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The Eh!U Meet the Europeans Film Festival is glad to announce that the 2008 Audience Award has been given to Katyn by Andrzej Wajda!
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Karo ( Karo und der Liebe Gott) by Danielle Proskar. With Resi Reiner, Branko Samarovski, Petra Morzé.../ 2006, 94 min.
Sunday, November 23 // 4:00 PM at Innis Town Hall
It is a terrible blow for 8-year-old Karo when her parents split up. She feels so miserable that she turns on her walkie-talkie and pours out her heart in it, in the hope that God Almighty might be listening. |
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Friday or Another Day (Vendredi ou un Autre Jour) by Yvan Le Moine . With Philippe Nahon, Alain Moraïda & the participation of Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla / 2005, 107 min.
Friday, November 21 // 6:00 PM at Royal Cinema
It is 1759. This historical drama is a French version of a Robinson Crusoe shipwreck tale, with an actor as the sole survivor on a small Pacific island. The arrival of ‘Friday’ triggers a revolution in his emotions and perception of life. |
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| BULGARIA |
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Fly by Rossinant (ЛЕТЕТЕ С РОСИНАНТ) by Georgi Stoev. With Vasil Denev, Itsko Fintsi //Music by Goran Bregović / 2007, 90 min.
Wednesday, November 19 // 8:30 PM at Innis Town Hall
Special Extra Screening at the Toronto French School on December 1st at 7 pm, 318 Lawrence Avenue East.
The Bulgarian State opera company is touring Europe. During the journey, the new member of the orchestra, Teddy, gradually falls for the young Maria. The two young people are drawn into the complex relationships of the company. |
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Warden of the Dead (ПАЗАЧЪТ НА МЪРТВИТЕ) by Ilyan Simeonov. With Vladimir Georgiev, Samuel Fintzi, Itzhak Fintzi / 2006, 105 min.
Thursday, November 27 // 6:00 PM at innis Town Hall
In this metaphorical drama, a thirteen-year-old kid, “the boy”, lives and works in a cemetery. The cemetery is his whole life, and growing up with the dead instills in him an obsession with and respect for death. |
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Roads and Oranges (Δρόμοι και Πορτοκάλια) by Aliki Danezi-Knutsen. With Vana Rambota, Stela Fyrogeni / 1996, 100 min.
Thursday, November 20 // 8:30 PM at Innis Town Hall
A touching family drama of twosisters trying to find and reconnect with their father, who had been missing since the 1974 Turkish invasion into Cyprus . When they learn that their father may be alive and living in Turkey, the sisters set out to find him… |
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Vaclav (Václav) by Jiri Vejdelek . With Ivan Trojan,Emilia Vasaryova / 2007, 100 min.
Monday, November 17 // 8:30 PM at Innis town Hall
Vaclav Vingl lives with his widowed mother on the outskirts of the village. Villagers view him as the local fool, nothing but a constant annoyance, but there is also a skeleton in the village closet concerning his father's death… |
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The Art of Crying ( Kunsten at græde i kor) by Peter Schønau Fog. With Jannik Lorenzen, Jesper Asholt / 2007, 106 min.
Tuesday November 25 //6:00 PM at Innis Town Hall
A gently offbeat study of a Jutland family in the early 1970s as seen through the merciless, innocent gaze of an 11-year-old boy; this refreshingly unconventional pic tackles its taboos with compassion, grace and wit. J. Holland, Variety .
-TIFF selection, 2006.
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Taarka by Ain Mäeots. With Inga Salurand, Siiri Sisask, Marje Metsur, Mikko O. Nousiainen.../ 2008, 94 min.
Monday, November 17 // 6:00PM at Innis Town Hall
The film is a portrait of the singer Hilana Taarka (1856-1933)."I don't sing the words of the others. I sing the words of my own – picked up from the ground, carved out of the wood." Hilana Taarka |
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Beauty and the Bastard (Tyttö sinä olet tähti) by Dome Karukoski . With Pamela Tola, Samuli Vauramo / 2005, 102 min.
Sunday, November 23 // 8:30 PM at Innis Town Hall
Nelli daydreams about a career as a singer while her parents see her on her way to medical school and a secure future. If only she could come up with a demo that she could use to show her talent to the record companies… |
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The Class (Entre Les Murs) by Laurent Cantet.With Francois Begaudeau, Nassim Amrabt, Laura Baquela …/ 2008, 128 min.
Sunday, November 16 //4:00PM at Isabel Bader Theatre
A fully sustained immersion in the academics, attitudes and frequent altercations of a group of junior high school students.
"One of the most substantive and purely entertaining movies in competition at Cannes this year". J. Chang, Variety
- Cannes 2008, Golden Palm.
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And Along Come Tourists (Am Ende kommen Touristen) by Robert Thalheim. With Alexander Fehling, Ryszard Ronczewski / 2007, 85 min.
Saturday, November 22 // 6:00 PM at Royal Cinema
Auschwitz wasn’t what Sven, a young German, had in mind when he signed up to do his civil service abroad…
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Close to the Edge (Στα όρια) by Savvas Karydas. With Tassos Nousias, Panayota Valandi / 2006, 97 min.
Saturday, November 29 // 6:00 PM at Royal Cinema
Andreas, a young solitary taxi driver, is part of a chaotic mega city built on the stories of the people who get in and out of his cab. His chance encounter with Maria, a fascinating and mysterious woman, makes him live his own story. |
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Hunger by Steve McQueen. With Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham / 2008, 96 min.
Friday, November 28 // 8:30 PM at Royal Cinema
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands.With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.
- Cannes 2008, Un Certain Regard competition: the Camera d'Or for best first feature film
- TIFF 2008: The Diesel discovery Award for best debut film
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Carlo Goldoni - Venice Grand Theatre of the World (Carlo Goldoni - Venezia Gran Teatro del Mondo) by Alessandro Bettero. With Alessandro Bressanello, Tiziana Grillo / 2007, 72 min.
Sunday, November 30 // 5:00 PM at Royal Cinema
In the 1700s, while the glory of Venice was nearing the apex of its splendor, Carlo Goldoni anticipated the French revolution by remaking the European theatre, removing the mask of the commedia dell’arte to reveal the true face of the bourgeoisie.
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The Silk Merchant (Il Mercante di Stoffe) by Antonio Baiocco. With Sebastiano Somma, Marta Bifano / 2008, 78 min.
Friday, November 21 // 8:30 PM at Royal Cinema
Marco and Luisa, two young Italians, arrive in an abandoned village in the south of Morocco and find a medallion that belonged to a young Arab woman in the 1930s. Through them the overwhelming love story of textile merchant Alessandro is told. |
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Defenders of Riga (Rīgas Sargi) by Aigars Grauba. With Jānis Reinis, Elita Kļaviņa / 2007, 118 min.
Wednesday, November 26 // 8:30 PM at Innis Town Hall
WWI has ended. After many years spent fighting in foreign lands, Martin returns home to Latvia, where his fiancée, Elza, is waiting. He has no idea that the decisive battle – both for Elza’s heart and for the newly established Latvian state – is still ahead of him. |
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Loss ( Nereikalingi zmones) by Maris Martinsons . With Valda Bickute, Kostas Smoriginas / 2008, 95 min.
Thursday, November 25 // 8:30PM at Innis Town Hall
A priest in Ireland meets Valda, a woman from his native Lithuania, only to find out her mysterious identity is closely connected with a darkest secret of his past… |
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Simon(Simon) by Eddy Terstall. With Cees Geel, Marcel Hensema / 2004, 102 min.
Monday, November 24 // 6:00 PM at Innis Town Hall
1988, Camiel - a timid, homosexual dental student - is run over by a jeep. Behind the wheel is Simon - a coarse Amsterdam hash dealer, the archetype of the heterosexual male. Simon takes Camiel to the emergency room and an unusual, lifelong friendship begins…
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Katyn (Katyn) by Andrzej Wajda.With Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska / 2007, 118 min.
Saturday, November 22 // 8:30 PM at Royal Cinema
Katyn describes the tragedy of a generation by examining the story of four Polish families whose lives are torn apart when, at the outset of WWII, thousands of Polish soldiers and citizens fall into the hands of Soviet troops in the Katyn forest. |
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Tricks (Sztuczki) by Andrzej Jakimowski . With Damian Ul, Ewelina Walendziak / 2007, 95 min.
Saturday, November 29 // 8:30 PM at Royal Cinema
Six-year-old Stefek challenges fate. He believes that the chain of events he sets in motion will help him get closer to his father who has abandoned his mother. His 17-year-old sister Elka helps him learn how to “bribe” fate with small sacrifices…
- Europa Cinemas Award, Lanterna Magica Award, Venice 2007 |
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Colossal Youth (Juventude em Marcha) by Pedro Costa . With Isabel Cardoso, Cila Cardoso / 2006 , 155 min.
Tuesday, November 25 // 8:30 PM at Innis Town Hall
Ventura , a Cape Verdean labourer living in the outskirts of Lisbon, is suddenly abandoned by his wife. He feels lost between the dilapidated old quarter where he spent the last 34 years and his new lodgings in a recently-built low-cost housing complex…
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An Angel Hooked On Me ( Îngerul Necesar) by Gheorghe Preda.With Anca Florea, Constantin Florescu / 2007, 95 min.
Tuesday November 18 // 8:30 PM at Innis Town Hall
Ana, a young pianist and composer, starts receiving messages and presents from an unknown admirer. Soon the reality around her is altered, she feels like an actor in a show, whose fate will remain unknown to the very end. “Someone up there loves you”…
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Estrellita (Estrellita - Pesem za domov) by Metod Pevec.With Silva Cusin, Marko Kovačevik / 2007, 97 min.
Wednesday, November 19 // 6:00 PM at Innis Town Hall
Dora Fabiani is a piano teacher but, more significantly, for 30 years she was the wife and muse of violinist, Mihael Fabiani. After his death, she discovers that she was not the only woman in his life and that he had kept much of his intimate life to himself. |
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Short Circuits ( Kratki Stiki) by Janez Lapajne. With Tjasa Zeleznik, Grega Zorc, Jernej Sugman…/ 2006, 105 min.
Sunday, November 23 // 6:00 PM at Innis Town Hall
At night a city bus driver finds an abandoned baby near a stop. A divorced man comes to pick up his excited son for the weekend. A pretty doctor befriends with a quadriplegic...
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Return of the Storks (Navrat Capu) by Martin Repka. With Katharina Lorenz, Lukàs Latinàk, Florian Stetter / 2007, 96 min.
Tuesday, November 18 // 6:00 PM at Innis Town Hall
A story of Vanda, a young flight attendant, who feels a constant urge to fly, this even in her private life, where she often lacks firm ground under her feet. She runs off to an old village in the East of Slovakia and moves in with her grandmother. There, at the end of the world, Vanda feels comfortable, untill she gets involved into trade with human fate...
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My Name is Juani (Yo soy la Juani) by Bigas Luna. With Verónica Echegui, Dani Martín / 2006, 100 min.
*Monday, November 24 // 8:30 PM at Innis Town Hall
*Wednesday November 26 // 6:00 PM at Innis Town Hall
Juani has problems at home and can’t stand her boyfriend anymore. His jealousy and indecisiveness have become unbearable. Juani decides to break loose and do the things she had only dreamt of before… |
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Mind the Gap (Se upp för dårarna) by Helena Bergström. With Rakel Wärmländer, Nina Zanjani / 2006, 103 min.
Thursday, November 20 // 6:00 PM at Innis Town Hall
Elin and Yasmin are two girls in their twenties - so different and yet, so alike. They meet and forge friendship when they both apply to the police academy.
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