Austin Nordic Film Fest
Contact: nikolasfrederick@gmail.com
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Location: Bob Bullock Texas History Museum
Price: $10 for one block, $16 for all films (2 blocks)
-BLOCK I –
-3:00 pm : First set of shorts-
The Lake (Järvi) – Finland: 8 min, Comedy
-Have you ever heard the phrase “There are plenty of other fish in the sea.”? Two women seem to have found the truth in that phrase in their hometown lake.
The Last Farm (Síðasti bærinn) – Iceland: 15 min, Drama
In a remote corner of Iceland, winter is coming on. An aging farmer named Hrafn is doing has last chores before leaving with his wife Gróa for a retirement home in the city. Their daughter Lilja will be coming after the weekend to pick them up. She calls her parents, interrupting her dad’s lunch. Her mother is napping. The stoic Hrafn wants to make sure she won’t come before Monday. What are these last chores?
The Magician – Iceland: 16 min, Drama
Daniel (11) thinks he is a Magician. But some things remain beyond his control.
-3:45 pm : First Feature-
Flame & Citron (Flammen & Citronen) – Denmark: 130 min, Action/Adventure
Copenhagen, 1944. Denmark is occupied by Nazi Germany. Flame and Citron are two resistance fighters charged with liquidating Danish informers. By order of their commander, they now consent to kill Germans as well. But when Flame is asked to execute his girlfriend Ketty, an enigmatic Stockholm courier, he questions his orders, wondering who Ketty really is. In the struggle for freedom, all zones appear grey, and it becomes increasingly unclear who is friend and who is foe. Based on true events.
Award synopsis: 9 festival wins & 15 nominations
‘A slick noir feel with the thrills of an action blockbuster’ – www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/, Indie Film Magazine
‘…the performances are aces’ – Peter Howell, Toronto Star
-BLOCK II -
-6:00 pm : Break (with FREE Shorts)-
Family Reunion (Iceland)
Katrin is returning to her native Iceland for her grandmothers´s 70th birthday. Her family in Reykjavik unwittingly engages her discussions about marriage, children and her future.
Wrestling (Iceland)
A Love story of two men told through the Icelandic Wrestling
Hanasaari A (Finland)
Hanasaari A is an experimental documentary about the changing cityscape of Helsinki and the final moments of a coal-fired power plant. The old industrial milieu is being destroyed to make space for modern housing units. The film is a combination of animation, live action cinematography, and graphic elements. It is based on 500 000 photographs taken during the final two years of the existence of the power plant.
-BLOCK III-
-6:45 pm : Second set of shorts-
Misty Mountain – Iceland: 31 min, Drama
While based in a remote NATO radar station in Iceland in the late 1960s, Warren occasionally time traveled into the future, to the year 2006. Now, as his former destination in time becomes his present, he returns to prevent the death of the woman he fell in love with during his travels.
Harvest Time (Elonkorjuu) – Finland: 15 min, Comedy
For so long, farmhouse lady Anja Huovinen has gritted her teeth and put up with her lazy husband’s drinking habits and idle talk, focusing instead on her work. But there is a limit to everything.
-7:45 pm : Second Feature-
Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) – Sweden / Denmark: 131 min, Drama
Sweden, in the early 1900s, held an era of social change and unrest, war and poverty. Everlasting Moments is an exceptional story about a young working class woman (Maria) learning to be an artist in a restrictive time and place. Maria wins a camera in a lottery and this bit of luck changes her whole life. The camera grants her eyes the ability to view a different world, and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and gives her the strength to endure an alcoholic, womanizing, although ultimately loving, husband.
Award synopsis: ‘Nominated for Golden Globe. 8 festival wins & 7 nominations’
“A movie like Everlasting Moments comes along maybe once in a decade.” Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
