08/06/2009 Mosaïques 2009
Mosaïques 2009
11th Festival of World Culture
Films, Music & Live Events
11 – 18 June 2009 at the Institut français
FILMS
Song from the Southern Seas
Kazakhstan | 2008 | col | 84 mins | dir. Marat Sarulu, with Vladimir Yavorsky
Two couples, one Russian and one Kazak, are neighbours in a beautiful, semi-desolate region adjoining the arid grasslands of the Great Steppe. The couples live in intimate proximity, sharing one another's joys and woes, but when the fair-skinned Russians give birth to a boy with a decidedly darker complexion, the couples enter into a fifteen-year period of suspicion and acrimony. At times darkly sombre, at others tender and wistful – and buoyed throughout by a soundtrack of folk-inspired melodies – Sarulu's film considers the meaning of family at the crossroads of different cultures and histories.
sat 13 june | 5.30pm | tickets: £9, conc. £7
The Market – A Tale of Trade
UK/Turkey/Germany/Kazakhstan | 2008 | col | 94 mins | dir. Ben Hopkins, with Tayanç Ayadin,
Genco Erkal, Senay Aydin, Hakan Sahin | cert. TBC
Mihram is a black market merchant in a Turkish village. When he is offered a job involving the illegal acquisition of expensive medicine, he senses a great opportunity. With luck he can build up the business he has been dreaming of. But luck is not predictable … Once again Ben Hopkins is working with amateur actors in this Kazakh/Turkish/German/British co-production. A modern tale of money, trade, mafia and the morally complex world of the international black market.
tue 16 june | 8.30pm | followed by a Q&A with director Ben Hopkins | Tickets: £9, conc. £7
Tickets can be bought at the Ciné Lumière Box Office or by phone at 0207 073 1350.
Ciné Lumière
Institut Français
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2D
http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cine-lumiere/festival/festival-mosaiques.html
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