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Fantastic Worlds
Fantastic Mr Fox
reż./dir. Wes Anderson
wyst./cast George Clooney, Bill Murray, Meryl Streep
USA, 2009, 87’
It is the story of one Mr. Fox and his wild-ways of hen heckling, turkey taking and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try “just one more raid” on the three nastiest, meanest farmers that are Boggis, Bunce and Bean. It is a tale of crossing the line of family responsibilities and midnight adventure and the friendships and awakenings of this country life that is inhabited by Fantastic Mr. Fox and his friends.
FANTASTIC MR. FOX is visionary director Wes Anderson’s first animated film, utilizing classic handmade stop-motion techniques to tell the story of the best-selling children’s book by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach). The film features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, and Jarvis Cocker.
Metropia
reż./dir. Tarik Saleh
wyst./cast Vincent Gallo, Juliet Lewis
Szwecja, Dania / Sweden, Denmark, 2009, 86’
Directed by Tarik Saleh, Metropia is an animated sci-fi movie. The movie takes viewers into not so distant future to the time when the world is running out of oil. Underneath Europe, a huge underground network is established by series of underground tunnels. Roger is a guy from a suburb of Stockholm. He dislikes and always avoids the underground as it is kinda disturbing to him. Also, he hears some strange voices whenever he is too close to the underground. Soon, he comes to know some strange truths about his life. He looks to the mysterious Nina to help him escape the disturbing web of the Metro, but the further they travel, the deeper he’s involved in a dark conspiracy.
“Metropia” now, as being an amazing movie with too high speed and quality, has reached the level of success, which only a few movies acquire. It’s the reason why people are looking for ways to download Metropia.
Mary & Max
reż./dir. Adam Elliot
wyst./cast Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana
Australia, 2009, 80’
Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle (Collette), a chubby, lonely 8-year-old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz (Hoffman), a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City. As Mary and Mas chronicles Mary’s trip from adolescence to adulthood, and Max’s passage from middle to old age, it explores a bond that survives much more than the average friendship’s ups-and-downs. Like Elliot and Coombs’ Oscar® winning animated short Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max is both hilarious and poignant as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual differences, trust, copulating dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and many more of life’s surprises.
Moon
reż./dir. Duncan Jones
wyst./cast Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey
Wlk.Brytania / UK, 2009, 98’
Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. For the contract’s entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only direct real-time interaction is with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day to day needs. With such little human contact and all of it indirect, he feels that three years is far too long to be so isolated; he knows he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches. All he wants is to return to Earth to be with his wife Tess and their infant daughter Eve, who was born just prior to his leaving for this job. With two weeks to go, he gets into an accident at one of the mechanical harvesters and is rendered unconscious. Injured, he awakens back at the station in the infirmary, he assumes assisted by GERTY. GERTY tells him that a rescue team named Eliza will come to the station to clean up the aftermath of the accident...
Kislorod / Oxygen
reż. Iwan Vyrypayev
wyst./cat Karolina Gruszka, Aleksiej Filimonow
Rosja / Russia, 2009, 75’
Ivan Vyrypayev’s film is an adaptation of his controversial play Oxygen, where the Decalogue was presented in rap style, and which was declared by critics a manifesto of “anaerobic art”. A love story is told in a modern, sometimes poetic and sometimes kitschy form, combining nearly all genres of popular culture. There is romance here, drama, horror and a criminal story to boot. An ironic parable divided into ten word and music scenes which combine spoken text with music, it resembles a video clip, with references to the aesthetics of graffiti, comic books, TV and the internet. But above all, this dynamic portrait of people stifled by their humdrum existence is a parable about the futile search for real life, feelings and God: for oxygen referred to in the title. The director says about his work: My country is showing off with its wealth; we show the smart president, St Petersburg and the Kremlin. I belong to the last generation of pioneers and members of Komsomol, all harmed by the USSR. When we were children, we were made to believe that communism would prevail. As young people we were shocked by the collapse of the empire. Now we have to cope with the cruelties of capitalism. All I can do is say it out loud.
Le Merditude des Choses
reż./dir. Felix van Groeningen
Belgia, Holandia / Belgium, Holland, 2009, 108’
The story is a surprising and original combination of comedy, tragedy and romance, dark humor and cold cynicism, combined with the atmosphere of Roy’s Orbison music. Many scenes have a comic character, or even absurd. It is not only pure sarcasm, but also joy through tears.
Strobbs are mainly gamblers, drunks and womanizers, living in the atmosphere of blissful laziness, idleness, quarrels, and mainly filled with liquor, crazy party. Ridiculous ideas happen every day, and the more crazy they are then better, because everyone are more eager to realize them.
Focus on American Astronaut (aka Focus on American Independent Cinema)
American Astronaut
reż./dir. Cory McAbey
USA, 2001, 90’
The American Astronaut is a space-western/musical, directed by and starring Cory McAbee. The screen-play to the movie has been written due to the project Writer’s Lab. It is a Independent American cinema about the pioneers concurring the wild space...
Samuel Curtis, an astronaut from Earth, receives a valuable gift in exchange for completing one of his missions: a cloning device already in the process of preparing the Real Live Girl. He decides to go to Jupiter with her, where women simply don’t exist, and trade the clone of the Real Live Girl for the Boy Who Actually Saw a Woman’s Breast - a well-known cult figure. He wants to take the Boy to Venus, a planet inhabited exclusively by women, where the protagonist is supposed to get the body of Johnny R, a human stud. The plan seems simple at first, until Samuel meets his nemesis - Professor Heiss, who follows him through the whole solar system. Heiss wants to get Curtis and kill him, but before he accomplishes that, he destroys everyone who has anything to do with Samuel…
Stingray Sam
reż./dir. Cory McAbey
USA, 2009, 61’
Sundance Film Festival 2009 - Oficjalna Selekcja
Fantatic Film Festival Amsterdam 2009 - Oficjalna Selekcja
Stingray Sam to sześcioodcinkowy miniserial, początkowo nakręcony na potrzeby telefonów komórkowych. Po swojej premierze na ubiegłorocznym festiwalu Sundance narobił sporo zamieszania, zyskując od razu status “filmu kultowego”. Jako film pełnometrażowy trafił na kolejne światowe festiwale filmowe. Jesienią miał swoją premierę kinową w Stanach i jednocześnie został udostępniony do pobrania ze stony www na komputer, telefon czy jakiekolwiek inne przenośne urządzenie we wszelkich możliwych formatach..
Stingray Sam to historia opowiadająca o niebezpiecznej misji, która połączyła głównego bohatera z jego dawnym kompanem Quasar Kidem. Ci dwaj kosmiczni przestępcy otrzymają wolność w zamian za uratowanie porwanej dziewczynki przez genetycznie zaprojektowanego potwora pochodzącego z bogatej planety. Ten film jest połączeniem musicalu z westernem i świetnie nadaje się zarówno na mały jak i duży ekran.
A dangerous mission reunites Stingray Sam with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet. This musical space-western miniseries is designed for small screens and perfect for screens of all sizes.
World Spectrum
She, A Chinese
reż./dir. Xiaolu Guo
Chiny, Wlk. Brytania / China, UK, 2009, 99’
She, A Chinese is a metaphor of a modern, multicultural world turned into an absolute globalization. The story borders, blurs the political and sociological barriers, showing that people, in all places face the same problems, although they have different values.
She, a Chinese is a rock n’roll story of a young Chinese woman, Mei, who leaves her monotonous village life behind for the excitement of the nearest big city, Chongqing. However, life there doesn’t quite turn out as she expected it; fired from her factory job, she falls in love with SPIKEY, a hit man whose own past soon catches up with him. A spur of the moment decision takes Mei to London. The next step in her journey, doesn’t turn out to be as welcoming as Mei hoped it to be. New language and unfriendly environment direct new horizons. Despite these circumstances Mei doesn’t give up: she meets a new man in her life...
Yo, también
reż./dir. Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor
Hiszpania / Spain, 2009, 103’
Thirty-four-year-old Daniel lives with his parents in Seville. He is the first European with Down syndrome to have graduated from university. He starts a social services job, where he meets free-spirited co-worker Laura. They become friends very quickly, drawing the attention of both their coworkers and families. Their unique relationship becomes problematic when Daniel falls in love with her. But these rebellious souls refuse to bend to the rules and they find friendship and love as they have never known.
Gigante
reż./dir. Adrián Biniez
Urugwaj / Urugwai, 2009, 84’
Berlin Jury (including Tilda Swinton, Isabel Coixei, Wayne Wang) awarded the film with three awards in the main contest, which is a precedent in the history of the festival.
Giant is a reflective comedy that cultivates best traditions of Uruguay cinema (whiskey). The film tells us the story about overcoming loneliness. It is a tale of a man who’s coming back to the normal life thanks to love, after years of collapsing in a isolated, devoid of contacts world.
“In Berlin, in spite of civilization and globalization, the rewards of fresh films, immersed in local culture, which is a denial of universal Hollywood style. (...) Stereotypical image of “consumer dehumanized civilization” breaks the Award winning comedy Gigante Uruguay - Adriana Binieza directorial debut. (...) The film has something of the spirit of Chaplin and Jacques Tati, introducing to the technocratic world of the human element, saving a mess.
GAZETA WYBORCZA
La Nana
reż./dir. Sebastián Silva
Chile, 2009, 115’
La Nana was a sensation of the Sundance Festival. Chilean director, Sebastián Silva, made a addictive and perverse movie, which tells us about loneliness, anger and jealousy with big sense of humor.
After 23 years working as housemaid in an upper class Santiago, Chile household, Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) is as much a part of the Valdez family as the wife, husband, and kids she lives with and looks after. On the occasion of Raquel’s 41st birthday Pilar Valdez (Claudia Celedon), her husband Mundo (Alejandro Goic) and their oldest son Lucas (Agustin Silva) force the sullen, withdrawn maid to emerge from her kitchen sanctum and join the family for a brief celebration at the close of dinner. But Raquel’s discomfort is as strong as her “family’s” need to acknowledge their awkward dependence on her and she soon withdraws to her room.
Darbareye Elly
reż./dir. Asghar Farhadi
Iran, 2009, 114’
About Elly presents a modern face of Iran, which has been shown so far very rarely. This movie is about the danger of sending the improper signals in society where it is vital to comply with clearly defined standards of behavior.
A group of friends from collage organizes a weekend by the sea. A little lie which accures at the beginning of the journey, turns out to have tragic consequences. Those young people seam to be loose, liberated and open. Among them there is a stranger - a girl named Elly. After her mysterious disappearance during a storm an investigation begins - who is that girl? Who is to be informed about the accident? After searching her Louis Vuitton bag they find the address of her fiance. When he arrives the only thing that he is interested in is whether she hasn’t dishonored herself. Honor is more important than ones life...
World Spectrum DOC:
Videocracy
reż./dir. Erik Gandini
Szwecja / Sweden, 2009, 80’
In Italy, for thirty odd years, society is ruled by television. The image has been controlled by one man. TV-magnate and Presidente Silvio Berlusconi has influenced the content of commercial television in a way never before done in Italy. His TV-channels, with their young skimpy-clad girls, are seen by many to mirror his own taste and personality. Today 80 percent of the Italian population has television as their prime or even the only one source of information. Erik Gandini, Italian film director who lived for years in Sweden, known for his uncompromising contemporary images in films such as “Overproduction. Terror consumption and “Gitmo - the new law of war.”, explores this subject. It began modestly - in 1976, a local station showed a game show late in the evening, in which after each correct answer housewives present in the studio would take off a part of their wardrobe. The next day, the television station received complaints from the local business community, because most of program viewers where men and they were late to work next morning. This event has shown the future of television. Its main message was the fun part. And the best fun for Italian television audience are crowds of naked women.
The Cove
reż/dir. Louie Psihoyos
USA, 2009, 92’
Academy Awards Winner for Best Documentary, The Cove follows the true, incredible story of an elite team of activists, filmmakers and free-divers as they embark on a covert mission to penetrate a remote and hidden cove in Taiji, Japan, shining a light on a dark and deadly secret. Horrifying secret that doesn’t want the rest of the world to know. There are guards patrolling the cove, where the dolphin capturing takes place, who prevent any photography. The only way to stop the evil acts of this company and the town that protects it is to expose them....and that’s exactly what the brave group of activists in The Cove intend to do.
Part environmental documentary, part horror film, part spy thriller, The Cove is as suspenseful as it is enlightening. The final result is a heart-wrenching, but inspirational, story that shows the true power of film in the hands of people who aren’t afraid to risk everything for a vital cause.
RIP: A Remix Manifesto
reż./dir. Brett Gaylor
Kanada / Canada, 2008, 85’
Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age. Biomedical engineer turned live-performance sensation
Girl Talk, has received immense commercial and critical success for his mind-blowing sample-based music. Utilizing technical expertise and a ferocious creative streak, Girl Talk repositions popular music to create a wild and edgy dialogue between artists from all genres and eras.
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
Focus on Spike Jonze
Where the Wild Things Are
reż./dir. Spike Jonze
USA, 2009, 101’
An adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world - a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. The boy imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts - Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander.
Producer Tom Hanks and director Spike Jonze bring Maurice Sendak’s whimsical story to life with the voice talents of James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Forest Whitaker and Catherine O’Hara.
The Fall
reż./dir. Tarsem Singh
Indie, Wlk.Brytania, USA / India, UK, USA, 2009, 117’
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient-a little girl with a broken arm- a fantastical story about 5 mythical heroes.
Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
Special Screenings
OTWARCIE FESTIWALU / OPENING CEREMONY
Simple story about love
reż./dir. Arkadiusz Jakubik
wyst./cast. Rafał Maćkowiak, Magdalena Popławska
Polska / Poland, 2010, 80’
Two screen play writers during the train ride to Hel tell us the story of a woman and a man. At the sight of spectators they are trying to create a movie script story: simple story about love. So we have the woman and a man and the story of their chance of meeting during the first day of vacation on the way from Łódź Kaliska to Hel. Alex and Martha begin to talk. At the beginning about nothing special, because their talk would slide on the surface, smoothly jumping from subject to subject, it seems trivial and ordinary. However, in time it turns into something more. The intimacy of this encounter of emerging feelings is interfered by a shout of the director. We are on a film set.
Chacun son Cinema
reż./dir. Roman Polanski, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Kaige Chen, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Hsiao-hsien Hou, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Ming-liang Tsai, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Kar Wai Wong, Yimou Zhang, David Lynch, 2007, 117’
35 directors, from 5 different continents and 25 countries, all universally recognised, pay tribute, in 3 minutes each, to the motion picture theatre, that magical venue of communion par excellence of film lovers the world over. 33 individual works for a collective celebration.
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari - live: EMITER
reż./dir. Robert Wiene
Niemcy / Germany, 1920, 71’
Marcin Dymiter aka Emitter, a musician creating in the field of electronic music and improvisation will perform a live soundtrack during the screening of the original silent movie classic from 1920, “Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, “directed by Robert Wiene. Emitter in his work is experimenting with sounds, processed tones accompanying our everyday lives, looking for a new sound for the electric guitar.
The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari is the first horror film classic, a representative of German Expressionism, the pattern of horror cinema for many decades - the film from which the filmmakers draw patterns today.
The concert will be held on the patio of Theatre / Club Atelier.
POKAZ SPECJALNY NA 25 ROCZNICĘ POWSTANIA
FILMU / 25th FILM ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Medium
reż./dir. Jacek Koprowicz
Polska / Poland, 1985, 98’
Nowe efekty dźwiękowe na żywo do filmu / live:
PAWILON / SFF ELECTRIC PROJECT
One of the few intelligent horror / thrillers in the history of Polish cinema. The screening to celebrate the 25th anniversary of making of the film will take place in Dworek Sierakowskich, less than 400 meters from the “haunted mansion” from the film Medium.
Sopot, 1933, Greta, a medium famous occultist Wagner, contacts the sender of unprecedented power. He is also directing few people who are approaching him. Commissioner Selin wakes up on the beach and does not understand what has happened to him. Andrzej Gaszewski arrives from Warsaw by the sea against his will. Teacher Louise steals dresses from a museum, goes to the beach and meets a hunchback individual, also behaving as being under hypnosis ..
