A European film festival, featuring a total of 15 cinemas from European countries, will kick-off tomorrow at the Star Cineplex, Basundhara City. The inaugural of the nine-day festival will take place today. However, screenings for general audience will commence from tomorrow. This is the third of its kind arranged by Star Cineplex.
The festival will open with Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan starring 2011 comedy-drama Win Win. Directed by Thomas McCarthy the film chronicles a struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach’s chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life. Mesbah Uddin, spokesperson of the Star Cineplex shared details of the event.
Pierre Mayaudon, Ambassador of the European Union in Dhaka, Asaduzzaman Noor, Minister of Cultural Affairs and Mahboob Rahman, Managing Director of Star Cineplex will be present at the inaugural ceremony.
Rest of the films inclueds A Gun in Each Hand (Spain), Paddington (UK), Attila Marcel (France), Breathing (Austria), The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Sweden), Finn (Netherlands), The Agreement (Denmark), Lessons of a Dream (Germany), Vesna (Slovenia), The Legend of the Flying Cyprian (Slovakia), Before Flying Back to Earth (Lithuania), Bestevenner (Norway), The Hours of the Lynx (Denmark) and Simshar (Malta). All the films are contemporary releases, came out after 2009, except Frantisek Cáp’s Vesna, a 1953 film which is considered amongst the most watched Slovene films.
The event will conclude with the romantic comedy Vesna. Festival schedule is available at Star Cineplex’s web-page.
