CINEMA GEMS FROM SLOVENIA
Friday, September 9 – Monday, September 26
Billy Wilder Theatre at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles
(http://hammer.ucla.edu/about/index.html)
In partnership with UCLA Film and Television
Archive (http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/ ) and Slovenian Film Center (http://www.film-center.si/ ), the South East European Film
Festival, SEE FEST (www.seefilmla.org)
will present “Slovenia Begs to Differ”, a retrospective of the best Slovenian
films from the past 60 years from September 9 through 26 at the Billy
Wilder Theatre at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, 10899
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024.
Screenings
schedule:
Sept 9, 7:30pm: “Valley
of Peace”, 1956, and “Kekec”, 1951
Sept 10, 7:30pm: “Vesna”, 1953, and “100% Slovenian”, 2005
Sept 16, 7:30pm: “Dance
in the Rain”, 1961; and “A Sand Castle”, 1962
Sept 18, 7:00pm: “Stronghold
of Thugs”, 1967; and “Paper Planes”, 1967
Sept 25, 7:00pm: “Raft
of the Medusa”, 1980
Sept 26, 7:30pm: “Gravehopping”, 2005; and “9:06”, 2009
Program link: http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2011-09-09/slovenia-begs-differ
About UCLA Film & Television Archive (http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/)
The UCLA Film
& Television Archive is the second largest moving image archive in the
United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest
university-based media archive. Containing over 220,000 films and television
programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, the UCLA Film and Television
Archive contains materials dating back to the 1890s.
About SEE FEST (www.seefilmla.org)
Founded
in 2002, the South East European Film Festival, SEE FEST is the leading
voice in the U.S. for the presentation of cinematic and cultural diversity of
South East Europe. Annual Festival and year-round programming bring to American
audiences films that tell a larger story about South East Europe, and unlock the delicate doors into human
existence in this troubled region. SEE FEST also serves as the hub for
cultural exchange, and resource for scholars and filmmakers on cinema and
cultures of the region.