Films in 2011 Golden Carpathian Competition:
PÁLL ADRIENN
Austria-France-Hungary-Netherlands 2010, 136 min
The story retraces the wanderings of a nurse who goes mad from being surrounded by death and sets off in search of a long-lost childhood friend. Gathering her recollections, she embarks on a journey full of paradoxes of her own memories and of the people she encounters.
Director: Agnes Kocsis
Written by: Agnes Kocsis, Andrea Roberti
Producer: Ferenc Pusztai - KMH FILM
Cast: Éva Gábor, István Znamenák, Ákos Horváth
Distributor: Elle Driver
Awards and Festivals: “Un Certain Regard” – FIPRESCI Award, Cannes 2010
THE ABANDONED
Bosnia 2010, 85 min.
The Abandoned is a look at the Bosnian war through the eyes of a boy who was born not as the fruit of love, but of hatred, and is part of a whole new people, nameless and unwanted, whose mothers were raped. The boy is in search for identity, for his biological parents.
Director: Adis Bakrac
Written by: Zlatko Topcic
Producer: Almir Sahinovic - HEFT Productions
Cast: Tony Grga, Mirsad Tuka, Mira Furlan
Awards and Festivals: FESTROIA International Film Festival - Premiul Special al Juriului , “Sectiunea Primul Film”, Premiul pentru cea mai bună regie/ Special Jury Award “First Works Section” – Festroia International Film Festival, 2011
BETWEEN TWO FIRES
Poland-Sweden 2010
A young mother with her daughter escapes child trafficking in their home country Belarus, just to end up in a refugee camp in northern Sweden. In her vulnerable situation, she becomes an easy target for her surrounding. Soon enough she get put in front of extreme choices which turns her life to a nightmare.
Directed by: Agnieszka Lukasiak
Written by: Agnieszka Lukasiak
Producer: Peter Kropenin - Hob AB
Distributor: The Yellow Affair
Cast: Magdalena Poplawska, Simon Kassianides, Kamila Nowysz
DAD
Slovenia, 2010, 71 min.
A film about love. After a long time, father and son spend a day together. (One day is like a crystal, one’s whole life reflects in it.) On a beautiful autumn Sunday, in the middle of majestic nature, the two human beings look like they are alone in the world. They must start all over again.
Directed by: Vlado Škafar
Written by: Vlado Skafar
Producer: Frenk Celarc – Gustav Film
Cast: Urška Kos, Sandra Ržen, Frenk Grdin, Rok Grdin
Awards and festivals: Veneţia 2010, Venice International Film Critics Week
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
Croatia, 2010, 80 min
During a reality show a war starts in the real world, a global conflict between NATO and the Eastern alliance, but the producer will do anything to hide it from the contestants who fight for the big prize…
Directed by: Nevio Marasovic
Written by: Nevio Marasovic
Cast: Sven Medvesek, Natasa Dorcic, Ivana Roscic
Producer: Sasa Bjelic – Copycat Productions
Awards and Festivals: 57th Pula Film Festival: Best newcomer, Best screenplay, Critics award
THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY
Estonia-Finland-Sweden, 2009, 110 min.
It is the story of a middle-age man who wakes up in the dark forest described by Dante. An unusual problem overshadows his life more or less prosperous and peaceful - morality. It is possible to be a “good man”? And what does this means? On the way to a cleaner conscience in a more and more complicated reality, Tony will meet a few individuals specific to Estonian society today and will live exciting adventures, not without humor. And it seems that slowly but inevitably, the hero will lose his job, his family, and later the sense of reality and himself.
Directed by: Veiko Õunpuu
Written by: Veiko Õunpuu
Cast: Taavi Eelmaa, Ravshana Kurkova, Tiina Tauraite
Producer: Homeless Bob Production
Distributor: Olive Films
THE CHRISTENING
Poland, 2010, 86 min.
Michal has what he always dreamed of: a beautiful wife named Magda, a newborn son, his own firm. He chooses an old friend, Janek, to be the godfather of his child. This is just the beginning of Michal’s plan, who asks his friend to take an interest in his wife... At the beginning the plan works out, but it becomes increasingly difficult for Michal to come to terms with it. Michal knows his deeply hidden past will inevitably come back to him…
Directed by: Marcin Wrona
Written by: Grazyna Trela, Dariusz Glazer
Cast: Andrzej Franczyk, Iwona Bielska, Krzysztof Czeczot
Producer: Odeon
APART THE COMPETITION
WEDDING IN BASARABIA
Romania, 2010, 90 min.
A young conductor from Bucharest and a pianist from Chisinau have recently married in Romania. The two are forced to make another wedding, this time in Basarabia, because the gift from the bride’s relatives should gather an advance for an apartment. The second wedding is an opportunity for competition between relatives of young newly weds, a competition that highlights the differences in education, culture and political beliefs.
Directed by: Napoleon Helmis
Written by: Napoleon Helmis
Cast: Vlad Logigan, Victoria Bobu
Producer: Mediana Communications
Distributor: Asociaţia Film Romania
Awards and Festivals: GOPO 2011 Award Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a fiction feature film, best original music (feature film) and MTV Special Award for best kiss.
HELLO! HOW ARE YOU?
Romania, 2010, 105 min.
After 20 years of happy marriage, Gabriel and Gabriela did not feel any attraction to each other. After they spend a few nights communicating online with a stranger, both fall in love - not knowing that actually found each other again. One day the meeting of the two virtual lovers is inevitable...
Directed by: Alexandru Maftei
Written by: Lia Bugnar
Cast: Ionel Mihăilescu, Dana Voicu
Producer: Rollin Studio Romania
Distributor: Voodoo Films/ M-Appeal
THE BEAR
Romania, 2011, 83 min.
The Bear is a road-movie placed in Romania of 90’s. The new manager of the State Circus is trying to solve financial problems of the institution by selling the only bear - old and dying – to a German hunter. But driven by a passion for craft and love for the bear, the artists of circus are against the director and follow him to the place where he goes to do the transaction.
Directed by: Dan Chişu
Written by: Dan Chişu
Cast: Şerban Pavlu, Mihai Constantin, Cosmin Seleşi
Producer: Libra Film
Distributor: Transilvania Film
Awards and Festivals: Best Pitch Award la Festivalul de Film de la Cottbus, Germania / Best Pitch Award at Cottbus Film Festival in Germany
THE TAKE-OFF
Romania, 1971, 81 min
Valedictorian of a school of flying, a pilot is obliged to do two years probation in utilitarian aviation. The one who dreamed himself as a supersonic master, finds himself a poor “air driver”. Life and the elder commander will g9ive him a though lesson.
Directed by: Timotei Ursu
Written by: Constantin Stoiciu
Cast: Liviu Ciulei, Emil Hossu, Emanoil Petruţ, George Motoi
Producer: Filmstudio Bucureşti
August 2011
