28th European Union Film Festival
Films showing at the 28th European Union Film Festival in Ottawa.
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- DirectorMarius A. MarkeviciusStarsSarunas MarciulionisArvydas SabonisRimas KurtinaitisThe incredible story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania's independence movement, and - with help from the Grateful Dead - triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.
- DirectorOle Christian MadsenStarsMikael BertelsenAnders W. BerthelsenJamie MortonChristian's wife leaves him for a top Argentinian soccer player. After 11 months of drinking his wine-store stock, he flies to Buenos Aires with his 16-year-old son Oscar after receiving divorce papers. Will he get his wife back?
- DirectorUmut DagStarsNihal G. KoldasBegüm AkkayaVedat ErincinAyse is wed to Hasan, the handsome son of house-proud mother Fatma. Ayse is whisked away to Vienna where she soon finds that the marriage is a sham and she is to be the second wife to Fatma's husband.
- DirectorPéter BergendyStarsJános KulkaZsolt NagyPéter Scherer1957, Budapest. A young defense officer's loyalty is tested by his mentor in a highly deceptive spy game.
- DirectorJuraj LehotskyStarsMichaela BendulováKatarína FeldekováEla LehotskáThe story of a fifteen-year old girl who finds herself referred to a re-education centre as a result of her love affair. She is desperate to love but this is denied her. Despite all the restrictions imposed on her, she is determined to live her life to the full.
- DirectorChristophe WagnerStarsJules WernerAndré JungBrigitte UrhausenThe intrigue kicks off with a cop being murdered and develops as a complex and smart game of manipulation where nothing and no one are what they seem.
- DirectorIgor MirkovicStarsAna KaricRadko PolicRenata UlmanskiSeventy-year-old teenagers running away from home. They are not running away from their parents, they are running away from the inevitable.
- DirectorRebecca ZlotowskiStarsTahar RahimLéa SeydouxOlivier GourmetGary, an unskilled young man, lands a job as a decontamination sub-contractor at a nuclear power plant in the lower valley of the Rhone. Inducted into the workforce by supervisor Gilles and veteran Toni, Gary discovers that radiation contamination is not just a risk factor but an everyday hazard. At the same time, he begins an illicit affair with Karole, the fiancée of Toni.
- DirectorMichael HapeshisStarsPopi AvraamDonna BerlinNadia CharalambousDr Andrew Michael, the brother, is lost in the anonymity of London medical life. His desire to return to the parental home after 30 years is triggered by a letter lost in the post, sent by his father a few days before he died. When Andrew is back in Cyprus he takes lodge in the family home where he is joined by his three sisters. Old issues become revived as he slowly becomes aware that he is not very welcome and he embarks on a journey to discover how his father died, alienating his sisters in the process. The truth comes as suddenly as the rain that sweeps away all lies and sins, restoring the family to its former glory and allowing the siblings to move forward as one.
- DirectorNina Di MajoStarsMargherita BuyFabio VoloLuciana LittizzettoA single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.
- DirectorOlmo OmerzuStarsNatálie RehorováMartin PechlátJirí CernýOn New Years Day, two innocent 12-year-old boys in a small town buys vodka for a young female teacher, Katerina's (Natálie Rehorová) and two other men (David (Martin Pechlát), her boyfriend, and his friend Stepanand (Jirí Cerný). They are invited to the house. Here they experience their first encounter with sexuality. The children lose track of time. They were expected home long ago. They drink, throw up and are intoxicated by love and "the shameless, unbridled and licentious" world in which David, Katerina and Stepán live.
- DirectorHardi VolmerStarsLinda TallinnMairen MangussonSandra UusbergMain character Helmi is born into the house of Baron von Strandmann in Old-Town Tallinn, in 1908. All she knows for sure about her past is that her mother was an Estonian servant. Everything else is a discovery that runs the course of a century--a life full of surprises for Helmi. In this house she finds happiness and suffering, passion and disappointment. She grows up alongside young Erik and waits for her big love to blossom. But one floor down lives projectionist Julius, who is far from indifferent to Helmi. All of the biggest historical events of the century leave their mark on the house. Its hardwood floors have borne soldiers' gruff boots and gentlemen's shiny oxfords. Its walls have held the fates of people from far and near, foreigners and locals. Helmi's home becomes a German salon, a revolution museum, and a working-class commune. And as freedom comes, real-estate crooks start sniffing around the place. The only things that remain unchanged in these turbulent times are the cinema hall projecting living images on the screen, and Julius's quiet love for Helmi. Director Hardi Volmer's historical love story combines the grotesque of early silent films with the melodrama of the golden age of cinema with elements of both the epic and the comic.
- DirectorGabriela PichlerStarsNermina LukacMilan DragisicJonathan LampinenA young Eastern European immigrant, working in Sweden, is faced with a painful choice when she's laid off from her factory in the name of efficiencies.
- DirectorNejc GazvodaStarsLuka CimpricJure HenigmanNina RakovecThree friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
- DirectorJoão CorreaFrancisco MansoStarsVítor NorteCarlos PauloJoão Nunes MonteiroThis is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Among them were 10,000 Jews.
- DirectorAleksi SalmenperäStarsHeikki TolonenJon AyresRhys PalmerAlcan Highway is a film about a journey, a dream which seems to be coming true. But is it what Hese really wanted?
- DirectorZam SalimStarsBurn GormanWarren BrownIain De CaesteckerMartin has the task of taking care of the newly deceased in the afterlife, while awaiting his ascension to heaven. But when a newcomer disappears in a seaside town, he has to find him.
- DirectorPiotr TrzaskalskiStarsMichal UrbaniakArtur ZmijewskiKrzysztof ChodorowskiThe grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set off for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
- DirectorStere GuleaStarsLuminita GheorghiuMarian RâleaAna UlaruThe story takes place in 2010, in a post-communist Romania, in which some of those who fully lived in the communist period don't seem to fit anymore. The main character and her husband are about to receive a visit from their daughter, who has been living in the States for the last 10 years, and her American boyfriend. While having dinner with her reunited family, she realizes that she actually liked it in the communist era, that she was better off, and that most of the characteristics of a true communist do gather in her. During the whole movie, she has flashbacks from that "golden" period, and somehow tries to recapture what her life once was, while trying to figure out and solve her daughters' money problems. It is a funny movie, especially for those who know something about communism and what happened then in Eastern Europe, though based on weird yet very real situations people were faced with back than (until 1989).
- DirectorArt Ó BriainStarsMartin Hayes
- DirectorIlian DjevelekovStarsHristo ShopovZachary BaharovLilia MarvilyaFollows the parallel stories of a number of characters who are trying to change their lives via the Internet or are simply having fun online.
- DirectorLars-Gunnar LotzStarsEdin HasanovicJulia BrendlerMarc Ben PuchIn a project with the concept of open-prison, Benjamin is given the unique chance of a new beginning. As one of seven juvenile offenders he should adopt social skills and experience security in a family-like community. But when he meets his house-mother Eva, he is shocked. She was one of his victims, but cannot recognize him because he was hidden by a mask. His brutal assault on her was never resolved. Ben does his best not to attract attention. But Eva's suspicion is aroused.
- DirectorAigars GraubaStarsJanis AmanisInga AlsinaVilis DaudzinsA story about the Latvian basketball team, which won the first-ever European Championships in 1935 and its enthusiastic head coach Valdemars Baumanis.
- DirectorEva VilaStarsKarime AmayaJuanito ManzanoLuis Antonio AguilarFlamenco is one of the world's few art forms that is believed to be passed down exclusively through bloodlines. For Barcelona's Gypsy community, it cannot be learned at a school or on paper. It is lived within the home, created at the bar and perfected on the street corner. Bajari goes to all those places with the dancer Karime Amaya-who is working with some of the most talented up-and-coming musicians and dancers to create an innovative show-and little 5-year old Juanito Manzano who takes his first steps to dance in it and earn his white flamenco boots. Their experiences form a journey of discovery of this living tradition and create an intimate portrait of how flamenco's legacy is kept alive within Barcelona's tight-knit Gypsy community.
- DirectorYannis SmaragdisStarsSebastian KochEvgeniy StychkinJuan Diego BottoThe Greek pirate who turned businessman, Ioannis Varvakis, made his fortune selling caviar in Russia and all over the world. Varvakis strives all his life for freedom for himself and then for his country.
- DirectorBouli LannersStarsZacharie ChasseriaudMartin NissenPaul BartelTwo teenage brothers spend summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their busy mother, and running low on cash. To make some money they rent out the house to a local drug dealer.
- DirectorAntoinette BeumerStarsCarice van HoutenJelka van HoutenHolly HunterDutch twin sisters travel to America to look for their long-lost mother.