Friday 19 Oct, 18:50, Harstad Kino Sal 2 / Sunday 21 okt, 20:30, Harstad Kino Sal 1
A musician helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Director: Bradley Cooper
Writers: Eric Roth (screenplay), Bradley Cooper (screenplay)
Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott
Harstad Kino Sal 1
Introduced by Knut Erik Sundquist, Harstad’s own international star and founder of the super popular classical music festival Contrasto in Harstad! This is one of his favourite films. Knut Erik will hold an intro to the film, but it will be in Norwegian. The film is in English language, with norwegian subtitles.
About the film:
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporary composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Director: Milos Forman
Writers: Peter Shaffer (original stage play), Peter Shaffer (original screenplay)
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Film Still, Your Face (2018)
TSAI MING-LIANG
Harstad Kino Sal 2
With introduction to Tsai Ming-liangs universe by Helene Eggen
After last year's Virtual Reality film "The Deserted", taiwanese filmmaker and conceptual artist Tsai Ming-liang has made a minimalist film consisting only of close-ups of ordinary people's aging faces, hence the title "Your Face". The faces, which can be seen as the essence of Tsai´s film universe, are given careful attention and appear as cinematographic compositions, accompanied by the famous composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's distinctive tones. Some are silent and almost motionless, some fall asleep, others reminiscence from their long life with the director, who has a clear presence in the movie behind the camera. One of the faces belongs to Lee Kang-Sheng, his regular partner and lead actor for over 20 years, which can be said to be the starting point for his films. Specifically, how his face has changed in front of the camera in all these years. «All i can say is that his face is my cinema.», Tsai Ming-liang.
Born in Malaysia in 1957, Tsai Ming-Liang is one of the most prominent film directors of the new cinema movement in Taiwan. In 1994, his film Vive L’ amour was awarded the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, and this helped establish a place for him in the world of international film. In 2009, Face became the first film to be included in the collection of the Louvre Museum’s “Le Louvre s´offre aux cineastes.” It has since become the benchmark for films venturing into the world of art galleries. In recent years, Tsai Ming-Liang has also moved on to installation art. His works have been well-received in Venice, Shanghai, Nagoya. Since 2012, he has been working on a long project to film Lee Kang-Sheng´s slow walk, cooperating with various cities and organizations. To date, he has completed seven short works. His 10th full-length feature "Stray Dogs"(2013) was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 70th Venice Film Festival. In 2014, he presented the critically acclaimed theater work The Monk from Tang Dynasty in arts festivals in Brussels, Vienna, Gwangju and Taipei. That same year, Tsai made history by bringing his movie Stray Dogs at the Museum at MoNTUE, the Museum of National Taipei University of Education.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang. Producer: Claude Wang. Original music: Ryuichi Sakamoto. Photo: Ian Ku. Year: Taiwan, 2018. Language: mandarin, english subtitles. Running time: 76 min.
Behind the scenes, Your Face (2018)
Lukas Dhont
Harstad Kino Sal 1
Country: Belgium / Netherlands (2018), Language: French/ Flemish /English, Subtitles: Norwegian
Lara is a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who dreams to become a ballerina.
No film won more prizes at the Cannes Film Festival this year than “Girl”. Directed by Belgian newcomer Lukas Dhont, the film wowed three juries, earning the Caméra d’Or for best first feature, the Queer Palm for best LGBT-themed film and a gender-blind prize for best performance in the Un Certain Regard section.
“Adolescence is inevitably turbulent, and one of its cruelest paradoxes is the way society pushes us to be exceptional (who doesn’t want to feel special?) at the same time that insecure/jealous peers reinforce the idea that it will all pass easier if we just keep our heads down. Add to that the complication of feeling as though you were born with the wrong gender, and those years are sure to be confusing: How to stand out and blend in at the same time? Few films convey that tension better than “Girl,” a deeply humane first feature from Belgian director Lukas Dhont about a boy who wants to be a ballerina.” - Peter Debruge, Variety.
Director: Lukas Dhont, Writers: Lukas Dhont (screenplay), Angelo Tijssens (screenplay), Stars: Victor Polster. Running time: 1 t. 45 min. Norwegian cinema release 02.11.2018.
Friday 19 Oct, 18:50, Harstad Kino Sal 2 / Sunday 21 okt, 20:30, Harstad Kino Sal 1
A musician helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Director: Bradley Cooper
Writers: Eric Roth (screenplay), Bradley Cooper (screenplay)
Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott
Pawel Pawlikowski
Harstad Kino Sal 1
Polish language, norwegian subtitles
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.
"The crystalline black-and-white cinematography exalts its moments of intimate grimness and its dreamlike showpieces of theatrical display. It is an elliptical, episodic story of imprisonment and escape, epic in scope." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/11/cold-war-review-wounded-love-and-state-sponsored-fear-in-1940s-poland
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland, 2018), Norwegian cinema release: 26.10.2018
Lars Kraume
Harstad Kino Sal 1
German language, norwegian subtitles
A group of sixth-grade pupils decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging a minute's silence during lessons.
Director: Lars Kraume, Germany (2018), 1 t. 51 min. Norway cinema premiere 02.11.2018
Harstad Kino Sal 1
Welcome to live music, pricewinning long film and a short film especially made for AMIFF 2018!
The theme of AMIFF 2018 is «Periferies», and several of the films deals with people who stand outside the norm in our society. Therefore, we have chosen the winner of Sundance Filmfestival, the American indie film «The Miseducation of Cameron Post», as the opening film. The film is powerful, fun and warm, and is about the lesbian teen Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass)) who get sent away to a «pray the gay away» camp. At the camp she allies with two other misfits; Adam, who is not bound to the idea of one sex and a girl who calls herself «Jane Fonda». (Director: Desiree Akhavan, USA 2018, 1 t 30 min) Age limit: 12 år
At the opening event the short film «Tander» will be premiered. It is commisioned by AMIFF and it’s made my artist Hedda Bremseth. «Tander» deals with internet dating in Northern Norway, and it is shot locally.
The film music is by Erling Ramskjell, and he will perform live at the opening event. Ramskjell is a northern Norwegian singer/songwriter.
Erling Ramskjell
