FILM SCHEDULE / Intermediae / Imagineindia 2013
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Wednesday 22 may
19.00 XII Imagineindia
Janadesh (People,s veredict, 58') Section Documentaries. Enric Alvarez - Oriol Ampuero. Spain. 2012
Thursday 23 may
19.00 XII Imagineindia
Eldra (Films on Gypsies, 69') Timothy Lyn. Great Britain. 2003
Achal (The Stagnant, 91') Competition. Bikramjit Gupta. 2011
19.00 XII Imagineindia
Janadesh (People,s veredict, 58') Section Documentaries. Enric Alvarez - Oriol Ampuero. Spain. 2012
Janadesh is the most important non-violent campaign since the time of Gandhi. During 30 days, 25,000 men and women from the most disadvantaged sectors of India walk through the 350 km of the highway separating the city of Gwalior from the Parliament in Delhi. The objective : to initiate a mass hunger strike to demand a fair redistribution of the land.
These warriors without weapons consider that the personal sacrifice, discipline and suffering are better tools than the rifles, to produce social change. They know that exposure to the violence of the opponent without revenge involves great dangers, but that this action is better than tons of preaching.
Thursday 23 may
19.00 XII Imagineindia
Eldra (Films on Gypsies, 69') Timothy Lyn. Great Britain. 2003
It is a country known for daffodils, a passion for rugby, wonderful choirs, coal mining, Ryan Giggs, a unique language and place names that, when pronounced properly, could clear a throat.
And it is here, amid the charming valley-laden land of Wales that emanates an enchanting tale of a Romani girl called Eldra Roberts. Her story was captured in the 2002 film ‘Eldra’ which won five BAFTAs Cymru (British Academy Film and Television Awards for Wales) as well as numerous international awards.
The film is based on Eldra’s life in the 1930s and set near the picturesque Snowdonia region where Eldra grew up in the village of Bethesda on the River Ogwen. Born in 1917 into a musical Romani family, she was a direct sixth generation descendant of Abram Wood, thought to be head of the most famous Romani family in Wales in the early 18th century.
Friday 24 may
19.00 XII Imagineindia
Achal (The Stagnant, 91') Competition. Bikramjit Gupta. 2011
This is a story of man who earns his living being statues on the streets of the city of Kolkata. His name is Krishna and lives in the suburbs of Calcutta, alone. He has weird acquaintances; one of them is Rasu, who sells masks in the streests of the city. This film revolves around the aspirations that Krishna and his friends have.
FILM SCHEDULE / Cineteca El Matadero / Imagineindia 2013
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Saturday 25 may
20.00 XII Imagineindia
Total programme : 81 min
Art & Soul 1 (Warwick Thornton, 55'). Australian Section. 2010
An "insider's" view of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and artists. Charismatic curator Hetti Perkins takes us on a journey of ideas and the imagination - revealing the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life and culture.
Daak Nouka (Section Shorts SRFTI, 26'). Rohitaswa Mukherjee. India. 2012
Daak Nouka is the name of a fishing boat. Long ago, father ventured far into the sea and came back with the ship broken. The people who were with him did not return. Now life goes very slowly. Some even ask if they have come back. The time is still.
Sunday 26 may
18.00 XII Imagineindia
Total programme : 93 min
Rouyidan Dan Bad (Growing in the wind, 82') Sección Competición. Rahbar Ghanbari. Irán. 2012.
A top student in a nomad's winter place, Aslan misses his chance to attend final exams due to the problems his father's dealing with. Now he has to study while leading the herds as a shepherd. But in the first place, he is obliged to teach something of life to an elder shepherd who has fallen for his big sister; to teach him to be a worthy man to love his sister.
Pahada (Section Shorts SRFTI, 11'). Niranjan K. Kujur. India. 2012
On a background of terrorist attacks of the naxalites and the replica of the army, in a far away village of Jharkand, India, a child waits for his father.
20.00 XII Imagineindia
Total programme : 82 min
Art & Soul 2 (Warwick Thornton, 55'). Australian Section. 2010
An "insider's" view of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and artists. Charismatic curator Hetti Perkins takes us on a journey of ideas and the imagination - revealing the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life and culture.
Between the rains (Section Shorts SRFTI, 27'). Samimitra Das. India. 2012
In the huge city of that is Calcutta, a woman is abandoned at the train station. A taxi driver has to take his boss to see his wife who is an workoholic. The lives of the four will develop as they had never suspected.
Monday 27 may
20.00 XII Imagineindia
Total programme : 102 min
Ceuta, douce prison (Jonathan Millet, Loic H. Rechi, 90'). Section Documentary. France. 2012
The film follows the paths of 5 immigrants who arrive in Ceuta. They have left behind everything they had to try their luck in Europe. But finally they finished just locked up in a prison at the outdoors of Europe.
Dual (Section Shorts FTII, 12'). Abhilash Vijayan. India. 2012
In a hidden corner of the India army is cleaning of terrorists who hide in the forest. The village has its own opinion about these cleanising. The Barber is a silent character who one day has as customer to the head of the military.
Presentation / Imagineindia 2013
April 27, 2013 12:56
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The 12th edition of the Imagineindia International Film Festival (IIFF) will take place in Madrid (17-31 May, 2013) and Barcelona (July 2013).
In less than a month, the twelfth edition of Imagineindia arrives in Madrid. A total of 51 films will be shown in 3 venues : Filmoteca Española, Cineteca El Matadero, Intermediae El Matadero.
CATEGORIES :
Competition
Short films
Documentaries
Films on Gypsies
Australian films on aborigins
Walter Heynowski , Gerhard Scheumann Retrospective
COMPETITION
Nine films will compete to win the “Golden Chakra” at this edition. This section will start at the Filmoteca Española with the B.A. Pass screening on 17 may, with the presentation of Jesús Ferrero, then continues with the projections of the films Char, I Am, Alms for the Blind horse, The Tortoise an incarnation, Color of Sky, I.D.
At Intermediae will be screened the film Achal, while in Cineteca the iranian film Growing in the Wind.
The screenings of the films in Competition at Filmoteca Española will have presentations by Spanish famous artists such as Verónica Echegui, Juan Diego Botto, Angela Molina, Juan Diego, Chema Rodríguez, Gran Wyoming.
SHORT FILMS
Shorts from 8 countries will be screened at Filmoteca Española and Cineteca. To highlight films from two National Film Institutes of India cinema films: Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (Calcutta) and Film and Television Institute of India (Pune).
DOCUMENTARIES
6 documentaries from 3 countries will be screened in the 3 venues of the festival. To highlight Celluloid Man, a biography of P.K. Nair, the first director of the film archive of India, Janadesh (popular verdict) on the protest movements in the India and Ceuta, douce prison, about the aspirations of immigrants in Ceuta.
FILMS ON GYPSIES
This section represented by a single film, Eldra (Timothy Lynn), about the Gypsies of Wales. Being a Northern and Gypsy community not very numerous but ancient in history, it draws attention to how they kept alive the legends and traditions of Roma people. The film will be presented by the Institute of Gypsy Culture, at Filmoteca Española.
AUSTRALIAN FILMS ON ABORIGINS
Through the film Art and Soul (two parts), of the producer Bridget Ikin, tells how despite the repression and its almost disappearing, the original settlers of Australia have managed to survive and rescue their memory through an art full of feelings.
RETROSPECTIVE OF WALTER HEYNOWSKI & GERHARD SCHEUMANN
Studio HS was a workshop of political documentaries based in East Berlin, capital of the GDR. Its founders were Walter Heynowski (born in 1927) and Gerhard Scheumann (1930-1998). Both were members of the Academy of Arts, and twice received the national prize of the GDR. For more than 15 years they occupied senior positions in the press, radio and television, before forming in 1965 an art collective together with cameraman Peter Hellmich.
Study HS was enormously productive, with 71 films in 26 years, among which stands out the films dedicated to Vietnam, with six films, five shorts and documentation. The images still have a great testimonial value and are historical documents that tell much about our recent past. Films like The thunder Gods, Hilton Hanoi, Pilots in Pijama, are the living and vivid memories of our recent past.
The Retro has been possible thanks to the collaboration of the Goethe Institute in Madrid.
COLLABORATORS
Directorate for film festivals (DFF)
Indian Embassy
Embassy of Vietnam
Filmoteca Española
Filmoteca de Catalunya
Instituto Goethe de Madrid
Cinemateca
Intermediae
Casa de la India
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute of India
AISGE
Institute of Cinema of Madrid
FILM SCHEDULE / Filmoteca Española / Imagineindia 2013
April 21, 2013 07:35
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MAY / FILMOTECA ESPAÑOLA / Calle Sta Isabel 3
Friday 3 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 100 (100, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1971). RDA. VE. 6’. Eintritt kostenlos (Free Entry, W. Heynowski & G. Scheumann, 1976). RDA. VE. 11’. Die Teufelsinsel (Devil,s Isle, W. Heynowski & G. Scheumann, 1976). RDA. VE. 61’. Total programme : 78’
Second show day 16.
Saturday 4 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 Der erste Reis danach (The First rice, later, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1977). RDA. VE. 58’. Ich bereue aufrichtig (I sincerely regret, W. Heynowski & G. Scheumann, 1977). RDA. VE. 54’. Total programme: 112’
Second show day 17.
Tuesday 14 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 Die eiserne Festung (The Iron fortress, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1977). RDA. VE. Vídeo. 59’. Am Wassergraben (In the ditch, W. Heynowski & G. Scheumann, 1978). RDA. VE. 16’. Ein Vietnamflüchtling (A Vietnamese refugee, W. Heynowski & G. Scheumann, 1978). RDA. VE. 4’. Total programme: 79’
Thursday 16 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 100 (100, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1971). RDA. VE. 6’. Eintritt kostenlos (Free Entry, W. Heynowski y G. Scheumann, 1976). RDA. VE. 11’. Die Teufelsinsel (Devil,s Island), W. Heynowski y G. Scheumann, 1976). RDA. VE. 61’. Total programme: 78’
Friday 17 |
19.10 XII ImagineIndia: Competition
Sala 1 Das Mongolische Mädchen-mit der Tüte voller Glücksgefühle (A Mongolian girl with a bag full of happiness, Tatjana Kleut, 2012). Germany. Digital. 23’. B.A. Pass (Ajay Bahl, 2012). Cast: Shilpa Shukla, Shadab Kamal, Rajesh Sharma. India. VOSI/E*. 95’. Total programme: 118’
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 Der erste Reis danach (The first rice, later, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1977). RDA. VE. 58’. Ich bereue aufrichtig (I sincerly regret, W. Heynowski & G. Scheumann, 1977). RDA. VE. 54’. Total programme: 112’
Saturday 18 |
19.40 XII ImagineIndia: Competition
Sala 1 Anhey Ghorhey da daan/Alms for the Blind Horse (Gurvinder Singh, 2012). Cast : Mal Singh, Samuel John, Serbeet Kaur. India. VOSI/E*. 113’
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 Die fernen Freunde nah (The visit of the vietnamese friends, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1979). RDA. VOSE*. 44’. Phoenix (Phoenix, W. Heynowski & G. Scheumann, 1979) RDA. VE. 66’ . Total programme : 110’
Second show day 29.
Sunday 19 |
19.10 XII ImagineIndia (Gypsy Films)
Sala 1 Eldra (Timothy Lynn, 2003). Cast: Iona Wyn Jones, Rick Richards, Leisa Mereid. Vídeo. VOSE. 69’
Presentation by the President of Instituto Gitano de Cultura.
20.45 XII ImagineIndia: Competition
Sala 2 The red carpet (Iosu López, 2012). Spain. Vídeo. 11’. The photograph (Sartak Bhasin). India. Vídeo. 8’ Gurpal Singh and Preet Kaur (A. Chatterjee, Lubna Yusuf). India. Vídeo. 8’. The No-Man’s Island (Sourav Sarangi, 2012). Documentary. Digital. India. VOSE*. 88’. Total programme: 115’
Tuesday 21 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 Yes, Sir (Yes, Sir, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1968 ) RDA. VOSE*. 68’. Hilton Hanoi (Hilton Hanoi, W. Heynowski & G. Scheumann, 1968). RDA. VOSE*. 62’. Total programme: 130’
Wednesday 22 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Documentary
Sala 2 Celluloid Man (Shivendra Singh, 2012). India. VOSI/E*. 162’
Second show day 25.
Thursday 23 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Competition
Sala 2 From the Retiro to Sol (Suniti María Jurado, 2012). Spain. Vídeo. 17’. I Am (Onir, 2012). Cast: Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Rahul Bose. India. Vídeo. VOSE. 99’. Total programme: 116’
Friday 24 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 400 cm3 (400 cm3, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1966). RDA. Video. VE. 6’. Der Job (The Job, W. Heynowski & G. Scheumann, 1968) RDA. VOSE*. 82’. Total programme: 88’
Saturday 25 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Documentary
Sala 2 Celluloid Man (Shivendra Singh, 2012). India. VOSE*. 162’
Sunday 26 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 Die Donnergötter (The donor gods, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1968). RDA. VOSE*. 80’
Second show day 31.
Tuesday 28 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Competition
Sala 2 Akashathinte niram/Color of Sky (Dr Biju, 2012). Cast: Nedumudi Venu, Indrajith Sukumaran. India. VOSE*. 117’
Wednesday 29 |
19.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski & Scheumann
Sala 2 Die fernen Freunde nah (The visit of vietnamese friends, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1979). RDA. VOSE*. 44’. Phoenix (Phoenix, Walter Heynowski & Gerhard Scheumann, 1979). RDA. VE. 66’. Total programme:110’
21.15 XII ImagineIndia: Competition
Sala 2 Las Meninas (Eva Cools, 2012). España/Bélgica. Video. 29’. I.D (Kamal K.M, 2012). Cast: Geetanjali Thapa, Murari Kumar. India. VOSE*. 87’. Total programme: 116’
Thursday 30 |
21.30 XII ImagineIndia: Competition
Sala 1 Kuramavathara /The Tortoise, an Incarnation (Girish Kasaravalli, 2011). Cast: Shikaripura Krishna Murthy, Jayanthi. India. VOSI/E*. 125’
Friday 31 |
20.00 XII ImagineIndia: Heynowski y Scheumann
Sala 2 Die Donnergötter (The donor gods, Walter Heynowski y Gerhard Scheumann, 1968). RDA. VOSE*. 80’
LIST OF FILMS / Imagineindia 2013
April 20, 2013 11:03
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COMPETITON
I AM (Onir) India
CHAR (Sourav Sarangi) India
ACHAL (Bikramjit Gupta) India
ALMS FOR THE BLIND HORSE (Gurvinder Singh) India
COLOR OF SKY (Dr Biju) India
THE TORTOISE, AN INCARNATION (Girish Kasaravalli) India
B.A PASS (Ajay Bahl) India
I.D (Kamal K.M) India
GROWING IN THE WIND (Rahbar Ghanbari) Iran
HOMOSTRATUS (Siu Pham) Vietnam
SHORTS
Film And Television Institute of India (FTII)
- The Photograph (Sartak Bhasin) India
- The Dual (Abhilash Vijayan) India
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) India
- Between The Rains (Samimitra Das)
- Daak Nouka (Rohitaswa Mukherjee)
- Pahada (Niranjan Kujur)
- Hide & Seek (Sreedevi P.M.)
Shorts Films From "YxineFF" (Vietnam)
- Two Girl Against The Rain (Sao Sopheak) Cambodia
- Tiny Pupil (Komaki Teng) Malaysia
- IVA (Polen Ly) Cambodia
- The Room (Nguyen Hong Quan) Vietnam
- Breathe (Tan Hyon-Le) Vietnam
- 16.30 (Tran Dung Thanh Huy) Vietnam
OTHER SHORTS
- A Mongolian Girl With a Bag Full of Happiness (Tatjana Kleut) Germany
- The Meninas (Eva Cools) Belgium/Spain
- From The Retiro to Sol (Suniti María Jurado) Spain
- The Red Carpet (Iosu López, Manuel Fdez.) Spain
- Gurpal Singh And Preet Kaur (A. Chatterjee, Lubna Yusuf) India
DOCUMENTARIES
CHAR (Sourav Sarangi) India
CELLULOID MAN (Shivendra Singh) India
RICE AND RASAM (Ramchandra P.N) India
THE RED CARPET (Iosu López, Manuel Fdez.) Spain
CEUTA, SWEET PRISON (Jonathan Millet, Loic H. Rechi) France
JANADESH (Enric Alvarez, Oriol Ampuero) Spain
JANADESH (Enric Alvarez, Oriol Ampuero) Spain
WALTER HEYNOWSKI & GERHARD SCHEUMANN
Programme 1
Yes Sir
Hilton Hanoi
Programme 2
400 cm3
Der Job (The job)
Programme 3
Die Donnergötter (The donor gods)
Programme 4
100
Eintritt kostenlos (Free entry)
Die Teufelsinsel (The Isle of the devil)
Programme 5
Der erste Reis danach (The first rice, later)
Ich bereue aufrichtig (I sincerely regret)
Programme 6
Die eiserne Festung (The iron fortress)
Am Wassergraben (At the ditch)
Ein Vietnamflüchtling (A vietnamese refugee)
Programme 7
Die fernen Freunde nah (The visit of the vietnamese friends)
Phoenix
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGIN FILMS
Art + Soul (Warwick Thorntorn) Australia
GYPSY FILMS
Eldra (Timothy Lyn) Great Britain
Imagineindia screenings on Satyajit Ray at Filmoteca de Cataluña
March 9, 2013 09:06
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From next 12th march will take place at Filmoteca de Cataluña a retrospective of 9 films of Satyajit Ray. The retrospective is organized by Filmoteca de Cataluña with the collaboration of Imagineindia and Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) of India.
The screenings will include 8 films of Satyajit Ray, some of them less known like Sadgati or Bala, and the film on Ray of the great indian director Shaym Benegal.
The films to be screened are :
Pather Panchali
Aparajito
Apur Sansar
Charulata
Shatranj ke Khilari
Satyajit Ray
Jalsaghar
Sadgati
Bala
More info :
http://www.filmoteca.cat/web/programacio/cicles/satyajit-ray-transmetre-un-mon?page=1
Imagineindia at Filmoteca de Aragón (Zaragoza)
February 8, 2013 08:59
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Imagineindia at Filmoteca de Aragón (Zaragoza)
Imagineindia will show a Retrospective of Mrinal Sen of 9 films in february and march at Filmoteca of Aragón (Zaragoza). One film will be shown per week with two screenings, beginning from 8th feb 2013. The films are :
- Akaler Sandhane. 1980
- Akash Kusum. 1965
- Bhuvan Shome. 1969
- Khandhar. 1984
- Ek Din Achanak. 1988
- Oka Oorie Katha. 1977
- EkDin Pratidin. 1979
- Calcuta 71. (1971)
- Kharij. 1982
More info : http://www.filmotecazaragoza.com/documents/general
ENTRY CALL. Imagineindia 2013
October 30, 2012 07:58
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The 12th edition of Imagineindia International Film Festival (IIFF) will take place in Madrid(17th to 31st May, 2013) and Barcelona (June 2013). We are now open for selection of Feature Films, Shorts and Documentaries.
No submission fee.
DVD,s to be sent to :
Imagineindia International Film Festival
C/ Fe 9. 3º E
Madrid 28012
Spain
CATEGORIES :
Competition
Indian Section
Asian Section
International Section
Out of Competition
Indian Section
Asian Section
International Section
RULES :
http://www.imagineindia.net/2013/eng/Festival/Reglamento/reglamento.html
WEB :
www.imagineindia.net
CONTACT :
http://www.imagineindia.net/2013/eng/Contact/contact.php
12th ImagineIndia International Film Festival Madrid | 17-31 May 2013 |www.imagineindia.net | www.imagineindiabarcelona.com
Imagineindia with Mrinal Sen in July at Filmoteca Española
July 4, 2012 04:34
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JULY
Sunday 1
20.30 XI ImagineIndia
Sala 2 Oka Oorie Katha (Mrinal Sen, 1977). Vasudeva Rao, Narayana Rao, Mamata Shankar. India.113’.
Tuesday 3
20.00 XI ImagineIndia
Sala 2 Antareen (Mrinal Sen, 1993). Anjan Dutt, Dimple Kapadia, Tathagata Sanyal. India. 90’.
Wednesday 4
20.30 XI ImagineIndia
Sala 2 Ek din achanak (Mrinal Sen, 1989). Shreeram Lagoo, Shabana Azmi, Aparna Sen. India. 106’
Thursday 5
20.30 XI ImagineIndia
Sala 2 Aamaar Bhuvan (Mrinal Sen, 2002). Nandita Das, Kaushik Sen, Saswata Chatterjee. India. 108’
Imagineindia with Vietnamese Films at EL MATADERO (Intermediae)
June 22, 2012 07:30
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HERE OR THERE ? (2011)
Director : Siu Pham
Cast : Jean-Luc Mello, Tu Mai Dang, Vinh Son Nguyen
Script-editor : Jean-Luc Mello
Producer : Vinh Son Nguyen
Director of photography: Cong Danh Phan
Music-editor: Jamasp Jhabvala
Editor : Julie Beziau
Runtime : 91 min. Color, 2011
For a film on cultural dislocation and "being" as a relative concept, Here or There? is all over the place conceptually. The narrative just extends over one day. A Frenchman (Mello) wakes up in his house. Concurrently, he is riding around town in a motorbike, fishing and adrift in the sea. Interspersing these scenes are voice-over dialogues between the Frenchman and his Vietnamese wife about the disruptive construction of a shrine for "forsaken spirits" next door. The wife's fruitless search for him around town, his unnoticed presence
around her and visitations by her dead relatives prompt one to infer he is dead. Living abroad and being married to a local wife makes the protagonist an outsider and insider at the same time.
SHORT FILMS
THE FADING LIGHT (2008)
Director : Thien Do
Producer : Henri Phimasset, Thien Do
Starring : Trung Dung, Minh Duc
Length : 22:43 min. Color.
Genre : Drama
A man comes back to his village after staying abroad. He searches for the fading lights on every corner of his memory. But one light he will never forget as he always remembers that they were two who begun the first journey of their life.
SUNDAY MENU (2011)
Director : Liesl Nguyen
Producer : HFF Konrad Wolf
Starring : Hong Berghof, Nguyen Thi, Quyet Thang, Dam Ngoc Van, Huy Van Martin Nguyen, Nathan Koestlin,Phan-Thi
Length : 24:32 min. Color.
The short film Sunday Menu is about a teenage, Vietnamese-German girl confronting generational and cross-cultural conflicts through the ritualistic power of food in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany.
“Mi” shares her emotional world with her homesick and bedridden Grandmother “Ba”, Mi’s mother “Ma” who struggles with her unsuccessful restaurant, and upbeat cousin “Thai,” who seems to successfully straddle the German and Vietnamese cultures.
When Ba expresses dismay at the food Mi brings her from the restaurant, Mi resolves to learn how to cook one of her grandmother’s favorite meals – and what begins as the means to an end becomes the first step of an inner odyssey…
Sunday Menu is loosely inspired by the eponymous short story Thuc Don Chu Nhat [English: Sunday Menu] by Vietnamese writer Pham Thi Hoai, who lives in Berlin.
SNAKEHEAD FISH (2011)
Director : Do Quoc Trung
Producer : Doan Minh Anh , Ngo Dai Trang
Starring : Nguyen Nhu Quynh, Tran Dinh Cuong, Nguyen Oanh Oanh
Length : 15:34 min. Color.
Genre : Drama
The story is about a middle age woman who by all means finds a girl to sleep with her mentally challenged son. She insistently believes that her son is completely normal. And she expects a grandson to maintain the family line.
The arrangement is usually beyond human planning. That’s the disheartening message from Snakehead Fish. The well-arranged frames along with professional performances by the actors bring a bewildering atmosphere in the setting of an Hanoi ancient house.
THE MAN WHO WAS THERE (2009)
Director : Andy Nguyen
Producer : Andy Nguyen
Starring : Anphong Nguyen, Natalie Kuhn
Length : 11:58 min. Color.
Genre : Drama
It’s Christmas Eve in New York, a man who lives alone leaves his flat for the first time in 8 years because of a silly reason and fortunately a girl helps him. Both of them walk together in the freezing Christmas Eve. The loneliness has been spreading from the empty streets .
Andy Nguyen’s film not only brings a melancholy feeling about people’s inner loneliness in modern society but also lights up a belief in love as well.
MOTHER,S MILK (2011)
Director : Andy DeJohn
Producer : Vu Quynh Ha , Phan Xine
Starring : Nguyen Ngoc Trang Vy, Nguyen Hoang Thien Kim, Hoang Tran Minh Duc
Length : 17:44 min
Genre : Drama
In the southern highland of the middle region, the living area of a young single-mother with two small daughters spreads between corn fields and a vú sữa (translated literally as breast milk fruit but known in English as star apple) tree behind the house. The two daughters must one day face life-changing events, only the tree continues to give fruits.
Andy DeJohn has chosen a Vietnamese story with Vietnamese images for his graduation film from USC Film School. Perhaps what touched him personally is best communicated than ever through his simple and gentle story-telling.
PROGRAMME :
El Matadero (Intermediae)
27 june / Wednesday
19.30 HERE OR THERE? (Siu Pham, Jean Luc Mello)
28 june / Thursday
Short Films
(In collaboration with Yxine Film Fest)
With the presence of the Ambassador of Vietnam
19.30
SNAKEHEAD FISH (Do Quoc Trung) 2011
THE MAN WHO WAS THERE (Andy Nguyen) 2009
MOTHER,S MILK (Andy DeJohn) 2011
SUNDAY MENU (Liesl Nguyen) 2011
FADING LIGHT (Thien Do) 2008