The Swiss Film Week starts tonight at the Royal Cultural Center

Entertainment — By Samer Marzouq on June 6, 2009 at 10:06 am

The Royal Film Commission and the Embassy of Switzerland in Jordan in cooperation with the Royal Cultural Center invite you to attend The Swiss Film Week between Saturday June 6th till Thursday June 11th 2009 at the Royal Cultural Center at 7:30 pm. Arabic subtitles will be available.

Sat 6 June: Vitus by Fredi Murer, 120 minutes, Swiss-German with Arabic subtitles, Fiction, 2006.
Vitus is a young genius who can easily read encyclopedias and plays the piano like a professional. His parents discover his great talent and anticipate a brilliant future for their son. While his parents look forward to seeing their son as a professional pianist, the little genius prefers to play in his grandfather’s workshop and to have a normal childhood.

The film won several international awards including the Best Swiss Film Prize in 2007 and The Best Feature Film in Strasbourg Augenblick Festival 2007. The film was also awarded for the Audience Award at Chicago IFF 2006 and The Audience Choice Award in Los Angeles AFI festival 2006.

Sun 7 June: Das Fraulein by Andrea Staka, 81 minutes, Swiss-German with Arabic Subtitles, Fiction, 2006
Ruza left her home country Serbia over thirty years ago and now lives in Zurich, where she manages a staff canteen. Her lonely life is a string of repetitive moments until the day Ana arrives from Sarajevo and upsets Ruza’s painstakingly organized world.

“Das Fraulein” received awards at Locarno International Film 2006, Sarajevo Film Festival 2006 and Swiss Film Prize in 2007.

Mon 8 June: North Wind by Bettina Oberli, 93 minutes, Art/Foreign and Dram, 2004
Edwin Graf, his wife Kathrin and their daughter Lisa lead a middle-class life in a middle-class town where they have started building a new home. Unfortunately, due to reorganization at his company, Erwin finds himself downsized and out of a job after 17 years. In order not to upset his wife, he keeps his joblessness secret, pretending to go off to work each morning.

In the beginning, Erwin is confident that heâll land a new job. But as time goes by, he realizes that a man at his age is not as desired as he might have thought in the current economic situation. Slowly Kathrin and Lisa begin to notice changes in him and tension builds within the family unit until Lisa finds out that her father has been unemployed for weeks.