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Tiger premiere: Sheena667

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This monday the Festival offered the Tiger premiere of Grigory Dobrygin's Sheena667 and other festival treats

A quiet life of a young Russian man turns upside down after he meets a girl from a faraway world that he barely knows.

Russian couple Olya and Vadim have big plans: they want to travel to Germany to buy a second-hand tow truck. For nights on end, Vadim searches the internet for a vehicle best suited to their garage. His only income at present is from the wrecked Ladas which career off a dangerously deceptive road outside the village. This 'Road of Death' symbolises the place where Olya and Vadim live: a Russian no man’s land that never has adequate connections with the rest of the world. The logic of this world goes crazy when Vadim accidentally comes into contact with a WebCam girl from Georgia. To illustrate the confusion that follows: it isn’t clear to Vadim at first whether she is from the country Georgia or the US state, although it doesn’t make much difference to him anyway. He falls madly in love with the young woman whom he has not actually seen yet.

Cut into short, comic chapters with ironic titles, Sheena667 focuses on the increasing alienation of Vadim from his original surroundings. He has his head in the clouds, while real life thunders on around him. In his directing debut, Grigory Dobrygin always portrays Vadim’s doomed romance with a dose of irony and a touch of absurdism. Even though the comedy hides a tragic story below the surface of a man who is completely unprepared for the impersonal, money guzzling effect of globalisation and the associated internet economy.

 

 

 

 

 

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Masterclass Claire Denis

 

16:30-18:00, Hilton Le Jardin: Claire Denis, undoubtedly one of today’s most important film authors, discusses  her characteristic style and her latest feature High Life.

 

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Masterclass Jia Zhangke

 

19:00-20:30, Hilton Le Jardin: Jia Zhangke, chronicler of China’s hyper-industrialisation, talks about his approach and his most recent film Ash Is Purest White.

 

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Big Talk Roberto Minervini

 

14:00-15:30, Hilton Le Jardin: Roberto Minervini, admirer of the 'forgotten' America, discusses his latest film What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? and becoming invisible.

 

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Francesca and Mica Levi:
The Colour of Chips

 

16:30, WORM: Film composer Mica Levi (Jackie, Under the Skin) talks about her particular affinity with the universe of Sergei Parajanov.

 

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Artist Talk Diana Vidrascu

 

12:15-13:45, KINO 4: Romanian (video) artist Diana Vidrascu discusses her work, including the Kafka adaptation Le silence des sirènes which shows in competition.

 

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Artist Talk Andrew Norman Wilson

 

12:00-13:30, KINO 3: Tiger Short Award-nominated filmmaker discusses his work, which often plays with the aesthetics of American business life and technology.

 

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Piet Zwart Symposium:
Towards a Matenadaran of Film

 

10:00-18:00, Hilton Rotterdam: Join an international ensemble of filmmakers and programmers for a day-long exploration of the challenges and opportunities of restoring a Parajanov film.

 

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Panel Artists’ Films in Asia

 

10:00-11:45, Hilton Le Jardin: A thought-provoking panel session offering different perspectives on the histories and current practices of artists’ films in Asia.
In association with SEACRN and CREAM.

 

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Critics' Choice:
The Beast in the Jungle

 

13:30, LantarenVenster 5: A screening of The Beast in the Jungle by Clara van Gool, preceded by a video essay by Mohamed Soliman and followed by a Q&A with
Clara van Gool.

 

 

 

 

 

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Critics' Choice: 
"I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians"

 

16:30, Cinerama 1: "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" by Radu Jude, preceded by a video essay by Chloé Galibert-Laîné and Kevin Lee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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