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Zagreb Film Festival
19 - 25 October 2008
Address
ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
SC - Savska 25
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
Telephone
385 1 48 29 477
Fax
385 1 45 93 691
e-mail
info@zagrebfilmfestival.com
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01.10.2008
My First Movie on 6th ZFF |
As a part of our traditional side program My First Movie, this year we will be featuring debut feature films from directors who are now famous – Richard Linklater, Shekar Kapur, Takeshi Kitano and Agnes Jaoui.
Linklater, a self-taught director and screenwriter, is one of the names that arose during the 90’s US indie renaissance, and he attracted the attention of a wider audience with his romantic drama featuring Ethan Hawke and July Delpy 'Before sunset' (1995), and later with his documentary 'Fast Food Nation'.
His feature debut movie 'Slacker' that will be presented in the side program of 6th ZFF tells a story about 24 hours in Austin, Texas, the maladjusted youth, anarchists, eccentrics obsessed with UFO’s, conspiracy theorists and hundreds of people from the margins of society that were near the Austin campus on that day.
In the same program you will be also be able to see 'Masoom', the debut movie by Shekar Kapur, a man that was destined to become a British accountant but turned into a great Indian director. Miles away from the Bollywood kitsch, Kapur’s first film, a story about the arrival of an illegitimate son to his father’s family who is a middle-class architect, brims with subtle nuances in emotional lives of characters, especially children that wear the brunt of sins made by grown-ups. Kapur reached fame in the West by directing the luxurious costumed drama 'Elizabeth' with Cate Blanchett.
All fans of Japan’s greatest star Takeshi Kitano will be thrilled with the projection of his director’s debut, 'Violent cop'. Kitano was employed as a director on that project in 1989 after the original director, Kinji Fukasaku, came down with an illness. Kitano was playing the main character detective Azuma and created the prototype of his anti-hero prone to violence that would be appearing in his later crime films with some variation.
The My First Movie program will also allow you to see the French candidate for Oscar in 2001, comedy 'The Taste Of Others'. The feature director’s debut was the product of a French actress and director Agnes Jaoui, a huge fan of Woody Allen comedies. This film will be interesting to everybody that thinks that tastes should be discussed. |
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