For those in the Philippines: The Cine Europa Festival is being organized by the European Union, headed by this year The Royal Dutch Embassy, in cooperation with the Mowelfund Film Institute.
Cine Europa Schedule:
Opening on September 2, 2004, Thursday at 8 PM, Podium.
Podium Cinema 1 ? 8:00 pm (Dutch) ? The Black Meteor
Podium Cinema 2 ? 8:00 pm (Austria) ? On the Other
Side of the Bridge
SM Megamall, Cinema 6 ? OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ? FIRST
COME, FIRST SERVE WILL BE
STRICKLY ENFORCE ? September 2 to September 12, 2004
7:00 PM ? (Portugal) ? Pesadelo Cor-de-Rosa
9:00 PM ? (Sweden) - Deadline
Friday, September 3, 2004
2:00 PM ? (UK) ? Young Adam
4:30 PM ? (Belgium) - Hop
7:00 PM ? (Dutch) ? The Black Meteor
9:30 PM ? (Germany) ? Distance Light (Lichter)
Saturday, September 4, 2004
2:00 PM ? (Spain) ? Les Lunes Al Sol
4:30 PM ? (Finland) - Upswing
7:00 PM ? (France) ? Les Choristes
9:30 PM ? (Italy) ? II Posto della?anima
Sunday, September 5, 2004
2:00 PM ? (Belgium) ? Sea of Silence (Verder dan de
Maan)
4:30 PM ? (Dutch) ? The Black Meteor
7:00 PM ? (Austria) ? On the Other Side of the Bridge
9:30 PM ? (Portugal) ? Pesadelo Cor-de-Rosa
Monday, September 6, 2004
4:30 PM ? (Sweden) - Deadline
7:00 PM ? (UK) ? Young Adam
9:30 PM ? (Belgium) ? Hop
Tuesday, September 7, 2004
4:30 PM ? (Czech) ? Divided Ive Fall (Musine si
pomahat)
7:00 PM ? (Germany) ? Distance Light (Lichter)
9:30 PM ? (Spain) ? Les Lunes Al Sol
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
4:30 PM ? (Italy) ? II Posto della?anima
7:00 PM ? (Finland) - Upswing
Thursday, September 9, 2004
4:30 PM ? (Belgium) ? Sea of Silence (Verder dan de Maan)
7:00 PM ? (Czech) ? Divided Ive Fall (Musine si pomahat)
9:30 PM ? (Austria) ? On the Other Side of the Bridge
Friday, September 10, 2004
4:30 PM ? (Portugal) ? Pesadelo Cor-de-Rosa
7:00 PM ? (Sweden) - Deadline
9:30 PM ? (UK) ? Young Adam
Saturday, September 11, 2004
2:00 PM ? (Belgium) - Hop
4:30 PM ? (Czech) ? Divided Ive Fall (Musine si pomahat)
7:00 PM ? (Germany) ? Distance Light (Lichter)
9:30 PM ? (Spain) ? Les Lunes Al Sol
Sunday, September 12, 2004
2:00 PM ? (Finland) - Upswing
4:30 PM ? (France) ? Les Choristes
7:00 PM ? (Italy) ? II Posto della?anima
9:30 PM ? (Belgium) ? Sea of Silence (Verder dan de Maan)
Films to be exhibit for Cebu and Baguio is still for
finalization. UP Film Screenings is still to be
confirmed on what dates.
SM Cebu will be 3 days. Starting September 17 to
September 19, 2004. SM Baguio also runs for 3 days
starting September 24 to 26, 2004.
August 18, 2004 ? Press Conference at Alliance.
On the Other Side of the Bridge (2002) (Am anderen
Ende der Br?cke)
Austria/105 mins
Genre: Drama / Romance
Directed by
Mei Hu
Writing credits
Wand Zhebin (screenplay)
Synopsis: In 1931 in Vienna, Fanny Ebner meets Ma
Yunlong a Chinese national.
Hop (2002)
Comedy/Belgium
Director: Dominique Standaert
Language: Dutch / French
Color: Color / Black and White
Synopsis: All Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy a soccer game together. This simple act sparks a chain of events leading to Justin running from the law. He must embark on a thrilling adventure to re-unite with his father. But in order to fight the system, he must enlist the help of a former anarchist and together they will need to apply the secret of the HOP.
Sea of Silence (2003)
(Verder dan de maan)
Drama/Belgium
Language: Dutch
Color: Color
Director: Stijn Coninx
Writing credits : Jacqueline Epskamp
Synopsis:
‘Verder dan de Maan’ is the new movie from Stijn Coninx. It tells us the story of a family living on a pig-farm, struggling with each-other. Huub Stapel is being portrayed as the typical drunk low-life husband who tries to be the good father, but who regrettably has a drinking problem. The wife is being played by Johanna Ter Steege, who is protecting her children and trying to save the family. Nothing new under the’moon’.
This movie has been officially selected to be our entry for the Oscars in 2004. Unfortunately for other, far better Belgium
films, this decision was made by people who obviously don’t have a clue what Belgium currently experiencing with films like: ‘The Emperor’s Wife’, ‘De Zaak Alzheimer’ or’Any Way The Wind Blows’. All magnificent films made in 2003 in Belgium, in a country where we makemaybe 10 feature films per year. It is a disgrace that we have to go to America with this pathetic excuse for a film. I don’t get it! This movie resembles a lot Antonia (1995) who won an Oscar for best
foreign film. And this is probably the reason and the only reason why this film has been send. Poor Belgium!
There are few Belgian actors playing in this movie.Practically all of them are coming from Holland. There is a lot of over-acting and the scenes are very cliche? and old. I felt that I was kind of looking at a film from the 1980’s. The film doesn’t surprise us in any way. And Stijn Coninx hasn’t made anything good since ‘Daens’ (1992). His film ‘Licht’ (1998) was very bad. ‘Verder dan de Maan’ is one big mistake and shame on those responsible for sending this film to the Academy Awards!
Upswing (2003)
(Nousukausi)
Comedy / Finland / 98 mins.
Language: Finnish
Color: Color
Director: Johanna Vuoksenmaa
Writing credits : Mika Ripatti
Synopsis:
HOLIDAY FROM HELL. A young couple in the IT business, with no kids and a fancy house in a good neighbourhood, finally have a few weeks off before new career challenges. Envious about their friends’exotic holiday destinations,they meet a travel agent offering them the ultimate experience: four weeks in one of the shadiest suburbs of the city. Part of the deal is that their credit cards, passports and keys are all sealed in an envelope. Acting as an unemployed couple, their street credibility is often questioned by their new neighbours who are more at home with the ways of theconcrete jungle. And this is just the beginning…
Distant Lights (2003)
(Lichter)
Drama / 105 mins. / Germany / Color
Language: German / Polish / Russian
Directed by
Hans-Christian Schmid
Writing credits
Michael Gutmann
Hans-Christian Schmid
Synopsis:
This movie reflects on the situation around the border between Poland and Germany. The fate of many single characters creates a picture of life in this region: Some Russians want to cross the border illegal to get into Germany, a company wants to build a new factory, a Polish taxi driver desperately needs money to buy his daughter a communion dress, and so on.
A Real Choir MASTER (2004)
(Choristes, Les)
Director: Christophe Barratier
Writing credits : Christophe Barratier / Philippe
Lopes-Curval
Genre: Romance / Drama
Runtime: 95 min
Country: France / Switzerland
Language: French
Color: Color
Synopsis:
To the best of my knowledge Gerard Jugnot is completely unknown in England despite having acted in some 76 films, written 14 and directed 9. He was part of a group named Splendid who began in the cafe-theatres of Paris in the eighties and a fair percentage - Thierry Thermitte, Josiane Blasko are two names that will be familiar to both English and American audiences -
have gone on to carve out successful movie and/or theater careers. Ironically, the second lead in The Choristes,Francois Berleand has appeared in several films that were seen outside France but the irony is that he could get a job tomorrow as a Richard Dreyfus look-alike and it was, of course, Dreyfus who starred in Mr.Holland’s Opus, the film to which the Choristes is destined to be compared if not measured against. Currently this entry is making a lot of noise at the French Box Office and deservedly so if anybody asks you. Jugnot strikes just the right not (not really sorry about that) as the new teacher on the block in a school for hard cases but unlike Richard Dadier (or, Glenn Ford, whichever is the greater) his attempts to reach the kids via music is NOT abortive. For those who can’t resist footnotes to other movies this one also has a touch
of the Cinema Paradiso inasmuch as it begins with the death of a mentor and a now Internationally successful artist (for movie director read conductor) reminisces about his childhood and the influence upon it of said mentor.In a perfect world this movie WILL be shown in England and/or America and a great many more mavens will know what the cognoscenti have known for years, that Jugnot can make it even without the Paycock.
Black Meteor, The (2000)
(Zwarte meteoor, De)
107 min / Netherlands
Language: Dutch
Color: Color
Genre: Drama
Directed by
Guido Pieters
Writing credits
Tom Egbers (novel)
Kees van Beijnum
Mondays in the Sun (2002)
(Lunes al sol, Los)
Drama / 113 min
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Color: Color
Directed by
Fernando Le?n de Aranoa
Writing credits
Ignacio del Moral
Fernando Le?n de Aranoa
Synopsis: This is the story of those who live in a constant Sunday, those who spend mondays under the Sun. The story of people who worked in a dockyard but now are unemployed.
Sweet Nightmare (1998)
Pesadelo Cor De Rosa (1998) (Portugal)
Comedy / Romance / 96 min
Language: English / Portuguese
Color: Color
Directed by
Fernando Fragata
Writing credits
Fernando Fragata
Synopsis: A dream girl can cause a lot of insomnia.
Divided We Fall (2000)
(Mus?me si pom?hat)
Runtime: 120 min / Argentina:122 min / Canada:123 min
/ Germany:123 min /
UK:122 min / USA:117 min
Country: Czech Republic
Language: German / Czech
Genre: Comedy / Drama (more)
Directed by
Jan Hrebejk
Writing credits
Jan Hrebejk
Petr Jarchovsk? (screenplay)
Synopsis:
In World War II Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, a childless couple, Josef and Marie Cizek, can only watch while the Jewish family of their employers, the Wieners, are first removed from their own home to a spare room in their house by the Nazis, then removed to the far off facility of Thierenstadt. Years later, young David Wiener, the sole surviving member of that family has managed to escape and make it to the Cizeks. Although fully aware of the extreme danger of harbouring a Jew in the Third Reich, the Cizek’s can not permit themselves to leave David to certain death and agree to hide him.
However, this decision leads to terrible danger of discovery by the Nazis and especially their friend and Nazi collaborator,Horst Prohazka, who is attracted to Marie. With desperate cleverness and luck, the Cizeks struggle
to keep the secret, even when Horst begins to suspect. In doing so, they find themselves making unorthodox choices and
learning about the true nature of the people around them.
Soul’s Place, The (2003)
(Posto dell’anima, Il)
Runtime: France:106 min / USA:106 min
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Color: Color
Directed by
Riccardo Milani
Writing credits
Riccardo Milani
Domenico Starnone
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Synopsis:
The story is simple and maybe classic: a country-town, workers and an american factory that is going to be closed, workers
and town-mates fight to evade it. The plot doesn’t matter because in the center of all we have the life, the real life, not the rhetoric and fake one but the life lived. Friendship, love, cooperation are the protagonists, people are protagonists,
character are not. It is a real story, not a real movie story. There aren’t heros either particular dramatic moment. The event can make everything tragic but the movie remain something similar to a comedy.
Young Adam (2003)
Runtime: 93 min / France:98 min (Cannes Film
Festival)
Country: UK / France
Language: English
Color: Color
Genre: Drama / Crime / Thriller
Directed by
David Mackenzie
Writing credits
Alexander Trocchi (novel)
David Mackenzie
Ewan McGregor - Joe Taylor
Tilda Swinton - Ella Gault
Peter Mullan - Les Gault
Synopsis:
Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh, owned by Les and his wife Ella. One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and suspect is arrested, we discover that Joe knows more than he is letting on. Gradually we learn of Joe’s past relationship with the dead woman.Meanwhile an unspoken attraction develops between Joe and Ella, heightening the claustrophobic tensions in the confined space of the barge
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