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LET'S CEE Film Festival
The LET´S CEE School Cinema, which was developed in cooperation with CINEPLEXX Schulkino (school cinema program), will show high-quality films from the CEE region and constitutes its own program element within the new film festival. It will take place in the form of a dialogue event.
This way, the program planners do not only intend to show good films of educational value from Central and Eastern Europe, but also to contribute to encounters of different cultures at eye-level and – in so doing – promote interculturality and the living together of children with different mother tongues. It is therefore by no means a coincidence that living together is a key aspect in both of this year’s selected productions.
Director Dorota Kędzierzawska’s feature film Jutro będzie lepiej/ Tomorrow will be better, a Polish-Japanese production, shows the adventures of three homeless Russian boys searching for a better life. They cross the “green border” to Poland, thereby becoming refugees. The director tells their story, which, by the way, is based on true events, without moralizing, indoctrinating or polemicizing. Amongst other prizes, the film has won the highly valued Peace Film Award at the Berlinale 2011.
The second film of the school program focuses on historic events with contemporary relevance. Nickyho Rodina/Nicky´s Family tells the story of the British man Nicholas George Winton saving the lives of hundreds of Czech kids shortly before the outbreak of World War II. His heroic deed has made Winton an inspirational example: People all over the world, including many children, have started one aid project after another. Thus, the focus of this Slovakian documentary, created under the direction of Matej Mináč, is also highly topical.
Both productions are Austrian premieres and will be shown in the presence of their respective directors and the producer and cinematographer of Jutro będzie lepiej/Tomorrow will be better, Artur Reinhart, who will be available for students’ questions after the screenings.
