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19:30 | The Dardenne Brothers Retrospective: la Promesse |
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Drama. France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Tunisia 1996, 90 min. Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne. Starring: Jérémie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Assita Ouedraogo. In French with Russian subtitles. Igor - a 15-year-old apprentice mechanic--spends his off hours at the beck and call of his father. Igor's father, Roger, is a low-life involved with smuggling illegal immigrants into Belgium, and acts as their slumlord, housing them in barely livable conditions, and paying them menial wages to work construction on his building (among other scams). When the building inspector pays a surprise visit and Amidou falls off a scaffold in his hurry to hide, things start to unravel, particularly when Igor makes a promise to the injured Amidou that ultimately exposes the different values of Igor and Roger, and of Amidou's wife, Assita. Awards: Cesar Award Nomination - Best Foreign Film; Brussels International Film Festival - Best Belgian Film; Valladolid Iternational Film Festival - Best Directors, Fipresci Prize; Sattellite Award Nomination - Best Foreign-Language Film; Joseph Plateau Award - Best Belgian Film, Best Belgian Firectors, Best Belgian Actress; Namur International Film Festival - Best Film, Best Actor, Audience Award.
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20:00 | Beat Weekend: When the Earth Seems to Be Light |
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Documentary. Georgia, Germany 2015, 76 min. Directed by Salome Machaidze, David Meskhi, Tamuna Karumidze. A film about young Georgian skaters, artists, and musicians being trapped between the political and religious powers. They create their own open spaces beneath viaducts and in other ‘non-places’, giving them the feeling of a free existence. The way the teenagers see it, Georgia is all about the old rather than the new. They get no acknowledgement here, so they spend their evenings throwing Molotov cocktails at a concrete slope. The portraits of the skaters are based on a series of photos by David Meskhi, one of the three co-directors. The story is told on the backdrop of the amazing Georgian landscapes, with the wilderness and ruins providing a frame for the characters’ turbulent teenhood.
Karo 11 Oktyabr |
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