FESTIVALS 01/25-02/05 : ROTTERDAM International Film Festival
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- DirectorJianjun HeStarsYuanzheng FengDanni LiangJue ChenXiao Dou "Feng Yuanzheng" is a shy and naive mail worker. When a coworker is fired for reading people's correspondences he takes over the same mail route. He soon finds himself in the same curiosity, eventually developing an obsession.1995
- DirectorShiori KazamaStarsAkiko ItôBang-ho ChoSeiichi TanabeThree young half brothers, Ichitaro, Takeshi and Tsuguo, are moving from a traditional Japanese house near a river to the suburbs. With little experience living together as a happy family, their relationship gradually transforms over the course of a week when their cousin Sakeko arrives to help them prepare to move. Although they had played together as children, the brothers are embarrassed by her presence at first. As the brothers and their cousin negotiate the delicate balance of emotions between them, the film ponders the differences between secret love, a passing emotion and new love.1995
- DirectorBogdan DreyerStarsSilvia GheorgheAlexandru CirsteaAlexandru AnghelA group of young boys, and one girl, find and steal a Jaguar convertible, and decide to drive to the sea. What starts out as a lark deteriorates into a rather grueling journey.1995
- DirectorYuan ZhangStarsDerong FuJi LiMaojie LiStory of a real family in Beijing. The father's drinking problem starts it all. The mother struggles to keep the family together till she cannot take it any more.1996
- DirectorRyosuke HashiguchiStarsYoshinori OkadaAyumi HamasakiKouji YamaguchiThe movie is built around the very complex relationships between Yoshida, leaving Shimizu for Aihara (or at least he tries to), and his friend Ito, whose love for Yoshida seems to have little chance for success. In the end we have a coalition of Ito and Aihara - who may or may not be in love with Ito - teaching Yoshida a lesson.1996
- DirectorGillies MacKinnonStarsIain RobertsonJoe McFaddenSteven DuffyGlaswegian teenager Lex is torn between the artistic life of middle brother Alan and the thuggish world of elder brother Bobby.1996
- DirectorAmir KarakulovStarsNatalya DolmatovaAnatoly GapchukShalva GogoladzeMay Day in Alma Ata, 1979. Valera, Karim and Jacob are a crew of hard-partying, drug-taking teenagers looking for kicks during their spring holiday, and they break into the bar at the Highland ice rink and steal an electric guitar. When Valera's dad finds the guitar, he turns his son over to the police, who brutalize him and leave him severely wounded on the outskirts of town. Karim and Jacob kill Valera's father, then hide their friend and do their best to keep him alive.1997
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsPark Choong-seonKim Eui-sungJo Eun SookAbout desires and lives of four characters in diverse circumstances. A poor novelist, a cheating wife, a mysophobic husband and a ticket girl.1997
- DirectorPatrick KeillerStarsPaul ScofieldRobinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly concentrate on ports, power stations, prisons, and manufacturing plants, but they also bring in various literary connections, as well as a few conventional landscapes.1997
- DirectorPetr ZelenkaStarsPavel ZajicekJan HaubertSeisuke TsukaharaTwist of fate and the twists of mind of the characters (mostly couples) combine in just the right twinkled absurd way in the interweaving episodes of this comedy. Each of the characters gets a good shot at being sarcastic and each is a sorry loser at some point yet none is turned into the butt of the joke. The place is Prague and the time is August 6th, 1995, except for one episode, set 50 years earlier in unflyable rain in the city of Kokura, Japan.1998
- DirectorGiuseppe M. GaudinoStarsOlimpia CarlisiTina FemianoSalvatore GrassoPozzuoli and its surroundings are places with an ancient and distant history. Thus we are reliving some dramatic episodes of an almost forgotten past: the matricide of Agrippina by Nero; the oracles of the Sibilla Cumana; the young Christian martyr Artema, killed by his classmates; Maria 'the crazy', a warrior heroine who saved the city from enemies. But next to the past is the present. In the early seventies, the phenomena of bradyseism flare up in the gulf. The Gioia family, which lives on fishing, is forced to leave the house several times because of the risk of a sudden landslide. Repeated moves lead to the progressive disintegration of the family unit. The difficult relationships sentimental of the children, the opposition to the public force that orders the eviction, the death of the father are so many stages that mark painful generational and existential passages.1998
- DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsSimon SchwarzSophie RoisLars RudolphAustria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. When one of the farmers is found murdered one day, his labourers know of nothing, but are relieved, as the tyranny has ended. Then, something new happens for the first time in history: The farm workers inherit the whole farm together, as the farmer himself was childless. Now, conflicts come up, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.1998
- DirectorAleksandr BashirovStarsAleksandr BashirovSergei DyachkovEvgeniy FyodorovNikolai Petrovich comes to St. Petersburg to organize a revolution against the oligarchy.1999
- DirectorLaurent AchardStarsMartin MihelichLaetitia LegrixMireille RousselA young woman's return home brings up troubles from the past, while her teenage sister is anxious for the future.1999
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsJeremy TheobaldAlex HawLucy RussellA young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.1999
- DirectorYe LouStarsXun ZhouHongsheng JiaZhongkai HuaAfter getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover.2000
- DirectorPablo TraperoStarsLuis MarganiDaniel ValenzuelaAdriana AizembergThe portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.2000
- DirectorKatrin OttarsdóttirStarsHildigunn EyðfinsdóttirSigri Mitra GaïniJohan DalsgaardAfter having lived for a number of year's abroad, the two friends Rannvá and Barba return for a visit to their native country, the Faroe Islands. They feel that they have outgrown the small island community, present themselves in outrageous colourful clothing and with a superior attitude to all things Faroes. The real purpose of their visit is to solve unfinished family matters, but they soon loose the grip, and find themselves fleeing the answers they came looking for. The girls are "rescued" by Rúni, a local fisherman, who gives them a lift in his old Ford Granada, decorated with zebra covers, flower lights and a stuffed crocodile in the back. On their journey up north they meet, among others, a fallen rock-singer, missionary grandparents, thirsty wedding guests and a Jesus wannabe. Rúni is constantly running errands, there is always someone he has to meet. Who is this silent, shy man? What is his curious business? And why does he get more bruised after each errand? The short route north develops into a long roundabout, across the islands. Skeletons start popping out of the closet. This is a film about hypocrisy, broken dreams, unfortunate fate, and finding oneself. The story is told with a mixture of sadness and satirical humour, just like life so often presents itself.2000
- DirectorTomoyuki FurumayaStarsYamato OkitsuRyôsuke TakahashiYuta NakajimaAmidst a tale of friendship a high-school student rebels against an authoritarian and stern education system represented by a teacher whose discipline is to be taken unquestioningly. There is a moral choice to be made. Who will you support, the system or the student?2001
- DirectorMaria SpethStarsSabine TimoteoHiroki ManoFlorian Müller-MohrungenLynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and spontaneous character. Her boyfriend David is very different: he is entirely engrossed in his very disciplined swimming training for the world championships. David does not intend to allow himself to be distracted by the complicating factors of a relationship with Lynn. When Lynn, working behind the till of restaurant, meets the Japanese student Koji, everything gets more complicated. They can't exchange many words, but it is soon clear that their moments together mean a lot to both of them.2001
- DirectorJuan Pablo RebellaPablo StollStarsDaniel HendlerJorge TemponiAlfonso Tort24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo.2001
- DirectorEugenie JansenStarsJohn Kon KeleiJan MunterWillem SmitStory about a friendship between two lonely, opposite souls. One is a 81-year-old grumpy widower and the other an insecure eighteen-year-old refugee from Sudan.2002
- DirectorSinisa DraginStarsDan ConduracheAna CionteaHoratiu MalaeleDumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to return to his past practices as he is involved in a blood thirsty card game with some gypsies. The game turns out badly, and one of those making up the table is killed. He starts on a flight again, this time, bound for his home town, where he finds his wife pregnant by his own brother. Blind with a thirst for vengeance, Dumitru commits one more murder that unleashes a sequence of new crimes and makes him into a wanted serial killer. Life becomes a burden that is too heavy for Dumitru who decides to abbreviate his existence. However, he soon discovers he does not hold all power over himself. God has other plans for him and condemns to him to stay alive.2002
- DirectorBohdan SlámaStarsZdenek RauserTatiana DykováMarek DanielA portrait of a small Moravian village and its quirky inhabitants.2002
- DirectorLarisa SadilovaStarsMarina ZubanovaYuliya NovikovaValentina Berezutskaya2003