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IFFI Schedule For 4th December 2004 – Saturday Evening -Compiled by Clinton..3rd December 2004 Kala Academy – 5.30 pm Finding Neverland (90 Minutes) Finding Neverland is based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, which focuses on how Pan's author J.M. Barrie was inspired to write his story after bonding with four fatherless children in 1900's London. "The tragedy of childhood is that it ends all too quickly," James Matthew Barrie says in The Man Who Was Peter Pan. The four young Davies brothers become an important element in his life. "Barrie feels a connection to George, Peter, Jack, and Michael that he doesn't have with other people - he revels in their rambunctiousness, encourages their creative impulses, and, unknowingly, lives vicariously through them. He becomes a kind of surrogate father to them, and develops a warm friendship with their mother, Sylvia." Kala Academy – 8.30 pm Only Girls (Filles Uniques) (90 Minutes) Two actresses at the top of their game bring zestful characterisations to Pierre Jolivet’s off-beat female buddy comedy. Carole (Sandrine Kiberlain), a conscientious prosecutor, finds herself handling the case of Tina (Sylvie Testud), a street-smart girl with an insatiable taste for fancy footwear. Promptly turning Carole’s life and apartment upside down, and turning her on to the pleasures of fine shoes, Tina enlists for a spot of investigative work, and together the duo tangle with pimps, con artists, amorous coppers and the labyrinthine complexities of the French criminal justice system. Jolivet starts off from the tried-and-tested premise of the free spirit who revolutionises the orderly existence of a more nervous soul, but soon rings some enjoyably unlikely changes on the scenario, with the legal and investigative backdrop providing a well-observed background for the smart, sympathetic interplay of the two leads. A classy supporting cast – including François Berléand as a memorably devious gambler – bolster the film’s confident, leisurely and surprisingly open-ended pleasures. INOX 4 – 9.30 pm Leila (102 Minutes) Leila is married to the man she loves dearly but discovers that she can never have a child of her own. Her husband Reza isn't terribly troubled by the matter and is convinced that their life together will be happy enough even without children. Reza's mother, however, an autocratic woman who has four daughters and a single son, isn't satisfied. She makes Leila consent to Reza's taking a second wife. Racked by guilt over her infertility, Leila is now subjected to the humiliation of accepting another woman into her private world of love. A fourth in a series of films about women (Banoo, 1992; Sara, 1994; Pari, 1995). A clever if flawed subversion of the Iranian melodrama; it provides a barbed commentary on Iran's emerging post-Revolutionary nouveau riche and a glimpse into the angst of Tehran's upper-middle class. When a 'yuppie' wife, Leila, finds that she can't have children, her pushy mother-in-law forces her son to take a second wife. Though Leila's surroundings - a suburban bungalow with all the mod cons - are thoroughly modern, she is powerless to resist the force of tradition. Most Iranians were offended by the film, claiming it wasn't realistic. INOX 3 – 8.45 pm Dantelle (Lace) (123 Minutes) "Dantelle" is a movie full of excitement with Youssra and Ilham Shaheen as the two main protagonists. In the story, Y and IS are two best friends since childhood. Y is vivacious, she loves dancing and singing while IS is from a well-educated middle class family whose life has been arranged by her family: to be a lawyer. Once they meet a police officer (Mahmoud Hemida) and both of them fall in love with him. Y gets grip of her own emotion, thinking that friendship is very important and wants IS to take the man. However, IS, not very accomplished in her legal career and so by family decision, gets married with a man and follows him to Montreal, Canada, a place where she can never adjust to no matter how hard she tries and divorce is the obvious consequence. When IS returns to Alexandria, she finds that Y is enjoying great fame as a singer. And the competition for the police officer starts. Since polygamy is allowed for Muslim men to marry up to four wives in Egypt, both Y and IS are married to him and the crazy antics on winning the heart of the man ensue. For example, Monday and Wednesday are days for Y and some other days for IS. These "marriage rivals" would be behaving as wicked as possible to wreck the day of their enemy. The man needs to deal with two women so he becomes very exhausted when he works. Once he supervisor gave me a brief lesson that he should take good care of his health and body. Subsequently, at one time, he yells to the two wives, "Today is my own day. Neither of you should bother me!" At the end, the two good friends decide they would be better off pairing up with each other to bring up a child one of them has from him with their husband's involvement. It is always said that most men embrace polygamy, it may not be true. "Dantelle" tells a polygamy story in light and civilized tone. INOX 2 – 6.15 pm Manners of Dying (102 Minutes) Kevin Barlow will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington, director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting violently to the end, Parlington feels confident that he and his team can deal with the situation. Father Preston is on hand to provide spiritual guidance, if needed. Doctor Lowe can provide pills to relieve the tension. The tie-down crew, all veterans of many executions, work swiftly and efficiently. All angles appear to be covered, until Parlington discovers there are many more angles to Kevin Barlow than he had first imagined. When Barlow makes a baffling and unusual final request, a strange duel ensues between the condemned man and the prison director. In this struggle there can be no winner or loser, only two men faced with doubts and difficult choices to make. The iron grip Parlington usually maintains on the execution procedure begins to slip as the final hours become a maze of manners of dying. INOX 2 – 9.15 pm Terkel In Trouble (Terkel i knibe) (78 Minutes) Terkel In Trouble is the first CG animated feature film to be made in Denmark. Terkel is eleven years old. He's having trouble with Steen and Saki, two bullies in his class at school. Luckily, Terkel has a really good friend, Jason. But when Terkel teases Dorrit, an obese girl, so badly that she jumps out of the window, it almost ends their friendship. Jason is pretty fed up with Terkel and his tendency to suck up to the bullies. Maybe Terkel ought to be worrying about who is throwing bricks through his bedroom window at night, and Gunnar, the slightly too smug substitute teacher. From the director of the critically acclaimed box-office hit "Help, I'm a Fish"/"Hjælp, Jeg er en Fisk" (2000), an award-winner at Chicago Film Festival. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.803 / Virus Database: 546 - Release Date: 11/30/2004