Offering a mesmerizing cinematic fair, the European Union Film Festival 2020 is all set to kick-off on November 5th across the country. Keeping in tune with the sentiment of the on-going situation, the festival has gone digital and will be available for film patrons and cinephiles at the tap of their screens, while also offering them the liberty to stream the movies at their convenience through 30 November.
Bifurcated across 4 categories (mentioned below), the festival is curated by Veronica Flora along with Valerio Caruso, Director of Cineuropa. Hosting 42 critically-acclaimed films that explore unique stories, experiences, and histories with artistic storytelling from across Europe, celebrating the most recent cinematic triumphs at Cannes, Locarno, Venice, Berlin and San Sebastian, amongst others; the Festival will leave film aficionados spellbound.
The festival line-up:
Genre | Movies | Directors | Country |
EURORAMA: EUROPEAN CINEMA TODAY (27 films) | |||
Drama | The Ground Beneath My Feet | Marie Kreutzer | Austria |
Drama | Alone at My Wedding | Marta Bergman | Belgium |
Drama | Rounds | Stephan Komandarev | Bulgaria |
Drama | Mare | Andrea Staka | Croatia |
Comedy | Smuggling Hendrix | MariosPiperides | Cyprus |
Documentary | Forman vs. Forman | Jakub Hejna, Helena Trestikova | Czechia |
Documentary | Cold CaseHammarskjöld | Mads Brügger | Denmark |
Drama | The Little Comrade | MoonikaSiimets | Estonia |
Comedy | Aurora | MiiaTervo | Finland |
Comedy | Arab Blues | ManeleLabidi | France |
Drama | Exile | VisarMorina | Germany |
Drama | Pari | SiamakEtemadi | Greece |
Drama | Genesis | ÁrpádBogdán | Hungary |
Comedy | Extra Ordinary | Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman | Ireland |
Drama | Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello | Italy |
Drama | MellowMud | Renārs Vimba | Latvia |
Drama | Invisible | IgnasJonyas | Lithuania |
Comedy | Tel Aviv On Fire | SamehZoabi | Luxembourg |
Drama | Instinct | HalinaReijn | Netherlands |
Drama | Corpus Christi | Jan Komasa | Poland |
Drama | Listen | Ana Rocha de Sousa | Portugal |
Drama | One Step Behind the Seraphim | Daniel Sandu | Romania |
Comedy | Summer Rebels | Martina Saková | Slovakia |
Drama | Don’t Forget to Breathe | Martin Turk | Slovenia |
Animation | Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles | Salvador Simó | Spain |
Drama | And Then We Danced | Levan Atkin | Sweden |
Drama | Beyond the Horizon | Delphine Leherice | Switzerland |
MASTERPIECES OF EUROPEAN CINEMA (7 films) | |||
Drama | Persona | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
Drama | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
Drama | CléoFrom 5 to 7 | AgnèsVarda | France |
Drama | I Knew Her Well | Antonio Pietrangeli | Italy |
Drama | The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
Drama | ThreeColours: Blue | Krzysztof Kieślowski | France |
Drama | Loves of a Blonde | Milos Forman | Czechoslovakia |
POETRY ON SCREEN: SATYAJIT RAY & CHAITANYA TAMHANE (2 films) | |||
Drama | Court | Chaitanya Tamhane | India |
Drama | Aparajito | Satyajit Ray | India |
CLIMATE CHANGE: 6 SHORTS | |||
Short film Fiction | Megha’s Divorce | NilaMadhab Panda | India |
Short film Documentary | Qurut | Shahrbanoo Sadat | Afghanistan |
Short film Documentary | TuãIngugu | Daniela Thomas | Brazil |
Short film Fiction | Olmo | Silvio Soldini | Italy |
Short film Documentary | Hungry Seagull | Leon Wang | China |
Short film Fiction | A Sunny Day | FAOUZI BENSAÏDI | Morocco |