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FIVE FLAVOURS FILM FESTIVAL
19-26th October, 2011, Warsaw (Muranów, KINO.LAB)
October-November: Krakow (Kino Pod Baranami), Poznan (Muza)
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It's at the end of October when Five Flavours Film Festival brings variety of film flavours
from South-East and East Asia for the fifth time.
This year's edition takes a look at Taiwanese cinematography. Apart from new titles, the section
Focus: Taiwan includes masterpieces by a renowned director Hou Hsiao-hsien, one of the movers
and most important artists of the Taiwanese New Wave. Another section of the fifth edition is Taste
of Korea presenting new films from South Korea. As in the previous years, Five Flavours also
involves the section New Asian Cinema with the selection of the latest films from Singapore,
Thailand, Philippines and other countries of the region.
For the first time Japanese cinema is included in the programme. A spectacular film in the best
samurai tradition, "13 Assassins" by a cult director Takashi Miike, is among the titles from Japan,
becoming one of the most important Polish premieres at the fifth Five Flavours. With "13 Assassins",
a remake of Kudo Eiichi's film from 1963, Takashi Miike makes a successful attempt to match up to
the granddad of all samurai films, Akira Kurosawa’s "Seven Samurai". Set in the feudal Japan, the film
tells a story about 13 samurai who – under Shinzaemon Shimada's command – are hired to remove
Lord Naritsugu, a powerful and sadistic feudal ruler.
Japanese cinema is represented also by the selected titles from Sushi Typhoon studio which
distributes films by directors like Takashi Miike, Sion Sono and Noboru Iguchi. Despite the studio was
created only in 2010, it managed to gather the interest of the audience and critics very rapidly.
Because of its highly entertaining profile, Sushi Typhoon "seeks to satisfy audiences who crave the
good taste of bad taste, and for whom too much is never enough".
Five Flavours Film Festival
presents both contemporary and classic films from SouthEast and East Asia. Screenings are accompanied by discussions with film directors and producers
(among whom were Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Ho Tzu Nyen, Chuyen Bui Thac in the previous years) and
special events (exhibitions, lectures, concerts) which aim to present wider cultural, social, historic
contexts of the region and its countries.
The fifth edition takes place from the 20th to 25th of October in Warsaw in Muranow and KINO.LAB
cinemas. The festival hits the road in November visiting other Polish cities, including Krakow and
Poznan.
Organised by: Arteria Art Foundation / Fundacja Sztuki Arteria.
Partners: Warsaw City Council, Polish Film Institute, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Warsaw, Cultural
Centre of Embassy of the Republic of Korea, SKSiL, KINO.LAB, Muranow Cinema, Asia-Pacific Museum.
More information: www.piecsmakow.pl