yearbook 2004/05 - The European Film College

stone. Now she has made a feature-length film,
Stjernekigger, about her sister, a rock singer with
the band Swan Lee – not quite so bloody, but
equally psychologically penetrating. Like the
Rocket Brothers documentary, the movie has
been honoured with a widespread release in the
cinemas.
More friends: Anders Bramsen, like Andreas
Dalsgaard, is based in Århus. He was here two
years ago and involved in a lot of student acting.
With money scraped together from acquaintances
he’s now emerged as a director with an excellent
feature film, Uden Tid/Time is but Brief,
whose leading role is taken by another ex-EFC
student, Anders Krogsgaard. It is a surrealistic
story of a drugs crisis: expertly paced, edited and
acted (including a fantastically bizarre cameo by
the director).
From further afield, Andreas Lewin (1999/2000)
has sent us his recently-completed film Er spielte
seinen Schatten mit/He Played His Shadow, a
documentary about a charismatic German actor
of the sixties, Klaus Kammer. Andreas has
another big budget docu financed by Arte
planned for the current shooting year – its sub-
Rocket Brothers
The Moonless Night How I killed a Saint
ject once again a legendary German actor (Fritz
Kortner).
One feels that these are only the tip of the iceberg:
there are a lot more EFC-related films out
there, and the plea should go out to any EFC
graduates reading these lines who are actively
involved in film-making: do please stay in touch
with us. It is such a pleasure to see you back here
with your movies. Travel, of course, can be difficult,
and lives are busy. We meet up, as it were,
where we can. So, at Rotterdam in January, one
of the great personal pleasures of the festival was
the screening there of two movies by ex-EFC
alumni: Artan Minarolli’s Nata Pa Hene/The
Moonless Night and Labina Mitevska’s Kako ubiv
svetec/How I Killed a Saint - both of them in
the event quite excellent, artistically-speaking.
Artan, from Albania, was here on the very first
pioneer course, early in 1993. We hope he will
soon come back and visit us. Labina (an actress
by profession: the film itself is directed by her
sister Teona) studied at the EFC in 1995/96.
Humanistic and spiritually polished, the movie
she acts in gives a rare insider’s glimpse of political
disquiet within her native country, Macedonia.