Film project "Crossing Europe" Vilnius
is a special film programme,
reflecting and expressing the idea of European unification and European
community. Europe is expanding, long forgotten countries comes back on the map, new film continents open, the intersection of
cultures, traditions and religions provokes film factions, intensive cultural
exchange turns into the necessity of cooperation between the European
countries. Therefore, "Crossing Europe" Vilnius suggests
to spectators to become familiar with, discover and understand the European
diversity and recognize themselves as the part of Europe.
"Crossing Europe" Vilniusis a programme of
films about the real current situation in Europe.
The film factions of the present programme reflect the culture, mentality and
traditions of various European countries in the wide context of the recent
political and social problems. The programme provokes to cross the whole Europe culturally.
The
intersection of Western and Eastern cultures that are clearly reflected in the
films of Linz Festival competitive programme is the principal line of this
partnership. Lithuania in
turn would present the film, that is not famous in Austria
and Linz city, the partner of Vilnius, would become the arena of cultural
development regarding the Lithuanian films. The programme would include not
only the exchange of films, but also the exchange of ideas and projects, that
would have been discussed for five years in the Co-production Forum, taking
place during the Nordic Film Forum "Scanorama". Directors, representing their
films in Vilnius,
would have a possibility to make themselves familiar with the city as a historical
and cultural place, in which films can be created. Thus, the present new
project would be based on the traditions that have already formed in Vilnius and Linz
festivals and would reflect the European cultural capitals in the context of
the set tasks.
The years 2007, 2008 and 2009 are not only the time for getting
acquainted with Europe, but also the time for Europe
to speak about ourselves. The project would gain acceleration and the European
film programme in Vilnius would be supplemented
with the programme of the Lithuanian films in Europe, namely in the
international film festival "Crossing
Europe" Linz.
The culmination of the programme would be established in 2009, upon the
unification of the so called old European film classics and modern
interpretation of the Lithuanian artists: the film "The Passion of Joan of Arc"
(„La Passion
de Jeanne d‘Arc", 1928), the masterpiece of Carl Theodor Dreyer, and the music,
specially written by a Lithuanian composer for the afore-mentioned work and
performed by one of the best Lithuanian orchestras. This event should take place
in the most prestigious place of Vilnius
and would become a distinct chord of the events concerning "Capital of Culture
2009".
01-08-2007
Crossing Europe at Scanorama FF Nov. 9-29
The idea of the present project was produced
during the visit in Linz while discussing the
possibilities of cooperation with Linz
festival "Crossing Europe", which presents a wide spectrum of Central and
Eastern European films. Then a decision to exchange the programmes, prepared by
"Crossing Europe" and the Nordic Film Forum "Scanorama", was made, orienting
the afore said programmes towards the events of Vilnius and Linz as the
capitals of culture in 2009.
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