The 1st International Silent Film Festival 2007

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The 1st International Silent Film Festival brought to you by the Goethe-Institut Manila, Instituto Cervantes and the Japan Foundation in cooperation with Ayala Malls Cinemas, Greenbelt and YoCard Film screening 04 - 13 September 2007 at 8pm Greenbelt 3 Cinema 2 +63 2 8405723-24 [email protected]

Watch some of the country's best musicians take on the task of scoring a silent film live! The first International Silent Film Festival features silent films from Germany, Japan and Spain.. Schedule of Film Screenings September 4 (Tuesday) The Adventures of Prince Achmed/Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (1926) GERMANY Directed by Lotte Reiniger music by Drip A wicked sorcerer tricks Prince Achmed into riding a magical flying horse. The heroic prince is able to subdue the magical horse, which he uses to fly off to many adventures. While travelling, he falls in love with the beautiful Princess Peri Banu, and must defeat an army of demons to win her heart. The entire film is animated using the silhouette technique, which employs movable cardboard and metal cutouts posed in front of illuminated sheets of glass. Lotte Reiniger's masterpiece took three years to make and is the oldest surviving feature-length animated film. September 10 (Monday) The Sixth Sense/El sexto sentido (1929) SPAIN Directed by Nemesio Sobrevilla music by Wahijuara Carlos and León go on a picnic with their respective girlfriends, Carmen and Luisa. Carlos, optimistic and lively - as opposed to León -, gives Carmen an engagement ring which she is forced to sell upon the insistence of her father, who wants to spend the money on bullfighting. The encounter between Carmen and her father is filmed by Kamus, using a camera which he calls "the sixth sense". Carlos recommends León to visit Kamus with the hope that the scientist will join him in his invention to cure him of his pessimism. September 13 (Thursday) A Monster Serpent/Orochi (1925) JAPAN Directed by Buntaro Futagawa music by Makiling Ensemble

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Set in a castle town in Japan's feudal age, this film depicts the trials and tribulations of Heizaburo Kuritomi, whose troubles stem from his love with two beautiful women of which he cannot convince either that he is a good man. He then becomes a killer trying to save one of them from a criminal who had rescued him subsequently after his escape in prison. The film is one of the few silent chambara-samurai warrior picture films to survive in relatively complete form at this point in time.

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