Museum of the Moving Image Hosts Festival Dedicated to Contemporary European Film

The British aren’t coming! The British aren’t coming! But the Cypriots, Czechs, Estonians, French, Italians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Romanians and Slovenians certainly are. On April 4th, the Museum of the Moving Image kicks of Panorama Europe, a showcase of 17 contemporary feature and short films from the Old Continent, many of which are co-presented by their corresponding country’s cultural agency. Unit 7 (below), a cop thriller set in the Seville in the late 1980s, screens first with director Alberto Rodríguez in person for a Q&A. Other movies include the following: Paradise: Love, about a middle-aged Austrian divorcee who vacations in Kenya, where sex with the buff beach boys is booming—and ultimately ruinous; Rosie, about a sad-sack, 40-something gay novelist who moves back to his rural Swiss hometown to care for his ailing, alcoholic mother, dredging up their complicated emotional history; and Sonja and the Bull (above), a Croatian comedy about a big city animal-rights activist lobbying to end the sport of bullfighting. A pro-bullfighting contingent approaches her with a bizarre, put-up-or-shut-up wager. The fun lasts through April 13th.

Details: Click here for dates, times, venues and movie descriptions. All films at the Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria; or Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd Street, Manhattan. 

Photos: MMI