Dutch film festival at Cineplex
Oct 10, 2002
Only a week after it opened its doors to the public, the new Cineplex, Garden City Mall will host a Dutch film festival starting today.
By Sebidde Kiryowa
Only a week after it opened its doors to the public, the new Cineplex, Garden City Mall will host a Dutch film festival starting today. The festival was opened last evening by the Netherlands ambassador to Uganda Matthew Peters with the screening of two of The Assault and Antonia’s Line. All the films that will feature in this festival are acted in Dutch but with English subtitles.
The festival opens up to the general public today at 7.30pm with The Assault at 7.30pm in cinema 1 and will run until Wednesday, October 16. This will be followed by Antonia’s Line at 9.30pm. Entrance fee will be sh1,000 per movie.
Sidney Mukasa, the cinema’s marketing manager said: “We also hope to do a Japanese film festival in November at the old Cineplex Cinema on Wilson Road. Hopefully, we shall follow that up with a French film festival much later in the year.â€
He said the festival would not disrupt the operations of the cinema. “The festival will start at 7.00pm and will only take place in cinema 2 at Garden City Mall. The Sum Of All Fears will continue its run in cinema 1 and we shall be showing Bad Company during the day (at 2.00pm and 4.30pm) starting today.
Austin Powers In Goldmember now moves over to the old Cineplex where it will be running in Cinema 1 alongside Murder By Numbers in cinema 2,†Mukasa said.
According to the films’ brief synopsis, Antonia’s Line is a retrospective look at the life of a Dutch woman Antonia, who is living out the last days of her life. The story is told through her thoughts which go back to her tumultuous past in her naive rural village in the South of Holland.
The Assault is another retrospective film that is set partially in the war-torn 1940s. According to its synopsis. In January 1945, during the Second World War, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in front of the house of Anton Steenwijk, who has nothing to do with it. In retaliation, the Germans kill his whole family and set the house on fire. During his life, Anton meets several people who tell him what really happened on the night of the assault.
On Saturday, October 12 at 4.00pm is Long Live The Queen, the fairy tale story of a little girl who learns to play chess, Then, the chess pieces come alive. According to the festival release, In The Polish Bride (7.00pm), a farmer in the North of Holland finds an unknown Polish woman on his land. As she stays on to work for her journey back, the two slowly grow closer. The 9.30pm film Character is another ‘historical’ set in the Dutch port of Rotterdam during the 1930s. The film focuses on the struggle of a young man to escape his small-town surroundings and the overall influence of his dominating father.
Sunday October 13 at 4.00pm is Mariken, a film set in the Middle Ages, about a young girl who gets to know the world in seven days.
At 7.00pm is Nynke, a film set at the beginning of the 19th century which tells the story of the wife of one of the most influential socialist leaders in Holland, who becomes estranged with her husband because of his political ideas.
Only a week after it opened its doors to the public, the new Cineplex, Garden City Mall will host a Dutch film festival starting today. The festival was opened last evening by the Netherlands ambassador to Uganda Matthew Peters with the screening of two of The Assault and Antonia’s Line. All the films that will feature in this festival are acted in Dutch but with English subtitles.
The festival opens up to the general public today at 7.30pm with The Assault at 7.30pm in cinema 1 and will run until Wednesday, October 16. This will be followed by Antonia’s Line at 9.30pm. Entrance fee will be sh1,000 per movie.
Sidney Mukasa, the cinema’s marketing manager said: “We also hope to do a Japanese film festival in November at the old Cineplex Cinema on Wilson Road. Hopefully, we shall follow that up with a French film festival much later in the year.â€
He said the festival would not disrupt the operations of the cinema. “The festival will start at 7.00pm and will only take place in cinema 2 at Garden City Mall. The Sum Of All Fears will continue its run in cinema 1 and we shall be showing Bad Company during the day (at 2.00pm and 4.30pm) starting today.
Austin Powers In Goldmember now moves over to the old Cineplex where it will be running in Cinema 1 alongside Murder By Numbers in cinema 2,†Mukasa said.
According to the films’ brief synopsis, Antonia’s Line is a retrospective look at the life of a Dutch woman Antonia, who is living out the last days of her life. The story is told through her thoughts which go back to her tumultuous past in her naive rural village in the South of Holland.
The Assault is another retrospective film that is set partially in the war-torn 1940s. According to its synopsis. In January 1945, during the Second World War, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in front of the house of Anton Steenwijk, who has nothing to do with it. In retaliation, the Germans kill his whole family and set the house on fire. During his life, Anton meets several people who tell him what really happened on the night of the assault.
On Saturday, October 12 at 4.00pm is Long Live The Queen, the fairy tale story of a little girl who learns to play chess, Then, the chess pieces come alive. According to the festival release, In The Polish Bride (7.00pm), a farmer in the North of Holland finds an unknown Polish woman on his land. As she stays on to work for her journey back, the two slowly grow closer. The 9.30pm film Character is another ‘historical’ set in the Dutch port of Rotterdam during the 1930s. The film focuses on the struggle of a young man to escape his small-town surroundings and the overall influence of his dominating father.
Sunday October 13 at 4.00pm is Mariken, a film set in the Middle Ages, about a young girl who gets to know the world in seven days.
At 7.00pm is Nynke, a film set at the beginning of the 19th century which tells the story of the wife of one of the most influential socialist leaders in Holland, who becomes estranged with her husband because of his political ideas.