2001

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The European Coordination of Film Festivals invited 15 filmmakers to choose one film which he or she considers important for the European film heritage, though little known. The film must also be be a full-length feature film (with sound), and a work of fiction.

Finnish Man in Pain

From Finland Aki Kaurismäki chose Mikko Niskanen's film Kahdeksan surmanluotia (Eight Deadly Shots, 1972). The film is based on a shooting incident in rural Finland in the late 1960's, when a distraught farmer, who had been surrounded to his home, shot the policemen who came to arrest him. Mikko Niskanen had to fight for his masterpiece in the 70's, and only now, for the first time, the film is presented in its entirety. The over five-hour long version premieres in Niagara cinema theatre during the festival.

15 Times a Movie

15x15 programme was presented for the first time during the International Film Festival in Brussels a year ago. The films tour the most prominent film festivals of Europe till 2002. The aim is to highlight the cinematographic heritage of Europe, and to promote the distribution of European films. The programme is sponsored by European Commission and a number of private enterprises. Alongside Kaurismäki, the directors who chose a film were Gianni Amelio (Italy), Theo Angelopoulos (Greece), Jack Cardiff (Great Britain), Michael Haneke (Austria), Marion Hänsel (Belgium), Fernando Trueba (Spain), Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal), Ulrike Ottinger (Germany), Donato Rotunno (Luxembourg), Jim Sheridan (Ireland), Bertrand Tavernier (France), Lars von Trier (Denmark), Jan Troell (Sweden) and Johan van der Keuken (the Netherlands).

The chosen movies are (in the same order) Le Legioni di Cleopatra by Vittorio Cotafavi, O Drakos by Nikos Koundouros, A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Himmel Oder Hölle by Wolfgang Murnberger, De Man die Zijn Haar Kort Liet Knippen by Andre Delavaux, Rooksporen by Frans van de Staak, Os Verdes Anos by Paulo Rocha, Der Verlorene by Peter Lorre, Troublemaker by Andy Bausch, Angel by Neil Jordan, La Dame D'Onze Heure by Jean Devaivre, Det gode og de onde by Jürgen Leth, Bara en mor by Alf Sjöberg and Plácido by Luis García Berlanga.

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