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The opening of the festival traditionally and at the same time symbolically invited the most loyal friends of Scanorama to meet on the big cinema screens before a long break, after the restrictions were introduced, starting on 7 November. The films of the festival will only be available in the virtual cinema space. kinas.scanorama.lt.
“The pandemic did not allow us to implement the idea of a hybrid festival in the way we wanted to do it, but we are happy to pay tribute to the live event and the audience screenings on the big screen, at least in the early days, by doing of the festival a festival and giving the cinema the opportunity to reveal the artistic ideas of the creators and the real cinema fabric. I hope that this example inspired by the San Sebastian Festival allows us to expect a break in the cultural life that awaits us all ”, Says Gražina Arlickaitė, director and founder of the festival.
And guests at the festival’s opening Wednesday night weren’t just invited to pose for the photo wall. Just before the movie “Sweat!”, The audience had to sweat in the cinema.
Opening of the Scanorama Festival / Photo by P. Peleckis
Opening of the Scanorama Festival / Photo by P. Peleckis
The European Film Forum Scanorama has presented this year a hybrid festival that, although shorter than expected, will run until November 6. Spectators will be invited to Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda and Šiauliai cinemas. Subsequently, a carefully selected film program will be moved to a virtual cinema platform. The first incorporation to films in virtual cinema is scheduled for Saturday, November 7. There will also be online interviews with filmmakers and industry events from SCA Krypčių.
From November 4 to 6. Spectators can watch Scanorama films at least once in the cinemas of Vilnius Pasaka, Forum Cinemas, Skalvija, Kino Deli and Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai Forum Cinemas.
Opening of the Scanorama Festival / Photo by P. Peleckis
In theaters, viewers will see the knockout films from this year’s festival. Presented virtually at Cannes, Enfant Terrible, by German director Oscar Roehler, is a biographical film dedicated to the German cinema provocateur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Also at Cannes, the Swedish film enslaved by critics, Magnus von Horn’s Polish film Sweat!
The cinema will also feature a brilliant new voice: the film “Home” (dir. Dea Kulumbegashvili), which has won awards at San Sebastián in almost every major category at the festival. The film “Father” by Serbian director Srdan Golubovich, whose hero is determined to travel 300 kilometers to Belgrade to recover the lost children, as well as the Swedish film “Inseparable” full of motherly love should also attract attention.
Viewers will be able to see part of the DAU project, which is difficult to understand and actively criticized around the world, the movie “DAU. Natasha ”, which will allow him to decide for himself whether this fruit of Ilya Chrzhanov’s megalomania should be called art or a violation of human rights. This year, the “Bad Tales” by the D’Innocenz brothers, awarded for best screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, should receive special attention from the public.
Viewers in all cities can watch the films from the “Special Sessions” program at their home on the kinas.scanorama.lt cinema platform, which will offer a representative look at the author’s film news from India. Here reigns one of the most intense and unique films made in India in recent years, Jallikattu.
14th century Inspired by the Indian mystical poet, the movie “The Shepherd and the Seven Songs” is a story steeped in poetic and mythological magic that, translated into modern Indian realities, sounds like a true manifesto of feminism.
Those who like provocative and aesthetic experiments should not miss the Think What You Want movies that are already available in the virtual space today. One of them is “Frogs Without Tongues”, a study that is unraveling a vicious cycle of domestic violence.
The remarkable “Carp” is a daring study of sexual perversion, able to see a person where only the perpetrator is usually visible, confront himself and admit his dark sides, the “Outcast” will stop, rethink the past and the present in the “Adult Games”.
Scanorama European Film Forum November 4 started in Vilnius, and in 5-7 days. It will move to Kaunas, Klaipėda and Šiauliai cinemas. As of November 7. After the ban on cinema activities, the festival will be transferred to the specially created virtual cinema platform kinas.scanorama.lt. Due to the restrictions introduced, it is planned to extend the festival until November 22 of this year.
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