'Eccentricities of a blond hair girl'

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Manoel de Oliveira - PT / E / F – 2009 – fictie / fiction – kleur / couleur – 64’ – OV / VO – NL OND / STT FR

(Singularidades de uma rapariga loura)
Portuguese film-maker Manuel de Oliveira, who is still going strong although he is over 100 years old, produced this laidback farce about the unpredictability of love. A young accountant in Lisbon (the director’s grandson Ricardo Trêpa) falls passionately in love with a woman he glimpses in the office courtyard. The story ends with an delightful last-minute twist.

With: Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Luis Miguel Cintra

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'Sunflower' - Europalia China - Focus Beijing

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Zhang Yang - CHIN – 2005 – fictie / fiction – kleur / couleur – 129’– OV / VO – EN SBT

(Xiang ri kui)

Fascinating melodrama depicting 30 years of Chinese history through the complicated and complex relationship between an authoritarian father and his rebellious son. In this film, Zhang Yang demonstrates how historical and social context can shape human personality. The film is also an indirect evocation of the recent transformations in Chinese society, and the changing moral values that greatly complicate communication between generations.

With : Joan Chen, Zhang Fan

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'Rachel'

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Simone Bitton - F/B – 2009 – documentaire – kleur / couleur – 100’ – VO / OV – NL OND / STT FR

Documentary about the 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie who was crushed to death in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home. Director Simone Bitton returned five years later to the scene of the tragedy in the Gaza strip, and talked to witnesses from either side of the divide, reconstructing the young woman’s life while also offering thoughts on idealism, political commitment and utopias.

Screening on tue 05.01 in presence of the director Simone Bitton

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