Attendance to all the screenings is free of charge, but booking is necessary at https://kreattivita.org/
EUNIC is the European network of cultural institutes and embassies engaging in cultural relations, bringing to life cultural collaborations in more than 100 countries worldwide with a network of 136 clusters.
The EUNIC Malta Cluster was launched in July 2021. The Cluster’s mission is to contribute towards the Sustainable Development Goals and to reflect and give value to the diversity of European cultures and common values through joint European events and projects.
One of those events is the annual EUNIC Film Festival. This year marks the fourth edition of the event. This year’s theme is “United in Diversity”, the motto of the European Union. Across six days, from 24 to 29 September, the film festival show fourteen screenings, celebrating diversity in all its forms.
Twelve members and partners are taking part in the event: the embassies of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain, as well as the Alliance française, Arts Council Malta, the British Council, the European Commission Representation and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
NEW DATE Thursday, October 24 at 17:00
MI FANNO MALE I CAPELLI (In the mirror)
Directed by Roberta Torre [2023, 83′]
Italian with English subtitles
Monica is losing her memory and it’s tearing her life apart. It’s Korsakoff’s syndrome, the doctor says. It’s irreversible. But then something unexpected happens: she finds a way to give what’s happening meaning by borrowing the memories of another Monica, one she has always admired: Monica Vitti. She dresses like her, imitates her, acts out scenes from her films and identifies with her characters, until the line between film and reality starts to blur. Her husband Edoardo, who loves her deeply, lets this game become their new life.
The title is a quote from Red Desert, a movie directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti.
Czechia | Waltzing Matilda
A story of Karel Jaroš, an emotionally arid man, whose mother suffers from Alzheimer disease. It is not love, but the sense of duty that stops him from sending his mother to a mental institution. On the other hand, this way he can finally connect with her. And not just with her but also with his teenage son and with himself.
Date and time: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 5pm
Germany | When will it be again like it was never before
Growing up on the grounds of one of Germany’s largest psychiatric hospitals is somehow – different. For Joachim, the director’s youngest son, the patients are like family. They are also much nicer to him than his two older brothers, who drive him into fits of rage. His mother, painting watercolors, longs for Italian summer nights instead of constant German rain, while his father secretly, but not discreetly enough, goes his own way. But while Joachim slowly grows up, his world, not only through the loss of his first love, gets more and more cracks…
Based on the autobiographical novel by Joachim Meyerhoff, this incredibly funny and moving film deals with how hard it is to be a family. It may not be a normal family, but who wants to be normal, anyway?
A tale of growing up under unusual circumstances, featuring a fantastic cast, directed by Sonja Heiss, who helmed award-winning “Hedi Schneider is Stuck” and wrote the bestselling novel “Rimini”. Camille Loup Moltzen plays young Joachim, Arsseni Bultmann 14-year-old Joachim and Merlin Rose plays Joachim as a young man. Star Devid Striesow is his psychiatrist father, while Laura Tonke, who won the German Film Prize for “Hedi Schneider is Stuck”, plays his mother, a very unique woman. The quirky supporting cast consists of professional actors and lay actors with and without psychiatric conditions.
Date and time: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 7:30pm
Hungary| Perfect as You Are
A dramedy about the lies we tell, where a burnt-out advertising man tries to boost his own literary career by faking a romantic relationship with the author of a bestselling self-help book.
Date and time: Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 5pm
European Commission Representation in Malta | Murina
Tensions rise between restless teenager Julija and her oppressive father Ante when an old family friend arrives at their Croatian island home. As Ante attempts to broker a life-changing deal, their tranquil yet isolated existence leaves Julija wanting more from this influential visitor, who provides a taste of liberation over a weekend laid bare to desire and violence.
Date and time: Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 7:30pm
British Council | More Films for Freedom – 4 short films
Building on the success of Five Films For Freedom, More Films for Freedom is a commissioning programme from British Council’s Film team, working in partnership with BFI Network, the British Film Institute’s talent development initiative. As a result, there are now ten short films available to screen for free, made by UK teams in collaboration with Palestinian, South African, Syrian, Nigerian, Kenyan, French/Lebanese and Libyan filmmakers. Together the films showcase distinctive filmmaking voices and explore diverse themes including gender, sexuality and conflict, inter-generational gay culture, migration and family ties. As part of this programme the following films, produced as part of 2022 commissions will be presented:
- Neo Nahda, UK with French/Lebanese collaboration, 2022 Writer/Director: May Ziade; Producer: Antonia Luxem
- The Enchanted Day of the Eres, UK with Brazilian collaboration, 2022 Writer/Directors: Coraci Ruiz, Julio Matos; Producers: Zan Barberton, Scott Radnor
- Shee, UK with Kenyan collaboration, 2022 Director: Lia Campbell; Writer: Anita Ashley; Producers: John McIlduff, Anna Callan
- A Bird Called Memory, UK with Brazilian collaboration Writer/Director: Leonard Martinelli; Producers: Rafael Manuel, Naomi Pacifique, Rafael Texeira, Leonardo Martinelli
Date and time: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 5pm
Austria | Kafkas letzte Reise
To this day, Kafka, who was born in Prague and died in Austria, remains one of the most enigmatic figures of literary modernism. On the 100th anniversary of his death, this new, exclusive documentary follows the last stages of Franz Kafka’s life from Prague to the sanatorium in Kierling near Klosterneuburg, Austria. It shows letters and documents that express the tuberculosis sufferer’s desperate search for improvement. Interviews with Kafka researchers focus on getting closer to the writer’s last phase of his life.
Date and time: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 7:30pm
Malta | Carmen
Inspired by true events, Carmen is a charming story set in a village in the Mediterranean island Malta. Carmen (Natascha McElhone) has looked after her brother, the priest at the local church, since she was sixteen years old. Now almost fifty, she is suddenly left to start a new life. Facing her past, Carmen brings colour to the lives of the villagers in this compelling story about a woman finding her voice.
Date and time: Friday, September 27, 2024, 5pm
Netherlands | Mi Vida
After an eye-opening trip to Spain, a retired hairdresser from the Netherlands wants to start over — away from home and the expectations of others.
Date and time: Friday, September 27, 2024, 7:30pm
European Commission Representation in Malta | My Grandfather’s Demons
Rosa’s a successful designer living in a big city. After the unexpected death of her grandfather, she realises she hasn’t been in a place where she felt connected or loved since she left her homeland, and returns to her native village on the border between Northern Portugal and Galicia in Spain.
Date and time: Saturday, September 28, 2024, 11am
Spain | Tadeo Jones 3: The Emerald Tablet
Tad would love to be seen as just another archaeologist amongst his colleagues but, as always, he blows it: this time he ruins an Olmec Pyramid only to unleash a spell that threatens the lives of his friends. When everyone turns against him, Tad embarks on an adventure-filled journey that will take him from Mexico to Chicago and from Paris to Egypt to find a way to end the curse of the Mummy.
Date and time:
- Saturday, September 28, 2024, 5pm
- Sunday, September 29, 2024, 11am
France | 3 nuits par semaine
Baptiste, 29, is in a relationship with Samia, when he meets Cookie Kunty, a young drag queen of the Parisian nightlife. Driven by the idea of a photo project with her, he immerses himself in a world he knows nothing about, and discovers Quentin, the young man behind the drag queen.
Date and time: Saturday, September 28, 2024, 7:30pm
Poland | Cosmos
Cosmos, a loose adaptation of Witold Gombrowicz’s phenomenal novel of the same name, is a metaphysical noir thriller that tells the story of two friends who spend time at the countryside guesthouse where they discover mysterious and frightening signs.
Witold has just failed his law exams, and Fuchs has recently quit his job at a Parisian fashion label. Both are going to spend a few days in the countryside, and choose to stay at a so-called family inn. They are welcomed by a sparrow, hanged in the forest by a string. Then, an equally hanged piece of wood, and a series of strange signs on the ceiling, in the garden and in the woods.
In the guesthouse, there is a servant – who has a strange, twisted mouth – and a young house mistress whom Witold falls obsessively in love with. She’s already married to a decent young man, but is she decent herself?
The third hanging – a cat – is the work of Witold. Why?
Could the next one be human?
Date and time: Sunday, September 29, 2024, 5pm
