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Cold War – June 29th

A critical and audience favourite at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival (where it was awarded the Best Director prize) and a major 2019 Oscar contender, Paweł Pawlikowski’s follow-up to the Academy Award-winning Ida (screened in Euraw’s 2016 program) is a ravishing, music-fuelled romance charting two mismatched lovers caught between East and West in 1950s Europe.<

Poland 2018
Drama 1’30 min
Director: Paweł Pawlikowski
Cast: Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn
Languages: Polish

In the ruins of post-WWII Poland, pianist Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is commissioned by the Soviet state to form a musical ensemble to help rekindle national pride. Whilst touring the villages in search of talent he meets the beautiful Zula (Joanna Kulig, in a luminous star-making turn), a fiery and charismatic singer with a past, and the two fall passionately in love. When a performance in Berlin offers the pair an opportunity for escape to the West, a last-minute decision finds them stranded on either side of the Iron Curtain. As the years march on, Wiktor and Zula – whether through political circumstance or personal impetuosity – struggle to find their moment in time…

Spanning 15 years across Warsaw, Berlin, Paris and Yugoslavia, and inspired by the lives of the director’s own parents, COLD WAR meticulously recreates the era with virtuosic black-and-white cinematography, and an extraordinary soundtrack that is used judiciously to signify the passage of time and shifting relationships. Warmly lyrical, impossibly romantic and visually stunning, COLD WAR is one of the films of the year.

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Screening at Loop Project Space & Bar, 23 Meyers Pl, Melbourne

Brazils – May 25th

An ethno tale with humour and tears from Hungary.

Hungary 2017
Comedy 1’30 min
Director: Csaba M. Kiss, Gábor Rohonyi
Cast: Erik Lakatos, Barnabás Bergendi, Dániel Viktor Nagy
Languages: Hungarian

Chaos bursts out among the gypsy minority of the town of Acsa when the mayor, urged by the new young priest of the village, announces that this year the gypsy football team called Brazilians can also take part in the football championship of the village; and this year, thanks to a Brazilian millionaire originally from Acsa, the winning team will be invited to Rio de Janiero.

The championship starts. Events, emotions and anger take unpredictable directions. Those who win in the end were not supposed to be the winners, and those who find love, were not supposed to fall in love with each other.

Loveless – April 27th

The multi award-winning drama from Andrey Zvyagintsev (the director of Elena screened with our 2016 program), arguably the most fearless and vital filmmaker in modern European cinema, LOVELESS is a razor-sharp and gripping portrayal of a family – and society – on the precipice of collapse.

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Russia 2018
Drama 1’30 min
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cast: Maryana Spivak, Alexei Rozin
Languages: Russian

Boris (Alexey Rozin) and Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) live together in the same Moscow apartment, but their relationship is all but over. Caught in a spiral of slanging matches and eager to be freed into the company of new lovers, the only thing keeping them together is the still-to-be-finalised sale of their apartment. What this means for their 12-year-old son, Alyosha (Matvey Novikov), doesn’t seem to be of primary concern. But when he doesn’t return home one night, the couple are confronted by ambivalent and resource-strained authorities, and must mount their own independent search… one that forces them to confront their fears, past actions and complacency.

Shot with trademark precision, his stately compositions paired with taut moral narratives of greed and injustice, Zvyagintsev again proves to be the pre-eminent chronicler of his country’s 21st century malaise. Earning rave reviews at Cannes, where it topped the Screen International jury poll as best of the festival, nominated for the Best Foreign film at The Oscars and The Golden Globes, LOVELESS was one of the most powerful and essential cinematic experiences of 2018. Don’t miss it.

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Screening at Loop Project Space & Bar, 23 Meyers Pl, Melbourne

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Loving Vincent – March 23rd

Our second screening for 2019 it’s a piece of art, literally.

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Poland/ United Kingdom 2017
Drama/ Animation 1'30 min

Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Cast: Douglas Booth, Chris O'Dowd, Saoirse Ronan
Languages: English

Nominated for an Academy Award in 2017, the feature-length painted animation — the first film of its kind — explores the life and unusual death of Vincent Van Gogh via depictions of his artworks.

A young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating the artist’s final days.

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Screening at Loop Project Space & Bar, 23 Meyers Pl, Melbourne

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Tales from the Golden Age – February 16th

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We are back for 2019 and we take off with more amazing tales from the Golden Age of Romania. Three short films to transport you into a communist past that can be hard to believe, funny, brimming-full of reminiscence. Join us for some traditional Eastern European fare and by now classic films. Bring your own stories of the Golden Age.

For those of you who joined us in December, this is Tales from the Golden Age – part 2. Just as fun, we promise.

Book your tickets for 16 February now, and meet us at The Loop Projects Bar at 4.30 on the day.

Romania 2009
Comedy/Short Films 2'35 min

Directors: Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, 
           Constantin Popescu
Cast: Vlad Ivanov, Ion Sapdaru, Viorel Comanici

Tales from the Golden Age consists of six short films from the same historical period and following the same narrative pattern.
The screenplays have, as starting point, Romanian urban legends from the late communist period – popular and humoresque stories believed to be true. Comic, bizarre, surprising, these myths drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime. Humour is what kept Romanians alive, and Tales from the Golden Age aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship.
The last 15 years of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s regime were the worst in Romania’s history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as The Golden Age.

The shorts were screened at the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and are meant to be watched in no particular order.

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Screening at Loop Project Space & Bar, 23 Meyers Pl, Melbourne

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AGM 2019

Hello dear friends and Happy New Year.

We hope you enjoyed our last year’s program and we’d love to invite you to the 2019 Annual General Meeting. If you are a member with a 3 month or a 10 month pass, or if you’d like to get a bit more involved with our events and join the Euraw Inc Committee, join us this Sunday from 2pm-4pm at Loop Roof, the rooftop terrace on top of our venue.

On the agenda:

2018 rundown and wrap up
reiterate the Board/Committee structure
what’s on for 2019: brainstorm ideas regarding our venue’s new fees and discuss the future format of our events
chat, drink, socialise

All pass holders are welcome to participate and join the Euяaw Inc Committee and help our events grow bigger and run better.

RSVP required via email at stories@euraw.com.au.

See you Sunday!