Program Guide - Cleveland International Film Festival

146 FILMS A – Z [Y–Z] The 37th Cleveland International Film Festival
GEORGE GUND III MEMORIAL
CENTRAL AND EASTERN
EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION
FAMILY FILMS
PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES
Yuma
Directed by Piotr Mularuk
POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC 2012
113 minutes
Tuesday, April 9 Thursday, April 11
11:30 AM I Code YUMA09 11:30 AM I Code YUMA11
Friday, April 12
6:15 PM I Code YUMA12
Zyga (rising star Jakub Gierszał) and his pals have nowhere
to go in their lousy Polish border town. Communism has just
collapsed and people are getting into Yuma, stealing from
German stores and redistributing the wealth on the Polish
market. Zyga is obsessed with the 1957 movie “3:10 to Yuma”
—a cowboy tale of lawless anarchy on the frontier. Movie star
handsome with an easy grin, Zyga starts smuggling cigarettes
at the behest of his auntie Halina, who runs a brothel and Yuma
ring where the mayor is a regular. Over time Zyga becomes
a kingpin, swallowed by a vortex of crime and sex of his own
devising. He shares a terrible secret with his old friend Rysio,
while a diabolical villain named Opat is out to bring them both
down. Zyga manages to build his own private El Dorado, where
he and Opat come head-to-head. YUMA is a hugely engrossing,
great sweeping saga of Good versus Evil, Polish Western style.
(In Polish and German with subtitles) —B.B.
Producers~Piotr Mularuk, Magdalena Napieracz, Pavel Bercik Screenwriting~
Piotr Mularuk, Wojciech Gajewicz Cinematography~Tomasz Dobrowolski Editing~
Agnieszka Glińska Principal Cast~Jakub Gierszał, Katarzyna Figura, Tomasz Kot
Print Source~Yeti Films / maria.siniarska@yetifilms.com / www.yetifilms.com
About the Director~Piotr Mularuk is a director, screenwriter, and the head of Yeti
Films, an independent production company. In 1993 he graduated from the City
University of New York. Filmography~YUMA (2012)
Zarafa
Directed by Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie
FRANCE, BELGIUM 2012
78 minutes
Tuesday, April 9 Wednesday, April 10
4:20 PM I Code ZARA09 2:10 PM I Code ZARA10
Come sit with me by the campfire, little ones, and I will tell
you the tale of ZARAFA, the most wonderful giraffe in all the
world. The year was 1817 and a French slave driver named
Moreno was capturing people from an African village. Brave
little Maki escaped to a river, where he found a herd of giraffes.
Cruel Moreno, vowing to recapture Maki, killed a mother giraffe.
But a kind Bedouin named Hassan was there too, and he
named the enchanting baby giraffe Zarafa. Hassan wanted
to present Zarafa to the Pasha of Egypt, who would give her
as a gift to the king of France, in exchange for his help fighting
the Turks. Vowing to protect his new animal friend, Maki traveled
with Hassan and Zarafa across the fearsome desert to the
great city of Alexandria—and from there in a magical balloon
to Paris. ZARAFA is as rare as that first giraffe in France, a
beautifully animated cross-cultural fable for children of all
ages. (In French with subtitles) —B.B.
Producers~Valérie Schermann, Christophe Jankovic, Prima Linea Productions,
Vivien Aslanian Screenwriting~Rémi Bezançon, Alexander Abela Editing~
Sophie Reine Principal Cast~Max Renaudin, Simon Abkarian, François-Xavier
Demaison, Déborah François, Roger Dumas
Print Source~GKIDS / dave@gkids.com / www.gkids.tv
About the Directors~Rémi Bezançon studied at the Ecole Supérieure de
Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA) in Paris and the École du Louvre. Jean-
Christophe Lie studied at the École des Beaux-arts in Toulouse and at the film
school CFT des Gobelins in Paris. He subsequently worked as an animator at
Walt Disney Studios in Montreuil. Collaborative Filmography~ZARAFA (2012)
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