European Union Film Festival in city from tomorrow

Hyderabad:  Hyderabad Film Club is organising 23rd European Union Film Festival from August 10 to 19 , at Sri Sarathi Studious, Ameerpet, Hyderabad. In this festival, 24 films from 23 countries of the European Union will be screened.

The European Union (EU), which consists of 28 countries, has been known for producing world’s best of Creative Cinema. There will be an Inaugural function onAugust 10 at 6 pm. The festival was travelling through 11 cities in India starting from New Delhi and then moving on to Chennai, Port Blair, Pune, Puducherry, Kolkata, Jaipur, Visakhapatnam, Thrissur, Hyderabad and Goa.

This Film festival is organized by Hyderabad Film Club under the aegis of Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI), in association with Sri Sarathi Studios and in cooperation with Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India,New Delhi; Directorate of Film Festivals, New Delhi and brought by the Delegation of the European Union to India, New Delhi.

The films to be screened at the European Film Festival are: The Magic of Children (Austria); Labyrinthus (Belgium); Viktoria (Bulgaria); Cowboys  (Croatia); Boy on the Bridge (Cyprus); Tiger Theory / Teorie Tygra (Czech Republic); Walk with me / De Standhaftige  (Denmark);  Land of Mine / Under Sandet (Denmark);  The Man Who Looks Like Me / Minu Näoga Onu (Estonia); Unexpected Journey (Finland); 9 Month Stretch / 9 Mois Ferme (France); House without Roof / Haus ohne Dach (Germany); Kissing? / Ontos Filiounte? (Greece); Kills on Wheels (Hungary); Taranta on the Road (Italy); The Lesson /Izlaiduma Gads (Latvia);When You Wake Up (Lithuania); A Wedding / Noces (Luxembourg); Letter for the King (Netherlands); A Brave Bunch (Poland); Mother Knows Best (Portugal); Little Harbour / Piata loď (Slovakia); The Bride / La Novia (Spain) and Eternal Summer (Sweden).

The 23rd European Film Festival has some unusual stories to tell: the lines of reality are blurred when the cyber world comes to life; a play done by a motley cast of antiheroes provides an opportunity for redemption; a man stuck in an unhappy marriage practices unusual ways to assert his freedom; a music critic finds his father irksome when they both begin to compete for the attention of an attractive psychotherapist; and three Kurdish siblings come together unexpectedly in a hair-raising journey during which they are pursued by angry relatives. These are just some of the curious themes of the European Union Film Festival of 2018.