Filmi i të enjtës – Donnerstagfilms – Thursday Film – Le Film du Jeudi

03 February 2011 – 7 p.m. / 03 Shkurt 2011 – ora 19:00 – Free Entrance / Hyrja e lirë

‘Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari‘ by Robert Wiene

52 min – 1920 – Germany – Horror - Silent with english titles

with Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher…

At a fairground a Dr Caligari has a somnambulist, Cesare who can predict the future. When a young man visits him and asks how long he will live the answer i until Dawn. The prophecy comes to pass and Cesare is the prime suspect. Cesare next kidnaps the young mans girlfriend but while escaping is chased by the townfolks. Caligari is another fine example of early German Cinema combining effectively sets, lighting, shadows and moody camerawork.

SPANISH FRIDAY – E PREMTJA SPANJOLLE
With the support of the Embassy of Spain in Albania:
Screening on Friday 28 January 2011 – 7 p.m. – Free Entrance

“La Madre Muerta” (The Dead Mother) by Juanma Bajo Ulloa

106 min – 1993 – Drama – Spain – (Spanish language with English subtitles)

with Karra Elejalda, Ana Alvarez, Lio, Silvio Marso..

The murderer Ismael shoots the owner of the house at a burglary. Her young daughter becomes a witness to the murder and the girl’s gaze is imprinted on Ismael’s memory. Several years later he rediscovers the same expression on the face of a teenage girl. Ismael is attracted by her and her gaze, but the fear of recognition torments him and his relationship with his girlfriend Maite becomes increasingly violent. The only solution appears to be to get rid of the witness.
In Juanma Bajo Ulloa’s movie no one is unmistakably good or evil. He presents the characters and their actions without passing judgement. A murderer who wants the love of his victim at any cost. This beautiful and brutal story is full of irony and comedy. The killer who dresses up as a clown to make his victim laugh. But the psychologically disturbed girl is unable to speak as well as laugh. Their only connection is the frequently recurring chocolate bars. ”To speak is not important”, says one of the main characters. The dialogue in The Dead Mother is virtually non-existent. Instead the suggestive imagery moves the action forward. The camera doesn’t rest for a moment. Discreet, almost insidious – and sometimes insistently clear, it captures the brilliantly composed sequences, accompanied by Bingen Mendizabal’s suggestive music. As in Juanma Bajo Ulloa’s debut feature Butterfly Wings, the film describes a separate, timeless world, with its own inner logic. The sun never shines on the desolate, cold winter landscape. The naked trees and the shades of gray contribute to a striking minimalism. Throughout the film a claustrophobic atmosphere prevails, a sense of inevitability. However, Bajo Ulloa plays a kind of cat and mouse game with the audience, who never knows what to expect around the corner. The viewer is kept on edge throughout the film. There is a constant foreboding of a murder which doesn’t seem to be committed.
Hyrja e Lire – Entrada Libre – Free Entrance – Entrée Libre – Eintritt Frei

On the occasion of the Holocaust Memorial Day, the Embassy of the State of Israel, the Royal Court of Albania, the Israeli-Albanian Friendship Association and the Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi have the pleasure to invite you on Thursday 27th of January 2011, 7 p.m., to the premiere of the movie:

‘A Film Unfinished’

directed by Yael Hersonski

2010 – 87 min – documentary – with english subtitles

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes and cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage.

A FILM UNFINISHED presents the raw footage in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (including a staged dinner party) falsely showing “the good life” enjoyed by Jewish urbanites, and probes deep into the making of a now-infamous Nazi propaganda film.

A FILM UNFINISHED is a film of enormous import, documenting some of the worst horrors of our time and exposing the efforts of its perpetrators to propel their agenda and cast it in a favorable light.

Le Mercredi Français – E Mërkura Franceze

With the support of the Embassy of France in Albania and in the frames of the Mercredi Français (French Wednesday), two weeks in a month screening of François Truffaut’s films:

Screening on the 26th of January 2011 – 19:00 – Free Entrance

“Les deux anglaises et le Continent” (Two English Girls)

by François Truffaut

124 min – 1971 – France – Drame – Romance – (with English subtitles)

with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter…

At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become very close and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. But both families lay down a one-year-long separation without any contact before agreeing to the marriage. So Claude goes back to Paris when he has many love affairs before sending Muriel a break-off letter…

Cut by 20 minutes when released, the version presented today is the full editing assured in 1984 by Martine Barraqué in collaboration with François Truffaut. By that time, the title had become “Two english girls”, but the original title is “The two english girls and the continent” according to the book by Henri-Pierre Roché.

Entrée Libre – Hyrja e Lire – Free Entrance – Eintritt Frei – Entrada Libre

SPANISH FRIDAY - E PREMTJA SPANJOLLE

With the support of the Embassy of Spain in Albania:

Screening on the 21rst of January 2011 – 7 p.m. – Free Entrance

“The Good News” (La buena Nueva)

by Helena Taberna

103 min – 2008 – Drama - Spain (Spanish language with English subtitles)

with Unax Ugalde, Barbara Goenaga, Guillermo Toledo…

A young priest arrives in his first assignment to a small parish serving a working-class village in the north of Spain in 1936. He is a witness of the military uprising that precipitates the Spanish Civil War and, moved by his faith, he stands up to defend his people. From the beginning of the war, the village where the young protagonist arrives remains within the area of the Francoist military insubordinates. It soon becomes a top target of repression for being considered as a “red village”.

The loneliness haunting him brings Miguel close to Margari, a young schoolteacher, whose husband was killed by the fascists. Margari becomes the only shelter in the path of Miguel’s helpless fight, as well as the only aid to offset his deep disappointment.

Based on a real story, the film portrays how the young priest commits himself to stand by his parishioners and how he denounces from the pulpit and before the Catholic Hierarchy the atrocities being committed on behalf of the Gospel (written of as a Holy Crusade) to the extent that he will risk his own life in the name of Christ.

Hyrja e Lire – Entrada Libre – Free Entrance – Entrée Libre – Eintritt Frei