Organized by representative bodies for the European Union in Japan and the embassies of EU member nations, “EU Film Days” brings the best of European cinema to audiences in Japan. From films not previously shown in Japan to popular works, the festival will screen films from five different countries. The reception (6/10) provides ample introduction the allure of the Film Days festival.
• 6/26 (Thu.) & 27 (Fri.)
• 1F ACROS Fukuoka
• ¥500 per film (free of charge for members of the Fukuoka EU association)
• 092-725-9200
• 1-1-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku
• http://www.fukuoka-eu.com/news/detail.php?news_id=149
Screening Schedule
• 6/26 (Thu.) 17:00: Kauwboy (Netherland)
Jojo, a lively 10-year-old with a difficult home life marked by a volatile father & an absent mother, finds solace in an abandoned baby jackdaw. Through the special friendship he builds with the bird, the wall between him & his father will be brought down.
• 6/26 (Thu.) 19:00: Hypnotisören (The Hypnotist) (Sweden)
A detective pairs himself with a famous psychologist on a case involving a traumatized young witness to a crime.
• 6/27 (Fri.) 15:00: Aleksandrinke (The Alexandrians) (Slovenia & Itaria)
The Alexandrians focuses on a painful, almost exclusively female emigration. Due to poverty and fascist assimilation policy many people, especially youth, left the Vipava valley (west part of Slovenia) before World War II. Men emigrated to Argentina never to return, while women and girls would go to Egypt, mostly to what was then a rich and cosmopolitan Alexandria, where they remained for as long as several decades as wet nurses, nannies and housewives. Many of them returned too late to enjoy their own children and their homes – meant literally, since it was usually their money that paid for their houses.
• 6/27 (Fri.) 17:00: The Baron (Portugal)
In the director’s own words, The Baron is a neuro-gothic remake of a ghost film directed during the II World War and forbidden by the dictatorship in Portugal. Hypnotic in an expressionist way, the plot leads the narrator through the eccentric nature of the castle of the Baron – an emotional chameleon, ‘man-boar’, a pure beast, who terrifies the inhabitants of a countryside village and lives an imprisoned love.
• 6/27 (Fri.) 19:00: Kertu (Love is Blind) (Estonia)
30-year old Kertu has lived under her father’s power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life – she send a postcard to Villu, a handsome but degenerate village drunk.
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EU Film Days Reception
The EU Film Days Reception (6/10) provides ample introduction the allure of the Film Days festival, with seminar, overview of the film festival and lucky draw.
• 6/10 (Tue.) 18:00~20:30
• 2F Nishitetsu Grand Hotel
• ¥3,000
• 092-725-9206
• Dress Code: Business casual
• Application: http://www.fukuoka-eu.com/eveety/index.php?event_id=148
• http://www.fukuoka-eu.com/event/detail.php?event_id=148&cal_yy=2014&cal_mm=6
