UNC CES: MEET EU Film Festival

The UNC Center for European Studies presents MEET EU Film Festival (January 20-24, 2023) in the FedEx Global Education Center’s Nelson Mandela Auditorium.

Friday, January 20^th

5:30pm – I Never Cry (Jak Najdalej Stad)

• Ola must travel to Ireland to bring her father’s body back to Poland after he died working at a construction site. But never mind her dad, Ola wants to know if he saved money for the car he had promised. Dealing with foreign bureaucracy in her own street-smart way, Ola learns that her biggest dream wasn’t a car, but getting to know her dad.

Saturday, January 21^st

1:30pm – Eternal Winter (Örök Tél)

• Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and drag every young woman with German origins away from their villages and transport them to a brutal Soviet labour camps. Here they are forced to work in the coal mines under inhumane conditions.

3:30pm – Let There Be Light (Nech J Svetlo)

• A Slovakian man who does construction work in Germany learns that his son has joined a paramilitary youth group and was involved in the bullying and death of a classmate.

Sunday, January 22^nd

1:30pm – The Raven and the Seagull (LYKKELÆNDER)

• This documentary explores the myths and misconceptions which exist between the people and landscapes of Greenland and Denmark.

3:30pm – An Uncertain Border (Un Confine Incerto)

• Richi (Moisé Curia) is on the road with a little girl (Anna Malfatti) in a camper van through southern Germany. They have a good time with each other, dress up, dance and laugh a lot. He is a seed salesman, she his little doll. An unusual couple, but happy? When the two stop off at a restaurant, the landlord (Heio von Stetten) becomes sceptical. Something is not right here! What’s more, the girl speaks a very rare language: Ladin. Meanwhile, in Rome, police inspector Milia Demetz (Cosmina Stratan) is investigating cyberspace and is hot on the heels of a paedophile network. When she discovers a girl in one of the anonymous videos, she is soon certain: the lasciviously photographed child is Magdalena Senoner, who disappeared in Tyrol at the age of five. But who is behind the camera? When the landlord forwards the footage from his surveillance camera to the police, all the threads come together. Can Milia save little Magdalena?

Monday, January 23^rd

5:30pm – Lola (Lola Vers La Mer)

• Lola, an 18-year-old transgender girl living in a foster home, learns about the death of her mother and decides to fulfill her mother’s last wish with her father.

Tuesday, January 24^th

5:30pm – Schoolgirls (Las Niñas)

• An 11-year-old girl tries to reconcile the conservative and repressive teachings at her convent school with the free-spirited fun offered by a new student.