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EU Events in Australia

Updated October 21, 2008

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SEMESTER 2 2008

Tuesdays, 6 pm to 7.30 pm

MELBOURNE IRISH STUDIES SEMINARS (MISS)

An Inter-University Forum for Irish and Irish-Australian Studies

Convenors:

Elizabeth Malcolm (University of Melbourne); Frances Devlin-Glass (Deakin University); Philip Bull (La Trobe University).

@ THE ORATORY, NEWMAN COLLEGE

(When entering from Swanston Street, turn right into the main College building and up the stairs on the right of the corridor). Pre-seminar drinks will be at 6 p.m. and the paper will commence at 6.15 pm.

When the speaker is available to join the group, the seminars are followed with dinner at a Carlton restaurant.

(Web page: http://www.isaanz.org/MISS.htm

TUES. 11 November 2008

DR VAL NOONE (University of Melbourne)
The Nicholas O'Donnell Collection in Newman College's Gerry Higgins Irish Library

TUES. 25 November 2008

PROFESSOR TIM MURRAY (La Trobe University)
Building an Archaeology of 19th-Century Irish Migration to Australia

These are free public seminars. For further details, ring (03) 8344 3924 or (03) 9479 2440 or email P.J.Bull@latrobe.edu.au OR e.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au OR frang@deakin.edu.au

17 Sept to 23 November Italian Film Festival

Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra

www.ambcanberra.esteri.it
19 - 25 October 2008 Italian Language Week under the theme " Italian in the piazza"   culturale.canberra@esteri.it
16 November 2008 Fourth Italo-Australian Fun Run and Walk Nara Park, Yarralumla www.ambcanberra.esteri.it
16-26 November 2008 Italian Film Festival   culturale.canberra@esteri.it

Canberra – Friday 6th – Sunday 15th Feb 2009

Sydney Opera Quays Friday 13th – Sunday 22nd Feb 2009

Brisbane Portside Friday 20th – Sunday 1 March 2009

EU Film Festival

Canberra – Friday 6th – Sunday 15th Feb 2009

Sydney Opera Quays Friday 13th – Sunday 22nd Feb 2009

Brisbane Portside Friday 20th – Sunday 1 March 2009

SYNOPSIS OF MOVIES FOR 2009 EU FILM FESTIVAL

 Suden Arvoitus (Mystery of the Wolf) (Finland ) 2006

95 minutes - adventure/family drama

A thought provoking family drama exploring the themes of family and belonging, Mystery of the Wolf follows 12 year-old Salla who rescues a pair of wolf cubs from poachers. To protect the animals she must learn to trust those around her including her long-lost mother

Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0801011/awards

Hände weg von Mississippi (Hands off Mississippi ) ( Germany ) 2007

98 minutes – comedy/drama/romance

A delightful children's film about Emma a young girl from the city sent to spend time with her grandmother in the country and a horse called Mississippi. The tale of Albert, a greedy land owner and the campaign Emma undertakes to foil Albert's plans, and save Mississippi and the local shopkeepers from the clutches of the unscrupulous businessman. This story sparkles with warmth and lightness, a spunky heroine, and a lovingly nostalgic feeling. This film develops into a broad comedy where all is not what it appears

Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0943232/awards

Rating: TBC

Mistério da Estrada de Sintra, (The Mystery of Sintra) ( Portugal ) 2007

104 minutes – adventure

In the late 19th century, two writers imagine and publish a mystery serial that turns out to be closer to a true-life case than they thought possible.

Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0826110/awards

Any way the wind blows ( Belgium ) 2003

122 minutes – drama/comedy

Antwerp . On a sweltering Friday afternoon in June, eight people dream of a different life. There's music and wind, police and paranoia, hints and allegations. There's an ancient virus, a wandering frisbee, a dead horse, and, drifting through town, an enigmatic phenomenon called Windman who feels the pain of everybody else but can't seem to help himself. All this culminates when, with little in common; these people end up in the same place for a party that evening.

Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0331175/awards

Fehér Tenyér (White Palms) ( Hungary ) 2006

100 minutes – drama/sport

Scarred by his abusive training as a youth in Communist Hungary, gymnastics coach Dongo struggles to prepare an overconfident athlete for the 2001 Calgary Olympics. In the course of guiding his student through a gruelling physical regimen, Dongo fears he may be inflicting some of the horrors he endured as a child, and fights to reconcile his past with his present.

Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464955/awards

Klimt ( Austria ) 2006

97 minutes – drama

Starring John Malkovich Klimt is a biopic of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt and unfolds in the artist's troubled mind as he lies dying of syphilis in a Viennese hospital in 1918. The subject is erotic love and death and much of the film turns upon Klimt's relationship with an exotic dancer, Lea de Castro to whom he's introduced by the film pioneer Georges Melies at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.

Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417871/awards

Logodnicii din America (American Fiancées) ( Romania ) 2007

80 minutes - drama

This is a tale of love, friendship and betrayal. A story about seven people who, after 18 years are getting together for the first time to spend a seemingly quite weekend together to relive old times, however, one woman's husband is the other woman's former fiancée and 18 years hides secrets and secrets hide betrayals and betrayals hide wounds. Over a span of just a few hours, everything becomes dramatically clear to all concerned.

Awards: nil

Tajnosti (Little Girl Blue) ( Czech Republic ) 2007

93 minutes – drama

In this moving story of a day that changes her life forever, Juliet is 45 and has everything. A prospering, handsome husband, a healthy and clever daughter of seventeen, an undemanding job as a translator, a devoted young lover and now a new, big, modern house where the whole family just moved. She is also two months pregnant. And it is high time to decide what she is going to do about it. Especially since she hasn't slept with her husband for several months, doesn't really love her lover and fears loosing the rest of the fragile connection she has with her teenage daughter. The simple task of finding, buying and bringing home a second hand instrument becomes a vessel that carries her through the waterfall of major changes that she must undertake in order to regain control of her own life.

Awards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0977666/awards 

For more information please contact the relevant Embassy, High Commission or Consulate (contact details below)

Embassy of Austria
12 Talbot Street
FORREST   ACT   2603
Tel: + 61 2 6295 1533
Fax: + 61 2 6239 6751
website: www.austriaemb.org.au
email:canberra-ob@bmaa.gv.at

Royal Belgian Embassy
19 Arkana Street
YARRALUMLA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2   6273 2501
Fax: + 61 2 6273 3392
email: canberra@diplobel.fed.be
Embassy of Bulgaria
33 Culgoa Circuit
O'Malley ACT 2606
Tel:  (02) 6286 9711 (General)         
(02) 6286 9700 (Consular)
Fax: (02) 6286 9600
Email: embassy@bulgaria.org.au

High Commission for Cyprus
30 Beale Crescent
Deakin ACT 2600
Tel : (02) 6281 0832, 6281 0834
Fax : (02) 6281 0860
Tel : (02) 6281 0871 (Press Office)
Email : cyphicom@bigpond.net.au

Embassy of the Czech Republic
8 Culgoa Circuit
O'Malley ACT 2606
Tel : (02) 6290 1386
Fax : (02) 6290 0006
Tel : (02) 6290 1543 (Consular and Visa Section)
Email : canberra@embassy.mzv.cz

Royal Danish Consulate-General
Level 14, Gold Fields House
1 Alfred Street
Circular Quay
Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: + 61 2   9247 2224
Fax: + 61 2 9251 7504
email: dtcsydney@dtcsyd.org.au

Consulate-General of the Republic of Estonia
86 Louisa Road
Birchgrove NSW 2041
Tel : (02) 9810 7468
Fax : (02) 9555 1676
Email : eestikon@ozemail.com.au

Embassy of Finland
12 Darwin Avenue
YARRALUMLA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6273 3800
Fax: + 61 2 6273 3603
website: www.finland.org.au
email: finland@iimetro.com.au

Embassy of France
6 Perth Avenue
YARRALUMLA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6216 0100
Fax: + 61 2 6216 0127
website: www.ambafrance-au.org
email: Embassy@ambafrance-au.org

Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
119 Empire Circuit
YARRALUMLA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6270 1911
Fax: + 61 2 6270 1951
website: www.germanembassy.org.au
email: info1@germanembassy.org.au

Embassy of Greece
9 Turrana Street
YARRALUMLA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6273 3011
Fax: + 61 2 6273 2620
email: greekemb@bigpond.net.au
web: http://www.greekembassy.org.au/

Embassy of the Republic of Hungary
17 Beale Crescent
Deakin ACT 2600
Tel : (02) 6282 3226
Fax : (02) 6285 3012
Email : cbr.missions@kum.hu

Embassy of Ireland
20 Arkana Street
YARRALUMLA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6273 3022
Fax: + 61 2 6273 3741
email: irishemb@cyberone.com.au

Embassy of Italy
12 Grey Street
DEAKIN   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6273 3333
Fax: + 61 2 6273 4223
website: http://www.ambcanberra.esteri.it/Ambasciata_Canberra
email: embassy@ambitalia.org.au

Consulate-General of Latvia
38 Longstaff Street
East Ivanhoe Vic 3079
(PO Box 23
Kew Vic 3101)
Tel : (03) 9499 6920
Fax : (03) 9499 7008

Consulate-General of the Republic of Lithuania
40B Fiddens Wharf Road
Killara NSW 2071
Tel : (02) 9498 2571
Fax : (02) 9498 2571

High Commission for Malta
38 Culgoa Circuit
O'Malley ACT 2606
Fax : (02) 6290 2453
Tel : (02) 6290 1724 (General and Consular)
Tel : (02) 6290 1573 (Pensions Section)
Tel : (02) 6290 1847 (High Commissioner's Office)
Email : maltahighcommission.canberra@gov.mt

Royal Netherlands Embassy
120 Empire Circuit
YARRALUMLA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6273 3111
Fax: + 61 2 6273 3206
website : http://www.netherlands.org.au
email: can@minbuza.nl

Embassy of the Republic of Poland
7 Turrana Street
Yarralumla ACT 2600
Tel : (02) 6273 1208, 6273 1211, 6272 1000
Fax : (02) 6273 3184
Email : polamb@tpg.com.au

Embassy of Portugal
23 Culgoa Circuit
O'MALLEY   ACT   2606
Tel: + 61 2 6290 1733
Fax: + 61 2 6290 1957
email: embport@mail2me.com.au
Embassy of Romania
Chancery:
4 Dalman Crescent
O'Malley ACT  2606
Tel: (02) 6286 2343
Fax: (02) 6286 2433
Email: roembcbr@cyberone.com.au
Web: http://canberra.mae.ro

Embassy of the Slovak Republic
47 Culgoa Circuit
O'Malley ACT 2606
Tel : (02) 6290 1516, 6290 2405
Fax : (02) 6290 1755
Email : slovak@cyberone.com.au
Web : http://www.slovakemb-aust.org

Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia
PO Box 284
Civic Square Canberra ACT 2608
Tel : (02) 6243 4830
Fax : (02) 6243 4827
Email : vca@gov.si
Web : http://slovenia.webone.com.au

Embassy of Spain
15 Arkana Street
YARRALUMLA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6273 3555
Fax: + 61 2 6273 3918
Website:http://www.embaspain.com
email: embespau@mail.mae.es

Embassy of Sweden
5 Turrana Street
YARRALUMLA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6270 2700
Fax: + 61 2 6270 2755
website: www.swedenabroad.com/canberra
email: sweden@iimetro.com.au

British High Commission
Commonwealth Avenue
CANBERRA   ACT   2600
Tel: + 61 2 6270 6666
Fax: + 61 2 6273 3236
website: www.uk.emb.gov.au
email: information.section@uk.emb.gov.au

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