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Screening Schedule
Friday, November 13, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009

The screening schedule of the 50th T.I.F.F. is also available in.pdf format

Director
Goran Paskaljević

Filmography
1969 Pan Hrstka/Mister Hrstka (short doc.)
1970 Několik slov o lásce/ A Few Words about Love (short doc.)
1972 Legenda o Lapotu/The Legend of Lapot (short)
1971-74 Dosljaci/The Immigrants (series of 30 short docs)
1973 Deca/Children (short doc.)
1973 Sluga/Servant (short)
1974 Teret/Burden (short doc.)
1974 Kapetan Janko/Captain Janko (short)
1974 Potomak/The Descendant (short)
1975 Iz pobede u pobedu/From Victory to Victory (short doc.)
1976 Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu/Beach Guard in Wintertime
1978 Pas koji je voleo vozove/The Dog Who Loved Trains
1979 Zemaljski dani teku sipad/These Earthly Days Go Rolling By (short)
1980 Poseban tretman/Special Treatment
1982 Suton/Twilight Time
1984 Varljivo leto ’68/Illusive Summer ’68
1987 Andjeo čuvar/Guardian Angel
1990 Vreme čuda/Time of Miracles
1992 Tango argentino
1995 Tudja America/Someone Else’s America
1998 Bure baruta/The Powder Keg (aka Cabaret Balkan)
2001 How Harry Became a Tree
2004 San zimske noći/Midwinter Night’s Dream
2006 Optimisti/The Optimists
2009 Honeymoons

Biography
Goran Paskaljević was born in Belgrade in 1947. Between 1967 and 1971 he studied at the well-known Prague school of cinema (FAMU). His first short, film Mister Hrstka (1969), considered “offensive to the socialist system and harmful to the social order”, was banned by the Czechoslovakian regime. The film, however, was viewed by Miloš Forman, Jiří Menzel and Veřa Chytilová, and Goran Paskaljević found himself accepted overnight into the ranks of the New Wave directors. From 1971 to the present, he has made 30 documentaries and 15 feature films, many of which have been awarded and acclaimed at the most prestigious international film festivals. The rise of nationalism in Yugoslavia forced him to leave his country in 1992 and in 1994 he settled in Paris. In 1998 he returned to make The Powder Keg, but his constant criticism of Milošević’s regime met with violent, menacing attacks in the official press. He decided once more to leave his native land in search of a country where he could make his film, How Harry Became a Tree. He returned to Belgrade upon the collapse of the Milošević regime to make his Midwinter Night’s Dream(2004) and The Optimists (2006). In 2001, International Film Guide (Variety’s) named him one of the top five directors of the year. In January 2008, New York’sMuseum of Modern Art presented a full retrospective of his work. In February 2008 he was awarded the Order of Arts and Literature by the French government.

Tango argentino / Goran Paskaljević

Ten-year-old Nikola is much more down to earth, positive and professionally-minded than his father, a music teacher who makes his living playing at wedding parties. He is constantly quarreling with his wife over the house, her job, their daughter’s chronic migraines and his insatiable lust for fat women. Nikola’s mother is in desperate need of a job. For the time being she earns her keep by looking after old people at their homes with her son’s help. Soon, the job load falls on Nikola who puts a lot of love into it. He brings the old people together, pulls them out of their isolation and rekindles in them the desire to enjoy life. In return, the new “grandpas” give the boy the tenderness and attention he lacks from his parents. That is especially true of the leader of the “Grandfather gang”, an ex-singer of tangos and a Latin lover who knows how to live life to the full. Delicately exploring the subject of elderly people and their wish to live as seen through the child’s exuberance, the film narrates a moving story about a break in the everyday harsh reality of the third age.


Director:Goran Paskaljević
Script:Gordan Mihić
Photographer:Milan Spasić
Montage:Olga Skrigin
Sound:Siniša Jovanović-Singer
Music:Zoran Simjanović
With:Nikola Žarković (Nikola), Predrag “Miki” Manoljović (father), Ina Gogalova (mother), Mija Aleskić (Mr. Popovic), Predrag “Pepi” Laković (Galitch)
World Sales:Goran Paskaljević paskaljevic@gmail.com
Production Design:Miodrag Nikolić
Producer:Dragana Ilić, Goran Paskaljević
Production:Singidunum Film, Vans (Yugoslavia)
Production Country:Yugoslavia
Type:35mm Color
Duration:93'
Production Year:1992
Screening Schedule
STAVROS TORNES:Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 11:00 | ID:561
STAVROS TORNES:Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 18:00 | ID:964
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