European Union Film Festival @ Mumbai
The European Union Film Festival 2011 is being held from 8th March 2011 to 18th March 2011 at Alliance Francaise De Bombay,Mumbai.
The EU Film Festival is made up of a bouquet of films that vividly reflect the diverse cultural streams of Europe and stories that describe the European way of life in certain socio-economic and cultural environments.
There will be 19 films mainly focusing on the theme of comedy, with the slogan Laugh Like a European.
Within this theme they have made a selection of films that provides something for everybody from situational comedies, films on relationship faux pas, animation and children’s films to musicals and comic action thrillers.
The EU Film Festival in India comes to the result of collaboration with EU Member States and Indian organizations such as Federation of Film Societies of India, National Centre for Performing Arts (Mumbai), India Habitat Centre (New Delhi), Cine Central (Kolkata), Indo-Cine Appreciation Foundation (Chennai), Thrissur Chalachitra Kendram and Corporation of Thrissur.
Wrong Side Up: An eccentric comedy that dives into the common daily insanities of post Communist life in the Czech Republic. Peter works at the freight terminal of an airport and his girlfriend Jana has just left him for someone with a far more interesting job. Peter hopes to win his ex-girlfriend back although most of his encounters with her don’t go exactly as planned.
The Physics of Water: Alessandro the seven-year-old dislikes his uncle Claudio. He sabotages Claudio’s car breaks. But he sees his mother get in the car with Claudio and fails to stop the accident. The boy is forced to dig deep into the blocks of his memory until the true motives of his dislike for his uncle are unveiled.
Love is all: All the story-lines within this romantic comedy are linked to a greater or lesser degree. But sooner or later every character ends up meeting Jan, who in his role of deus ex machina sees to it that in the end love conquers all.
Beloved Berlin Wall: Franzi and Sascha have to find their ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible to bring down the wall.
Kino Caravan: An old truck transformed into a “Kino Caravan” is visiting a remote, isolated mountain village from Transylvannia as to screen Russian propaganda films. It’s the first




