Tuesday, December 24, 2019

SFFLA 2020

21st Scandinavian Film Festival L.A.
4, 5, 11, 12, 2020 - WGA in Beverly Hills





SCREENING SCHEDULE:

Saturday, January 4

11:00 Ida - Denmark/Poland
01:00 Immortal (doc.) - Estonia/Latvia
02:15 The Mover - Latvia
04:00 Stupid Young Heart - Finland
06:00 Opening Gala and Buffet
07:30 Out Stealing Horses - Norway





Sunday, January 5

10:00 Project Rockin' High - Finland
11:00 Little Moscow (doc.) - Iceland
12:15 A White, White Day - Iceland
02:30 Collision - Denmark
05:00 And Then We Danced - Sweden
07:30 Confirmation (short) - Denmark
08:00 Queen of Hearts - Denmark





Saturday, January 11

10:15 Journey Home (doc.) - Lithuania
11:15 The Dead Soldier (short) - Denmark
01:00 The Tent (short) - Norway
03:00 Before the Frost - Denmark
04:30 Maria's Paradise - Finland
07:15 The Unpromised Land - Sweden
09:00 Someone, Somewhere - Finland






Sunday, January 12

10:30 Se7en Dayz Till Payoff (short) - Sweden
11:00 Cold Case Hammarskjöld (doc.) - Sweden
01:30 Truth and Justice - Estonia
04:15 Greta's Bed and Breakfast (short) - Sweden
05:00 King of Atlantis - Sweden
07:00 Daniel - Denmark


For more information please visit SFFLA2020




Monday, December 16, 2019

TOP 30 - BEST OF 2019




My favorite 30 BEST FILMS of 2019 (in alphabetical order):



AND THEN WE DANCED
Levan Akin (Sweden/Georgia)




ASAKO I & II
寝ても覚めても
Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Japan)



ASH IS PUREST WHITE
江湖儿女
Jia Zhangke (China)



ATLANTICS
Atlantique
Mati Diop (France/Senegal)



BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES
Salvador Simó Busom (Spain)



COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD
Mads Brügger (Denmark)




AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL
大象席地而坐
Hu Bo (China)




HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD
벌새
Bora Kim (South Korea)



I LOST MY BODY
J'ai perdu mon corps
Jérémy Clapin (France)



INVISIBLE LIFE
A vida invisível
Karim Aïnouz (Brazil)




THE IRISHMAN
Martin Scorsese (US)



IT MUST BE HEAVEN
Elia Suleiman (Palestine)



JOKER
Todd Phillips  (US)



LETO
   Лето
Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)



LIBERTÉ
Albert Serra (France/Spain)




ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD
Quentin Tarantino (US)




PAIN & GLORY
Dolor y gloria
Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)



PARASITE
기생충
Bong Joon-ho (South Korea)




PIRANHAS
La paranza dei bambini
Claudio Giovannesi (Italy)




PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Céline Sciamma (France)




RETABLO
Alvaro Delgado Aparicio (Peru)




SEQUIN IN A BLUE ROOM 
Samuel Van Grinsven (Australia)




SO LONG, MY SON
    地久天长
Wang Xiaoshuai (China)




SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE
Deux moi
Cédric Klapisch (France)




SORRY ANGEL
Plaire, aimer et courir vite
Christophe Honoré (France)




THE SOUVENIR
Joanna Hogg (UK)




SYNONYMS
Synonymes - מילים נרדפות
 Nadav Lapid (France/Israel)




TRANSIT
Christian Petzold (Germany)




UNCUT GEMS
Josh & Benny Safdie (US)



THE WHISTLERS
La Gomera
Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania)