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They include Austrian drama Chucks, Finnish muscial drama Urban Family, and Canadian thriller Anna.

The pan-Asian film channel Cinema World has bought a raft of international titles from Italian sales outfit Summerside International.

They include Gerhard Ertl’s Austrian drama Chucks, about a punk girl falling in love with an AIDS patient, Oskari Sipola’s Finnish muscial drama Urban Family, a portrait of a woman in her thirties who finally meets the baby daughter she gave for adoption, and Charles Olivier Michaud’s Canadian thriller Anna, a revenge thriller about a woman who is kidnapped by gangsters in Bangkok.

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They include Austrian drama Chucks, Finnish muscial drama Urban Family, and Canadian thriller Anna.

The pan-Asian film channel Cinema World has bought a raft of international titles from Italian sales outfit Summerside International.

They include Gerhard Ertl’s Austrian drama Chucks, about a punk girl falling in love with an AIDS patient, Oskari Sipola’s Finnish muscial drama Urban Family, a portrait of a woman in her thirties who finally meets the baby daughter she gave for adoption, and Charles Olivier Michaud’s Canadian thriller Anna, a revenge thriller about a woman who is kidnapped by gangsters in Bangkok.

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Recent Czech cinema has been gaining a reputation when it comes to revisiting history. Hefty award festooned mini-series-cum feature film The Burning Bush directed by renowned filmmaker Agnieszka Holland and Andrea Sedláčková´s sports drama Fair Play shaped moral heroes against an oppressive communist backdrop, elevating them on a pedestal to times not yet forsaken. As that goes Czech filmmakers don´t always paint life under dictatorship in such grey colours as Jiří Vejdělek proved in his maudlin yearning for adolescence in Tender Waves. Slovak director (and actor) Juraj Nvota adds his two cents with Hostage, which nods towards Vejdělek´s venture. Nvota has already laid a critical eye on communist times in two films: his thriller The Confidant (set in 68´ Czechoslovakia), and the domestic drama Music,...

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Chicago – We’re back with our look at week two of the The 12th Annual EU Film Festival at the Siskel Film Center, one of the best film events of the year in the Windy City. If you missed part one and want to relive the best of the first seven days of the fest, check it out here. On to week two…

This year’s edition, running from March 6th to April 2nd, includes high profile films from world renowned filmmakers like Peter Greenaway, Francois Ozon, Agnes Varda, Nicholas Roeg, Shane Meadows, Olga Malea, and Olivier Assayas, along with some movies that probably won’t be seen outside of the EU in the Windy City.

The 12th Annual European Union Film Festival includes 59 feature films, all of which are making their Chicago premiere. If you’re interested in seeing something off the beaten path, the EU is the fest for you.