Urok [The Lesson] (2014)

Slo naslov: Učna ura

Drugi naslovi: The Lesson

Država: Bolgarija, Grčija

Leto: 2014 

Dolžina: 111',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama   

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valčanov

Scenarij: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valčanov

Igrajo: Margita Goševa, Ivan Barnev, Ivanka Bratoeva, Ivan Savov, Deja Todorova, Stefan Denoljubov

[SLO]

Pretresljiva socialna drama o osnovnošolski učiteljici, ki jo nepremostljiv življenjski dogodek prisili, da ravna povsem v nasprotju z njenimi moralnimi načeli.

Nade je osnovnošolska učiteljica, ki z družino živi v majhnem bolgarskem mestu. Ker je njen brezposelni mož zapil vse njune prihranke, družini grozi, da ne bo mogla odplačati kredita za hišo in bo tako ostala brez strehe nad glavo. Čeprav si Nade na vse mogoče načine prizadeva priskrbeti denar za odplačilo kredita, jo okoliščine na koncu prisilijo, da se zateče k skrajnemu ukrepu. (Via Liffe)

"Pred nekaj leti je televizija poročala o ženski, ki je v majhnem, podeželskem bolgarskem mestu oropala banko. Vsi so bili prepričani, da gre za narkomanko, kriminalko ... Nihče ni sumil, da je bančni ropar spodobna učiteljica z dvema magisterijema. Že kako se to sliši: 'Učiteljica oropala banko!!!' Prav protislovje v tej frazi me je spodbudilo, da sem se posvetil senzacionalistični tabloidni novici. Dogodek iz naše stvarnosti nas je globoko zaznamoval in porodil vprašanje - zakaj se spodobna oseba zateče h kriminalu?" (Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valčanov)

[ENG]

A touching social drama about a primary-school teacher whose desperate situation compels her to make some difficult choices.

Nade is an honest, hard working primary-school teacher struggling to keep her life together in a small Bulgarian town. With the home she shares with her unemployed, drunkard husband and young daughter on the brink of repossession and no money to her name Nade resorts to measures her former self, untouched by the realities of economic desperation and moral compromise, would have found depraved, as she makes one last extreme effort to secure the money she needs. (Via Liffe)

"Several years ago, the TV reported that a woman had robbed a bank in a small provincial Bulgarian town. Everybody suspected that she was a junky, a criminal... Nobody suspected that the bank robber was a decent school teacher with two master's degrees. The way it sounds - "Teacher robbed a bank!!!" It was precisely the contradiction within this phrase that made us look behind the tabloid sensation. This event from our reality left a deep trace in us and made us ask ourselves - what makes a decent person become a criminal?" (Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov)

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Risttuules [In the Crosswind] (2014)

Slo naslov: V vojnem vrtincu 

Država: Estonija

Leto: 2014

Dolžina: 90',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, Zgodovinski   

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Martti Helde

Scenarij: Martti Helde, Liis Nimik

Igrajo: Laura Peterson, Tarmo Song, Mirt Preegel, Ingrid Isotamm, Einar Hillep 

SLO

[Zgodba]

V noči 14. junija 1941 so na tisoče prebivalcev Litve, Latvije in Estonije – tiste, ki jih je sovjetski režim (ta je leto poprej te dežele samovoljno priključil sovjetskemu imperiju) označil za »protisovjetske elemente« – nasilno strpali v vagone in jih odpeljali v najbolj odročne predele Sibirije. Družine so načrtno razbijali, v ljudeh pa s prisilnim delom in neživljenjskimi razmerami dušili vsakršno misel na upor. Pripoved se usmeri predvsem k zgodbi Erne, študentke filozofije in mlade mamice, ki je bila v gulagu zaprta s svojo hčerkico. Tu sta bili z drugimi ženskami in otroki zaprti kar petnajst let. Ves ta čas se je Erna oklepala spomina na dom, po katerem je tako hrepenela.

Hipnotični niz ekspresivno silovitih črno-belih podob, oživljenih tableaujev, s katerimi nas mladi cineast popelje v nenavaden prostor med tistim, kar je ujeto v mirovanju, in tistim, kar se neprestano giblje, med uradno zgodovino in intimno izkušnjo življenja. (Vir: Kinodvor)

[Iz prve roke]

»Navdihnil me je Ernin stavek: 'Zdi se mi, kot bi se čas ustavil. Moj um potuje po Sibiriji, vendar so moje misli doma.' Potem me je zadelo, da moram za izražanje enakih čustev skozi kamero uporabiti vizualni jezik. Žive slike ali tableaux vivant so se zdele prava odločitev, saj sem hotel, da občinstvo v nekem smislu navdajajo enaka občutja.« (Martti Helde)

[Martti Helde]

Rojen leta 1987 v Talinu, Estonija. Na Baltski šoli za film in medije je uspešno opravil študij filmske režije, nato pa svoje znanje poglabljal na delavnicah in tečajih po Evropi in Združenih državah. Trenutno opravlja podiplomski študij gledališke režije. S svojimi projekti je opozoril nase že med študijem, z nekaterimi pa je osvojil tudi nagrade in priznanja. V vojnem vrtincuje njegov celovečerni prvenec.

ENG

[Synopsis]

14 June 1941. Without warning tens of thousands of people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were removed from their homes. Without any sort of trial men faced being sent to prison camps and women and children were deported to Siberia. The aim of this extraordinary operation – carried out on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin – was to purge the Baltic countries of their native inhabitants.

Erna, happily married and the mother of a young daughter, is sent to Siberia. For her, time takes on another dimension. Fighting starvation and humiliation in inhuman conditions, her soul seeks and finds freedom in the letters she sends to her husband who has been sentenced to prison camp. Even so, the years in Siberia rob Erna of something much more precious than just her youth.

This film is based on a true story and uses extraordinary visual techniques and language to tell the heart-wrenching tale of the fate of thousands of Estonians.

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Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Slo naslov: Bojna sekira 

Država: ZDA, VB

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 132',  Imdb

Žanri: Western, Grozljivka   

Slo recenzija: Filmoljub, Mladina

Režija: S. Craig Zahler

Scenarij: S. Craig Zahler

Igrajo: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons, David Arquette

SLO

[Zgodba]

Ko ljudožersko pleme ugrabi prebivalce mesteca Bright Hope na Divjem zahodu, se nenavadna skupina revolverašev pod vodstvom šerifa Franklina Hunta poda v reševalno akcijo. Toda sovražnik je bolj surov in mogočen, kot so si možje sprva predstavljali. Kurt Russell vodi zvezdniško misijo (Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox in sijajni Richard Jenkins) v smrtno nevarnost, jetništvo in nekaj precej humornih zapletov.

[O avtorju]

S. Craig Zahler, pisatelj, glasbenik in direktor fotografije, z režijskim prvencem brez truda pokaže, da imamo opraviti z inteligentnim, duhovitim scenaristom in do kraja suverenim režiserjem. Toda še več, Bojna sekira je absolutni unikat: križanec žilavega vesterna in kanibalske grozljivke, ki jemlje svoja žanra smrtno resno ter zamenja parodiranje in samoironijo sodobnih vestern komedij s pristnim in nepričakovanim duhom optimizma (Bright Hope …), humorja in človekoljubnosti. In Kurt Russell se že dogo ni počutil tako doma kot v Bojni sekiri. To ni repriza Wyatta Earpa, to je vrnitev h Carpenterju. Snake Plissken is alive and well. (Via kinodvor.org)

[Iz prve roke]

»Nikoli še nisem posnel kakšnega teh čisto neodvisnih filmov. Ko sem prebral, da bo zagotovo postal kultna klasika, sem se pošteno nasmejal. Zdaj to za filme, v katerih igram, rečejo že vnaprej! Med vrsticami to pomeni, da filma ne bodo uspešno promovirali, da ga ne bo nihče razumel, da kritiki ne bodo vedeli, v katero kategorijo naj ga vtaknejo, in bo po desetih minutah potonil v pozabo. Posnel sem precej filmov, ki spadajo v to kategorijo. Posneli smo jih, bili so napačno razumljeni ali preprosto tako drugačni, da niso ustrezali normativom. Sem spadajo Escape From New York, Big Trouble in Little China, Used Cars, pa tudi Overboard in Tombstone. Vsaj deset sem jih posnel! In s tem ni nič narobe. Mislim, da bo tudi Tarantinov Death Proof padel v to kategorijo. K meni prihajajo ljudje, ki niso filma nikoli videli, ker preprosto niso slišali zanj. Mislim, da se bo nekaj takega pripetilo tudi Bojni sekiri. Veliko ljudi ne bo niti slišalo za ta film. Prišel bo in odšel. Toda popolnoma sem prepričan, da bodo ljudje čez petnajst let pristopili k meni in rekli: 'Veš, kaj sem pravkar videl? Bojno sekiro! Bilo je fantastično, človek! Kaj za vraga je ta film?' … Stvor je prišel ven isto leto kot E.T., ampak mi smo imeli vesoljca, ki ga večina publike ni mogla gledati! To je bila zgodba o paranoji, ki jo je z izjemno veščino posnel mojster. Ampak takrat je bil edini odziv 'Kaj za vraga pa je to? Kako sploh rečete temu žanru?' Danes velja film za absolutno klasiko. Spada med grozljivke najvišjega ranga. … Velik del življenja sem gravitiral k tem filmom in Bojna sekira je eden izmed njih.«  - Kurt Russell 

ENG

[Story]

When a group of cannibal savages kidnaps settlers from the small town of Bright Hope, an unlikely team of gunslingers, led by Sheriff Franklin Hunt, sets out to bring them home. But their enemy is more ruthless than anyone could have imagined, putting their mission - and survival itself - in serious jeopardy. This is a gritty action-packed thriller chronicling a terrifying rescue mission in the Old West.

[RT Critics Consensus] 

Bone Tomahawk's peculiar genre blend won't be for everyone, but its gripping performances and a slow-burning story should satisfy those in search of something different.

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Hyakuen no koi [100 Yen Love] (2014)

Drugi naslovi: 100 Yen Love

Slo naslov: - 

Država: Japonska

Leto: 2014

Dolžina: 113',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, Komedija

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Masaharu Take

Scenarij: Shin Adachi

Igrajo: Sakura Andô, Hirofumi Arai, Miyoko Inagawa, Shinichiro Matsuura, Saori Koide

[ENG]

Story

32-year-old Ichiko (Sakura Ando) lives at home with her parents, passing the days in self-indulgent grunginess. Ichiko's recently divorced younger sister Fumiko has moved back home with her young son. One day, after a particularly heated argument, Ichiko charges out of the house for good. With few employment options to support herself, Ichiko works the night shift at a 100 yen shop (dollar store). On her way home each day she passes a boxing gym where she watches Yuji Kano (Hirofumi Arai) silently practice, developing a crush on him. The pair starts seeing each other and things change for Ichiko... At last, the bell rings and longtime loser Ichiko's rematch with life begins!

Film Festivals

2014, Tokyo International Film Festival
2015, Udine Far East Film Festival
2015, Nippon Connection 
2015, JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema 
2015, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival 

Awards

2016, Japan Academy Prize 

• Screenplay of the Year (Shin Adachi)
• Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Sakura Ando)
• Official submission from Japan for the "Best Foreign Language Film" Oscar for the 88th Academy Awards.

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He Never Died (2015)

Slo naslov: -  

Država: ZDA, Kanada

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 99' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Komedija, Drama, Triler  

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Jason Krawczyk

Scenarij: Jason Krawczyk 

Igrajo: Henry Rollins, Booboo Stewart, Kate Greenhouse, Steven Ogg, Jordan Todosey

[ENG]

Jack's in a rut. Depression and severe anti-social behavior has whittled down his existence to sleeping and watching television. Seeing the human race as little more than meat with a pulse, Jack has no interest to bond with anyone. There's little purpose for him to make friends with someone he'd eventually eat or outlive by more than a millennia. The fuse is lit when Jack's past comes back to rattle him. Jack must now walk a tight rope of sobriety and try to eat as few people as possible in this violent tale of personal responsibility.

While He Never Died is hardly a comedy -- it's bloody and reflective, with a gloomy side that sometimes threatens to sink it -- these wry moments are central to its appeal. (John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter)

"He Never Died" isn't as fleshed out as it could be, but what the film lacks in vivid supporting characters and rich plotting it gets back from Rollins, whose innate charisma carries the film. (Noel Murray,Los Angeles Times)

Trivia

In October 2014 it was announced that 108 Media were shopping the rights for a miniseries version of He Never Died, which would further expand the film's story and history of the central character Jack. Director Krawczyk is set to return as the director for the miniseries and Rollins is attached to return to portray his character Jack.

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How to Save Us (2015)

Slo naslov: -

Država: ZDA, Avstralija

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 78',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, Grozljivka, ZF

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Jason Trost

Scenarij: Jason Trost

Igrajo: Jason Trost, Tallay Wickham, Coy Jandreau

[ENG]

Story

Brian's younger brother Sam goes missing in Tasmania during the middle of a mysterious quarantine. Brian must travel to the deserted island to save his brother from a land now solely inhabited by demonic spirits. In order to survive, he must follow a set of rules: including covering himself with human ashes, to cloak his presence from the malevolent entities haunting the barren landscape. But will this buy enough time for Brian to find his brother, or will they both be stuck in a hellish realm of the dead forever?

*********************

...Writer-director-actor Jason Trost’s “How to Save Us” is a clever mash-up of the zombie apocalypse thriller and ghost story genres. But this lean indie picture runs out of surprises early and never overcomes flat, uninvolving acting, primarily by the eyepatch-wearing filmmaking in a tour-de-dull performance....


...“How to Save Us” has enough novelty in it that you could see Trost selling the script, or at least a pitch for the script, to a studio. Making his own movie about it wasn’t a bad idea, either. But starring in it was.... (via Movie Nation)

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Klovn Forever (2015)

Slo naslov: -

Dolžina: 99',  Imdb

Slo naslov: - 
Država: Danska
Leto: 2015
Dolžina: 99, Imdb
Žanri: Komedija, Drama  
Slo recenzija: -
Režija: Mikkel Nørgaard
Scenarij: Casper Christensen, Frank Hvam
Igrajo: Casper Christensen, Frank Hvam, Mia Lyhne, Simone Colling, Lars Hjortshøj

[ENG] 

Tragedy is easy. Comedy is hard. And making a comedy sequel is impossible

Just when one might think that Klown Forever won't possibly "go there," it smashes through the "forbidden" sign with great glee. When, for example, Frank rents a car at the airport and is told by the agent, 'As long as you don't go to South Central, you'll be fine,' we know that Frank and Casper will be heading to South Central, leading to an outrageous episode involving two women that skirts an offensive line before becoming little more than a silly excuse for more sexual humor.

That was one of the great joys of the first movie, and it remains true for the sequel. In practical terms, everyone who saw the first movie has lost their virginity, and there is no replicating that hugely comic experience. Yet Hvam and Christensen, who improvise the dialogue based on a detailed storyline, and director Mikkel Nørgaard, who guides them and helps shape their performances through visually-distinctive settings, take a bit more time to meditate on the nature of friendship and the lasting value of relationships between men who are not necessarily sexually attracted to one another.

Friendship can be a funny thing, and Klown Forever makes the most of that platitude, producing a very, very funny movie with a good bit of genuine heart. (Via Twich)

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Umimachi Diary [Our Little Sister] (2015)

Drugi naslovi: Our Little Sister

Slo naslov: Sestrica 

Država: Japonska

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 128' ,  Imdb

Žanri: Drama   

Slo recenzija: Mladina

Režija: Hirokazu Koreeda

Scenarij: Hirokazu Koreeda, Akimi Yoshida (manga) 

Igrajo: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose, Kirin Kiki, Shinobu Otake, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ryo Kase

[SLO]

Via Kinodvor

Tri sestre – Sachi, Yoshino in Chika – živijo v veliki, udobni hiši v čudovitem obmorskem mestecu Kamakura. Ko izvejo, da jim je umrl oče, ki jih je pred petnajstimi leti zapustil zaradi druge ženske, odpotujejo na podeželje na njegov pogreb. Tam spoznajo svojo polsestro Suzu. Zadržana najstnica se sestram takoj prikupi, in ker ocenijo, da njena trenutna skrbnica ni dorasla svoji nalogi, Suzu povabijo, naj živi z njimi. Medtem ko se Kamakura oblači zdaj v žareče jesensko listje zdaj v mehkobo cvetočih češenj, hiša pa se polni enkrat z vonjem svežih sardel in drugič z aromo domačega slivovega vina, poskušajo štiri sestre med vsakdanjimi opravili in sezonskimi običaji, ki prebujajo čute in spomine, zakrpati vrzeli svoje ranjene družine.

Hirokazu Koreeda, mojster sodobne japonske družinske drame (Želim si, Kakršen oče, takšen sin), se vrača s subtilno, tenkočutno, v slikovito okolje starodavne Kamakure postavljeno zgodbo o štirih sestrah, ki se preko drobnih radosti in družinskih ritualov zlagoma povezujejo v družinsko celico.

Iz prve roke

»Seveda, glavne junakinje filma so štiri sestre in lahko bi tudi rekli, da film govori o tem, kako najmlajša sestra Suzu učvrsti svojo identiteto, najstarejša Sachi pa naposled sprejme svoje starše. A sam mislim, da se film še bolj kot na to osredotoča na mesto in na čas, ki se zgošča v njem. Prav tako kot morsko obalo obliva plima, ostaja mesto, kljub stalnim prihodom in odhodom njegovih prebivalcev, v svojem bistvu nespremenjeno /.../. Nekega dne v prihodnosti, ko bodo vsi liki iz zgodbe že pokojni, bodo v mesto prišli drugi ljudje in tu preživeli del svojih življenj. Človeško življenje se zdi neznatno kot zrno peska na plaži. /.../ Ne zanima me samo lepota pokrajine v Kamakuri – ali štirih sester –, ampak tudi sprejemajoč odnos tega obmorskega mesteca, ki vsrka in prevzema vse. /.../ Ljudje smo le /.../ del neke celote, mesto in njegov čas pa bosta ostala tudi, ko nas več ne bo. S tega zornega kota sem režiral Sestrico. /…/ Ta film govori tudi o očetu sester, o Suzujini mami, babici, ljudeh, ki jih ni več z njimi. Priklicati spomin nanje brez pomoči flashbackov, pač pa skozi vedenje likov, skozi dialog (in reči, kot je obloženi kruhek s sardelicami), poleg tega pa prikazati, kako na sestre vplivajo čustva, ki jih gojijo do teh ljudi – to ni bila lahka naloga.« 

- Hirokazu Koreeda

[ENG]

Via Liffe

A delicate life story replete with childlike joy, Kore-eda's latest film is based on the eponymous manga bestseller. 

Three sisters, Sachi, Yoshino and Chika, live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father - absent from the family home for the last 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings.

"What interests me greatly is not only the beauty of the scenery of Kamakura - or of the four sisters - but also the accepting attitude of this seaside town itself, absorbing and embracing everything. It is the beauty that arises from the realisation - not sorrowful but open-hearted - that we are just grains of sand forming a part of the whole, and that the town, and the time there, continue even when we are gone." (Hirokazu Kore-eda) 

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Welcome to Leith (2015)

Slo naslov: Dobrodošli v Leithu 

Država: ZDA

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 86',  Imdb

Žanri: Dokumentarni, Triler    

Slo recenzija: Delo, Mladina

Režija: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker

Scenarij: Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker

Igrajo: Craig Cobb, Ryan Schlock

[SLO]

Via  FDF.si

Leith, mestece s 24 prebivalci v Severni Dakoti, je bilo mirna, tesno stkana družinska skupnost ..., dokler se tja ni preselil Craig Cobb, postaran, na videz rahlo ekscentričen nemarnež, za katerega se je postopoma izkazalo, da je eden najbolj poznanih ameriških neonacistov. Cobbovi naklepi so bili hitro jasni: z nakupom poceni zemljišč v Leithu in s priseljevanjem somišljenikov je nameraval podeželsko idilo spremeniti v središče belega suprematizma, še več, dobiti je želel večino v mestnem svetu in prevzeti oblast! Lokalna skupnost iz sosednjih mest se je organizirala in začela protestirati, toda Cobb in vse številčnejši oboroženi črnosrajčniki v Lethu so bili zaščiteni z ustavo in prvim amandmajem. Kar ni preprečilo vse večjih trenj med prišleki in domačini, ki so se nenadoma znašli v nočni mori … 

"Film je navsezadnje kavbojski spoprijem, ki zastavlja vprašanje, kako se izolirana skupnost odzove na z zakonom zaščiteno različico ekstremizma. Mislim, da je veliko ljudi v mestecu težko sprejelo zamisel, da ima Cobb zakonske pravice, težko je bilo njegova prepričanja razmejiti od resničnih dogodkov v mestecu. […] Nismo želeli posneti filma, ki ne bi obravnaval obeh strani, vseh stališč. Zelo preprosto bi bilo prikazati le zgodbo prebivalcev Leitha, vendar nas to ni zanimalo. Želeli smo povedati tudi Cobbovo zgodbo in predstaviti njegove namere. Saj v tem je bilo bistvo." (Michael Beach Nichols) 

[ENG]

Leith, North Dakota, is a ghost town with 24 residents. Its inhabitants are mostly farmers or ranchers, working land passed down from generation to generation. In 2012, an outsider named Craig Cobb moved in and started buying up property. It turns out he was a notorious white supremacist plotting a takeover of the city government in Leith.

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Krigen [A War] (2015)

Drugi naslovi: A War

Slo naslov: - 

Država: Danska

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 115',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, Vojni   

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Tobias Lindholm

Scenarij: Tobias Lindholm 

Igrajo: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Dar Salim, Søren Malling, Charlotte Munck

[ENG]

Story

Company commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus' wife Maria (Tuva Novotny) is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him - and his family back home. Nordisk Film Production A/S

It’s a line often spoken in war-at-home dramas, as returning soldiers struggle to relate to unscarred civilians: “You can’t imagine what it’s like out there.” These words surface once more in “A War,” though the audience may not feel the need for them in Tobias Lindholm’s rigorous, engrossing anatomy of a suspected war crime: In its nerve-shattering first half, it conveys the on-the-ground maelstrom of combat as vividly as any film on the subject. Retaining the matter-of-fact structural simplicity and procedural meticulousness of Lindholm’s superb ship-capture thriller “A Hijacking,” “A War” doesn’t seek to break new ground in the ongoing cinematic investigation of the Afghanistan conflict; rather, it scrutinizes the ground on which it stands with consummate sensitivity and detail. Arthouse sales should be brisk, particularly with leading man Pilou Asbaek’s profile set to soar on the “Game of Thrones” battlefield. (Guy Lodge, Variety)

RT Critics Consensus

Tense, intelligent, and refreshingly low-key, A War is part frontline thriller, part courtroom drama -- and eminently effective in both regards.

Festivals, Awards

• 2016, Oscar - Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
• 2015, Venice Film Festival 
• 2015, Zurich Film Festival 

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Iya monogatari: Oku no hito [The Tale of Iya] (2013)

Drugi naslovi: The Tale of Iya

Slo naslov: - 

Država: Japonska

Leto: 2013

Dolžina: 169',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama   

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Tetsuichiro Tsuta

Scenarij: Tetsuichiro Tsuta, Masayuki Ueda

Igrajo: Rina Takeda, Shima Ohnishi, Min Tanaka, Hitoshi Murakami, Sachi Ishimaru

[ENG]

Story

It was summer when a stranger from Tokyo arrived at “Iya”, where the riches of nature still abound. This young man, named Kudo, was willing to live his new, self-sufficient life. He was exhausted by city life, and believed this beautiful land would give him some rest. On the contrary, the reality was not as easy as he thought. There was a confliction between a local construction company and a group of nature conservationists. Farmers are trying to save their harvests from harmful animals such as deer and monkeys. People are fighting for their own purposes: to get their job, to save the environment, or to survive.

One day, Kudo met Grandpa and a girl Haruna lives in the heart of the mountains. It was far away from any human habitations. No electricity, no gas, there was nothing but the nature. Their modest and humble life went by slow, and seemed eternal as if time stops.

Every morning, Grandpa climbs up the mountain to go to the little shrine to offer Omiki (sake) to the mountain god. Haruna goes to high school an hour away from home, and after that, helps Grandpa to plow his field. Feeling his heart gradually gets healed, Kudo thought that he finally found what he was looking for in their calm life. Soon Kudo started trying to transform a piece of wasteland into his own field.

Winter came. Snowstorm rages and wild beasts waste the fields even worse. Although Kudo has become used to the life in Iya, nature was harsh and he was too weak. Kudo despaired of himself, realized he would not be able to live without modern conveniences that he used to have in Tokyo.

On the other hand, a group of nature conservationists made their protest much stronger. “Save Iya! Save Iya!” Their voice echoed through the hills. But they too realized their movement was unsuccessful in the end.

Grandpa starts loosing his health, but he never stops climbing mountains whatever Haruna says. Haruna’s mind was clouded with anxiety that her life with Grandpa would no longer continue. And suddenly, without saying anything, Grandpa disappeared and never came back.

It was hard for Haruna to understand the loss of Grandpa but she also knew it was time to leave her home and live her own life. She decided to move to Tokyo to continue to college, and there she started working on an invention to get back her life in Iya with Grandpa.

7 years later, in Tokyo, Haruna received a letter from her childhood friend from Iya saying that she wants Haruna to see her baby. Haruna hardly remember about Iya and even about Grandpa. The only thing connected Haruna and Iya was her invention she was working on but it ended up in failure and disappointment. But somehow, this letter led her mind to Iya again.

Soon after, she was on the bus driving through the mountains of Iya. And what she saw there was Kudo looks just like Grandpa.

Festivals

2014, Tokyo International Film Festival (Special Mention) 
2014, Tromsø International Film Festival (Aurora Prize)
2014, Glasgow Film Festival
2014, Nippon Connection Film Festival　
2014, The 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival (Jury Prize)

Ocena

Jauja (2015)

Slo naslov: Jauja: Raj na zemlji

Država: Argentina, Danska, Francija

Leto: 2014

Dolžina: 109',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama, Vestern

Slo recenzija: Mladina

Scenarij: Lisandro Alonso, Fabian Casas

Režija: Lisandro Alonso

Igrajo: Viggo Mortensen, Ghita Nørby, Viilbjørk Malling Agger, Esteban Bigliardi 

[SLO]

Zgodba

Stari modreci so pripovedovali, da je Jauja mitološka dežela, kjer se cedita med in mleko. Številne ekspedicije so jo poskušale najti, da bi preverile resnico. Legenda je sčasoma nesorazmerno rasla. Ljudje so nedvomno pretiravali, kot to radi počnejo. Zagotovo vemo le eno: vsi, ki so ta raj na zemlji poskušali najti, so se na poti izgubili.

Odročna vojaška postojanka v Patagoniji leta 1882, med tako imenovanim 'osvajanjem puščave', brutalno bojno operacijo, katere cilj je bil iztrebiti prvotno prebivalstvo. Poveljnik Gunnar Dinesen z ljubljeno petnajstletno hčerko pripotuje iz Danske, da bi pri argentinski vojski prevzel delo inženirja. Kot edina ženska daleč naokoli Ingeborg med moškimi povzroči precejšnje vznemirjenje. Zaljubi se v mladega vojaka in neke noči z njim zbeži v divjino. Ko se Dinesen zbudi in ugotovi, kaj se je zgodilo, se po hčerinih sledeh odpravi globoko na sovražnikovo ozemlje v upanju, da jo bo našel, preden jo ujame zloglasni Zuluaga.

Iz prve roke

»Pred nekaj leti sem prejel e-mail, v katerem je pisalo, da je bila moja tesna prijateljica umorjena daleč stran od svoje domovine. Rada je pisala in govorila o filmih, včasih celo malo preveč. Kakorkoli že, dogodek me je zelo pretresel in začela je nastajati ta zgodba. Upoštevajoč njen nasvet sem tokrat več prostora namenil besedam, pa tudi lastnim željam. Morda se sliši čudno, ampak čutim, da je ta film našel pot do mene in prevzel svojo nestvarno obliko zato, da bi mi pomagal razumeti svet in čas, v katerem živimo, kako izginemo, da bi se nerazložljivo vrnili na skrajno skrivnostne načine.«

- Lisandro Alonso, režiser in soscenarist

»Lisandro neprestano teži k destilaciji, pri tem pa blago, a trmasto vztraja pri inherentni, bistveni resnici vsakega trenutka. A ena stvar je skušati doseči tovrstno 'čisto' estetiko, druga pa narediti to z eleganco in izvirnostjo. Ni veliko režiserjev, ki nas lahko resnično ganejo s prefinjeno in nezgrešljivo avtentičnostjo svoje pripovedi.«

- Viggo Mortensen, igralec in soproducent

Portret avtorja

Rojen leta 1975 v Buenos Airesu. Odraščal je med mestom in podeželjem, na farmi svojih staršev, kamor se je kasneje pogosto vračal tudi med šolanjem v prestolnici. Tri leta je študiral film na tamkajšnji Universidad del Cine, nato pa začel delati kot mojster zvoka in pomočnik režije pri filmih svojih prijateljev: med drugim je sodeloval z argentinskim 'novovalovcem' Nicolasom Sarquisom ter s producentom in režiserjem Pablom Traperom. Slednji je kasneje soproduciral Alonsov prvenecSvoboda (La libertad, 2001), ki je bil premierno prikazan na festivalu v Cannesu in ga je dunajski Filmski muzej kasnejeuvrstil med sto najpomembnejših del filmske zgodovine. V Cannesu so premiero doživeli tudi režiserjevi naslednji celovečerci: Mrtvi (Los muertos, 2004), Fantasma (2006) in Liverpool (2008). Alonso slovi kot ustvarjalec drznih minimalističnih del, ki brišejo ločnice med igranim in dokumentarnim filmom ter postavljajo pod vprašaj bistvo realnosti, meje fikcije ter definicijo 'filma' samega. (Via Kinodvor)

[ENG]

A remote military outpost in Patagonia, 1882, during the so-called "Conquest of the Desert", a genocidal campaign against the aboriginal population of the region. Acts of savagery abound on all sides. Captain Gunnar Dinesen has come from Denmark with his fifteen year-old daughter to take an engineering job with the Argentine army. Being the only female in the area, Ingeborg creates quite a stir among the men. She falls in love with a young soldier, and one night they run away together. When he wakes up the Captain realises what has happened and decides to venture into enemy territory to find the young couple. Jauja is the story of a man's desperate search for his daughter, a solitary quest that takes us to a place beyond time, where the past vanishes and the future has no meaning.(C) Cinema Guild

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