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‘பெண்களை கொண்டாடுவோம்’ என்ற தலைப்பில் கோவையில்
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மார்ச் 8ம் தேதி முதல் 14ம் தேதி வரை திரையிடப்படுகிறது.
8ம்தேதி தொடக்க விழாவில் ‘த ஹவுஸ்’ என்ற ஸ்லோவாக்கிய திரைப்படம் திரையிடப்படுகிறது.
ஏனைய நாட்கள் இரண்டு அரங்குகளில் இரண்டு காட்சிகளாக நான்கு படங்கள்
காட்டப்படுகிறது.
திகட்ட திகட்ட திரையிடுகிறார்கள்.
முதல் படம் ரம்பம் போட்டால் இரண்டாம் படத்துக்கு ஓடி விடலாம்.
இரண்டுமே காவியமாக அமைந்தால் ஒன்றை இழக்கும் பரிதாபம் இருக்கிறது.
நிகழ்ச்சியின் அட்டவணை இதோ...
படங்கள் பற்றிய சிறு குறிப்பு...
CELEBRATING
WOMEN
European
Union Film Festival
(8-14 March 2013)
Coimbatore
The House (DOM) | Dir.:Zuzana
Liová | Slovakia | Czech Republic|2011|90'
Stone by stone, Imrich is
building a small house for his daughter Eva almost entirely on his own.
But for
Eva, who is about to graduate from school, the prospect of moving into the
house is about as appealing as being imprisoned in a jail she herself has
helped to build.
She has very different plans for her future.
Her grumpy,
stingy, controlling father has already broken with Eva’s sister, Jana, after
she got herself involved with a scoundrel with whom she now has three children.
So the father is twice as vigilant with Eva, but she still manages to indulge
in a few little freedoms: skipping school for a couple of days, doing little
jobs to save up cash for the trip she longs to make to London, and an affair
with an older man who turns out to be her English teacher.
A generational
conflict in a milieu where even the minor characters are described in such
detail that one suspects the film has been modeled on directors like Mike Leigh
or Ken Loach.
But the speechlessness and deeply entrenched feelings of the
parent generation here also reflect the profound impact of radical social
change and the struggle to come to terms with that change.
This makes Zuzana
Liová’s feature a notable example of young, intelligent cinema from Eastern
Europe.
She gave him her eyes or Take My
Eyes (Te doy
mis ojos)| Dir.:Icíar Bollaín |Spain|2003|109'
Pilar, a meek housewife living
in Toledo, gathers few belongings one night and flees her apartment with her
seven year old son, Juan. They find shelter with Pilar's sister, Ana, who would
soon marry her Scottish live-in boyfriend.
Antonio, Pilar's husband, tries to
make her change her mind, but she is tired and fearful of his abusive behavior.
Determined to start a new life on her own, Pilar sends her sister to retrieve
her belongings from the apartment she shared with her estranged husband.
Once
there, Ana discovers through medical bills that her sister has also been
physically abused by Antonio.
When he arrives they have a confrontation.
Roads
and Oranges | (Dromoi kai portokalia) | Dir.:Aliki Danezi-Knutsen | Cyprus|1996|100'
This drama from Cyprus
concerns two sisters whose father has been presumed dead since Turkish forces
invaded their nation in 1974. However, when they receive word that their father
may be alive in Turkey, they set out to find him.
Wavering between courage and
fear, the sisters finds themselves wandering through a strange and unfamiliar
land, looking for a man who may not want to be found.
It’s a Jungle out there |(Nach Fünf im Urwald)| Dir.:Hans-Christian
Schmid | Germany|1995|99'
Anna, 17 years old, is happy to throw her first big
birthday party without her parents, but some of her guests are so stoned that
they leave a big chaos and, even worse, destroy the favorite record of Anna's
father.
After the return of her shocked and angry parents, Anna runs away to
Munich with her admirer Simon.
They discover the nightlife jungle and get to
know some typical urban guys.
Meanwhile, Anna's parents get in touch with
Simon's and try to find their children.
On the way across Munich, they remember
their own wild and restless youth...
In 1945, Finland's Kellokoski
Psychiatric Hospital welcomes a new patient, former cabaret dancer Anna
Lappalainen.
Diagnosed with manic depression and schizophrenia, she refuses to
answer to her real name, insisting instead that she is a Princess of the
British royal family.
“Princess” demands to be treated with respect, declares
the hospital her castle, and holds court with a makeshift collection of
ladies-in-waiting.
The primitive psychiatric procedures of the time—insulin
shots, electroshock therapy, and malaria treatments—have no effect on her
condition, and soon the stern Doctor Grotenfelt recommends the modern procedure
of lobotomy to end her royal delusions.
But before his treatment can begin,
Princess's eccentric grande dame manner has a surprisingly positive effect on
the staff, the patients, and the local villagers.
Based on a true story,
actress Katja Küttner won the Finnish Jussi Prize for her charismatic
performance as a woman who is judged ill by society, but whose presence heals
all around her.
Installation
of love | (Instalacija ljubezni) |Dir.: Maja Weiss | Slovenia|2007|98'
"Installation of
Love" is a bizarre and crazy satire constructed as a film in a film in a
film.
For her first feature film "Guardian of the Frontier", Maja
Weiss, the director and co-writer won Manfred Salzgeber award for the most
innovative European film at Berlinale 2002.
"Installation of Love" is
also a unique project concerning the story telling even though that the main
plot of the film is conventional and universal.
It is a search for love, or how
to rediscover or re-install love in your life - love in its widest sense.
32A (32A) | Dir.: Marian Quinn | Ireland|2008|89'
This story is set in the
"in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and
not yet a woman.
We open with our heroine, Maeve, putting on her new snow white
bra, and stepping out into the world as a young woman.
She has an obsession
with breasts and bras and can't help but stare at other girls and women, even
the head nun doesn't escape her gaze.
Otherwise, her world revolves around her
three friends, Ruth, Claire and Orla, who are more experienced in the ways of
the world.
They wear bras already (except Claire the feminist) and they've all
had boyfriends.
The new bra is a start but they really hope Maeve can find a
fella, even offering kissing lessons to prepare her.
What no one expects, least
of all Maeve, is that she should snare the local sixteen-year old heartthrob.
Maeve is so smitten with him that she lets her friends down when they need her
the most.
In trouble with her friends and in school, she gets dumped by the
heartthrob when she sneaks into the local dance with him and he leaves with
another girl.
Her parents find out and she ends up in trouble at home, where
she takes on extra domestic duties.
She does the laundry and even her bra has
lost its former brilliance. Maeve realizes what she has lost.
Her friends rally
round for her 14th birthday, Maeve returns to the fold a little older and a
little wiser.
Your Name Is Justine (Masz na imie Justine) | Dir.: Franco
de Peña | Luxembourg / Poland|2005|97'
While living with her
grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love.
Her boyfriend is charming
and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their
trip.
Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is
sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany.
We follow her ordeal as she
tries to free herself and to stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to
break and condition her to a new life of servitude.
My Sex Life (Viata mea sexuala) | Dir.: Cornel
George Popa | Romania|2010|94'
A very tired woman strolls
before the video camera in the Budapest park with the microphone attached to
her skirt from behind.
She is a single mother of 26.
A guy whom she knew in the
nursery school and has completely forgotten since, learns that she is employed
in a sex shop and persuades her to record a video about her work which is still
shocking in the post-Soviet space.
The First Assignment ( Il primo incarico) | Dir.: Giorgia
Cecere | Italy|2010|90'
Nena, a girl from the south of
Italy, has to travel far from home to get her first job as a teacher.
She is
sad, not because she has to leave her mother and sister, with whom everything
is clear and sometimes difficult, but because she is having a serious love
affair with someone from her village to whom she is very committed: a young
upper-middle class man who seems to sincerely feel the same.
They promise that
nothing will change between them.
It is only until June and then she can ask
for a transfer.
And so she leaves, a little sad and a little curious about what
is in store for her.
But what she finds is completely different from what she
imagined. It's much worse: a school isolated on a high mountain plain, wild
children, people she has nothing in common with and a hostile environment.
She
sticks it out because of pride and because Francesco loves her for her courage,
until one cold February day when everything goes wrong, everything seems lost
forever... but it isn't so, it's never that bad.
Nena will find this out day by
day.
Fast Girls (Fast Girls) | Dir.: Regan Hall | UK|2012|91'
The movie follows the story of
athletes Shania Andrews (Lenora Crichlow) as she competes against Lisa Temple
(Lily James) at a local level, and follow the duo as they work their way into
the British 4x100 metres relay team and compete in the World Championships.
My Name is Ki (Ki) | Dir.: Leszek Dawid | Poland|2011|93'
Ki is a young woman who
refuses to play the part of a tired single mother.
She wants to live a
fast-paced and colourful life.
Will her difficult relationships with men help
her become mature enough to embrace love and responsibility for herself and her
son?
Well Kept Secrets (Athanasia) |Dir.: Panos Karkanevatos |Greece|2008|100'
A young American woman,
Angela, returns to her Greek roots in an effort to uncover the identity of her
real father.
In the process, she shatters the very myths constructed to protect
her, exposing an unlikely relationship between a nomadic photojournalist
captivated by a Greek island girl who was exiled by her community.
When Angela
eventually meets her father, his stories paint a vivid picture of her mother,
Athanassia, and the strange paths of love she walked.
Eszter's Inheritance (Eszter hagyatéka) | Dir.: József
Sipos | Hungary|2008|90'
Since the charismatic but
untrustworthy Lajos jilted Esther and married her sister twenty years ago,
Esther has lived in seclusion with her cousin Nunu on a hillside overlooking
beautiful Lake Balaton.
Now Lajos is returning for a visit, and unexpected,
unwanted feelings reawaken, old mysteries beg to be resolved.
Taking place over
the course of a single September afternoon, filmed in the fulsome yellow-brown
hues of autumn, Márai’s wondrous novel comes to the screen in
a gorgeous production full of wit, elegance and a profound understanding of the
human heart.
Lora
from Morning Till Evening | Dir.: Dimitar Kotzev | Bulgaria|2011|93'
After a night of partying with
her friends Lora has to get herself together and attend an important meeting.
At her office she finds two packages which contain two mysterious dice.
The
sides of one of them are all marked with the number two and of the other - with
the number five.
In the course of the day Lora will have to find out the truth
behind the magical properties of a set of six dice.
Lora would be betrayed and
helped, chased and abducted.
She'd fall in love and she'd help a friend deal
with a complicated relationship.
After this roller-coaster ordeal she'll come
out stronger and happier having reasserted the importance of true friendship.
Fragments of Grace (Altiplano) | Dir.: Peter Brosens
| Belgium|2009|109'
War photographer Grace,
devastated after a violent incident in Iraq, renounces her profession.
Her
Belgian husband, Max, is a cataract surgeon working at an eye clinic in the
high Andes of Peru.
Nearby, the villagers of Turubamba succumb to illnesses
caused by a mercury spill from a local mine.
Saturnina, a young woman in
Turubamba, loses her fiancé to the contamination.
Ignorant of its true source,
the villagers turn their rage on the foreign doctors, and in the ensuing riot
Max is killed.
Grace sets out on a journey of mourning to the place of Max's
death.
Saturnina takes drastic measures to protest against the endless
violations towards her people and her land.
Grace and Saturnina's destinies
merge. ALTIPLANO is a lyrical and probing film about our divided but
inextricably linked world.
The Dark House ( Terug naar de kust) | Dir.: Will Koopman | The
Netherlands|2009|110'
Single mother Maria starts to
receive anonymous death threats. Together with her children, she flees to her
former parental home, where her older sister Ans now lives.
During those cold
winter days in the secluded seaside house she is confronted with her traumatic
childhood memories.
But as the people close to her begin to question her state
of mind, her assailant closes in.
Back in your Arms (Kai apkabinsiu tave) | Dir.:Kristijonas
Vildziunas | Lithuania| Germany|2010|90'
On the eve of World War II, a
young woman was taken by her mother to the United States, and was separated
from her father as he was trapped in Soviet occupied Lithuania.
It’s now 1961 and she has come to West Berlin
for a chance to see her father, who is held captive by KGB agents.
Back To Your Arms is thrilling and poignant.
In this moment in time before the Berlin Wall was erected, her life is in
danger at every step.
Little Girl Blue (Tajnosti)
| Dir.: Alice Nellis | Czech Republic / Slovakia|2007|93'
Julie, a translator, has just
moved into a new house with her successful husband Richard and teenage daughter
Cecilie.
Their life is supposed to be that of the perfect happy family.
When
she hears that her favourite singer has died Julie has the sudden realization
that her life is not what she wants it to be.
Acting on an impulse she decides
to buy a piano, and en route her life changes completely.
But first she has to
resolve her past and present if she is to start the new life she desires.
In
this film about the various shapes of love, the role of Julie is an acting
comeback for the singer and violin player Iva Bittova.
Applause (Applaus) | Dir.:Martin Zandvliet
| Denmark|2009|85'
Critically acclaimed and
famous actress Thea Barfoed has gone through turmoil which has resulted in a
divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys.
She delivers great
performances night after night on the stage, yet her attempts at picking up the
pieces of her shattered personal life stemming from a long bout of alcoholism –
fail repeatedly.
She now wants to break with the past, regain control over her
life and get her children back.
Her ex-husband Christian is quickly persuaded
by her tough and manipulative but charming personality and she must prove to
both herself and him that she is capable of getting her life back on track. As
Thea is up against the rigorous demands of stage life and a past that haunts
her, she must face her inner demons while clinging to the goal she has set for
herself.
Graveyard Keeper's daughter (Surnuaiavahi tütar) | Dir.:
Katrin Laur | Estonia|2011|100'
The film focuses on the ruination of
a family caused by alcoholism, unemployment and poor living conditions.
In the
middle of the downfall spiral is a young schoolgirl Lucia who struggles with
her school assignments and at the same time tries to take care of her sister
with Down’s syndrome.
The family undergoes a spare moment of joy when the
father can take his family to Finland where he has been invited.
But as they
return to Estonia nothing has really changed – not in their personalities,
ambitions or mentality.
Beyond (Svinalängorna)
| Dir.:Pernilla August | Sweden|2010|99'
A poignant story, told with sincerity and humor, about a young
woman´s dramatic childhood and about her grief and the struggle to move on.
A
morning just before Christmas, Leena, 34, receives a phone call from a hospital
in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying.
This news takes
her on a journey to face her mother for the first time in her adult life.
Leena
has fought all her life to let go of her grief over her lost and dark
childhood.
She is now forced to deal with her past to be able to move on.
Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres) |
Dir.:Céline Sciamma|France|2007|85'
Three girls, each about 15, deal with puberty, the onset of sexual
attraction, and, for two, the pressure of virginity.
Marie, who's slight and
diffident, quiet and nearly expressionless, is friends with Anne, who's a bit
chunky and impulsive and has decided that François will be her first love.
Watching synchronized swimming, Marie is suddenly attracted to the team
captain, Floriane, beautiful, aloof, tall, and rumored to be a slut. François
pursues her.
Marie begins to hang around her; they trade favors, and soon it's
an odd sort of friendship.
Each of the three experiences her own first, and
Marie must sort out attraction and friendship.
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired
Girl (Singularidades
de uma Rapariga Loura) |Dir.:Manoel de Oliveira| Portugal / Spain /
France|2009|64'
On a train to the Algarve,
Macário tells his story to a sympathetic woman he's just met.
In flashbacks he
arrives in Lisbon to work as an accountant and a broker for his uncle.
From his
office window, he sees a young woman, Luísa: he's intrigued and finds her
beautiful; she holds a Chinese fan near her face.
He arranges to meet her, and
they fall in love.
When he tells his uncle he wants to marry, not only does his
uncle disapprove, he fires Macário who then leaves his uncle's home to live on
his own.
Penniless, he takes a job in Cape Verde to earn some money so Luísa
and he can wed.
Will she wait, and what of her peculiarities? His seatmate on
the train wants the whole story.
படங்கள் சென்சார் செய்யப்படாததால் வாலிப வயோதிக அன்பர்களை சூடேற்றும் காட்சிகள் ஏராளமாக இருக்கும்.
கில்மா ரசிகர்கள் தாராளமாக வரலாம்.
உலகசினிமாவை இன்று , டிவிடியும், இணையமும் சேர்ந்து நம்மிடையே சல்லிசாக புழங்க வைத்திருக்கிறது.
இதனால் திரைப்பட திருவிழாக்கள், பொலிவிழந்தாலும்...
தீவிர சினிமா ரசிகர்களிடையே இன்னமும் இதன் வசீகரம் குறையவில்லை.
திரைப்படம் பார்த்து விட்டு, டீயை குடித்துக்கொண்டே படத்தை பற்றி விவாதிக்கும் சுகம் எந்த ஹோம் தியேட்டரும் தராது.
கோவைப்பதிவர்கள் இந்நிகழ்ச்சி பற்றி, பதிவெழுதி சிறப்பிக்குமாறு அன்போடு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறேன்.
அடுத்தப்பதிவில் சந்திப்போம்.
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