Alliance Française, Goethe - Zentrum, and the Consulates of no less than 20 European countries - Austria, Belgium, the Republic of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland - are proud to present the second edition of the European Film Festival of Atlanta.

Schedule:

May 8, 2024

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Official Opening Ceremony | BELGIUM | La fiancée du poète at Tara Theatre

A lover of painting and poetry, Mireille adapts to her work as a waitress at the cafeteria of the Beaux-Arts in Charleville while living on petty theft and trafficking in cigarette cartons.

May 9, 2024

6:00 PM - 7:40 PM - GERMANY | The Teachers’ Lounge at Tara Theatre
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

6:00 PM - 7:50 PM - LATVIA | Soviet Milk (M?tes piens) at Plaza Theatre
A young, promising doctor destroyed by the Soviet totalitarian regime deprives her daughter of breast milk.

7:00 PM - 9:15 PM - GREECE | Dodo at Plaza Theatre
A Dodo, a bird species extinct for the last 300 years, shows up mysteriously at the luxurious villa of a formerly wealthy family in Athens, dragging all the protagonists into a crazy round.

8:00 PM - 9:35 PM - IRELAND | The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) at Tara Theatre
In rural Ireland, a quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer where she blossoms and learns what it is to be loved.

8:00 PM - 10:20 PM - CZECH REPUBLIC | Il Boemo (The Bohemian) at Plaza Theatre
A historical film about an 18th-century Czech immigrant to Italy who became the most prolific and celebrated opera composer of his time.

May 10, 2024

7:00 PM - 8:35 PM - UKRAINE | 20 Days in Mariupol at Tara Theatre
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

May 11, 2024

11:00 AM - 12:50 PM - ROMANIA | Libertate at Plaza Theatre
During Romania's 1989 revolution, Sibiu witnesses a violent attack on a police station that spirals into armed clashes between soldiers, police, protesters and secret police.

11:00 AM - 12:35 PM - LUXEMBOURG | The Wall at Tara Theatre
A committed and zealous American officer of the United States Border Patrol on the Arizona-Mexico border loses control and kills a harmless migrant in front of three witnesses and tries to cover her crime.

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM - ITALY at Plaza Theatre

5:00 PM - 6:45 PM - NETHERLANDS | Sweet Dreams at Plaza Theatre
Tumultuous events triggered by the death of a Dutch sugar plantation owner who ends up leaving his Indian Ocean island estate to his young illegitimate son - the child of his Indonesian housemaid.

5:00 PM  6:30 PM - SWITZERLAND | Bon Schuur Ticino at Tara Theatre
The Swiss population decides that there should only be one national language in the future. During the transition to monolingualism, federal policeman Walter Egli and his colleague have to deal with a group of opponents.

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM - ESTONIA | Smoke Sauna Sisterhood at Plaza Theatre
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.

7:00 PM - 9:30 PM - FRANCE | Anatomy of a Fall at Tara Theatre
A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.

Date: May 8 - 11, 2024

Location:

Various Venue in Atlanta, GA 30306

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