The Guanajuato International Film Festival presents the best of the seventh art directly in your city. Its Official Selection offers once again the opportunity to discover the world’s avant-garde...
The Guanajuato International Film Festival presents the best of the seventh art directly in your city. Its Official Selection offers once again the opportunity to discover the world’s avant-garde in cinematography first-hand and before anyone else.
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Official Selection Documental 4
FILMS:
Exit Through The Cuckoo's Nest
«As a teenager in 1990s Belgrade, life felt as if in some limbo in a country ruled by incompetent fools and crippled by sanctions and wars. When the blue envelope arrived, ordering me to war in Kosovo, the only thing I knew was that I would never ever shoot. However, I had to get on the train to become a soldier I never wanted to be.
In the platoon around me were young people like me in their early twenties: provincials, mechanics, young fathers, failed students, unemployed hairdressers, and others with unfulfilled lives. 'Here's the rifle. Now go and kill!' they were told.
Many of my comrades died, some of them taking their own lives afterwards. I was lucky to have always refused to shoot, but I ended up in military prison. After becoming a translator, I had a breakdown and purposely acted mentally ill to be sent to a psychiatric hospital. After months of pretending, I was finally released and able to return home on the exact day when NATO began bombing my entire country.»
Director: Nikola Ilić
Duration: 19 min
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Pelikan Blue
In the 1990s Hungary, travelling is finally possible but unaffordable. By forging international train tickets, three young men provide the opportunity for a whole generation to experience the outside world.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungary’s borders suddenly open up. Everyone wants to travel to Western Europe – young people in particular – but the price of a train ticket is prohibitive. What good is freedom if you can’t afford it?
Ákos, Petya and Laci discover a simple method of using household detergents to dissolve Pelikan‘s Blue carbon ink, allowing them to forge train tickets to any destination. Over time, they become professional and infamous forgery artists. For a long time, everything goes along smoothly, but when the police starts an investigation, the friends discover that freedom comes at a
price.
Ákos, the brain, vanishes; Petya, the sales genius, flees to New York; and the newcomer Zoli takes the fall. Eventually, everything gets straightened out, and a decade-long racket finally comes to an end with the help of a young cop.
Director: László Csáki
Duration: 79 min
