Guest Programmes
Showcase: Angewandte Vienna
May 18th, 2008, 7 p.m. + 10 p.m. - Top Kino (ANIMATION NIGHT)
The studio for experimental animation film at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte) is headed by Hubert Sielecki since 1982. Nine films by students are presented.
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Guest Festival: Fantoche
May 18th, 2008, 8 p.m. + 11 p.m. - Top Kino (ANIMATION NIGHT)
This international festival for Animationsfilm in Switzerland is among the most established festivals for this pulsating film genre in the world.
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Showcase: Academy of Fine Arts Cracow
May 18th, 2008, 7 p.m. + 10 p.m. - Top Kino (ANIMATION NIGHT)
The Studio of Animation Film at the Academy of Fine Arts Cracow has an excellent reputation. It exists since 1957 and has been run by Jerzy Kucia since 1980. The selection of seven films for the festival comprises the best works of the last 12 years.
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Personal Tribute: Jerzy Kucia
May 20th, 2008, 7 p.m. - Top Kino (EXPERIMENTAL NIGHT)
Jerzy Kucia from Poland consistently contradicts traditional conceptions of animation film. The tribute programme includes his five best works and will also subsequently give the "master of animation" a chance to tell all.
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Centre Back and Sweeper
May 21st, 2008, 7 p.m. - Top Kino
From the stadium to the locker-room: six exceptional short films about football, curated by sixpackfilm's Gerald Weber.
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Film & Food: Focus on Switzerland
May 22nd, 2008, 8 p.m. - Reformed Church
Cinema in the church and culinary delights from Switzerland in the romantic church yard: This year the Film&Food programme will present our westerly neighbour from its "sweetest" side, in a very special ambience, thus atmospherically counterpointing the "dark" film programme. The complimentary buffet will be provided by the Swiss Embassy in Vienna, so the culinary delights shouldn’t fall short of the cinematic ones by any means.
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