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COMPLICATED FREEDOMS at the 11th EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL in SOUTH AFRICA

Film-lovers can look forward to an entertaining and provocative array of new award-winning films from Europe as the European Film Festival returns for its 11th edition in South Africa from 10-20 October.  Women challenging patriarchy and convention; relationships and independence; humour, satire and surrealism; coming-of-age stories; dysfunctional families; grumpy old men; restless youth; the pursuit of dreams; a realistic rom-com; and a riotous hip-hop biopic - all this and more.

Presenting films from 14 countries, and including two Oscar nominations, the festival is a showcase of high-quality cinema from the film industries in the respective participating countries of Belgium, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

“The films all speak to the topic of Freedom in one or the another, from the personal to the political, and often both,” says Magdalene Reddy, co-director of the festival.  “Whether it is a developmental journey, a process of unfolding, an illumination, or a result of political changes in the world around us, Freedom comes at times of its own choosing, and one doesn't always know what it looks like until you get there.  The films this year offer a multi-faceted and evocative glimpse of what freedom means to a wide-ranging cast of characters and in an equally diverse range of situations – Complicated Freedoms!”

Sandra Kramer, EU Ambassador to South Africa, comments:  “We are delighted to bring to you the 11th edition of the European Film Festival in South Africa with a carefully curated selection of films from several EU Member States as well as from Georgia, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. This year, we celebrate the transformative power of cinema in exploring the topic of freedom through the lens of talented filmmakers from across the world. Let’s gather to appreciate these stories that remind us of the responsibility to protect and promote the freedoms that unite us all.”

Cinema screenings take place in Johannesburg at Sterkinekor’s The Zone in Rosebank, and in Cape Town at The Labia.  Eleven of the films will be available in the free programme of online streaming accessible across South Africa during the festival period of 10-20 October.  For more information visit www.eurofilmfest.co.za

3 Days at the 2019 European Union Film Festival of India

Reddit is one of the sites that I frequently visit these days, even more than Letterboxd and Twitter. And it was through the r/Mumbai community there that I came to know about the India edition of the European Union Film Festival (EUFF), a platform that showcases the best European cinema has to offer to the Indian populace and which is organized in several cities across the country every year as…

India is going to host 23rd European Union Film Festival (EUFF) on 18th to 24th June, 2018 at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi. It is organized by Di… Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting partnering with the Delegation of European Union (EU) and embassies of EU Members States in various city film club….

In true cinema style, the European Film Festival’s curtains will be drawn on the 21st of June 2018 as South African film enthusiasts get an opportunity to experience the best in European cinema titles.

Back in South Africa for a 5th year, the festival runs from 22 June to 1 July 2018 at Cinema Nouveau: Rosebank, Brooklyn and V&A Waterfront and will showcase ten films selected from Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom – a collection of diverse worldly stories.

This is the best of European Cinema on the African screen.

After Image 

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Amateurs 

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Big Time

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Find This Dumb Little B*tch And Throw Her In The River  

NOT FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS

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I Am Not A Witch 

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In the Fade

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Le Ciel Flamand

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Let the Sun Shine In

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Mademoiselle Paradis

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Verano

We asked Katarina Hedrén, the European Film Festival director, to select her top picks for 18-35yrs for this year's festival

Spoor (Poland)

The European Film Festival begins this Friday, so if you are in Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria or Johannesburg, get down to your local cinema to catch some of Europes best films.