The European Film Festival opens in the Park Cinema in Baku with the show tape by the Lithuanian director Algimantas Puypa Castle of Sleeping Butterflies.
The main heroine of the Lithuanian picture is a middle-aged woman named Monica (Ioannina Lapinskayte). Its secured and prosperous life goes on, until she and her husband accidentally hit with their car a prostitute, who then commits suicide in hospital. Feeling guilty, Monica goes to social refuge with a proposal to host three girls deported from Germany for prostitution in her country house. Communicating with these girls changed the attitude of Monica.
The author of the script of the film is the director himself.
Speaking at a press conference before the film, Puypa said: "We wanted to show a woman's world. Today, women's issues and the role of women in society greatly increased. The stories told in the film are real."
The Baku premiere was attended by ambassadors of European countries, filmmakers and the public of Azerbaijan.
The festival will last up to October 10 and the show will be free. The aim of the festival is the alignment of cultural relations between the EU and Azerbaijan, promoting European values, in turn, said the head of the EU mission to Azerbaijan Roland Kobia. He expressed the hope that the film will cause the Azerbaijani citizens to better know and understand the processes in the field of European cinema.
The festival program includes 14 bands of various genres: comedy, drama, thriller, and detective. Among the films, there is a tape by the Azerbaijani director Elmar Imanov, who lives in Germany. The organizers of the festival are the EU representation in Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Culture of the country and the Park Cinema.
On October 4 there will be re-screening of the Castle of Sleeping Butterflies.
On October 5, at 18:00 and 20:00 they will screen the Polish film Moth and the Belgian film Memoirs of a Killer.
On October 6 they will show "Swing for the undertaker" (directed by Elmar Imanov), a Czech film Last Match of Pepick Hnateck, the German film Lessons of Dream, and the French film The Artist.
On October 7 they will show the Dutch movie Nova Zembla, the Italian movie Kiss Me Again and the Hungarian film Woman Dancing Death.
On October 8 they will demonstrate the Latvian film Defenders of Riga and the Austrian film Educators.
On October 9 they will show the Romanian film Headless Rooster and the Swedish film The Sound of Silence.
On October 10 they will demonstrate the British Film Let's Talk about Kevin and the Azerbaijani film Where Is the Lawyer? -02B-
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