| Screenings April 30 -
May 4 at the Goethe Institute
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Wednesday, April 30 |
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Opening night –
Legacies of the Past
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COLD WAVES
(Romania/Germany/Luxembourg - Doc; 108
min.US Premiere!)
(Razboi pe calea undelor)
Director:
Alexandru Solomon / Romania
Prod: Elvira Geppert, Paul Thiltges
A snapshot of the cold war era
in Europe, and the propaganda war between the Ceausescu
regime and Radio Free Europe's Romanian program, this
extraordinary film explores all facets of political
propaganda, from the creative to the most lethal.
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WITH DEATH AS THE ONLY CERTAIN FATE
(Austria – Doc; 60 min. US Premiere!)
(Der Karntner spricht Deutsch)
Director: Andrina Mracnikar /
Austria
Prod: Gregor Centner
Stories of Carinthian Slovenians, who were
both in the resistance and in the Wehrmacht, fought
underground with the partisans and were deported to labor
and concentration camps. As they speak about the past they
inevitably make the viewer ask contemporary questions.
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Thursday, May 1 |
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The Sound and the Land |
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MINES TO VINES
(USA/Croatia – PSA 12 min,
Special Screening! )
Dir/Prod: Diane Baker / USA
In the war-torn regions of Croatia the San
Francisco-based Roots of Peace has funded clearance of
nearly 500,000 square meters of land peppered with land
mines.
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HIPHOPISTAN
(Turkey – Doc 25min )
Dir/Prod: Cigdem Akbay / Turkey
Wanna dance?! Young Turkish rappers,
DJs, break-dancers, and graffiti artists blend popular
influences with their local cultural traditions in the
predominantly Muslim and rapidly globalizing city of
Istanbul. Featuring the last interview with music
industry mogul and Atlantic Records co-founder, Ahmet
Ertegun.
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8:00 pm
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SCENT OF JAZZ
(Slovenia – Doc) 52 min US
Premiere! )
(Disalo je po jazzu)
Director: Katarina Sedlbauer
/Slovenia
Prod: Ana Kajzer
An inspired journey through the 20th
century Slovenian resistance-to-politics by way of playing
jazz. Opting to show regime changes through their echoes in
popular music the film cleverly lifts the weight of history
from the viewer and makes you wish you learned that sax when
you had the chance.
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TRUMPETS' REPUBLIC
(Italy/Serbia – Doc, 48 min
LA Premiere! )
(La Repubblica delle Trombe)
Director: Stefano Missio / Italy
Scrn: Alessandro Gori / Italy
Used to launch attacks in wartime, the
trumpet has since become an emotional component in the lives
of the Serbian people; irreverence and tradition go hand in
hand at the largest brass competition in Europe.
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Friday, May 2 |
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War and the Pursuit of Justice
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A FIELD OF BLACKBIRDS
(USA/Kosovo - Trailer, 4 min
First Look! )
Director: Matt Danciger / USA
Prod: Virtic Brown
Seen through the eyes of an old-country
Texan who went to Kosovo to help rebuild its police force,
the film explores the aftermath of the ’99 war and the
complex reality of former enemies and foes living in changed
circumstances where tables have turned…
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MILAN
(Germany/Serbia - Short, 22 min
LA Premiere! )
Dir: Mihaela Kezele / Germany
Prod: Daniela Ljubinkovic
It’s 1999 in Serbia, the aftermath of the
regime’s brutal reprisals against Kosovo Albanians. During
the NATO air raids of Belgrade a young boy from the suburbs
finds a downed NATO pilot…
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SOLDAT
(Croatia – Animated Short 4:20 min
LA Premiere! )
Dir: David Peros-Bonnot / Croatia
Prod: Lado Skorin
A just-unveiled statue of a soldier is
suffering from PTSD....The parable on the militarization of
civil society feels chillingly close to reality.
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JOHN (IVAN) FILCHICH,
LIFE IN THE CIRCLE
DANCE
(USA/Croatia – Doc 29 min
U.S.Premiere! )
Dir: Ankica Petrovic / Croatia
Prod: Ben Harbert, Elsie Ivancich Dunin, Vera
Mijojlic, Ankica Petrovic, Timothy Rice
John (Ivan) Filcich devoted his life to the preservation of
musical traditions and dances of many ethnic groups in
California, especially Croats and other South Slavs,
including Machvaya Gypsies.
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THE RULE OF LAW – JUSTICE IN KOSOVO
(Austria/Kosovo – Doc 99 min, U.S.
Premiere! )
Dir: Susanne Brandstätter /Austria
Prod: Josef Aichholzer
Claudia Fenz is a judge for the UN Mission in Kosovo. In a
case against young Albanians, where a whole group of
villagers watched or participated in the killing of two
Serbs, Judge Fenz learns about the council of village elders
whose traditional justice is in contrast to the rule of law
pursued by UN jurisdiction. From the producers of this
year’s Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film, THE
COUNTERFEITERS.
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Saturday, May 3 |
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Women of South East
Europe
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THE HOUSES OF HRISTINA
(Holland – Doc, 50 min
U.S. Premiere! )
Dir: Suzanne Raes / Holland
Prod: Willemien van Aalst
Lovely and talented Bulgarian immigrant
Hristina works as a cleaning lady in Amsterdam. As she
starts photographing the interiors of “her” houses with
herself as her own model, neither we nor the people
whose houses she cleans can see her, or the job, quite
the same way.
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HUMORESQUE
(Romania – Doc, 16 min
US Premiere! )
Dir: Diana Deleanu / Romania
Prod: Iulian Margu
Playful like Dvorak’s music of the same
name, Humoresque uses the silent movie device of titles
like chapters from a book with Romanian proverbs. This
charmer of a film short-cuts through the life of a
hard-working, 94-year old Maria and her common law beau,
whom she finally marries …for love, and a little bit of
money.
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BLISS
(Turkey 126 min U.S.
Premiere! )
(Mutluluk)
Dir/Prod: Abdullah Oguz / Turkey
Based on Zülfü Livaneli’s international
bestseller this is the first film about the taboo
subject of honor killing. Rape victim Meriyem, sentenced
to death to save her family’s "honor," and her unlikely
executor-turned-savior Cemal are joined by a
disillusioned intellectual from Istanbul as they search
for path between tradition and modernity.
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Sunday,
May 4 |
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Finding the
Way |
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MOONLESS NIGHT
(Albania 74 min
LA Premiere! )
(Nata pa hënë)
Dir/Producer: Artan Minarolli /
Albania
Prod: Joël Farges, Elise Jalladeau
Separated by 17 years two couples of would-be
émigrés find the one true love just as they get
closer to crossing the border…. The pull of that
love makes both the escape and going back
impossible. They are stuck in a no man’s land
unsure where, or why they should go.
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HOW TO BECOME A HERO
(Serbia – Doc 79 min
LA Premiere! )
(Kako postati heroj)
Dir/Prod: Mladen Maticevic / Serbia
An
autobiographical film about the director’s one
shot at doing something heroic by getting off
the couch and jumping into the grueling training
for marathon. It’s Rocky Balboa crossed with a
good dose of humor and real life authenticity.
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| Closing Night
Gala at the Clarity Theatre
(ADDRESS
DETAILS HERE) |
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Monday, May 5
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Mending Borders
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HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT VUKOVAR?
(USA - Short 16 min )
Dir: Paolo Borraccetti / Italy
Prod: Annie Lukowski, Zak Mechanic
Decked in a dress uniform, an American soldier about to
be redeployed struggles to keep the image of the Army’s
poster boy…he almost has a fight with a jovial limo
driver who turns out to be a Croatian refugee from
another war, which destroyed his home town of Vukovar.
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ENTER THE DRAGON
(Bosnia – Doc 50 min
US Premiere! )
(U zmajevom gnijezdu)
Dir/Prod: Ozren Milharcic /
Bosnia Herzegovina
Two unforgettable citizens of Mostar,
writer Veselin Gatalo (a Serb) and scholar Nino Raspudic
(a Croat) launched a project to build a monument to the
one hero who still has his hero credentials intact –
Bruce Lee. Like all humanists before them standing alone
against the tide of dangerous banality, in a land laid
to waste by extreme politics, they come at it with an
artsy sting, and with great panache.
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May 1-4, Goethe Institute Los Angeles |
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SEE Link – The Filmmakers Kiosk
Program |
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Exclusive presentation of films about
larger-than-life people and places that left an indelible
mark on the filmmakers.
SNOWBOARD DAREDEVILS
(extreme sports / compilation, Slovenia)
ASTAKOS
(documentary vignettes, Greek village)
Dir: Teo Babouris
TRAFFICKING PSA (USA)
Dir: Michael Cory Davis
TURN BACK SOUTH (USA)
Dir: Igor Borovac
AFTER THE WAR (Serbia)
Dir: Srdjan Keca
MY BELGRADE (Serbia)
Dir: Masa Drndic
HARMONIKA (Kosovo)
Dir: Burbuqe Berisha
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