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European Union Film Festival.
\nMovie lovers: prepare to be moved by romance, comedy and drama!
\n23 films full of flavours from 17 countries are shown at the 21th European Union Film Festival.<\/p>\n
Films are shown in the original language with English subtitles – all entrance is free.<\/p>\n
Programme and movie preview at www.facebook.com\/euinthailand
\nFor more information 02-305-2646<\/p>\n
Thursday, 31 May
\n13.00 Pure, 1 h 41 m, Sweden
\n15.00 Soul Kitchen,1 h 39 m, Germany
\n17.00 Princess, 1 h 40 m, Finland
\n18.50 Sonny Boy, 2 h 10 m, Netherlands<\/p>\n
Friday, 1 June
\n13.00 Made in Hungary, 1 h 48 m, Hungary
\n15.00 Welcome, 1 h 50 m, France
\n17.00 Joanna, 1 h 45 m, Poland
\n19.00 Trishna, 1 h 57 m, UK<\/p>\n
Saturday, 2 June
\n11.00 The Substitute, 1 h 33 m, Denmark
\n13.00 18 Meals, 1 h 47 m, Spain
\n15.00 Empties, 1 h 40 m, Czech Republic
\n16.50 Loose Cannons, 1 h 50 m, Italy
\n18.50 North Face,2 h 6 m,Austria<\/p>\n
Sunday, 3 June
\n11.00 Krabat, 2 h, Germany
\n13.15 The Strange Case of Angelica, 1 h 34 m, Portugal
\n15.00 Charlotte: A Royal at War, 1 h 38 m, Luxembourg
\n17.00 In a Better World,1 h 59 m ,Denmark
\n19.15 Morgen, 1 h 40 m, Romania<\/p>\n
Tuesday, 5 June
\n13.00 The Flying Pigs, 1 h 39 m, Poland
\n15.00 Everlasting Moments, 2 h 11 m,Sweden
\n17.30 A Perfect Day, 1 h 35 m, Italy
\n19.15 For 80 Days, 1 h 44 m, Spain<\/p>\n
Wednesday, 6 June
\n13.00 Turquaze, 1 h 40 m, Belgium
\n15.00 Morgen, 1 h 40 m, Romania
\n17.00 The Substitute,1 h 33 m ,Denmark
\n19.00 Krabat, 2 h, Germany,<\/p>\n
Thursday, 7 June
\n13.00 The Strange Case of Angelica, 1 h 34 m, Portugal
\n15.00 Trishna, 1 h 57 m, UK
\n17.15 Charlotte: A Royal at War, 1 h 38 m, Luxembourg
\n19.15 Joanna, 1 h 45 m, Poland<\/p>\n
Friday, 8 June
\n13.00 18 Meals, 1 h 47 m, Spain
\n15.00 North Face,2 h 6 m, Austria
\n17.20 Empties, 1 h 40 m, Czech Republic
\n19.15 Soul Kitchen,1 h 39 m, Germany<\/p>\n
Saturday, 9 June
\n11.00 Welcome, 1 h 50 m, France
\n13.00 Pure, 1 h 41 m ,Sweden
\n15.00 Made in Hungary, 1 h 48 m, Hungary
\n17.00 Princess, 1 h 40 m, Finland
\n18.50 Sonny Boy, 2 h 10 m, Netherlands<\/p>\n
Sunday, 10 June
\n11.00 In a Better World, 1 h 59 m Denmark
\n13.10 Turquaze, 1 h 40 m, Belgium
\n15.00 For 80 Days, 1 h 44 m, Spain
\n17.00 The Flying Pigs, 1 h 39 m, Poland
\n18.50 Everlasting Moments, 2 h 11 m, Sweden<\/p>\n
**Screenings are subject to change without prior notice <\/p>\n
Film description:<\/p>\n North Face (2008, 126m) The film, based on a true story, recalls the attempt of two German climbers to scale the Eiger’s 5,900-foot near-vertical north wall, then unconquered, in the run-up to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. “North Face” imagines the attempted conquest as a battle between the German climbers Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser and Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer from Austria. In reality, the four actually belonged to the same team and did not join together midway in the climb, as the movie has it<\/p>\n Turquaze (2009, 100m) Empties (2007, 100m) Principal Cast Zdenek Sverák, Tatiana Vilhelmová and Daniela Kolárová<\/p>\n Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society. A comic love story about a man who refuses to accept that old age is empty of love, meaning and value to society.<\/p>\n In a Better World (2010, 119m) Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.<\/p>\n The Substitute (2007, 93m) Sixth Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able to read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?<\/p>\n Princess (2010, 100m) Welcome (2009,110m) Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe, wanting to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover the 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined.<\/p>\n Krabat (2008, 120m) Soul Kitchen (2008, 99m) Made in Hungaria (2009, 108m) A Perfect Day (2008, 95m) Loose Cannons (2010,110m) Charlotte: A Royal at War (2008, 96m) Sonny Boy (2011, 130m) Joanna (2010, 105m) The Flying Pigs (2010, 99m) The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, 94m) For 80 days (2010, 104m) 18 Meals (2010, 107m) Morgen(2010, 100m) Principal Cast András Hatházi, Yilmaz Yalcin and Elvira Rimbu Everlasting moments (2002, 131m) Based on a true story in Sweden in the early 1900s – in a time of social change and poverty – the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat alcoholic womanizer of a husband, as it brings the charming photographer Pedersen into her life.<\/p>\n Pure (2010, 101m) Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be set in stone. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart’s Requiem that opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path she follows proves a treacherous one, filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam. Yet Katarina is ready to do anything to gain her new identity.<\/p>\n Trishna (2011, 117m) European Union Film Festival. Movie lovers: prepare to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","archives":[546,540],"locations":[574],"attendees":[],"sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-59008","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","archives-cinema"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nOriginal Title: Nordwand
\nCountry: Austria
\nCategory Drama\/Romance
\nDirector: Philipp Stölzl
\nPrincipal Cast: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas and Johanna Wokalek<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Belgium
\nCategory: Family drama
\nDirector: Kadir Balci
\nPrincipal Cast Burak Balci, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Nihat Alptug Altinkaya,
\nHaving buried their father in Istanbul, Timur (28) and his two brothers, Ediz (36) and Bora (16), return to Ghent. The three brothers resume their lives but need to find a new balance. While Ediz plays the dominant father and Bora does silly things with the wrong friends, Timur tries to fulfill his father’s dream: playing the trumpet in a brass band. Turquaze presents a disarmingly honest chronicle of a Turkish family’s life in Ghent.<\/p>\n
\nOriginal Title: Vratné lahve
\nCountry: Czech Republic
\nCategory Comedy Drama
\nDirector: Jan Sverák<\/p>\n
\nOriginal Title: Hævnen
\nCountry: Denmark
\nCategory Drama\/Romance
\nDirector: Susanne Bier
\nPrincipal Cast Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm and Markus Rygaard<\/p>\n
\nOriginal Title: Vikaren
\nCountry: Denmark
\nCategory Comedy
\nDirector: Ole Bornedal
\nPrincipal Cast Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen and Jonas Wandschneider<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Finland
\nCategory: Drama
\nDirector: Arto Halonen
\nPrincipal Cast Katja Kukkola, Samuli Edelmann and Paula Vesala
\nThis film is based on the true story of Ms Anna Lappalainen. Claiming to be "Princess", a member of the English royal family, she spent 50 years of her life as patient at a psychiatric hospital, where she healed and brought joy to those around her through her lovable personality.<\/p>\n
\nCountry: France
\nCategory Drama
\nDirector: Philippe Lioret
\nPrincipal Cast Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi and Audrey Dana<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Germany
\nCategory: Adventure\/Fantasy
\nDirector: Marco Kreuzpaintner
\nPrincipal Cast Michael Gutmann, Marco Kreuzpaintner
\nThe effects of the 17th-century Thirty Years' War have spread disease over a desolate landscape. A voice in a dream lures the homeless boy Krabat to an old mill, where he becomes an apprentice and soon discovers that the miller also practices dark sorcery. Krabat develops a sense of belonging, but when harm comes to his best friend, he has to choose between power and loyalty.<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Germany
\nCategory: Comedy
\nDirector: Fatih Akin
\nPrincipal Cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Adam Bousdoukos and Pheline Roggan
\nZinos, the owner of a restaurant, is half-heartedly trying to keep his run-down business alive. When his girlfriend Nadine is moving to Shanghai for a new job, he no longer sees any perspectives in his present life. A new cook is hired who, along with Lucia and Lutz, is to give the bar a new look.<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Hungary
\nCategory: Comedy
\nDirector: Gergery Fonyó
\nPrincipal Cast Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Tünde Kiss, Éva Vándor
\nIn the spring of 1963, at a time when everybody else would like to escape to the West, an adolescent boy named Miki and his parents leave behind the American dream and return to Budapest. Back in Hungary revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike regard Miki's jobless father with suspicion. Miki applies to a talent show and proves to everybody that he has a place in this old-new world.<\/p>\n
\nOriginal Title: Un Giorno Perfetto
\nCountry: Italy
\nCategory Drama\/ Romance
\nDirector: Ferzan Ozpetek
\nPrincipal Cast Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, and Valerio Binasco
\nA fierce love story that separates and unites Emma and Antonio, a Roman couple scarred by torment and obsession. Their children are innocent bystanders, then victims to a crime about to unfold. A story of human suffering and the attempt to give shape to the chaotic reality of corrupt politics and painful love.<\/p>\n
\nOriginal Title: Mine Vaganti
\nCountry: Italy
\nCategory Drama\/ Romance
\nDirector: Ferzan Ozpetek
\nPrincipal Cast Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo and Alessandro Preziosi
\nTommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Luxembourg
\nCategory: Documentary
\nDirector: Ray Tostevin
\nCharlotte: A Royal at War” tells the untold story of the Royal “propagandist in pearls” who inspired a nation through the power of radio, reaching people in their darkest hour. This is the true account of one woman and her government’s pursuit of freedom for their country, against the brutal occupation by Hitler’s Third Reich. The feature length documentary combines vivid eyewitness testimony with dramatic reconstruction and unique colour archive.<\/p>\n
\nCountry: The Netherlands
\nCategory: Drama\/ Romance
\nDirector: Maria Peters
\nPrincipal Cast Ricky Koole, Sergio Hasselbaink and Marcel Hensema
\nBased on true events, this film relates a controversial love-story between a Dutch divorced mother of four and the 17 years' younger Afro-Caribbean student Waldemar. Their love conquers all prejudice and opposition, but is alas destroyed by the devastating powers of the Second World War.<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Poland
\nCategory: Romance\/ Drama
\nDirector: Feliks Falk
\nPrincipal Cast Urszula Grabowska, Stanis\u0142awa Celi\u0144ska and Sara Knothe
\nJoanna has to cope alone while waiting for her husband to return from the front. When she meets a Jewish orphan girl named Rose she decides to take care of her. She fails to find a hiding spot for Rose and a German officer forces Joanna to become his lover in return for protection. In response, her family and the armed resistance decide to punish her for fraternizing with the enemy.<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Poland
\nCategory: Romance\/ Drama
\nDirector: Anna Kazejak
\nPrincipal Cast Pawe\u0142 Ma\u0142aszy\u0144ski, Cezary Pazura and Olga Bo\u0142\u0105d\u017a
\nThis is a story of four characters who centre their lives around supporting the local football club. When the team ceases to exists, their world is turned upside down. Oskar, a former hooligan, is forced to get a job with the owner of another club. His new post tests his loyalties, forces him to develop another outlook on life and grow up. Meanwhile he finds himself in the middle of a love triangle with his brother and his girlfriend.<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Portugal
\nCategory: Drama
\nDirector: Manoel de Oliveira
\nPrincipal Cast: Ricardo Trepa, Luis Miguel Cintra and Pile López de Ayala
\nIn the middle of the night, the young photographer Isaac receives an urgent call from a wealthy family asking him to come and take the last photograph of their daughter Angelica, who died just a few days after her wedding. When Isaac looks at her through the lens of his camera, the young woman appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From that moment on, Angélica will haunt him night and day, until exhaustion.<\/p>\n
\nOriginal Title: 80 Egunean
\nCountry: Spain
\nCategory: Drama
\nDirector: Jon Garaño, José María Goenaga
\nPrincipal Cast Itziar Aizpuru, Jose Raon Argoitia and Zorion Eguileor
\nAxun and Maite first met at secondary school in a different, more difficult time when their love for each other could not be expressed beyond a platonic friendship. Fifty years later, the women meet again. Axun is a mousey housewife in a seemingly loveless marriage and Maite is an academic and an out and proud lesbian. Axun sets off on a journey of self-discovery as old passions resurface with a new intensity. Now that she is 70, will she dare to cross the line between friendship and desire?<\/p>\n
\nOriginal Title: 18 Comidas
\nCountry: Spain
\nCategory: Comedy Drama
\nDirector: Jorge Coira
\nPrincipal Cast Esperanza Pedrono, Luis Tosar, Pedro Alonso,Victor Clavijo
\n18 Meals follows an eclectic group of characters as their stories unfold over the different meals of a day. There is Sol who invites her old flame Edu to lunch while her husband and son are out. There's Vladimir, an actor who attempts to woo his co-star with elaborately prepared meals. And there is Victor who tries to hide the fact that Sergio is more than a roommate. Shot in the stunning Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, the film is an appetizing<\/p>\n
\nCountry: Romania
\nCategory Comedy\/ Romance
\nDirector: Marian Cri\u0219an<\/p>\n
\nOne morning while fishing, Nelu meets a Turkish man on the run from border guards. He takes in the stranger and, against the wishes of his wife, puts him to work on his dilapidated farm without reporting to the authorities. The man keeps insisting Nelu take all his money and help him reach Germany. Nelu takes the money and promises he will help him cross the border the next day, reassuring him with the one word he knows in German: "morgen" ("tomorrow").<\/p>\n
\nOriginal Title: Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick
\nCountry: Sweden
\nCategory Drama\/ Romance
\nDirector: Jan Troell
\nPrincipal Cast Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt and Jesper Christensen<\/p>\n
\nOriginal Title: Till det som är vackert
\nCountry: Sweden
\nCategory Drama\/Romance
\nDirector: Lisa Langseth
\nPrincipal Cast Alicia Vikander, Samuel Fröler and Josephine Bauer<\/p>\n
\nCountry: United Kingdom
\nCategory Drama\/Romance
\nDirector: Michael Winterbottom
\nPrincipal Cast Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed and Roshan Seth
\nBased on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 'Trishna' tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. Trishna's tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"