16th Annual Days of European Film
March 2009 - The 16th annual Days of European Film will open with the Romanian film Boogie (directed by Radu Muntean, 2008) at Prague's Světozor cinema on 16 April 2009. The film takes place on the Black Sea coast and reveals everything that can happen as the result of a coincidental meeting of a group of former high school classmates and the main male character, who is spending his family vacation there.
Muntean's previous films (Furia/Fury, 2002; Hartia va fi albastra/The Paper Will be Blue, 2006), have already made brought him international succes, and have been well-received at prestigious festivals.
The Days of European Film festival, held at Prague's Světozor and Lucerna cinemas, offers audiences a total of 29 feature films. The section dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain features five documentary films. The Academy of Performing Arts, the Miroslav Ondricek Film Academy and the Secondary and Tertiary Vocational School in Písek will traditionally present a block of short films; also being screened are a selection of films from the FRESHFILMFEST festival.
The Prague part of DEF will close on 23 April at the Světozor with the film Faubourg 36 (Paris 36, Christophe Barratier, 2007). After the worldwide success of his previous film, The Chorus (Les Choristes, 2004), the story of his new film will take us to the Paris of the revolutionary changes of the year 1936.
Paris 36, which is a German/French/Czech co-production, has already been nominated in several categories for the César Awards in France. The film was shot in Prague.
From Prague, the festival will move to Brno and Olomouc, with smaller "Regional Echoes" taking place in Uherské Hradiště, Boskovice and Veselí nad Moravou, where a selection of films from the DEF programme will be screened.
All films will be screened in their original languages (most with English subtitles) with simultaneous translation into Czech via headphones. Detailed information on the festival may be found at www.eurofilmfest.cz.
