Bright Future
Bright Future
Las lágrimas
Krivina
The Tears Pablo Delgado Sánchez
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Mexico, 2012 | colour, DCP, 64 min, Spanish Prod: Guillermo Ortiz | Prod Comp: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica | Sc: Pablo Delgado Sánchez | Cam: Juan Pablo Ramírez | Ed: Gil González | Prod Des: Derzu Campos | With: Fernando Alvarez Rebeil, Gabriel Santoyo, Claudette Maillé | Print/Sales: Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 15:30 PA2 Tue 29-1 11:45 CI1 Thu 31-1 09:452 PA4 Fri 1-2 09:30 CI5 Press & Industry SCREENING Sat 26-1 15:45 CI4
The Mexican summer holiday is long and boring for Fernando and Gabriel. While their mother wallows in her sorrow about the absence of their father, they have to look after themselves. So the teenager Fernando loses himself in parties and drink, while little Gabriel lolls endlessly in front of the TV. Nature ought to offer a way out for the brothers, but things turn out differently. Pablo Delgado Sánchez made The Tears as a graduation film from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), a film school set up in 1975 in Mexico City that now has become one of the most important breeding grounds for young Mexican talent. Sánchez captures city life and the brother’s camping trip in dreamy images, shot in full-screen 16mm. The film, largely made using improvisation, was based on an outline only 20 pages long and won a Carte Blanche Prize for post-production at the Locarno Film Festival.
Igor Drljaca
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
Canada/Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012 | colour, video, 70 min, Bosnian Prod: Igor Drljaca, Albert Shin | Prod Comp: TimeLapse Pictures | Sc: Igor Drljaca | Cam: Roland Echavarria | Sound Des: Matthew Chan | Music: Bojan Bodruzic | With: Goran Slavkovic, Jasmin Geljo, Edis Livnjak, Minela Ja ar, Neboj a Mijatovic, Petar Mijatovic, Jelena Mijatovic | Print/ Sales: Princ Films, Inc. | www. timelapsepictures.ca/krivina Public SCREENINGS Mon 28-1 22:002 CI3 Tue 29-1 14:152 CI3 Thu 31-1 17:002 CI5 Sat 2-2 13:45 CI3 Press & Industry SCREENING Wed 30-1 09:00 LV3
Rengaine
Matterhorn
Hold Back Rachid Djaïdani
France, 2012 | colour, DCP, 75 min, French/Arabic Prod: Rachid Djaïdani, Anne-Dominique Toussaint | Prod Comp: Rachid Djaïdani Productions, Les Films des Tournelles | Sc: Rachid Djaïdani | Cam: Julien Boeuf, Rachid Djaïdani, Karim El Dib, Elamine Oumara | Ed: Rachid Djaïdani, Svetlana Vaynblat, Julien Boeuf, Karim El Dib | Prod Des: Rachid Djaïdani | Sound Des: Benjamin Lécuyer | With: Slimane Dazi, Sabrina Hamida, Stéphane Soo Mongo | Print: The Festival Agency | Sales: Pathé Distribution | www.rengaine-lefilm.com Public SCREENINGS Thu 24-1 21:45 LV1 Sun 27-1 21:45 SGZ Tue 29-1 19:15 LV6 Fri 1-2 22:00 SGZ Press & Industry SCREENING Fri 25-1 09:15 CI2
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The winner of the FIPRESCI award at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes tackles the hypocrisy surrounding a forbidden love in Paris. French-Algerian Sabrina wants to get married to a black would-be actor, to the horror of her forty brothers. The two lovers try to build up a life together in these hostile surroundings. The brother who is most fiercely critical of the wedding has himself struck up a relationship with a Jewish woman. This energetic and topical variant on Romeo and Juliet, with Parisian Africans and Algerians as the Montagues and Capulets, charts new waters by looking at the racial gap between the two immigrant communities from different angles. For his feature debut, Rachid Djaïdani (boxing champion, novelist, actor, filmmaker) used extreme close-ups, rapid editing and a moving camera. His no-budget film, on which he worked for nine years, also has lighter moments, such as the scenes in which a few dance steps are unexpectedly made.
42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
Krivina is an elegiac consideration of the traumas of war and migration, and what we are to make of such memories. Miro fled the war in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and now lives in Toronto. His search for his childhood friend Dado, who is suspected of war crimes and every now and again appears in his home village like a ghost, brings Miro back to his homeland. Like Miro, the film seems caught between the present and the past; between Yugoslavia and Canada; between memory, dream and reality. The details of Miro’s journey remain unclear, as does Dado’s fate and the precise role of Drago, to whom Miro tells his woeful story of migration, and of an accident involving a bus full of children – the Yugoslav word ‘krivina’ can roughly be translated as a metaphorical ‘bend in the road’. A highly personal debut – director Drljac fled Yugoslavia with his parents for Canada as a ten-year-old boy.
Diederik Ebbinge
WORLD PREMIERE
Netherlands, 2013 | colour, DCP, 87 min, Dutch Prod: Gijs van de Westelaken | Prod Comp: Column Film | Sc: Diederik Ebbinge | Cam: Dennis Wielaert | Ed: Michiel Reichwein | Prod Des: Elza Kroonenberg | Sound Des: Giel van Geloven | With: René van ‘t Hof, Ton Kas, Porgy Franssen, Ariane Schluter, Helmert Woudenberg, Elise Schaap, Alex Klaasen | Sales: Column Film | Distr NL: Cinéart Netherlands Public SCREENINGS Sun 27-1 19:30 PA1 Mon 28-1 13:00 PA6 Sat 2-2 13:00 PA4 Press & Industry SCREENING Tue 29-1 13:00 LV3
Fred is a lonely 54-year-old man. Since the death of his wife, he has lived alone in a small village. His son disappeared from his life years ago. Fred rides around in the local bus, virtuously attending church and eating his green beans, meat and potatoes at 6 o’clock on the dot every day. One day, the tramp Leo wanders into his life. After an initial moment of suspicion, Fred takes Leo in. Like a strict father, he tries to educate his new housemate. He soon finds out that Leo has a special talent, as a result of which Fred again slowly starts to set out into the wide world. The style of this tragicomic story can in some ways be compared with the absurdism of Alex van Warmerdam. While the story is set in the present, the Dutch atmosphere of the 1950s presses heavily on the characters. The production design is also beautifully attuned to the God-fearing, stern mood the Dutch know so well.
42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
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