|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
MOTHERLAND by Tomas Vengris International premiere BUSAN IFF - Flash Forward |
||
|
||
|
Lithuania / Latvia / Germany / Greece - 2019 - 96min - original title: GIMTINE Directed and Written by Tomas Vengris Produced by Uljana Kim Synopsis: Shortly after the fall of the USSR, 12-year-old Kovas travels to his mother, Viktorija’s homeland for the first time. It has been 20 years since she escaped Soviet-Occupied Lithuania and has now returned to reclaim her beloved family estate. Viktorija’s former flame, Romas, claims to have useful connections and escorts them to the family land. When they find the tattered estate occupied by an impoverished Russian family, they must consider how far they are willing to go to keep their dreams intact. |
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
The Love Trilogy by Yaron Shani
REBORN World Premiere BUSAN IFF - World Cinema |
||
|
||
|
Israel / Germany - 2019 - 108 min - original title: LEYD'A Directed and Written by Yaron Shani Produced by Saar Yogev, Naomi Levari, Michael Reuter Synopsis: Avigail is the perfect mother, wife to Rashi, and nurse. She sacrifices herself for everyone, but deep inside she feels alienated and directs her anger against herself. Yael is a wounded daughter, abandoned by her parents, she wants to be the mother of all orphans, neglecting the one who most needs her love, her sister Naama. Abused by her step-father, Naama is now mothering her aging abuser by day and degrading herself as a sex worker by night. Yet there is hope through connections. Naama follows the writing of Alice and feels a bond with her. Avigail and Yael become close. These women can help each other to change, break the cage of their self-destruction and be reborn. |
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
CHAINED Asian Premiere BUSAN IFF - World Cinema |
||
|
||
|
||
|
Synopsis: Rashi has been a police officer for 16 years, a guardian of others and the law, always in control. Despite his constant exposure to violence, he dearly hopes to have a child with his wife Avigail. Then Rashi’s world is shaken. He is accused of sexual assault and suspended from the force due to his conduct during a standard police-check on some privileged boys. While defending his innocence at work, he finds himself clashing at home with his Lolita-like step-daughter who is as assertive and stubborn as he is, defying his authority. His wife becomes gradually distant. AWARDS & NOMINATIONS: Jerusalem Film Festival - Best film, Best actor (for Eran Naim) and Audience Award Israeli Film Academy - nominated for Best film, Best director, Best actor, Best casting European Film Award - nominated for Feature film section Asia Pacific Screen Award - selected for Competition
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
STRIPPED Asian Premiere BUSAN IFF - World Cinema |
||
|
||
|
||
|
Synopsis: Ziv is a 17-year-old talented, sensitive musician. He still lives with his parents and is about to enter the army where he will be forced into ’manhood’ and stripped of his innocence and dreams. Across the street lives the beautiful 34-year-old Alice, a successful author and emancipated woman. A random meeting between the two will catalyze attraction and understanding, then following a terrible incident, destruction and growth. Alice will be stripped of her confidence and strong social image, and left to struggle to find inner peace. |
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
------- ABOUT THE LOVE TRILOGY ------- Human Love is as complex as life itself. It contains so many paradoxes and contradictions and holds the meaning of our existence. Each of the trilogy films concentrates on a different dimension. Each film is complete in itself and can be viewed alone to make a whole experience, but the combination of the three provides a wide-scope picture of the characters’ intersecting lives from different angles and in different times. The films can be seen in any order, making a different meaning each way. The content was not written by a script-writer. It lived freely in front of the camera. The actors were not acting, they were being. They were actually living the lives of their characters and in a way - their most personal self. In that sense, the drama is not constrained to clichés and stereotypes. It is as real and genuine as life. |
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
ALPHA VIOLET Keiko Funato will attend Busan IFF/Asian Film Market Unifrance/EFP booth #C08 in the Hall 4C-F BEXCO contact Keiko to set up a meeting www.alphaviolet.com |
||
