Tuesday, December 27, 2016

SFFLA 2017

18th Scandinavian Film Festival L.A.

14, 15, 21, 22, 2017 - WGA in Beverly Hills




Screening Schedule:

Saturday, January 14

12:00 The Crossing (documentary 55 min) - Norway
01:30 Sparrows (99 min) - Iceland
04:00 The Happiest Day in the Life of Ollie Mäki (92 min) - Finland
06:00 Opening Gala Reception
07:30 Opening Night Film: Land of Mine (100 min) - Denmark


 


Sunday, January 15

11:00 Beauty Bites Beast (83 min) - Norway
12:00 Eternal Summer (107 min) - Sweden
02:00 Mariupolis (documentary 96 min) - Lithuania
04:30 Bird Hearts (short 30 min) - Norway
05:00 All the Beauty (91 min) - Norway
07:00 Ghettoswedish (short 10 min) - Sweden
07:15 A Man Called Ove (116 min) - Sweden




Saturday, January 21

01:00 Heartstone (129 min) - Iceland
03:30 An Empty Space (short 10 min) - Estonia
04:00 Mother (89 min) - Estonia
06:30 The Commune (115 min) - Denmark

 

Sunday, January 22

01:00 A Holy Mess (108 min) - Sweden
02:45 Awesome Beetles (short 3 min) - Latvia
03:00 Dawn (90 min) - Latvia
05:00 Little Wing (100 min) - Finland
07:00 The King's Choice (133 min) - Norway





For more information please visit SFFLA2017



Thursday, December 22, 2016

TOP 30 - BEST OF 2016






My favorite 30 BEST FILMS of 2016  (in alphabetical order):


 AQUARIUS
Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil)


 BEING 17
Quand on a 17 ans
André Téchiné (France)


 CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)



DON’T CALL ME SON
Mãe só há uma 
Anna Muylaert (Brazil)


 ELLE
Paul Verhoeven (France)


 EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT
El abrazo de la serpiente 
Ciro Guerra (Colombia)



I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
Raoul Peck (US)


 I, DANIEL BLAKE
Ken Loach (UK)


 KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
Travis Knight (US)


 LA SAPIENZA
Eugène Green (France/Italy)


 THE TOURNAMENT
Le Tournoi 
Élodie Namer (France)



 LAND OF MINE
Martin Zandvliet (Denmark)


 LOUDER THAN BOMBS
Joachim Trier (Norway)


 MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Kenneth Lonergan (US)


 MISTER UNIVERSO
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (Italy)


 MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI
Ma vie de Courgette
Claude Barras (Switzerland)


 NOCTURAMA
Bertrand Bonello (France)


 PARADISE
Рай
Andrei Konchalovsky (Russia)


 PARIS 05:59 – THÉO + HUGO
Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau
Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (France)


 STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE
Vor der Morgenröte  
Maria Schrader (Austria)


 THE DEMONS
 Les Démons 
Philippe Lesage (Canada)


 THE HANDMAIDEN
아가씨 
Park Chan-wook (S. Korea)

 THE KIND WORDS
המילים הטובות‎‎ 
Shemi Zarhin (Israel)


 THE MAN WHO BECAME A HORSE
مردی که اسب شد
Amir Hossein Saghafi (Iran)


 THE MAN WHO SAW TOO MUCH
El hombre que vio demasiado 
Trisha Ziff (Mexico)


 THE SALESMAN
 فروشنده‎‎  
Asghar Farhadi (Iran)

 THE UNTAMED
La Región Salvaje 
Amat Escalante (Mexico)



THE WAILING
곡성 
Na Hong-jin (S. Korea)



THINGS TO COME
L'Avenir 
Mia Hansen-Løve (France)


 TONI ERDMANN
Maren Ade (Germany)