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For the start of the 10th "youth days – International youth film competition“, we see 17-year-old Adam in the international coproduction THE PHOTOGRAPH, searching for his biological father. Oddly we go on with the family comedy THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END from the Netherlands, in which daughter Eva experiences rough times. The protagonist of the coming-out tragicomedy ICH FÜHL MICH DISCO is also not to the liking of his father: Florian is plump, shows no interest in girls and preferably dances with mum to disco music. Alejandra in the Mexican drama AFTER LUCIA has different problem: she falls victim to meanest mobbing. Also on the dangerous side 14-year-old Lila in the US production IT FELT LIKE LOVE – she has fallen for the thug Sammy. Roman's youth in the Austrian social drama ATMEN is no piece of cake either: he's in prison for murder. In BLACKBIRD from Canada Sean has to defend himself against the allegation of having planned on assaulting his school. With so many top-class films it is a close race and not an easy job for the jury to award the prize money of EUR 2,500. For the first time this year there will also be an audience award, endowed with EUR 1,000. The youth days will be opened with the 9th Wiesbaden youth film competition, in which local young directors compete for EUR 450 in prize money.
Film overview:
AFTER LUCIA
by Michel Franco
Mexico/France 2012 102 min. Spanish original version with English subtitles
BREATHING
by Karl Markovics
Austria 2011 93 min. original version
BLACKBIRD
by Jason Buxton
Canada 2012 103 min. English original version
ICH FÜHL MICH DISCO
by Axel Ranisch
Germany 2013 95 min. original version with English subtitles
IT FELT LIKE LOVE
by Eliza Hittman
USA 2013 82 min. original version
THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END
by Michiel ten Horn
The Netherlands 2012 98 min. Dutch-German original version with English subtitles
THE PHOTOGRAPH
by Maciej Adamek
Poland/Germany/Hungary 2012 82 min. Polish original version with German subtitles
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