South Eastern Europe Film Festival is coming soon

Summary: The CFI is launching their first South Eastern Europe film festival during the second week of July.

THE CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE PRESENTS 1ST SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE FILM FESTIVAL
JULY 9-14 2005

OTTAWA, ONTARIO (JUNE 22, 2005) The Canadian Film Institute is proud to present a festival of
films from South Eastern Europe, showcasing the national cinemas of Greece, Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Serbia-Montenegro, and Romania. All films are Ottawa premieres and will be presented in their original languages with English
sub-titles. All screenings will take place in the auditorium at Library and Archives Canada. The festival will run from July 9th to the 14th. The films presented in this festival will include:

Sat/Sam, July 9 juillet, 19:00
LOVING AT 16
Greece, 2004, 102 min. Director: Constantinos Haralambous

Rural Greece in the 1980s. The story revolves around a group of 15 year-old kids.Parents, relatives, and their friends emerge and unfold around them. Antigone comes to the village with her brother when her father, a police officer, is transferred there.
Her arrival turns the orderly world of Alexis and his buddies upside down. Alexis the dreamer is fascinated by her rebellious
character, and it is not long before he falls in love. A debut feature from Haralambous.

Sun/Dim, July 10 juillet, 19:00
LOVELORN
Turkey, 2004, 143 min. Director: Yavuz Turgul

Lovelorn's central figure is Nazim (Sener Sen), a retired teacher returning to Istanbul after a lifetime of teaching in rural primary schools. He's a member of the fiercely patriotic yet secular liberal generation whose values are increasingly under siege from Turkey's version of yuppiedom - represented here by his resentful children, Mehmet and Piraye. (They want him to sell his property and give them the money, but he can't face kicking out the poor family who rent it from him.) Bored and lonely, Nazim takes to cab driving, and finds a new focus for his affections on troubled single mother Dunya: a bar balladeer being stalked by her violent husband. No prizes for guessing
where the story goes, or for sitting through the "you were never there for me" scenes between Nazim and his kids - thereby proving that you don't have to come from Hollywood to whip up a frenzy of saccharine-tainted emotions. But Turgul's straightforward
storytelling keeps things moving, and Sen is a quietly engaging performer at the heart of the matter.

Mon/Lun, July 11 juillet, 19:00
REMAKE
Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003, 108 min. Director: Dino Mustafic

This is a true story about friendship that survives tests brought upon by the war, a story about tragic love
and blind hatred, about dreams crushed and dreams come true, about dishonesty and humanity, about sublime nobleness
and primitive passions, about hypocrisy and bitter truths, about the ironic repetitiveness of Balkan history. Vengeance or forgiveness? The first feature film produced and shot in Bosnia about the four-year siege of Sarajevo, this is an outstanding moral and artistic film.

Tues/Mardi, July 12 juillet, 19:00
MILA FROM MARS
Bulgaria, 2003, 95 min. Director: Zornista Sophia

A 16-year old girl runs away from a dangerous man and gets into a faraway village near the border. Soon she finds out the only
inhabitants there - nine old men and women -make their living by growing marihuana and the village is actually an
illegal plantation belonging to the man she runs away from. However, she decides to stay
there and nothing remains the same. A girl is afraid of her past, both disgusting and
attracting her. She is afraid of her present, both suffocating her and giving her wings. And
she is afraid of the future as it projects both her nightmares and her dreams. This film
is about the only "bullet against fear" - love. It also states that when you are
searching for yourself, you have to look into people's eyes so you can find yourself in the eyes of somebody.

Wed/Mer, July 13 juillet, 19:00
LOVING GLANCES
Serbia/Montenegro, 2003, 97 min. Director: Srdjan Karanovic

A beautiful and bittersweet romantic comedy set in besieged Belgrade. The
film is the story of Labud, a young student set adrift on the tide of refugees created
by the ethnic strife in the region, and Romana, a beautiful girl from the wrong side of
the ethnic divide, who meet and fall in love as displaced people in Belgrade in the
mid-nineties. As they fall in love so the outspoken "ghosts" of their past visit them in
the attempt to separate them through a series of hilarious events in which the dead
attempt to interfere with the lives of the living.

Thursday/Jeudi, July 14 juillet, 19:00
BRANCUSI
Romania, 1996, 77 min. Director: Cornel Mihalache

Brancusi is widely regarded as one of the founding figures of modern
sculpture. His landmark carvings introduced abstraction and primitivism into sculpture and
were as influential in the development of modern art as Picasso's paintings. "The
people who call my work "abstract" are imbecils: that which they call "abstract" is
the purest realism whose reality is not represented by exterior form but by the idea
behind it, the essence of the work" -Constatin Brancusi-

The Canadian Film Institute will present this important festival, July 9-14, in the
auditorium at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa,
with free parking available on either side of the building. Admission is $6.00 for
CFI members,senior citizens, and $9.00 for the general public. Annual memberships CFI
memberships are available at the door for $10.00. A festival pass will be available for
$30.00 for CFI Members, or $40.00 for a non-members (price will includes a pass and
CFI membership).

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