Some emotions are so extreme, they’re hard to fit inside a person. Saturday's film selection will help you to discover the inner world where, in addition to love, there are plenty of fears. There are strong hearts here, afraid of losing their other halves. And there are those lost souls who are afraid of losing themselves.
Today is the day to spread out these feelings in your mind and feel them to the fullest.
Explore Saturday at PÖFF here.
Nov. 20, Saturday at 3:15 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
International premiere. With film guests
“Dark Heart of the Forest” is a moving film about loneliness and the search for love and peace, told through two young people who have never had a family in the usual sense. The authors have been able to capture the bubbling soul of the forest with the help of film art and have created strong symbolic undercurrents. The sound design recorded in a church with mystical acoustics, production that accurately captures tones and halftones, and the cinematography that carries the mood keep the viewer under a spell..
Nov. 20, Saturday at 3:45 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
With film guests
Suze and her Estonian husband move from Amsterdam to a small Dutch island to live a peaceful family life with their 6-year-old daughter. Everything changes when Suze's extravagant mother Helena arrives and announces that she has a tumor in her head. As a lifelong actress, Helena is good at emphasizing guilt, and a responsible Suze has no choice but to travel between town and home to satisfy both her mother and daughter.
Nov. 20, Saturday at 4:15 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
With director Gábor Fabricius
It is the year 1983, behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest. Robert Frank is a charismatic punk band member, in the eyes of the authorities, one of the leading voices of his generation in rebelling against a totalitarian regime. However, when the police send Frank to a psychiatric hospital as a means of taming him, the young man has to fight for himself and for his faithfulness to his beliefs. "Erasing Frank" premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
Nov. 20, Saturday at 8:30 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
World premiere. With film guests
Micheál Richardson, who appears in his first lead role, is the son of Liam Neeson and the late Natasha Richardson. In his role as Henry, dearly misses his mother, played by the actress' cousin Daisy Bevan. Already-acclaimed young actress Sophie Lane Curtis has directed a varied, supernatural indie film. The structure of the non-chronological story is multi-layered and spans five timelines and two countries.
Who Is Sleeping in Silver Grey
Nov. 20, Saturday at 8:45 p.m., Coca-Cola Plaza
World premiere. With film guests
Cheng Die is a piano teacher. She was born into unstable surroundings, into silence and chaos, growing up with the constant sound of her mother’s weeping. Music is her sole solace and the driving force of her spirit. Now, she is involved in a passionate and forbidden love affair at school, with a married man. Her name is covered in shame. "Who is Sleeping in Silver Grey" is a precious philosophical work that reveals a new and powerful voice on the scene of Chinese arthouse directors.
Nov. 20, Saturday at 3 p.m., at Coca-Cola Plaza
World premiere with film guests
The equally sublime and deep “A Vanishing Fog” is perfect for film gourmets who can appreciate the delicate rawness of a film polished to perfection. It’s for those who love film art in its most extreme manifestations and deepest existential layers. Director, screenwriter, producer and editor Augusto Sandino blends the poetry of his thoughts in an entirely unique handwriting into the visual language of “A Vanishing Fog”.