Titanic Film Festival Starts Today In Budapest
- 7 Apr 2016 2:50 AM
The 23rd Titanic Film Festival begins today, Thursday 7th April. It's popular for bringing a wide variety of films to audiences Budapest, and for it's an independent spirit. Films selected this year include: Asian Winds, American Independents, Festival Favourites, Documentaries, The Dark Side and Short Films. Films like Bone Tomahawk, The Demons, Assassination, The VVitch – a New England Folktale, Lily Lane, Experimenter, Sparrows and One Floor Below, are all in the diverse programme.
Nine films will compete for the main prize in 2016. These nine competition films are by first or second-time filmmakers "who try to find new ways of twisting the age-old story of the awkwardness of human relationships - be they surrealist, emotionally subtle, amusing, provocative, or intimately personal ways. Or sometimes all of those ways at once," says Allan Sorensen, programme director of the festival.
The festival will open on 7th April with Australian film Tanna, a love story set in the South Pacific and performed by the people of Yakel in Vanuatu.
The festival’s closing film will be Luca Guadagnino’s thriller A Bigger Splash, a sensuous portrait of desire, jealousy and rock and roll, under the Mediterranean sun with Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson and Matthias Schoenaerts.
The special gala screening of the Titanic Film Festival will be dedicated to Hungarian director Bence Fliegauf’s Lily Lane. The film premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year and portrays the relationship between Rebeka and her young son Dan, which is inextricably linked to stories and fantasy: the account of a childhood in which time and space flow together and little separates divorce, death and reunion.
The official spot of the festival will be a clip from Réka Bucsi's animated short film LOVE, also selected for the programme of the Berlinale this year. The spot can be viewed at: Titanic 2016 spot
The nine films in competition at the 23rd Titanic Film Festival are:
Home Care – Czech Republic
Our Everyday Life – Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Daughter – Australia
The Demons – Canada
Couple in a Hole – Belgium, UK
Mellow Mud – Latvia
What’s in the Darkness – China
Evolution – France
Aloys – Switzerland
The full line-up and screening times of the Titanic Film festival can be viewed at the festival’s website www.titanicfilmfest.hu.
Still images from the films can be downloaded at the following link: film stills and press materials – Titanic 2016. The catalogue of the festival (in English and Hungarian) can be found online at: Titanic 2016 catalogue. Tickets are available in the box offices of the festival venues.
The screenings of the festival will take place between April 7–16 at Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház, Puskin, Toldi and Sugár cinemas, and the A38 Ship in Budapest, Hungary.
Source: http://titanicfilmfest.hu
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