European Film Festival in New York City
The Balancing Act
Museum of the Moving Image and The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) will present Panorama Europe, from Friday, April 4 through Sunday, April 13, a showcase of 17 contemporary European feature films and one program of short films. Known as Disappearing Act for its first five years, the newly re-named festival continues the mission of showcasing vital European filmmaking as distribution remains challenging for foreign language films in the United States. Panorama Europe gives New York audiences access to what may be their only chance to see these acclaimed films from the festival circuit on the big screen or at all. This year’s festival will take place at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria and at the Bohemian National Hall in Manhattan.
This festival aims at introducing New York audiences to the wide-ranging selection of contemporary European cinema with its different genres that cover many current social and cultural themes, and depict life in diverse European countries.
The Italian feature film is:
THE BALANCING ACT
DIRECTOR: Ivano De Matteo
Starring: Valerio Mastandrea, Barbora Bobulova
Giulio is forty years old and leads an
apparently peaceful life. He lives in a rented
apartment, has a steady job, a car purchased
in installments, a rebellious but nice daughter,
a sweet son who’s a dreamer, a wife he loves
and is unfaithful to. She discovers Giulio’s
affair, leaves him and his fairy-tale life
suddenly crumbles. But what happens to a
couple who “dare” separate from each other
nowadays ? Through a wide array of
events that are at times tragic and at times
ironic, GLI EQUILIBRISTI takes us hand-in-hand
into the world of a man who suddenly
discovers how thin the line between wellbeing
and poverty truly is.