Frauenfeld
Friday, 9. May 2014
Sophie Hyde · AUS 2013 · E/d · 114 min
Daniel Ribeiro · BRA 2014 · Port/d · 96 min
Saturday, 10. May 2014
Mitra Devi · CH 2014 · Schweizerdeutsch/NL/d · 50 min
Roger Ross Williams · USA 2013 · E/d · 84 min
Ewin In het Panhuis · D · 75 min
Eytan Fox · ISR 2013 · E/d · 90 min
Feature film
A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They'd all like to forget the stress of their daily lives. Yael is a former beauty queen who is unfulfilled by her job as a corporate lawyer; Dana is a stressed-out aide to a cabinet minister and timidly tries to please her traditional father; Anat , has a successful bakery but an unsuccessful marriage; Keren is a shy blogger; Efrat is a frustrated singer- songwriter whose career has stalled; and Ofer is a nursery-school teacher who is upset that his boyfriend, a spokes-model for his family's famous brand of hummus, is still in the closet and won't publicly acknowledge their romance. When the night of the Universong final rolls around, they gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." After they realize that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, Ofer enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
Anna Margarita Albelo · USA 2013 · E/d · 83 min
Bruno Barreto · BRA 2013 · Bras/d · 116 min
Diego Araujo · Ecuador 2014 · Span/d · 82 min
Sunday, 11. May 2014
Axel Ranisch · D 2013 · D/e · 99 min
Monika Treut · D 2014 · D · 82 min
Kate Johnston, Shauna MacDonald · CAN 2013 · E/d · 87 min
Miguel Ferrari · VEN 2012 · Span/e/d · 110 min
Martin Provost · F 2013 · F/d · 139 min
John Krokidas · USA 2013 · E/d · 104 min
Mischa Kamp · NL 2014 · NL/d · 78 min
Dee Rees · USA 2011 · E/d · 86 min