Expat Cinema Rotterdam

🏆 Winner Jury Prize - Cannes Film Festival 2007 🏆

► ABOUT THE MOVIE
🌞 A sun-drenched, bittersweet, humorous, and edgy coming-of-age story from debut director Kostis Charamountanis. The film is a tribute to the summers he spent sailing as a child.

Babis takes his twin children Konstantinos and Elsa (among the best-sketched, most-charming sibling duos in recent memory) sailing through the Greek isles, engaging in all the affection and jousting common to single parents and teenage offspring. It’s a seemingly standard trip laced with secret intent: Babis is en route to finally introduce the mother who abandoned Konstantinos and Elsa in infancy, a meeting that will dredge up difficult pasts and untreated hurt. Kostis Charamountanis’s feature debut is nevertheless a constant pleasure, its complexity and detail placed against piercingly blue seas, verdant flora, and glowing sunsets. Festival favorites Aftersun or Murina may come to mind, yet Kyuka moves at a speed all its own—peppered by hypnotic documentary interludes and tense, dazzlingly edited exchanges—up to Charamountanis’s perfectly orchestrated climax.

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Use the event chat on here to stay in touch. Depending on the group and peoples timing we can meet before and/or after film in the foyer or on the terrace (if the weather plays nicely)

Reminder: film with a short introduction starts at 19.00 sharp!

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In a small Romanian village, Dragoi, a devout family man, owes a sizable debt to local gangster Zentov. When his 17-year-old son, Adi, is viciously attacked by Zentov’s sons, Dragoi assumes it’s a warning to settle his dues. However, he uncovers a far more harrowing truth—Adi was not targeted over his father’s debts, but because of his sexual orientation.

What begins as a father’s desperate attempt to protect his son soon becomes a battle against a corrupt system determined to silence the case. As the community closes ranks, Dragoi is forced to confront not only his own beliefs but the deeply ingrained prejudices of his community. Meanwhile, Adi struggles with the pain of betrayal—not just from his attackers, but from a society that refuses to accept him. The seeming tranquility of the village fractures, revealing an undercurrent of violence, hypocrisy, and fear.

Three Kilometers to the End of the World is a gripping drama that exposes the aftermath of a homophobic hate crime and the forces working to bury the truth. With powerful performances and a relentless narrative, the film lays bare the weight of tradition, the cost of silence, and the courage it takes to fight for justice in a world determined to look away.

► ABOUT THE MEETUP
Use the event chat on here to stay in touch. Depending on the group and peoples timing we can meet before and/or after film in the foyer or on the terrace (if the weather plays nicely)

Reminder: film with a short introduction starts at 19.00 sharp!

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The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt began with FESTEN (The Celebration) - Thomas Vinterberg’s international breakthrough, a lacerating chamber drama that uses the economic and aesthetic freedoms of digital video to achieve annihilating emotional intensity.

On a wealthy man’s sixtieth birthday, a sprawling group of family and friends convenes at his country estate for a celebration that soon spirals into bedlam, as bombshell revelations threaten to tear away the veneer of bourgeois respectability and expose the traumas roiling beneath. The dynamic handheld camera work, grainy natural lighting, cacophonous diegetic sound, and raw performance style that would become Dogme hallmarks enhance the shattering visceral impact of this caustic indictment of patriarchal failings, which swings between blackest comedy and bleakest tragedy as it turns the sick soul of a family inside out.

► ABOUT THE MEETUP
Use the event chat on here to stay in touch. Depending on the group and peoples timing we can meet before and/or after film in the foyer or on the terrace (if the weather plays nicely)

Reminder: film with a short introduction starts at 19.00 sharp!