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Showing posts with label Erasmus. Show all posts

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Nachtrit (2006)

19:00
29 Maret 2008

Dana Nechustan, Thriller, teks Inggris
Cast : Frank Lammers ('Het schnitzelparadijs'), Fedja van Huêt ('Karakter'), Peggy Jane de Schepper ('Costa!') dan penyanyi Henk Poort sebagai paman Jan

Untuk memperoleh izin sendiri, pengemudi taksi asal Amsterdam Denis (Frank Lammers) menandatangani sebuah kontrak peminjaman uang dalam jumlah besar, dengan disaksikan oleh pamannya, Jan (Henk Poort), direktur MOTAX. Dengan uang itu Dennis tidak saja mampu membeli kendaraan baru, tetapi kini ia termasuk dalam kalangan terpercaya paman Jan dan diberi rit-rit dengan bayaran yang menggiurkan. Ia kini juga bisa memperlihatkan rasa tanggung jawabnya kepada adik laki-lakinya, Marco (Fedja van Huêt) dan iparnya, Elize (Peggy Jane de Schepper). Ketika izinnya mendadak ditarik, ia mengarang cerita pada paman Jan yang telah memanggil ratusan pengemudi taksi untuk menyapu perusahaan saingan DNC. Mulai saat itu bekorbarlah perang di jalanan di Amsterdam

Erasmus Huis,
Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3

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Sunday, December 16, 2007

American Fork

12:00
16 Desember 2007
Jakarta International Film Festival 9

Erasmus Huis
Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 Jakarta
T 3192-5115

Chris Bowman, 2007
Comedy/Drama, USA, 94 Min

Tracy Orbinson (Hubbel Palmer) is a 300-pound grocery store worker who has dreams of becoming an actor.

He takes acting classes and is greatly impressed by his acting teacher, washed-up actor Truman Hope (William Baldwin). But Tracy’s efforts fall short of his fantasies. He seeks solace by reforming a group of teenage thugs, while continues struggling to lose “about ten pounds”.

Indigènes (Days of Glory)

19:30
16 Desember 2007
Jakarta International Film Festival 9

Erasmus Huis
Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 Jakarta
T 3192-5115

Rachid Bouchareb, 2006
Drama/War, France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium, 128 Min

Di tengah Perang Dunia ke-2, Korporal Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila) dan pasukannya dari Afrika Utara diminta untuk bertempur atas nama pasukan Perancis oleh Sersan Martinez (Bernad Blancan). Perang terus berlanjut, demikian pula perlakuan kasar yang sering dilakukan Martinez kepada Abdelkader dan pasukannya.

Namun Abdelkader terus melanjutkan perintah Martinez untuk berperang mempertahankan Perancis, meskipun perang itu akan membawa luka di dalam diri Abdelkader dan pasukannya yang tak mungkin tersembuhkan.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Along the Ridge (Anche libero va bene)

19:30
14 Desember 2007
Jakarta International Film Festival 9

Erasmus Huis
Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 Jakarta
T 3192-5115

Kim Rossi Stuart, 2006
Drama, Italy, 108 Min

Single father Renato (Kim Rossi Stuart) juggles between responsibilities as a full-time cinematographer and as both mother and father to teenager Viola and primary schooler Tommi.

Despite his constant failure in balancing the two, the family forms a strong bond, until the mother of the family, Stefania, returns to ignite flames in the challenging family.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Along the Ridge (Anche libero va bene)

17:00
12 Desember 2007
Jakarta International Film Festival 9

Erasmus Huis
Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 Jakarta
T 3192-5115

Kim Rossi Stuart, 2006
Drama, Italy, 108 Min

Single father Renato (Kim Rossi Stuart) juggles between responsibilities as a full-time cinematographer and as both mother and father to teenager Viola and primary schooler Tommi.

Despite his constant failure in balancing the two, the family forms a strong bond, until the mother of the family, Stefania, returns to ignite flames in the challenging family.

Monday, December 10, 2007

American Fork

19:30
10 Desember 2007
Jakarta International Film Festival 9

Erasmus Huis
Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 Jakarta
T 3192-5115

Chris Bowman, 2007
Comedy/Drama, USA, 94 Min

Tracy Orbinson (Hubbel Palmer) is a 300-pound grocery store worker who has dreams of becoming an actor.

He takes acting classes and is greatly impressed by his acting teacher, washed-up actor Truman Hope (William Baldwin). But Tracy’s efforts fall short of his fantasies. He seeks solace by reforming a group of teenage thugs, while continues struggling to lose “about ten pounds”.

Saturday, December 8, 2007

American Fork

17:00
8 Desember 2007
Jakarta International Film Festival 9

Erasmus Huis
Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 Jakarta
T 3192-5115

Chris Bowman, 2007
Comedy/Drama, USA, 94 Min

Tracy Orbinson (Hubbel Palmer) is a 300-pound grocery store worker who has dreams of becoming an actor.

He takes acting classes and is greatly impressed by his acting teacher, washed-up actor Truman Hope (William Baldwin). But Tracy’s efforts fall short of his fantasies. He seeks solace by reforming a group of teenage thugs, while continues struggling to lose “about ten pounds”.

Along the Ridge (Anche libero va bene)

19:30
8 Desember 2007
Jakarta International Film Festival 9

Erasmus Huis
Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 Jakarta
T 3192-5115

Kim Rossi Stuart, 2006
Drama, Italy, 108 Min

Single father Renato (Kim Rossi Stuart) juggles between responsibilities as a full-time cinematographer and as both mother and father to teenager Viola and primary schooler Tommi.

Despite his constant failure in balancing the two, the family forms a strong bond, until the mother of the family, Stefania, returns to ignite flames in the challenging family.

Indigènes (Days of Glory)

12:00
8 Desember 2007
Jakarta International Film Festival 9

Erasmus Huis
Jl. HR. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 Jakarta
T 3192-5115

Rachid Bouchareb, 2006
Drama/War, France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium, 128 Min

Di tengah Perang Dunia ke-2, Korporal Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila) dan pasukannya dari Afrika Utara diminta untuk bertempur atas nama pasukan Perancis oleh Sersan Martinez (Bernad Blancan). Perang terus berlanjut, demikian pula perlakuan kasar yang sering dilakukan Martinez kepada Abdelkader dan pasukannya.

Namun Abdelkader terus melanjutkan perintah Martinez untuk berperang mempertahankan Perancis, meskipun perang itu akan membawa luka di dalam diri Abdelkader dan pasukannya yang tak mungkin tersembuhkan.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Vidange perdue (The Only One)

15:00
1 November 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 - Kuningan - T 524 1069

Klayaban
Farishad I Latjuba, 2005, 15 min
Indonesia, drama

The Only One
Geoffrey Enthoven, 2006, 88 min.
Belgium, Drama
"Vidange Perdue" is a Belgian expression which is best translated as "empties are not refunded" This movie is the story of an old man who can't accept that he's growing older and who revolts against the absurdity of life.

To an outsider he's just another grumpy eighty-year-old who is often extremely cantankerous and obstinate and of little or no interest at all. What others fail (or don't even bother) to see is that this man cannot accept the fact that there is a constant negation by others of his own unique personality and that the elderly in general are constantly patronized by their immediate surroundings as if they suffered from an ever increasing form of dementia.

Lucien Knops' struggle against all these preconceived notions regarding old people is courageous but also comical at times as is illustrated by his letters of pure outrage to the newspaper and his attempts at amorous escapades.A real turning point in his life is his encounter with his neighbor.
This lady not only prompts him to go on being his true self but opens doors for him to the future which he himself would never have thought of unbolting. When at the end of the movie he visits his favorite grand child in Paris, he knows the future will remain uncertain.
He sees himself on a long voyage or maybe even spending his remaining days as a tramp. Whatever the future holds in store, he will confront it as he himself: the unique Lucien Knops.

The movie was filmed in short alternating scenes and all the actors, without exception, deliver a high quality performance. [Picture: Bergamo Film Meeting]

“Europe on Screen” Secretariat
c/o Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Jl Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Jakarta 10350
Tel +62 21 2355 0208
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E-mail: prakt1@jakarta.goethe.org
Website: http://www.uni-eropa.org/film

25 degrés en hiver (25 Degrees In Winter)

17:00
1 November 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3
Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan
T 524 1069

Peronika
Bowo Leksono, 2004, 13 min
Indonesia, short film

25 Degrees In Winter
Stephane Vuillet, 2003, 92 min.
Belgium, Drama, French with some dialogues in Spanish, Russian and Dutch with English subtitles.
25 Degrees In Winter is a rarity - a family film with an edge, a love story without sugar, a screwball comedy without rolling of the eyes, and a multi-layered look at how migrants are used, abused and ultimately necessary in today's society.

Miguel (Jacques Gamblin) is a single Belgian dad working for his brother's travel agency. But while he's definitely the lone parent in his home equation, he lives in hope that his wife will one day return after she's sought her fame and fortune as a singer in America. She doesn't write (to him), she doesn't call, and deep down Miguel knows that she's chosen a better life over her family. But if for not other reason than to keep his daughter's spirits up, Miguel maintains the lifestyle of a man waiting for his wife to come bak from holiday.

That is, until he encounters a woman (Ingeborga Dapkunaite) hiding in the backseat of his van. Her name is Sonia, and she's recently escaped from detention on the evening she was supposed to be deported back to her native Ukraine. Sonia wants to find her husband who, like Miguel's wife, left years earlier in search of a better existence elsewhere.

Miguel may be a screw up, but he's also a decent guy, so before long he's taking Maria all over town in search of her long lost man, as his mother (Carmen Maura) and daughter cling to every word in the back seat, while his boss roars down the cell phone, his gangster landlord hunts him down for rent, and the cops seem to be around every corner in search of Sonia.

25 Degrees in Winter is a beautiful movie that continually threatens to get out of hand, yet never does. Throwing together a variety of peopple from all walks of life, it succeeds in showing the audience not only how awfully migrants are treated in many countries, but also how we're all migrants from somewhere. As Miguel's mother casts aspersions at Sonia for being an illegal, Miguel points out the she herself was in the exact same situation once, while at the same time Miguel's boss is rushing his own illegal staff members out the back door to avod the 'workplace inspectors'.

To be able to paint both the heroes or the piece and the supposed villains as all being victim of the same situation, director Stephane Vuillet and writers Pedro Romero and Stephane Malandrin have weaved the kind of story that makes an audience not only laugh along and cheer in theright spots, but also look at themselves and wonder whether this imaginary line that separates us all really does make 'us' better than 'them'. When a migrant gets their papers and becomes 'one of us', don't they then look down on those who have yet to make the same journey? And those of us looking down on the newly arrived or those on the other side who long to be amongst us, aren't we simply the result of people like them who got here first?

To think that a country as 'civilized' as Belgium has the same problem with people longing to leave for the next big step up as, say, the Ukraine does, really makes you think about the world. What makes our home better? And do we really appreciate what we have and what our ancestors went through to get us there? After 25 Degrees in Winter, I sure as heck do. Great stuff. [byChris Parry]

“Europe on Screen” Secretariat
c/o Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Jl Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Jakarta 10350
Tel +62 21 2355 0208
Fax + 62 21 2355 0021
E-mail: prakt1@jakarta.goethe.org
Website: http://www.uni-eropa.org/film

Life and Lyrics

19:30
1 November 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3
Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan
T 524 1069

Free as a Bird
Dessy Darmayanti, 2006, 8 min
Indonesia, Documentary

Life and Lyrics
Richard Laxton, 2005, 75 min.
UK, Musical Drama
Less 8 Mile, more 8 Mile End, this is an enjoyable, if predictable drama, with a superb performance by Walters.

Ashley Walters (from Bullet Boy) stars as DJ Danny Lewis, the leader of The Motion Crew, a group of South London rappers who are looking forward to besting their hated rivals the Hard Cash Crew in an upcoming rap battle (or rap off) in the prestigious Mic Masters competition. However, Danny complicates matters by falling for Carmen (Louise Rose), a singer who turns out to be related to the Hard Cash Crew.

Walters is superb, proving once again that he's one of Britain's most exciting young actors. There's also strong support from Chris Steward as Fable, Danny's best friend, who has a surprisingly moving subplot in which he tracks down his (white) mother, who gave him up for adoption.

Unsurprisingly, the music is excellent and the scenes of Danny and his crew jamming are exhilarating. Similarly, as with 8 Mile (the film's most obvious inspiration), the rap battle scenes are terrific and include quality slap-downs such as Let that go, you're in breach of your ASBO. [The ViewLondon Review]

“Europe on Screen” Secretariat
c/o Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Jl Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Jakarta 10350
Tel +62 21 2355 0208
Fax + 62 21 2355 0021
E-mail: prakt1@jakarta.goethe.org
Website: http://www.uni-eropa.org/film

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

A porcelánbaba (The Porcelain Doll)

15:00
31 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 - Kuningan, T 524 1069

Across the Universe
M Aprisiyanto, 2004, 12 min.
Indonesia, Fiction

The Porcelain Doll
Péter Gárdos. 2005. 75 Min.
Hungary. Drama. Hongarian with English subtitles.
Based on three fairytales by the Hungarian fabulist Ervin Lázár, the earthy, lovable farmers of PORCELAIN DOLL live by their own laws.

There was once a village, somewhere in Hungary. More precisely: in Europe. Even more precisely: on planet Earth. The villagers who lived in this village are amiable and simple, yet cunning. From time to time strangers will come to the Village.

And it is then that all hell always breaks loose because strangers always brought death to the village. And destruction. And hate. And jealousy. And vanity. And shame. And lies.
In this Village, strangers always cause trouble… [Text and Picture: Film Uni Hungary]

“Europe on Screen” Secretariat
c/o Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Jl Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Jakarta 10350
Tel +62 21 2355 0208
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E-mail: prakt1@jakarta.goethe.org
Website: http://www.uni-eropa.org/film

Vadászat angolokra (Hunting for Englishmen)

17:00
31 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 - Kuningan, T 524 1069

Djedjak Darah
M Aprisiyanto, 2004, 12 min.
Indonesia, Fiction

Hunting for Englishmen
Bertalan Bagó, 2005, 86 min.
Hungary. Drama. Hongarian with English subtitles.
A hunting party has assembled in Hungary in 1839; it includes an English engineer who may be a spy for the British Foreign Secretary.

The characters in this story are gathered as a group for a hunt in a place called Hungary. The group includes an English engineer who settled in Pressburg. He has daring ideas with which to achieve Hongarian economic progress and thereby the country’s independence. His enthusiasm is further energized by a secret, romantic affection felt towards one of the woman in the group.

The problem starts when the hunt got the attention of the Hapsburg secret service. It is 1839. It is nine years before the revolutions and wars of independence that will sweep through the continent, when Europe will again recognize a country that has always been around, but still doesn’t exist.

filmhu: How did the idea of this historic movie materialize?

B.B.: I found a memoir from the early 1800s by an English gentleman named Blackwall, who was visiting Hungary at the time. He was a railway engineer, he worked on the Trieste railway line, and he fell in love with Hungary and Hungarians – he even wrote a play about them. I found it very strange and interesting that an Englishman comes here and falls in love with this country: we’re in the 1830s, more than a decade before the revolution, when there was practically nothing here, it was a forlorn, backward country. That was my starting point – why did this Englishman come here? It was unclear whether had been sent here and was some kind of a spy – he was a relative of the English foreign minister at the time, so it is possible that he wrote his reports to him. We’re in the period following the Polish revolution crushed by the Russian tzar, when it was already clear that the wave of revolution will sweep over Europe – the political situation was quite tense in that period.
That was our starting point, we came up with a fictitious plot. The screenplay was written by Vilmos Csaplár, it is about an English engineer, who comes to Hungary because a count named a Falussy commissions him to construct a railway line leading to his stone quarry. The wife of this count is Polish by birth, she has a niece orphaned in the Polish war of independence, the Russian tzar had her entire family killed, so she comes to stay at the count’s estate in Hungary. They want to marry her to a Hungarian nobleman, Tarnai, but in the meantime, the English engineer arrives and the two fall in love. So we have a love triangle, plus the Austrian secret service is also spying on the inhabitants of the castle, since it is interested in the activities of rebel Hungarian noblemen.

filmhu: What did you find most interesting in this plot?

B.B.: I’m excited by everyhing that is old, classical, filtered by time – it had already happened, it’s past, nevertheless, if it still has similarities to the present day, it might hold a serious lesson for us. Like Cicero said: „history is the teacher of life.” We have a story from 150 years ago, which is so timely and topical that while you’re watching it, you realize that it could take place today, so it might have a stronger effect than making a film about a present-day political subject. The historic situation, the problems of society are very similar to the present, just as our relationship to Europe and the ways whe can develop. [Text and Picture: FilmHu]

“Europe on Screen” Secretariat
c/o Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Jl Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Jakarta 10350
Tel +62 21 2355 0208
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E-mail: prakt1@jakarta.goethe.org
Website: http://www.uni-eropa.org/film

Europe on Screen 2007

19:30
31 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3
Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan
T 524 1069

11:59
Johan Kramer, Netherlands 2004, Short 8 Min

Caspian Bride
Veit Helmer, Germany 2005, Short 8 Min

Tragic Story with Happy Ending
Regina Pessoa, Portugal 2005, Short 7 Min

League of Legends
Jeffrey Elmont, Netherlands 2004, Short 12 Min

Mozart Minute
Austria 2006, Short 30 Min, Various Directors

11:59 — Khalid, a young Dutch-Moroccan man, makes a decision at 11:50 one morning that will change his life forever. The film is inspired by ongoing negative media attention on young Arabic people. Superhuman SteadyCam operator Tamas Nyerges shot 11:59 in a single, nine-minute take — setting a new record for European filmmaking.

Caspian Bride — A lonesome man takes a ride to a dump in search for usable things. Hidden under a lot of rubbish he finds an old mannequin. He takes her along to his hut, washes and clothes her and goes on a bike tour through the oil fields. When a group of children runs after him, he collides with a flock of sheep. The mannequin sinks in a puddle of oil. But at that moment he encounters his true love.

Tragic Story with Happy Ending — A little girl whose heart beat more quickly and louder than other people felt compelled to leave her house because she was disturbing her neighbours. She decided however to return to her home and she began noticing that little by little people got used to the beat of her heart…

League of Legends — This film is really just an excuse to show off the skills of its stars. And they are immensely talented, with quite magical skill.
A simple premise, perhaps inspired by TV adverts also starring Edgar Davids, but ultimately too simple, inadequately explored. I wanted more from the film than just showing off the talents of the cast. Those talents would be better served as half-time entertainment in the final of a major tournament.
There is minimal dialogue in the film; there's minimal acting really too. This sparsity helps focus on the skills on display; regrettably it also highlights how little happens in this short film.
Watch it anyway - or fly to Holland and seek out these people. They are something to behold.

Mozart Minute — 28 well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. They had to be one-minute art films.
The directors come from a broad spectrum of different backgrounds, ranging from animated, experimental short film to documentaries and features. As a result the Mozart Minutes represent an impressive cross section of the kind of films produced in Austria and a multifacetted sampler of formal and ontextual views of Mozart and his influence on modern society, art and culture.

[Picture: www.uni-eropa.org/film/]

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Jl Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Jakarta 10350
Tel +62 21 2355 0208
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Lisboetas

15:00
28 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 - Kuningan - T 524 1069

Lisboetas
Sérgio Tréfaut, 2004, 100 min.
Portugal, Drama
This is one of the most widely seen documentary film in Portugal. Winner of the best Portuguese Film in the IndieLisboa 2004 Festival.

Lisbon is a city built over hills. You walk by the river, in front of the Pombal illumined downtown, built on the wreckage of 1755's earthquake and you can view down-up the whole historical centre, protected by the castle. Beautiful view. Go up, reach that castle, and look down, the opposite view, embraced by the river, also great, also gorgeous. The light is special, every cinema lover should know that, Wenders knows it (Lisbon Story). The colors are soft pale yellow, water pink, roofs argyle red. When you get to the castle, pick up a pair of field-glasses, overview the city, look to the other side of the river, and closely the old parts. yellow becomes, vivid blue, you'll get black and white, high contrasts, and a city that doesn't come in postcards. Through those field-glasses, you'll see this film.

Lisbon, multi-cultural, multi-layered city. Many languages, many cultures, many differences. I'm glad i got to watch this one just a few days after Alice. The world depicted here is the world that makes Alice possible. This informs the world of Alice. The depiction of immigration as, at the same time, one of the most natural phenomena in our global times and one of the most system exploited ones is the theme that conducts us through the lives of various immigrants, giving us the full portrait, the unmasking of vanities, feelings of progress and happy futures. Of course this is uneven. It has beautiful art shots, in simple great combination of music, routine sounds, off voice narration and real life shots. But it also has highly zoomed no cinematic quality scenes, useful but artless, or scenes filmed in an almost amateur way. Of course... But it holds a special place for what it shows and for the problems it depicts.

It's built with boards, episodes, character discontinuity, racial discontinuity, language discontinuity, color discontinuity, mood discontinuity. Such as big cities are today.

This is not artless, and Tréfaut knows what he does. Watch it, and keep Alice on your side, for higher cinematic affairs. [ruiresende84]

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Les Mauvais Joueurs (Gamblers)

17:00
30 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 - Kuningan - T 524 1069

Your Learn is very God
Ivan Handoyo, 2004, 3 min.
Indonesia, Documentary

Les Mauvais Joueurs
Frederic Balekdjian, 2005, 85 min
France. Drama. French with English subtitles.
Eager to make a better living hustling on the mean streets of the Paris garment district, Vahe (Pascal Elbe) finds he may lose everything when he tries to negotiate a financial dispute between his ex-girlfriend's brother and the gang that smuggled him into the country. Talks break down, and with the threat of violence looming large, Vahe is forced to choose between competing loyalties.

The last time a French film exploded with such raw energy was when Mathieu Kassovitz debuted with La Haine in 1995. This is writer/director Frederic Balekdijan's first feature, also, and it uses the same neo-realistic style, with handheld cameras close in and on the streets. There isn't a whiff of falsehood, or evidence of a set designer's duster. Even the script has the rough-cut unpredictability of real life.

It deals with card sharks, street scams, petty crime, backed by an uglier, darker crowd of Armenian thugs. This is the Paris of immigrants, sweat shops, cafes and illegals. Chinese, North Africans, Eastern European gangsters coexist in a barely sustainable truce. Sooner or later a spark will ignite the tinderbox and someone will be killed. Followed by revenge attacks. Followed by God knows what else. In this no-go, gendarmes are noticeable by their absence.
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Vahe's Chinese girlfriend has just dropped him and he finds himself babysitting her teenage brother, not because he has to, but the kid can't speak the language, is hot headed and liable to do himself harm. Their relationship is a mixture of resentment and affection, which leads them into danger.

Stories and characters move swiftly. There is no conventional plot, only the time it takes to rip the lid off the powder keg and somehow survive. Or not.

Cliches and sentimentality die at this level. Neo-realism has an artistic integrity, aligned to good taste. Gamblers, like La Haine, breathes its own fumes in a place where there is no translation for words like "taste" and "art."
- Angus Wolfe Murray [picture: Cinebel.be]

“Europe on Screen” Secretariat
c/o Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Jl Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Jakarta 10350
Tel +62 21 2355 0208
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E-mail: prakt1@jakarta.goethe.org
Website: http://www.uni-eropa.org/film

Extranjeras (Foreign Women)

19:30
30 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3
Kuningan, Jakarta Selatan
T 524 1069

Indonesian Workers in England
Zeke Khaseli, 2004, 7 min
Indonesia, Documentary

Extranjeras
Helena Taberna, 2003, 75 min.
Spain, Documentary, Spanish with English subtitles.

Extranjeras focuses on women immigrants. The phenomenon of immigration has become an everyday subject of today's media. EXTRANJERAS shows the least known and most typical aspects of other cultures through the experience of various immigrant women living in Madrid. Here we are given the chance to know what happens to their dreams and where their affections lie. [European Film Festival]

“Europe on Screen” Secretariat
c/o Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Jl Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Jakarta 10350
Tel +62 21 2355 0208
Fax + 62 21 2355 0021
E-mail: prakt1@jakarta.goethe.org
Website: http://www.uni-eropa.org/film

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Polleke

13:00
28 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 - Kuningan - T 524 1069

Metu Getih
Heru C Wibowo, 2006, 10 Min
Indonesia, Drama

Polleke
Ineke Houtman, 2003, 95 min
Netherlands, drama
Polleke is an ordinary 11 year old girl, wich makes her life and thoughts so extraordinary.

Polleke is an ordinary 11 year old girl raised by her single mom and always defending her drug-addicted dad. She wants to be a poet and is in love with Mimoun, a Maroccan boy in her class, with Africa eyes.

Take the time to see this film and you won't regret it: It's funny, moving and full of great characters and even greater dialogue. It's a love story, a coming of age story, a feel good movie and an educational one .[Written by Sillysil Picture: Deutsches Filminstitut]

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Almost Adult

15:00
28 Oktober 2007
Europe on Screen 2007

Free ticket available 30 min before opening

Erasmus Huis - Capacity: 350 seats
Jl. H. R. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3 - Kuningan - T 524 1069

Nyanyian dari Surga
Eddie Cahyono, 2006, 10 min.
Indonesia, Fiction

Almost Adult
Yousaf Ali Khan, 2006, 75 min
UK. Drama. English.
The story of two teenage girls who come from different countries and speak different languages but still become each other's family.

Ttwo girls meet at a bus station in Birmingham after arriving in the UK as unaccompanied minors in search of asylum. Mamie, the elder of the two, takes Shiku under her wing. In doing so, she resolves to be the younger girl's big sister.

The girls try to adjust to their new lives. Many things seem strange and alarming to them. Shiku in particular is having real difficulty fitting in with her new family.
She is suffering from the after affects of the loss of her family back home and the traumatic things that happened to her on her journey to the UK. No one can properly understand what she has been through. No one but Mamie.[picture: The BritishFilms Catalogue]

“Europe on Screen” Secretariat
c/o Goethe-Institut Jakarta
Jl Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Jakarta 10350
Tel +62 21 2355 0208
Fax + 62 21 2355 0021
E-mail: prakt1@jakarta.goethe.org
Website: http://www.uni-eropa.org/film

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