Is the community influence on the life of individuals crucial, or some people have the power to change ancient customs? Check out today at Europa Cinema. The film Tanna is scheduled for 7pm, a sort of tribal version of Romeo and Juliet and the first ever film made on Vanuatu islands, starring amateur actors from the island tribe of Yakel. The result is a visually lavish story of young lovers who break all the rules and risk everything in order to be together. And they succeed.
At 9.30pm Europa is screening the Czech Family Film. This combination of dark, unpredictable black comedy and family drama starts as the ultimate teenage fantasy of a world without parents – father and mother, well-off Czechs, go on a cruise and leave their teenage children home alone, and later turns into a black comedy about a family in which all that could possibly go wrong goes wrong. Interestingly, a series of family incidents involves the disappearance of the family dog Otto in the sea somewhere around Easter Islands. Later his adventures become a separate part of the film.
Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu was partly inspired by reading a short news story about a dog who managed to survive for several weeks on a deserted island after a shipwreck. He was so mesmerised by the idea of a dog Robinson that he enriched his story of a wealthy couple from Prague going on a cruise and leaving the children in Prague with the storyline of a dog fighting for survival and in the process becoming the symbol of the family, a catalyst of their problems and perhaps the only one capable of reuniting them.