Austin Nordic Film Festival 2012
>>BLOCK TWO<<
7:00-10:00pm
Feature Selection:
Princess / Prinsessa (FIN)
Schizophrenic patient at an institution is convinced she is a princess, and uses this delusion to create a new world for the other asylum inmates that is fuller, deeper and in many ways far more humane than anything the institution offers them.
“Moving, funny, tragic, inspiring!” William Archer, IMDB
Director: Arto Halonen
Runtime: 104 min.
Genre: Drama, Based on a true story
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlVrOMn9iPE
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Shorts:
Tord and Tord / Tord och Tord (SWE)
Tord accidentally walks into the apartment next to his and discovers that Tord lives there, too. An adorable, animated, post-modern fable.
Director: Niki Lindroth Von Bahr
Runtime: 11 min.
Genre: Animation
Trailer: http://vimeo.com/8690529
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>Gerist (ICE)
Retro outfitted dance routine in a swimming hall, beautifully portrayed.
Director: Kitty Von-Sometime
Runtime: 2 min.
Genre: Artsy
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>The Duffers / Tunarit (FIN)
Three deadbeat friends find themselves in hot water with the mafia and have to concoct a way to survive.
Director: Vesa Manninen
Runtime: 31 min.
Genre: Drama, Suspense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g_gVmGd3dY
