Events Archive
August 2010.
Romantic Fiction
Director: David Slade
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart
Running time: 125 min.
Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob -- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf.
American Comedy
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Starring: Jonah Hill, Rusell Brand
Running time: 110 min.
Rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) releases an album and an accompanying single "African Child." The song and music video flops, is banned and called "the worst thing to happen to Africa since the apartheid" by NME. His girlfriend Jackie Q (Rose Byrne), with whom he had a son named Naples; also leaves him, taking custody of Naples and as a result he starts drinking and doing drugs excessively once again..
On the eve of the 8th Liburnia Film Festival, two Oscar award winning documentary films will be shown on the Summer Stage. The films Man on Wire, by James Marsh, awarded with an Oscar for the best documentary film in 2009, and The Cove, by Louie Psihoyos, awarded with an Oscar for the best documentary film in 2010, will be shown on the 19th and 20th August.
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SF/Thriller
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe
Running time: 148 min.
Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption.
American Action
Director: Nimrod Antal
Starring: Adrien Brody, Topher Grace
Running time: 107 min.
Chosen for their ability to kill without conscience, a group of killers, some trained and some who are not, must endeavour the alien race of predators that have set out to target them as prey. Dropped into the vast jungle of a distant world, these human predators must learn just who, or what, they are up against, and that their ability, knowledge and wits are tested to the limits in the battle of survival of kill or be killed.
Japan Drama/Comedy
Director: Yojiro Takita
Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Running time: 130 min.
Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life.
UK Musical
Director: Max Giwa, DaniaPasquini
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, rachel McDowell
Running time: 99 min.
In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
Family Comedy
Director: Sussana White
Starring: Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes
Running time: 121 min.
Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.
UK Comedy
Director: Armando Iannuci
Starring: James Galdonfini, Anna Chlumsky
Running time: 106 min.
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. I
Drama, Directed by: John Hillcoat
Starring: Viggo Mortensen , Charlize Theron , Kodi Smit-McPhee
A father and son are transformed into homeless scavengers by a cataclysmic event: the destruction of the world. The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen as a once-civilized man shepherding his 11-year-old boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) through an America ravaged into rubble, is adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-winning 2007 novel.
