Wednesday is a good day for rebels if you ask us. The workweek is halfway done, and we are in the need of some distraction, some shaking up. Find your rebel in the programme of Black Nights.
Rebel rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so! David Bowie sang it in the ’70s and we still believe in it today. Rebels; sometimes we don’t understand them, they might make us mad, they are not predictable, but oh, do we love them!
Wednesday is a good day for rebels if you ask us. The workweek is halfway done, and we are in the need of some distraction, some shaking up. In today’s film recommendations you will thus find several films from our Rebels with a Cause competition, alongside films that feature protagonists that are rebels, each in their own way.
See the films below, or check out today’s full programme here
17:00 | Coca-Cola Plaza 7
A young man named Kermek has just completed his prison term and returns to his native parts. But a lot has changed since he was last here. A gang rules the area, and they have some influence over Kermek’s girlfriend Eva. Kermek has thought things through and doesn’t intend to have anything to do with the local criminals. He has a plan. With Eva at his side, he wants to open a real cinema in the Kazakh mountains. Will Kermek’s love of Alain Delon be strong enough to keep him out of the violent clutches of the mafia?
17:15 | Coca-Cola Plaza 4 LUXE
20:30 | Virtual Hall
Ivan Lashin, a young man who lives with his mother in the country and works at home, met director Vitaly Suslin. The young man told the director about his life, they wrote a script together and thus the feature film "Head. Two Ears" was born, in which Ivan played himself as the main character. Russia’s most important festival Kinotavr declared it the best script and the film also received the award of the Russian Film Critics Guild. Now, a few years later, Vitaly and Ivan have made a new film which talks about Ivan’s life after festivals: has he changed, what is he dreaming about?
Part of Rebels with a Cause Competition
17:45 | Apollo Solaris 3
The weaker a community senses itself to be, the stronger the pack mentality among its members. Eccentric Mario who lives in an Alpine mountain village has always felt like a black sheep whose pulsating passion for modern dance and underground club culture does not fit in with the local conventional tradition patterns. Is home a place where you have been born and raised, or is it a place where you are expected and welcomed?
Part of First Feature Competition
20:15 | Artis 2
A long time ago, in February 1939, the end of the Spanish Civil War forced tens of thousands of people fleeing Franco’s dictatorship to enter France, only to be interned there in horrendous refugee camps. Separated by barbed wire, two men, one a young French gendarme, the other Josep Bartolí, a Spanish resistance fighter, illustrator and artist, make friends at one of these camps.
21:30 | Coca-Cola Plaza iSense
In his first feature film, "Age of Illusion", made more than half a century ago, young István Szabó told the story of a young man who was only starting to build his career and life. In his latest film, "Final Report", the 80-year-old director tells us about a retirement-aged man whose professional career ends, but whose life is not yet finished. These two films span the author’s own amazing success story in the film history of the world.
Part of Official Selection - Competition
22:00 | Artis 2
00:00 | Virtual Hall
The very best works of art push boundaries. They dare us to think about the world in which we live. They challenge our traditional views. They show us that there are more things in heaven and Earth.
The shorts in the Rebels With A Cause programme embody these ideals with their bold and provocative techniques. But while these films often revel in the surrealistic, it is perhaps appropriate – in a time in which the real world often seems to be nonsensical – that they deal with many important and pressing issues of the day such as sexuality, BLM, gender and politics.