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DEPARTMENT OF SLAVONIC & FINNO-UGRIAN STUDIES, 
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
with active support from the
THE EMBASSY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
cordially invites you 
to

Little Europe 2008

'Todays Youth'

A Festival of Films

from 
Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech
Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Serbia

12  22nd February 2008 
at
The Academic Research Centre,
Guru Teg Bahadur Marg, Opp. Khalsa college,
University of Delhi

Programme

12th February 2008, Tuesday

1.30pm		: Czech Film: The Rebels . 2001
                                   (Rebelove) 109 mins

Director		: Filip Renc
This artistically stylized film tells of a passionate
love story that is thwarted by history itself.
Graduating high - school senior, Tereza and a young
army deserter are the principal characters in a movie
dominated by dance and music. The filmmakers goal was
to shoot a movie which, though set in against a
background of dire historical realities, offers a
light gloss on all  lifes positive aspects, notably
love.
Awards  Five wins and two nominations  

13th February 2008, Wednesday

14.00		: Hungarian Film: I love Budapest , 2001
                        (I love Budapest) 85 mins
Director	 :Ágnes Incze		

This film is about seduction, bad decisions and a
world where things are out of place. What can a young
man learn in a place where he does not belong; to
which  he was lured by others or by his false dreams. 
Four youths are the protagonists of this film. One
couple feels at home in this world; they look nice,
want to get rich, drive an expensive car and wear
expensive clothes. The other girl wears clumsy shoes,
daydreams constantly, and dates a clutzy security
guard with torn underwear. Such characters cross our
path every day, but we pass them unaware. A modern
tale, emotional and ironic,  in Budapest in the year
2000.
abankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with
the post-war environment, complete with 
14th February 2008, Thursday

14.0	0            : Serbian Film : When I Grow Up, I'm
Gonna Be a Kangaroo,2004
( Kad porastem bicu kengur) 92 mins

Director	: Radivoje Andric 

This is a sincere and profound hymn of the lost
generation of post-communist and post-war Serbia.
Neverending adolescence, purity, and innocence of
young people caught in between their desires to
overcome poverty, self-destruction and low
self-esteem, and yet their genuine talent to praise
life in a unique way. Humor, irony, love
misunderstandings, Beckett-like meditations on life
make this movie a fresh one and receptive for
audience. Three stories intervene to be resolved in
awesome finale of catharsis, a closing scene yet never
seen in Serbian cinematography.

15th February 2008, Friday

14.00		: Bulgarian Film., L.S REVOLT  2006, 
                       (Buntat na L) 115 mins,

Director.          :   Kiran Kolarov

It is 1986. At night, the graduation ball of the
English Language High School. The best student  Loris
 tries to flee to the West, but he is captured due to
a betrayal. Loris is sentenced for political reasons.
The slogan at the prison written on the wall with red
letters says If you don't know  we will teach you;
if you can't  we will show you how; if you don't want
to  we will force you!, and it is put into practice.
Torture, cynicism and physical violence turn the
talented young man Loris into a passive and
cold-blooded observer.

18th February 2008, Monday

14.0	0                : Film from Bosnia and
Herzegovina :Summer in the golden valley,2003
                             (  Ljeto u zlatnoj
dolini)105 MINS 
Director      :Srdjan Vuletic
 At the traditional Muslim funeral service for his
father Fikret Varupa, sixteen year old boy from
Sarajevo, learns that his father owes money to Hamid,
a man he does not even know. The debt is considerable
and Hamid does not want it to go to the grave with the
body, so the debt automatically passes from the father
to the son. Since in Bosnia this way of collecting
debts, at a funeral, is considered to be utterly
humiliating, it is never, ever applied. Fikret and his
entire family become subjects of ridicule. Fikret, who
is practically still a child, is decisive to "redeem
his father's soul". Wishing to repay his father's debt
and to secure the forgiveness, Fikret wanders into the
real world of Sarajevo, the world that is ruled by
post-war chaos, misery and poverty and becomes an
ideal target for two corrupted policemen who wish to
"help" him: 

19th February 2008, Tuesday

14.00	           : Slovak Film :The  Fountain for
Suzanne, 2006
                      (Fontana Pre Zuzanu) 81 mins

Director	 : Dusan Rapos

This is a story about the life and troubles of young
people living in the city. The teenagers have to face
real life, make their first major decisions, and learn
that romance sometimes brings disappointment	.

20th February 2008, Wednesday

14.0	: Croatian Film :God forbid greater evil. 2002
                        (Dao ne Bog veceg zla) 95 mins

Director	: Snjezana Tribuson 

This delightfully humorous film set in provincial
Croatia follows the story of Frula  from pre- to post-
adolescence, and documents a painfully slow coming of
age, offering a sidelong glance at life under Tito.
Family troubles, school life, a fascination with
motion pictures and a lasting love affair with the
daughter of the local cinema projectionist form the
backbone of an intimately engaging personal history.
Frula is divided between the need for his father's
affection and the temptations offered by his maternal
uncle, a gambler and black-marketeer who brings a gun
and condoms into the house and spends several years in
jail. Yet a happy ending is close at hand as Frula
graduates, gains the affection of his beloved -- and
boards the coach to Zaghreb to attend university.

21st February 2008, Thursday

14.0	                 :  Polish Film: The Debt , 2000
                           (Dlug ) 107 mins.          

Director              : Krzystof Klauze

"The Debt," is a psychological thriller/drama based on
a true story. Two young entrepreneurs from Warsaw want
to start up a firm manufacturing Italian scooters in
Poland but they need money in order to get things
going. After the bank refuses to provide them with a
loan, they think their whole plan will never work.
Then Stefan meets an old friend of his, Gerard, and
things change drastically. This is a film about
choices, about what one will do when under pressure,
without a way out, without hope. It deals with real
places, real life people, and the atmosphere that
director Kszysztof Krauze has captured is eerie and
enthralling. 

22nd February 2008, Friday 

14.00                 : Russian Film: Peter FM, 2006 
                           ( Peter FM) 85 mins

Director              : Oksana Bichkova  

This is a film about two young adults whose lives
cross thanks to a lost cell phone. They had both
already chosen their paths  Maksim as an accomplished
architect, and Masha as a happily engaged radio DJ.
When Maksim finds Mashas lost phone, their lives
become entangled and they start second-guessing
themselves and their choices. These things happen when
telecommunication devices get involved, 

15.30 :                    Panel Discussion    
Todays youth.

Discussants:       .  -   Ms. Smita Banerjee, Dept. of
English,
                                   Delhi College of
Arts and Commerce. 
       -   Ms. Bindu Menon , Dept. of Journalism,
                                    Lady Shri Ram
College.
-	Ms. Shikha Jhingan,Documentary Film Maker,
      Dept of Journalism, Lady Shri ram College.

                       ALL FILMS ARE PROVIDED WITH
SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH.

ALL SCREENINGS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION 

          AND

         TEA

P.S. The film on 12th February will be screened at the
Conference Centre,
Opposite the Botany Department University of Delhi,
Chhatra Marg, Delhi.

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.   

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. 

Peter Ustinov

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