Franco-German Film Series: The Fairy

Following the success of Rumba in 2008, Belgium-based trio Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy return with The Fairy, a charmingly off-kilter film about a hotel clerk in Le Havre who falls in love with a wish-granting fairy.

Dom is a night shift worker in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman named Fiona arrives at the hotel without shoes or luggage. She tells Dom that she is a fairy and that she can grant him three wishes. After the first two wishes come true, she mysteriously disappears. Determined to get her back, Dom searches for Fiona everywhere, hoping to reunite with his one true love.

Filled with a colourful cast of supporting characters and a number of gracefully executed dance sequences, The Fairy is a whimsical tale about the happiness that can be squeezed out of even the most mundane of lives.

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Over the autumn and winter months, the Franco-German film series, programmed by the Alliance Française and the Goethe-Institut Glasgow, will explore the themes of modern fairy tales. The borders between reality and fiction are investigated through the eyes of contemporary French and German directors. Their works challenge film aesthetics and mainstream narration and reflect the bizarre and fabulous through haunting and charming tales embedded in contemporary society. Join us in meeting sinister, illusive and fantastic characters and explore their stories, in these gems of European independent cinema.