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The 13th European Film Festival South Africa is here. Over 10 days across 4 cities, audiences will have the opportunity to see some of the best films in current European cinema, fresh from Cannes, Venice, Berlin and beyond. Featuring award-winning films by giants of European cinema alongside bold new voices and starring Europe’s biggest names: this year’s films follow families of all kinds — biological, chosen, broken, rebuilding — fighting to hold together and carve out a future against everything working to pull them apart.
ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS WILL BE SCREENED WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
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The Last Viking (Denmark)
Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. Dark Comedy Crime Drama. 1hrs 56mins.
Denmark’s biggest star, Mads Mikkelsen reteams with director Anders Thomas Jensen for this hilarious, crime-caper noir. Mashing black-humour with violent anarchic, dark noir style all underpinned by a moving family drama - it’s a singularly thrilling emotional rollercoaster ride that took home the Audience Award at this year’s Danish Film Awards. Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Way Home) leads a supporting cast that includes Scandi-noir legends Sofie Gråbøl (The Killing) and Søren Malling (Borgen) in a dysfunctional family tale that twists, turns and delivers solid genre pleasures while packing an emotional punch.