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Zagreb Film Festival
19 - 25 October 2008

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ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
SC - Savska 25
10000 Zagreb
Croatia

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385 1 48 29 477
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385 1 45 93 691

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Cheeese..
Austria , 2008

Directed by: Huseyin Tabak
Script: Huseyin Tabak
Producer: Gamze Tabak
Production company: Filmakademie Vienna
Cinematography: Felix Striegel
Editing: Laszlo Vancsa
Cast: Nazmi Kirik, Berivan Kaya, Mehmet Müldür, Baryz Said, Rosa Said

Format: c/b, b/w, 16mm
Running time: 12'

Synopsis
A Kurdish family is waiting for help from American troops during the Iraq War -- in the basement of their collapsed house. Bombs are falling down around them. But somehow they keep stay in touch with their own, seemingly insignificant world, with all it's small challenges.

Awards
2008 Nominated from Austria for Student Oscar

Directors Biography
Hüseyin Tabak is born 1981 in Germany. His origin is Kurdish from Turkey. He started to work in the film industry in Hamburg, he was production volunteer on the film set. He studies Directing at the Filmacademy in Vienna. Filmography: Cheeese (2008, fiction), Ausnahmezustand (2007, documentary). At the moment he is working on his first documentary feature, Abseits, and writes his first feature fiction Paradise Road.

Location and screening schedule:
matinee: SC Cinema, Thursday, October 23rd at 9.00
premiere: SC Cinema, Thursday, October 23rd at 20.00
reprisal: , Friday, October 24th at 10.00



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