Archive for the ‘Film’ Category

CAMINO

Monday, September 7th, 2009

written & directed by: Javier Fesser
produced by: Luis Manso & Jaume Roures
Director of photography: Alex Catalán (A.E.C)
Main cast:
Nerea Camacho (Camino)
Carme Elias (Gloria)
Mariano Venancio (José)
Manuela Vellés (Nuria)
Inspired by real events, CAMINO is the emotional adventure of an extraordinary eleven-year-old who is faced simultaneously with two completely new situations in her life: falling in love and dying. [...]

ABRAZOS ROTOS, LOS (Broken Embraces)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

written & directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
produced by: Agustín Almodóvar
Director of photography: Rodrigo Prieto
Main cast:
Penélope Cruz (Lena)
Lluís Homar (Mateo/Harry)
Blanca Portillo (Judit)
José Luis Gómez (Ernesto Martel Sr.)
Rubén Ochandiano (Ernesto Martel Jr./Ray X)
Tamar Novas (Diego)
A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In [...]

RETORNO A HANSALA (Return to Hansala)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by Chus Gutierrez
written by Juan Carlos Rubio & Chus Gutierrez
produced by Carlos Santurio, Antonio Pérez & Chus Gutierrez
Director of photography: Kiko de la Rica
Main cast:
Jose Luís García Pérez (Martín)
Farah Hamed (Leila)
Adam Bounouacha (Said)
Antonio de la Torre (Antonio)
That morning, some corpses are washed ashore. A small boat has sunk leaving twelve corpses on the sand [...]

FRYGTELIG LYKKELIG (Terribly Happy)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by: Henrik Ruben Genz
written by: Henrik Ruben Genz & Gry Dunja Jensen
produced by: Thomas Gammeltoft
Director of photography: Jørgen Johansson
Main cast:
Jakob Cedergren (Robert)
Lene Maria Christensen (Ingelise)
Kim Bodnia (Jørgen)
Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren), a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. [...]

SERAPHINE

Monday, September 7th, 2009

written & directed by Martin Provost
produced by Miléna Poylo & Gilles Sacuto
Director of photography: Laurent Brunet
Main cast:
Yolande Moreau (Séraphine)
Ulrich Tukur (Wilhelm Uhde)
Anne Bennent (Anne-Marie)
Geneviève Mnich (Mme Duphot)
Nico Rogner (Helmut)
1912. Séraphine Louis, 42, lives in Senlis, a small town fifty kilometers outside Paris. She earns a living doing household chores and cleaning. In her spare time, [...]

LILLE SOLDAT (Little Soldier)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by: Annette K. Olesen
written by: Kim Fupz Aakeson & Annette K. Olesen
produced by: Ib Tardini
Director of photography: Camilla Hjelm Knudsen
Main cast:
Trine Dyrholm (Lotte)
Finn Nielsen (Father)
Lorna Brown (Lily)
After yet another mission abroad, the young soldier Lotte returns home, completely disillusioned with life. Lotte’s unreliable father offers her a job as a chauffeur for his Nigerian [...]

VINCERE

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by: Marco Bellocchio
written by: Marco Bellocchio & Daniela Ceselli
produced by: Mario Gianani
Director of photography: Daniele Cipri’
Main cast:
Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Ida Dalser)
Filippo Timi (Benito Mussolini)
Michela Cescon (Rachele Guidi)
Fausto Russo Alesi (Riccardo Paicher)
Piergiorgio Bellocchio (Pietro Fedele)
When Ida meets Mussolini in Milan, he is the editor of L’Avanti! and an ardent Socialist who intends to guide the masses [...]

BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX, DER (The Baader Meinhof Complex)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by: Uli Edel
written & produced by: Bernd Eichinger
Director of photography: Rainer Klausmann
Main cast:
Moritz Bleibtreu (Andreas Baader)
Martina Gedeck (Ulrike Meinhoff)
Johanna Wokalek (Gudrun Ensslin)
Niels Bruno Schmidt (Jan Carl Raspe)
Jan Josef Liefers (Peter Homann)
Nadja Uhl (Brigitte Mohnhaupt)
June 1967. Prominent left-wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) is shocked by reports of a violent demonstration in Berlin, during which [...]

PROPHETE, UN (A Prophet)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by:Jacques Audiard
written by:: Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain based on an original idea by Abdel Raouf Dafri after an original screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit
produced by: Chic Filmks, Page 114, Why Not Productions
Director of photography: Stéphane Fontaine
Main cast:
Tahar Rahim (Malik El Djebena)
Niels Arestrup (César Luciani)
Abdel Bencherif (Ryad)
Reda Kateb (Jordi le gitan)
Hichem [...]

LOOKING FOR ERIC

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by: Ken Loach
written by: Paul Laverty
produced by: Rebecca O’Brien
Director of photography: Barry Ackroyd
Main cast:
Steve Evets (Eric Bishop)
Eric Cantona (Himself)
John Henshaw (Meatballs)
Stephanie Bishop (Lily)
Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers…
His wife has gone, his stepsons are out of control and the house was chaotic even before a cement mixer appeared in the front [...]

TATARAK (Sweet Rush)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

written & directed by Andrzej Wajda
produced by Michał Kwieciński, Leszek Andrzej Wyszyński & Waldemar Dąbrowski
Director of photography: Paweł Edelman
Main cast:
Krystyna Janda (Mrs. Marta)
Paweł Szajda (Boguś)
Jan Englert (Doctor)
Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (Marta’s Friend)
A middle-aged woman MARTA (Krystyna Janda), wife of a small town doctor, doesn’t know about her terminal illness. One day Marta meets a much younger [...]

POLITIST, ADJECTIV (Police, Adjective)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

written & directed by:Corneliu Porumboiu
produced by: Marcela Ursu
Director of photography: Marius Panduru
Main cast:
Dragos Bucur (Cristi)
Vlad Ivanov (Anghelache)
Irina Saulescu (Anca)
Ion Stoica (Nelu)
Cristi is a policeman who refuses to arrest a young man who offers hashish to two of his school mates. “Offering” is punished by the law. Cristi believes that the law will change, he does not [...]

COCO AVANT CHANEL (Coco Before Chanel)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by: Anne Fontaine
written by: Anne & Camille Fontaine
produced by: Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne & Simon Arnal
Director of photography: Christophe Beaucarne
Main cast:
Audrey Tautou (Gabrielle Chanel)
Benoît Poelvoorde (Etienne Balsan)
Alessandro Nivola (Boy Capel)
Marie Gillain (Adrienne Chanel)
Emmanuelle Devos (Emilienne)
A little girl who is sent with her sister to an orphanage in the heart of France, who waits [...]

MÄN SOM HATAR KVINNOR (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by: Niels Arden Oplev
written by: Rasmus Heisterberg & Nikolaj Arcel
produced by: Sören Staermose
Director of photography: Eric Kress
Main cast:
Noomi Rapace (Lisbeth Salander)
Michael Nyqvist (Mikael Blomqvist)
Sven Bertil Taube (Henrik Vanger)
Peter Andersson (Niels Bjurman)
Peter Faber (Martin Vanger)
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her [...]

APAFÖLD (Father’s Acre)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

written & directed by: Viktor Oszkár Nagy
produced by: Péter Miskolczi
Director of photography: Tamás Dobos
Main cast:
Tamás Ravasz (Son)
János Derzsi (Father)
Andrea Nagy (Ági)
The Father is released from prison, resolving to start a new life and try to pass on some form of value system to his son. He buys a plot of land, on which he plans [...]

TIME THAT REMAINS, THE

Monday, September 7th, 2009

written & directed by Elia Suleiman
produced by: Michael Gentile & Elia Suleiman
Director of photography: Marc-André Batigne
Main cast:
Elia Suleiman (Elia )
Saleh Bakri (Fuad)
Leila Muammar (Thuraya)
THE TIME THAT REMAINS is a semi biographic film divided in four historic episodes, about a family, spanning from 1948 until recent times. The film is inspired of Elia suleiman’s father’s diary [...]

33 SCENY Z ZYCIA (33 Scenes from Life)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

written & directed by Małgośka Szumowska
produced by Raimond Goebel & Karl Baumgartner
Director of photography: Michał Englert
Main cast: Julia Jentsch (Julia Szczesna)
Julia is a beloved daughter and wife and she is a successful artist-photographer. It’s fair to say that Julia is happy in her life. Suddenly, everything collapses. In one year her world changes completely, making [...]

HAKOL MATHIL BAYAM (It All Begins at Sea)

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed & directed by: Eitan Green
produced by: Eilon Ratzkovsky, Yossi Uzrad, Yochanan Kredo & Koby Gal-Raday
Director of photography: Shay Goldman
Main cast:
Yuval Segal (Yuda)
Dorit Lev Ari (Dina)
Ron Jaegerman (Udi)
IT ALL BEGINS AT SEA is a drama with a few comic relieves, that tells 3 stories of the same 3 characters.
In the first story, a 6 years [...]

TOBRUK

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by Václav Marhoul
written by Václav Marhoul (based on The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane)
produced by: Václav Marhoul
Director of photography: Vladimír Smutný
Main cast:
Jan Meduna (private Pospíchal)
Petr Vaněk (private Lieberman)
Robert Nebřenský (corporal Kohák)
North Africa, II. WW, Fall 1941. Jiri Pospichal, twenty years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army. His naive ideas [...]

WELCOME

Monday, September 7th, 2009

directed by: Philippe Lioret
written by: Philippe Lioret, Olivier Adam & Emmanuel Courcol
produced by: Christophe Rossignon
Director of photography: Laurent Dailland
Main cast:
Vincent Lindon (Simon)
Firat Ayverdi (Bilal)
Audrey Dana (Marion)
Derya Ayverdi (Mina)
Thierry Godard (Bruno)
Selim Akgül (Zorban)
Bilal, a young 17 year old Kurdish boy, has travelled through Middle East and Europe to join his girlfriend, freshly immigrated to England. But [...]