Dutch Baka
Nov 5, 2005, 05:39
Found this on the site of the Dutch embassy, didnt wanted to keep it for myself!!!
Its already the 12th edition of the festival, that takes place from november 5th-28th. here is a small list of movies that they will have! see for more info: www.oeff.jp
Im Nordwind *German
After twenty years working for the same company, Erwin Graf is suddenly left unemployed due to 'restructuring'. His middle class life in a middle class town of Switzerland is threatened but he decides to keep his unemployment secret from his wife and daughter, hoping to find a new job in a few days. In the meantime, he pretends to go off to work each morning. But as time goes by without any success he realises that in the current economic situation a man of his age is not as wanted as he thought and he sinks into depression.
As his wife and daughter slowly begin to notice his change of mood, their relationship is affected. The wife feels abandoned and the daughter, Lisa, shuts herself in her bedroom.The tension becomes unbearable... until one day Lisa discovers her father has been unemployed for weeks.
* Zurich Film Prize 2004
* Regiepreis-Film-Kunst-Fest, Schwerin 2005
* Swiss Film Prize, Best Fiction Film 2005 (Nomination)
Offscreen *Dutch
John Voerman is a reliable, middle-aged bus driver but is obsessed with the power of the media and multinationals. Like many others, John feels manipulated by marketing. Unlike others, his frustration crosses the fine line into paranoia.
After campaigning for years against widescreen TV and other modern technology, on March 11th 2002 John takes the head of security and 17 others hostage in Amsterdam’s biggest skyscraper, demanding to speak with the CEO of Philips. His goal is to warn people about a large- scale fraud, aimed at brainwashing consumers by means of widescreen TV sets. John’s crusade has already cost him his wife and family. Now as he tries to show the world it is going crazy, he is seen as the madman...
Off screen won the Grand Prize and its star, Jan Decleir, honorary chairman of the 11th OEFF, Best Actor at the 2005 Montreal Film Festival.
La Moustache *French
Marc has had a moustache for years. He has photos to prove it. One day, on a whim, he decides to shave it off. He waits with expectation to see how his wife and friends will react. But when nobody does, he starts to get irritated. Finally, he decides to put an end to their joke. But then his wife tells him that he never had a moustache !
The comedy turns into a Kafkian nightmare that causes Marc to question his very existence as he comes to the understanding that he is living, or has been living, in a parallel reality. His subsequent journey to find an explanation takes him half way around the world to Hong Kong and the discovery that the past and present are as indefinite as the future.
Adapted from his own novel, The Moustache is director Emmanuel Carrere's second feature film.
* Cannes Festival 2005 - Directors fortnight selection - Label Europa Cinemas
The Hamburg Cell *English
What turns a group of apparently ordinary men into terrorists capable of hijacking four planes and crashing them, killing thousands of innocent people? This fictional docudrama, using court transcriptions and video footage, gives faces and personalities to the Muslim fundamentalists who carried out the 9/11 attacks. By humanizing the men, the film courts controversy but presents a more terrifying reality than if it portrayed the hijackers simplistically as evil monsters. Evidence from friends and neighbours of the perpetrators of the recent London tube bombings validates director Antonia Bird’s decision to depict the men in this way: these bombers also appeared to be normal men incapable of such atrocities.
The film charts the story of Mohammed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi bin al Shibh from their first meeting as students in Hamburg and their encounter with the fundamentalists who justified their cause with pictures of attacks on Muslims throughout the world from Chechnya to Iraq, Bosnia to Palestine. We follow the men through the process of their radicalization and eventual recruitment to al-Qaeda, their training at terrorist camps in Afghanistan and flying lessons in Florida. The story centres on Jarrah, a westernized Muslim and the weakest link of the group, but shows each man’s moment of doubt and crisis. Everyone in the audience knows how the story will end and yet Bird manages to maintain a white knuckle tension, worthy of the best suspense film, throughout.
The film does not, as some of its critics have maintained, justify the motivation of the terrorists. Rather, it invites each of us to try to understand the psychology of the men and the social, religious and ideological forces that shaped them. In doing so, it is the most important and intelligent response to the tragedy of 9/11 and should be required viewing.
La Febbre *Italian
Mario, a land surveyor in his 30s who survives on the irregular work he does for a famous architect, lives in Cremona, northern Italy with his widowed mother. On the surface a drifter, deep down he is ambitious and craving adventure. When offered the permanent civil servant position his parents had hoped for him, he accepts it in order to earn money to convert a disused industrial building into the discotheque he and three friends have long planned to create. Jealous of Mario’s success with women, the sleazy mayor puts him in a depressing position at the city cemetery. But just as it seems as though Mario’s dream will be crushed by the stifling Italian society in which he lives, he meets a beautiful go-go disco dancer who is also a literature student with a passion for videotaping the graves of famous poets.
Frío sol de invierno *Spanish
After being released, supposedly cured, from the psychiatric institution where he has lived since he was a child, 25-year-old Adrian returns alone to the old family home.
Long abandoned by his parents, Adrian has been left the house and the financial means to support himself by his father. Over on the wrong side of town, the middle-aged Raquel is trying to scrape a living as a prostitute. Her moneyless teenage son, Gonzalo, in an attempt to escape such a miserable existence, plans to burgle Adrian’s house.
When Gonzalo is caught red-handed, Adrian promises not to call the police if Gonzalo will get him a gun. Their meeting is the start of something that neither of them could have ever imagined as Adrian learns the drama of his childhood.
Jardines Deshabitados directs this atmospheric thriller and Goya- winning de'but feature.
* Goya Awards 2005 Best New Director (Mejor Director Novel) Pablo Malo
* Goya Awards 2005 Best Editing (Mejor Montaje) Antonio Pe'rez Reina
* Ourense Independent Film Festival Best Actor Unax Ugalde
There are more movies that will be played, but have a look on the website www.oeff.jp
Its already the 12th edition of the festival, that takes place from november 5th-28th. here is a small list of movies that they will have! see for more info: www.oeff.jp
Im Nordwind *German
After twenty years working for the same company, Erwin Graf is suddenly left unemployed due to 'restructuring'. His middle class life in a middle class town of Switzerland is threatened but he decides to keep his unemployment secret from his wife and daughter, hoping to find a new job in a few days. In the meantime, he pretends to go off to work each morning. But as time goes by without any success he realises that in the current economic situation a man of his age is not as wanted as he thought and he sinks into depression.
As his wife and daughter slowly begin to notice his change of mood, their relationship is affected. The wife feels abandoned and the daughter, Lisa, shuts herself in her bedroom.The tension becomes unbearable... until one day Lisa discovers her father has been unemployed for weeks.
* Zurich Film Prize 2004
* Regiepreis-Film-Kunst-Fest, Schwerin 2005
* Swiss Film Prize, Best Fiction Film 2005 (Nomination)
Offscreen *Dutch
John Voerman is a reliable, middle-aged bus driver but is obsessed with the power of the media and multinationals. Like many others, John feels manipulated by marketing. Unlike others, his frustration crosses the fine line into paranoia.
After campaigning for years against widescreen TV and other modern technology, on March 11th 2002 John takes the head of security and 17 others hostage in Amsterdam’s biggest skyscraper, demanding to speak with the CEO of Philips. His goal is to warn people about a large- scale fraud, aimed at brainwashing consumers by means of widescreen TV sets. John’s crusade has already cost him his wife and family. Now as he tries to show the world it is going crazy, he is seen as the madman...
Off screen won the Grand Prize and its star, Jan Decleir, honorary chairman of the 11th OEFF, Best Actor at the 2005 Montreal Film Festival.
La Moustache *French
Marc has had a moustache for years. He has photos to prove it. One day, on a whim, he decides to shave it off. He waits with expectation to see how his wife and friends will react. But when nobody does, he starts to get irritated. Finally, he decides to put an end to their joke. But then his wife tells him that he never had a moustache !
The comedy turns into a Kafkian nightmare that causes Marc to question his very existence as he comes to the understanding that he is living, or has been living, in a parallel reality. His subsequent journey to find an explanation takes him half way around the world to Hong Kong and the discovery that the past and present are as indefinite as the future.
Adapted from his own novel, The Moustache is director Emmanuel Carrere's second feature film.
* Cannes Festival 2005 - Directors fortnight selection - Label Europa Cinemas
The Hamburg Cell *English
What turns a group of apparently ordinary men into terrorists capable of hijacking four planes and crashing them, killing thousands of innocent people? This fictional docudrama, using court transcriptions and video footage, gives faces and personalities to the Muslim fundamentalists who carried out the 9/11 attacks. By humanizing the men, the film courts controversy but presents a more terrifying reality than if it portrayed the hijackers simplistically as evil monsters. Evidence from friends and neighbours of the perpetrators of the recent London tube bombings validates director Antonia Bird’s decision to depict the men in this way: these bombers also appeared to be normal men incapable of such atrocities.
The film charts the story of Mohammed Atta, Ziad Jarrah and Ramzi bin al Shibh from their first meeting as students in Hamburg and their encounter with the fundamentalists who justified their cause with pictures of attacks on Muslims throughout the world from Chechnya to Iraq, Bosnia to Palestine. We follow the men through the process of their radicalization and eventual recruitment to al-Qaeda, their training at terrorist camps in Afghanistan and flying lessons in Florida. The story centres on Jarrah, a westernized Muslim and the weakest link of the group, but shows each man’s moment of doubt and crisis. Everyone in the audience knows how the story will end and yet Bird manages to maintain a white knuckle tension, worthy of the best suspense film, throughout.
The film does not, as some of its critics have maintained, justify the motivation of the terrorists. Rather, it invites each of us to try to understand the psychology of the men and the social, religious and ideological forces that shaped them. In doing so, it is the most important and intelligent response to the tragedy of 9/11 and should be required viewing.
La Febbre *Italian
Mario, a land surveyor in his 30s who survives on the irregular work he does for a famous architect, lives in Cremona, northern Italy with his widowed mother. On the surface a drifter, deep down he is ambitious and craving adventure. When offered the permanent civil servant position his parents had hoped for him, he accepts it in order to earn money to convert a disused industrial building into the discotheque he and three friends have long planned to create. Jealous of Mario’s success with women, the sleazy mayor puts him in a depressing position at the city cemetery. But just as it seems as though Mario’s dream will be crushed by the stifling Italian society in which he lives, he meets a beautiful go-go disco dancer who is also a literature student with a passion for videotaping the graves of famous poets.
Frío sol de invierno *Spanish
After being released, supposedly cured, from the psychiatric institution where he has lived since he was a child, 25-year-old Adrian returns alone to the old family home.
Long abandoned by his parents, Adrian has been left the house and the financial means to support himself by his father. Over on the wrong side of town, the middle-aged Raquel is trying to scrape a living as a prostitute. Her moneyless teenage son, Gonzalo, in an attempt to escape such a miserable existence, plans to burgle Adrian’s house.
When Gonzalo is caught red-handed, Adrian promises not to call the police if Gonzalo will get him a gun. Their meeting is the start of something that neither of them could have ever imagined as Adrian learns the drama of his childhood.
Jardines Deshabitados directs this atmospheric thriller and Goya- winning de'but feature.
* Goya Awards 2005 Best New Director (Mejor Director Novel) Pablo Malo
* Goya Awards 2005 Best Editing (Mejor Montaje) Antonio Pe'rez Reina
* Ourense Independent Film Festival Best Actor Unax Ugalde
There are more movies that will be played, but have a look on the website www.oeff.jp