7:00pm|FILM CLUB SCREENING|Berlin. Locarno. Rome. St. Sebastian. - The Delhi chapter continues. Featuring a selection of movies from International Festivals the world over in Delhi Collab: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, the Embassy of Switzerland in India, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Spanish Cultural Institute in Delhi
RIFF- Lost In Laos (Italy/2013/113mins) Dir.Alessandro Zunino Daniela and Paolo decide to take a vacation in VangVieng in Laos, practicing tubing, rafting and having fun. After an impromptu rave on the river, followed by downhill tubing, the two get Lost in Laos. Having also lost their belongings, they begin to wander around a different Laos to the one they pictured. In Italy, the parents become alarmed, meanwhile Daniela and Paolo embark on a revelatory journey becoming the guests of a small village where they receive care, hospitality and friendship.
Locarno- Shipwreck (Netherlands/2014/15mins) Dir.Morgan Knibbe On three October 2013, a boat carrying 500 Eritrean refugees sunk off the coast of the Italian island Lampedusa. More than 360 people drowned. Abraham, one of the survivors, walks through a graveyard of shipwrecks and vividly remembers the nightmarish experience. Meanwhile at the harbor, hundreds of coffins are being loaded onto a military ship.
SEMNICI- También La Lluvia (Even The Rain) (Spain/2010/104mins) Dir.Icíar Bollaín The film sets up an intriguing dialogue about Spanish imperialism through incidents taking place some 500 years apart, while examining the personal belief systems of the members of a film crew headed by director Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his producer Costa (Luis Tosar) who arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about the conquest of Latin America. Set in February and March of 2000 when real-life protests against the privatization of water rocked the nation, the film reflexively blurs the line between fiction and reality in what Variety calls "a powerful, richly layered indictment of the plight of Latin America's dispossessed. Award at SEMINCI: AECID Cultural Diversity Award, 2010; Panorama Audience Award, Berlinale, 2011; 3 Goya by Spanish National Academiy of Cinema; & Ariel Award, Mexican Academy of Cinema
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7:00pm|FILM CLUB SCREENING|Berlin. Locarno. Rome. St. Sebastian. -
The Delhi chapter continues. Featuring a selection of movies from
International Festivals the world over in Delhi Collab: Goethe-Institut/Max
Mueller Bhavan, the Embassy of Switzerland in India, the Italian
Cultural Institute and the Spanish Cultural Institute in Delhi
RIFF- Lost In Laos (Italy/2013/113mins) Dir.Alessandro Zunino
Daniela and Paolo decide to take a vacation in VangVieng in Laos,
practicing tubing, rafting and having fun. After an impromptu rave on
the river, followed by downhill tubing, the two get Lost in Laos. Having
also lost their belongings, they begin to wander around a different
Laos to the one they pictured. In Italy, the parents become alarmed,
meanwhile Daniela and Paolo embark on a revelatory journey becoming the
guests of a small village where they receive care, hospitality and
friendship.
Locarno- Shipwreck (Netherlands/2014/15mins) Dir.Morgan Knibbe
On three October 2013, a boat carrying 500 Eritrean refugees sunk off
the coast of the Italian island Lampedusa. More than 360 people drowned.
Abraham, one of the survivors, walks through a graveyard of shipwrecks
and vividly remembers the nightmarish experience. Meanwhile at the
harbor, hundreds of coffins are being loaded onto a military ship.
SEMNICI- También La Lluvia (Even The Rain) (Spain/2010/104mins) Dir.Icíar Bollaín
The film sets up an intriguing dialogue about Spanish imperialism
through incidents taking place some 500 years apart, while examining the
personal belief systems of the members of a film crew headed by
director Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his producer Costa (Luis
Tosar) who arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about the
conquest of Latin America. Set in February and March of 2000 when
real-life protests against the privatization of water rocked the nation,
the film reflexively blurs the line between fiction and reality in what
Variety calls "a powerful, richly layered indictment of the plight of
Latin America's dispossessed. Award at SEMINCI: AECID Cultural Diversity
Award, 2010; Panorama Audience Award, Berlinale, 2011; 3 Goya by
Spanish National Academiy of Cinema; & Ariel Award, Mexican Academy
of Cinema
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