Just a few more days to enjoy Europe’s best movies
JOBURG – The European Film Festival is still on, but only until 14 May, so don't miss it!
Presenting the best that Europe has to offer, the European Film Festival is in full swing.
The European Film Festival (EUFF), which opened nationwide on 5 May is running concurrently in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria and Durban until 14 May; and invites the audience to rate each film according to their liking. The winning film will be announced after the festival.
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This feature ties into an increased level of audience interaction at the festival, including a ticket competition where the public was invited to pick their potential favourites; and the ongoing offer of personalised movie recommendations by the festival director online.
Furthermore, this year’s edition of the festival, just like last year’s, has seen local personalities such as Kagiso Lediga and Mandla Langa engage with the selection by watching and sharing their personal reflections on selected films.
As a grand festival finale, after the Johannesburg screening of the film on Sunday 14 May, the audience will get a chance to meet Rory O’Neill, the main character of the acclaimed documentary The Queen Of Ireland by Conor Horgan.
“There are few better ways to put a message across without preaching than through film – a medium with visceral super-powers. I hope that the selection of amazing, award-winning comedies, biopics, slice-of-life stories, animal-rights thrillers, road movies and documentaries will stimulate imaginations and inspire new ways of being, seeing, thinking and creating,” said festival director Katarina Hedrén at Rosebank’s Cinema Nouveau.
The European Film Festival is coordinated by the Goethe-Institut South Africa, hosted by Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau, and organised in partnership with the Delegation of the European Union to South Africa and 12 other European cultural agencies or embassies in South Africa.
With so many institutions working together to bring audiences the best movies, there’s no reason not to get to a Cinema Nouveau near you today.
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