Sunday 27 maart 2011

Vocal Void

IFFB in the City

Geert Mul & Michel Banabila - NL

DROPSTUFF

IFFB in the City

IFFB Breakfast

48 Hour Film Project Premieres

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.

As if I Am Not There

Dutch premiere

Special Import

Juanita Wilson - BOS/HRZ, 2010, 109m

A raw and convincing directorial debut, based on true events as presented before the Joegaslavie Tribunal by dozens of witnesses. Young teacher Samira is arrested in het Bosnian village and taken to a prison camp, forced to live uder gruesome circumstances. With delicate looks shortly she is victim of the longing gazes of Serbian camp keepers and miltary. Samira decides to ignore her hatred for those who imprison her and chooses to do what it takes to make it out alive.

NY Export: Opus Jazz

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Henry Joost & Jody Lee Lipes - VS, 2010, 65m

Filmed with dancers from the New York City Ballet, Jody Lee Lipes and Henry Joost shape a classic dansformula into something entirely new: a virtual ode to the rhythm of New York, shot on brilliant locations. 'Opus Jazz' is young once again, a ballet in sneakers in all it's bliss.

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?

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.

Barney's Version

Main programme

Richard J. Lewis - VS, 2010, 113m

48 Hour Film Project Premieres

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.

Familie

Homecoming Maria Goos

Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen - NL, 2001, 91m

Dutch Delights

Shorts

EELCOBRAND.MOVI

IFFB in the City

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.

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.

22 mei

Best of the Fest

Koen Mortier - BE, 2010, 88m

After the horrible bombing of a shopping mall, a disoriented secutrity guard wanders the deserted streets of Antwerp, covered in dust and grime. Traveling through times and dimensions leading up to the catastrophe he strats to question his role in the events ofthe day, the unclarity of justice over all and the pure conincidence that seems to play a pivotal part in the lives of all involved. A splendid coproduction of Epidemic (BE) and IJswater Films/Revolver.

Wiçpuklacki

Familievoorstelling

Jeroen de Leijer - NL, 2010, 45m

48 Hour Film Project Premieres

IFFB High Tea

Sterkste man van Nederland, De

Familievoorstelling

Mark de Cloe - NL, 2010, 90m

Twelve year old, red headed Luuk Bos always knew his father was 'The strongest man of the Netherlands'. Mother Dorien, raising him on her own, told story after story about him. When they visit a local Strongest Man-contest, Luuk meets participant René Doornbos. He has red hair, even in his old pictures. Luuk is sure: René is his father.

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.

Arbor, The

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Clio Barnard - GB, 2010, 94m

Award winning documentary about the life of Andrea Dunbar, with actors lip synching interviews with friends and family of the long deceased yound playwright. Every nuance, pauze, sign and stammer resonates in the actors' engaging performances. Interwoven with these 'fake' interviews are scenes of Dunbar's lauded play 'The Arbor'.

Engel van Doel, De

Dutch premiere

Main programme

Tom Fassaert - NL, 2010, 80m

Almanya

Dutch premiere

Main programme

Yasemin Samdereli - DL, 2011, 97m

Made in Dagenham

Dutch premiere

Main programma

Nigel Cole - GB, 2010, 113m

It is 1968. Rita lives in Dagenham and works just like most local women, at the Ford factory. When they discover that their male colleagues get higher wages, they protest. With humor, good reason and courage the women take on the board, their husbands, the male employees and finally the government. Their battle against this unjustice will change the world.

Hard Shoulders

IFFB in the City

Wiçpuklacki

Familievoorstelling

Jeroen de Leijer - NL, 2010, 45m

Brabantse Beauties: Liefde in Brabant

Brabantse Beauties

Vakantie in eigen land

Familievoorstelling

Hanro Smitsman - NL, 2010, 90m

On the run from bill collecter, a once wealthy family hides out, only to meet a Sinti Family. With themes as relationships, friendship, cultural differences and prejudice, 'Vakantie in eigen Land' is a light tragic comedy about the friendship of a rich girl ad a Sinti boy.

48 Hour Film Project Premieres

Mine vaganti

Dutch premiere

Main programme

Ferzan Ozpetek - IT, 2010, 110m

A delicious tragic comedy on the woes of a family about to be challenged by not one but both sons coming out. Tomasso is home from college ready to share that he is gay with his family but his brother beats him to it. A funny tragedy of black sheep and sibling love and mishap.

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.

Flexible Frau, Eine

Dutch premiere

(Un)Plugged

Tatjana Turanskyj - DL, 2010, 97m

Berlin. Greta, 40 years old, architect, mother of a 12 year old son, divorced and recently unemployed.She tries her utmost to cope, to deal with the pressure to conform and the desire for conflict. A flexible woman: an all-round personality.

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.

House Under the Water, The

Dutch premiere

Best of the Fest

Sepideh Farsi - FR/IR/DL/NL, 2010, 92m

Fifty year old Morteza, straight out of prison, is suspected to be connecte to the drowning of a child. Taher, the officer handling the case, seems to know Morteza from back in their childhood and tries to prevent having to accuse Morteza without evidence. Personal events from the past and present take place in the case.

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.

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.

_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

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.

Teenage Riot

Shorts

Belle Épine

Dutch premiere

Best of the Fest

Rebecca Zlotowski - FR, 2010, 76m

Confused teenager Prudence Friedman is caught in a downward spiral after her mother's passing. Hoping to find solace in new company she teams up with local youth, motorroacing teens causing trouble. Hoping to pass of her solitude as a choice of independence she slowly seems to get more and more lost in her chatic time of sudden grief. Belle Épine brings to mind the finest films of the Dardenne brothers. Lea Seydoux is stunning as the young and confused lead.

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"?

Family, A

Dutch premiere

Pernille Fischer Christensen - DK, 2010, 102m

When Ditte gets a dreamjob at a gallery in New York, she decides to take the opportunity. But then Dittes' charismatic father Rikard, masterbaker and purveyor,gets very ill. Rapidly her life gets off balance. Rikard demands her to take over the family business, while Peter pushes her to go to New York, affraid their shared dream will fall apart.

NEDS

Dutch premiere

Best of the Fest

Peter Mullan - GB, 2010, 124m

John is a well mannered, promising and intelligent young boy, best of the class and seemingly destined for a better future than expected in his barren neighbourhood. Overshadowed by his good for nothing older brother he seems destined to fail and slowly he becomes all he fought not to be: A non educated delinquent, or NED. This triumph of British cinema is the latest from Peter Mullan, lauded director of The Magdalene Sisters.

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.

Parking Lot Movie, The

Dutch premiere

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Meghan Eckman - VS, 2010, 74m

In this remarkable and original documentary we are presented with a colorfull posse of parking lot attendants: all academics and would be philosophers, are at the ready to judge the tedious complainers, selfish SUV drivers, drunk college students. The parking lot attendants are daredevils up for the challenge or, if costumers refuse to pay, a chase down the street. they are ready to present their verdict and they are right. Always.

Littlerock

Dutch premiere

Special Import

Mike Ott - VS, 2010, 84m

Sibling Atsuko and Rintaro get up close and personal with the dusty midwest when their roadtrip across the USA lands them in the tiny town of Littlerock. Stranded with a car in repair they spend their days hanging out with local youths, constantly amazed the reality they know so well from western television. When friendships form and small crushes blossom they are however increasingly aware of the tonw's lingering ignorance towards their alien culture and thus towards them as, defiitely, outsiders.

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.

Laborama's Lust for Life

Shorts

Striptease, nightmares, fashion and death: In this programm aesthetics finds it's heaviest forms with the constant heartbeat of the experiment. A programm that binds art, film and experiment, with crazy results and sharp edges. Including: ‘Winter’ (Tessa Joose – NL), ‘L’anomalie’ (Regis Cotentin – FR), ‘Dawn’ (Erwin Olaf – NL), ‘Black Light’ (Suzie Q & Leo Siboni – FR), ‘Strips; (Felix Dufour-La Perriere – CA)

Black Butterflies

Main programme

Paula van der Oest - NL, 2011, 110 min, n.o.

Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, she searched for love. Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of censorship. With men like Jack Cope and Andre Brink she found much love, but no home. In his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addresses her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.

Small Town Murder Songs

Best of the Fest

Ed Gass-Donnelly - CA, 2010, 75m

In a small, ruaral mennonite community, the body of a brutally murdered young woman is found. Faced with a challenge greater than any before in his career, troubled local sherrif Walter remembers his own, very recent past, filled with rage and violence. With a stunning leading man in Peter Stormare this is a far cry from the original whodunit at the story's heart. With a completely overwhelming musical score and lush photography, this small film is ready to stun audiences the world over.