One of today’s featured films in the European Film Festival is the Swedish film Dear Alice which stars Danny Glover stars as Franzis, Gambian immigrant on the verge of financial meltdown in Sweden. Dear Alice is on at MovieTowne Tobago from 8pm.
The EFF continues at MovieTowne, Port-of-Spain and MovieTowne, Tobago until May 28.
Tickets are $30, with tickets for children and students in uniform or with student ID priced at $20.
For more information, visit the EFF Facebook page at European Film Festival–Trinidad and Tobago or www.ttfilmfestival.com/eff
Today’s schedule for the European Film Festival
MovieTowne, Port-of-Spain
11 am
Cool Kids Don’t Cry
Director: Dennis Bots
2012/The Netherlands/96 mins/Family drama/GA
Twelve-year-old Akkie loves football and lives to play in the school tournament. Confident and spirited, she stands up to her classmate, Joep, who doesn’t think girls should be allowed to play a “boys’” game. But Joep soon discovers how much he has underestimated Akkie when she is diagnosed with leukemia.
1 pm
Kiymet + Turquaze
Kiymet
Director: Canan Turan
2012/Germany/25 mins/Documentary/GA
Back in the late 1960s, Kiymet became the first member of her family to migrate from Turkey to Germany. Now an elderly woman living in her native village again, she recounts her remarkable life—as a mother, activist and immigrant worker—to her granddaughter, a filmmaker who lives in Berlin.
Turquaze
Director: Kadir Balci
2010/Belgium/96 mins/Drama/14+
Exploring the lives of immigrants who find themselves torn between two lands and cultures, with roots in neither, this messy, moving and joyous romantic drama introduces a trio of Turkish brothers living in Belgium who redefine family dynamics after their father’s death.
3.30 pm
Fast Girls
Director: Regan Hall
2012/UK/ 91 mins/Drama/PG
Shania is a street-smart sprinter who develops an intense rivalry on and off the track with the posh Lisa. The movie follows the young women first as they run first at a local level, then work their way into the British 4×100 metres relay team and compete at the World Championships.
5.30 pm
Cell 211
Director: Daniel Monzón
2009/Spain/113 mins/Drama/18+
Juan is a newly qualified prison officer. While touring the prison on his first day he is accidentally knocked unconscious. Meanwhile inmates riot and take over the penitentiary. The other officers flee, leaving Juan with only one course of action: in order to survive, he must pretend to be an inmate himself.
8 pm
Winter Sleepers
Director: Tom Tykwer
1997/Germany/122 mins/Thriller/18+
Rebecca and Marco live in a villa owned by Laura. When Rene steals Marco’s car he gets into a crash with Theo, whose daughter dies. Rene suffers memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car, and Theo—for the man who killed his daughter.
MovieTowne, Tobago
3.30 pm
Fast Girls
Director: Regan Hall
2012/UK/ 91mins/Drama/PG
Shania is a street-smart sprinter who develops an intense rivalry on and off the track with the posh Lisa. The movie follows the young women first as they run first at a local level, then work their way into the British 4×100 metres relay team and compete at the World Championships.
5.30 pm
In a Better World
Susanne Bier
2011/Denmark/119 mins/Drama/16+
Anton is a doctor who moves between his home in Denmark and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
8.00pm
Dear Alice
Director: Othman Karim
2010/Sweden/97 mins/Drama/14+
Franzis is a newly arrived immigrant from Gambia to Sweden. Karin is a lawyer about to get a major promotion. Bosse is a TV star who is fired from his own show. These lives and more intersect in an intense drama about prejudice, kindness, injustice and, ultimately, forgiveness.