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12. Silent Film Festival
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12. SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
Meeting of cultures
December, 2 - 5 2010
Silent film lives! This year's festival comes under the banner of a "Meeting of Cultures" and will present films from varied cultural regions. It will seek to look deeper into the stories in which diverse traditions meet and collide with one another.
We will present films with Jewish, Japanese and Arabic themes; there will be images from the life and times of the tribes of Inuits, Mongolians and Persian Bakhtiari. We’ll show the meeting of cultures and customs.
As with every year, we have invited accomplished instrumentalists from Poland and abroad to offer their musical interpretations of the films. From energetic jazz, avant-hip hop, electronic experiments, piano music, and eclectic avant-garde to Indian-flamenco fusion.
PROGRAMME:
Thursday, December 2
MANGGHA CENTRE OF JAPANESE ART AND TECHNOLOGY
20.00 EROTIKON | EROTICON | EROTIKON
dir. Gustav Machatỳ, Czechoslovakia 1929, 85’
One of the best Czech silent films - controversial (for those times), subtly and poetically builds an erotic climate. The daughter of a railroad guard, taken by a chance traveller, escapes from home. Cast of international actors.
// live music: FORMA (CZ)
Friday, December 3
KINO POD BARANAMI
17.00 GRA W KOŚCI | A THROW OF DICE | PRAPANCHA PASH
dir. Franz Osten, Great Britain/India/German 1929, 74’
One of the few surviving Indian silent films. Based on part of Mahabharata - a story of the fate of lovers determined by a game of dice. Made with vigor - and the involvement of thousands of extras and exotic animals.
// live music: Indialucia (PL)
19.00 GOLEM | DER GOLEM, WIE ER IN DIE WELT KAM
dir. Paul Wegener, Germany 1920, 85’
Expressionist horror, full of magic. In the protest against the banishment of the Jews by the emperor, Rabbi Loewe brings to live Golem, a soulless humanoid. Golem starts to gain his own live.
// live music: Dawid Szczęsny (PL)
21.30 NANUK Z PÓŁNOCY | NANOOK OF THE NORTH
dir. Robert Flaherty, USA/France 1922, 79’
The first full-length documentary film. The dramatic daily struggle of the Eskimos for survival.
// live music: The Band of Endless Noise (PL)
Saturday, December 4
KINO POD BARANAMI
17.00 SZLAKIEM HAŃBY | TRAIL OF DISGRACE | SZLAKIEM HAŃBY
dir. Mieczysław Krawicz, Poland 1929, 100’
Crime melodrama. Poor girl from a Polish village ends up in a brothel in Brasil.
// live music: Konarski & Berny (PL)
19.15 BURZA NAD AZJĄ | STORM OVER ASIA | POTOMOK CZINGIS CHANA
dir. Wsiewołod Pudowkin, USSR 1928, 90’
Mongolia during the 1920s. The protagonist finds an amulet, which was lost by a Buddhist lama. It states that the owner is an ancestor of Genghis Khan.
// live music: Kwartet: Zimpel (PL)/Kugel (DE)/Tokar (UA)/Kusiołek (PL)
After the screening - festival bus will leave to Manggha from the bus stop:
“Teatr Bagatela” (Podwale Str, next to Planty, direction Dworzec Główny)
MANGGHA CENTRE OF JAPANESE ART AND TECHNOLOGY
21.30 PICCADILLY | PICCADILLY
dir. Ewald André Dupont, Great Britain 1929, 92’
A precursor to film noir. A Chinese waitress in a Piccadilly night club shows an amazing talent for dance, which makes the club's former star jealous...
// live music: Contemporary Noise Sextet (PL)
Sunday, December 5
KINO POD BARANAMI
15.00 OSTATNI MOHIKANIN | THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
dir. Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur, USA 1920, 45’
It's the 18th century during the British-French war in the British colonies in North America, on the lands of the native peoples. The daughter of the fort's leader is in love with a Mohican.
// live music: Lesław Lic (PL)
17.00 SZEJK | THE SHEIK
dir. George Melford, USA 1921, 86’
During her travels through the Sahara a beautiful English woman is abducted by sheik Ahmed. One of the most famous creations of Rudolph Valentino - "The Great Latin Lover".
// live music: NaPszykłat (PL)
19.00 TRAWA | GRASS: A NATION’S BATTLE FOR LIFE
dir. Merian C. Cooper i Ernest B. Schoedsack, USA 1925, 71‘
Documentation of a dramatic journey of the Bakhtiari tribes through the desert and the mountainous Zard Kuh (located in contemporary Iran) in order to find new pastures.
// live music: Stealpot Live On Beats (PL)
After the screening - festival bus will leave to Manggha from the bus stop:
“Teatr Bagatela” (Podwale Str, next to Planty, direction Dworzec Główny)
MANGGHA CENTRE OF JAPANESE ART AND TECHNOLOGY
21.00 MALARZ SMOKÓW | THE DRAGON PAINTER
dir. William Worthington, USA 1919, 53’
An artist, who has been labeled as crazy by the other inhabitants of his Japanese village, believes that his fiance was kidnapped and turned into a dragon. Inspired, he paints images of dragons...
// live music: Nils Frahm (DE) & Dustin O'Halloran (USA)
- 12th SFF Programme: Thursday, December 2
- 12th SFF Programme: Friday, December 3
- 12th SFF Programme: Saturday, December 4
-12th SFF Programme: Sunday, December 5
Click HERE for detailed programme!
All films with English and Polish subtitles.
TICKETS:
- screenings in Manggha:
30 zł | 25 zł
- screenings in KPB:
22 zł | 18 zł
Entry pass (11 screenings): 132 zł
on sale in KPB and before the screenings in Manggha
Kino Pod Baranami, Rynek Główny 27, Kraków, (12) 423 07 68
Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, ul. M. Konopnickiej 26, Kraków
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