ROZE FILMDAGEN PRESENTS: | |
The Roze Filmdagen (Pink Film Days), the Amsterdam Gay & Lesbian Film Festival will take place from 12-20 december 2008. During the IAFF the Roze Filmdagen will screen two films as a sneak preview of the forthcoming edition. For more info: www.rozefilmdagen.nl |
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CLANDISTINOS |
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| Dir. Antonio Hens In the engaging drama Clandestinos, three teenagers break out of a juvenile detention center and escape to the city. Their cute and charismatic ringleader, Xabi, tries to find his mentor and lover Iñaki, a middle-aged ETA terrorist. His clueless friends, Joel and Driss, are more interested on hooking up with two girls they meet on the bus. But Iñaki is missing. Xabi decides to hold on to his dream. Together with his friends, he launches a bomb attack in the very heart of Madrid to prove Iñaki and ETA that he is worthy to join the band. As Xabi tries to prove himself to Inaki, he gets in over his head, especially when a john he picks up to rob turns out to be a policeman. Has he gone to far, or is there hope for him Xabi hides under the mask of ideological fanaticism a personal aim that clashes with the harsh reality of a terror organization... |
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY |
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   | Dir. Duncan Roy
Oscar Wilde's timeless tale of a timeless vanity case receives a modern repainting set against the backdrop of the 1980s New York art scene. The young and beautiful Dorian Gray becomes muse and object of desire to a gay artist-of-the-moment, Basil, who literally immortalizes him in a video installation. As Dorian is corrupted by his spiral into privileged decadence, he becomes fearful of losing his entrancing looks to age and makes a deal with the devil to remain flawless and youthful while his video portrait ages and grows ugly. But even with gorgeous looks, Dorian becomes nothing short of monstrous. With the stylized approach and split screen techniques director Roy sears the screen with the most blazingly original and explicitly gay adaptation of Wilde's novel that we've seen yet, with a touch of postmodern horror and sexy cast members thrown in for good measure. All those quintessentially Wilde-ian lines and aphorisms are intact ("There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about") . |
EASTERN NEIGHBOURS PRESENTS: | |
Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in collaboration with IAFF present PLASTIC JESUS. The Eastern Neighbours Film Festival will take place in Utrecht, 6-9 November 2008 showing the best of the decades' harvest Eastern European cinema. Presentation Eastern Neighbours Film Festival by Ms. Rada Sesic and Denis Mujovic. For more info: www.easternneighbours.com |
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PLASTIC JESUS |
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| Original title: PLASTIČNI ISUS
Tom, from Zagreb, not provided for life, is trying to make a movie in Belgrade. He survives somehow with different women taking him in. He doesn’t believe in anything, doesn't respect anyone, he is sensitive to order and force, to leaders and ideologies, and constantly in conflict with common law. Since some crazy American woman left him, Tom binds himself to a woman whose husband is abroad. When she throws him out, he goes to her sister's husband, who murders him out of jealousy in the end. Produced in 1971 and immediately labeled subversive with the director Lazar Stojanovic arrested and jailed. This was the only case in the history of the former Yugoslavia that a film maker has been imprisoned because of his work. Only after 20 years was the film publicly screened at home and abroad at the film festival in Montreal in 1991 and awarded by the FIPRESCI jury.
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WHAT DO I KNOW? |
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| Dir. Sejla Kameric, Timur Makarevic |
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