EU Film Festival wraps up [Archives:2004/794/Community]

The free European Film Festival is concluded today at the Sana'a Cultural Center with the Turkish film, “Dar alada kisa paslasmalar,” which is the 10th one.
This wonderful joint cultural initiative that was organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Embassies of the Czech, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey as well as the French Cultural Center and the British Council.
The festival that came in the framework of Sana'a, the 2004 Arab Cultural Capital is held for the eighth time in Sana'a and the first in Aden.
It was noted that the EU Film Festival was started on Nov. 23rd with two Dutch films, “Father and Daughter” and “Young Kees”. Right before introducing and showing the films, Johan F.L. Blankenberg, Ambassador of Royal Netherlands in Sana'a, spoke to the audience inaugurating the festival and welcoming them cordially.
The festival included ten of the European films that have suitably given a unique opportunity for Yemenis to get different European perspectives on various aspects of life at both the present and near past time.
“Pane e Tulipe” (meaning “bread and Tulip flowers”), the Italian film that was shown Nov. 27th is one of those films. It narrates the real Venice, the rural surroundings and the people's lifestyles.
It depicts the European nature, the dark small restaurants and old hotels. The story of the film is about the vacation of a housewife, Eisabella, a boring middle-aged woman, with her two sons who are teenagers, and her crafty tyrannical husband. Eisabella was left by the bus of the journey and by her family members.
This film is distinguished with its romantic comedy.
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