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FILMS IN OCTOBER, 2003
 
     
  6th October
 
   
  7.00 PM
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“Everything’s fine, we are leaving” (French) (2002, 95 mins) ENG. SUBTITLES)  
     
Dir: Claude Mourieras
Synopsis: Three young women live in Lyon, in a spirit of shared happiness. Their father returns after an absence of fifteen years and life changes for them completely.
 
         
  7th October      
  7.00 PM
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“9/11 The Last Fall”  
     
Dir: Abhishek Sharma.
Synopsis: Five friends are celebrating the departure of one of them to the U.S. when the World Trade Centre Towers tragedy happens. As the tragedy unfolds on television, the characters play out their own changing perceptions and equations, relationships and dreams.
 
         
  9th October      
  7.00 PM
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“Breaking Though” - Courtesy Hallmark Channel  
     
Dir: David Atwood Cast: Daina Keaton, Michael Seater, Colin Roberts
Synopsis: A suspenseful, provocative tale of a single mother who makes a desperate choice to provide for her family.
 
         
   
  DANISH FILM FESTIVAL
 
         
  21st October      
  7:00 PM
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The Celebration (Festen) (1998, 106 mins)  
     
Dir: Thomas Vinterberg

Synopsis: A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleases a family drama with its dark secrets. Won the Special Prize of the Jury at Cannes. The film will be followed by a discussion. Film Maker, Meida Practitioner, Researcher and artist Jeebesh Bagchi will introduce the film and facilitate the discussion after the screening. Attempting to evoke the dramatic breadth of Strindberg and the cinematic panache of Bergman, The Celebration has been produced in accordance with the Dogma manifesto, brilliantly adhering to its edicts.

 
         
  2nd October      
  7:00 PM
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‘Italian for Beginners’ (2000, 112 mins)  
     
Dir: Lone Scherfig
Synopsis: A young minister takes up his duties in a local church. He joins an Italian night school where he encounters a group of people who have been victims of fate. Gradually the young minister manages to change their lives.
 
   
 
   
  23rd October      
  7:00 PM
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‘Mifune’ (1999, 98 mins)  
     
Dir: Soren Kragh - Jacobsen

Synopsis: Kresten is on the threshold of s a successful career when tragedy takesh him back to his childhood home in the country. The drama depicts the nimating encounter between Kresten and a group of totally opposite characters on his dilapidated farm. Won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

 
         
  24th October .    
  7:00 PM
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‘Kira’s Reason  (2001, 92 mins)  
     
Dir: Ole Christian Madsen

Kira and Mads have two children and enjoy a happy life until Kira suffers an emotional trauma and spends some time in a psychiatric ward. On her return she is unable to cope with the demands placed on her as a mother and wife, consequently breaking rules of conduct and creating scandals.

 
         
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