Screenings during the 11-day festival will be held at the Uránia, the Toldi, the Örökmozgó and the Vörösmarty cinemas. The programme will include all kinds of films, from Sofia Coppola's third feature, the costume drama Marie Antoinette, with Kirsten Dunst in the lead, to Ferenc Török's Hungarian-German co-production Overnight, which shows 24 hours in the life of a Hungarian stock broker. The festival will open with director Nick Cassavetes' thriller Alpha Dog at the Uránia cinema on April 12, Thursday. It tells the life story of Jesse James Hollywood, one of the youngest criminals every to be placed on the FBI's most-wanted list.
The Music For All section of the Titanic's programme will show Julian Temple's documentary Glastonbury, shot on the 30th anniversary of the UK music festival. The documentary shows performances by musicians such as Björk, James Brown, Nick Cave and David Bowie. Other music films on the programme are Alexandra Lipsitz's Air Guitar Nation, which documents an air guitar contest, and Adam Yauch's Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!, which documents a 2004 Beastie Boys at Madison Square Garden shot by fans with 50 digital cameras.
In the Titanic's British Isles section will be Paul Andrew Williams' first feature, the thriller London to Brighton, hailed by critic Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian as the best British film of 2006; and James Marquand's film Dead Man's Cards, a dark film about poker-playing gangsters in Liverpool.
The French Sandbanks section will include director Bruno Dumont's new film Flanders in competition, as well as Xavier Beauvois's excellent thriller Le Petit Lieutenant.
Festival goers with strong nerves can see Danish director Anders Morgenthaler's animated feature Princess, which has become something of a scandal, as well as Dutch director Koen Mortier's Ex Drummer, which mixes rock 'n' roll with black humour, in the Elements of Crime section.
The Korean Peninsula section will feature Kim Ji-woon's feature A Bittersweet Life, and, in competition, Joon-ho Bong's film The Host, about a sea monster.
The Around the World section will show John Barker's comic feature Bunny Chow from South Africa, as well as Esteban Sapir's laconic work The Aerial, a fairy-tale in black and white.
The Foam of the Daze section will include the South African feature Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood, which won the Academy Award for best foreign film in 2006. Another highlight is Ra Choi, in which the Australian director Michael Frank presents the everyday battles of homeless children on the streets of Sydney.
In the Discovery of America section will be Goran Dukic's Wristcutters: A Love Story, a comedy about suicides in purgatory, and Quincea?era, Richard Glatzer's and Wash Westmoreland's film which takes place in the framework of preparations for the celebration Mexican parents give their daughters on their 15th birthday.
Among the documentaries to be shown at Titanic is director Kirby Dick's This Film is Not Yet Rated, which exposes the narrow-minded rating system used by Hollywood studios, and. Stefano Savona's Notes from a Kurdish Rebel.
Eight films will compete for the festival's main Breaking the Waves prize in this year's competition. The winner will be decided by a three-member jury. Additionally, there will be an audience award and a student jury award.
Source: port.hu
