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FILM at SOTU 2017

An irritating, revolting, yet oddly memorable roll in the grunge, "Forgive Me" is documaker/stage helmer Cyrus Frisch's attempt to open audiences' eyes to the exploitative nature of media by radically grossing them out. Unfortunately, there are no more limits to what we are willing to see onscreen, from decomposing corpses on down. Taking a group of mentally and physically handicapped Amsterdam street people, Frisch provokes and humiliates them while he waits for someone to shout stop.

VERGEEF ME
Speelfilm (2001), NL, drama/docu, 35mm, 83 min, kleur, Nederlands gesproken Scenario/regie: Cyrus Frisch Producenten: Stichting Filmkracht & Phanta Film Cast: Sylvia Kristel, Ellen ten Damme, Nico, Chiquita, Peter Distributie: Filmfreaks (www.filmfreaks.nl) / DVD

“De gekte is tot norm verheven” zegt één van de hoofdpersonen in de speelfilm Vergeef me, het speelfilmdebuut van regisseur Cyrus Frisch. Door in zijn film openlijk over de grens van het acceptabele te gaan, hoopt de idealistische filmmaker Cyrus Frisch de stroom van geweld en ellende op televisie te bezweren. Als een eerste montage van brute scènes met randfiguren uitsluitend lovende reacties oplevert, reageert Frisch verbolgen. Hij sluit een pact met de duivel en grijpt naar nog extremer middelen. Hoelang blijft de toeschouwer een onschuldige voyeur?

Festivals: Internationaal Film Festival Rotterdam 2001; Nederlands Film Festival 2001; Film Festival Vlaanderen – Gent 2001; Cairo Film Festival 2001; International Film Festival Bratislava 2001; Internationaal Film Festival Munchen 2002; Berlin Beta Film Festival 2002

FILMMAKERS AND AUTHORS ON FRISCH' FILMS I was really puzzled by "Forgive Me" - GASPAR NOE I watched all Cyrus' films with extreme pleasure. He's a real force! - GUY MADDIN The unflinching cinema of Dutch provocateur Cyrus Frisch. Frisch's films embody the stupor we're in as a civilization. - Film Comment Magazine OLAF MULLER RUTGER HAUER ON CYRUS FRISCH Cyrus has a different 'eye' than me, and that's exactly what I find very interesting. His films - because of their unusual rhythm - breath a sense of truthfulness. They become inevitable, inescapable in a certain way. Very, very special.

RADIO RUK
Before and after the screening the radioshow Radio Ruk will interview the filmmaker Cyrus Frisch.
Patafysische Radioshow bij Radio Patapoe met Mc Alfredex, AK bouwman en De Slack.

FREE ENTRANCE
Donderdag 13 April
Filmhuis Cavia
Van Hallstraat 52-I
1051 HH Amsterdam
Telefoon: 020 - 68 11 419
19:00 - 20:00 Radio Ruk
20:00 - 21:23 Vergeef Me
21:23 - 22:00 Q&A met regisseur Cyrus Frisch

http://new.filmhuiscavia.nl/

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After the Q&A you can continue your Sotu trip to the Occii. The extraordinary Les Filles De Illighadad from Niger will play from 22:30 with after party with DJ Diego Armando.
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program: http://www.sotufestival.com/2017/lineup

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