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Festival
Highlights
Domestique CFF 15
Domestik
Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2018, 119 mins.
Czech with English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
WITH
Adam Sedlák
Tereza Hofová, Jiří Konvalinka,
Miroslav Hanuš
Top cyclist Roman has had enough of serving as a
domestique, a cyclist who sacrifices all for the team.
As strenuous training and a strict routine don’t lead
to the type of performance he longs for, he sets up
an oxygen tent at home. However, his fi xation with
having a sports career renders him oblivious to his
wife Šarlota’s desire to have a baby. Obsessions
soon turn their home into a pit of despair.
Domestique is a stunner, and easily the most
uncomfortable fi rst-date movie Central Europe has
produced since Wetlands. VARIETY
We hope to welcome Director Adam Sedlák for a
Q&A following the fi lm.
Print source Stray Dogs
SAT
19.45 SUN
11.00
19 APH
EMMA
20
Family Romance, LLC CFF 15
USA, 2019, 89 Mins.
Japanese with English subtitles
DIRECTOR Werner Herzog
WITH
THUR
17
Yuichi Ishii, Mahiro Tanimoto,
Miki Fujimaki, Takashi Nakatani
Romance is a business. Family, friends and
followers are all available for hire. A man is hired
to impersonate the missing father of a twelve-yearold
girl. Shooting in Japan, with Japanese actors,
speaking their own language, Oscar-nominated
auteur Werner Herzog brings to the screen a unique
perspective on the recurring theme of individuals
chasing impossible dreams.
Amusing and disarming…it takes on
a dimension you don’t see coming.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Print source Modern Films
20.45
EMMA
MON
21
15.30
LIGHT
Fire will Come CFF 15
O que arde
France/Luxemburg/Spain, 2019, 85 Mins.
Spanish with English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
WITH
SAT
19
Oliver Laxe
Amador Arias, Benedicta Sanchez,
Inazio Abra, Elena Fernandez
Winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
for director Oliver Laxe, Fire Will Come creates
a powerful portrait of the Galician countryside
against which human drama unfolds. Convicted
for starting a fi re, Amador is released from prison.
With no one waiting for him, he returns home to
a small village to live with his mother Benedicta
and their three cows. Life goes on at the peaceful
pace of nature until the night when a fi re starts to
devastate the region.
Print source New Wave Films
18.30
APH
MON
21
13.15
LIGHT
HomewArd CFF 15
Evge
Ukraine, 2019, 96 Mins.
Crimean Tatar/Ukrainian/Russian/Arabic with
English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
WITH
Nariman Aliev
Akhtem Seitablayev, Remzi Bilyalov,
Dariya Barihashvili, Anatoliy
Marempolskiy
Grieving over the death of his son in the war between
Russia and Ukraine, a Crimean Tatar man, Mustafa,
resolves to bring the boy’s body back to his ancestral
homeland: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son
Alim embark on a journey across Ukraine that will
change their relationship forever. This award-winning
debut from Nariman Aliev, which premiered in the
Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, is Ukraine’s
selection for competition in the 2020 Oscars.
Introduced by Dr Rory Finnin, University
of Cambridge
Print source New Wave Films
MON
16.00 WED
16.00
21 APH 23
APH
Kabul, City In
The Wind CFF 15
Netherlands/Afghanistan/Japan/Germany, 2018,
88 Mins.
Persian with English subtitles.
DIRECTOR
WITH
Aboozar Amini
Li Chuan, Wang Luying, Wei Ruguang
Despite little media coverage nowadays, the war
in Afghanistan is still on-going. Aboozar Amini’s
documentary shows daily life through the eyes of
a bus driver and a teenager, both trying to survive
in a city scarred by decades of war and terror. Abas
has invested all his money, dreams and hopes
for the future in an old bus, while teenager Afshin
is thrown into the role of head of the family after
his father fl ees to Iran. Along with other ordinary
Afghanis, they try and get on with their lives as
security forces struggle in their fi ght against Daesh
and the Taliban. Winner of the Next:Wave Award at
CPH: DOX 2019.
Print source Rediance
WED
23
18.30
APH
8 CambridgeFilmFestival2019 International Festival Highlights