Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the prettiest of them all? Who is the fastest of them all? And who is the richest of them all? Be ready to face yourself, and all your vanities in today's films.
Hop into a Ferrari race car and go along on today’s film journey that lifts us up like a Colombian, tropical storm, into the hands of Soviet bandits and behind the screens of Jakarta’s nightlife - to end up in front of a mirror, looking into our own eyes, and be asking: who is the fiercest of them all?
Today, we also welcome some of our guests, that have traveled the farthest to get to this year’s festival. All the way from Indonesia and Colombia, they will join us at their World Premieres to see their works on the big screen and share thoughts with the audiences.
Check out today’s full programme here
17:30 | Apollo Solaris 3
This movie brings together legendary drivers from F1, Le Mans 24 Hours and rallying who share never-before-heard stories of triumph and tragedy: two-time Formula 1 world champion Mika Häkkinen, former Ferrari grand prix ace Felipe Massa, nine-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen and Michele Mouton, still the only woman to have won World Championship rallies.
All four also share their intimate memories of competing alongside seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher, who is ever present in the film and binds the others’ stories and, in a way, tells his own.
18:00 | Coca-Cola iSense + Q&A with Erwin Goggel, Claudia Fischer
21:00 | Virtual Hall
A poor district of Bogotá is ravaged by a tropical storm and the entailing flood destroys Marina’s home. The young woman is now forced to return to the place where she grew up, a place full of painful memories and violence. She and her cousin drive to the country, hoping to get back a piece of land that belonged to their grandfather.
Partly a look into the complex present-day world of Colombia, partly a girl’s journey to her roots – the past and the present are intertwined in this film. Time seems to lose meaning and the entire story is permeated by a dreamy atmosphere. It is a film that uses few words, but still says everything that has to be said.
18:15 | Coca-Cola Plaza 6
With her creative works which determinedly experiment with the language of film and the narrative, director and screenwriter Laila Pakalniņa has become renowned both at film festivals far away and right here at PÖFF last year with her documentary "The Spoon". Her film "The Shoe" intertwined fairy-tales with social criticism at Cannes as early as in 1998. After "Cinderella", she this time takes on "Snow White".
"In the Mirror" places "Snow White" in the world’s fitness gym where, on the backdrop of the countless shed tears of sweat, we look for an answer to the question of who is the strongest and toughest in the world
Part of Official Selection - Competition
20:45 | Coca-Cola iSense
23:45 | Virtual Hall
"Tooman" offers head-spinningly tense action in this story of two best friends, Aziz and Davood who work at a dairy factory. To escape the despondency of the surrounding life, they play FIFA at every opportunity.
Thanks to the men’s skills, FIFA is also an opportunity to find a way out of poverty, as the bets won in that game exceed their annual salary by several times. In addition to skills and wits, they have to risk with new bets every time and play with the money they have won in order to win the big prize. FIFA is just the beginning in a blinding race to strike it rich.
Part of Official Selection - Competition
21:00 | Artis 1
The Polish-Soviet borderland, late 1920s, early 1930s. We follow four stories whose protagonists are connected by a web of mutual ties. Following the death of the gang leader and head of the family, Rose seizes control of the Levenfish criminal clan. Together with her sisters, she continues to manage her father’s shady business, doing everything in her power to stand up to rising Soviet bandits led by the conservative Lev.
Meanwhile, inseparable brothers Albin and Albert Hudini execute their daring plan.
A gangster tragicomedy, an auteur version of the "Eastern", in which a patch of land cut off from the rest of the country is ruled by women and the main currency is a revolver bullet.
21:45 | Coca-Cola Plaza 8 + Q&A with director Ertanto Robby Soediskam
We don’t see so often on the big screen such a vibrant, turbulent, modern portrait of Jakarta. Indonesia is usually represented by gorgeous pictures from Bali and Jawa, while everyone recommends to skip or pass through smoggy cloudy foggy capital city Jakarta. Director Ertanto Robby Soediskam will demolish prejudices with painfully honest and playfully provocative revelations, which are widely known to everyone, but kept in silence out of fear for punishments.