Thursday 24 maart 2011

Vocal Void

IFFB in the City

Geert Mul & Michel Banabila - NL

In a Better World

Dutch premiere

Main programma

Susanne Bier - DK/ZW, 2010, 113m

The lives of two Danish families gets dangerous when the sons develope a special friendship. Anton is a doctor that commutes between his home in an idyllic city in Denmark and his job in an African refugee camp. In these two totally different worlds, he and his family are faced with difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness.

DROPSTUFF

IFFB in the City

Good Morning to the World!

Dutch premiere

Special Import

Hirohara Satoru - JP, 2010, 81m

A young student tries to find the family and friends of a killed homeless man. The last moments of the mans' life slowly fall into place. With this the social problems in current Japan get exposed. The 23 year old Japanese director won the Dragons & Tigers Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival for this beautiful and ambitious debut.

Leef!

Homecoming Maria Goos

Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen & Jean van de Velde - NL, 2005, 110m

Lapland Odyssey

Dutch premiere

Special Import

Dome Karukoski - FIN, 2010, 90m

Jannes' girlfriend gives him an ultimatum: get the promissed digibox tonight or come home to an empty house tomorrow. In an attempt to save his honor he faces the cold Lapland with his friends for a nightly quest. The ingredients: reindeers, strange police, Russian-maybe-maffia and above all little hope for a happy ending...

bkkc workshop met Maria Goos

Homecoming Maria Goos

EELCOBRAND.MOVI

IFFB in the City

Creatieve Marktplaats

On the 24th of March Colin and the International Film Festival Breda get together to organize the eighth edition of Creative Marketplace. The Creative Marketplace is a networkevent at which creative professionals and business entrepeneurs meet. The Creative Marketplace is a place to discover surprising and non-logical connections, breaking through disciplines and making others see the value of interdisciplinary cooperation.

Cloaca

Homecoming Maria Goos

Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen - NL, 2003, 108m

Four forty year olds get together because of special circumstances. A kind of visit to their college years, in which they made a tight group. Socially the four of them are succesfull, but in their private lives there is a lot missing. Even though they keep up a facade of solidarity, the old friendship does not seem strong enough to stand the test of time and their own selfish ambitions.

Sleeping Beauty, The

Special Import

Catherine Breillat - FR, 2010, 82m

This new rendition of the classic tale of the Sleeping Beauty takes us on a mesmerizing journey through time and space to the life of the sexually curious Anastasia. Set in the 17th centur, Anastasia awakens after a hundred years of sleep, a dream filled century. With colorful, modern and picturesque images, mixed with the ever present matter of budding sexuality, this is Catheribe Breillat at her finest, thoug purest.

Vreemd bloed

Homecoming Maria Goos

Johan Timmers - NL, 2010, 90m

Jere was born to be a butcher: with a family of butcher going back generations it seem he also has little choice. But Jere is different. In this slightly ubsurd but warm family drama, screenplay writer Maria Goos sets the perfect tone for both a warm ensemble drama and a rich depiction of seventies middle class life. Humorous, sensitive, witty and sharp. And with Jere as a shining center.

Hard Shoulders

IFFB in the City

Imperialists Are Still Alive, The

Dutch premiere

(Un)Plugged

Zeina Durra - VS, 2010, 90m

The succesful artist Asya works in Manhattan after 9/11. She lives the glamurous life, complete with exclusive parties, supermodels and limousines, while following the situation in the Middle-East on television. A fresh and intelligent view on the way in which the 'war on terror' is included in the structure of everyday life in America.

Angèle et Tony

Dutch premiere

Main programme

Alix Delaporte - FR, 2010, 87m

In a Normandy seaside town Angele hopes to bui;d a new life for herself and finds much needed company in Tony, a lone fisherman. Despite his longing for Angele, Tony keeps his distance. But as Tony observes her longinly, beautiful and consfusing as she may be, her advaces seem to overwhelm him completely.

Somewhere

Best of the Fest

Sofia Coppola - VS, 2010, 97m

Hollywood star Johnny Marco leads a full life of unecessary abundance and boring fame, empty sex and heavy narcotics. When he is confronted with the sudden stay of his eleven year old daughter the emptiness that has become his routine seems suddenly clear. This wonderful new Sofia Coppola film is a worthy successor to cult hit Lost in Translation, and was awarded with a Golden Lion at the Venice film festival.

Inside America

Dutch premiere

Special Import

Barabara Eder - OOST, 2010, 107m

Elaborating on her own experiences as an exchange student in a bland village on the border of Amrica and Mexico, debuting director Barbara Eder shows the dark side of the American dream. With uncensored eyes Eder follows the reconstructed lives of the young, unexperienced actors. The result is an authentic image of a steamy place and the frustrations with which the young people cope every day.

Snap

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Carmel Winters - IER, 2010, 86m

A bitter and bittersweet tale of crime and redemption and antisocial behaviour. A film crew enters Sandra's life. In recent years her son kidnapped a young child making bith himself and his mother a social pariah. Sandra tells her side of the story, bitter and vengefull. She remains vague on the details of the incident though. Stephen films her, turning her story into something else entirely with his camera.

We Don't Care About Music Anyway

Dutch premiere

(Un)Plugged

Cédric Duprire & Gaspard Kuentz - FR/JP, 2010, 90m

Tokyo's experimental music scene is renowned around the globe for its complete lack of convention. Meeting some of the greatest musicians from the scene we are presented with the city of Tokyo through sound and Noise, static and images, reality and constructions of truth, documentary and fiction.

Miral

Dutch premiere

Main programme

Julian Schnabel - FR/ISR/IT/IND, 2010, 112m

Young Palestinian girl Miral grows up in an orphanage during the first Palestina-Israel conflict, unable to stay away from this larger than life tragedy unfolding before her eyes. After his memorable 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' and 'Basquiat', Julian Schnabel depicts a young woman caught in a global misunderstanding of revolting proportions. Freida Pinto, known for 'Slumdog Millionaire' is stellar in the lead.

Beyond the Steppes

Dutch premiere

Main programme

Vanja d'Alcanatara - BE, 2010, 90m

In 1940 Nina and her baby deported by the Sovjet army to barren lands far from home, forced to work in a sovchoze. When her son gets seriously ill she flees with a group op Kazach nomads, in search of medication. An intimate portrait of a woman forced to fight against inhumane circumstances.

Animation Celebration

Shorts

Up tempo, shapely and at times hilarious: Animation Celebration! Where style and sheep meet, the IFFB presents to you this years finest and freshest of contemporary animation. Be it the slightly unconventional animation, expect to be amazed by a virtual storm. With a.o. ‘The External World’ (David O’Reilly – IER), ‘The Origin of Creatures’ (Floris Kaayk – NL), ‘The Holy Chicken of Life and Music’ (NoMint – GR), ‘_GENERO’ (Ton Dirkx – NL), ‘Stuck in a Groove’ (Clemens Kogler – OOST)

Happythankyoumoreplease

Dutch premiere

Main programme

Josh Radnor - VS, 2010, 100m

Six young people in New York worry about their thirty-doubts: life, love and adulthood.The focus is Sam, a worrying writer with more talent than luck who takes care of a boy that got seperated from his parents in the subway. What do you do when you get the chance to be happy? Do you get scared or do you say: "Thank you. More please"?

Rabbit Hole

Dutch premiere

Main programme

John Cameron Mitchell - VS, 2010, 91m

In this sober new tale from cult director John Cameron Mitchell, a young couple struggles with the grief of the loss of their toddler son. Mother Becca hopes to build a new future while husband Howie finds redmption in support groups. When Becca befriends the teenage driver responsible for their loss it seems evident their life is at a turning point: Will they reconcile and face their pain tohether or will they fail in keeping their family together?

_GENERO & Battery Cage

IFFB in the City

Meet familiar talent and a brand new name in animation at the facade of the Breda's Museum: Studio Smack (Battery Cage), known and renowned, and bright young talent Ton Dirkx (_GENERO). From March 23 - 27 12.00 - 17.00u Free Entrance Location: Breda's Museum, Passade 12-14, Chassépark, Breda

Lentegasten with Maria Goos

Homecoming Maria Goos

Jo for Jonathan

Dutch premiere

Best of the Fest

Maxime Giroux - CA, 2010, 81m

Jo lives in the shadow of his older brother who lives a cool life with girls and illegal car races. His brother tells him that his life is also 'full of shit' and is not worht copying. A racingaccident puts both of their lives in new perspectives: Jo becomes his brother. Shot raw on 16mm and with great feeling for composition, the shocking moments primarily take place outside the eye of the camera.

Wide Wide World

Shorts

Rundskop

Dutch premiere

Best of the Fest

Michaël R. Roskam - BE, 2011, 124m

Young cattle farmer Jacky has made name for himself and his livestock, though with curious means. When a shady veterinarian offers him a deal, consequences are beyond the expected. Rundskop is a thrilling tragdy on fate and redemtion, lost innocence and freindship.

Our Day Will Come

Dutch premiere

Best of the Fest

Romain Gavras - FR, 2010, 88m

A cynical and hyphnotic tale of the outsider misunderstood. Young Remy blames his ginger hair for his social isolation. When he meets Patrick, an older student counselour, he feels a connection far beyond their shared haircolour. Both increasingly convinced the days of the redhead are coming to an end, they plot their escape to Ireland, mecca and safe haven for redheads, they believe. On their way to the shore they encounter misunderstanding in abundance, their reactions becoming more violent every step closer to the promised land.

Fleurs du mal

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David Dusa - FR, 2010, 100m

The young hotelservant Gecko is a dreamy freerunner. The Iranian woman Anahita is hiding in Paris while at home in Teheran the Green Revolution has a hold on her friends. Via YouTube, Facebook and Twitter she tries to keep contact, but it gets in the way of love. An energetic portret of love in a generation that, maybe more allied than ever, is rebelling against the lack of power from old times.

Malavoglia

Dutch premiere

Special Import

Pasquale Scimeca - IT, 2010, 94m

Based on a novel bye Giovanni Verga. The story of a fishermen family for whom the ocean, with all her whimsicality, is as much their excistence as it gives them tragedies and challenges that the Sicillian family must deal with. With amazing images the film shows the contrast between the deep traditions the older generation hangs on to and the hope for better from the younger generation. The timeless story provides a unique portret of a family that needs each other.

Putty Hill

Dutch premiere

(Un)Plugged

Matt Porterfield - VS, 2010, 87m

In a small and run down karaoke bar friends and fanily gather to pay their respects to young Corey, beloved and recently deceased. As they travel back home in the days before the ceremony, we meet their messy lives. There is both trouble and love in abundance but they hardly seem up fo the task to look ahead. As they piece back together Corey's last days, their world of indifference and struggle becomes clearer and clearer.

Kaboom

Main programme

Gregg Araki - VS, 2010, 86m

Smiths' life seems care free: hanging out with his sarcastic lesbian friend Stella, they peek at his beautiful but oh so stupid roommate Thor and he has casual sex with the exciting student London. But there are also his nightmares, students that seem t turn into smoke and people with masks that make the university an unsafe place. A very dark, but very funny mix of sex, horror, steroids and plastic fantastic about doomsayers to the max and the day of judgement.