"Little Europe 2013" The 11th Festival of Films from East Central Europe & Russia at Department of Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies, 1st Floor, Tutorial Building, Central Library Complex, North Campus > 18th, 21st, 24th, 25th, 28th & 29th October 2013

Entry : Open for Delhi University college students only.
Seating on First-Come First-Served basis

Place : Conference Hall, Department of Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies, 1st Floor, Tutorial Building, Central Library Complex, North Campus, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Venue Info : Nearest Metro Station - 'Vishwa Vidyalaya(Yellow Line)'

Event Description : The Department of Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies, University of Delhi in collaboration with The Embassies of the Czech Republic, Russian Federation, the Republic of Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary & Croatia in India Present 'Little Europe 2013' The 11th Festival of Films from East Central Europe & Russia

Theme: City in Cinema

Student’s workshops to be conducted by experts after film screenings.

Film Screening Schedule : 

18th October : 
10:30 am - Inauguration
12:30 pm - 
Film: LIDICE
The film is presented as a true story set during World War II. With the Nazi takeover of Europe underway, the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Prague and his underlings begin enforcing his authority in the towns and villages across the occupied country. In Lidice, the film's main protagonist, František Šíma, is sent to prison following a family dispute that results in the accidental death of one of his sons. During Šíma's 
incarceration, one of the other villagers, Václav Fiala, strings along his mistress with lies about his bravery as a resistance fighter against the Germans. After Heydrich is assassinated, the Gestapo investigation uncovers a letter written by Fiala to his mistress describing his supposed heroism. The unfortunate letter triggers the total destruction of Lidice and leads to mass executions and deportations of all its citizens. Throughout the atrocities, Šíma remains in jail, where news of what has happened is kept from him. On his release, he returns to Lidice where he finds that his home village has been erased from the ground.
Country: Czech Republic
Language: Czech with English Subtitles
Directed by: Petr Nikolaev
Starring: Karel Roden, Zuzana Fialová,
Zuzana Bydžovská Roman Luknár, 
Ondřej Novák Karel, Veronika Kubařová, 
Norbert Lichý, Jan Budař safecracker, 
Václav Jiráček 
Year of Release: 2011
Running Time: 118 minutes

21st October : 
2:00 pm - 
Film: Zagreb Stories Vol.2
Country: Croatia
Language: Croatian with 
English Subtitles
Directed by: Sara Hribar, 
Radoslav Jovanov, 
Ivan Sikavica Aldo Tardozzi, 
Hana Vecek, Josip Viskovic
Starring: Aleksandra Stojakovic, 
Sinisa Popovic, Dijana Vidusin
Year of Release: 2012
Running Time: 100 min.
After a great success of "Zagreb Stories" Propeler Film produced a new omnibus consisting of six new interesting stories about love and family in present-day Zagreb - "Zagreb Stories Vol.2"

24th October : 
2:00 pm : 
Film: Hindemith
Country: Bulgaria
Language: Bulgarian with English Subtitles
Directed by: Andrey Slabakov
Starring: Ernestina Chinova, 
Deyan Donkov, Valentin Ganev
Year of Release: 2009
Running Time: 100 min
Two very similar families are settling in two identical houses in a new fashionable neighborhood built near a complex of panel-apartment buildings. The couples are in their forties. The husbands are moderate professionals and the wives are housewives without children and with firmly fixed habits. Step by step they find out how similar they are and step by step they come to hate each other. The more they strive to be different and the more they fail, the stronger their malice and their lust to harm each other grow.

25th October : 
Friday 2:00 pm
Film: The Eighth Day of the Week
Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian with 
English Subtitles
Directed by: Judit Elek
Starring: Maja Komorowska, 
Gyula Bodrogi, 
Eszter Csákányi, Franciszek Pieczka
Year of Release: 2007
Running Time: 105min.
The misfortune of the elderly Hanna, a retired actress who is evicted from her apartment and finds herself homeless and forced to sleep at the train station. Set against the backdrop of the embezzlement of 
the mafia, which forms a kind of substitute state, Hanna manages, against the odds, to find hope once again through a chance encounter.

28th October :
2:00 pm :
Film: My Name is Ki
Country: Poland
Language: Polish with 
English Subtitles
Directed by: Leszek Dawid
Starring:Roma Gasiorowska
Year of Release: 2011
Running Time: 93 min
The film documents the experiences of Ki, a young mother keen on escaping the responsibilities of parenthood and intent on living a carefree existence. Her desire for a life outside the confines of the home see her manipulate and exploit others into caring for her young child. Ki offers a commentary on the aspirations and troubles of today’s youth, while maintaining a sympathetic take on its protagonist, in spite of her failings.

29th October :

2:00 pm - 

Film: Moscow, I Love You

Country: Russian Federation

Language: Russian with English Subtitles

Directed by: E. Konchalovsky, 

A. Mikhalkov, G. Natanson, 

A. Surikova

Starring: Ivanova, Yevgeniy Stychkin, 

Ivan Okhlobystin, Mariya Mironova, 

Yevgeniy Mironov

Year of Release: 2010

Running Time: 100 min.

The film consists of 18 short films made by different Russian directors. The “Cities of Love” series continues in Moscow. After falling in love with Paris and New York, now anyone can try falling in love with the Russian capital. The plot of every novel is a significant memorable moment of the Russian capital's life. Like this almanac's predecessors, it's about human relations, love, meetings, breakups and so on. The main character uniting the novels is still the city itself. The project gathered several generations of filmmakers, from 30 to 90 years old, which gives another angle to the perception of the city spirit and the film as a whole.

Students' Presentation on the Films to be held on 8 November 2013
The best presentations will be awarded.

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