Nordic Film Winter

Organised by:
Festival
Programme
KINO BESEDA
Praha, Kino Atlas
11. — 17. 2.
Po 11. 2. 18:00
Upperdog
(Upperdog, NO, 2009)
20:00
Villa paranoia
(Villa paranoia, DK, 2004)
Út 12. 2. 18:00
Happy End
Supported by:
(Happy End, SE, 2011)
20:00
Rallychicks
(Rallybrudar, SE, 2008)
St 13. 2. 18:00
Adam's Apples
(Adams æbler, DK, 2005)
20:00
Fuck up!
(Fuck Up, NO, 2012)
ÌW
20:00
The Reunion
(Klassefesten, DK, 2011)
As It Is In Heaven
(Så som i himmelen, SE, 2004)
Pá 15. 2. 18:00
Kenny Begins
(Kenny Begins, SE, 2009)
20:00
Behind Blue Sky
(Himlen är oskyldigt blå, SE, 2010)
So 16. 2. 16:00
Break Your Bounds
(Slip hestene los, DK, 2000)
18:00
Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced
(NO, 2000)
20:00
Troubled Water
(DeUsynlige, NO/SE, 2008)
Ne 17.2. 18:00
Polite People
(Kurteist fólk, IS, 2011)
20:00
Stars Above
(Tähtitaivas talon yllä, FIN, 2012)
Media Partners:
Nordic
Film
Winter
Upperdog (Norway, 2009)
The Reunion (Denmark, 2012)
Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced (Norway, 2000)
As young children, the half-siblings Axel and Yanne were sent to Norway for adoption.
The boy enters a wealthy family in Oslo's West side, and the girl an average family on
the East side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to
Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now. All this is about to change,
however, as Yanne's Polish friend Maria starts working as maid for Axel's parents. She
discovers a photograph of a young boy, the same one she saw on the wall at Yanne's
flat. She takes on the task of reuniting them. But before she has time to realise the
consequences, she has set in motion a chain of events which involve the emotions of
many others than just her own.
The three high school buddies Niels (Nicolaj Kopernikus), Andreas (Anders W.
Berthelsen) and Thomas (Troels Lyby) are invited to the mandatory 25-year
anniversary. Actually Niels and Andreas are inclined to stay home, but Thomas talks
them into going. He has organized a great weekend with drinks, ladies and sauna! The
question is whether they actually survive the Copenhagen nightlife... and if they ever
reach the class reunion!
The band is a three-piece vocal group dominated by their utterly untalented lead
singer "M*Pete". When they are caught lip-synching before the release of their first
album, scandal erupts (fed also by their manager's physically assaulting an elderly male
and an elderly female member of the Salvation Army and the revelation that M*Pete's
16 year-old girlfriend is actually only 12) and they are dropped by their record
company. They consider leaving the music industry, but their manager gets them a
sponsorship deal with a Norwegian fish finger manufacturer. Ultimately they bounce
back to fame after an appearance at the HitAwards Norwegian music awards show.
Vila paranoia (Denmark, 2004)
Jorgen is burdened by his father, Valentin, an old man who neither talks nor moves and
is leading something hard to be called a life at his villa. The nurses come and go as
Valentin sits in his chair, never moving, never reacting.
Anna is a 24-year-old unemployed actress who, to get a paycheck, participates in a
ridiculous commercial, where she meets Jørgen, who offers her a room at his father's villa
to look after Valentin. She takes the job and turns out to be the only person able to
deal with this old, miserable man.
Valentin's mental faculties are not always on an even keel, yet he serves as an
audience for the roles Anna didn't get at auditions, and step-by-step, she starts to
bring him back to life. But it turns out that Valentin isn't quite as feeble as he has led
everyone to believe, and Anna must call upon her acting skills to find out what he is
hiding before Jørgen takes more drastic measures
Happy End (Sweden, 2011)
Happy end is a fairytale for adults, about five people who currently stands at the
crossroad that forever will change the paths of their lives. Jonna, Peter, Katrine, Asger
and Mårten are all people with an important liaison to one another, but who are
avoiding to be truthful. They are all living in a world of shadows, lined by lies and
falsities and are only waiting for the truth to appear so that they may be able to
continue their lives in another direction.
Rallychicks(Sweden, 2008)
The veterinary assistant Ulla have taken her job only for the opportunity to race on the
small roads of Värmland. The big farmer's daughter Birgitta dreams about Paris but
instead becomes Ulla's map-reader. Roffe has his car workshop across the yard from
Eivors café where he is a diligent visitor. Eivor runs the café on the days and sings in
the dance-band "Roffes with Eivor" on the evenings. The veterinary, Krook, is the
district's big ladies-man. The local newspaper's editor Melin plays the drums in "Roffes
with Eivor". Kenta, who works at Roffe's garage, also plays in Roffes dance-bands.
Kenta is hugely in love in Ulla, but isn't equally delighted in her interests for car sport.
Fuck up!
(Norway, 2012)
Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking
anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use.
Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish
border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the
trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes
their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock
bottom, it can always get worse.
As It Is In Heaven (Sweden, 2004)
A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns alone to
his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden. It doesn't take long before
he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practises every
Thursday in the parish hall. Just come along and give a little bit of good advice. He
can't say no, and from that moment, nothing in the village is the same again. The choir
develops and grows. He makes both friends and enemies. And he finds love.
Kenny begins (Sweden, 2009)
Kenny Starfighter is probably the worst student the Galaxy Hero Academy has ever
had and in pursuit of his exam grades, Kenny accidentally crash-lands on Earth. He
bumps into 15-year old Pontus who has found a mysterious, luminous crystal which has
given him superpowers and the possibility to get the coolest girl in school, Miranda,
interested in him. Rutger Oversmart, who is the most intelligent man in Universe, needs
the crystal’s powers to become the most powerful man in the Universe. When Rutger
finds out that Pontus has absorbed the power he sends out the most dangerous
bounty hunters in the Galaxy to catch him. Can Kenny Starfighter save Pontus’ life or is it
Pontus and Miranda who will save Kenny?
Behind Blue Sky (Sweden, 2010)
It's the summer of 1975. Martin has just graduated from high school and leaves the
concrete of the city for a summer job at Sandhamn's exclusive yacht club restaurant in
Stockholm's archipelago. A whole new world opens up for him. Martin meets the love of
his life at the same time as he is taken under the wing of the yacht club restaurant's
boss, a playboy in the center of Swedish society. But hiding behind the glamorous
facade in the idyllic archipelago setting is a much darker reality. Before Martin really
understands what is going on he finds himself in the middle of one of the greatest
scandals in Swedish criminal history.
Adam's Apples (Denmark, 2005)
The comedy “Adams Apples” is a modern religious fable about belief, and the fight
between good and evil. Adam is a neo-Nazi, who is send on community service with
the priest Ivan. Ivan gives Adam the task of baking an apple pie with apples from the
tree in front of the church. Meanwhile birds, worms and lightning are attacking the
apples. Ivan believes it is the Devil, who is testing them, but Adams believes it is God,
because it might be, that evil does not even exist.
Break Your Bounds (Denmark, 2000)
Window cleaner Bent A. Pedersen, is living together with his friend Sigfred, as he cant
stand his neurotic wife, and his handicapped son One day at work a boy hit his van
and smash the mirror. Bent wants the boy to pay up for the damage, and walk with him
to talk with the boys mother and suddenly the life in the surburbian Amager is not the
same…
Troubled Water (Norway, 2008)
After serving his sentence for having killed a child, a young man begins a new life as a
church organist but finds no peace there either: the mother of the child he allegedly
killed finds him and begins pursuing him in a fateful effort to learn the truth...
Jan Thomas’ last day in prison begins with a dunking in boiling-hot water and a beating
by his fellow inmates. But he can consider himself lucky that his send-off wasn’t worse,
since he’s been tagged as a child murderer - even though he has always claimed his
innocence. Now he’s out and has a second chance to do something with his life. A
gifted organist, he gets a job in an Oslo church, where his talent and gentle manner
quickly earn him the respect of his superiors. He also soon wins the heart of Anna, the
pastor, and her little boy, Jens. He decides not to tell her about his past. But then his
past catches up with him: Agnes, a teacher, comes to the church on a school visit. She
recognizes the organist Jan Thomas as the young man who was convicted for the
murder of her son …
Polite People (Iceland, 2011)
A desperate city slicker engineer cheats his way into a small farming community,
pretending to know how to save them by re-financing their slaughterhouse not knowing
that he’s walking into a local world war of small-town politics and general misbehaving.
Stars above (Finland, 2012)
Stars above follows the stories of three women from the same family across three
different decades. The main characters – Saima (Irina Björklund), Tuulikki (Meri Nenonen)
and Salla (Elin Petersdottir) – each live in the same country house. Saima´s story takes
place in the war time 1942, when Finland fought against Soviet Union, Tuulikki´s story in
colourful year 1978 and Salla´s story in the present day. Each woman is between 30
and 40.
This deep and beautiful, yet humorous film pictures the encounters between people
and the possibilities for choice. How much does the time we live in affect us - and our
ability to hold on to our dreams? What are those things which we pass on from one
generation to the next? What changes, what remains the same? And to what extent
do mothers´ choices, let alone their unspoken secrets, affect their daughters´ lives?