Outdoor Cinema

On no account should you miss the chance to watch films totally for free and in the open air! This year’s outdoor cinema will take place two days in a row in order to make the Film Festival’s anniversary even more festive. Tim Burton’s masterpiece, Ed Wood will be shown in Hovrättsparken( park close to the main library) on Friday, 4 September at 21.30 while the Swedish film “Ett öga rött” can be seen on Saturday, 5 Sept at 21.30 at Råslätt.

Just take a blanket with you and something to sit on!

Ed Wood

USA 1994 / Tim Burton / 127 min / English/from 11 years

With his adoration for femininity and an absolute weakness for Angora-sweaters, Ed Wood managed to shoot movies with minimal budget and borrowed props. After directing his unsuccessful “Plan 9 from outer space “and” Glen or Glenda”, he was acclaimed the ‘worst film director of all time’.

Ed Wood is a humorous and a loving portrait of the incurable optimist and transvestite. The all-star cast features Johnny Depp as the main character, Bill Murray, Sarah Jessica Parker and an Academy Award-winner Martin Landau (Best Supporting Actor, 1994) as an eccentric morphine- addict Bela Lugosi.

Ett öga rött (One eye red)

Sweden 2007 / Daniel Wallentin / 91 min / Swedish/7 years

“Ett öga rött” is based on Jonas Hassan Khemiris’ successful novel of the same name. It is a thrilling and a heart-warming story about Halim who, together with his father, moves from the suburbs to the city centre. Suddenly, his dad starts to integrate with the Swedes by eating herring and listening to Ulf Lundell. Still worse, he refuses to speak Arabic! This is something that Halim has to stop, before his dad gets totally absorbed by the “Swedishness”!