The long warm summer with films from Restart’s distribution treasury starts already on Thursday, June 15th and will take place until the end of August in a dozen independent cinemas across the country with four titles that marked the past distribution year, in the order of multiple award-winning films with stories from Poland, France, Brazil as well as the musical heritage of Turkish immigrants in Germany.
The documentary summer officially begins in Split at the Zlatna vrata cinema with the film “The Pawnshop“, a multi-award-winning black humor comedy by Lukasz Kowalski about probably the biggest pawnshop in Europe and the eccentric, warm-hearted cholerics who run it in Bitom, the “Polish Detroit”, a city that is irretrievably sinking into ruin, and the pawnshop becomes the center of community life. After Split, the film is on tour at the Kino Gaj in Varaždin in the middle of the month, and at the end of the month at the Kinematografi Dubrovnik.
Turkish-German director Cem Kaya, in the film “Love, Deutschmarks and Death“ which was awarded the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film in the Panorama Berlinale program, brings in the form of a documentary essay an unprecedented story about the vibrant musical culture of Turkish immigrants and their descendants in a country where for 60 years they live as ‘domestic foreigners’. A witty and dynamic film full of rhythm – it is an encyclopedia of the indomitable spirit and energy of a time. As part of the Documentary Summer, the film is touring all over Croatia, starting from Beli Manastir (Foto Kino Klub Baranja), Pula (Kino Valli), Samobor (Pop up ART cinema), while in Šibenik at Barone Fortress on Wednesday, June 21st, the film opens a new summer cinema season.
How to relax in retirement when you have to fight against capitalism is the main question of the film “Guide to love and the fighting capitalism” about a married couple of French sociologists known for their research on social inequalities and the phenomenon of the ultra-rich. Their love spans more than fifty years and most of that time they worked together at the prestigious National Center for Scientific Research, until they retired 15 years ago to enjoy a good, quiet life in the suburbs of Paris. However, the real vacation of hardened activists will have to wait a little longer, because protests break out every now and then in the French capital.
“Miúcha: The Voice of the Bossa Nova” by director Liliana Mutti explores the history of this legendary Brazilian musical direction through the story of the artist Miúcha, her struggle to become a recognized singer and her turbulent marriage to João Gilbert, a pioneer of bossa nova. Through exclusive footage, diaries and letters, the film sheds new light on this Brazilian musical phenomenon and highlights Miúcha as an anti-muse who subverted the male narrative. We are watching the film at Dokukino KIC from June 16th, and at the Pakrac City Library, Art-kino Rijeka and Kinematografi Dubrovnik from July.