Geneva 2006 — Cinéma Tout Ecran

"The Optimists" by Goran Paskaljevic

The Geneva based "Cinéma Tout Ecran" festival presents on a big screen what has been produced (but not necessarily been thought) for the TV monitor. In past years, this curiosity for quality films on television led to astonishing discoveries: films, among others, by Atom Egoyan, Robert Guédiguian, Michael Apted, Arturo Ripstein found their way from the small to the big screen. This year, Goran Paskaljevic, the Serbian filmmaker's new film The Optimists could be discovered as a great cinema-film — a continuation and maybe completion of Paskaljevic' pessimistic-poetic Balkan trilogy which had started with The Powder Keg (in 1998) and Midwinter Night's Dream (in 2004). Serbian stories, joined to a Serbian story of the last ten years.

Details of the FIPRESCI Prize
International Film Festival "Cinéma Tout Ecran": October 30 — November 5, 2006
Web: www.cinema-tout-ecran.ch

Reports
The Optimists: Paskaljevic’s renewed Candide. Gabriele Barrera demonstrates why director Goran Paskaljevic's latest film is an excellent post-Milosevic anthology of five stories inspired by Voltaire's Candide. Each is an expose of those who cast too optimistic an outlook on life. More
A Summer Day of Loss and Redemption. France Hatron assesses how accurately A Summer Day achieves its depiction of what happens when a teenager suddenly dies and, more importantly, how his best friend copes with the loss. More  
The Power of Words. Mariano Morace explains how Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Jude uses a minimalist aesthetic in order to convey the feelings of what it means to be Jewish in Germany today. More

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