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Music opens New Europe Film Festival

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Slovak director Juraj Nvota's comedy Music [+see also:
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opened the New Europe Film Festival yesterday in Edinburgh.

Playing on the Zeitgeist of Slovak socialism in the 1970s, Nvota's film evokes the kind of Ostalgia that figured in audience response to Goodbye Lenin! [+see also:
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interview: Wolfgang Becker
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. Music centres on Martin, a frustrated jazz musician. Suffocating in his family milieu, Martin makes some some ill-advised allegiances to advance his career and sense of self-worth.

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Music saw its international premiere at last year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film is a Slovak/German co-production between ALEF Film & Media Group and box! Film. It stars Lubo Kostelny, Jan Budar and Dorota Nvotova.

Nvota studied Bratislava's Academy of Performing Arts. He appeared in many Czech and Slovak films as an actor before directing his first feature film, Cruel Joys, which competed at Karlovy Vary in 2003.

The New Europe Film Festival runs April 16–27 in Edinburgh and May 4–6 in London. The organisers hope the annual event will help the UK audience and immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe establish a dialogue about their life in the enlarged Europe.

Other films in this year's programme come from Bulgaria (The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner [+see also:
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), the Czech Republic (Teddybear), Estonia (I Was Here [+see also:
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film profile
]
), Hungary (Iska's Journey [+see also:
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]
), Lithuania (The Bug Trainer), Poland (Peter and the Wolf, 33 Scenes from Life [+see also:
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]
, Tricks [+see also:
film review
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interview: Andrzej Jakimowski
interview: Tomasz Gąssowski
film profile
]
) and Romania (California Dreamin' [+see also:
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film profile
]
).

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