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META HOUSE
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Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
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Homepage: www.meta-house.com,
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Dear Friends of Meta House!
We hope you enjoy our program this week – a listed below.
Tonite we will screen artful videos by outstading Iceland Pop Queen BJOERK.
All Events start 7PM.
On-going is Svay Ken's exciting new art exhibition (Sundays to Tuesdays, from 6PM).
Don't miss it.

All the best, Nico Mesterharm

TUES, 08/07 ARTIST SPECIAL: BJOERK
WED, 09/07 GERMAN CINEMA: SCHULTZE GETS THE BLUES
THURSDAY, 10/07 GERMAN CINEMA: DAS SINGENDE, KLINGENDE BAEUMCHEN
FRI, 11/07 PP FILMFEST: BURMA NIGHT (2 GREAT DOCUMENTARIES)
BURMA ALL INCLUSIVE/ JEWELS AND WOUNDS
SAT, 12/07 FOCUS CAMBODIA: THE POWER TO CHANGE
SUN, 13/07 SET IN ASIA – FEATURE FILM
For detailed information, please contact Florianne Wilde Tel.: 092 459 453.

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TUES, 08/07 ARTIST SPECIAL: BJOERK
Outstanding diverse artists Bjoerk dedicated almost 30 years of her life for music. Started as a singer in a Islandic Punk band, she shortly after founded a pop group "The Sugarcubes" to develop later her experimental music style, which makes her so unique. Mixing vocals, electronic music, choirs, but also collaborating with programmers.

WED, 09/07 GERMAN CINEMA: SCHULTZE GETS THE BLUES
Schultze is a retired lignite miner living in an East German village and a passionate Polka musician on his accordion. One night he listens to a Zydeco tune in the radio, which changes his taste of music radically. Notwithstanding his complete ignorance of the English language he starts a trip into the heart of the Zydeco; to Louisana. (2003, 114min, In German with English subtitles)

THURSDAY, 10/07 GERMAN CINEMA: DAS SINGENDE, KLINGENDE BAEUMCHEN
GERMAN LANGUAGE ONLY!!!!!!
Surrealler DDR Kinderfilm nach den Gebrueder Grimm. (1957, 70 min)
Um die Liebe einer schönen, aber hochmütigen Prinzessin zu gewinnen, macht sich der Prinz auf die Suche nach dem singenden, klingenden Bäumchen, das von der Prinzessin so begehrt wird. Er findet es in einem Zaubergarten, in dem ein böser Zwerg herrscht. Der gibt ihm das Bäumchen unter einer Bedingung: Bis zum Abend muß der Prinz die Liebe der Prinzessin erringen, sonst wird er in einen Bären verwandelt. Was wird geschehen ...?

FRI, 11/07 PP FILMFEST: BURMA NIGHT
DOUBLE Feature:
BURMA ALL INCLUSIVE
In a satiric way Austrian filmmaker Roland Wehap describes a fictive tourist ALL-Inclusive" journey through Burma, and the actual meaning behind. (2007, 97 min.)
BURMA – JEWELS AND WOUNDS
Underground "Vagabond Reporters"
Film on Myanmar by Gianrigo Marletta and Jennifer Cavagnol (I/USA)

SAT, 12/07
FOCUS CAMBODIA: THE POWER TO CHANGE
Film about domestic violence made by GTZ Promotion of Women's Rights in the Ministry of Women's Affairs.Sok knows how to be a real man – at least he thinks he does. But when his son and family come for a visit and notice his wife Thida's bruises, and the neighbours start to talk about the domestic violence in the home, Sok's whole lifestyle is called into question. Maybe there are other ways of proving his manhood that do not involve the fist…?

SUN, 13/07
SET IN ASIA
Films presented by Florianne Wilde (PhD Film theory).
For detailed information, please contact directly Florianne Wilde Tel.: 092 459 453.

posted by Jinja @ 1:57 PM