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16th Annual Days of European Film in Prague 2009

The Days of European Film bring together the best of European and international feature films and shorts at Prague's Cinema Svetozor and Aero Cinema. Each year some 40 feature films and ten shorts hit the big screen with English subtitles.

The 16th DAYS OF EUROPEAN FILM will open with the Romanian film Boogie (directed by Radu Muntean, 2008) in the Světozor theatre in Prague on 16 April 2009. Alexandru Baciu who wrote the screenplay for this film and who cooperated with this director in the previous film Hartia va fi albastra (The Paper Will Be Blue, 2006) will be a guest at the ceremonial opening.

Detailed information on the individual films, including their international success, is available in an organised format in a bilingual catalogue. Catalogues will be available to the audience FOR FREE at the box offices of the Světozor and Lucerna theatres. The catalogue can be downloaded from the offical website already now.


Projections:
KINO LUCERNA, Vodičkova 36, Praha 1, T: +420 224 216 972, www.lucerna.cz, box office is open daily from 12:00
KINO SVĚTOZOR, Vodičkova 41, Praha 1, T: +420 224 946 824, reservation: T: +420 608 330 088, www.kinosvetozor.cz, box-office open: MO–FRI 12:30-21:00, SA–SU 10:30-21:00

Price of the tickets: We can make the audience happy by announcing that the price of the tickets will remain unchanged; it will be 90 CZK in Prague (the tickets to the morning screenings of documentaries will cost 50 CZK)

In the following days, the audience will be able to watch 29 feature films, 5 documentary films and 17 short films in the Světozor and Lucerna theatres. The range of genres at the 16th Annual Days of European Film is highly varied this year and we hope that every spectator will be able to choose the films of their preference. Younger generations will certainly appreciate films such as Fighter (directed by N. Arthy), a Danish film, where the revolting main female character is more interested in kung-fu than in school attendance. The Finnish film Ricky Rapper (Riso Rappaaja, directed by M. Rantasil) tells the story of a ten-year-old “passionate drummer” and his somewhat peculiar rock’n’roller aunt. The Irish film 32A (directed by M. Quinn), taking place in Dublin in 1979, suggests that coming of age is difficult everywhere in the world... The interesting Turkish film Egg (Yumurta; directed by S. Kaplanoolu), which has received many festival awards, has become the hit at prestigious festivals not only in Europe. The bestsellers of the well-known writer Judith Herrmann were used as the literary basis of the German film Nothing But Ghosts (Nicht als Gespenster; directed by M. Gypkens). The film consists of short stories taking place in the beautiful settings of the Nevadan desert, Jamaica, Berlin or Venice and deals with unfortunate loves, thwarted hopes and uprootedness of the Generation X. Another film popular with the audience is the Italian film Good Morning Heartache (Riprendimi; directed by A. Negri) – this unusual comedic romance competed at the Sundance Festival and it has successfully represented the young Italian cinematography.