Events Archive
February 2009.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of twenty-nine, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love––to their own surprise––and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen seele auf), Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the melodrama to underscore the racial tensions threatening German culture.
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18:00 PALERMO SHOOTING - Directed by Wim Wenders
Cast: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Inga Busch, Gerhard Gutberlet, Harry Blain, Sebastian Blomberg, Lou Reed...Himself
The film follows a German photographer (played by Campino, singer of German punk band Die Toten Hosen) who comes to Palermo because he needs to make a clean break from his past. In the city, he meets a young woman (Mezzogiorno) and a completely different way of life.
18:00 Surveillance (2008)
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Writers: Kent Harper & Jennifer Chambers Lynch
An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
Best film of Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
20:00 - Wendy and Lucy
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Writers:Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt
Filmaktiv organizes a workshop of video activism, with an emphasis on documentary and experimental films, for the youngsters in Rijeka, Opatija and surrounding area.
During the five months participants will learn the basics of video and audio recording, editing, film narratives, making DVDs and uploding movies to the Internet.
The workshop starts on Monday 2nd of February at 20:00. Workshops are held on Mondays from 8 – 10 pm in the Molekula, Delta 5.
January 2009.
Recorded by William Kentridge between 1989 and 2003, this series of nine short films follows the fictional story of iconic antihero Soho Eckstein, a wealthy South African mine owner, land developer, and cuckold. William Kentridge is undoubtedly the best known South African artist, currently in demand by major institutions all over the world.
Approx. 65 minutes
Selection of Zagreb School of Animated Film (recently deceased PhD Mate Kukuljica) will present the best achievements of famous animatora: "Single" by Vatroslav Mimica, "Concerto for machine gun," and Oscar awarded "Surogat"by Dušan Vukotić, "Sagren's skin" and "Don Quixote" by Vlado Kristl, "Wall" by Ante Zaninovic, "Couriosity" by Borivoje Dovnikovic Bordo, "Bećarac" by Zlatko Bourek, "Days pass" by Nedjeljko Dragic and "Satiemania" by Zdenko Gasparovic. Must see!
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Cycle of documentaries on the French language about Paris, in the Croatian-French friendship Society - "French Alliance Rijeka", Zanonova 1.
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Don't miss the animated film Persepolis by Marjane Sartapi and Vincent Paronnaud in Art Cinema Croatia on 6 and 8 p.m.
Nominated for Oscar. Another 15 wins & 22 nominations.
Voices: Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni ...
A witness to evil. A force for peace. An unbelievable true story.
Directors&Writers: Ricki Stern &Anne Sundberg (85 min.)
AWARDS: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2007:Full Frame/Working Films Award I of War Nantucket Film Festival '07:Adrienne Shelley Excellence in Filmmaking Award Seattle International Film Festival...
Free entrance
