Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (ENFF) presents a selection of recent and high quality films from East and Southeast Europe; countries with relatively small, but powerful film industries. The festival focuses on productions which would often otherwise not be screened in theaters in the Netherlands. The carefully compiled program provides insight into the reality of the cultural, political and socio-economic conditions in the region, and the development of its local younger and older talents. The program includes feature films, documentaries, short films and animations. It connects different genres and themes; from current developments in cinema, to historical specialties; from experimental documentaries to art house films. The festival as well engages current debates and questions regarding film aesthetics, ethics, social issues, film theory and artistic forms.
The ENFF annually takes place in November in Filmhuis, The Hague, and goes On Tour in Amsterdam (Rialto, de Balie), Rotterdam (Kino) and Utrecht (‘t Hoogt).
ENFF ON TOUR in UTRECHT 2018:
23 January 2019, BAK Utrecht, 19.30 hours
Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
a film by Marta Popivoda
2013, 62 min, Serbia / France / Germany
Q&A with director Marta Popivoda and dramaturge Ana Vujanović
Yugoslavia, How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body is a research-based essay film that deals with the question of how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90s, 5th October revolution, etc.). Going back through the images, the film traces how communist ideology was gradually exhausted through the changing relations between the people, ideology, and the state.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/155110078
www.bakonline.org
28 October 2018, Film Theatre ‘ Hoogt
Program:
Avec l’ amour, with Q&A with the director
director: Ilija Cvetkovski
2017, 66 min, Macedonia
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/154713719
Invisible (short film, additional program)
director: Amra Mehic
2016, 6 min, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Hungary
My Aunt In Sarajevo, with Q&A with the actor Izudin Bajrovic
director: Goran Kapetanović
2016, 60 min, Sweden / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/151441226
Posoki, with Q&A with the scriptwriter Simeon Ventsislavov
director: Stefan Komandarev
2017, 103 min, Bulgaria
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0YO6uhjhlk
Eastern Neighbours Film Festival Education Program:
Titita
director: Tamás Almási
2015, 85 min, Hungary
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?puvc-xlqxtM
Titita is awarded with Special Jury Prize at Sarajevo Film Festival in 2015.
ENFF 2018: 7 – 11 November 2018 Filmhuis Den Haag Netherlands
www.enff.nl
ENFF ON TOUR in Utrecht 2018 is supported by:
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