This year’s European Union Film Festival features 16 award-winning films and documentaries released across the EU in the past year. The Festival will open with The Divine Order – screening at the new cinema MOViE MOViE Cityplaza – and close with Welcome to Germany. Valentin Hitz, director of Hidden Reserves will visit Hong Kong to meet with the audience after the screening of her film.
Directed by Petra Volpe, the opening Film The Divine Order is set in Switzerland in 1971 where women were still denied the right to vote. When housewife Nora is forbidden by her husband to take a part-time job, her frustration leads to her becoming the poster child of her town’s suffragette movement. Marie Leuenberger who played Nora won Best Actress at Tribeca Film Festival.
Welcome to Germany is directed by Simon Verhoeven. Recently retired teacher Angelika decides, against her skeptical husband Richard’s will, to take in a refugee. Soon afterwards, a whirlwind of complications ensue. The film explores the European refugee issue with humour while making you think.
Hidden Reserves (Austria)
Paradise Trips (Belgium)
Republic Home Care (Czech Republic)
Man and A Baby (Finland)
Montparnasse Bienvenüe (France)
Welcome to Germany (Germany)
Roza of Smyrna (Greece)
Kincsem — Bet on Revenge (Hungary)
The Farthest (Ireland)
Porn to Be Free (Italy)
Quality Time (Netherlands)
Gods (Poland)
All the Dreams in the World (Portugal)
1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines (Spain)
Eternal Summer (Sweden)
The Divine Order (Switzerland)
European Union Film Festival 2018
Date: 1-18 March, 2018
Venues: Broadway Cinematheque (Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square Street, Yaumatei, Kln) & AMC Pacific Place (Level 1, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong Island)
Tickets: $various
More info: https://issuu.com/broadwaycinematheque/docs/_issuu_20180206_booklet_euff2018