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Greetings!
Spring has finally arrived, bringing with it a plethora of exciting projects by TMU grantees. In this April newsletter, we'd like to highlight two events of particular interest: Disappearing Act film festival, and Palissimo's spring benefit at Abrons Arts Center.
The European film festival Disappearing Act was launched in 2009 in New York as an annual event to highlight the vitality of European cinema. Screenings will be held at the Bohemian National Hall and Museum of the Moving Image and will include a panel discussion and the opportunity for film students and the public to interact with the festival via blog. The festival will feature three films from Southeastern Europe supported by TMU. (Descriptions can be found below.)
This month, Palissimo, a longtime TMU grantee, is hosting a benefit for the New York City premiere of Painted Bird Trilogy Cycle at La MaMa E.T.C. in June 2013.  Please join Palissimo on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 7pm, for an evening of drinks and hors d'oeuvres, performance and celebration with the cast and designers of the Painted Bird Trilogy. DJ Joro Boro will officially launch Palissimo's Amidst (The Painted Bird: Part II) film version produced by On the Boards TV.
Best,
The TMU Team
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1395 Dana Bez Crvene
(1395 Days Without Red)
Sejla Kameric and Anri Sala, 2011, UK, Bosnia, Herzegovina; 70 min. No dialogue.
The siege of Sarajevo lasted a brutal 1,395 days. The filmmakers recreate a woman's daily journey through the city (Maribel Verdu, the star of Blancanieves), walking and running between safe and dangerous spaces, desperately trying to avoid the deadly "snipers' alley." Atmospheric and deeply affecting, the film is shot completely without dialogue, the only companion on the journey being Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, Path�tique, rehearsed by an orchestra somewhere in the city.
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Momcheto, Koeto Beshe Tsar
(The Boy Who Was King)
Andrey Paounov, 2011, Bulgaria-Germany: 90min, documentary. In Bulgarian and English. Followed by director Q&A
In the words of the filmmaker: "Royalty meets Reality: the biography of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the exile boy-king who gloriously returned as a republican politician to fall from grace in one of the greatest experiments of democracy today." This time Paounov scrutinizes the unique life of King Simeon II, who was crowned as a 6-year-old after the sudden death of his father, only to be dethroned by the Communists at age 9, and finally becoming Bulgarian prime minister some 50 years later.
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Tilva Ros
Nikola Lezaic, 2010, Serbia; 99min. In Serbian. Followed by director Q&A 
Set in Bor, Serbia, once the largest copper mine in Europe and now completely abandoned, two best friends spend their first summer after high school filming stunts to share with the world. Their friendship starts to unravel over their romantic interest in the same girl and tension because only one of them has enough money to go to university. But rising union protests in town bring them back together. |
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