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Cinematographer Marcell Nagy will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening. Join us after for a reception hosted by the Embassy of Hungary.

Some Birds
Valami madarak

Elderly but defiant, Bela has been placed in a care facility by a son who believes Bela is incapable of living independently. Bela doesn’t like it at all and rebels against the care workers and schemes to escape. At this same facility, he also meets Zoé, a troubled young woman who has been assigned to work there as part of her juvenile delinquent rehabilitation process. Both outsiders, they soon develop a friendship, so much so that Zoé decides to help Bela in his outlandish plans to escape. But it’s very risky for both, and will it work? Director Daniel Hever’s promising debut feature film is an uplifting story of friendship and boasts winning performances by László Scacsvay as Bela and Lilla Kizlinger as Zoé.

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Join us for a pre-screening reception hosted by the High Commission for the Republic of Cyprus.

.dog

Young Dimitris, on the verge of manhood but in many ways still a child, has always romanticized his absent father. When his father is released from prison, Dimitris’s dream of happiness is more intense than ever, but the reality of the reunion will turn out to be much different. When the two reunite, their relationship is anything but healthy. Behind his fatherly ideas about connecting with his son, he also exploits Dimitris by involving him as an ‘apprentice’ in some very dodgy and dubious activities on the Turkish side of Nicosia. Trapped between his failing, suspicious father and his employer’s family who want to adopt him, Dimitris faces a profound and difficult dilemma, especially when his father increases the personal pressure. What will he choose? 

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Director Yana Lekarska will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.

Because I Love Bad Weather
Zastoto obicham loshoto vreme

One spring day in her complicated, frenetic life, Irina decides to escape her present tensions and returns to the seaside town where she used to spend idyllic summer holidays as a child. To her surprise, once there she meets Boris, a childhood friend she hasn’t seen in 20 years. Now adults, the two of them will soon rediscover the secrets of their shared past, a past that may well change the course of their futures. An absorbing tale of friendship, time passing, and second chances, talented writer-director Lekarska’s debut feature film premiered in March 2024 in the International Competition Section of the 28th Sofia International Film Festival where it captured the Audience Award. The EUFF 2024 is honoured to welcome Yana Lekarska, who will attend the screening of her film.

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Hygge!

Hygge (pronounced “hoo-ga”) is a Danish term for the idea of creating joy and contentment in one’s everyday life. This sparkling comedy revolves around that concept in both humorous and revealing ways. When a group of seven friends gather for an extravagant dinner at a summer cottage, things start out harmoniously enough. For fun, though, they start a party game where everyone must share something that is on their phones, private or otherwise. Before too long, things begin to spill out that threaten to ruin what they are there for, the most important thing of all: the ‘hygge’. Beneath the happy surface of this group of friends, a series of personal ticking time bombs of secrets and intrigues lurk, and, as the evening progresses, the picture-perfect facade begins to crack. Amusing and incisive, Hygge! offers still more evidence in favour of just turning those infernal mobile phones off. 

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Join us for a pre-screening reception hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland.

Scarborn
(Kos)

Spring 1794: General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kosciuszko returns to Poland, planning an uprising against the occupying Russians. Kosciuszko is being tracked by a merciless Russian cavalry captain, Dunin, who wants to capture him before he sparks a national revolt. Meanwhile, the peasant Ignac, the illegitimate son of a nobleman, dreams of inheriting his father's estate after being included in the will. When his father dies, Ignac’s half-brother Stanisław refuses to fulfill their father's wishes; Ignac steals the will and has two days to present it to the court to prove his noble title. During his escape, however, he encounters Kosciuszko and soon must choose between his dreams of nobility and joining in the fight for a greater cause. A captivating historical drama, Scarborn triumphed at the 2024 Polish Film Awards, winning six awards, including Best Director.

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Actor Polydoros Vogiatzis will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.

Dodo

In their luxurious villa near Athens, Mariella and Pavlos, a couple on the brink of financial ruin, are about to celebrate the long-awaited wedding of their daughter Sofia to a wealthy heir. This unusual story unfolds as a dodo, a bird extinct for the past 300 years, inexplicably appears at the villa and begins to have a strange impact on everyone involved. Wedding preparations are disrupted, to say the least, and soon the line between sanity and madness begins to fray. An absurdist film influenced by the work of contemporary Greek cinema’s acclaimed Yorgos Lanthimos and others of the ‘Greek Weird Wave,’ Koutras’s fifth feature, which had its world premiere in Cannes in 2022, earned 15 Hellenic Film Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. “Panos Koutras’ chaotic comedy farce is an ambitious fresco of a family’s existential crisis.” (Screen Daily)

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#annaismissing

Anna is a controversial and popular Czech influencer best known for her provocative online content. Without warning or explanation, she suddenly goes silent on her social media profiles and, even more mysteriously, stops posting any updates. Total silence. When 15-year-old Nina finds a half-naked photo of Anna on her father's phone, she decides to track down the missing influencer by any means necessary. What happened to Anna, and are Nina’s parents involved somehow? The shocking events that follow will change not only Nina's life but also her family's. “This expertly crafted thriller keeps you guessing at every turn, and solidifies director Pavel Soukup‘s presence as a filmmaker to watch on the local scene.” (Jason Pirodsky, The Prague Reporter)

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Cats of Malta

This award-winning documentary offers a fascinating, diverting portrait of the famous stray cats who live on the sunny island of Malta. With its winning blend of candid interviews with local cat feeders, artists, and volunteers who look after the roaming felines, Cats is a journey through the colourful cat colonies, cat cafés, cat parks, and streets that have come to help define the island. More than just a film about cats, it’s also about the power of community and the peculiar strength found within the human-cat connection, as well as its curious effects on Maltese life and culture. Amusing, entertaining, and, yes, occasionally very, very cute, even the esteemed newspaper The Guardian calls this very likeable documentary “Soft, fuzzy, and purr-inducing…”

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Family Therapy
(Odrešitev za začetnike)

Talented writer-director Sonja Presenc’s third feature, Family Therapy is a sharp, satirical, and trenchant examination of a complacent, rather crass Slovenian nouveau riche family. Happily ensconced in their luxurious glass home, their seemingly orderly and predictable lives are disrupted by the arrival of a young stranger. The stranger’s presence soon reveals how thin the veneer of order is as the family begins to splinter into dysfunction as Olivia’s overprotectiveness, Aleksandar’s escapist tendencies, and Agata’s secrecy are unmasked. A sly, humorous reworking of the Pier Paolo Pasolini 1968 classic, Teorema, Prosenc combines dark comedy with her distinctive cinematic style in this incisive critique of contemporary society.

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Rowing Across the Atlantic
(Irklais per Atlantą)

This riveting documentary chronicles the incredible but true story of Aurimas Valujavičius, who embarked on one of the greatest challenges of his (or anyone’s!) life: an 8500km solo journey across the Atlantic in his specially adapted rowboat ‘Lituanica.’ An immersive film, it captures all of Aurimas’s loneliness and euphoria, pain and joy, anxiety and hope that he can traverse the mighty, fearsome Atlantic Ocean. His watery travels will take him from continental Europe to continental North America, where he intends to arrive at the shores of Miami, Florida. After two years of intensive preparation, he starts his journey early on Christmas morning. Astonishing.

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Verdigris

Award-winning writer-director Patricia Kelly’s latest feature revolves around an unlikely friendship between two very different women. Recently retired and rather lonely, middle-aged Marian takes a temporary job as a census enumerator. While duly working on collecting census information, she meets a feisty teenager named Jewel who has been living as a prostitute after being abandoned by her mother. Gradually, they develop an unlikely bond, as both are outsiders in their different ways. With this unexpected and decidedly unusual ally at her side, Marian soon realizes that she can forge a new and empowering future, maybe for both of them. Witty and endearing, and winner of the Best Independent Film Award at the 2023 Galway Film Festival, Verdigris features impressive performances by both Geraldine McAlinden (Bad Sisters) and Maya O’Shea (Normal People).

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Mermaids Don’t Cry
(Meerjungfrauen weinen nicht)

This fanciful, imaginative comedy revolves around a quirky dreamer named Annika, who works in a supermarket but dreams of the perfect artificial mermaid fin. She’s convinced that finding that fin will bring glamour into her drab life. As if her job isn’t bad enough, one day her father appears at her door asking to move in; her friend Karo dedicates her energy to her latest romantic affair and asks Annika to look after her two children; her new boyfriend Marc, who spends a night with Annika, wants to stay because he doesn’t have an apartment of his own. To make matters worse, staff cut-backs are coming at the supermarket and the manager is looking for potential lay-offs. But none of this matters: Annika just has to have that fin! But how will she ever get it? Offbeat fun! 

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Join us for a pre-screening reception hosted by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

One Million Minutes
(Eine Million Minuten)

Vera and Wolf Küper live in Berlin with their five-year-old daughter Nina and their one-year-old son Simon. Vera takes care of the household and has a part-time job, while Wolf works as an advisor to the UN, raising awareness about the global climate crisis. The stressful, not exactly family-friendly schedule puts increasing strain on the Küpers. When Nina is diagnosed with a fine motor and coordination disorder, however, the family is suddenly shaken from its routine. Bravely deciding to change their lives completely, they embark on an exploration of the planet to show their children and themselves why life is worth living. It’s a touching, amusing, surprising, profound, and unforgettable journey. 

Fathers and Sons
(Vaders & Zonen)

In this absurdist tale of arrested development, you’ll meet a decidedly oddball family. Loet is over forty years old and still lives with his younger brother at home with their dominant father Baltus. The two have lived their entire life under their father’s thumb and always obey him. His pension also pays their bills. One day, Baltus dies in front of the TV. Now what? The brothers are in a state of confusion, having always been told they are useless and having never travelled further afield than to the local supermarket. To keep living on their father’s pension, though, they’ll have to find a living replacement to play his role while concealing the death of not-so-dear-old-dad. Reminiscent in style and tone of the Coen brothers, Fathers & Sons is a deliciously dark and droll comedy.

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Never Say Never
(Nikdy nehovor nikdy)

This engaging romantic comedy revolves around Nadia and Peter, whose paths accidentally cross while both are struggling in failing marriages. Peter's marriage has cooled due to his often-absent wife Lenka's work missions in Africa, while Nadia's husband Viktor has found a new love. A chance car accident brings Nadia and Peter into each other's lives, triggering an unexpected relationship. Nadia, a teacher who also leads yoga classes, volunteers to help Peter, who's grappling with health issues that yoga might improve. As their connection deepens, their children and ex-partners begin to complicate an already complex situation. This will set the stage for a chaotic journey for both them and their loved ones. On the other hand, anything and everything seems possible and, well, you ‘never say never.’

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Boléro

Paris, the Roaring Twenties. Iconoclastic and acclaimed Russian choreographer Ida Rubinstein chooses Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. She wants something bold, something sensual. Well-known and established, Ravel nonetheless finds himself unable to write anything. Reliving his life’s memories, facing his old loves and personal failures, the composer will eventually give birth to his greatest composition ever, ‘Bolero.’ Bolero is a sumptuous biographical drama of the troubled composer of one of the most famous pieces of music ever written. “Some impressionistic structuring, and a calmly charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevate Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel.” Jessica Kiang, Variety.

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Light Light Light
(Valoa Valoa Valoa)

In the spring of 1986, the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl explodes, spreading fear (and radioactive clouds) across Europe. At the same time, teenage Mariia falls for Mimi, who has just moved to her small village in Finland. As this strange and dangerous time unfolds, together they experience their first passionate summer of love, despite relentlessly ominous messages on the radio about the faraway nuclear disaster. When Mariia returns to her hometown 20 years later to care for her ailing mother, complex memories of that fateful summer with Mimi keep rising to the surface. Alternating between past and present, Finnish director Inari Niemi delivers a sensitive, moving coming-of-age story, skillfully navigating between Mariia's sunny, hopeful youth and her sombre, challenging present.

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The Invisible Fight
(Nähtamatu võitlus)

In 1973, a young Soviet soldier named Rafael is the only survivor of kung fu assassins attacking the Chinese-USSR border. Amazed at how these martial artists could easily vanquish his fellow soldiers, Rafael has an epiphany: he must also become a kung fu warrior! His search for martial arts mentorship leads him to the most unlikely of places: an Eastern Orthodox monastery, where black-clad monks will train him. Struggling against a rival monk, and with a budding love interest, Rafael embarks on a long, winding, utterly zany journey. The strangest fun you will have in a cinema this year! As the Vancouver International Film Festival observes, “Fans of Black Sabbath, kung fu, and/or wacky comedy won’t want to miss The Invisible Fight, the gonzo Estonian martial arts movie we didn’t know we needed.”

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Salgueiro Maia: The Implicated
(Salgueiro Maia - O Implicado)

A key figure in recent Portuguese history, Salgueiro Maia was the heroic army captain who commanded military actions during the tumultuous period that saw the overthrow of the Salazar regime in April 1974 in what came to be called the Carnation Revolution. This powerful biographical drama tells the story of Maia’s coming of age as a young man who would proudly enlist in the military, only to realize that he must battle the systemic injustices of his nation’s military and political elites. It’s fitting that the EUFF presents this film at its 39th edition, as this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, a singular event in Portugal’s history. The Implicated is an inspiring chronicle of one of that revolutionary moment’s national heroes.

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Hilma

Renowned director Lasse Hallström (My Life As A Dog, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Chocolat) tells the extraordinary life story of Hilma af Klint, a Swedish painter who revolutionized the art world as one of the first abstract artists but who went largely unrecognized in her lifetime. This handsome biographical drama (starring Tora Hallström as the young Hilma and Lena Olin as the mature Hilma) follows the artist from her early life through her rising artistic career and spiritual awakening after the loss of her beloved younger sister. Hilma also explores af Klint’s spiritualism, her unconventional love life, and the unique philosophical impetus behind her work. In life and art, Hilma af Klint was indeed a woman well ahead of her time.

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A Blue Flower
(A Blue Flower)

Mirjana is clearly showing signs that she’s having a mid-life crisis. She’s stuck in a largely unrewarding job and she’s having an ongoing affair with her married boss. Divorced and having a challenging, contentious relationship with her daughter, Mirjana is also dreading an impending visit by her emotionally distant mother. All this, plus her 20-year work anniversary celebration is approaching, an anniversary she never wanted for a job she dislikes. Pondering her past, her present, and her possible futures, Mirjana is ready to do something. But what? Based on “A Play About Mirjana and Those Around Her” by Ivor Martinić, A Blue Flower is a revealing exploration of the relationships between three generations of women. It won Best Film, Best Actress, and Best Director awards at the Pula Film Festival in Croatia in 2021.

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Freedom
(Libertate)

Based on actual events, Tudor Giurgiu's powerful historical drama is set in the provincial town of Sibiu, Romania, during the 1989 revolution. The story unfolds in a world once totally controlled by a dictator's iron grip but now crumbling. As news of President Ceaușescu's fall filters in from Bucharest, shots ring out in the town; distinguishing between old enemies and current friends is now a potentially life-threatening challenge. In a desperate attempt to escape the chaos, police captain Viorel and his fellow officers are captured by the army and must fight for survival, but who’s really in charge? Giurgiu’s film masterfully captures an atmosphere of pervasive paranoia and delivers an intense collective drama that poses the question: who will emerge victorious in this historic duel that appears to have no rules?

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A Postcard from Rome
(Pastkarte no Romas)

In this gentle love story, longstanding postal workers and loving couple Ernests and Alvīne successfully figure out how to take advantage of a lottery scheme to fulfill their lifelong dream of travelling to Rome. Having won the contest, they excitedly embark on their international holiday. However, it becomes painfully apparent to Ernests that his beloved Alvīne's Alzheimer's condition is rapidly worsening–an unfortunate reality that neither of them is ready to face. The couple’s decades-long devotion to each other will soon be put to the test in those beautiful streets of the Eternal City they had always dreamed of. This sensitive, moving cinematic gem captured the Best Latvian Feature Film at the 2023 Latvian National Film Festival.

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A Hundred Sundays
(Cento Domeniche)

A former shipyard worker, Antonio leads a quiet life: he plays bocce with friends, looks after his elderly mother, has an ex-wife with whom he is on excellent terms and is close with Emilia, his beloved daughter. When Emilia announces her engagement, Antonio is overjoyed; finally, he can make her dream come true by giving her the wedding they've always fantasized about and that he's saved a lifetime for. But things are not so simple. His long-time regular bank seems to be hiding something: the staff is evasive, and the bank’s management team keeps changing. What is happening to Antonio’s savings? The task of paying for his daughter's wedding will prove increasingly difficult, as Antonio discovers as he fights to make his–and Emilia’s–dream come true. “Antonio Albanese directs a small masterpiece." (Il Giornale)

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Un Amor

Escaping her overwhelming life in the city, 30-year-old Natalia seeks refuge in the small rural village of La Escapa. Settling into a rustic house, she aims to rebuild and renew her life. It won’t be easy, as she must deal with the hostility of her landlord and the distrust of the local villagers. Amid all this uncertainty, Natalia also finds herself strangely attracted to a rather bold sexual proposal received from her neighbour, Andreas. This peculiar encounter suddenly sparks an obsessive passion that will start to consume her, forcing her to reconsider her identity and her life. Internationally acclaimed veteran director Isabel Coixet’s (My Life Without Me, The Secret Life of Words, The Bookshop) adaptation of the novel by Sara Mesa is a powerful, unsettling psycho-sexual drama.

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Icarus and the Minotaur
(Icare)

Former Pixar animator Carlo Vogele (Monsters University, Cars 2, Toy Story 3) here delivers an entertaining film that reimagines the mythical story of Icarus as a little boy. Once upon a time, on the island of Crete during the age of King Minos, lived a daydreaming young boy named Icarus. One day, he discovers and befriends a mysterious creature that has the body of a man and the head of a bull: Asterion, also known as the Minotaur. When the King asks Icarus’s father, the famous inventor Daedalus, to work on a secret project that involves a dark labyrinth, Icarus realizes his new friend might be in grave danger. Can Icarus save the Minotaur and change the course of a fateful story written by the gods? Suitable for ages 8 and up. 

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This screening is a fundraiser. Proceeds from this screening will benefit the Ukraine Harmony Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about Ukraine both in Canada and globally.

The Hardest Hour
(Довга доба)

The EUFF continues to stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and their fight for self-determination. That struggle is chronicled in The Hardest Hour, a documentary consisting entirely of cellphone footage taken by Ukrainians on the ground. Culled from 200 hours of video recordings—of Ukrainians before and during wartime—the film is a collective testament to a nation’s courage and resilience. “Listen to the voices of Ukrainians … We have put them together for you in a time capsule. While watching this film, remember this is exactly what the battle for life, for freedom, for the future looks like. The war goes on, and so does our hardest hour” (Alan Badoev).

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My Dad is a Sausage
(Mijn vader is een saucisse)

Much to the horror of his family, Pol leaves his boring but very secure and well-paying job at the bank to finally fulfill his dream of becoming an actor. Although no one is quite sure if it’s a case of professional burnout or a full-fledged midlife crisis, Pol’s youngest daughter Zoe has made up her mind: she thinks it’s a great idea! She is the only one who supports him and the only one who also believes he has actual acting talent waiting to be discovered by the world. Pol’s quixotic quest seems doomed to fail, but it will soon end up in an entirely different, entirely unexpected place for the whole family.

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