The best of current cinema in October in your cinema! Be2Can is a selective showcase of first-class festival films from three of the world's most prestigious festivals - Venice, Berlin and Cannes. This film showcase involves selected cinemas across the Czech Republic every year and aims to bring to the audience films that offer insight into the current festival scene and are largely absent from mainstream distribution.
The Be2Can programme is not limited to mere "screening", but aims at critical selection and discussion not only of the films themselves, but also of the festivals, their dramaturgy, politics and prizes. Be2Can thus functions as a film showcase, a critical platform and a discussion forum. The Telegraph will feature seven selected films from the showcase that have been most successful in resonating in the world of film criticism and international film festivals. Over the course of two weeks, Telegraph cinemagoers will be treated to a selection of the latest and greatest films of the last year.
We kicked off the Be2Can screenings and the Be2Can show itself with the Georgian-French drama Inception, which dominated the awards at the San Sebastian IFF.
The only US-originated film in the show is Mainstream from the Venice Film Festival by a director named Gia Coppola, granddaughter of the famous Francis Ford Coppola. The film, which takes a satirical stance on the reign of the media, will be shown on Monday 11 10 at 20:00.
The European co-production I Loved My Wife by acclaimed Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi (Oscar-nominated for Of Body and Soul) is an adaptation of the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Milan Fust. This competition film from the Cannes Film Festival will be screened on Tuesday 12 10 at 20:00.
The co-produced drama A flu is rampant among the Petrovs is the work of Kirill Serebrennikov, a Russian-born director whose films such as (M)apprentice and Summer regularly compete at leading film festivals such as Cannes, Venice and Karlovy Vary. With this drama, Serebrennikov has already competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes for the second time and we will screen his film on 13 10 at 20:00.
Another Russian film in the show's selection is the black-and-white historical film Traitor Comrades! from one of the most celebrated Soviet/Russian directors, Tarkovsky's contemporary and colleague, the now eighty-four-year-old Andrei Konchalovsky. This latest film of his won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice IFF and we will be showing it on Monday 18 10 at 20:00.
This year's Palme d'Or winner at Cannes is the aesthetically arresting French-Belgian thriller Titan from young director Julia Docournau. Tuesday 19 10 at 20:00.
From Australia, Caleb Landry Jones came to Cannes to collect the Best Actor award for his performance in the thriller Nitram. This Palme d'Or-nominated film will be accompanied by an introduction and closing discussion in English with acclaimed journalist and blogger Ryan Keating-Lambert, bringing the Be2Can show to a close at the Telegraph on Wednesday 20 10 at 20:00.
A bonus at the end! With every ticket purchased, you'll receive a voucher for a week's subscription to the Edisononline VOD service.
By Michael Bukovanský, Jakub Kraus
