Six polish premieres in Main Competition!
Main Competition is a competition for film directorial debuts and second films. Six films with their Polish premiere during the IFF Ars Independent will be competing for the Silesian Film Award (PLN 20 000). The main competition will be finalized with a projection within the BigCin project.
MAIN COMPETITION
place - Kino Kosmos (Centrum Sztuki Filmowej - duża sala)
Morgen
Morgen, reż Marian Crisan, Rumunia/Francja/Węgry 2010, 100 min.
Nelu, a man in his forties, works as a security guard in the local supermarket. He lives in a small Romanian town on the Hungarian border. Days go by the same monotonous routine for him: he fishes at dawn, goes to works after that, finally returns home to his wife, Florica. One morning, Nelu fishes out of the river something different: a Turkish man trying to cross the border. Nelu takes the stranger to the farmhouse, gives him some dry clothes, food and shelter and promises to help him cross the German border. The simple story of two men presented in the film shows the scale of the problem of illegal immigration in Europe.
POLISH PREMIERE
15.06, 7 p.m.
16.06, 1 p.m.
TRAILER - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkab2o0aEzk
The Most Important Thing In Life Is Not Being Dead
Lo más importante de la vida es no haber muerto, reż. Olivier Pictet, Pablo Martín Torrado, Marc Recuenco, Szwajcaria/Hiszpania 2010, 82 min.
An esteemed piano tuner, Jacobo leads an apparently happy life with his wife, Helena. His existence is thrown into a state of confusion when insomnia creeps in, and previously repaired pianos start miraculously breaking down again. Jacobo plunges into paranoia, he hears ominous noises at night and hallucinates. The plot of the movie being set in Spain, during the difficult reign of General Franco, provides a backdrop for the tragi-comedic story of the main character. The film shows how weakness and doubt can lead to a breakdown of a seemingly coherent system of beliefs and values. Jacobo realises that his trouble-free existence is merely a curtain behind which lurks a chaotic unexplored universe.
POLISH PREMIERE
15.06, 10 p.m.
16.06, 4 p.m.
TRAILER - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6qQ9H8gC6s
Flying Fish
Igillena maluwo, reż. Sanjeewa Pushpakumara, Sri Lanka 2011, 125 min.
The film is a mosaic of histories of three women – a single mother living with eight children in a little village, a young woman in love with a soldier and a 13-year-old living with her father. All three stories are told in a slow rhythm, rather atypical for events which the characters will have to face. The director shows love, adolescence and upbringing somewhat against the morbid atmosphere rising throughout until the dramatic finish. Tamil Tigers’brutal fight for the independence of their country creates a backdrop for the film. Via these stories, the picture discusses the war and its consequences along with cultural and economic poverty which manifests itself in fear, violence and the sense of hopelessness pervading the society.
PLISH PREMIERE
16.06, 7 p.m.
17.06, 1 p.m.
TRAILER - http://flyingfishmovie.com/index.html
Gandu
Gandu, reż. Kaushik Mukherjee (Q), Indie 2010, 85 min.
Gandu, colloquial slang term for loser, revolves around a shiftless young man who spends his days getting high, masturbating and writing eviscerating Bengali rap lyrics. He funds his drug and lottery habits by stealing money from his mother’s lover, Dasbabu – a sleazy proprietor of the local Internet café. In the same café, Gandu plays brutal computer games, downloads porn and observes a beautiful woman eager to keep her long-distance digital relationship. One day he crashes into a Bruce Lee-obsessed rickshaw driver. This encounter quickly leads to their friendship and his new mate becomes a person in whom Gandu confides his dreams and ambitions. Rickshaw in turn introduces him to the world of heroin, which causes the boundaries of Gandu’s gloomy life and the dark world of his fantasy to slowly blur.
POLISH PREMIERE
16.06, 10 p.m.
17.06, 4 p.m.
TRAILER - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2C89YRVmbY
White as Snow
Kar beyaz, reż. Selim Güneş, Turcja 2010, 82 min.
A 12-year-old Hasan, together with two of his younger siblings, struggles to survive in a village in the mountains. His family fell into poverty when their father was imprisoned. The film tells a story of one day of Hasan’s life, who in order to earn some money sells ayran (a yoghurt drink). The picture shows a life filled with sacrifices and difficulties, whithin which the protagonist tries his best to improve the family’s situation. “White as Snow” opens our eyes to how much our lives depend on other people, how much we are responsible for each other, how greatly we may influence other people’s lives with a seemingly unimportant action. The film paints a picture of longing and melancholy, but also of hope and an unusual will to live.
POLISH PREMIERE
17.06, 7 p.m.
18.06, 1 p.m.
TRAILER - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4xlF-ZVAQQ
Finisterrae
Finisterrae, reż. Sergio Caballero, Hiszpania 2010, 80 min.
An unusual picture, which is a result of many experiments with classic structure of a road movie. The concept of the film is based on the idea to prepare the images first, later create the script and finally add the dialogues. “Finisterae” tells a story of two ghosts who, tired of their life in the world of shadows, decide to follow the Santiago Pilgrim Way to the end of the world. Once they get there, they will start an ordinary, earthly, mortal life in the land of the living. A strange and enigmatic picture with a unique atmosphere of magnificent, expressive images as well as ironic and surreal sense of humour.
POLISH PREMIERE
17.06, p.m.
18.06, p.m.
TRAILER - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzBTsWE0LQ
