The high­ly rat­ed Ital­ian film, The En­tre­pre­neur, is part of the line up for the Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val (EFF) to­day at Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain. The plot re­volves around Nico­la, a fac­to­ry own­er on the verge of bank­rupt­cy who re­sorts to un­scrupu­lous means to solve his prob­lems.

The EFF runs un­til May 28 at Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain and Movi­eTowne, To­ba­go.Tick­ets are $30, with tick­ets for chil­dren and stu­dents in uni­form or with stu­dent ID priced at $20. For more in­for­ma­tion, vis­it the EFF Face­book page at Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val � Trinidad and To­ba­go or www.ttfilm­fes­ti­val.com/eff

To­day's films at the EFF

Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain

11 am

Eleanor's Se­cret

Di­rec­tor: Do­minique Mon­fery

2009/France/80 mins/An­i­ma­tion/GA

Sev­en-year-old Nathaniel goes with his par­ents to spend the sum­mer in the vil­la that be­longed to his aunt Eleanor. Nathaniel has in­her­it­ed his aunt's li­brary of old books, but he has no in­ter­est in them. That is un­til he dis­cov­ers the books are alive with char­ac­ters from clas­sic fairy tales!

1 pm

The En­tre­pre­neur

Di­rec­tor: Giu­liano Mon­tal­do

2011/Italy/94 mins/Thriller/14+

Nico­la is a fac­to­ry own­er on the verge of bank­rupt­cy. Proud, he re­jects his wealthy moth­er-in-law's as­sis­tance, and re­sorts to un­scrupu­lous means to solve his prob­lems. As his wife, Lau­ra, be­comes in­creas­ing­ly re­mote, and he is be­sieged by his work­ers who wish know their fate, Nico­la's life spins dan­ger­ous­ly out of con­trol.

3.30 pm

18 Meals

Di­rec­tor: Jorge Coira

2010/Spain/101 mins/Dra­ma/16+

This is a film of criss-cross­ing, food-themed sto­ries di­vid­ed in­to three seg­ments: break­fast, lunch and din­ner. The char­ac­ters in­clude an age­ing street mu­si­cian, a pair awak­ing from a one-night stand, a busi­ness­man vis­it­ing his clos­et­ed ho­mo­sex­u­al broth­er, and a lone­ly house­wife.

5.30 pm

Bar­bara

Di­rec­tor: Chris­t­ian Pet­zold

2012/Ger­many/105 mins/Dra­ma/PG13

In 1980s East Ger­many, Bar­bara is a doc­tor from Berlin ban­ished to a coun­try hos­pi­tal. Fear­ful of her co-work­ers as pos­si­ble in­for­mants of the Stasi, the se­cret po­lice, Bar­bara stays aloof and se­cret­ly pre­pares to de­fect. Soon, how­ev­er, she learns things that put her de­sires and col­leagues in a new light.

8 pm

Cheer­ful Weath­er for the Wed­ding

Di­rec­tor: Don­ald Rice

2012/UK/93 mins/Com­e­dy/PG

To­day is Dol­ly's wed­ding day, and her fam­i­ly is ar­riv­ing at the manor house with all the cheer­ful­ness and chaos that arise at such gath­er­ings. Trou­ble ap­pears in the form of Joseph, Dol­ly's ex-lover, who throws her feel­ings in­to tur­moil. To her moth­er's ex­as­per­a­tion, Joseph's pres­ence threat­ens to up­set every­thing.

Movi­eTowne, To­ba­go

3.30 pm

Lessons of a Dream

Di­rec­tor: Se­bas­t­ian Grob­ler

2011/Ger­many/113 mins/Fam­i­ly dra­ma/GA

Kon­rad, a grad­u­ate of Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, is hired to teach Eng­lish at a strict­ly run Ger­man boys' school in 1874. In or­der to stir up en­thu­si­asm for the lan­guage, Kon­rad in­tro­duces his stu­dents to a cu­ri­ous British sport: foot­ball. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, his un­con­ven­tion­al teach­ing meth­ods soon make him many en­e­mies.

5.30 pm

Kiymet + Turquaze

Kiymet

Di­rec­tor: Canan Tu­ran

2012/Ger­many/25 mins/Doc­u­men­tary/GA

Back in the late 1960s, Kiymet be­came the first mem­ber of her fam­i­ly to mi­grate from Turkey to Ger­many. Now an el­der­ly woman liv­ing in her na­tive vil­lage again, she re­counts her re­mark­able life–as a moth­er, ac­tivist and im­mi­grant work­er–to her grand­daugh­ter, a film­mak­er who lives in Berlin.

Turquaze

Di­rec­tor: Kadir Bal­ci

2010/Bel­gium/96 mins/Dra­ma/14+

Ex­plor­ing the lives of im­mi­grants who find them­selves torn be­tween two lands and cul­tures, with roots in nei­ther, this messy, mov­ing and joy­ous ro­man­tic dra­ma in­tro­duces a trio of Turk­ish broth­ers liv­ing in Bel­gium who re­de­fine fam­i­ly dy­nam­ics af­ter their fa­ther's death.

8.00 pm

Wrin­kles

Di­rec­tor: Igna­cio Fer­reras

2011/Spain/89 mins/An­i­ma­tion/PG13

Emilio and Miguel are friends who live in a home for the el­der­ly. Miguel is de­ter­mined to avoid see­ing Emilio, in the ear­ly stages of Alzheimer's, end up on the dread­ed "lost caus­es" floor of the home. In the process, Miguel in­fus­es their oth­er­wise te­dious day-to-day life with great hu­mour and ten­der­ness.