Monday | 14. July. 2014

TONIGHT CLASS ENEMY AND UPSTREAM COLOR

Class Enemy, a feature length directorial debut by Rok Biček, will be presented tonight at 21:30, at Kastel. A Slovene drama starring Igor Samobor, Nataša Barbara Gračner, Tjaša Železnik, Maša Derganc, Robert Prebil, Voranc Boh, Jan Zupančič and Daša Cupevski centres on the world of young people. Due to a huge difference in the way they perceive life, the relationship between students and their new German language teacher becomes critically tense. When one of the students commits suicide, her classmates accuse the teacher of being responsible for her death. The realization that things are not so black and white comes too late. Rok Biček graduated from the University of Ljubljana. He entered the world of cinema as a prominent student at Janez Lapajne’s PoEtika, an occasional academy for researching the art of filmmaking. He won several awards for his student films.

Upstream Color is tonight’s second film that will screen at 23:35, at Kastel. This American thriller directed by Shane Carruth centres on a girl that is abducted and seemingly brainwashed via an organic material harvested from a specific orchid. She later meets a man and after the two fall for each other, they come to realize he has also been subjected to the same process and that there are other victims of these disturbing experiments. They struggle to assemble the fragments of their wrecked lives as they are unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world. Upstream Color is a horror-thriller with borrowings from the drama and mystery genres. Carruth’s surreal approach and thrilling cascades of images follow a narrative trajectory that is neither linear nor chronological but relies instead on complex, intense atmosphere. The film stars Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig and Thiago Martins.