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UCCA Exclusive Screenings 10th European Union Film Festival: Special Selection of Fantasy Films
2017.10.22 - 2017.10.26
In partnership with the 10th European Union Film Festival and JUST Fantastic Film Studio, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) is pleased to present a special selection of fantasy films” in October and December 2017 repectively. October sees the exclusive screening of three fantasy-mystery films: How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Porto, and Coherence. The original book behind the film How to Talk to Girls at Parties was nominated by the Hugo Awards for Best Short Story. This series introduces storytelling and cinematographic techniques inherited from fantasy movies to Chinese audiences, while also presenting the beauty of European cinema to the international film world.
An art institution with an international outlook, UCCA actively promotes cultural exchange through film screenings and frequently collaborates with the French, Canadian, Australian, Austrian, and Dutch embassies, as well as the European Union, Goethe Institute, and French Institute of China, among others. UCCA also organizes a series of domestic and international film screenings, along with other public events.
Ticketing:
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
80 RMB/ Adult
60 RMB/ UCCA Member
Porto
Coherence
30 RMB/ Adult
20 RMB/ UCCA Member
Note：
*Enjoy UCCA Member ticket prices with the purchase of a yearly membership card (RMB 300);
*Collect your ticket from reception 30 minutes before the event begins;
*Please no late entry;
*Seating is limited, and tickets must be collected individually;
*Please keep mobile devices on silent.
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Schedule
10.22 (Sun) 13:00-15:00 How to Talk to Girls at Parties
10.22 (Sun) 15:30-17:00 Porto
10.25 (Wed) 19:30-21:30 How to Talk to Girls at Parties
10.26 (Thurs) 19:30-21:00 Coherence, Q&A
About the Film
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Screenwriters: John Cameron Mitchell, Philippa Goslett, Neil Gaiman
Starring: Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman, Ruth Wilson, Matt Lucas
Runtime: 102 min
Genre: Comedy/Romance/Science Fiction/Musical
Country: United Kingdom/United States
Language: English
Awards: Nominated at Cannes Film Festival for the Queer Palm Award
Based on a short story by Neil Gaiman that was nominated by the Hugo Awards for Best Short Story, the film is about the birth of punk, the exuberance of first love, and the universe’s greatest mystery of all: how to talk to girls at parties. It tells a story of two London schoolboys who go to a party where they meet beautiful foreign exchange students. However, the students are in fact aliens from another galaxy, sent to Earth to prepare for a mysterious rite of passage.
Porto
Director: Gabe Klinger
Screenwriter: Larry Gross / Gabe Klinger
Starring: Anton Yelchin / Lucie Lucas
Runtime: 76 min
Genre: Drama/Romance
Country: Portugal/France/USA/Poland
Language: English/Portuguese/French
Jake and Mati are two outsiders in Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time.
Coherence
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Screenwriter: James Ward Byrkit / Alex Manugian
Starring: Emily Baldoni / Maury Sterling /Hugo Armstrong
Runtime: 89 min
Genre: Si-Fi / Mystery /Thriller
Country: USA / UK
Language: English
Strange things begin to happen as a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
Collaborators
European Union Film Festival
European Union Film Festival is a film cultural exchange program organized by the European Union External Action Service (EEAS). The film festival aims at bringing the most representative and celebrated films from the 28 EU member states to Chinese audiences. All of the films are selected by experts from film festivals, film councils of EU member states’ governments, and the largest distributers in China and abroad. The selected films are the most celebrated and popular films from each member country. For “The Best of Cannes,” film councils select the best films from the Cannes Film Festival and present them in China. Chinese audiences are able to watch the films five months after they premiered in Cannes in May, allowing them to experience them “without any time lag.”
JUST Fantasy Base
JUST Fantasy Base is the first platform for genre films in China, with particular focuses on Chinese Sci-fi and fantasy productions.
James Ward Byrkit
James Ward Byrkit is an established director and scriptwriter known for his work in the animation film Rango and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Projection Support
BARCO
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Open Today, 10:00-19:00 (Final entry: 18:30)
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