INVENTURA PRESENTS: NORMAL FESTIVAL 2007

November 12 - 16, 2007 AERO CINEMA

OUR FILMS

Harvie Krumpet plus shorts

Tuesday, October 13, 6 pm, Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
Tickets: 60 Kč
Harvie Krumpet
(directed by Adam Elliot / 2003 / Australia / 23 min)
Harvek Milos Krumpetzki was born in Poland in 1922. After World War II had broken out, he left for Australia and changed his name to Harvie Krumpet. Harvie has had some bad luck, there is no doubt about it: he suffers from Tourett's syndrome, he was struck by a lightning and lost a testicle. Still he remains an optimist, marries a nurse and brings up an adopted daughter. Against all the odds and his childlike naïvete, he enjoys his life to the fullest. In 2003, Harvie Krumpet was awarded the Academy Award for the best short animated film.
My younger brother from the Moon (Mon petit frère de la Lune / Frederic Philibert / 2007 / France / 6 min)
Head in the clouds (La tête dans les nuages / Pascal Bernard / 2005 / France / 2 min)
The Kiss (Jaco Van Dormael / 1995 / Belgium / 1 min)
D9 (Rhian Hinkley / 2006 / Australia / 7 min)
John and Michael (Shira Avni / 2004 / Canada / 11 min)

Inventura presents: Normal Festival 2007
Jiří Schmitzer live in concert

Tuesday, November 13, 7.30 pm, Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
Tickets: 130 Kč
The opening night of Normal festival featuring a premiere screening of the films made by Inventura in 2007. Unbelievable stories about a bunch of extra-terrestrials resurrecting Aleš's grandpa, about the Thinnie saving his siblings from a bad dog, about Dáša and Michal living a horror story and much more, including a brand new documentary called Relationships (Inventura / 2007 / ČR / 13 min). And of course, the ever-unconventional singer and songwriter Jiří Schmitzer live in concert.

The Return of the Idiot

Wednesday, November 14, 6 pm, Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
Tickets: 80 Kč
(Saša Gedeon / 1999 / Czech Republic, Germany / 100 min, Czech)
František has no idea nor experience of the life behind the walls of the mental institution from where he has just been released. He gathers his first impressions while returning to his only relatives, who had no idea of his existence. They have their own lives so complicated and twisted that František is soon entangled in their love and family conflicts. He finds himself in awkward, funny and uneasy situations. He witnesses their tumultous and collapsing relationships and explosions of emotion. He feels for each one of them and he is touched by everything. He understands them better than they do. But only the one who can understand him, will help him to return for real.

Of Mice and Men

Wednesday, November 14, 8.30 pm, Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
Tickets: 80 Kč
(Gary Sinise / 1992 / USA / 115 min)
George and Lennie seem to be a strange pair of guys. George is a lively, intelligent, slightly cynical, although sensitive young man. Lennie is a giant of a man, but he lacks intellect compared to George and many others. He likes to stroke soft things and he often gets into trouble because of that. George and Lennie escape the city and try to make their dream come true: They want to settle on their own little piece of land, where Lennie could tend soft rabbits. Soon enough it becomes clear that Lennie's physical strength and delight in soft things will bring up more difficult situations. An adaptation of the John Steinbeck's novel of the same name.

Benny and Joon

Thursday, November 15, 6 pm, Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
Tickets: 80 Kč
(Benny and Joon / Jeremiah S. Chechik / 1993 / USA / 98 min)
Juniper is mentally ill and lives with Benny, her over-protective brother. She paints her pictures – and when she is left unattended, she is carelessly destroying the house. No housekeeper can stand her. When Benny takes her out with his friends, Juniper wins Sam (Johnny Depp) as her new housekeeper. Suddenly the things take on a different course. Sam is a nearly illiterate whimsical eccentric with passion for old Buster Keaton movies. His housekeeping skills make him popular with Benny – only until he finds out his sister and Sam are closer than he expected.

Snow Cake

Thursday, November 15, 8.30 pm, Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
Tickets: 80 Kč
(Snow Cake / Marc Evans / 2006 / UK, Canada / 112 min)
When Alex gives a lift to a young hitchhiker named Vivienne, he has no idea it will turn his life upside down. The car crashes and Vivienne dies. Feeling guilty, Alex decides to meet Vivienne's mother. Linda, however, is an autistic woman, who understands what happened, but is not capable of expressing any emotions. Alex stays at her place and arranges for the funeral. Soon he starts an affair with Linda's neighbor, to much dislike from a local policeman. As the date of the funeral draws near, Alex's dark past is starting to surface...

Relationships (The Documentary) plus shorts

Friday, November 16, 6.00 pm, Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
Tickets: 60 Kč
Relationships
(Inventura / 2007 / Czech Republic / 13 min)
Do you want to know, what it means for a girl to have a crush on Bob and what this Bob is like? Do you keep confusing procreation for recreation? Did you think that people with learning disabilities are like children who never grow up enough to even think of a sexual interest in the opposite or the same sex? Come and see.
My younger brother from the Moon (Mon petit frère de la Lune / Frederic Philibert / 2007 / France / 6 min)
Head in the clouds (La tête dans les nuages / Pascal Bernard / 2005 / France / 2 min)
Mullet (Rick Randall a Back to Back Theatre / 1996 / Australia)
Spill (Rick Randall a Back to Back Theatre / 1998 / Australia)
Underpants (Rick Randall a Back to Back Theatre / 1998 / Australia)
Do not cross the railroad tracks (Vietato Attraversare i Binari / Francesco Bussalai / 2007 / Italy /16 min)
Dreams (Scott and Julia Elliott / 2004 / USA / 4 min)

Braindamadj’d...Take II

Friday, November 16, 8.00 pm, Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
Tickets: 60 Kč
(Paul Nadler / 2006 / Canada / 50 min, English and French with English subtitles)
Ten years ago, Paul Nadler had been an up and coming TV director, adreline sports enthusiast and ladies man. Then he was found in a coma on a road in Egypt. He had no clothes nor IDs and his brain suffered a severe damage in a car crash. The documentary Paul Nadler shot about himself tells the story of his journey from a „motionless body“ to regaining self-consciousness and of his desire to go on with the life and career he had had before the crash. Both the film's story and visuals are highly original and the film won several awards at festivals all over the world.

I have met someone

Friday, November 16, 10.00 pm, Aero Cinema, Biskupcova 31, Praha 3
Tickets: 60 Kč
(Koi...Mil Gaya / Rakesh Roshan / 2003 / India)
A Bollywood smash hit, in which the British are the bad guys, aliens pay their visit to India and simple boys date beautiful girls. Rohit has always been slower and at age of 20 he still goes to school and is friends with the second-years at the elementary school. One day, he crosses paths with Nisha, a gorgeous daughter of the mayor of the small mountainside town. The ensuing romance is spoiled by the other suitor, a bully that keeps threatening Rohit. But there is also a marooned alien being Jadoo (cuter than E.T.!), who can do incredible things!