A wealth of European cinema

13/10/2003

There’s a whole host of special events being organised in the Czech republic as part of the 2nd edition of Cinedays. In fact, the Czech Republic ranks sixth among the organising countries for Cinedays 2003, following Italy, France, Germany, United Kingdom, and Spain, thanks to the large scope of events taking place in Prague as well as in the other Czech regions.

The programmes on offer include the participation of the cinemas of the Association of Czech Film Clubs (AČFK), which will be hosting a retrospective films by Federico Fellini, including works like Amarcord, Satyricon, La Dolce Vita or La Strada . In association with this event, the organisation has also launched a special project called “The Film and School“, enabling young students to learn about essential works of European cinema.
For the Aero cinema, this will be its second year taking part in Cinedays. It’s preparing one-off presentations of Ingmar Bergman’s films The Silence and The Seventh Seal. A special part of the event organised by the cinema will be a videoconference of four European cities (Rome, Barcelona, Paris, Prague) during which the same film will be shown in four different cinemas. The reactions of the audience after the film will be then be transmitted by videoconference, directly onto the screens in all four cinemas.
Apart from offering this year’s hot films, like The Man Without A Past [+see also:
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And finally the National Film Archive will feature a retrospective of classic works of German expressionism by Friedrich W. Murnau in the Ponrepo cinema, and films from “the golden fund” of the Swedish cinematography, chosen and commented on by Ingmar Bergman personally. In co-operation with the Welsh Film Archive, there’ll be a screening of two documentary films about the tragedy of Lidice, a Czech village eradicated in the Second World War.