. Many thanks to them and to all of you for your support!
Frédéric Chambon EUFF 2015 Director
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A Woman’s World
12 Films • 10 Days • 4 Cities 2
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Programmer’s Note
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ecently, during an interview, filmmaker Jane Campion - the only woman to ever receive the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme d'Or and to head the festival jury - remarked, “Film-making is not about whether you're a man or a woman; it's about sensitivity and hard work and really loving what you do. But women are going to tell different stories -there would be many more stories in the world if women were making more films.” The 2015 European Film Festival's theme draws inspiration from these comments with a selection of 12 contemporary European films offering a wide range of perspectives by and about women. Among this selection are recent works from established directors such as Amour Fou by Jessica Hausner and A Second Chance, the new film from Denmark's favourite, Susanne Bier. These are balanced against new voices such as Sally El Hosaini's bold debut, My Brother the Devil - a sensitive portrayal of faith, politics and sexuality on the streets of gangland London. In front of the camera, Agata Trzebuchowska's quietly devastating performance in the Oscar-winning Ida invites us to an emotional voyage and confrontation with the past. In Two Days, One Night, Marion Cotillard's performance as a working-class heroine, gives life to social issues with exceptional strength and emotion. The depth and range of these extraordinary stories, that encompass themes such as love, work, history and class, give us an insight into Campion's remarks when she speaks of the different perspectives women bring to the screen. Recently, whilst accepting a lifetime achievement award at the 2014 European Film Awards, Agnès Varda, one of the great filmmakers of the Nouvelle vague, criticised the lack of female nominees at the ceremony and in the film industry as a whole. This selection of some of the very best in European cinema from the last few years brings a much-needed series of female voices, images and narratives to local screens. Darryl Els EUFF 2015 Programmer
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Austria
© Stadtkino Filmverleih
Amour Fou
Cannes Film Festival 2014 - Un Certain Regard section Director: Jessica Hausner Cast: Birte Schnöink, Christian Friedel 1hr 36min | German with English subtitles Berlin, the Romantic Era. Austrian female director Jessica Hausner creates a magnificent period film at the heart of the paradoxes of bourgeois th romanticism and conformism at the beginning of the 19 century. Amour Fou is a tragi-comedy inspired by life and death of the historic poet Heinrich von Kleist (Christian Friedel). Harbouring a doomed passion for a young married woman Henriette Vogel (Birte Schnöink), Heinrich tries to persuade her to join him in a suicide pact, having failed to involve his cousin in a similar plan.
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10, 13 & 17 May 12 & 16 May 09 & 16 May 16 May
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Two Days, One Night
© Christine Plenus
Belgium
Cannes Film Festival 2014 - Official Competition Directors: Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne Cast: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione 1hr 35min | French with English subtitles In Two Days, One Night, French actress Marion Cotillard (Sandra) only has one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their annual bonuses so that she can keep her job. At the heart of this story is a woman's fight for her dignity and the dilemma of a working-class heroine torn apart by an unfair choice imposed to her. This social drama is the latest project taken on by the multi-award winning Dardenne brothers - Palme d'Or winners in 1999 (Rosetta) and 2005 (The Child). Marion Cottillard's brilliant performance earned her a second Academy Award Nomination for the 2015 Best Actress Oscar. Johannesburg: Pretoria: Cape Town: Durban:
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Denmark
© Henrik Petit
A Second Chance
San Sebastian Festival 2014 - Competition Director: Susanne Bier Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maria Bonnevie 1hr 44min | Danish with English subtitles Directed by Academy Award-winner Susanne Bier, A Second Chance boasts one of the finest cast in recent Danish cinema. The film features Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) as a detective, Andreas, who has settled down with his wife and son. His friend and colleague Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk. But all that changes when they are both called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. A Second Chance is emotionally gripping from start to finish. Johannesburg: Pretoria: Cape Town: Durban:
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10, 13 & 15 May 08 & 15 May 10 & 15 May 10 May
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Concrete Night
Š Ville Tanttu
Finland
Toronto International Film Festival 2013 Director: Pirjo Honkasalo Cast: Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen 1hr 36min | Finnish with English subtitles Concrete Night is a dream-like odyssey through beautiful Helsinki over the course of one night. Simo, a 14-year-old boy, and his older brother Ilkka are the sons of a helpless and unpredictable single mother. Their chaotic home is located deep in the heart of a concrete jungle in Helsinki. Ilkka has one day of freedom left before starting his prison sentence and their mother persuades Simo to spend this last night with his brother. Finnish female director Pirjo Honkasalo's gorgeously stylised work is about what we pass on to younger generations, and the ways we do it. Johannesburg: Pretoria: Cape Town: Durban:
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France
© Thierry Valletoux
3 Hearts
Venice International Film Festival 2014 - Competition Director: Benoît Jacquot Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chiara Mastroianni, Benoît Poelvoorde 1hr 46min | French with English subtitles
3 Hearts is the new film from festival veteran Benoît Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen). Starring film legend Catherine Deneuve along Chiara Mastroianni and Charlotte Gainsbourg, this romantic drama presents a love triangle with a hint of Greek tragedy. One night in a French provincial city, Marc meets Sylvie. They wander through the streets until morning, talking about everything except themselves. They set a date in Paris, but misfortune befalls Marc. He searches for Sylvie and ends up finding someone else: Sophie. When Marc and Sylvie meet again, their unparalleled harmony still exists but fate has decided otherwise. Johannesburg: Pretoria: Cape Town: Durban:
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10, 12 & 16 May 09 & 15 May 10,12 & 15 May 08 May
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Beloved Sisters
Š Global Screen
Germany
Berlin International Film Festival 2014 - Competition Director: Dominik Graf Cast: Henriette Confurius, Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter 2hrs 20min | German with English subtitles German Romanticism at its most expressively romantic. In late 18th-century Germany, beautiful aristocratic sisters Charlotte and Caroline both fall in love with the controversial writer Friedrich Schiller. Defying the conventions of their time, the sisters decide to share their love with the young Schiller. What begins playfully, almost as a game among the three of them, soon turns serious. This large-canvas, brilliantly acted work of intense emotions and literary eloquence is a cinematic tour de force by director Dominik Graf.
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08, 11 & 17 May 10 & 13 May 09 & 13 May 17 May #EuroFilmFestSA
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Italy
© BAC Films
Human Capital
Tribeca Film Festival 2014 - Competition Director: Paolo Virzì Cast: Valeria Golina, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi 1hr 50min | Italian with English subtitles Valeria Golina and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, two of Italy's leading actresses, star in a film that twists love, class, and ambition into a singular true-life story. Lake Como, Italy. A cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep the night before Christmas Eve. What happened that night? How will this accident change the destiny of the rich Bernaschi family and the Rovelli family on the edge of bankruptcy? Through a sophisticated narration divided into four chapters, director Paolo Virzì explores human ambitions, generational conflicts and splendour and misery of the upper class. Johannesburg: Pretoria: Cape Town: Durban:
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08, 11 & 15 May 09 & 14 May 09 & 17 May 08 May
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Frailer
Š Annemarieke Van Den Broek
Netherlands
Toronto International Film Festival 2014 Director: Mijke de Jong Cast: Leonoor Pauw, Adelheid Roosen, Lieneke Le Roux, Marnie Blok 1hr 20min | Dutch with English subtitles When her lung cancer is stated as terminal, Muis (Leonoor Pauw) gathers her dearest friends Ted, Carlos and Lian. Together the women come up with strategies to make the best of the time Muis has left: they garden and dance, share food, drinks and prescription marijuana. But the differences between their four personalities surface when they try to prepare for the irrevocable loss. With great humour and sincerity, female director Mijke de Jong draws an intimate portrait and captures the way we face death in a very unique way, making Frailer an unforgettable ďŹ lm.
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Ida
© Sylwester KazÌmierczak
Poland
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2015 Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Cast: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska 1hr 22min | Polish with English subtitles Poland 1962. Anna is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her mother's sister Wanda. Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery of each other and their past. Pawel Pawlikowski's film is the first Polish feature to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, coming after a myriad of other prizes and unanimously positive reviews all around the world.
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09, 13 & 17 May 08 & 17 May 09 May
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Blood of my Blood
© Midas Filmes
Portugal
San Sebastian Festival 2011- Competition Director: João Canijo Cast: Rita Blanco, Anabela Moreira 2hrs 11min | Portuguese with English subtitles Blood of my Blood is about unconditional love - the love of a mother for her daughter and of an aunt for her nephew - and about the lengths those women are prepared to go to in order to protect the ones they love. Márcia, a single mother with two grown-up children, shares her home in a social housing estate with her sister Ivete. One day, her daughter tells her that she has fallen in love with a married man. When Márcia finds out who he is, she realises that the relationship poses a terrible threat to her family.
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Blancanieves
Spain
Toronto International Film Festival 2012 Director: Pablo Berger Cast: Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho 1hr 44min In this masterpiece by Spanish director Pablo Berger, Snow White is recast as a talented bullfighter in a wonderfully eerie and erotic silent film treat. Once upon a time there was a little girl who had never known her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend. Blancanieves is a riveting and transgressive version of the Grimm classic fairy tale set in pre-war Spain.
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08, 12 & 15 May 12 & 16 May 11 & 16 May 17 May
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My Brother the Devil
Š Etienne Bol
United Kingdom
Berlin International Film Festival 2012 - Panorama section Director: Sally El Hosaini Cast: SaĂŻd Taghmaoui, James Floyd 1hr 51min | English My Brother the Devil is a masterful debut from director Sally El Hosaini, one of the brightest new talents of UK cinema. Mo is a young boy growing up in a traditional and modest British-Arab household in London. The impressionable Mo idolizes his handsome older brother Rashid and wants to follow his footsteps. However, Rashid, a charismatic and shrewd member of a local gang, wants a different life for his little brother and deals drugs hoping to put Mo through college. One eventful summer, the discovery of Rashid's homosexuality forces Mo to confront his own fears and phobias, and threatens to tear the brothers apart. Johannesburg: Pretoria: Cape Town: Durban:
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Blood of my Blood My Brother the Devil Ida Two Days, One Night
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Concrete Night Amour Fou A Second Chance 3 Hearts
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Beloved Sisters Human Capital
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Blood of my Blood 3 Hearts Two Days, One Night Blancanieves
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Human Capital A Second Chance Blancanieves Blood of my Blood
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Frailer Amour Fou Blancanieves
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Ticketing Festival Rates Standard Ticket Pensioners Children Vitality Movie Club (Tuesday) Edgars
R50.00 R47.00 R47.00 R35.00 R25.00 R33.00
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Venues Cinema Nouveau - Rosebank Mall, Johannesburg Rosebank Mall (Level 1), cnr Bath & Baker Streets, Rosebank
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Cinema Nouveau - V & A, Cape Town King Warehouse, Red Shed, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront
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Festival Team French Institute (IFAS) Frédéric Chambon Alizée Dallemagne Eléonore Godfroy
Festival Director Festival Coordinator Festival Communication
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Darryl Els
Festival programmer
Ster-Kinekor Theatres Lola Gallant Clive Fisher Janet de Kretser
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