DOK MArKet CAtALOgue 2012
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DOK MArKet CAtALOgue 2012
29 October – 4 November 2012 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film DOK Market catalogue 2012 306 Films from 66 Countries DOK Leipzig Dok Market catalogue 2012 Table of Contents General information p. 5 Greetings p. 11 Films A-Z p. 23 DOK Leipzig Team p. 330 Indexes p. 333 Imprint Publisher Leipziger Dok-Filmwochen GmbH Katharinenstraße 17 04109 Leipzig, Germany www.dok-leipzig.de Editorial Staff Diana Arnold Katharina Bergfeld Proofreader Patrick Burkholder Design Hug & Eberlein www.hug-eberlein.de Print Druckerei Wagner Verlag und Werbung GmbH www.druckereiwagnergmbh.de ISBN 978-3-932214-30-1 General information p. 5 – 10 5 Location Festival Centre, 2nd floor Museum der Bildenden Künste Katharinenstrasse 10 04109 Leipzig Opening hours Sun 28 Oct 14:00 – 18:00 Mon 29 Oct until Sat 3 Nov 10:00 – 22:00 Sun 4 Nov 10:00 – 14:00 DOK MARKET is organised by DOK Leipzig with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). Gener al information Gener al information Digital DOK Market Daily Industry Highlights Viewing facilities The digital DOK Market consists of a video library with 30 viewing stations. It is open to all accredited guests with special market badge. Reservations Decision makers are welcome to book one of the viewing booths in advance. Please contact us by mail or talk to the staff at the DOK Market desk during the festival week. Location Pfeffermühle Café Opening Hours Tue 30 Oct 17:00 – 18:00 Wed 31 Oct – Sat 3 Nov 10:00 – 11:00 Tuesday, 30 October Procedure On your festival accreditation you will find your personal log-in code. This code enables you to view films in the DOK Market during the entire festival week. For details, please see the instructions displayed in every booth. If you have any questions, please contact our DOK Market staff. After you have screened a film, the computer will prompt you for a brief comment. We will forward these comments to the film makers in a DOK Market report. Moreover, you will receive a report showing the viewed films and your comments. DOK Market catalogue All documentary films available in the DOK Market will be promoted through the Market catalogue. The films are listed in alphabetical order by English title. Different indexes at the back help to find the films you are interested in. Please note that all animated films of the festival are also digitised. Descriptions can be found in the DOK Leipzig Festival catalogue or as hand outs. Get Together: CinemaChile in cooperation with ChileDoc 18:30 – 19:30, Festival Centre Trillerpfeiffenterrasse DOK Lounge: MDR-Treff 22:00 – 1:30, Ring-Café Wednesday, 31 October Reception: Goethe-Institute 12:00 – 13:00, Festival Centre Trillerpfeiffenterrasse Get Together: HFF Konrad Wolf 18:30 – 19:30, Festival Centre Trillerpfeiffenterrasse DOK Lounge: DOKVILLE meets DOK Leipzig 22:00 – 3:00, Ring-Café DOK Industry Talks Talks with industry experts and producers/filmmakers, covering topics such as distribution and marketing options for your film, as well as general introductions into film marketing, different markets and the who’s who of the international industry. All DOK Market and festival participants are warmly welcome to exchange experiences. All accredited guests are welcome. Get Togethers and DOK Lounges DOK Leipzig’s evening events and the social highlight for accredited guests. This is where professional festivalgoers catch up over a drink and sometimes a bite to eat. Get Togethers take place during the blue hour between 18:30 to 19:30 h in the Festival Centre, 2nd floor. DOK Lounges are evening receptions that offer drinks and finger food, sitting and smoking areas as well as some background music. Both venues are open to everybody with a festival accreditation and are organised by DOK Leipzig in cooperation with its partners. All accredited guests are welcome. Further Events All offers of DOK Industry and DOK Training are listed in the blue Pocket Guide found in your festival bag. Thursday, 1 November Get Together: Swiss Films 18:30 – 19:30, Festival Centre Trillerpfeiffenterrasse DOK Lounge: ARTE Party 22:00 – 3:00, Moritzbastei Friday, 2 November Get Together: EU-OSHA 18:30 – 19:30, Festival Centre Trillerpfeiffenterrasse 6 7 DOK Leipzig Official Programme Films which premiered after 1 October 2011, many of them world, international or German premieres Gener al information Gener al information DOK Market Sections DOK Market Sections DOK International Competition The champion’s league of documentary film. Our selection is not determined by subject matter but by the highest standards of adequate form and narrative structure. DOK Leipzig Guests Present DOK German Competition Strong stories made in Germany, fresh new works, most of them world premieres. FilmFestival Cottbus An outstanding, Eastern-European film awarded at the FilmFestival Cottbus last year. DOK Young Cinema Competition A section to discover the best new talents and films which explore the boundaries of what documentary is today. Focus Saxony Local and home-grown – three documentaries that have been made by filmmakers from Saxony. DOK International Short Competition Sometimes it does not take more than five minutes to show us the world and to make us laugh or weep. DOK International Programme Hot political issues, strong emotions and captivating stories from all over the world. Films for a broad audience in the best sense of the word. Animadoc A speciality of DOK Leipzig – this is where documentary and animation merge, where real stories and fates are conveyed with the means of outstanding artistic and creative animation film making. DOK Leipzig Special Programmes Focus Latin America The best in current documentary production from Spanish-speaking Latin America – an opportunity to discover a new and exciting generation of filmmakers. Doc Alliance Six key European documentary film festivals have joined forces and nominated one outstanding debut documentary each. A jury of European film critics has chosen three and one will be awarded with the Doc Alliance Award at DOK Leipzig’s opening ceremony. Discover the films here. Best of TV –POV DOK Leipzig honours 25 years of POV with a selection of great documentaries dealing with the fragility of democracy. Documentary Campus Masterschool Every year European producers and directors develop documentaries for an international audience in the framework of the Documentary Campus Masterschool – one of Europe’s best and long-running vocational training programmes. Two new, finished films are included in the DOK Market. DOK Industry Leipzig Screening A showcase of four, brand new and outstanding German films, giving a glance of the contemporary documentary film landscape in Germany. Films exclusively available at the digital DOK Market DOK Market In addition to the above mentioned sections, the DOK Market features films suitable for international audiences, promoting local and personal stories with cosmopolitan appeal and general sales potential. Those films have been recommended by our Festival selection committee or submitted by renowned international sales companies. Partner films In the framework of our DOK Festival and DOK Market exchange programme six different documentary institutions offer a fine selection of current films from their country and/or their programme: – ChileDoc, Chile – EastSilver & Institute of Documentary Film, Czech Republic – Hot Docs, Canada – Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs, Poland – StoryDoc, Greece – Visions du Réel & Swiss Films, Switzerland – DOK.Incubator, International training initiative for projects in post-production In the back of this catalogue, you will find an index of all market films sorted by those sections. 8 9 gener al information festival centre in the Museum of fine arts greetings p. 11 – 22 Entrance Reichsstraße ground floor DOK Industry Lounge museum coffee shop lockers Entrance Brühl lift Entrance Böttchergäßchen DOK Guest Counter museum caissier museum book shop Entrance Katharinenstraße Pfeffermühle, Kretschmanns Hof DOK Industry Talks, Leipzig Screening, DOK.Incubator Preview second floor lift DOK Get Together 10 DOK Market 11 Greeting Greeting DOK Leipzig DOK Leipzig The production process of a film is long and challenging for everybody involved. Film makers and producers struggle for developing, financing and realising their vision whilst financiers and supporters take risks and have to trust one another until the very end. To bring the film to its audience, to find international distribution and recognition is also Welcome to the demanding. Even though the huge world-wide 55th International Leipzig film and TV market might Festival for Documentary seem anonymous, people are standing behind and Animated Film it who are interested in and to our DOK Market! meeting the team behind the films and hearing a film’s heartbeat. To get to know each other is a key tool to enter the Film Industry and succeed. To be here at DOK Leipzig is a marketing tool which film professionals should capitalize on and enjoy. The DOK Market team is glad to welcome you to its 8th edition. We showcase all documentary and animated films from the official festival programme plus 175 further brand new documentaries recommended by the selection committee or our partner organisations. We are happy to continue our partnership with Switzerland (Vision du réel and Swiss Films), Czech Republic (East Silver and Institute of Documentary Film), Chile (Chile Doc) and Poland (Krakow Film Foundation). This year we entered into new partnerships with Greece (StoryDoc) and Canada (Hot Docs). Moreover we are proud to present the first results of our new training initiative, DOK.Incubator, which supports documentaries in post-production. All presented films have been produced within the last year 2011 – 2012 and they reflect the philosophy of DOK Leipzig: They have a unique access to their subject, they prove the critical point of view of the director and they stand out for their aesthetic quality. The DOK Market is the place to discover new creative documentaries with international appeal. Here you have the opportunity to quickly get an overview of the festival’s programme and the current developments in documentary and animated film making – whenever your schedule in Leipzig allows you to watch films. Our digital library is open for accredited guests with a Market badge during the whole week of the festival. Decision makers are welcome to book one of the 30 viewing booths in advance. 12 Four of the most outstanding and recent German documentary productions have been selected for an exclusive screening on the big screen: The Leipzig Screenings for International Buyers and Distributors take place on Monday. Since DOK Leipzig is a partner of the online distribution platform www.dafilms.com many of the best films of the festival programme will be available to all web users and documentary lovers after they have completed the festival circuit. The DOK Market in Leipzig is meant to be a personal networking place in a friendly atmosphere where you go to meet and discover films, talents, old and new partners and, of course, friends. Our aim is to help producers pro‑ moting their films to national and international industry representatives and to present a fine selection of documentary vintage 2011–2012. We also invite you to take advantage of the broad DOK Industry and DOK Training offers in order to listen and discuss, to network and get inspired, to refresh your mind: Get Togethers, DOK Industry Talks, DOK Summits and Panels, Case Studies, the Wild At Heart Think-Tank and many more. Please check our Pocket Guide with detailed information about the different events. We want to say Thanks to our partners and supporters who enable us to get the DOK Market and our DOK Industry offers going. The DOK Market is mainly organised with the support of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung ( MDM), the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM ). We are especially grateful to Dr. Hans-Werner Schmidt, Jörg Dittmer and the staff of the Museum of Fine Arts for accommodating DOK Leipzig and the DOK Market again this year in their wonderful locale. Have a fruitful time in Leipzig and enjoy many thrilling encounters in our DOK Market and at the DOK Industry events. We are looking forward to a great festival week! All The Best, Claas Danielsen Festival Director Katharina Bergfeld DOK Market Coordinator 13 Greeting Greeting MDM DOK.Incubator On behalf of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung ( MDM ), I bid you a warm welcome to the 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film and to the 2012 edition of the DOK Leipzig industry and training section. It is a very great pleasure to be among the funding partners to this extraordinary event which will once again prove to be one of the The DOK Industry most prestigious and meeting points segments have become an excellent important in the world of docu and well established mentary filmmaking. Following the steps of the service platform delivering a rich DOK Leipzig film festival with its long tradition, variety of offers. the DOK industry segments have become an excellent and well established service platform delivering a rich variety of offers: high-quality international projects, excellent business contacts and an interesting framework programme in a nice, exclusive and concentrated atmosphere. During the next days you will find yourself in the company of 1400 selected international filmmakers, producers, financiers, distributors and commissioning editors. They all come here to find new ideas or new partners for their upcoming films or media projects. To meet your needs the DOK Leipzig team has again developed an extensive line-up of events – including the DOK Market, the International Co-Production Meeting, case studies and sessions on current international trends and financing strategies, to be discussed by renowned experts, as well as numerous opportunities for networking and learning. Having introduced its innovative training offers last year with the successful DOK Net Lab as well as the Cross Media workshops, DOK Leipzig has implemented another new training opportunity this year – at DOK.Incubator you can take a first look at brand new projects from Europe’s promising filmmakers. I wish all of you many good and fruitful meetings with reliable and enjoyable partners. Manfred Schmidt Executive Director Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH Nowadays, big film festivals like DOK Leipzig no longer just function as a glittering platform for films to be presented or as an important meeting point for film and media professionals from all over the world. Their role as creative hub for knowledge transfer and information as well as for the sustainable support of film projects is becoming more and more important. In times of continuous shifts film festivals serve as change indicators and strengthen and support the development, production and distribution of creative documentary films. Therefore, DOK Leipzig has decided to extend its activities out through the year and is launching, together with us, the six-month training initiative DOK.Incubator. As times are challenging for the documentary market production companies are being forced to completely Production companies their way of thinking, are being forced to completely shift shift film producing and distributing to make the their way of thinking, film genre viable. producing and distributing to make DOK .Incubator supports film makers and producers the genre viable. with projects in the rough cut stage – a time when usually crucial decisions about the future quality and success of the films are taken under extreme time and money pressures. Three workshop modules help them to fully discover the potential of their films, to further develop and focus the storytelling and dramaturgy and inspire them regarding creative ways for marketing and distribution of their projects. Our aim is to maximize the potential of the film by pro‑ viding creative input, plan a powerful film release and a target distribution strategy as well as inspiring producers and film makers to use new media tools, social networks and alternative financing models. On Wednesday morning, 31 October 2012, you are warmly invited to experience the results of our training pro‑ gramme at the first DOK.Incubator Preview. Eight producers and directors will present their brand new films in front of industry professionals and potential partners and will be looking forward to your inspiring feedback. Please come, enjoy and support! We are looking forward to welcoming you. Andrea Prenghyová Head of DOK.Incubator 14 15 Greeting Greeting East Silver Krakow Film Foundation It is a great honour for us to continue our cooperation with DOK Leipzig by presenting the East Silver selection of documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe in the DOK Market. In 2012 East Silver is bringing three remarkable films to the festival program. Private Universe by Helena Třeštíková and Rudolf Šmíd’s docu-animation Chronicle of Oldřich S. are both Czech representatives. We are presenting They are based on the narrative technique caught the East Silver selection of in private family chronicles, documentary films showing not only the life from Central and Eastern Europe of ordinary families but also how the Czech society in the DOK Market. has changed in the last four decades. The third selected doc Mama Illegal is directed by Austrian filmmaker Ed Moschitz. It shows sad stories of three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and families for years. Another ten documentaries can be found at the DOK Market. They are all part of the East Silver Market, which serves as a meeting point for the key industry professionals interested in exceptional, hand-picked creative East European documentaries. The best East European films of the East Silver Market are nominated in three categories (short, mid-length, and feature) for the Silver Eye Award which brings financial prizes and festival services all year round. The East Silver Caravan documentary showcase travels with a selection of the best creative documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe, in order to reach a wide international audience. We cooperate with 90 of the most prestigious film festivals and markets around the world. East Silver is organized by The Institute of Documentary Film. The main partner of the project is Jihlava Inter national Documentary Film Festival. We wish you an inspiring festival and a successful market in Leipzig! Sincerely, Miriam Ryndová (ex Šimková) East Silver Manager As it is every year, it is a great pleasure for me to present the newest Polish documentaries and animated films to DOK Leipzig guests as well as to the wonderful audiences again. The presence of Polish films at this year’s festival is a development of the continuous and growing cooperation between DOK Leipzig and the Krakow Film Foundation. Every year, thanks to the organizers, we have a unique opportunity to present within the framework of the DOK Market, a carefully chosen set of the newest Polish documentary films. We are also more than happy that a great number of Polish films were chosen to be screened in this year’s Festival Programme. We strongly recommend the winner of this year’s Krakow Film Festival – Entangled, awarded with the Golden Hobby Horse for the director Lidia Duda as well as with the Best Cinematography Award for DoP Wojciech Staroń, already known to the DOK We are more than happy audience for his that a great number of Polish films Leipzig own documentary Argentinian Lesson, awarded with were chosen to be screened Silver Dove last year. in this year’s Festival Programme. the The film will be presented in the International Competition. I can also highly recommend the debut film from Wajda School graduate – Radka Franczak – Losing Sonia, screened here in the International Young Talent Competition – Generation DOK. Worth mentioning are also the four animated short films made by young filmmakers screened within the framework of the Anima Competition: What Happens When Children Don’t Eat Soup by Paweł Prewencki (Animadoc), Paper Box, by Zbigniew Czapla and Emperor’s Toys by Tomasz Godfryd, Jarosław Moździerz, Joanna Rusinek, Joanna Wójcik, Grzegorz Wierzchowski and New German Animation: Afternoon by Polish filmmaker Izabela Plucińska. As in other years, the participants of this year’s Krakow Film Market can watch films recommended by the organizers of DOK Leipzig, just as the viewers attending the DOK Market are more than welcome to see some of the projects promoted under Polish Docs in the digital video-library. I sincerely believe that our proposal is interesting to all film professionals (and not only) those visiting DOK Leipzig this year. I wish organizers, guests and viewers an exciting and fruitful Festival and Market, Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Polish Docs Coordinator 16 17 Greeting Greeting Chiledoc CinemaChile We are proud of our friends and thrilled to be members of DOK Leipzig for the third, consecutive year. The history of our documentary filmmakers’ relationship with the festival is a long one, built over decades, where solidarity and film have been our touchstones. We believe that the alliance we have today is part of that tradition, and the result of a relationship based on trust, collaboration, affection and a common interest to seek new alliances and expand documentary filmmaking horizons. Chiledoc is an organization whose objective is to inter nationalize the documentary productions of our country. In the last ten years, we have experienced constant growth and, therefore, we need to consolidate and Solidarity and film create new networks. For this have been purpose, we have the support of the Chilean Council for our touchstones. the Arts and the Audiovisual Industry (CAIA), the Documentary Filmmakers Association of Chile (ADOC), many festivals and other national and international organizations, such as our partners in Germany, Dok Leipzig. It’s because of them that we are able to continue to project ourselves into the future. As a result of this collective endeavor we are very happy to coordinate, along with Cinemachile, this delegation of talented producers and directors, so they can attend and share their best projects. Our presence year after year has become stronger and this union consolidates the associative work that makes us a solid sector and boosts our films’ potential. The selected films for the festival competition, the Latin American section and those commercially available, offer a diverse array and strong images of our documentary cinema, which has been widely awarded and noted in the last years, due to its cinematographic language and subject matter. Our essence and idiosyncrasy can be clearly seen, marked by earthquakes and tsunamis, where lives and landscapes change constantly, where we fight our villains constantly and where we try to pursue our ideals. Today we can share with you this programming that reflects part of our spirit. We greet our colleagues and organizers of this version of Dok Leipzig, and we offer our warmest wishes for this to be an unforgettable festival. CinemaChile participation in this year’s DOK Leipzig is a source of great satisfaction. Firstly, to confirm that in Chile collective efforts outweigh individual ones. This is reflected in the partnership work that we are developing with our dear friends at Chiledoc. With them we share the interest in supporting the internationalization of Chilean documentary, making our directors and producers known around the world and encouraging co-production associations with foreign partners. This common interest to both organizations is complemented by the support provided by the Arts and the Audiovisual Industry Council (CAIA) and ProChile, both public entities that have consistently supported the Chilean audiovisual sector in its efforts to develop internationally. Our presence at DOK Leipzig is also the result of the systematic work between two of the most important associations in the country: APCT and ADOC, of which we are pleased and proud. The other major source of satis faction is strengthening ties with DOK Leipzig, who by now we also recognize as partners and friends. In this third year of continuous participation in the festival, we are pleased to have documentaries in the Latin American section (Special Program), with projects in development and a number of films on the market. To complement this remarkable presence, we hope to draw attention to DOK Leipzig is a space the Chilean documentary that offers a unique gathering production through our 2012 CinemaChile catalogue. between professionals For us DOK Leipzig is a from around the world. space that offers a unique gathering between pro fessionals from around the world, which is also a pleasant and inspiring experience that facilitates the development of more and better documentary projects of impact and significance. We wish a memorable festival to the organizers and all colleagues present in this new edition of DOK Leipzig! Constanza Arena CinemaChile Paola Castillo & Flor Rubina Co-directors Chiledoc 18 19 Greeting Greeting Hot Docs StoryDoc Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary film festival and market event. This year we featured a diverse array of new Canadian documentaries. For the first time ever, we have compiled a selection of some of the highlights from this year’s festival. For the first time ever, We have enclosed these we have compiled films in order to promote a selection of some of the highlights Canadian documentary films and to generate from this year’s festival. an international interest in this diverse filmmaking community. Over 165,000 people attended Hot Docs this year, and each of these films attracted significant media and public interest, and scored very highly in our audience ratings. We are proud to present these films at DOK Market Leipzig: Over My Dead Body by Brigitte Poupart, Buzkashi by Najeeb Mirza, The Final Member by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Mat, Herman’s House by Angad Bhalla, Indie Game: The Movie by James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot, The World Before Her by Nisha Pahuja, Fists of Pride by Helene Choquette, Peace Out by Charles Wilkinson. All the best from Hot Docs and enjoy DOK Market Leipzig, Chris McDonald Executive Director Hot Docs StoryDoc is happy to be promoted as a DOK Leipzig partner for the first time this year. StoryDoc is a non-profit international educational institute for documentaries based in Athens, Greece. StoryDoc specializes in providing professional development training to film makers, media producers and journalists. StoryDoc training sessions focus on concept/idea development, film structure, script development, production of professional trailers, preparation for participation in pitching forums, know-how and negotiations for international co-productions as well as an introduction to and promotion in the international television market. Since 2005, StoryDoc has been successfully organizing residential workshops, e-training, pitching and coaching sessions. So far, StoryDoc has organized 20 international workshops with a significant track record in producing results – documentary films. The workshops turn to filmmakers, media producers and journalists specializing in international affairs and investigative reports from all over Europe and the The StoryDoc workshops Middle East. Its activity is turn to filmmakers, media producers to train and provide consulting and marketing and journalists specializing in services through educainternational affairs and tional and professional investigative reports from all over training programs. This is accomplished through an Europe and the Middle East. annual e-training program which includes one to one advising and residential workshops where participants are assigned a personal tutor with whom they work together to develop and improve their project. Participants/Projects are selected after an international open/public call. StoryDoc offers significant opportunities to develop a complete production package and a professional trailer which can be presented to the prestigious international pitching forums. The last workshop/pitching of the year attracts decision makers from the television, media and film industries, international commissioning editors, film funds, directors, producers and distributors. MEDIA PROGRAM by the EU is one of our significant supporters. We are based in Athens, Greece. We wish all visitors and professionals a successful festival week and DOK Market. With kind regards, Chara Lampidou Event/Coordinator Manager StoryDoc 20 21 Greeting Visions du Réel For several years, the international film festival Visions du Réel, Nyon and the promotion agency Swiss Films have been presenting some of the newest and most interesting Swiss films at Leipzig’s DOK Market. A common interest in, and commitment to, the creative documentary in all its diversity has led to an intense and successful collaboration with DOK A common interest Leipzig. The Swiss films presented in the creative documentary in here are part of the well all its diversity has known independent documentary film tradition led to an intense collaboration. in Switzerland, which is a result of a long history of support adopted by the state and the country’s regions, as well as by the public television broadcasters. Coming from all parts of Switzerland, the films share an aesthetic and ethic commitment in all their exciting diversity of genres, approaches, points of view and styles of writing and all have an individual fingerprint. They are made by experienced as well as new directors and producers. They explore collective memories or individual destinies, tell spectacular stories or impress by intimate narrative. Many of them got great responses by press and public in international film festivals and are going to be distributed worldwide and released in cinemas. Most of the films have been shown at the 2012 Visions du Réel in Nyon. You may notice that we are convinced that documentary filmmaking not only deals with subjects, but also and above all, with form and aesthetics. We invite you to join Visions du Réel’s next edition between 19 and 26 April 2013. You will discover outstanding world and international premieres in the festival programme and attend inspiring encounters with film makers from all over the world. Within the large programme of the Doc Outlook International Market, you will find around 350 selected films at the Media Library and may attend the Pitching du Réel, Docs in Progress, Focus Talk and Rough Cut Lab to discuss current subjects at the panels. See you soon, Films a – z p. 24 – 329 Gudula Meinzolt Head of Doc Outlook-International Market Visions du Réel 22 23 FILM ID 2712 Section Genre DOK International Competition Ethnology / Religion History / Politics / Current Affairs 11 Images of a Human Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs by Florian Dedio Facts Finland, 2012 Colour, DCP 75 min Original Title Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa Original L anguage Finnish Produced by Markku Lehmuskallio Giron Filmi Oy, Finland in co-production with Erkki Astala YLE, Finland involved Broadcasters YLE, Finland Sales Contact Marja Pallassalo The Finnish Film Foundation Kanavakatu 12 Helsinki, Finland [email protected] www.ses.fi 24 3144 1712 Battle of the Baltic by Markku Lehmuskallio, Anastasia Lapsui The film is examining a man through the figures he has carved and painted on the rock. Cave paintings are mirrors through which ancient people are watching us as we are actually watching them. Do we understand each other ? Do we see ourselves in the stone age paintings ? The film is a journey into the past and, at the same time, a portrait of a man, right here and right now. FILM ID In 1712, the Great Northern War had been devastating Northern Europe for twelve years. Sweden, the pre dominant power in Northern Europe, was challenged by an alliance of Denmark and Russia. Sweden had a mighty army stationed on the German island of Ruegen. But this army needed supplies, so Sweden sent over 100 supply ships, escorted by its mighty battle fleet. This huge fleet was spotted along the way. Denmark sent its own warships – and the two fleets clashed somewhere north of the island of Ruegen. But where exactly this battle took place, how many ships were sunk, and how important it was has remained unknown for 300 years. In 2011, a team of archaeologists and historians scoured the Baltic Sea’s murky waters and the naval archives of Sweden and Denmark. Using state-of-the-art technology, they uncovered several wrecks from the battle, as well as previously-lost documents, describing what a debacle for Sweden this battle turned out to be. The film accompanies the ongoing excavation and the scientists at work. Key moments are re-enacted, using the very few authentic sailing vessels from the 18th century in exist ence today. Combined with archaeological footage, both above and underwater, and digital reconstructions of the wrecks found, the film reveals the secrets of one of the biggest navel battles of the Baltic. Facts Germany, Denmark, Sweden, 2012 Colour, HDcam 52 min Original Title 1712 Battle of the Baltic Original L anguage English Sales Contact Bettina Oebel Looks Distribution GmbH Escherstraße 22 30159 Hannover, Germany [email protected] www.looksfilm.tv 25 FILM ID 635 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Human Interest Portrait 24 Buckets, 7 Mice, 18 Years Section Genre DOK.Incubator History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Tibor Kocsis Facts Romania, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 30 min Original Title 24 Galeti, 7 Soareci, 18 Ani Original L anguage Romanian Produced by Pintilie Adina Manekino Film, Romania www.manekinofilm.ro PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland 5 / 2012 Krakow IFF, Poland 8 / 2012 Sarajevo IFF, Bosnia Sales Contact Marius Iacob Manekino Film Banu Manta 18 011226 Bucharest, Romania [email protected] www.manekinofilm.ro 26 3341 300 Tons of Gold by Marius Iacob A unique way of life that repeats itself every day, slowly transformed Imre and Piroska in some museum exhibits. In a quiet and isolated world we meet a couple whose existence begins to depend on the interaction with a different world and the absurd within. Their line of work turned them into a sort of local attraction, and vacationing foreigners are brought to see ‘the bears’ and photograph themselves with them. Their life stands still, like in a museum diorama, from which they are trying to break through. FILM ID The film follows the fight of a farmer, Eugen David, for the survival of his beautiful village and his happy life in the mountains of Romania. A Canadian company wants to open Europe’s largest opencast goldmine here. They plan to relocate the people and destroy four mountains along with part of Rosia Montana itself, a 2,000-year-old settlement, with its historical monuments and unique, ancient galleries. The local population is made up of unemployed miners who support the plan while Eugen and his family are not willing to accept the local landscape being turned into something more similar to the surface of the moon. In their opinion, the planned construction of a cyanide mine and tailing pond will quite possibly create the biggest ecological time bomb Europe has ever seen. The plan splits the once peaceful community in two. Brothers and friends become enemies. Politicians come and go, but no one has passed a decision on the gigantic project so far. Eugen, the most powerful landholder, refuses to leave his home. He wants to protect his land, the churches and the cemeteries. In a fight against the Gold Corporation, our hero brings the battle from his farm all the way to Brussels. As this film is part of the DOK.Incubator workshop 2012 and still in post-production, DOK Market presents only a trailer. Facts Hungary, 2012 Colour, HDcam 90 min Original Title 300 Tonna Arany Original L anguage Romanian Produced by Tibor Kocsis Flora Film International, Hungary www.florafilm.hu involved Broadcasters NRK, Norway Sales Contact Tibor Kocsis Flora Film International Madách Imre út 8 1075 Budapest, Hungary [email protected] www.florafilm.hu 27 FILM ID 2356 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Science The 5th Season 3230 Section Genre ChileDoc Ethnology / Religion Human Interest 74m2 by Gunther Merz ‘We are sometimes the people in the meadows, sometimes the people under the meadow …’ With this poem by Ernst Jandl, the seniors of the ensemble 5th season occupy every place in Stuttgart with their flashmob action. ‘Living offside ? Thanks ! No need !’ The players face a parted response from the audience: in addition to enthusiasm and encouragement – rejection and lack of understanding. Moving beyond the offside age requires a lot: at her performances Marijke lays her shyness aside. Joseph, who forgets his pain while playing, or Manne who after his stroke, again finds the way back to the theatre group. They all come together to use their still remaining time. FILM ID by Paola Castillo Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 54 min Original Title Die 5te Jahreszeit Original L anguage German Produced by Gunther Merz, Germany www.merzfilm.de Sales Contact Gunther Merz Richard-Sorge-Str. 66 10249 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.merzfilm.de Iselsa and Catty chose, along with 150 families, to be part of a social experiment: to be inserted in a middle class neighbourhood in Valparaiso. As community leaders and friends they have worked together on the project and to be integrated in a neighbourhood that rejected them because they are considered potential delinquents. The documentary observes, over seven years, the struggle to obtain their homes, the integration to the neighbourhood and the challenge to overcome their deep inherited disagreements through this process. If they don’t, the neighbourhood they have fought for will be put at risk. Facts Chile, USA, 2012 Colour, HDcam 67 min Original Title 74m2 Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Paola Castillo Errante Productions, Chile www.errante.cl in co-production with Christi Collier ITVS, USA involved Broadcasters YLE, Finland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2012 Valdivia, Chile Sales Contact Paola Castillo Errante Productions Holanda 3634 Ñuñoa CP 7790767 Santiago, Chile [email protected] www.errante.cl 28 29 FILM ID 3044 Section Genre DOK Market Portrait About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now 30 2143 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Portrait Addiction by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s lush new film is an intimate view of women whose images have defined our sense of beauty over the past five decades. An uncensored look at many of the biggest names in modeling, About Face reveals the stories behind the magazine covers displaying these multicultural pioneers. Each woman is candidly interviewed in the studio and shares her experiences, ideas on longevity, and philosophy of life in the fashion industry. Archival footage and interviews with designer Calvin Klein and agency head Eileen Ford round out this chronicle. About Face is a step back in time to a glamorous, yet complicated era when drugs were rampant and women were routinely harassed and mistreated. The divergent attitudes among the women about everything from the business of modeling, to aging and plastic surgery, are fascinating and priceless. About Face celebrates the raw intelligence and staying power of these timeless icons. FILM ID by Torsten Königs, Christoph Tölle Facts USA, 2012 Colour, HDcam 72 min Original Title About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now Original L anguage English Produced by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Autlook Filmsales, Austria involved Broadcasters HBO, USA Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com ‘All men seek happiness. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.’ (Blaise Pascal) Four people in Berlin. Their life is all about addiction. In Addiction we follow them around in their daily lives. Through them we get to know directly what it really means to be an addict. The film tells their stories strictly from their point of view. We as the viewers are present when their bodies ask for more, we watch how the heroin is bought, we observe preparation, consumption, having a high and suffering from the withdrawal symptoms. We see what the addiction has caused them to become and how they nevertheless want to live their lives. Four people, four heavy addicts, show their world to us and we are allowed to participate in their activities, their thoughts and their feelings. One would like to look the other way – and watch them closely at the same time. The film is not simply a document. Instead, it treats the topic in an essayistic manner. Does ‘addiction’ only mean an ‘illness’ – or doesn’t it also mean the quite general, human search for happiness which makes ‘addicts’ out of some of us ? Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 83 min Original Title Sucht Original L anguage German Produced by Christoph Tölle, Germany www.christoph-toelle.de in co-production with Torsten Königs Koenigsklub, Germany Sales Contact Christoph Tölle Danckelmannstr. 48 14059 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.christoph-toelle.de 31 FILM ID 1752 Section Genre Focus Saxony Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs AG Geige – An Amateur Film 32 1958 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest All Happy Mornings by Carsten Gebhardt Artist collective or avant-garde band – it is still uncertain how to describe the group of four young people from Karl-Marx-Stadt, who in the late 80s seized the unlikely opportunity by the state-operated (and state-controlled) youth radio station DT64 not only to be noticed favourably due to submitted cassettes featuring self-produced music, but also to be broadcasted. Just a short time later the band was touring the country, their music was produced professionally by this very radio station, and only a couple of weeks before the German reunification, they surprisingly found themselves in the recording studios of the nation’s sole record combine. And yet, all four of them weren’t even musicians, but autodidacts. Their gigs were rather performances than concerts: the oddly artificial costuming, the use of selfproduced and over-painted films and videos, the lyrics, from strangely absurd to poetic. And a music which under the dictate of the omnipresent economic scarcity was produced with the aid of tape recordings and randomly gathered equipment and characterized by electronic sounds and samples. The film shows live recordings, still existing video material and tries to follow up the artistic intention and the peculiarities of the period by interviewing and conversing with all the protagonists. FILM ID by Omer Yefman Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 80 min Original Title AG Geige – Ein Amateurfilm Original L anguage German Produced by Carsten Gebhardt, Germany www.carstengebhardt.eu Sales Contact Carsten Gebhardt Weststraße 44 09112 Chemnitz, Germany [email protected] www.carstengebhardt.eu A personal journey into bisexual being, the film exposes a piece of the passionate, wild world found by the filmmaker in documenting his relationship with Chen, a rising rock star. Facing the pressure all around him, Yefman tries to find a way to feel complete without having to explain and without feeing guilty. Alongside the personal dilemma is his singular family – his brother Gil, who keeps pushing the limits of gender, his sister Rona, a photographer who lives in New York, and their grand childless parents, who are longing for the continuity of their family tree. Like the men he talks to confidentially, they present him with the main conflicts in his life. As the inevitable crisis looms, a new factor emerges and illuminates things in a new light. Facts Israel, 2012 Colour, B / W, DigiBeta 60 min Original Title Kol Habkarim Ha’smechim Original L anguage Hebrew Produced by Ari Davidovich HyperMedia, Israel www.hypermedia.co.il involved Broadcasters Noga Communication Channel 8, Israel PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 Docaviv IFF, Israel 6 / 2012 TLVfest, Israel Sales Contact Ari Davidovich HyperMedia 27c Dubnov st’ 64957 Tel Aviv, Israel [email protected] www.hypermedia.co.il 33 FILM ID 3236 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest 3349 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Among Men – Gay in East Germany Ameer Got His Gun by Naomi Levari Ameer is about to enlist in the army. As opposed to the majority of eighteen-year-old boys in Israel, for whom army service is mandatory, Ameer is exempt from military service under the assumption that his enlistment may endanger Israel’s security. That is because Ameer is a Muslim Arab. And yet, Ameer has decided to volunteer. All alone, he sets out on a journey to civic and self-definition, while carefully navigating the thin line between Jewish and Arab societies. Ameer, an eternal optimist, wishes to be both a proud Arab and an enthusiastic Israeli, while his only enemy is reality. FILM ID by Ringo Rösener, Markus Stein Facts Israel, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 58 min Original Title Bnei and not B'nei Original L anguage Arabic, Hebrew Produced by Saar Yogev Black Sheep Film Productions Israel www.bsheepfilms.com in co-production with Reshet Channel 2, Israel involved Broadcasters Reshet Channel 2, Israel Homosexuality was not an issue in the Socialist system. It was considered a ‘relic of decadent bourgeois morality’, and it was thought that it would automatically take care of itself. Section 175, the anti-homosexual provision of the German Criminal Code, which had been tightened by the Nazis during the Second World War, was retained in West Germany. In the East, it was returned to its pre-Nazi version. Here one could initially live more freely – just not talk about it. In this film, six men tell their story about how gay men lived and loved in the GDR – and by no means are they always in agreement. Among Men tells the story of individuality in a uniform system. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 91 min Original Title Unter Männern – Schwul in der DDR Original L anguage German Produced by Olaf Jacobs Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH Germany www.hoferichterjacobs.de in co-production with Björn Koll Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH Germany www.salzgeber.de PUBLIC SCREENINGS 7 / 2011 Jerusalem IFF, Israel 1 / 2012 FIPA, France 5 / 2012 London IFF, United Kingdom Sales Contact Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com 34 involved Broadcasters MDR, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 2 / 2012 Berlinale, Germany 5 / 2012 Filmkunstfest MV, Germany 6 / 2012 Out Takes, New Zealand 8 / 2012 Gender DocuFilm Fest Rome, Italy Sales Contact Olaf Jacobs Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH Scheffelstr. 31a 04277 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.hoferichterjacobs.de 35 FILM ID 2888 Section Genre Doc Alliance History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images 36 441 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Anatomy of a Departure by Oliver Tataru by Eric Baudelaire Who are May and Fusako Shigenobu ? Fusako leader of a small extreme left-wing group, the Japanese Red Army– has been hiding in Beirut for nigh on 30 years. May, her daughter, only discovered Japan at the age of 27. And Masao Adachi ? A screenwriter and radical, activist filmmaker, committed to the armed struggle. Amongst other things, he is also the instigator of a ‘theory of landscape’ fukeiron: through filming landscapes Adachi seeks to reveal the patterns of oppression. Anabasis ? This, ever since Xenophon, has been the name given to difficult or even circuitous homeward journeys. It is this complex, dark story, always full of tension that Eric Baudelaire has chosen to evoke using the documentary format. Shot in Super 8, and in the manner of fukeiron, contemporary views of Tokyo and Beirut are blended in with archive footage, TV clips and excerpts from films to spread out the backdrop for May and Adachi’s voices and memories. They speak of everyday life, of being a little girl in hiding, of exile, politics and cinema and the fascinating relationships between them. Jean-Pierre Rehm FILM ID Facts France, 2011 Colour, B / W, HDcam 66 min Original Title L’ Anabase de May et Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi et 27 années sans images Anatomy of a Departure presents the director’s family, who once lived in Ceausescu’s oppressive Romania, a country with no illusions for a brighter future. With many difficulties, they immigrated to Germany, to seek the promise of freedom. Together with this family, we go back to a haunting decision, which once taken, successively destroyed the place they called home. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 73 min Original Title Anatomie des Weggehens Original L anguage German Original L anguage English, French, Japanese Produced by Eric Baudelaire, France David Lindner Filmallee, Germany www.filmallee.com Sales Contact involved Broadcasters Eric Baudelaire 41bis, Quai de la Loire 75019 Paris, France [email protected] BR, Germany Produced by Sales Contact David Lindner Filmallee Bayerisches Filmzentrum Bavariafilmplatz 7 82031 München, Grünwald, Germany [email protected] www.filmallee.com 37 FILM ID 3214 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs And Italy Took Flight Section Genre DOK German Competition Ethnology / Religion Human Interest by Andrea Thiele Facts Italy, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 52 min Original Title E L'Italia Volo Original L anguage Italian Produced by Elena Filippini Stefilm International, Italy www.stefilm.it in co-production with Rodolfo Concer KR Movie, Italy involved Broadcasters TSI, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 Trento FF, Italy Sales Contact Elena Filippini Stefilm International Via Galliari 5b 10125 Torino, Italy [email protected] www.stefilm.it 38 2870 And Who Taught You to Drive by Stefano Tealdi Mario Marangoni and Giancarlo Zanardo are making a one hundred year-old dream come true. They have re-constructed the first air machine designed by Gianni Caproni and will make it fly. It is a massive vehicle with hand sown wings and a unique (and unreliable) 4 piston engine. In 1910, it only flew 250 metres, but this time it will fly for real and the builders will be in the pilot’s seat. Following its reconstruction, the film narrates the adventures of the Italian Gianni Caproni, the man that gave birth to the most important air industry in Europe, at least until the second world war. FILM ID Three expats learning to drive realize that the great challenge is not the strange traffic rules (in their new countries), but rather their ingrained behavioural patterns. They all need a driving license somewhat urgently. While taking lessons and trying to pass their tests, they realize how their cultures are entirely in their way. Their confusion over driving on the right or left side of the road, waving hand-signals or clicking are just the beginning of their ‘comedy of errors’. The film follows three people who learn life lessons much bigger than driving. Mirela, an impatient, decisive German woman launches her international design business in India – where buying a coffee can take 2 hours. Jake, a very relaxed citizen of the USA, seduced by the glory and mystery of Tokyo, discovers that his favourite word ‘whatever’ does not translate into Japanese. HyeWon, meekly asking permission from her husband before making any decision in Korea, learns to live by herself alone in Germany ! This movie celebrates cultural diversity and questions our underlying structures and values which shape and challenge us: A fun, funny and dramatic story of people losing their way, finding another way, and discovering who they really are. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 90 min Original Title And Who Taught You to Drive Original L anguage English, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean Produced by Stefan Kloos Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH, Germany www.kloosundco.de involved Broadcasters BR, Germany Sales Contact Stefan Kloos Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.riseandshine-berlin.com 39 FILM ID 280 Section Genre DOK International Competition History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Another Night on Earth Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films Portrait by Christian Labhart Facts Spain, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 52 min Original Title Otra Noche en la Tierra Original L anguage Arabic Produced by David Muñoz Hibrida, Spain www.davidmunoz.es Sales Contact David Muñoz Hibrida Burgos 21 Pozuelo de Alarcon 28223 Madrid, Spain [email protected] www.davidmunoz.es 40 2156 Appassionata by David Muñoz Egypt, a country under revolution. Cairo, a mega-city with the worst traffic in the world. In endless traffic jams, passengers and taxi drivers talk and debate about their present and future. And we discover the details that draw their lives. FILM ID Pianist Alena Cherny has been living in Switzerland for 15 years. She has a dream: she wants to donate a grand piano to the music school of her Ukrainian hometown, as a sign of gratitude for having been able to make her first steps in music there. The grand piano’s journey becomes a moving search for traces in the places of her childhood and youth. When Alena Cherny speaks and plays the piano, one can feel everything that shaped her, from the contrasts and catastrophes she experienced, to the beginnings she made and the farewells she had to take. A film about the migration of a strong woman; full of sorrow, anger, enthusiasm and love. Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, DCP 83 min Original Title appassionata Original L anguage English, German, Russian, Ukrainian Produced by Paul Riniker Riniker Communications GmbH, Switzerland www.rinikercommunications.ch involved Broadcasters SRF, Switzerland Sales Contact Bea Cuttat Look Now Gasometerstrasse 9 8005 Zürich, Switzerland [email protected] www.looknow.ch 41 FILM ID 2484 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Arbeit Heimat Opel 42 2410 Section Genre DOK International Competition History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Are You Listening ! by Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken Arbeit Heimat Opel profiles six young people, aged 16 to 19, who began their apprenticeships as industrial mechanics at the Opel plant in Bochum, Germany in 2009. While they must learn to cope with a new phase in their lives, the start of their professional careers and approaching departure from the security of their parental homes, Opel itself is being sucked deeper and deeper into the maelstrom of the international financial crisis and facing ever-increasing economic pressure. We follow Jerome, André, Sinan, Tim, Marius and Marcel, with all their hopes and fears, through this period of radical change; we are introduced to their dreams for the future as well as their worries. They stand at the threshold of a professional life whose future is already uncertain. At the same time, Arbeit Heimat Opel contrasts the everyday lives of the Plant II apprentices with GM and Opel’s fortunes on the world stage on two seemingly unrelated levels. Despite their distance both in physical and in media terms, the two levels repeatedly intersect and come into contact with one another, connecting global strategies with local and personal life plans – and vice versa. FILM ID by Kamar Ahmad Simon Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 90 min Original Title Arbeit Heimat Opel Original L anguage German Produced by Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken Filmproduktion Loeken Franke, Germany www.loekenfranke.de involved Broadcasters WDR, Germany Sales Contact Ulrike Franke Filmproduktion Loeken Franke Alvenslebenstraße 10 50668 Köln, Germany [email protected] www.loekenfranke.de When rain comes to dyke, village women rush to collect rainwater … but with the fresh breeze coming in, Rakhi (27) takes her refuge in rain ! By the coastal belts of Bangladesh, in a small village named ‘Sutarkhali’, Rakhi lives with her man Soumen (32) and their son Rahul (6). Fighting against all the odds of the woods, along with around a 100 families, they cultivated the land for generations. On May 27, 2009 … when Rahul was only 4 years old, a tidal surge hit the coastal belts of Bangladesh. Saline water flooded the land, ruining the harvest, home and everything and forced almost a million to take refuge in an age-old dyke. For Rakhi, Soumen and Rahul … life was not the same anymore. Are You Listening ! is about Rakhi’s hope to ensure a dignified future for her son Rahul. It’s about her jobless husband Soumen’s frustration for failing to provide for his family, and about a community’s struggle to get back the land they have lost. Seasons change topography, even relations … Yet after the rain … They go out with spades and shovels to reclaim the life again, Are You Listening ! Facts Bangladesh, 2012 Colour, HDcam 90 min Original Title Shunte Ki Pao ! Original L anguage Bengali Produced by Sara Afreen Beginning Production, Bangladesh www.beginningproduction.com Sales Contact Sara Afreen Beginning Production Flat 4A (old), House-Tobu, Plot 1, Road 4, Banani DOHS 1206 Dhaka, Bangladesh [email protected] www.beginningproduction.com 43 FILM ID 3172 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait The Art Of Yodeling Section Genre StoryDoc Human Interest Portrait by Paula Oneț Facts Norway, 2012 Colour, Beta SP 58 min Original Title The Art Of Yodeling Original L anguage English, Norwegian Produced by Johnny Hilmvag Flimmer Film, Norway PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2012 Bergen, Norway Sales Contact Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com 44 3235 As You Like It by Eivind Tolas A hipster goes yodel. We follow the philosophy student and yodeler Polkabjørn on his way to the ultimate yodel experiences and to success. He and his musical companion Kleine Heine take their yodel act from the narrow fjords of Norway to huge stadium concerts, the world’s leading throat expert, the Faroe Islands, Texas and Germany. We meet their enthusiastic manager, a male stripper and one of the biggest yodel fans on earth. Why are they doing this ? Do they really like it ? And, will Polkabjørn ever meet the Jodlerkönig, his big yodel hero ? FILM ID If you could pick only one photograph of yourself for the next generations to remember you, which one would you choose ? The film brings together stories from people facing their gravestone picture while still being alive and focuses on the image of the self as a threshold of the visible world they leave behind. As this is an eternal memory for the descendants, people seem to be very keen on finding ‘the right’ portrait. How would you recognize your 82-year-old grandparents if their gravestone portrait shows them as 16-year-old adolescents ? The graveyard picture is also part of the collective memory of the society we live in. That’s why Sabina, a 72-year-old widow, wants to replace her gravestone picture because she is ‘too red’ and she will be misjudged as an alcoholic. Making a gravestone picture is not an easy task nowadays, as the photo ceramic companies offer a variety of shapes and backgrounds, from colourful curtains to natural landscapes or ‘heaven-like’ sceneries. While the audience discovers the graveyard as a public photo album and a living social document, the characters fall into a psychological process of finding the perfect image to-be-remembered. Facts Romania, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 21 min Original Title După FEL și CHIP Original L anguage Romanian Sales Contact Paula Oneț Mihai Viteazul, nr. 10, ap. 3 445100 Carei, Romania [email protected] 45 FILM ID 400 Section Genre Animadoc Ethnology / Religion The Basketball Game 1805 Section Genre East Silver & IDF Human Interest Portrait Battery Man by Hart Snider In 1983, nine-year-old Hart attends Jewish summer camp for the first time. A haven for Hart and other Jewish kids, camp is suddenly disrupted by the announcement of a special visit: kids from a nearby town will be their guests at a cultural mixer. But this is not just any group of visitors – these kids have been taught anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in school. The night before they arrive, Hart and his friends speculate about what tomorrow will bring. They fear the worst, imagining the visitors might burn the camp down, or maybe even try to kill them. Incorporating animation, documentary and personal memoir, The Basketball Game unfolds from filmmaker Hart Snider’s point of view. Snider uses humour and suspense to tell a poignant tale of hope and tolerance in the face of fear and stereotypes. FILM ID by Dusan Saponja, Dusan Cavic Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 5 min Original Title The Basketball Game Original L anguage English Produced by Tracey Friesen National Film Board of Canada Canada www.nfb.ca Meet a man whose life was changed by electricity. An extraordinary person who can fry a hot dog with his bare hands in an attempt to become the first human laser ! Slavisa Pajkic, aka Biba Struja (Electric Biba), is capable of conducting electricity and he can consciously control its power while discharging it. The central story of the movie is the inner and outer journey of a rural superhero in his attempt to discover what exactly happens in his body, but also to enter Guinness Book of Records before he loses his power. Is he an illusionist or a real superhero ? Facts Serbia, 2012 Colour, Beta SP 54 min Original Title Biba Struja Original L anguage Serbian Produced by Snezana Penev Ciklotron, Serbia www.ciklotron.net involved Broadcasters PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 Global Visions FF, Canada 4 / 2012 Reel 2 Real IFF, Canada 4 / 2012 Viewfinders IFF, Canada TV Ontario, Canada DR TV, Denmark ORF, Austria UR, Sweden Knowledge Network, Canada Sales Contact Élise Labbé National Film Board of Canada 3155, Cote-de-Liesse Road H4N 2N4 Saint-Laurent, Canada [email protected] www.nfb.ca 46 PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Beldocs, Serbia 6 / 2012 IDFA, Netherlands Sales Contact Snezana Penev Ciklotron Omladinskih brigada 196 / 4 3 11070 Belgrade, Serbia [email protected] www.ciklotron.net 47 FILM ID 2164 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Science by Russell Martin 48 1059 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy Beautiful Faces Beautiful Faces offers a compelling look at one of the world’s most remarkable hospitals, the disfigured young patients to whom it offers new lives, and the team of surgeons, physicians, and medical professionals who believe it’s the best place in the world to practice their unique, life-transforming craft. Beautiful Faces interweaves the stories of patients and their families who come to the reconstructive plastic surgery unit at Hospital Gea Gonzalez seeking physical transformations that will renew their own and their loved ones lives with the personal stories of the enormously talented medical professionals whose work is both their passion and their gift to humankind. Beautiful Faces ultimately demonstrates that, in many ways, the distinction between patients and caregivers is only an illusory one, and that much more than cutting, sawing and sewing, the essential task of the hospital is the freeing of the human spirit. It is work that allows doctors and patients alike to look comfortably in the mirror and understand that they are vitally important members of the human family. FILM ID by Simone de Vries Facts Mexico, USA, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 75 min Original Title Beautiful Faces Original L anguage English, Spanish Produced by Alvera de Leon Alma y Arte Productions, United Kingdom ‘I’m 22 years old and I must have killed 30 people. The same thing that you were given badges for over in Iraq, would have you considered a serial killer over here. That’s a very weird thought to have running around in your head when it’s dark, going to sleep or late at night.’ There is no place for doubt, sadness and fear in the American army. Still, many soldiers struggle with these feelings. Beer is Cheaper than Therapy portrays what goes on behind the façade of heroism and the ‘John Wayne mentality’. Facts Netherlands, 2012 Colour, HDcam 55 min / 78 min Original Title Beer is Cheaper than Therapy Original L anguage English Produced by Frank van de Engel Zeppers Film, Netherlands www.zeppers.nl in co-production with involved Broadcasters Kazz Basma Sideways Film, United Kingdom www.sidewaysfilm.com VPRO, Netherlands Sales Contact Kazz Basma Sideways Film 7 Bouverie Mews, Bouverie Road. N16 0AL London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.sidewaysfilm.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 IDFA, Netherlands 11 / 2011 VPRO, Netherlands Sales Contact Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com 49 FILM ID 561 Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition and Leipzig Screening Author’s Point of View Human Interest Beerland 50 1040 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Portrait The Bella Vista by Matt Sweetwood Matt Sweetwood – a Midwestern American in Germany – takes a humorous outside look at his complex new neighbours from a perspective he loves most but he knows the least about: beer. He believes that solving the mystery of the German beer culture may be the key to understanding German contradictions, misleading stereotypes, and insider drinking knowledge that Germans seem to share only among themselves. Germany is overrun with more beer styles, beer breweries, beers festivals, and beer history than Americans ever knew possible. Matt must learn to embrace people whose thick dialects he can hardly understand, and travel to parts of Germany far off the tourist path, light years from the famous Oktoberfest. Paving his own personal beer trail, he soon discovers a new side of Germany that is equally puzzling. This small country, divided by thousands of different traditions, rules and emotions, is seemingly tied together by beer. Finally, he finds his Germany, a place he called Beerland. It is a country filled with hundred heart-felt traditions and countless ways to enjoy beer. A home to German cosiness and cheesy folk songs, where friends are waiting to be discovered and world’s problems are easily solved. FILM ID by Alicia Cano Facts Germany, 2011 Colour, B / W, DCP 85 min Original Title Beerland Original L anguage English, German The Bella Vista is a story of a house starting as a football club, becoming a successful transvestite brothel only to be changed into a catholic chapel, all in a small conservative village in Uruguay. In this playful documentary, two transvestites, one brothel’s Madam and a gaucho football player, will bring to life this battle for control over a single physical space, driven by the same motivation: passion. Facts Uruguay, Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 73 min / 52 min Original Title El Bella Vista Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Produced by Olaf Jacobs Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH, Germany www.hoferichterjacobs.de Alicia Cano, Uruguay involved Broadcasters BR, Germany in co-production with Thomas Mauch Filmproduktion Thomas Mauch, Germany Sales Contact Sales Contact Andrea Seibert Global Screen Sonnenstraße 21 80331 München, Germany [email protected] www.globalscreen.de Manuela Buono Taskovski Films 7 Granard Business Centre Bunns Lane NW7 2DQ London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.taskovskifilms.com 51 FILM ID 3210 Section Genre East Silver & IDF Arts / Culture / M usic Human Interest by Marek Sulik, Jana Bucka 52 3240 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Benghazi: Beyond The Front Line Bells of Happiness Mariena and Roman are cousins. They share one passion which has little to do with their everyday life – admiration of singer stars Karel Gott and Dara Rolins. They collect and exchange newspaper clips from tabloids, they rehearse together songs from the repertoire of their idols and borrow their identities under which they are known by their relatives and neighbours. In spite of all expectations, Mariena is Karel and Roman is Darinka (i.e. the girl is the male singer and the boy is the female singer). One day, they decide that they will sing their favourite hit ‘Zvonky šťastia’ and they will send it to Karel and Dara with their own video-clip on the DVD. For this project, they are accompanied by documentarists Marek Šulík and Jana Bučka. Thus, there arises a mutual play in which roles of protagonists and film-makers are exchanged, but also those of media stars and simple people from socially weaker classes. FILM ID by Natalia Orozco Facts Slovakia, 2012 Colour, DCP 62 min Original Title Zvonky šťastia Original L anguage Slovak Produced by Jana Belisova OZ Zudro, Slovakia www.zudro.sk PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Artfilmfest, Slovakia 7 / 2012 Karlovy Vary FF, Czech Republic Sales Contact Jana Belisova OZ Zudro Drazicka 20 841 01 Bratislava, Slovakia [email protected] www.zudro.sk On February 17th of 2011, the first images of the Libyan civil upheaval travelled across the world. After 42 years under Gaddafi’s rule, the international community stood in awe at a country profoundly divided. On the one hand there were those loyal to the Regime and on the other an improvised and inexperienced opposition. The conflict escalated as protesters turned into armed rebels, confronting the Dictator’s army. But beyond the front line laid the most fascinating face of the Arab awakening. During an entire year the filmmakers portrayed the struggle of five civilian leaders that headed a different resistance: one of ideas. Among them are Libyan journalists whose colleagues were killed during the early days of the revolution; long-time political prisoners that saw freedom within their grasp. Courageous women that took to the streets in support for the rebels also became characters in our journey. Artists that challenged censorship and became the voice of the revolution. Through intimate portraits the film explores the contradictions that coexist in the Libyans longing for justice and freedom. The moving stories allow us to travel across a society where uncertainty governs the future and hope promises peace. Facts Colombia, Mexico, France, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 52 min Original Title Benghazi: Beyond The Front Line Original L anguage Arabic, English Produced by Jaime Escallon Lulo Films, Colombia www.lulofilms.com, Ximena Sotomayor Lulo Films, Colombia www.lulofilms.com in co-production with Jean-Michel Rodrigo Mécanos Productions, France involved Broadcasters FRANCE Ô, France RCN, Colombia TV5, France France 3 Corse, France Sales Contact Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com 53 FILM ID 3255 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait Bert Stern: Original Madman 534 Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait A Better Life is Elsewhere by Shannah Laumeister Star photographer, original ‘Mad Man’ and cultural icon Bert Stern, who has made the world’s most gorgeous and sensual women his subject for the last 50 years (Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Sofia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Claudia Cardinale, Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy, Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, Kate Moss, Scarlett Johansson, etc.) now becomes the subject, revealing his untold, wild and spectacular life story to his long time-muse, including Bert’s infamous Last Sitting with Marilyn Monroe – which he shot six weeks before her tragic and untimely death. FILM ID by Rolando Colla Facts USA, 2011 Colour, HDcam 87 min Original Title Bert Stern: Original Madman Original L anguage English For eight years, Rolando Colla follows three people who are trying to change their lives: a lonely shepherd who has retreated into the mountains of Sarajevo; a Cuban psychiatrist and hard rock fan attempting to break out of the system and a Swiss single mother determined to emigrate. A long-term study of the way people wrestle endlessly with their dreams. Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, DCP 90 min Original Title Das Bessere Leben ist Anderswo Original L anguage Bosnian, Spanish, Swiss German Sales Contact Produced by Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com Elena Peadrzzoli Peacock Film, Switzerland www.peacock.ch in co-production with Almir Sahinovic, Bosnia involved Broadcasters SRF, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2012 Busan IFF, South Korea 10 / 2012 Hofer Filmtage, Germany Sales Contact Elena Peadrzzoli Peacock Film Mühlebachstrasse 113 8008 Zürich, Switzerland [email protected] www.peacock.ch 54 55 FILM ID 3292 Section Genre Best of TV – POV Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs 638 Section Genre DOK Market Ethnology / Religion Portrait Between Two-Spirit Better This World by Kelly Duane de la Vega, Katie Galloway The story of Bradley Crowder and David McKay, who were accused of intending to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention, is a dramatic tale of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal. Better This World follows the radicalization of these boyhood friends from Midland, Texas, under the tutelage of revolutionary activist Brandon Darby. The results: eight homemade bombs, multiple domestic terrorism charges and a high-stakes entrapment defence hinging on the actions of a controversial FBI informant. Better This World goes to the heart of the war on terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9 / 11 America. FILM ID by Laurence Périgaud Facts USA, 2011 Colour, HD Videofile 89 min Original Title Better This World Original L anguage English Becoming a woman at sixty. Chris feels neither a man nor a woman, but more like a ‘Two-Spirit’: in between both genders. Now turning sixty, this professor of management is taking the big plunge. One year in his / her life, from the operation in Thailand, through the apprenticeship of femininity back in Switzerland, to the coming out as a woman. A year in which Chris takes wing as a female to become Christa. Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, HDcam 77 min Original Title Entre il et ailes Original L anguage English, French, German, Swiss German Produced by Katie Galloway Loteria Films, USA www.loteriafilms.com Kelly Duane de la Vega Loteria Films, USA Mike Nicholson, USA Produced by in co-production with PUBLIC SCREENINGS David Layton, USA 4 / 2012 Visions Du Réel, Switzerland Laurence Périgaud, Switzerland www.entreiletailes.com involved Broadcasters TSR, Switzerland involved Broadcasters American Documentary | POV, USA Sales Contact Catherine Le Clef CAT & Docs 18 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, France [email protected] www.catndocs.com 56 Sales Contact Stephan Riguet AndanaFilms Le Village 07170 Lussas, France [email protected] www.andanafilms.com 57 FILM ID 2620 Section Genre DOK German Competition Human Interest Portrait Beyond Wriezen – A movie about life after serving time in jail Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs by Fredrik Gertten Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 88 min Original Title Nach Wriezen – Ein Film über das Leben nach der Haft Original L anguage German Produced by HFF Konrad Wolf, Germany Sales Contact Cristina Marx HFF Konrad Wolf Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11 14482 Potsdam, Germany [email protected] www.hff-potsdam.de 58 258 Big Boys Gone Bananas !* by Daniel Abma A movie about life after serving time in jail. This documentary tells the story about three delinquent adolescents Imo (22), Jano (17) and Marcel (25) three years after the day of their release from prison in Wriezen (Brandenburg, Germany). We see children being born, furniture torn to pieces, driving lessons on a pig-farm and drug deals on Berlin-Alexanderplatz. Beyond Wriezen (AT) observes life through the perspective of the adolescents, and shows their hopes, pride, thoughts and fears. FILM ID What is a big corporation capable of in order to protect its brand ? Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten’s experienced this recently. His previous film Bananas !* (2009) recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. The film was selected for competition by the Los Angeles Film Festival. Nothing wrong so far, right ? But then Gertten gets a strange message: the festival removes Bananas !* from competition. Then, a scathing article appears in the Los Angeles Business Journal about the film, and Gertten subsequently receives a letter from Dole’s attorney threatening him with legal action. What follows is an unparalleled thriller that has Gertten capturing the entire process – from DOLE attacking the producers with a defamation lawsuit, bullying scare tactics, to media-control and PR-spin. This personal film reveals precisely how a multinational will stop at nothing to get its way – freedom of speech is at stake. As Dole’s PR company puts it, ‘It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than a bad reputation.’ Facts Sweden, 2012 Colour, DCP 90 min Original Title Big Boys Gone Bananas !* Original L anguage English, Spanish, Swedish Produced by Margarete Jangård WG Film, Sweden www.wgfilm.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 IDFA, Netherlands Sales Contact Peter Jäger Autlook Filmsales Trappelgasse 4 / 17 1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com 59 FILM ID 3256 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Birders, The Central Park Effect Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Micha X. Peled Facts USA, 2012 Colour 58 min Original Title Birders, The Central Park Effect Original L anguage English Produced by Jeff Kimball Alternate Image Productions Inc., USA PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 SXSW, USA Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada 514 8443358 [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 60 484 Bitter Seeds by Jeff Kimball New York’s Central Park acts as a beacon to travel weary feathered fliers throughout the year. Dozens of different birds, and their calls, make an appearance here as the seasons cycle through. Bird numbers everywhere may be declining, but to anyone with binoculars, in Central Park the little fliers are still the best thing going. ‘Birders’, a colourful documentary about birds and birders in New York’s Central Park is a delight for everyone. Bird watchers will find affirmation and even explanation for their vocation. People who can’t tell a sparrow from a lark will just wonder at the sheer beauty of it all. FILM ID Every 30 minutes, a farmer in India kills himself in despair because he can no longer provide for his family. How is it that a hardworking farmer and father arrives at a point in life where the most sensible course of action is to kill himself by drinking a bottle of pesticide ? It all makes horrible sense once you understand the forces at work: the tragic intersection of genetically modified agriculture, the global economy and a traditional culture. Micha Peled’s vivid, rich and deep new documentary Bitter Seeds takes us to an Indian village at the centre of the suicide crisis region. It follows Ram Krishna, a cotton farmer and his family over a season as they struggle to hold on to their land. It’s also the story of the neighbours’ daughter, Manjusha, who is determined to overcome village traditions and become a journalist. Ram Krishna’s plight becomes her first assignment. Bitter Seeds raises critical questions about the human cost of genetically modified agriculture and the future of how we grow things. This is the third film in Micha Peled’s globalization trilogy, following the award-winning Store Wars: When Wal Mart Comes to Town and ‘China Blue’. Facts USA, 2011 Colour, HDcam 57 min Original Title Bitter Seeds Original L anguage English Produced by Micha X. Peled Teddy Bear Films, USA involved Broadcasters ITVS, USA Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 61 FILM ID 2068 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest Blender 62 1071 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest The Blockade by Susann Reck Blender is an autobiographical, inspired documentary film. In the 70s, my parents founded a mental hospital on top of a mountain in the German alps called Blender. Until today my siblings are working there and I´m the only one who left the place. The film Blender is about six inhabitants of the hospital, Friedlieb, Julius, Marie, Lars, Herr Kraus and Herr Stuhler. Four of them had to leave the place during the film. The reasons are typical for patients in mental hospitals: it´s about alcohol, death, multiple personalities and violence. The film tells the stories of my protagonists in a light way showing an apparently idyllic place, that changes more and more into sadness and drama. Their leaving is also the main connection to my childhood, where people were coming and going all the time and I didn´t know at all what was going on. The protagonists of my film are appealingly direct and undisguised, though they never lose dignity. All of them are fully aware of their situations and act with their own internal logic. For the main part Blender is not about being foolish or different. The film unfolds multifaceted forms of human existences, all condemned to be lonely in life. FILM ID by Igor Bezinović Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 120 min Original Title Blender Original L anguage German Produced by Susann Reck Red Island Prod., Germany www.susannreck.com Sales Contact Susann Reck Red Island Prod. Gustav-Müller-Str.10 10829 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.susannreck.com The Blockade is a unique view from within on the most massive, longest and politically most significant student protest in the country, since 1971, that started in April of 2009 at the Faculty of humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. The struggle against the commercialization of education and the blockade of teaching classes lasted for 34 days. The rebellion spread onto more than 20 faculties across the country and the students became an active and relevant political subject. The director followed everything: from the exhilarating preparation meetings and blocking of classes to the first signs of exhaustion, through personal situations and discussions late at night, from the initial support of most faculty members to the moment they turned their back to the movement and the attempt to reach the missing minister of education. This film shows that the blockade was not just physical and that it has a much broader meaning. Facts Croatia, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 92 min Original Title Blokada Original L anguage Croatian Produced by Nenad Puhovski Factum Documentary Project Croatia www.factum.com.hr in co-production with Oliver Sertic Restart Media Centar, Croatia www.restarted.hr PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 ZagrebDox, Croatia Sales Contact Nenad Puhovski Factum Documentary Project Nova Ves 18 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia [email protected] www.factum.com.hr 63 FILM ID 3257 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Borderline, An Unsetting Journey Along The World’s Longest UNDefended Border 64 2084 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Bouchbennersch Otto / how to treat differentness by Janina Jung by Daniel Sekulich Borderline explores the aftermath of the 9 / 11 terrorist attacks as experienced by ordinary people living and working along the Canada-U. S. Border following filmmaker and journalist Daniel Sekulich as he treks across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific on both sides of the international line. Via an assortment of characters along their journey they discover/describe how lives have been altered by 9 / 11. They encounter fishermen, farmers, military personnel, ranchers, shop owners, truckers, Native leaders, immigrants, border officials, former RCMP officers and anyone else with a story to tell. It is a scenic, humorous and above all thought-provoking cross-country journey that reveals how its almost scary obsession with security has changed the United States since the September attacks and where this could lead us … FILM ID Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, 52 min Original Title Borderline, An Unsetting Journey Along The World’s Longest UNDefended Border Original L anguage English Bouchbennersch Otto (born Otto Müller) was born in Emmerichenhain, Germany in 1907. He witnessed two world wars, was trained as a bookbinder and later became police-servant for the community, announced news in Emmerichenhain and the surrounding villages with a bell. Everyone knew Otto, but no one knew who he really was. Otto was different. Unlike all the others. The documentary Bouchbennersch Otto looks behind the facade of a village and depicts how people treat each other. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 29 min Original Title Bouchbennersch Otto / vom Umgang mit Andersartigkeit Original L anguage German Produced by Edward Peill Tell Tale Productions Inc. www.telltale.tv Ute Dilger Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Germany www.khm.de Sales Contact Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com Janina Jung Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln Peter-Welter-Platz 2 50676 Köln, Germany [email protected] www.khm.de / pm / projekte / projekt / paview/3555 Produced by 65 FILM ID 2174 Section Genre DOK German Competition Arts / Culture / M usic Breathing Earth – Susumu Shingu’s Dream 1777 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs The Brussels Business by Thomas Riedelsheimer 75-year-old Japanese artist Susumu Shingu talks with nature through his sculptures. His lifelong dialogue with the wind and with water has given the world uniquely beautiful works of fluid, unpredictable and ever-changing movement. Susumu renders visible the veiled and the unseen and opens to us new perspectives. Thomas Riedelsheimer accompanies this quiet and unassuming man in pursuit of a dream, a quest to create an awareness of our planet, our breathing earth and our human values. Breathing Earth is a film about the wind, the philosophy of a wise person, about art, love and dreams. FILM ID by Friedrich Moser, Matthieu Lietaert Facts Germany, United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, DCP 93 min Original Title Breathing Earth – Susumu Shingu’s Dream Original L anguage English, German, Italian, Japanese Produced by Stefan Tolz Filmpunkt GmbH, Germany www.filmquadrat.de Who runs the European Union ? A high-profile, political docu-thriller unveiling the EU´s untold story. In the early 90s, two young men discover the enormous influence of lobbying in Brussels. Olivier Hoedeman becomes the EU’s leading lobby-watchdog. Pascal Kerneis becomes a high profile lobbyist for multinational industries and today claims to represent 50% of the GDP of the EU. With Olivier’s investigations and Pascal’s career the film takes us on a journey into the corridors of power of the biggest economy on earth – the European Union. Lobby groups, consultancies, think tanks and law firms teaming up with the EU’s political elite are the secretive networks that steer the life of 500 million Europeans. Facts Austria, Belgium, 2012 Colour, DCP 58 min / 85 min Original Title The Brussels Business Original L anguage English Produced by Friedrich Moser Blue+green communication, Italy www.blue-and-green.com in co-production with Stephen Visualantics, Belgium involved Broadcasters WDR/ARTE, Germany Sales Contact Stefan Tolz Filmpunkt GmbH Worringer Str. 22 50968 Köln, Germany [email protected] www.filmquadrat.de involved Broadcasters ORF, Austria RTBF, Belgium ZDF / ARTE, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 Wien Burgkino, Poland 4 / 2012 Millenium IFF, Belgium 5 / 2012 Krakow IFF, Poland Sales Contact Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com 66 67 FILM ID 3170 Section Genre Documentary Campus Masterschool Ethnology / Religion Human Interest Bury my Heart in Dresden 2782 Section Genre Hot Docs Human Interest Buzkashi ! by Bettina Renner A Catholic cemetery in Dresden, Germany. In the middle of a meadow, a small grave. And at the foot of the grey and weathered gravestone, waving in the wind, a small American flag. The inscription chiselled into the old stone reveals who was laid to his final rest here in 1914: the Native American Edward Two-Two, a Sioux chief. How did a Sioux Indian end up in a place like Dresden so long ago ? And why was he buried there at his own request, so far from his native lands and contrary to all Indian traditions ? The film tries to find answers by tracing the extraordinary life story of the Indian chief Edward Two-Two at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. FILM ID by Mirza Najeeb Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 90 min Original Title Begrabt mein Herz in Dresden Original L anguage English, German Produced by Heino Deckert ma.ja.de Filmproduktion, Germany www.majade.de involved Broadcasters MDR, Germany From the shadows of the majestic Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan comes a story of Azam, a shepherd and Buzkashi champion, who faces the pressures of modernization in the sport and in his own personal life. Azam plays as an individual for honor and integrity, but his success is increasingly thwarted by organized alliances, or ‘mafias’, encouraged by his rival Khurshed, a member of Tajikistan’s nouveau riche. Khurshed believes that team play is the future of the sport. Between challenges on the field and within his own family, Azam tries to find a place for himself in the new Tajikistan. Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, HDcam 82 min Original Title Buzkashi ! Original L anguage Russian, Tajik, Uzbek Produced by Micheline Shoebridge Buzkashi Production, France in co-production with Mirza Najeeb Buzkashi Production, France PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sales Contact Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.deckert-distribution.com 68 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada Sales Contact Maëlle Guenegues CAT&Docs 18 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, France [email protected] www.catndocs.com 69 FILM ID 2925 Section Genre Focus Latin America Human Interest 446 Section Genre DOK German Competition Human Interest Camp 14 – Total Control Zone The Calm by Fernando Vílchez Rodríguez A man who narrowly survived an earthquake caught in the din of the clearing up efforts and his agonising desire to find stability again. FILM ID by Marc Wiese Facts Peru, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 20 min Original Title La Calma Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Intro Films S. R. L., Peru www.introfilmsperu.com Sales Contact Intro Films S. R. L. Av. del Parque Norte 1050 Of. 302, San Borja PE-41 Lima, Peru [email protected] www.introfilmsperu.com Shin Dong-Huyk was born November 19th 1983 as a political prisoner in a North Korean re-education camp. He was a child of two prisoners who have been married by order of the wardens. He spent his entire childhood and youth in camp 14, in truth a death camp. Forced labour since he was six years old, hunger, beatings and torture. Always at the mercy of the wardens. He knew nothing of the world outside the barbed-wire fences. He thinks everybody is living that way. At the age of 23, with the help of an older prisoner, he succeeds in escaping. For months he journeys through North Korea and China and finally to South Korea, where he encounters a world completely strange to him. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 111 min Original Title Camp 14 – Total Control Zone Original L anguage Korean Produced by Axel Engstfeld Engstfeld Film GmbH, Germany www.engstfeldfilm.de involved Broadcasters WDR/ ARTE, Germany BR, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2012 Locarno, Switzerland Sales Contact Sonia Mehandjiyska Global Screen Sonnenstraße 21 80331 München, Germany sonia.mehandjiyska@ globalscreen.de www.globalscreen.de 70 71 FILM ID 2080 Section Genre DOK International Competition History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait The Captain and His Pirate 72 2622 Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Captain Thomas Sankara by Andy Wolff Imagine you are the captain of a container ship: You get hijacked by Somali pirates. After three weeks, suddenly, the pirates gather the hostages and say: ‘There is no ransom offer from your shipping company. We will execute you.’ The pirates drag you onto the deck; push you on your knees. One of them aims his gun at your head and shoots. The bullet hits the wall behind you. Drenched in cold sweat you fall unconscious and lie on the ship’s deck. Only a few weeks after his liberation this very captain tells me: ‘The pirates’ boss was human. There were times on board when he was the only one to back me up. There were even moments when I felt safe with him.’ The seizure of the Hansa Stavanger is one of the most notorious cases in modern piracy and the longest hostage taking at sea known in German history. My documentary is about the complex relationship arising between culprit and victim under a death threatening hostage situation. The film tells the intimate story of the friendship between Captain Kotiuk and the pirates Ahado in a drama lasting over four months. FILM ID by Christophe Cupelin Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 85 min Original Title Der Kapitän und sein Pirat Original L anguage German, Somali Produced by Andy Wolff Brockhaus & Wolff, Germany www.brockhauswolff.com in co-production with Marion Hänsel Man’s Films Productions, Belgium involved Broadcasters WDR, Germany Sales Contact Daniela Elstner Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris, France [email protected] www.docandfilm.com On 4 August 1983, Thomas Sankara becomes the president of Upper Volta after a coup d’état. A year later, he definitively creates a turning point in the history and identity of his country, renaming it Burkina Faso, literally ‘Land of Upright Men’. He brings enormous hope to a great portion of African youth far beyond the boundaries of his country. By conducting a ‘democratic and popular’ revolution, he brings more progress to the people during the four years of his presidency than during half a century of French colonial rule. Blending together rare and meticulously assembled archives, director Christophe Cupelin offers a panoramic vision of the intellectual and political inheritance of this atypical head of state. Giving his documentary the energy of a punk manifesto, between idealism and irony, he faithfully restitutes the originality of a president as striking in his action as in his words. In 2012, twenty five years after his tragic and still not officially elucidated death, the film offers an opportunity to see and listen to the voice of one of the most important African leaders of the 20th century. Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, B / W, DigiBeta 101 min Original Title Capitaine Thomas Sankara Original L anguage French Produced by Christophe Cupelin Laïka Films, Switzerland www.laika.info PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland Sales Contact Christophe Cupelin Laïka Films Rue de la Coulouvrenière 11 Case postal 5476 1211 Genève 11, Switzerland [email protected] www.laika.info 73 FILM ID 3300 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest 3165 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Castles and Palaces of Europe The Carbon Rush by Amy Miller Who has not seen a recent request to offset carbon pollution but who knows what this all means … An up-close look at the insidious tango between government and big polluters and investigates whether or not carbon offsets are distracting us from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. We learn that the carbon market does little if anything to reduce greenhouse gases and that these offset projects are nothing more than schemes that provide false solutions. To date, there has been over three hundred billion dollars of carbon transactions worldwide. Instead of focusing resources to move away from a fossil fuel economy, massive international trading ventures have been established as the solution. FILM ID by Jeremy J. P. Fekete, Gero von Boehm Facts USA, 2012 Colour, HDcam 60 min Original Title The Carbon Rush Original L anguage English Produced by Amy Miller Carbon Rush Inc., Canada Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com No other part of the world boasts as many castles and palaces as Europe. Kings and Princes built their palaces and summer residences in the most beautiful and strategically located spots. In the miniseries Castles and Palaces of Europe. Following in the footsteps of Kings we introduce individuals who walk the tightrope between tradition and modern-day reality by living and working in castles, châteaux and palaces or in their immediate vicinity. They will open doors that are normally closed to the outside world and reveal captivating stories. European history, regional traditions and ancient legends will come alive as we meet people who spend much of their time within the ancient walls of these ‘stone giants’ or have fallen under their spell at some point in their lives.‘Castles and Palaces of Europe’ is a miniseries of 5 films. Each episode present three castles or other royal residences of a specific European region along with special features of their surroundings. A breath-taking aerial view leads us through the Loire Valley in France, to southern Germany, the southeast of England, the Piedmont in Italy and along Portugal’s coast. Facts Germany, France, Italy, 2012 Colour, HDcam 52 min / 5 ×52 min Original Title Schlösserwelt Europa Original L anguage English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese Produced by Axelle Hourrier interscience film, Germany www.intersciencefilm.de in co-production with Stefano Tealdi Stefilm International, Italy www.stefilm.it Isabel Machado C. R. I. M., Portugal www.crim-productions.com involved Broadcasters ZDF/ ARTE, Germany Sales Contact Axelle Hourrier interscience film Ziegelhäuser Landstraße 23 69120 Heidelberg, Germany [email protected] www.intersciencefilm.de 74 75 FILM ID 977 Section Genre Animadoc Human Interest Science Centrefold Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait by Hamed Alizadeh Facts United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, DCP 9 min Original Title Centrefold Original L anguage English Produced by Siobhan Fenton Lynchpin Productions, United Kingdom www.thecentrefoldproject.org Shipping containers line the side of the road. This is one of the main entry points into Kabul. At this police station, fifteen officers work, eat and sleep, machine gun in hand. They come from nearby villages but their lives are spent here, at this intersection. Day and night, they keep watch, search vehicles, check drivers’ and passengers’ ID. Their job is neither free of risk nor inconvenience: terrorist attacks, angry motorists or criticism against the Afghan police force. They are accused of corruption, abuse of power, trafficking weapons and uniforms and raping women. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 74 min Original Title Check Point Original L anguage Arabic, German Produced by Stéphane Jourdain La Huit Production, France www.lahuit.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS PUBLIC SCREENINGS 7 / 2012 Rushes Soho Shorts, USA 8 / 2012 Scinema, Australia 9 / 2012 Fantoche IFF, Germany 10 / 2012 DocCartoon, Italy 1 / 2012 Festival des 3 continents, France 3 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland Sales Contact Sales Contact Siobhan Fenton Lynchpin Productions 79 Greenbank Road DL36EN Darlington, United Kingdom [email protected] www.thecentrefoldproject.org 76 1741 Check Point by Ellie Land Over the past decade, female genital cosmetic surgery has increased by a staggering 500%. Centrefold is a unique animated documentary that takes an innovative and balanced approach to this controversial topic. Created by award winning filmmaker Ellie Land and funded by the Wellcome Trust, the film follows three women, aged 24–41 through their different experiences of labiaplasty (surgery to trim or remove the labia). ‘My labia was long, dark, stretchy, shriveled up and I was quite embarrassed about it. I’ve never thought that my genital area and labia was normal’ (Anonymous – explaining her reasons for having a labiaplasty). By documenting what is involved in the procedure and its varying outcomes, the film seeks to offer a non-judgemental view of labia surgery and to encourage informed discussion: Is labiaplasty anti-female ‘pornification’, or an empowering personal choice ? Centrefold provides the facts. You decide. FILM ID Julien Beaunay La Huit Production 218 bis rue de Charenton 75012 Paris, France [email protected] www.lahuit.com 77 FILM ID 761 Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Chronicle of a Forgotten Death Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Author’s Point of View by Davis Simanis Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, HDcam 62 min Original Title Chronique d’une Mort Oubliée Original L anguage French Produced by David Rihs Point Prod, Switzerland www.pointprod.ch This documentary deals with faith, human aging, a struggle to fulfil your vision and above all – one particular building. In its poetical minimalism the film observes the construction of the new Latvian National Library, which has become a metaphor for a temple, a boiling-point for an entire nation. From an empty construction pit to the accomplished edifice, this visual symphony of cinematic images captures the whole process of creation. Besides two human characters, the chief architect and a jib crane operator are chosen to reveal the eternal conflict between the greatness of a conception and the inevitable sacrifice to realize it. Facts Latvia, 2012 Colour, DCP 58 min Original Title Pedeja temple hronikas Original L anguage Latvian, Russian Produced by Guntis Trekteris Ego Media, Latvia www.egomedia.lv in co-production with involved Broadcasters Irène Challand TSR, Switzerland www.tsr.ch LTV1 & LTV7, Latvia PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, France Sales Contact David Rihs Point Prod 41B route des Jeunes 1227 Carouge, Switzerland [email protected] www.pointprod.ch 78 2274 Chronicles of the Last Temple by Pierre Morath Over the course of two and a half years, the man did not move from the couch of his Geneva apartment. For two and a half years, his neighbours and friends thought he was gone or in convalescence. His letterbox was full, his post returned. Electricity had eventually been cut off and the real estate agency was about to evict. When, finally, the police forced the door, they discovered a flat infested by vermin and in the middle, the decomposed body of Michel Christen, a 53 years-old Swiss man, well known in the neighbourhood. Of him only remained bones, hair and teeth. The investigation held in the film shows that his death dates back 28 months. But the date on the death certificate is the one of the day the body was found. This is the regulation … How could this man, who had a family and who was followedup by medical and social services, fall into oblivion in such a way ? FILM ID Sales Contact Guntis Trekteris Ego Media Baznicas iela 8–20 LV 1010 Riga, Latvia [email protected] www.egomedia.lv 79 FILM ID 585 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Closed Sea Section Genre DOK International Competition Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Zhu Yu Facts Italy, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 62 min Original Title Mare Chiuso Original L anguage Amharic, Somali Produced by Andrea Segre, Italy Giulia Moretti zaLab, United Kingdom PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 Cinema Farnese, Italy 11 / 2012 Festival Cinema Africano, Asia e America Latina, Italy Sales Contact Kazz Basma Sideways Film 7 Bouverie Mews, Bouverie Road. N16 0AL London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.sidewaysfilm.com 80 1501 Cloudy Mountains by Andrea Segre, Stefano Liberti This documentary-film aims to tell the unknown side of the story about the migrations of who escaped from Libya during the war in 2011. Many of these migrants in fact, had been previously pushed back by Italy as a result of an agreement signed by Berlusconi and Gaddafi in 2009. We met them in Shousha refugee camp at the border between Libya and Tunisia, and in two reception camps for asylum seekers (C.A.R.A.) in southern Italy. They described what actually happened on the boats and what happened after their deportation to Libya. Their interviews constitute the main part of the documentary, along with a session of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, where one of our witnesses sued Italy. FILM ID The southern foot of the mountains in Lop Nur in western China is rich in asbestos. The workers are making dusts while exploiting the asbestos. From far away, it looks like a cloud-making machine, puffing clouds into the air. The usage of big machines increased the asbestos mining capacity but the lack of relevant environmental protection facilities leads to a large amount of dust blotting out the sun. No matter inside or outside, workers only use scarves or masks to protect themselves. But actually, these textile products are easily susceptible to dust. The workers are suffering from the environmental pollution. Though people working in such a harsh environment live a hard and isolated life, they do not lose their joy of living, because they have found a way to make money, which gives them hope. However, they don’t really know or care about what consequences the environment here can bring to them. The movie describes the living state of a 17-year-old guy, who is stubborn, diligent, and naughty, his father, who experiences various hardships but is happy and likes kidding and various workers around them. Facts China, 2012 Colour, HDcam 85 min Original Title Cloudy Mountains Original L anguage Chinese Produced by Han Lei Documentary Channel (SMG), China www.dc.smg.cn involved Broadcasters Documentary Channel (SMG), China Sales Contact Han Lei Documentary Channel (SMG) No.298 Weihai Rd. 200041 Shanghai, China [email protected] www.dc.smg.cn 81 FILM ID 703 Section Genre DOK International Competition Human Interest Colombianos 1619 Section Genre East Silver & IDF Human Interest Science Colors of Math by Tora Mårtens Fernando’s life in Stockholm seems to be going nowhere. He is struggling with substance abuse and his despairing mother, Olga, wants him to go and spend time with his older brother Pablo in Colombia. Pablo has a plan on how to get Fernando clean in six months – but is Fernando ready to make a change ? The painful effects of co-dependency take their toll as the onceenthusiastic Pablo gradually loses faith in his mission. Colobianos won the Golden Starfish Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, Hamptons International Film Festival (USA) 2012. FILM ID by Ekaterina Eremenko Facts Sweden, 2012 Colour, HDcam 90 min Original Title Colombianos To most people math appears abstract, mysterious. Complicated. Inaccessible. But math is nothing but a different language to express the world. Math can be sensual. Math can be tasted, it smells, it creates sound and colour. One can touch it – and be touched by it … Facts Russia, Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 59 min Original Title Colors of Math Original L anguage Original L anguage Spanish, Swedish English, French, Russian Produced by Produced by Antonio Russo Merenda Hysteria Film AB, Sweden www.hysteriafilm.se Yuri Tschinkel Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU, USA in co-production with PUBLIC SCREENINGS Ulla Simonen Made Ow, Finland www.made.fi 6 / 2012 Moscow IFF, Russia involved Broadcasters SVT, Sweden YLE, Finland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 2 / 2012 Göteborg IFF, Sweden 3 / 2012 Tempo FF, Sweden 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 10 / 2012 Hamptons IFF, USA Sales Contact Ekaterina Eremenko EEFilms Ekaterina Eremenko Films Savignyplatz 1 10623 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.eefilms.de Sales Contact Antonio Russo Merenda Hysteria Film AB Völundsgatan 10 11321 Stockholm, Sweden [email protected] www.hysteriafilm.se 82 83 FILM ID 2473 Section Genre DOK International Programme Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs Comparing Now and Then 75 Section Genre Focus Latin America Author’s Point of View Human Interest Corta by Nina Wiesnagrotzki The short documentary Now ! (1965) of Santiago Alvarez on the struggle for civil rights of black people in the U. S. is a document of a revolutionary movement, which began with one specific desire: equality of human beings. It grew, inspirited people and finally took over. It was an essential initiating part of the ’68 revolt. Today, the rate of pictures in which you can see the ultimate ratio of governmental power is increasing once again. For this reason, the remake shows nearly equal pictures of the latest liberation movements and inhumanity worldwide. It is trying to translate the original message into current times. Where are the similarities, where are the differences ? Are we in a revolutionary situation today ? FILM ID by Felipe Guerrero Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, Beta SP 5 min Original Title Comparing Now and Then Corta is a film about the hypnotic extenuation generated by the body movements of sugar cane cutters in the Valle del Cauca (Colombia). Corta is a contemplation film of the gestures of hand labour while the surrounding plantations disappear, a pure cinematic experience about the natural and everyday ritual of a timeless world. Facts Colombia, Argentina, France, 2012 Colour, DCP 69 min Original Title Corta Original L anguage Original L anguage English Spanish Produced by Produced by Nina Wiesnagrotzki, Germany Felipe Guerrero mutokino, Argentina www.paraisofilm.blogspot.com Sales Contact Nina Wiesnagrotzki Duschweg 25 22769 Hamburg, Germany [email protected] in co-production with Antoine Segovia Atopic, France www.playfilm.fr Gema Juárez Allen Gema Films, Argentina www.gemafilms.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 1 / 2012 Rotterdam IFF, Netherlands 2 / 2012 FICCI Cartagena de Indias, Colombia 4 / 2012 BAFICI, Argentina 4 / 2012 Jeonju IFF, South Korea Sales Contact Felipe Guerrero mutokino La Pampa 3098 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] www.paraisofilm.blogspot.com 84 85 FILM ID 2923 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait Crackle of time – Christoph Schlingensief and his opera village in Burkina Faso 2035 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Portrait Crimson Mask by Marco Eisenbarth by Sibylle Dahrendorf An African Bayreuth ? An Opera in Africa ? Christoph Schlingensief, the German film, theatre and opera director had a vision for an opera village in Africa. Despite cancer, he made regular trips to Burkina Faso, such was his devotion and conviction. Crackle of Time tells the story of an impossible project: To build an opera village in Burkina Faso, a space combining art and life, with a school, theatre, hospital and living quarters. From the initial location search in May 2009, to the official opening of the school in October 2011, the documentary takes us up close to the man and his architect Francis Kéré. We get behind their vision and witness the struggles and hurdles to get the ‘opera village’ off the ground. Christoph Schlingensief died in August 2010. But his dream lives on. Last year Christoph Schlingensief was posthumously awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for his stage installation, ‘fluxus oratorium – church of fear’ in the German pavilion. FILM ID Facts Germany, Austria, 2012 Colour, DCP 106 min Original Title Knistern der Zeit – Christoph Schlingensief und sein Operndorf in Burkina Faso Original L anguage Afrikaans, French, German Produced by Michael Bogar Perfect Shot Films GmbH, Germany www.perfectshotfilms.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2012 Dokfest München Germany Crimson Mask is a feature length documentary that follows German ‘Ultra Violence Wrestler’ Thumbtack Jack a.k.a. Alexander Bedranowsky in and outside of the wrestling ring. It is more than just a review of this unique athlete’s career but an honest and surprising portrait of this seemingly insane and brutal character that is Thumbtack Jack, who mutilates himself and his opponents with barbed wire, thumbtacks, glass, syringes and even fire. Crimson Mask shows the man on the other side. From his career high touring the United States of America, over the feud with his arch enemy, Drake Younger to his very last ‘Death Match’ against his long time friend and mentor ‘Hate’, the filmmaker Marco Eisenbarth never leaves Thumbtack Jack’s side. But then an incident occurs that will change Alexander Bedranowsky’s life forever … Facts Germany, USA, 2012 Colour, B / W, DigiBeta 74 min Original Title Crimson Mask Produced by Marco Eisenbarth, Germany www.ironbeardimages.de Sales Contact Marco Eisenbarth Andreasstraße 11 65929 Frankfurt, Germany [email protected] www.ironbeardimages.de Sales Contact Frieder Schlaich Filmgalerie 451 Saarbrücker Str. 24 10405 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.filmgalerie451.de 86 87 FILM ID 3201 Section Genre FilmFestival Cottbus Ethnology / Religion Human Interest by Dr. Anca Damian Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs by Bernhard Pfletschinger Facts Romania, Poland, 2011 Colour 73 min Original Title Crulic – Drumul spre dincolo Original L anguage Romanian Produced by Dr. Anca Damian Aparte Film Romania www.apartefilm.net PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany Sales Contact Loic Magneron Wide Management 40 Rue Sainte Anne 75002 Paris, France [email protected] wwww.widemanagement.com 88 3246 Cuba – Mafia’s Paradise – The History of a Gangster Domain Crulic – The Path to Beyond The true story of a man who got tangled up and perished in the red tape of European bureaucracy. A masterfully animated ballad about the decline of humanity. FILM ID In Havana, illegal dealings with gambling, prostitution, drug dealing, protection racketeering and moneylaundering flourish whilst the Cuban people are increasingly exploited and sinking into poverty. The Mafia is also supported by its numerous contacts to corrupt U. S.-American politicians, intelligence services and industrialists. While these groups are working on Havana to become the Mafia’s capital city in the world, the rebels around Fidel Castro and Che Guevara land on the island’s east coast in December 1956. The poverty stricken people start to support them in short order and thus the rebels soon manage to gain victories against Batista’s army. And despite the Mafia, the U. S. intelligence services, the industrialists, bankers and their supporters continue their doings in Havana throughout 1958 as the revolutionists come into power in early 1959 and put an end to the criminal dealings. Facts Germany, 2011 Colour, HDcam 48 min Original Title Cuba – Mafia’s Paradise – The History of a Gangster Domain Original L anguage English, German Sales Contact Andrea Seibert Global Screen Sonnenstraße 21 80331 München, Germany [email protected] www.globalscreen.de 89 FILM ID 2293 Section Genre DOK Market Ethnology / Religion Human Interest by Samuel Stefan, Nick Oakley 90 2532 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Human Interest Damascus, My First Kiss Cult Witness At the age of 19 Samuel Stefan, consumed by crisis, was drawn into a cult. It would be 10 years before he was able to escape. Using a technique called ‘love-bombing’, cults prey on the vulnerable, recruiting new members with love and warmth. After a period of brain-washing, members are forbidden to leave, enslaved through psychological control, and in Samuel’s case, even violence. He was finally able to escape in the dead of night, pursued by other members and seeking help. Cult Witness is an intelligent exploration of how cults attract and manipulate their followers, sharing the disturbing firsthand experiences of Cult Witness director Samuel Stefan and six others who have freed themselves from cults. Analytical insights into the cult experience are provided by leadership expert Betty Sue Flowers; Benjamin Zablocki, chair of the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University; UCLA Professor Emeritus Bertram Raven, an expert on interpersonal influence and social power relationships; psychotherapist Miguel Perlado, who specializes in cult-related problems; and Urs Eschmann, a specialist in legal issues involving cults. Cult Witness unravels the hidden world of cults; the hold they have on their victims, the reasons people form and fall prey to them and what takes place within. FILM ID by Lina Al Abed Facts Switzerland, France, Germany, USA, United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 58 min Original Title Cult Witness Original L anguage English Produced by Samuel Stefan, United Kingdom Sales Contact Kazz Basma Sideways Film 7 Bouverie Mews, Bouverie Road. N16 0AL London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.sidewaysfilm.com Asmaa’ Kaftaro, the granddaughter of a former Mufti of Syria, says ‘I wasn’t aware what marriage is when I got married at the age of 16. When one of my girls menstruates, I celebrate the event … a full-blown celebration, and I think that would alleviate her anxiety’. Lina Chachati, a Christian 48 year-old lady and a daughter of a well-known liberal family that owns one of the biggest libraries in Syria, says ‘I still don’t know my body that well’. Questions and answers take us into the close and personal details of how two outstanding women and the filmmaker understand their relationship with their bodies and the society. Thoughts and feelings – what it means to be a woman in Syria. Facts Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, 2012 Colour, HDcam 42 min Original Title Dimashq Qublati Al-ula Original L anguage Arabic Produced by Lina Al Abed SakaDo Productions, Lebanon PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2011 Doha Tribeca FF, Qatar Sales Contact Sasha Ayoub Proaction Film 4-1340 – M. S. Ghnayem Str. Dummar Easet 11118 P. O. Box 60353 00963 Damascus, Syria [email protected] 91 FILM ID 3348 Section Genre DOK.Incubator Arts / Culture / M usic Author’s Point of View Dance For Me 92 1511 Section Genre DOK German Competition Author’s Point of View Human Interest Dancing Alone by Katrine Philp In Denmark, the dance halls are bursting with dancers of high international standards. It is all about getting the right partner, when you want to go to the top. But in a small country like Denmark, this is not always as easy as it sounds. Mie (14) is an elite dancer. When her partner stops, the family decides to search for a new one abroad. Russian Egor (15) finds out that his mother has set up a tryout for him, and if it turns out well, Egor will stay with Mie in Denmark. Since May 2011 he has lived with Mie and her parents in Denmark. All eyes are on the young couple, the pressure is on and they are expected to make it to the top. Dance for Me is a film about a vulnerable young male dancer that has left everything behind for a new life in a totally strange family and completely different culture. With sensitivity and insight director Katrine Philp unravels the story with poetry and aesthetics. Dance for Me is a modern tale of migration and pursuit of success and it questions what you are willing to sacrifice to create the life you want. As this film is part of the DOK.Incubator workshop 2012 and still in post-production, DOK Market presents only a trailer. FILM ID by Biene Pilavci Facts Denmark, 2012 Colour, HDcam 75 min A feature length documentary about the power of family and how it shapes us. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 95 min Original Title Original Title Dans For Mig Alleine Tanzen Original L anguage Original L anguage Danish German, Turkish Produced by Produced by Lise Saxtrup klassefilm aps, Denmark www.klassefilm.dk Max Milhahn Telekult Film- und Medienproduktion GmbH, Germany www.telekult.de Sales Contact Stefan Kloos Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.riseandshine-berlin.com Sales Contact Max Milhahn Telekult Film- und Medienproduktion Kremmener Str. 6 10435 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.telekult.de 93 FILM ID 3276 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Science Danube Hospital Section Genre Focus Latin America Author’s Point of View Portrait by María Paz González Facts Austria, 2012 Colour, HDcam 75 min Original Title Donauspital Original L anguage German Produced by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Michael Kitzberger, Markus Glaser Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, Austria www.geyrhalterfilm.com Sales Contact Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Trappelgasse 4 / 17 1040 Wien, Austria [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com 94 1794 Daughter by Nikolaus Geyrhalter Danube Hospital, a portrait of one of Europe’s largest hospitals, shows the daily routines and work processes at a powerful and highly complex institution. By depicting a modern healthcare facility, Danube Hospital holds a mirror to our society to show how it deals with health and illness, life and death. FILM ID Mother and daughter cross Chile in search of a relative they both don’t know. The mother hopes to find her sister while the daughter expects to find her real father. Along a 2,000 km road, they will be forced to confront their childhood expectations with a present which may prove to be even more uncertain and hostile than the fantasies involved in building their identities. Daughter is a journey where lies become reality and where the reality takes the shape of a film: that of a documentary road movie based on imaginary facts. Facts Chile, 2011 Colour, HDcam 83 min / 58 min Original Title Hija Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Flor Rubina Chile Doc, Chile www.hija.cl PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2011 FIDOCS, Chile 3 / 2012 Thessaloniki, Greece 4 / 2012 BAFICI, Argentina 9 / 2012 Rejkjavik FF, Iceland Sales Contact Manuela Buono Taskovski Films 7 Granard Business Centre Bunns Lane NW7 2DQ London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.taskovskifilms.com 95 FILM ID 2306 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Portrait Death of a Cemetery 96 2937 Section Genre DOK.Incubator History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Defending Karadzic by Jeanie Dizon Manila North Cemetery in the Philippines is a place of rest for 3,000 people, all of whom are alive. When rich families first erected mausoleums for their dead in the 1800s, they needed caretakers to maintain them and guard any valuables buried within. In exchange for their work, the caretakers were allowed to live inside the mausoleums, and a cemetery community was born. Grave keepers grow gardens around tombs; chefs cook up hearty fare in pop-up restaurants alongside crypts; and children play basketball in between school and funerals. Manila North Cemetery has become a home to those without a home. But the graveyard is not always peaceful. One caretaker must face the task of burying his own relative in the cemetery, and another – only 13 years old – must undergo an exorcism lest forever be possessed by the spirits he disturbed. Yet in a place where exhumations, ghosts, and witch doctors are part of daily routine, the biggest dangers residents face are universal to the human experience. FILM ID by Aleksandar Nikolic Facts Philippines, USA, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 51 min Original Title Death of a Cemetery Original L anguage English Produced by Phil Britton Empyreal Productions, United Kingdom in co-production with Jeanie Dizon, United Kingdom Sales Contact Kazz Basma Sideways Film 7 Bouverie Mews, Bouverie Road. N16 0AL London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.sidewaysfilm.com How can you defend someone like Radovan Karadzic ? As one of the key members of his defence team, Marko is very much used to that question, but for him, each accused is innocent until proven guilty and the defence is an integral part of the judicial process. As a Serb who spent his youth protesting against the nationalist politics of his leaders, Marko knows that these trials can help his people come to terms with what was done in their name, but he also knows they can only do that if they are impeccably fair. Following Marko over the length of the trial, the film is detailing his struggles both externally and internally. How do you fight against the financial and political pressures on The Court ? How do you go against the media’s one-sided view of the conflict ? Is it possible to establish a truth that everybody agrees on ? Are you really helping with the reconciliation or are you making things worse ? Are you getting too close to the accused ? What is your job doing to your relationships with friends and family ? Ultimately, the film asks the question: ‘What does it do to a man to defend evil ?’ As this film is part of the DOK.Incubator workshop 2012 and still in post-production, DOK Market presents only a trailer. Facts Germany, United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HDcam 52 min / 80 min Original Title Defending Karadzic Original L anguage English, Serbian Produced by Gregor Streiber inselfilm produktion, Germany www.inselfilm.info Sales Contact Gregor Streiber inselfilm produktion Strausberger Platz 18 10243 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.inselfilm.info 97 FILM ID 2486 Section Genre StoryDoc History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Demokratia, The Way Of The Cross 98 3213 Section Genre East Silver & IDF History / Politics / Current Affairs Disease of the Third Power by Marco Gastine The 6th of May parliamentary election in Greece, held in the context of an unprecedented economic, social and moral crisis was an historical moment for Greece, a challenge for democracy. The campaign was a great opportunity to look very closely at Greek politics, largely responsible for the current situation of the country. Following the steps of candidates that tried to re-establish their contact with their voters was a unique opportunity to explore the current situation of a society deeply touched by the crisis. Through this everyday portrait of the practice of ‘public affairs’, we tried to raise the question of ‘living together’, so crucial today in the country that invented democracy. We followed the campaign of four candidates to parliament; belonging to four different parties that played a leading role in the election; having four different answers to the crucial dilemma that divides the country; being at four different steps in their political career; representing four different ways to do politics and, last but not least, being four very different persons, interesting enough to be the heroes of a character-driven documentary film. FILM ID by Zuzana Piussi Facts Greece, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 91 min / 52 min Original Title Demokratia, o Dromos tou Stavrou A political documentary about black holes in the Slovak judiciary system and about the state of law in Slovakia. The film from the backstage of the Slovak judiciary system is also an essay about a peculiar form of power that effaces itself in order to adopt a new name later – justice. Facts Slovakia, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 52 min Original Title Nemoc tretej moci Original L anguage Original L anguage Greek Slovak Produced by Marco Gastine Minimal Films, Greece Robert Kirchhoff Atelier.doc, Slovakia www.atelierdoc.sk PUBLIC SCREENINGS PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2012 doclisboa, Portugal 7 / 2011 Pohoda Festival, Slovakia 11 / 2011 IFF Bratislava, Slovakia 3 / 2012 One World IFF, Czech Republic Produced by Sales Contact Marco Gastine Minimal Films Fotiou Patriarchou 5 11471 Athen, Greece [email protected] Sales Contact Robert Kirchhoff Atelier.doc Galandova 5 811 06 Bratislava, Slovakia [email protected] www.atelierdoc.sk 99 FILM ID 2796 Section Genre DOK International Competition Author’s Point of View Portrait Documentarian Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Portrait by David Redmon, Ashley Sabin Facts Latvia, 2012 Colour, DCP 82 min Original Title Dokumentālists Original L anguage Latvian Produced by Aija Berzina VFS Films, Latvia www.vfs.lv in co-production with Ivars Zviedris Ansis Epner’s Film Studio ‘AVE’, Latvia involved Broadcasters LNT, Latvia Sales Contact Aija Berzina VFS Films Lapu street 17 LV1002 Riga, Latvia [email protected] www.vfs.lv 100 1659 Downeast by Ivars Zviedris, Inese Klava Inta is a bruesque, crusty woman who lives alone on the edge of a picturesque marsh. One day her solitude is intruded upon by the arrival of a documentary filmmaker. In his eyes Inta is an outstanding would-be film protagonist but the wild woman would rather put a curse on the importunate intruder than let herself be filmed. But the filmmaker’s persistance finally succeeds in melting the ice of Inta’s heart … just in order to break it soon afterwards. FILM ID In 2010, the last sardine-canning factory in the United States – the Stinson / Bumble Bee Seafood cannery in Prospect Harbor, Maine – closed its doors, devastating the already economically depressed area and laying off 130 workers, some of whom had worked at the facility for 40 years or more. Enter Antonio Bussone, an Italian immigrant and owner of a Boston-based seafood company, who decides to buy the factory and convert it into a lobster-processing facility. Where others see the end of an era, Antonio sees opportunity: not only to build a new business, but also to bring exported jobs back to New England and revitalize a region. In a time when most U. S. industries have moved offshore, Antonio’s idea seems almost foolhardy, but it galvanizes the community and makes him into a local hero to some and a nemesis to others. Still, Antonio will have to overcome small-town politics, bank hurdles, and overwhelming financial odds to see his dream to fruition. Facts USA, 2012 Colour, HDcam 78 min Original Title Downeast Original L anguage English, Italian Produced by David Redmon Carnivalesque Films, USA www.carnivalesquefilms.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Tribeca, USA 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 6 / 2012 SilverDocs, USA Sales Contact David Redmon Carnivalesque Films, USA [email protected] www.carnivalesquefilms.com 101 FILM ID 1614 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Human Interest Dragan Wende – How the Trabant invaded West-Berlin and ruined my Uncle’s Kingdom 102 2296 Section Genre Animadoc Ethnology / Religion History / Politics / Current Affairs Drawing for Memory by Andy Glynne by Dragan von Petrovic, Lena Müller In this tragicomical documentary set between WestBerlin and former Yugoslavia, the young cameraman Vuk from Belgrade embarks on the trail of his eccentric uncle Dragan Wende who, 30 years earlier became the street king of West-Berlin’s 1970s hedonistic disco scene. Thanks to his Yugoslav passport, he could easily pass from West- to East-Berlin and profited from the Wall like few others. But in 1989, the Wall fell. Suddenly it was open to everyone and everything changed. 20 years later, Vuk’s uncle is an aged alcoholic who lives off social welfare and memories of his youth. He has not set foot in East Berlin ever since and seldom leaves his surreal West-Berlin. Vuk and his camera discover and confront his uncle’s bizarre and tragicomic world of veteran Yugo-immigrants, fallen millionaires and post-Wall-losers. We observe the survival strategies of a group of immigrants who once had it easy and who cannot help but wish for a return of The Wall – the Fall of which is held responsible for their financial hardship. Seen through his nephew’s eyes, a microcosm of underdogs and their survival strategies unfolds in this family tale about the ‘Losers of Change’ in a stilldivided city. FILM ID Facts Germany, Serbia, 2012 Colour, HDcam 90 min Original Title Dragan Wende – West Berlin Original L anguage English, German, Serbian Produced by Lena Müller von.müller.film, Germany www.von-muller-film.com During the war in Afghanistan, Ali, now ten, fled his country with his grandmother, leaving behind his parents who were unable to leave. This film explores his pain of being separated from them, as well as living for years without knowing whether they were alive. Despite now having contact with them, they are still unable to be united, and Ali describes his hopes of one day seeing them again. This is part of a series using real-life stories of young refugees and asylum seekers, told by the children themselves. Facts United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 3 min Original Title Drawing for Memory Original L anguage English Produced by Andy Glynne Mosaic Films, United Kingdom www.mosaicfilms.com in co-production with involved Broadcasters Rolf Bergmann RBB, Germany BBC, United Kingdom PUBLIC SCREENINGS involved Broadcasters RBB, Germany 6 / 2012 BBC two, United Kingdom Sales Contact PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada Sales Contact Lena Müller von.müller.film Skalitzer Str. 69 10997 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.von-muller-film.com Andy Glynne Mosaic Films 4th Floor Shacklewell Studios, 28 Shacklewell Lane E8 2EZ London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.mosaicfilms.com 103 FILM ID 1775 Section Genre Animadoc Author’s Point of View Human Interest Dream Jobs 2697 Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Dream of San Juan by Piyanan Suntasiri, Gail Piyanan Suntasiri Childhood dreams are fulfilled with fascinations and imaginations. Dream Jobs is about what people really wanted to be when they were younger. However, when time passes by, many of them start to forget … This film aims to remind people of their dreams, and encourage them not to give up. FILM ID by Joaquin Del Paso, Jan Paweł Trzaska Facts United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 2 min Original Title Dream Jobs Original L anguage English Produced by Gail Piyanan Suntasiri Kingston University, Thailand www.gailgailgail.com Geoff Grandfield Kingston University, United Kingdom www.geoffgrandfield.co.uk A village in the Sierra Madre is inhabited by the last representatives of an ancient Mixteco culture. Deprived of their identity by modern civilization, they are facing an even bigger threat: a landslide that may destroy the village during torrential rains. The local leader tries to prevent the disaster. He wants to invite a geologist to the village, so that the approaching danger could be officially confirmed. But no help is coming and the inhabitants may just humbly wait for the disaster to happen. Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, HDcam 44 min Original Title El El Sueno de San Juan Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Piotr Kempa, Jan Paweł Trzaska DeLord Sp. zo. o., Poland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 Krakow FF, Poland Sales Contact PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Kingston University Degree Show, United Kingdom 9 / 2012 D&AD New Blood, United Kingdom Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl Sales Contact Gail Piyanan Suntasiri 70 / 11 Mooban Na-Uthayan, Uthayan Road, Thawee-Watthana District 10170 Bangkok, Thailand [email protected] www.gailgailgail.com 104 105 FILM ID 628 Section Genre Focus Saxony Ethnology / Religion Human Interest Dress to Impress Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait by Joshua Z. Weinstein Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 8 min Original Title Kleider machen Freunde Original L anguage German Produced by Falk Schuster, Germany www.falkschuster.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Filmfest Dresden, Germany 4 / 2012 Kurzsüchtig Leipzig, Germany 5 / 2012 Zlin, Czech Republic 5 / 2012 Hamburg Short FF, Germany Sales Contact Falk Schuster Ernst-König Straße 1 06108 Halle / Saale, Germany [email protected] www.falkschuster.com 106 2089 Drivers Wanted by Falk Schuster A hedgehog and a bird run into each other, become friends and help each other with their problems. FILM ID Drivers Wanted reveals the impossibly eclectic community inhabiting NYC’s most famous taxi garage. Located directly across from the UN, the garage is a refugee camp in the heart of NY, where drivers come for protection from human rights abuses, racism and economic instability. The film follows Eric, a new immigrant from China who left because of his country’s one child policy. With dreams of his own business, and a wife and two young sons to support, he turns to a simple job: driving a taxicab. But the easy route proves to be a Herculean struggle for Eric, who can neither speak the language of his customers nor navigate the city’s 6,174 miles of streets. Along for Eric’s ride, we meet classic New York personalities, including the city’s oldest taxi driver, the rumoured inspiration behind Danny DeVito’s Louie DePalma, and a melting pot of immigrants with dreams of making it in America. Each day, a million New Yorkers depend on the anonymous faces behind the wheels, the men who tirelessly drive the city that doesn’t sleep. Drivers Wanted takes the viewer into the taxi seat to experience accidents, blizzards, and the late night streets of New York. Facts USA, 2012 Colour, HDcam 54 min Original Title Drivers Wanted Original L anguage Chinese, English Produced by Jean Tsien, USA PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Silverdocs, USA Sales Contact Joshua Z. Weinstein Weinstein Film Production 201 Eastern Parkway, 5R NY Brooklyn, USA [email protected] weinsteinfilm.com 107 FILM ID 718 Section Genre Focus Latin America Author’s Point of View Human Interest 486 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Dublin’s Trap: Another Side Of The Greek Crisis Drought by Everardo González The desert cowboys of ‘Cuates de Australia’ face death every year, avoiding the drought that threatens the ranch. While the community is forced into an exodus, the Ejido is abandoned and eventually the desert animals take over the place. They wait for the first drops of rain in order to return. FILM ID by Bryan Carter Facts Mexico, 2011 Colour, HDcam 84 min Original Title Cuates de Australia Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Martha Orozco Cienega Docs S. A. de C. V., Mexico PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 IDFA, Netherlands 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 6 / 2012 Los Angeles FF, USA Through the story of an Afghan asylum seeker who won a historic victory at the European Court of Human Rights, this film shines a new light on the consequences of migration policies in the crisis-affected country of Greece. Dublin’s Trap gives an equal voice to politicians, intellectuals, activists, immigrants and extremists. This approach highlights how austerity measures, combined with an unprecedented influx of immigrants, foster racial tensions, increased nationalism, and a humanitarian crisis at Europe’s external borders. Further aggravating the situation is an uneven EU repatriation mechanism known as Dublin II. Facts Belgium, 2012 Colour, HDcam 51 min Original Title Dublin’s Trap: Another Side Of The Greek Crisis Original L anguage English, French, Greek Produced by Jean-Pierre Borloo Association des Journalistes Professionnels de Belgique, Belgium www.fondspourlejournalisme.be PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 Canal Z, Belgium 3 / 2012 Thessaloniki Documentary FF, Greece Sales Contact Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.deckert-distribution.com 108 Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 109 FILM ID 2423 Section Genre DOK Market Ethnology / Religion Human Interest by Stephen Frandsen, Hadleigh Arnst, Laura Naylor 110 3258 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Human Interest Eames: The Architect And The Painter Duck Beach To Eternity Every Memorial Day weekend, nearly a thousand Mormon singles flock to Duck Beach, N. C., for a spring break gathering. They assemble in rental houses and host parties (without alcohol), hook up (without sex), and strut their stuff for three days on the beach. The weekend has been referred to in the media as, variously, the ‘Mormon Jersey Shore’ and ‘Mormon Singles Gone Mild.’ Duck Beach To Eternity follows four singles in their 20s and 30s who are all feeling the pressure of finding the right person. After all, at their age, according to Mormon culture, they should have been married years ago. The film explores the many distinctive aspects of Mormon single life – primarily the paramount pursuit of an eternal companion to fulfill their purpose on earth. The filmmakers handle the topic gracefully and treat their subjects respectfully, with compelling and entertaining results. Duck Beach To Eternity deals with the complexities, contradictions, struggles, and confusion that are a part of being a single person of faith in modern America. FILM ID by Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey Facts USA, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 80 min Original Title Duck Beach To Eternity Original L anguage English Produced by Stephen Frandsen, Hadleigh Arnst, Laura Naylor Big Iron Productions, USA Charles and Ray Eames are widely considered America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their plywood and fibreglass furniture, they also created a bewildering variety of other products, from splints for wounded military, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. The ultimate documentary about Eames, it draws from a trove of archival material, films and photographs produced in mind-boggling volume by the hyper-creative forty years of their existence. Facts USA, 2011 Colour, HDcam 83 min Original Title Eames: The Architect And The Painter Original L anguage English Produced by Camille Servan-Schreiber Catticus Corporation, USA Sales Contact PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Seattle IFF, USA Sales Contact Tim Sparke Mercury Media 7 Baseline Studios Whitchurch Road W11 4AT London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.mercurymedia.org Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 111 FILM ID 813 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Author’s Point of View Human Interest Section Genre Animadoc Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait by Joanna Wojcik, Jaroslaw Mozdzierz, Tomasz Godfryd, Grzegorz Wierzchowski, Joanna Rusinek by Victor Asliuk 112 2355 Emperor’s Toys Earth There are places where the Second World War has not been finished yet. On the former battlefields, which are now covered with woods, thousands of soviet soldiers lie unburied. Every year some volunteers come here to search for these human remains. They do that so that they can bury them properly. To dig out bones just in order to bury them again, this apparently absurd cycle opens a new sense. The earth not only reveals the past as the forest ghosts are rising from archive footage like spirits of those soldiers killed seventy years ago; it is transforming it to the future as teenagers, who have been brought here by their parents, face death for the first time in their lives and yet they start playing war on the spot. The film is an elegy which one more time reminds us about the frailty of human existence. FILM ID Facts Belarus, 2012 Colour, B / W, DigiBeta 30 min Original Title Ziamlia Original L anguage Russian Documentary film mixed with animation which tells about an unusual collection of toys. Like most of his peers, the protagonist began by collecting stamps, drink labels and stickers. Presently, his collection consists of a couple hundred thousand objects and he became known as the Emperor of Collectors. Thanks to imagination the toys from his collection are not merely inanimate objects. Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 10 min Original Title Zabawki cesarza Original L anguage Polish Produced by Produced by Jaroslav Kamienski Belsat TV, Poland www.belsat.eu Ewa Jastrzebska Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio, Poland www.studiomunka.pl PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 Cinéma du Réel, France 3 / 2012 Huesca FF, Spain PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sales Contact Sales Contact Jaroslav Kamienski Belsat TV PL.Powstancow Warsuawy 7 00999 Warsaw, Poland [email protected] www.belsat.eu Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl 9 / 2012 Stoptrik, Slovenia 113 FILM ID 3176 Section Genre Focus Latin America Author’s Point of View Human Interest The Employment Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs by Tim Delmastro Facts Argentina, 2008 Animated Film, Colour, Beta SP 6 min Original Title El Empleo Original L anguage without dialogue Produced by Patricio Gabriel Plaza, Argentina pakuplaza.blogspot.com Sales Contact Patricio Gabriel Plaza 525 bis Nº 1781 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] pakuplaza.blogspot.com 114 3066 End of The Road by Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso A man performs his usual trip to work, immersed in a world where the use of people is an everyday thing. FILM ID In 2008 the world experienced financial turmoil. Markets around the world crashed, stock prices plummeted, and major financial institutions, once thought to be invincible, collapsed. Governments responded quickly, issuing massive bailouts and stimulus packages in an effort to keep the world economy afloat. Although we’ve been told that these drastic measures prevented a total collapse of our system, a growing sense of unease still pervades. What lies ahead as a result of these bold money printing measures ? Was the financial crisis solved or were the problems merely kicked down the road ? End of The Road asks eleven influential commentators within the finance and investment communities to share their knowledge regarding where we are. Through each of their narratives, a story is built which chronicles the current economic dilemma and paints a gloomy picture of our likely financial future. Facts Australia, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 55 min Original Title End of The Road Original L anguage English Produced by Tim Delmastro 100th MONKEY FILMS, Australia www.100thmonkeyfilms.com Sales Contact Tim Sparke Mercury Media 7 Baseline Studios Whitchurch Road W11 4AT London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.mercurymedia.org 115 FILM ID 2745 Section Genre DOK International Competition Author’s Point of View Science The End of Time 2698 Section Genre DOK International Competition Human Interest Portrait Entangled by Peter Mettler Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmable. From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of Big Island; from the disintegration of inner city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha’s enlightenment, Mettler explores our perception of time. He dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday. The End of Time, at once personal, rigorous and visionary, Peter Mettler has crafted a film as compelling and magnificent as its subject. FILM ID by Lidia Duda Facts Switzerland, Canada, 2012 Colour, DCP 114 min Original Title The End of Time Original L anguage English Produced by Cornelia Seitler maximage, Switzerland www.maximage.ch The definition of the perpetrator and the victim is crystal clear in paedophilia cases. This unambiguous relationship may, however, become upset after some time. As a child, the film character was abused by his neighbour. Later, as a teenager, he tried to take revenge on him twice. The roles are now reversed: the paedophile is afraid of his victim. This mutual dependence, which lasted ten years, is presented from the perspective of the closest persons to both men. The story based on hatred and fear seems to have no end. Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 51 min Original Title Uwiklani Original L anguage Polish Produced by Anna Kepinska, Maciej Kubicki Telemark Sp. zo. o., Poland www.telemark.com.pl PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2012 Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland 9 / 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Canada 10 / 2012 Busan Int. Film Festival in co-production with Barbara Paciorkowska TVP2, Poland www.international.tvp.pl involved Broadcasters Sales Contact Cornelia Seitler maximage Neugasse 6 CH-8005 Zürich, Switzerland [email protected] www.maximage.ch 116 TVP2, Poland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Krakow FF, Poland Sales Contact Anna Kepinska Telemark Sp. zo. o. ul. Ordynacka 14 / 9 00-358 Warsaw, Poland [email protected] www.telemark.com.pl 117 FILM ID 2371 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Human Interest Erwin Wurm – The artist who swallowed the world Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Ernest Saj Facts Austria, Germany, Switzerland, 2012 Colour, HDcam 52 min Original Title Erwin Wurm – Der Künstler der die Welt verschluckt Original L anguage German Produced by Reto Caduff, Switzerland retocaduff.com Sales Contact Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Trappelgasse 4 / 17 1040 Wien, Austria [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com 118 659 Escape from Paradise by Laurin Merz Listed as one of the Top 20 contemporary artists, the Austrian Erwin Wurm criticizes the encrusted affluent society with seemingly simple sculptures that meet the current zeitgeist. The film explores the artist, his biography and his provocative and cheerful oeuvre which is an incredible, worldwide success. FILM ID An account on how the ideal country for a family life and a peaceful existence might turn into a nightmare one day due to overprotective social policies. It is a hidden-camera investigation report on how desperate parents attempt to get back their beloved 9-year-old daughter. 9-year-old Nikola and her parents arrived to Norway five years ago. On 18th June, the girl has been unexpectedly taken away from her parents by the Norwegian authorities on grounds of realization that Nikola ‘has been in a sad mood at school.’ The Norwegian officials did not investigate the reasons of sadness nor talked to parents, before placing the child in a Norwegian foster family, where the girl had been supposed to await a future adoption. Desperate father hired Krzysztof Rutkowski – the Polish private detective, to help him to regain the girl. The film shows an attempt to rescue the child, through planning stages to the action of taking away Nikola back to her parents. Facts Poland, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 24 min Original Title Ucieczka z raju Original L anguage Polish Produced by Andrzej Fidyk TVP1, Poland www.tvp.pl involved Broadcasters TVP1, Poland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 INPUT, Australia 9 / 2012 Dallas FF, USA Sales Contact Barbara Bilinska-Kepa TVP SA 17, J. P. Woronicza str. 00-999 Warsaw, Poland [email protected] www.international.tvp.pl 119 FILM ID 957 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest Everything will not be fine 2714 Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs Portrait Exit Point by Arash T. Riahi 2000 – 2001 the director Arash T. Riahi filmed the inhabitants of a transitional residential home for homeless women, who, for many different reasons, fell through the cracks of our achievement-oriented society. Nine years after, the director went looking for some of these women to see how they fare after such a long time. What became of their dreams and wishes, was a return to the cold of an unsheltered world possible at all ? FILM ID by Jagoda Szelc Facts Austria, 2012 Colour, HDcam 94 min Original Title Nerven Bruch Zusammen Original L anguage German The film character has an unusual passion. He is ready to sacrifice a lot for it, including his own life. Exit Point is a film about decision making; in order to be free one must sometimes slavishly follow one’s nature. This is also a story of sacrifice in the name of superior values. What’s the prize of being free and is freedom indeed worth the biggest sacrifice. Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 17 min Original Title Punkt wyjscia Original L anguage Polish Produced by Produced by Arash T. Riahi Golden Girls Filmproduktion, Austria www.goldengirls.at www.everydayrebellion.com Marcin Malatyński PWSFTviT (Polish National Film School), Poland www.filmschool.lodz.pl PUBLIC SCREENINGS ORF, Austria 5 / 2012 Monaco Charity FF, Monaco PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sales Contact 3 / 2012 Diagonale FF, Austria 7 / 2012 Marseille IFF, France 9 / 2012 Zürich FF, Switzerland Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl involved Broadcasters Sales Contact Arash T. Riahi Golden Girls Filmproduktion Seidengasse 15 / 3 / 20 1070 Vienna, Austria [email protected] www.goldengirls.at www.everydayrebellion.com 120 121 FILM ID 857 Section Genre East Silver & IDF Author’s Point of View Human Interest Family Meals 2808 Section Genre DOK International Competition History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Fidaï by Dana Budisavljevic Do you remember when was the last time you talked to your parents ? What did you talk about ? Did you go a step beyond weather forecast and daily politics ? Can a conversation about buried family secrets help you eat without cramps in your stomach ? Can a failed birthday cake help you embrace the past ? A birthday celebration brings together an ordinary four member family five years after their last gathering. They start questioning what made them turn away from each other. Through the ritual of family meals, the film unveils how important it is to feel accepted by our loved ones. FILM ID by Damien Ounouri Facts Croatia, 2012 Colour, HDcam 50 min Original Title Nije ti život pjesma Havaja Original L anguage Croatian Produced by Olinka Vistica Hulahop Film & Art Production, Croatia www.hulahop.hr in co-production with Sophie de Hijes Survivance, France During the Algerian revolution, my great-uncle joined his sister in France and integrated a secret NLF (National Liberation Front) armed group. Settling of scores, attempted murder, hiding, imprisonment and finally expulsion in 1962, his personal journey tells the story of countless ex-fighters for Algerian independence, and echoes the current effervescence of the Arab World. Today, at the age of seventy, El Hadi reveals this dark part of his life. We are following the itinerary of El Hadi during the Algerian Revolution. By his words and the discussions with people he meets, we discover his story on the different given localities of his acts, in Algeria and France. A dialogue between his personal story and the official history is being created. Facts France, Algeria, China, 2012 Colour, DCP 84 min Original Title Fidaï Original L anguage Arabic Produced by Mathieu Mullier Kafard Films, France www.kafardfilms.fr in co-production with Jia Zhangke Xstream pictures, China PUBLIC SCREENINGS PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 ZagrebDox, Croatia 7 / 2012 DokuFest, Serbia 8 / 2012 Liburnia FF, Croatia 7 / 2012 Sarajevo FF, Bosnia Sales Contact Manuela Buono Taskovski Films 7 Granard Business Centre Bunns Lane NW7 2DQ London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.taskovskifilms.com 122 8 / 2012 TIFF, Canada Sales Contact Mathieu Mullier Kafard Films 8 passage Montbrun 75014 Paris, France [email protected] www.kafardfilms.fr 123 FILM ID 3184 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest The Field of Magic 3250 Section Genre Hot Docs Human Interest Science The Final Member by Mindaugas Survila ‘The Field of Magic’ is a docu-poem about people living for over two decades in Buda forest near the closed down Kariotiškės dump, 40 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. A result of four year’s work, the film captures the perspective of the dump dwellers in telling the story of a dissolving community, its uniqueness, daily rhythm, peculiar way of life, every-day joys and sorrows. FILM ID by Jonah Bekhor, Zach Math Facts Lithuania, 2011 Colour, DCP 61 min Original Title Stebuklų laukas Original L anguage Lithuanian, Russian PUBLIC SCREENINGS 1 / 2012 DocPoint Helsinki, Finland 4 / 2012 Hot Docs Toronto, Canada 3 / 2012 Vilnius IFF, Lithuania Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, in the northern Icelandic town of Husavik, stands the Icelandic Phallological Museum – the world’s only Penis museum. Over 40 years, the founder and curator has collected every specimen from every mammal except for one elusive penis needed to complete his collection: The Human Specimen. The film follows the curator’s incredible, sublimely comic, often shocking quest to complete his eccentric collection, and the two intrepid men who have raised their hands to be the first human donor. Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, HDcam 75 min Original Title The Final Member Original L anguage English Produced by Jonah Bekhor, Zach Math Otis Jones Films, Canada PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada Sales Contact Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.deckert-distribution.com 124 Sales Contact Jonah Bekhor Otis Jones Films 920 Yonge Street Suite 1000 M4W 3C7 Toronto, Canada [email protected] 125 FILM ID 2217 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Science Fire in the Blood Section Genre Hot Docs Ethnology / Religion Portrait by Helene Choquette Facts India, United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HDcam 60 min Original Title Fire in the Blood Original L anguage English, Hindi Produced by Dylan Mohan Gray Sparkwater India, India www.sparkwater.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Sheffield, United Kingdom Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 126 1332 Fists Of Pride by Dylan Mohan Gray An intricate tale of ‘monopoly, medicine and mass murder’, Fire in the Blood is the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south during the 2000’s – causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths – and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back. Shot on four continents and including contributions from global figures such as Bill Clinton, Desmond Tutu and Joseph Stiglitz, here is the important, neverbefore-told story of the unlikely alliance which came together to stop ‘the crime of the century’ and save millions of lives in the process. FILM ID ‘Thai children have more money. Burmese children have no money. They are rich. We are poor. That’s all.’ This is how 13-year-old Pho Kyaw ‘Panda’ sees the world while training to challenge a Thai boxer at the annual Water Festival along the Burmese-Thai border. If he wins, his family receives prize money from bets placed by his coaches. Losing isn’t an option. For sons of migrant workers, the Thai boxing camp is their best hope to escape the dangerous and impoverished life that otherwise awaits them. The boys’ militaristic training regime and their daily routines reveal their courage and fear as they face the ring. The coaches provide another fascinating layer, as their gambling success determines the boys’ well-being. The film is a powerful allegory for a cultural and political battle that continues to be waged, through the eyes of children who inherited a bruised and battered history. Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 63 min Original Title Les Poings de la Fierté Original L anguage Thai Produced by Isabelle Fortier freelance producer at Aviva Communications, Canada fistsofpride.com involved Broadcasters Radio-Canada, Canada PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2011 Hot Docs, Canada Sales Contact Helene Choquette Aviva Communications 3800 A Saint-Hubert H2L 4A5 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.fistsofpride.com 127 FILM ID 1170 Section Genre Focus Latin America Human Interest Portrait The Flowers of my Family 1459 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait For You Naked by Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe 90-year-old Nivia faces an unexpected change. Her daughter Alicia has found a new husband after years of widowhood and wants to move in with him. Nivia disapproves of the relationship and accuses her daughter of abandoning her. Both women embark on a profound and revealing journey where the longing for a new love and the fear of growing old alone inevitably lead to a clash between mother and daughter. FILM ID by Sara Broos Facts Uruguay, 2012 Colour, HDcam 75 min Original Title Las Flores de mi familia Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe Hoppefilms, Uruguay in co-production with Carolina Campo Lobo Hombre, Uruguay PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 BAFICI, Argentina 6 / 2012 FIDOCS, Chile 7 / 2012 Doc Montevideo, Uruguay Sales Contact Nazarena Mattera Austral Films Gral. Urquiza 1998 depto 1 Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] www.australfilms.com An intimate and beautifully told love story between one of Scandinavia’s most highly regarded modern painters, Lars Lerin and a young Brazilian dancer, Manoel Marques (Junior). Two men with a dark past and from two completely different worlds, desperately searching for true love. They get in touch on Skype and can’t communicate in any language, yet they decide to meet and find out if they can fall in love. This is the beginning of an unpredictable love story, humorous and warm but with dark undertones of domination and control. About how hard it can be to fall in love again after years of alcoholism, drug abuse and a broken heart. And to show even your most dark sides and sometimes be brutally honest about your doubts and fear. We closely follow their struggle for a happy existence and their search for a life where someone loves you – regardless of how vastly difficult it can be to love one self. The film received a Dragon Award at Gothenburg International Film Festival 2012 for Best Swedish Documentary. Facts Sweden, 2012 Colour, DCP 74 min Original Title För dig naken Original L anguage Portuguese, Swedish Produced by Sara Broos Alma Film, Sweden www.almafilm.se in co-production with Carina Ekman Film i Värmland, Sweden Charlotte Hellström SVT, Sweden www.svt.se involved Broadcasters SVT, Sweden PUBLIC SCREENINGS 2 / 2012 Göteborg IFF, Sweden 3 / 2012 Tempo FF, Sweden 6 / 2012 Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic 10 / 2012 Side by Side, Russia Sales Contact Sara Broos Alma Film Rådom 36 6861 Sunne, Sweden [email protected] www.almafilm.se 128 129 FILM ID 891 Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Forbidden Voices Section Genre DOK German Competition History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait by David Sieveking Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, DCP 95 min Original Title Forbidden Voices Original L anguage Chinese, English, French, Persian, Spanish Produced by Philip Delaquis Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH, Switzerland www.daskollektiv.ch in co-production with Hedi Wyss, Switzerland involved Broadcasters ARTE G. E. I. E., France SRF, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland Sales Contact Carol Spycher Accent Films International Ltd. 46, rue de la Gare 1820 Montreux, Switzerland [email protected] www.accent-films.com 130 2324 Forget me not by Barbara Miller Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are not frightened of their dictatorial regimes. These fearless women stand for a new, networked generation of modern rebels. In Cuba, China and Iran their blogs shake the foundations of the state information monopoly – thereby putting their lives at risk. Barbara Miller’s film Forbidden Voices accompanies these modern young rebels on their dangerous journey and traces their use of social medias like Facebook, Youtube and Twitter to denounce and combat the maladministration in their countries – thereby triggering international resonance by building up enormous political pressure. ‘TIME’ counts them among the world’s most influential voices. Based on their moving eyewitness reports and clandestine photography, Forbidden Voices pays homage to their courageous battle. FILM ID Filmmaker David Sieveking introduces us with astonishing candour to the life of his mother Gretel, an Alzheimer’s patient. His father Malte has been taking care of Gretel ever since he retired. The still youthful mathematics professor had imagined life after university a little differently, because it takes a lot of strength and time to care constantly for a person who forgets everything. She wants to go home even though she is at home. She refuses to co-operate and prefers to stay in bed. The son moves back home for a few weeks with a small film crew to relieve his father and document daily life with a dementia patient from up close. Sieveking uses the chance to get closer to his mother again. The more Gretel takes her leave from this world, the more Sieveking finds out about her and her past. Leftist revolutionary circles, an ‘open relationship’, women’s circles. Malte decides to read his wife’s diaries. The son talks to his father, his mother’s lover and her female friends. A biography gradually takes shape. This quiet, touching film is a declaration of love for a mother and a family, but also a gradual farewell from a woman who may still be physically present but has long since become a different person. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 88 min Original Title Vergiss mein nicht Original L anguage German Produced by Martin Heisler Lichtblick Media, Germany www.lichtblick-media.de in co-production with Carl-Ludwig Rettinger Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Germany www.lichtblick-film.de involved Broadcasters BR/ ARTE, Germany BR, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2012 Locarno, Switzerland Sales Contact Sascha Lubrich farbfilm verleih GmbH Boxhagener Straße 106 10245 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.farbfilm-verleih.de 131 FILM ID 3304 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Fouad’s Dream Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest by Mat Hodgson Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, HDcam 58 min Original Title Fouad’s Dream Original L anguage English Produced by Ian McLaren Grand Nord, Canada www.grandnord.ca PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2012 MIPCOM, France Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 132 3095 The Four Year Plan by Martin Duckworth, Ian McLaren Fouad Sahyoun was born to an Arab-Christian family in Haifa in 1943. His family was forced to leave in 1948, when he was four years old. Fouad has ‘made it’ in his adopted country: Canada. But Fouad wants to go back to Haifa and re-establish himself in the city of his birth. He remembers the city as a jewel of Muslim-JewishChristian multi-faith and multi-ethnic harmony, before 1948. However, his dream to establish business and cultural links between his world and Haifa, is fraught with difficulties – familial as well as political. But he believes that entrepreneurship can succeed where diplomacy and war have failed. FILM ID In 2007, Queens Park Rangers Football Club, facing relegation and bankruptcy, was rescued by highprofile billionaires Flavio Briatore, Bernie Ecclestone, Lakshmi Mittal and Amit Bhatia. Their vision: to take a community of reluctant fans, semi-talented players and a roster of ever-changing managers to Premiership glory. The new owners, risking ridicule and commercial failure, allowed cameras unprecedented access to record the roller-coaster ride. Witness one of modern football’s most extraordinary tales as we see boardroom battles, clashing egos, and behind the scenes drama. Facing difficulties at every stage, the story culminates when QPR heroically win promotion to the Premier League after four turbulent and dramatic seasons. Facts United Kingdom, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 90 min Original Title The Four Year Plan Original L anguage English Produced by Dan Glynn Ad Hoc Films, United Kingdom www.adhocfilms.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2011 Marbella FF, Spain 11 / 2011 IDFA, Netherlands 3 / 2012 BBC, United Kingdom 6 / 2012 Sheffield Doc / Fest, United Kingdom Sales Contact Tim Sparke Mercury Media 7 Baseline Studios Whitchurch Road W11 4AT London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.mercurymedia.org 133 FILM ID 2656 Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs Human Interest Portrait Freestyle life by Adam Palenta Freestyle life is a story of the art of putting up a fight, when the game involves the most competitive rivals – ourselves. Resistance to the determinism leads towards stubbornness, challenging ourselves to consecutive duels. The surface of the screen that precisely keeps the viewer from reality resembles the surface of water that separates swimmers from their disability. FILM ID 3164 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs From Hollywood To Nuremberg – John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens by Christian Delage Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 10 min Original Title Zycie stylem dowolnym Original L anguage Polish Through restored archives, often unreleased, by mythical American filmmakers, we rediscover World War II from the allied landing to the Nuremberg trial. Their footage which served as essential historical evidence of the war crimes are also an aesthetic testimony of their cinematographic experimentation and genius. Facts France, 2012 Colour, B / W 56 min Original Title From Hollywood To Nuremberg – John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens Original L anguage Produced by Ewa Jastrzebska Polish Filmmakers Association Munk Studio, Poland www.studiomunka.pl PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Krakow FF, Poland English, French Sales Contact Pauline Mazenod Windrose SAS 7, rue Civiale 75010 Paris, France [email protected] www.windrose.fr Sales Contact Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl 134 135 FILM ID 1453 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest The Future’s Past 587 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Human Interest The Gang by Susanne Brandstätter Using the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as a starting point, award-winning filmmaker Susanne Brandstätter takes a deeper look into the lives of young people on the brink of adulthood. As the trial accusing a perpetrat or of the Pol Pot regime progresses, it becomes a catalyst for a new generation of Cambodians questioning their parents, families and neighbours about the inhumanities their nation has suffered. Brandstätter accompanies three families on two different continents – two Cambodian families and an immigrated Cambodian family in Paris, France – recognizing that the truth is only to be found among those who survived and that the past can best be questioned by those who are about to build a future. FILM ID by Susanne Schulz Facts Austria, Luxembourg, 2012 Colour, 35 mm 91 min Original Title Six, ten year old girls shoot a film about what is most important to them: friendship, the gang. The making of shows their friendship on the brink of childhood. A film for children and adults. Facts Germany, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 13 min Original Title The Future’s Past Die Bande Original L anguage Original L anguage French, Khmer German Produced by Produced by Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu Amour Fou Filmproduktion, Austria www.amourfou.at Susanne Schulz, Germany in co-production with Bady Minck Minotaurus Film, Luxembourg www.minotaurusfilm.lu Sales Contact Holm Taddiken Cine Impuls Leipzig Altenburger Str. 9 04275 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.cine-impuls.de involved Broadcasters ORF, Austria PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 Diagonale, Austria Sales Contact Ula Okrojek Amour Fou Vienna Lindengasse 32 1070 Vienna, Austria [email protected] www.amourfoufilm.com 136 137 FILM ID 3179 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Bill Couturié 138 2377 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Gilad And All That Jazz Generation SMS In the triumphant spirit of films focusing on tournaments you never knew existed, comes this portrait of six teens in their quest for the U. S. National Texting Championship. Armed with two thumbs and a cell phone, the contestants compete in New York City for a $50,000 prize. So who are these teens who spend their lives text messaging, and why do they do it so obsessively ? Academy Award®–winner Bill Couturié (producer, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt) turns his camera on these unique individuals as they ready their thumbs for the main event, defying techie-geek stereotypes by showcasing their ability to excel socially as well as in the classroom. FILM ID by Golriz Kolahi Facts USA, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 52 min / 75 min Original Title Generation SMS Original L anguage English Produced by Gary Cohen DocuMentor, USA Sales Contact Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com Gilad Atzmon is one of modern music’s most respected musicians. He is also a controversial public opponent of Israel. A gentle giant, warm, charismatic and somewhat shy, Gilad is a complex character. Born into a proZionist family and serving briefly in the first Lebanon War, Gilad had a dramatic turnaround. He quit the army, picked up his sax and exiled himself to London, declaring himself an enemy of the Israeli state. Since then he has produced some of the modern era’s greatest Jazz albums. The film follows Gilad in the most flourishing time of his career as he records with the Blockheads, gigs with Nigel Kennedy, and appears on TV programs and panel events all over the globe. At the same time he antagonises his critics to the point of receiving death threats. Gilad and All That Jazz offers insight into the life, ideas, music and motivations driving the great Saxophonist. Facts United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HDcam 61 min Original Title Gilad And All That Jazz Original L anguage English Produced by David Alamouti Contra Image, United Kingdom www.contraimage.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Logan FF, USA 5 / 2012 London IDFF, United Kingdom Sales Contact Tim Sparke Mercury Media 7 Baseline Studios Whitchurch Road W11 4AT London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.mercurymedia.org 139 FILM ID 3339 Section Genre DOK.Incubator Arts / Culture / M usic Author’s Point of View The Girl Behind the Camera (WT) 1481 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest Global Home by Paula Schargorodsky 35 year old girl – 10 years of a life registered – 5 boyfriends – 2 wedding proposals – still single – Why ? An investigation on love affairs that poses a question about the choices you take in life. As this film is part of the DOK.Incubator workshop 2012 and still in post-production, DOK Market presents only a trailer. FILM ID by Eva Stotz Facts Spain, Argentina, 2012 Colour, HDcam 75 min Original Title La Chica detras la Camera (WT) Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Paula Schargorodsky, Gabriel Arndur Talatala, Argentina / Spain www.talatala.net Sales Contact Paula Schargorodsky Talatala Ramsay 1945 C. F. Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] www.talatala.net As soon as filmmaker Eva Stotz found out about the Couchsurfing network, she had to know more. What was this online community providing; a free place to sleep anywhere in the world, a chance look in on the lives of complete strangers and an opportunity to reach out beyond the internet after only a few emails ? Eva packed her camera and set off on her travels. How does a Tuareg man in Mali use new media ? What took a British environmental activist to the West Bank and what is a Brazilian dancer doing out in provincial Turkey ? How is a Japanese teacher helping kids in Tokyo to discover their natural surroundings ? And who is this person in San Francisco who started up Couchsurfing ? Global Home tells the fascinating stories of those who see globalization and the internet as an opportunity to meaningfully connect and interact more with others. Eva Stotz takes us along on her journey and shows us that the rest of the world is not as different as we imagine. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 92 min Original Title Global Home Original L anguage Arabic, English, French, German, Japanese Produced by Karsten Aurich Sabotage Films GmbH, Germany www.sabotage-films.de in co-production with Jan Schütte Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie, Germany www.dffb.de involved Broadcasters ZDF, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 SXSW, USA 9 / 2012 Raindance, United Kingdom Sales Contact Karsten Aurich Sabotage Films GmbH Kastanienallee 56 10119 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.sabotage-films.de 140 141 FILM ID 690 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait 912 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs The Great Book Robbery Going Up The Stairs by Rokhsareh Ghaemmmaghami A warm, revealing and often surprisingly funny portrait of an unlikely artist shows us that true talent will refuse to be stifled and you don’t need an education to channel your emotions into art. Akram is an illiterate, 50-year-old Iranian woman who became a painter unexpectedly and created an explosion of powerful, primitive and colourful paintings, which she hid under a carpet from possibly disapproving eyes. When she tells her Western educated children about her work, they arrange for her to have an exhibition in far-off Paris. The only hitch in this plan is that Akram must obtain permission from her husband – who she married when she was 8 and he was in his 30s – in order to attend. Their comfortable bickering covers up Akram’s frustrations and fears that her chance for recognition of her magical talent lays completely in the hands of this conservative and traditional Iranian man. FILM ID by Benny Brunner Facts Iran, 2011 Colour, HDcam 52 min Original Title Going Up The Stairs Original L anguage Persian Produced by Rokhsareh Ghaemmmaghami, Iran Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com Chronicles of a cultural destruction: the story of 70,000 Palestinian books that were looted by the newly created State of Israel in 1948. The film interweaves various story lines in a structure that is dramatically compelling and emotionally unsettling. The film’s interviews center on eyewitness accounts and cultural critiques that place the book plunder affair in a larger historical-cultural context. The Great Book Robbery sheds new light on the Palestinian tragedy of 1948, also known as the Nakba (or ‘catastrophe’), when some 725,000 Palestinians were dispossessed to make way for a Jewish-majority Israeli state. In the intervening years, Israel has constructed a moralistic and heroic narrative of the 1948 war. The film aims to deconstruct this imperial history and to prevent this story from fading into oblivion by passing it on to future generations. Facts Israel, Netherlands, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 57 min / 48 min Original Title The Great Book Robbery Original L anguage English, Hebrew Produced by Benny Brunner 2911Foundation, Netherlands www.thegreatbookrobbery.org in co-production with Alexandra Jansse Xela Films, Netherlands www.xelafilms.com involved Broadcasters Aljazeera English, United Kingdom PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 Aljazeera English (TV), Qatar 11 / 2012 IDFA, Netherlands 9 / 2012 St Petersburg Int FF / Message to Man, Russia 9 / 2012 Hamburg Int FF, Germany Sales Contact Benny Brunner 2911Foundation Weteringschans 40 / 1 1017SH Amsterdam, Netherlands [email protected] www.thegreatbookrobbery.org 142 143 FILM ID 2265 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs The Great Fallacy Section Genre East Silver & IDF History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Jaroslav Vojtek Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 105 min Original Title Der Große Irrtum Original L anguage German Produced by Dirk Heth, Olaf Winkler Contract 99 Filmrealisation Heth / Winkler GbR, Germany www.contract99.de Sales Contact Dirk Heth Teltower Straße 15 14109 Berlin, Germany [email protected] 144 1384 The Gypsy Vote by Dirk Heth, Olaf Winkler A cameraman confesses: ‘I never doubted that I was doing the right thing. After all, I loved what I did. But now everything has changed and I wonder: How can one be happy if your market value is zero ?’ Suddenly confronted with the reality of his own vanishing market value, the cameraman stumbles upon an extraordinary vision which could transform society as we know it today. A cinematic travelogue through five years in Germany – a time capsule addressed to the cameraman’s children to open one day as adults. FILM ID A documentary featuring the attempt by Gypsy leader Vlado Sendrei and his team to win elections in ‘white’ Slovakia. What are the chances that Roma activist Vlado Sendrei and his election team can succeed in a society of ‘whites’ ? Despite expert help from an American foundation, one experiences an unbelievably lively campaign, tragicomical moments, and a glimpse into Roma ghettoes at the edge of society. Vlado’s wife Jana openly claims her husband’s activities are harmful to his family and Roma values, increasing tensions between them. The Big Day – election day – turns original emotions on their head. The new film by Jaro Vojtek renders a world of deception, and it’s only the Gypsy fortune-teller who tells the truth ! Facts Slovakia, 2012 Colour, DCP 72 min Original Title Cigáni idú do volieb Original L anguage Slovak Produced by Tomáš Kaminský Mandala Pictures, Slovakia www.mandalapictures.eu Sales Contact Tomáš Kaminský Mandala Pictures Mariánska 18 900 31 Stupava, Slovakia [email protected] www.mandalapictures.eu 145 FILM ID 1797 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest Happy Birthday Emily 146 2436 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Happy Serious Sad by Marcelo Kiwi Elisa and Benjamin have been married for over 50 years. Now retired and with their children living outside of Chile, they have devoted all their love to Emily, a sausage dog. The affection and love for this pet has led them to do crazy and unbelievable things, one of those is to celebrate the ‘Birthday of Emily’ in a particular party where other pets (and owners) have also been invited. Like in all children’s birthday parties we can find a Piñata, a birthday cake, gifts, and fights among the guests for who will receive the most attention. This short film is a thesis about the times of loneliness in today’s society, where it becomes very much alive the celebrated Mark Twain phrase: ‘The more I know people, the more I love my dog.’ FILM ID by Franziska von Malsen-Ponickau Facts Chile, 2012 B / W, DCP 12 min Original Title Feliz Cumpleaños Emily Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Juan Eduardo Castellon, Marcelo Godoy Potemkin, Chile www.potemkin.cl Sales Contact Marcelo Kiwi Potemkin Eliodoro Yañez 1258, piso 2. Providencia 7500605 Santiago, Chile [email protected] www.marcelokiwi.com Dario and Markus have been a couple for 13 years. Both well earning businessmen, they enjoy a perfectly happy life in London. Just one wish is yet unfulfilled: they want to raise a kid. After a lengthy review process, the social authority has given permission for the two men to become adoptive fathers. Things turn difficult, as they are proposed not only one child, but two brothers at once. During the discussion, whether they should adopt one or two children, fundamental question are raised again and again: Why do I want a child ? What is a family ? Are we happier together than alone ? The film portrays the couple on how they set off to adopt six year old Jacob, who was neglected by his biological parents. Facts Germany, United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HDcam 60 min Original Title Happy Serious Sad Original L anguage English, German Produced by Franziska von Malsen-Ponickau, Germany involved Broadcasters BR, Germany Sales Contact Franziska von Malsen-Ponickau Rottmannstr. 16 80333 München, Germany [email protected] 147 FILM ID 3297 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Hava Nagila – The Movie 562 Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films Author’s Point of View Portrait He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes by Roberta Grossmann Here is the fun, exciting and interesting story of the song that has transcended its origins and became a worldwide hit. Bob Dylan sang it. Elvis, too. And that’s only the beginning when it comes to Hava Nagila. Follow the infectious party song on its fascinating journey from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to the cul-de-sacs of America in this hilarious and surprisingly deep film. Featuring interviews with Harry Belafonte, Connie Francis, Glen Campbell, Leonard Nimoy, Regina Spektor and more, Hava Nagila (The Movie) takes viewers from Ukraine and Israel to the Catskills, Greenwich Village, Hollywood – and even Bollywood – using the song as a springboard to explore Jewish history and identity and to spotlight the cross-cultural connections that can only be achieved through music. FILM ID by Eileen Hofer Facts USA, 2012 Colour, HDcam 49 min Original Title Hava Nagila – The Movie Original L anguage English Produced by Roberta Grossmann Katahdin Foundation, USA Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com After her parents’ divorce, Sabina followed her mother to Switzerland while her sister, Narmina, stayed with their father in Baku. Five years later, the 17 and 19 year old sisters are reunited when Sabina comes to spend her summer vacation in Azerbai- jan. Yet, Sabina’s vacation has a secret motive: she wants to move back home to live with the father she loves so deeply. He, too, has a project of his own: he wishes to marry for the third time and has to break the news to his daughters. Sabina, torn between two cultures, ends up following her father’s advice and leaves for the countryside with her uncle. She sets out on a journey of discovery, whilst her sister, Narmina, is left to lament her boyfriend’s departure for the army. Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, DCP 80 min Original Title C'était un Géant aux Yeux Bruns Original L anguage Russian Produced by Eileen Hofer 5 to five Team Prod, Switzerland www.eileenhofer.ch PUBLIC SCREENINGS 1 / 2012 Rotterdamm IFF, Netherlands 4 / 2012 indielisboa, Portugal 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland 7 / 2012 Femina Rio Film festival, Brazil Sales Contact Eileen Hofer 5 to five Team Prod 21 Rue Rothshchild 1202 Geneva, Switzerland [email protected] www.eileenhofer.ch 148 149 FILM ID 2643 Section Genre DOK German Competition Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait Heino Jaeger – Look Before You Kuck 150 1720 Section Genre Hot Docs Arts / Culture / M usic Herman’s House by Gerd Kroske The German painter and cabaret artist Heino Jaeger was once a celebrated radio star. Nevertheless, this popularity seemed to ‘hurt’ Jaeger as a painter. After ten years, he abruptly discontinued his broadcasting work and began to drink. Weighed down by trauma from World War II and characterized by anarchic madness, but far from being an eccentric, arrogant artist, Heino Jaeger died in a psychiatric ward in 1997 at the early age of 59. He spent his last twelve years there as an alcoholic schizophrenic. The documentary shows the pictures, drawings, photographs, film footage, friends and colleagues of Heino Jaeger, reporting on his life in a wealthy West Germany which left him behind. A film about an artist, through whom one can focus on German history like with a magnifying glass. Wars may end, but they cannot be overcome. FILM ID by Angad Bhalla Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, DCP 120 min Original Title Heino Jaeger – Look Before You Kuck The injustice of solitary confinement and the transformative power of art are explored in Herman’s House, a feature documentary that follows the unlikely friendship between a New York artist and one of America’s most famous inmates as they collaborate on an acclaimed art project. Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 82 min Original Title Herman’s House Produced by Original L anguage German Produced by Gerd Kroske realistfilm, Germany www.realistfilm.de Sales Contact Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.deckert-distribution.com Ed Barreveld, Lisa ValenciaSvensson, Loring McAlpin Storyline Entertainment, Canada www.storylineentertainment.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 True / False FF, USA 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 6 / 2012 Full Frame, USA Sales Contact Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, France [email protected] www.catndocs.com 151 FILM ID 1907 Section Genre Animadoc Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs Herstory Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs by Claudia Hentze Facts South Korea, 2011 Colour, HD Videofile 11 min Original Title Herstory Original L anguage Korean Produced by Jun-Ki Kim, South Korea PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2011 Busan FF, South Korea 7 / 2012 SICAF, South Korea Sales Contact Hyeseung Yoo KIAFA AniSEED 2F 282-6, Ahyeon-Dong, Mapo-Gu 121-859 Seoul, South Korea [email protected] www.kiafa.org 152 3155 History Shorts by Jun-Ki Kim This animation tells a girl’s story who was taken to Java island as a comfort woman. Chung Seo-woon, the real victim of World War, narrates her story with her real voice. FILM ID Scenes from the 20th century, mostly shot between 1909 and 1976 by world-wide operating newsreel cameramen, present a new, glimpse-like view on the past. Whether of big historic events or unknown moments in every-day life, in colour or black & white, these images take effect on all viewers, no matter where they are from. Selected for their visual criteria, the films stand alone without much further explanation needed. Country, place and date along with small, mostly surprising details being shown on a designed stripe at the side of the screen help classify the images. But the focus remains on the ‘film document’ itself and the message it conveys. Two clips are always combined – either about the same subject but at different locations or moments in time, or about diverse events happening at the same place or date. Thus, each pair opens a new perspective and transports variable emotions – on a story or an epoch. Suitable for multi-platform use, the series’ aim is to amaze its viewers, make them think, laugh and cry. Facts Germany, United Kingdom, 2011 Colour, B / W, HDcam 25 × 3 min / 100 × 3 min Original Title History Shorts Original L anguage English Sales Contact Bettina Oebel Looks Distribution GmbH Escherstraße 22 30159 Hannover, Germany [email protected] www.looksfilm.tv 153 FILM ID 637 Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait A Home Far Away 3090 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs The House I Live In by Peter Entell The extraordinary destiny of two people. After the Second World War, Lois is an actress in Broadway theatre, television and Hollywood films. Her husband, Edgar Snow, is world famous. A pioneer fascinated by China, he is the first journalist to film and interview Mao Zedong. Suspected by the American authorities of Communist sympathies, Ed and Lois are blacklisted. Together with their two small children, they go to Switzerland, mid-way between China and America, where they find a new home. A story of revolution, utopia, disillusionment, and hope … FILM ID by Eugene Jarecki Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 100 min Original Title A Home Far Away Original L anguage English Produced by Peter Entell Show and Tell Films, Switzerland www.ahomefaraway.com involved Broadcasters TSR, Switzerland ARTE G. E. I. E., France For over forty years, America’s ‘War on Drugs’ has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs in America are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than twenty U. S. states, The House I Live in captures heart-wrenching stories at all levels of America’s drug war – from the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Together, these stories pose urgent questions: What caused the war ? What perpetuates it ? And what can be done to stop it ? Facts USA, 2012 Colour, HDcam 105 min Original Title The House I Live In Original L anguage English Produced by Melinda Shopsin Charlotte Street films, United Kingdom PUBLIC SCREENINGS 1 / 2012 Sundance, USA 6 / 2012 Sheffield, United Kingdom PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, France Sales Contact Peter Entell Show and Tell Films Chemin de Pacoty 22 1297 Founex, Switzerland [email protected] www.ahomefaraway.com 154 Sales Contact Vesna Cudic Dogwoof Global 211 Hatton Square Business Centre 16 Baldwins Gardens EC1N 7RJ London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.dogwoof.com 155 FILM ID 3347 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest How Ping Pong Saved the World 156 56 Section Genre ChileDoc Ethnology / Religion Human Interest El Huaso by Ed Mabe How Ping-Pong Saved the World recounts the events of April 1971 when a U. S. Table Tennis team became the first Americans allowed to enter communist China in decades. Their invitation paved the way for President Nixon’s landmark visit just eight months later. For eight days, 15 unlikely American Ping-Pong playing diplomats discovered the little known world behind the Bamboo Curtain. These unlikely diplomats were about to reshape history and in the process make a breakthrough of historic proportions and in doing so, foster the beginning of the end of the cold war. Ping-Pong soon became a metaphor for the on-going difficult relations between the United States and China – two ideological opposites on the brink of detente. ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy’ marked the beginning of a new relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China; one that over the next 40 years would evolve into the world’s most important bilateral alliance. FILM ID by Carlo Guillermo Proto Facts USA, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 74 min Original Title How Ping Pong Saved the World Original L anguage English Produced by Ed Mabe Nascar, United Kingdom Sales Contact Kazz Basma Sideways Film 7 Bouverie Mews, Bouverie Road. N16 0AL London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.sidewaysfilm.com Gustavo Proto moved his family from Chile to Toronto to provide them with a better life. His father committed suicide when Gustavo was just 16. Now 58, he ponders his life and the possibility of ending it himself before he becomes a burden to those he loves. Before he makes this final decision, he wants to live out his childhood dream of returning to Chile and becoming a huaso, a Chilean cowboy. Carlo Guillermo Proto moves brilliantly between the complex roles of director and son, dissolving unspoken barriers to reveal an emotional and heart-wrenching portrait of a family torn between respecting Gustavo’s choices and confronting him with the burden he places on those left behind. As the film travels between continents, tensions rise. Carlo allows himself to become a vulnerable character, imbuing the film with a rare and compelling honesty about familial responsibility and personal freedom. Facts Canada, Chile, 2012 Colour, DCP 72 min Original Title El Huaso Original L anguage English, Spanish Produced by Carlo Guillermo Proto The Handshake Productions, Canada www.thehandshake.org PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 DocsBarcelona, Spain 4 / 2012 BAFICI, Argentina 8 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 10 / 2012 Hamptons IFF, USA Sales Contact Carlo Guillermo Proto The Handshake Productions 1766 Rue Wolfe H2L 3J8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.thehandshake.org 157 FILM ID 1397 Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Huerfano Valley Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Hans Mulchi Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, HDcam 67 min Original Title Huerfano Valley Original L anguage English Produced by Elisa Larvego, Switzerland www.vego.ch PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, France Sales Contact Elisa Larvego 6 ch. de Surville 1213 Petit-Lancy, Switzerland [email protected] www.vego.ch 158 3299 The Human Zoo by Elisa Larvego The archaeology of a hippie commune in Colorado, USA: the few remaining members lead a tour through the ruins of the abandoned houses and tell stories of the intense life once lived in this commune. The right touch of irony produces an honest and reflective consideration of the dreams a generation once pursued. FILM ID At the end of the XIX century, four groups of indigenous people (a total of 25 people, from infants to the elderly) were taken from Chile by a German businessman and were shown as animals in different fairs and public exhibitions in several Europeans cities, including Berlin, Leipzig, and symbolic places such as the area surrounding the Eiffel Tower. The Human Zoo retraces the disturbing and moving journey of the abducted natives and surprises with every new discovery – including the remains of five members of the Kawésqar culture found at the Anthropological Department of the University of Zurich. The repatriation of the remains reveals how racism and the lack of respect for the indigenous population continues to present day. Facts Chile, 2011 Colour, HDcam 80 min Original Title The Human Zoo Original L anguage English Produced by Hans Mulchi El Taller Producciones, Chile Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 159 FILM ID 47 Section Genre DOK Market Ethnology / Religion Human Interest Hungry Minds 160 1308 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait I Am Louisa Jules by Beatrix Schwehm ‘Words and literature are like ants or water, they spread everywhere, permeating even the tiniest cracks and crevices.’ As this sentence from Orhan Pamuk is written out, at reading speed, on a black background, you hear the creaking of a ship, the splashing water and voices from a distant land. Thus begins the new film from the Grimme-Prize winning director Beatrix Schwehm. The film tells of books and people, from the love of literature, and how the written word makes its way into the most remote corners of this world. The 90-minute documentary follows 3 mobile libraries: in Kenya, Mongolia and Bangladesh.The Bengalese architect Mohammed Rezwan builds library boats that can bring books to people even during the monsoon season. The Mongolian author of children’s books Jambyn Dashdondog packs two boxes full of books each summer to provide reading material to children in remote areas. The Kenyan librarian Abdullah Osman leads caravans of camels loaded with boxes of books to the nomadic tribes bordering Somalia. Despite the heat, wind, rain or snow, they still manage their long journeys with their mobile libraries. A film about the love of literature and the respect for knowledge that accepts no boundaries. FILM ID by Roberto Manhães Reis, Viola Scheuerer Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 87 min Original Title Erlesene Welten Original L anguage Bengali, English, Mongolian, Somali, Swahili Produced by Beatrix Schwehm beatrix schwehm film, Germany www.trifilm.de involved Broadcasters Radio Bremen / ARTE, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2012 Fünf Seen Festival, Germany 10 / 2012 Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany Sales Contact Beatrix Schwehm beatrix schwehm film Am Dobben 105 28203 Bremen, Germany [email protected] www.trifilm.de Louisa is 19 years old and looking for something. As a small child, Louisa was adopted and grew up with three brothers in a family in Berlin. While she was growing up, she noticed similarities in her brothers and parents which she did not share with them. Louisa asks herself what she has inherited from her physical parents. Louisa’s physical parents are of Madagascan origin, more she doesn’t know. Through her own efforts and after searching for a long time, she actually found her father and her mother. The father, whom she thought had died, is a geology professor. Her mother works as a high school teacher. While studying in Kiev in the Soviet era, her mother had given her up for adoption. 19 years old, Louisa is looking forward, together with her ‘Berlin family’, to visiting the country of her African parents and grandparents. How will her parents – who have since separated – react to seeing their long lost daughter again ? Will Louisa at last find the similarity to her mother ? Will she feel like a Madagascan in the foreign country or more like a black German ? What stories does Louisa carry with her without knowing ? Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 92 min Original Title Ich Bin Louisa Jules Original L anguage German Produced by Sidney Martins Cinemanegro Filmproduktion, Germany Sales Contact Sidney Martins Cinemanegro Filmproduktion Schönhauser Allee 32 10435 Berlin, Germany [email protected] 161 FILM ID 3243 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest I Want My Country Back 2054 Section Genre DOK Market Ethnology / Religion Human Interest I Was Born In Delhi by Astrid Schult In the year of the presidential elections, America is fighting relentlessly with itself, with its driving force being its infuriated citizens: supporters and sympathizers of the Tea Party movement. The dissatisfied, the disappointed and the unassured have come together in countless groups. They’re making a stand against Obama’s healthcare system and against the strengthening of rights for black people and the unemployed – achievements that are seen in Europe as a basic requirement for any fair and socially responsible society. Who are the people behind these groups that are protesting so vehemently and loudly ? What pushes a U.S.-citizen towards the right of the Republican Party ? FILM ID by Bishnu Dev Halder Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 52 min Original Title I Want My Country Back Original L anguage English Produced by Christian Drewing Eikon Südwest GmbH, Germany www.eikon-suedwest.de Two sisters, Josna and Hasina run away from poverty, marriage and the impending kitchen-centric life in their conservative village, to the city, Delhi, for a new life. After six years in the city, the sisters are hounded by insecurity. Ironically, they find marriage to be their only path to a secure life. They get desperate as they find it difficult to get married. Their desperation calls for desperate choices. The film follows the sisters for five years and documents their changing priorities over the period of time; the choices they make and the impact of the same on their lives. Facts India, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 93 min / 52 min Original Title I Was Born In Delhi Original L anguage Bengali, Hindi Produced by Bishnu Dev Halder Bee Pee Motion Pictures, India involved Broadcasters in co-production with Melanie Andernach Knut Losen Made in Germany, Germany www.madeingermany-film.de involved Broadcasters SWR / ARTE, Germany NHK, Japan PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 IDFA, Netherlands 6 / 2012 Planet Doc Review, Poland Sales Contact Sales Contact Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com 162 Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com 163 FILM ID 3303 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Icebound: The Story of the 1925 Alaska Serum Run 164 3209 Section Genre East Silver & IDF History / Politics / Current Affairs Iceland Year Zero by Daniel Anker On January 28, 1925, newspapers and radio stations headlined a terrifying story: Diphtheria had broken out among the children of Nome, Alaska, separated from the rest of the world for seven months by a frozen ocean. With barely enough antitoxin on hand to treat half a dozen people, the death toll for Nome and surroundings could potentially reach into the thousands. With aviation still in its infancy, and one of the harshest winters on record in Interior Alaska, only ancient means – dogsled – could save the town. In temperatures as low as minus 60, more than twenty men, and at least 150 dogs, set out via dogsled to relay the antitoxin across 674 miles of Alaskan wilderness to save the town from the lethal epidemic. Icebound is a riveting journey back in time, an ageless adventure that has captured the imagination of children and adults throughout the world for almost a century: The Greatest Dog Story Ever Told. FILM ID by Sigurður Hallmar Magnússon Facts USA, 2011 Colour, HDcam 90 min Original Title Icebound: The Story of the 1925 Alaska Serum Run Original L anguage English Produced by Daniel Anker Daniel Anker Productions, USA PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2012 MIPCOM, France In October 2008, the three main banks in Iceland collapsed, driving a nation into bankruptcy; causing thousands of people to lose their jobs, their personal savings − and hope. How does a nation, once one of the richest and most developed countries in the capitalist world, react to a total economic collapse ? In a landscape where ‘to be rich’ used to be a virtue, who is really to blame for the collapse of a far-too-fast-and-greedy banking system ? Or rather, is the decline of the capitalist values maybe the best thing that could have happened to Iceland ? Facts Iceland, Czech Republic, France, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 52 min Original Title Iceland année zéro Original L anguage English, French, Icelandic Produced by Veronika Janatková Axman Production, Czech Republic www.axmanproduction.com in co-production with Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com Nadim Cheikrouha Jade Production, France Dúi J. Landmark Landmark Kvikmyndagerð, Iceland Sales Contact DR International Sales Emil Holms Kanal 20 DK-0999 Kobenhavn C, Denmark [email protected] www.drsales.dk 165 FILM ID 1773 Section Genre DOK International Programme Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait by Hendrik Schäfer Section Genre Animadoc Ethnology / Religion History / Politics / Current Affairs by Andy Glynne Facts Germany, 2012 B / W, HDcam 7 min Original Title Wenn ich nicht geboren wäre Original L anguage German Produced by Charles Eric Breitkreuz Filmakademie BadenWürttemberg, Germany 166 2298 I’ll Stop Crying if You Stop Crying If I Wasn’t Born If I Wasn’t Born takes a deep look into the film makers’ photographic album. It’s a journey through personal years during the last years of the GDR and Fall of the Wall. The film asks about life’s possibilities and those of a young mother without a son. FILM ID Hamid, aged ten, is from Eritrea. His father had been receiving threats from people in the government, and so told Hamid and his mother to flee the country as it was becoming increasingly dangerous for them to be there. Hamid and his mother escaped to the UK when he was just seven. His father also tried to escape but couldn’t and was later killed. Hamid describes the struggles of coming to terms with his father’s death, as well as settling into a new country. This film is part of a series entitled Seeking Refuge using the real-life stories of young refugees and asylum-seekers who have fled their homeland, told by the children themselves. Facts United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 4 min Original Title I'll Stop Crying if You Stop Crying Original L anguage English Produced by Andy Glynne Mosaic Films, United Kingdom www.mosaicfilms.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS involved Broadcasters 7 / 2012 Open Eyes FF, Germany BBC, United Kingdom Sales Contact PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sigrid Gairing Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Akademiehof 10 71638 Ludwigsburg, Germany [email protected] www.filmakademie.de 5 / 2012 BBC two, United Kingdom Sales Contact Andy Glynne Mosaic Films 4th Floor Shacklewell Studios, 28 Shacklewell Lane E8 2EZ London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.mosaicfilms.com 167 FILM ID 1043 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Daniele Incalterra, Fausta Quattrini Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait by Claudia Schmid Facts France, Argentina, 2012 Colour, HDcam 95 min Original Title El impenetrable Original L anguage Italian, Spanish Produced by Richard Copans Les Films d'Ici, France www.lesfilmsdici.fr / en in co-production with Daniele Incalterra Daniele Incalcaterra Url, France Sales Contact Daniela Elstner Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris, France [email protected] www.docandfilm.com 168 2489 In Between – The British Artist Richard Deacon Impenetrable This is a genuine Western in one of the world’s last virgin territories: the Paraguayan Chaco. The director wants to establish a 12,355-acre national park with the land left to him by his father, but his neighbours, petrol companies and transgenic soybean growers, who destroy the forest, do not seem too keen on the idea … FILM ID British-born artist Richard Deacon ranks as one of the most important sculptors in contemporary art. His profound interest in the nature of materials and the ways in which they can be manipulated, and his innovative approach to form, make him one of the most inventive artists working today. With his essential contemplation of space and form, Deacon has paved the way for a whole new perspective. More than any other sculptor, he draws out all possibilities of expression, creating a complex spatial dynamic from an organic and industrial language of form. The physical approach taken with the different materials is a key element in this regard. His sweeping, wave-like sculptures, with their rhythmic interweaving and biomorphic-looking structures are among the most complex works in modern sculpture. The multi-layered nature of the works reflects the innate complexity of life and stirs the beholder to intensive reflection. Filmmaker Claudia Schmid has been observing Richard Deacon’s work for two years. Mutual understanding and trust grew during this intense time, making it possible to portray this shy artist, even in quiet moments away from the public eye. All of which results in a unique insight into the personality of the artist and his work. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 90 min Original Title In Between – Der britische Künstler Richard Deacon Original L anguage English Produced by Birgit Schulz Bildersturm Filmproduktion GmbH, Germany www.bildersturm-film.de Sales Contact Monika Mack Bildersturm Köln, Germany [email protected] www.bildersturm-film.de 169 FILM ID 866 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest by David Valero 170 3251 Section Genre Hot Docs Arts / Culture / M usic Indie Game: The Movie The Incredibles The story of three everyday heroes: Broken Wing, The Iron Lady and Radioactive Woman. Three people who suffer the adversities that life throws up and fight the most terrifying villains: death, lack of affection and loneliness. We accompany them in their daily lives of suffering and rejection. But they never give up – they continue their struggle to find happiness, because they are heroes … Ninety-four year old María (aka ‘The Iron Lady’) survived cancer twice at a younger age. Now she finds herself outliving friends and relatives. But strong-minded María has lost none of her zest for life … Juan (52), ‘Broken Wing’, struggles with depression and is desperate to find a love to free him from his loneliness. After a motorcycle accident years ago, his right arm is paralysed – a turning point in his life, which also cost him his marriage. Joana (‘Radioactive Woman’) receives a cancer diagnosis shortly before her 31st birthday. Her fight for survival begins. A battle that will leave its mark on Joana’s relationships and whose outcome remains uncertain … The Incredibles is the featurelength début of director David Valero. Between boundless sadness and heart-warming tenderness, sometimes wonderfully bizarre or painful but always full of humanity. FILM ID by Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky Facts Germany, Spain, 2012 Colour, DCP 82 min Original Title Los Increibles Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Luisa Romeo Frida Films, Spain www.fridafilms.com in co-production with Natalia Imaz parabellum film GmbH, Germany www.parabellumfilm.de Juanjo Jiménez Salto de Eje S. L., Spain www.saltodeeje.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 9 / 2012 International Film Festival San Sebastián, Spain Witness a portrait of a new breed of artist: the videogame designer. At first, the only way to make it as a designer in the video game industry was to work with major developers. Now, like in the film industry a generation ago, a new breed of independent auteurs have taken their industry by storm. These programmers have spent years of their lives building entirely new games from the bottom up. Risking everything, their results are deeply personal, visionary works whose success has redefined the gaming industry. Facts Canada, 2012 96 min Original Title Indie Game: The Movie Original L anguage English Produced by Lisanne Pajot, Canada James Swirsky, Canada PUBLIC SCREENINGS 1 / 2012 Sundance, USA 3 / 2012 SXSW, USA 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 6 / 2012 Sheffield, United Kingdom Sales Contact Andrew Herwitz The Film Sales Company 165 Madison Avenue, Suite 601 10016 New York, USA [email protected] www.filmsalescorp.com Sales Contact Elena Mera Treeline Distribution La Rosa 34, 1º C 15701 Santiago de Compostela, Spain elena.mera@ treelinedistribution.com www.treelinedistribution.com 171 FILM ID 3345 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Infiltrados 172 3232 Section Genre ChileDoc Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait Intimatta by Juan Rendon Infiltrados takes an in-depth look at FARC, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest terrorist organisations, examining the Colombian National Police and the involvement of its intelligence division in the recent lethal strikes against the FARC. Featuring firsthand accounts from spies who infiltrated FARC, living for many years among them before relaying intelligence back to the Colombian military, these brave people undertook what were to be the most dangerous missions ever conceived of. Those who were discovered were tortured and murdered as a warning to other undercover agents, and the threat of exposure lingered throughout their missions. Added to this is the threat of ambush from their own employers – the Colombian military – as well as the difficulty in returning with intelligence as deserters are executed. The chances of survival are slim. For the first time the terrifying experiences of these people who left their lives in the cities of Colombia to live for years in the jungle as FARC members, are captured on film, and their stories recreated through animations to protect their identities. FILM ID by Ramuntcho Matta Facts USA, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 74 min / 52 min Original Title Infiltrados Original L anguage English Produced by Juan Rendon Univision, United Kingdom in co-production with Kazz Basma Sideways Film, United Kingdom www.sidewaysfilm.com Sales Contact Kazz Basma Sideways Film 7 Bouverie Mews, Bouverie Road. N16 0AL London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.sidewaysfilm.com ‘Intimatta is not a film about Matta, It’s an object-Matta, belonging to his world and nothing else, take it or leave it. Of course, I take it but I can understand some people can feel disoriented. It’s a risk one has to take, but it is really worth it.’ (Chris Marker) Intimatta is not a documentary but an artist film about Matta, based on video recordings made by his son Ramuntcho, director of this project, and about interviews to contemporaries who knew Matta very well. Thanks to dozens of tapes with Roberto Matta painting, talking, walking and even sleeping; recorded between 1986 and 2000, through his working notebooks, his letters, Intimatta shows us a way of thinking. It also reveals to us some crucial biographical milestones of Matta, when he first arrives in Europe, his life in Spain and France, the constant link with the architecture, his relationships with personalities of the 20th century’s art (Le Corbusier, Duchamp, Breton, etc.), the surrealist movement, evolution of his painting, the birth of Abstract Expressionism, his political commitment, etc. With this unpublished material, Intimatta immerses us into the artist’s creative and intimate world, stating some universal questions about transmission, fatherhood and how to share intimacy. Facts Chile, France, 2011 Colour, HDcam 119 min Original Title Intimatta Original L anguage English, French, Spanish Produced by Rodrigo Jorquiera Gfilms S. A., Chile www.gfilms.tv in co-production with Ramuntcho Matta, Chile PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Hirshhorn Museum, USA 9 / 2012 Abaton Hamburg, Germany Sales Contact Rodrigo Jorquiera Gfilms S. A. Isidora Goyenechea 3250, piso 4 Las Condes 7550083 Santiago, Chile [email protected] www.gfilms.tv 173 FILM ID 921 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait The Invisible String 174 1965 Section Genre Animadoc Ethnology / Religion Human Interest Irish Folk Furniture by Jan Bäss 'The Invisible String' is a feature-length documentary on the ever evolving history of the flying disc movement. The film takes the audience on a trip from the very beginning of pie pin tossing at the Frisbie’s Pie Bakery in Connecticut back at the turn of the century to the Rose Bowl World Championships in the late 1970s up to the greatest international tournaments and the hottest spots of today. It’s a journey into the heart and mind of the people that started it all by inventing games, skills, and creating a global family. The most influential people give their personal accounts as remarkable stories are told revolving around living with flying discs. In the 1970s and 1980s playing Frisbee grew to become even more popular than skateboarding. Rare archive footage interwoven with Monthy Pythonesque animations depict playfully the history of the joy of throwing flying objects. The hottest moves and throws the most eccentric protagonists are able to perform allow an intimate insight on some of the different disciplines like Ultimate, Disc Golf or Freestyle. The Invisible String aims at reminding every single person of the importance of doing one thing: to keep playing ! FILM ID by Tony Donoghue Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 94 min Original Title The Invisible String Original L anguage English Produced by Jonas Knudsen Joroni Produktions- und Verleih, Germany www.joroni.de PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 achtung berlin, Germany 9 / 2012 DMZ Docs, South Korea Sales Contact Christian Struck Boomtown Media Intl. Fuggerstr. 33 10777 Berlin, Germany christian.struck@ boomtownmedia.de www.boomtownmedia.com In Ireland, old hand painted furniture is often associated with hard times, with poverty and with a time many would rather forget. Because of this association much of the country’s furniture lies abandoned in barns and sheds. In the making of this film, 16 pieces of abandoned folk furniture were restored and returned back into daily use. An animated documentary about repair and recycling in rural Ireland. This film was shot in a green and environmentally friendly way using local craftspeople, local narrators and inexpensive second-hand equipment. Only natural light was used to shoot this film. Facts Ireland, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 8 min Original Title Irish Folk Furniture Original L anguage English Produced by Cathal Black Mayfly Films Ltd., Ireland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 7 / 2012 Galway Film Fleadh, Ireland 8 / 2012 Darklight FF, Ireland 10 / 2012 Kerry FF, Ireland 10 / 2012 Jihlava IDFF, Czech Republic Sales Contact Tony Donoghue Mayfly Films Limited Ballinderry 00 Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland [email protected] www.mayflyfilms.com 175 FILM ID 1652 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Isqat al Nizam – At The Regime Border 176 3298 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Italy Love it or Leave it by Antonio Martino It’s not easy to forecast what’s going to happen in Syria. The hope of many is that the Assad family will democratically step down, after 40 years of dictatorship but many people fear that they will drag the population to hell before disappearing from the scene. Most of the Syrian population wishes that the revolution will remain in the hands of young people and continue peacefully as a symbol of Hope, although some can’t help firing back when the regime brings blood to the population. Some hope for an intervention from a foreign country, but are also afraid that this would bring a civil war. Isqat al Nizam is a crude and touching story that sheds some light on the ‘Syrian Spring’: from the initial violent reactions of the regime, to the heartbreaking escape of more than 20,000 refugees to Turkey; from the constant activity of the rebels through social networks to the ongoing defection of soldiers and former officials. The collection of exclusive interviews with locals and stolen footage of the events make this film a unique account. FILM ID by Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi Facts Italy, 2012 Colour, HDcam 78 min Original Title Isqat al Nizam – viaggio ai confini del regime Original L anguage Arabic Produced by Roberto Ruini, Gloria Giorgianni Pulsemedia, Italy www.pulsemedia.it Sales Contact Edward Caffrey Journeyman Pictures 4 High Street KT7 0RY Thames Ditton, United Kingdom [email protected] www.journeyman.tv Tuscan fields, bel canto arias, slow food and movie stars are some of the images synonymous with one of the world’s most adored cultures. Yet many of filmmakers Luca Ragazzi and Gustav Hofer’s disenchanted friends have recently emigrated from Italy. Before following suit, the Italian couple decides to take a sixmonth road trip across the country to investigate the extent to which current realities outweigh the icons of la dolce vita. Throughout their exploration they witness multiple examples of staggering corruption, an increasingly lower standard of living, environmental hazards and intransigent fanaticism. Simultaneously, however, they encounter loyal crusaders who feel unequivocally compelled to make their homeland a better place. In an astute manner and with quirky Fellini-esque animation, the film further tantalizes us with Italy’s glorious past and future potential. Will the pair decide to leave or stay ? Their journey tells it all. Facts Germany, Italy, 2012 Colour, HDcam 92 min Original Title Italy Love it or Leave it Original L anguage English Produced by Gustav Hofer hiq productions, Italy www.italyloveitorleave.it Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 177 FILM ID 3211 Section Genre East Silver & IDF History / Politics / Current Affairs by Ascan Breuer Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait by Jesse Vile Facts Austria, 2012 Colour, HDcam 88 min Original Title Jakarta Disorder Original L anguage Indonesian Produced by Arash T. Riahi Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices, Austria www.goldengirls.at Sales Contact Arash T. Riahi Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices Seidengasse 15 / 3 / 20 1070 Vienna, Austria [email protected] www.goldengirls.at 178 2481 Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet Jakarta Disorder It is only the second time that Indonesians can vote for their own president. Two charismatic women, however, are not satisfied with mere elections. Grandma Dela, who lives in a slum of the tropical megacity, and the intellectual Wardah Hafidz are setting out to collect 1.5 million signatures of the poorest, who are constantly threatened by local arbitrary justice and the desires of global capitalism. Can the power of a small elite really be overthrown by the power of many, or is ‘real democracy’ just an ideal ? With this political road-documentary the director portrays social changes and improvements in his mother’s old homeland. FILM ID Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet is a feature-length documentary that tells the extraordinary story of Jason Becker, a musical prodigy and guitar legend, who has been battling with ALS for 22 years. A paralyzing, terminal illness with no cure, the disease has trapped Jason inside of his body rendering him completely paralyzed. Using an eye communication system invented by his father, Jason is able to escape the confines of his body and release the music that is trapped inside of his mind. Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet is a story of dreams, love and the strength of the human spirit. Facts United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HDcam 87 min Original Title Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet Original L anguage English Produced by Jesse Vile, United Kingdom PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 Cinequest FF, USA 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 6 / 2012 Biografilm Festival, Italy 4 / 2012 Boston Independent FF, USA Sales Contact Vesna Cudic Dogwoof Global 211 Hatton Square Business Centre 16 Baldwins Gardens EC1N 7RJ London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.dogwoof.com 179 FILM ID 3181 Section Genre Documentary Campus Masterschool History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears 3048 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait The Joy Down There by Mike Todd They say Philadelphia is the capital of boxing and Joe Frazier’s gym is the Whitehouse. Joe Frazier, one of the most famous athletes of the 20th century, is lost in the legend of one of the greatest rivalries in the history of sport. Filmed during the final years of the iconic boxer’s life and told through the voice of son Marvis, this documentary reveals the story of the real Joe Frazier for the first time. For over forty years, since the last of his million dollar bouts with Ali, Foreman and others, Joe’s commitment to his adopted Philadelphia neighbourhood kept his landmark gym alive. Now, tragically, it has to close. FILM ID by Matthias Ditscherlein, Dagmar Borchert Facts United Kingdom, 2011 Colour, BluRay Disc 72 min Original Title Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears Original L anguage English Produced by Mike Todd Riverhorse, United Kingdom www.riverhorse.tv After World War II, hundreds of women worked in mines in East Germany. They were employed against all state regulations. Four of these women between the ages of 77 and 90 talk about their time down there, about hard work, continuous risks and the joy of working as a miner in coal, potash and copper mines in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. In addition, the movie shows the everyday work life of one of two young women who decided to start an apprenticeship in mining in Germany after this was allowed again by the German government in 2009. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, HD Videofile 56 min Original Title Das Glück da unten Original L anguage German Produced by Matthias Ditscherlein, Germany www.matthias-ditscherlein.de Dagmar Borchert Freie Journalistin / Produzentin, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 Doc NYC, USA 5 / 2012 ESPN, United Kingdom Sales Contact Heather White ESPN 3 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, W6 9PE London, United Kingdom [email protected] 180 Sales Contact Matthias Ditscherlein Lindenthaler Straße 62 04155 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.matthias-ditscherlein.de 181 FILM ID 1516 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Keep Up The Good Work 3098 Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition Author’s Point of View Portrait Kern by Konstantin Faigle It is a fetish, a mantra, a secret religion to modern man: work. In times of the financial crisis and massive job reductions, this documentary movie questions work as our ‘hallow’ sense in life in a way that both humours and pains us. FILM ID by Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, 35 mm 26 min Original Title Frohes Schaffen – Ein Film zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral Two directors shoot a documentary about the controversial director and pugnacious actor Peter Kern. But he cannot be easily rammed into the classical form of a doc. He questions, criticizes and rebels while the camera is rolling – and the two directors applaud. Facts Austria, 2012 Colour, DCP 98 min Original Title Kern Original L anguage Original L anguage English, French, German German Produced by Produced by Erik Winker HUPE Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Germany www.hupefilm.de Ulrich Seidl Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion, Austria www.ulrichseidl.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS in co-production with Konstantin Faigle KHM Köln, Germany 8 / 2012 Locarno, Switzerland 9 / 2012 San Sebastian, Spain Sales Contact involved Broadcasters ZDF, Germany Sales Contact Erik Winker HUPE Film- und Fernsehproduktion Antwerpenerstr.14 50672 Köln, Germany [email protected] www.hupefilm.de 182 Ulrich Seidl Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion Wasserburgergasse 5 / 7 1090 Vienna, Austria [email protected] www.ulrichseidl.com 183 FILM ID 1167 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest The Khmer Rouge and the Man of Non-Violence Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest by Ida Grøn Facts France, Cambodia, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 90 min Original Title Le Khmer rouge et le non violent Original L anguage English, French, Khmer Produced by At a children’s cancer ward in Denmark we follow the hospital clown Angus and the six-year old boy Tobias in their common fight to keep living and to enjoy life while fighting. Together they duel in Guitar Hero, roam the halls as masked bandits, play Uno and eat gravy – lots of gravy. Their relationship evolves into a friendship which just might help Tobias on his way to beating the cancer – and which definitely helps how Tobias feels about the months spent at the hospital. Facts Denmark, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 53 min / 41 min Original Title Klovn For Livet Original L anguage Danish Produced by Serge Lalou Les Films d'Ici, France www.lesfilmsdici.fr Signe Byrge Sørensen Spor Media, Denmark www.spormedia.dk in co-production with in co-production with Rithy Panh Bophana Center, Cambodia www.bophana.org Anne Köhncke Final Cut for Rent, Denmark www.final-cut.dk PUBLIC SCREENINGS involved Broadcasters 3 / 2012 FIGRA, France 5 / 2012 Documenta Madrid, Spain 5 / 2012 LIDF, United Kingdom 3 / 2012 Cinéma du Réel, France TV2, Norway Sales Contact Serge Lalou Les Films d'Ici 62 Boulevard Davout 75020 Paris, France [email protected] www.lesfilmsdici.fr 184 3241 The Kid and The Clown by Bernard Mangiante A brand-new courthouse in the still devastated land of Cambodia. Before the judges, one of the 20th centuries worst criminals: Douch, a Khmer Rouge leader and head of the S 21 torture centre. 16,000 prisoners, 7 survivors. At his side, two court-appointed attorneys faced with the challenge of defending him. ‘Every sick person has a right to a doctor,’ says Kar Savuth, the Cambodian who survived Pol Pot’s jails. ‘I always try to seek out the man in the torturer,’ says François Roux, a disciple of Gandhi and defender of the supporters of civil disobedience and non-violence for the last thirty years. FILM ID PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 IDFA, Netherlands 4 / 2012 Aljazeera IDFF, United Kingdom 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 7 / 2012 Krakow IFF, Poland Sales Contact Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com 185 FILM ID 3063 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Bettina Timm, Alexander Riedel Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition Human Interest Portrait by Shalahuddin Siregar Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 30 min Original Title Kiran Original L anguage French Produced by Alexander Riedel, Bettina Timm Pelle Film, Germany www.pellefilm.de involved Broadcasters ZDF/ 3sat, Germany Sales Contact Alexander Riedel, Bettina Timm Pelle Film Baaderstr. 45 Rgb 80469 München, Germany [email protected] [email protected] www.pellefilm.de 186 640 The Land Beneath the Fog Kiran The film tells the story of Kiran, who lives with his mother in a yurt in the Pyrenees. Kiran is eight year-old and knows how to plant salad, which meadowplants taste good and which you should not eat. But he has no idea what’s going on in the evening on TV and cannot deal with the computer. His greatest wish is to go to a public school to learn to read and write at last … FILM ID In Genikan – a remote mountain village on the slope of Merbabu (Central Java), a quiet community is facing change without understanding why it is happening. As a community of farmers who relies on the traditional Javanese calendar system to read the seasons, they become puzzled by the dramatic change of seasons. Muryati (30 years old) and Sudardi (32 years old), a farmer family, try to understand why it rains more than in the previous years. Failed harvests and cheap sale prices become a threat. Meanwhile, Arifin (12 years old) is facing a different question: what does the future offer him ? At a very young age, he has to deal with the complicated public school system. In the rhythm of a slow visual journey The Land Beneath the Fog takes an intimate look at family relations in Genikan. Describing a life on the brink of vanishing, this documentary offers deep insights into an invisible and disenfranchised society which is struggling hard to maintain its existence. Facts Indonesia, Germany, 2011 Colour, HDcam 105 min Original Title Negeri di Bawah Kabut Original L anguage Indonesian Produced by Shalahuddin Siregar Studiokecil, Indonesia www.studiokecil.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 12 / 2011 Dubai IFF, United Arab Emirates 3 / 2012 South East Asian FF, Singapore 8 / 2012 Osian-Cinefan FF, India 11 / 2012 Hanoi IFF, Vietnam Sales Contact Shalahuddin Siregar Studiokecil Griya Suryo Asri 1 No.C2 55141 Yogyakarta, Indonesia [email protected] www.studiokecil.com 187 FILM ID 2752 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 3178 Section Genre Focus Latin America Arts / M usic / Culture Author’s point of view Lapsus by Thomas Grube The Chinese pianist Lang Lang is considered the world’s No. 1 classical music star. The Art Of Being A Virtuoso links him and his piano hero, Franz Liszt. Two men, who made their childhood dreams come true and ascended to the ranks of the greatest musicians the world has seen. Acclaimed filmmaker Thomas Grube (Rhythm Is It !, Trip To Asia) was granted exclusive access this summer and accompanied Lang Lang through China, the U. S. and Europe. His film offers a revealing inside view into the life and mind of the modern virtuoso. The documentary was produced with high production value over the course of five months in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chicago, Milan, London, New York and Berlin. FILM ID by Juan Pablo Zaramella Facts Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, China, USA, 2011 Colour, HD Videofile 72 min Never underestimate the power of the dark side. Facts Argentina, 2007 Animated Film, B / W, HD Videofile 4 min Original Title Original Title Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso Lapsus Original L anguage Original L anguage Chinese, English, German, Italian without dialogue Sales Contact Produced by Uwe Dierks, Thomas Grube Boomtown Media, Germany www.boomtownmedia.de involved Broadcasters ZDF, Germany Juan Pablo Zaramella JPZtudio Castro 1148-Dpto 8 1237AAB Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] www.zaramella.com.ar PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2012 Jecheon Music Festival, South Korea 10 / 2011 ZDF, Germany Sales Contact Christian Struck Boomtown Media Intl. GmbH & Co KG Fuggerstr. 33 10777 Berlin, Germany christian.struck@ boomtownmedia.de www.boomtownmedia.com 188 189 FILM ID 3342 Section Genre DOK.Incubator Human Interest The Last Black Sea Pirates 190 2304 Section Genre Leipzig Screening History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest The Last Catch by Svetoslav Stoyanov The last Black Sea pirates get by on questionable means, swimming in alcohol fumes, testosterone, and rugged tenderness on a pristine beach far from civilization. For the last 20 years, Captain Jack and his crew have been looking for a legendary treasure hidden in the gully. If they could have it their way, the Pirates would die where they live today. But in city halls and corporate high rises across Europe, the powers that be have other plans for the pirates' paradise. When news of the imminent change begins to find its way to this remote oasis, the pirates' world begins to unravel. Doubts erode the foundations of trust, conflicts brew and tensions are on the rise. In this crisis emerges a contemporary real-life story about the treasure we hunt and the treasures we find. As this film is part of the DOK.Incubator workshop 2012 and still in post-production, DOK Market presents only a trailer. FILM ID by Markus Schmidt Facts Bulgaria, 2013 Colour, HDcam 70 min Original Title Poslednite chernomorski pirati Original L anguage Bulgarian Produced by Martichka Bozhilova Agitprop, Bulgaria www.agitprop.bg involved Broadcasters Knowledge Network, Canada Sales Contact Martichka Bozhilova Agitprop 68 Budapesta str., ap.1 1202 Sofia, Bulgaria [email protected] www.agitprop.bg www.bdcwebsite.com The European blue fin tuna measures up to 5 metres long and weighs as much as 600 kg. Every year, it travels across the Atlantic Ocean, returning to the Mediterranean to spawn. Although it has long been established that overfishing has left the tuna stocks close to collapse, these days the whole swarm is captured while spawning, thus preventing the replenishing of resources. No other fish in the world fetches such high prices. In Japan, it feeds a profitdriven machinery of gigantic proportions. The fishermen, too, are facing imminent extinction. The less tuna remaining, the more ruthless the fight for the last of this valuable resource becomes: Raphaël stretches every legal loophole to the limit; his boats have repeatedly been impounded. Roger is one of the few who has stuck to the EU quotas and is now forced to sell his boat. Roberto got out of the business years ago and is now fighting desperately for a fishing moratorium in a last ditch effort to save the remaining spawning grounds. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 91 min Original Title Der Letzte Fang Original L anguage English, French, Japanese Produced by Carl-Ludwig Rettinger Lichtblick Film- und Fernseh produktion, Germany www.lichtblick-film.de involved Broadcasters WDR, Germany Sales Contact Ulrike Schröder Global Screen GmbH Sonnenstrasse 21 80331 München, Germany ulrike.schroeder@ globalscreen.de www.globalscreen.de 191 FILM ID 3062 Section Genre DOK International Competition Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Cristian Soto, Catalina Vergara Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Portrait by Karsten Schleitzer Facts Chile, 2012 Colour, DCP 90 min Original Title La Última Estación Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Philip Gröning Philip Gröning Filmproduktion, Germany Sales Contact Catalina Vergara Catalina Vergara Films / Globo Rojo Abadía 204 7591233 Santiago, Chile [email protected] 192 586 Legends for Beginners The Last Station A documentary film about old age that takes place in nursing homes. Under the contemplative look of a camera, the life and moments some old people face in their last stage are portrayed in an atmosphere of solitude and abandonment. These homes, and their long lasting passage of time, are the last station in life before setting out on the inevitable journey to death. FILM ID At present, insiders of the German track and field athletics scene watch attentively an outsider phenomenon in the youth area of the pole vault event. Almost from nowhere, two teenage girls take up a position on top of the world rankings of pole vault. The father of this success is Olaf Hilker, an independent, self taught coach without a coaching license, widely regarded as an awkward customer. According to his own point of view, a person who handles things differently, at his own risk, without support, but with perspective and success. Why is he and his rare outsider team so extraordinarily successful ? The first doping samples of the two exceptional, teenage vaulters didn’t yield any further notes to this. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 75 min Original Title Elf Freunde Sollst Du Sein Original L anguage German Produced by Karsten Schleitzer, Germany www.ks-undertainment.de Sales Contact Karsten Schleitzer Ebersstraße 4 10827 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.ks-undertainment.de 193 FILM ID 803 Section Genre ChileDoc Author’s Point of View Portrait Leontina Section Genre Animadoc History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Rowena Crowe Facts Chile, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 75 min Original Title Leontina Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Roberto Aschieri peters&peters, Chile PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 IFF Guadalajara, Mexico 8 / 2012 Festival Gramado, Brazil 8 / 2012 SANFIC 8, Chile 9 / 2012 PUEBLA, Mexico Sales Contact Roberto Aschieri peters&peters Eleodoro Yañez 1070, Providencia. 832-0142 Santiago, Chile [email protected] 194 60 Letter Tape by Boris Peters For 82 years, Leontina Miranda Sandoval has lived in the isolated lands of southern Chile. Alone, separated from an absent family and to modern developments, she seeks refuge in her own world. We will know her memories and her intimacy, her everyday rituals and her worldview. We discover a secret that takes her to the past and we join her back on the sea after 50 years. This documentary is a grandson’s tribute to his grandmother. FILM ID Letter tape is an animated documentary film about two engaged lovers separated by time zones and several oceans. The soundtrack is an actual tape recording Cathy (the director’s mother) made on a hired audio machine in London in 1957 to communicate intimately with her fiancé after frustrated broken telephone conversations. This old tape recorded message has been lovingly animated to provide a glimpse back in time. Cathy describes a wintry London, heaving under a cloud of smog and fantasizes about when they can be together again. It is a letter that is excitedly looking forward to the possibilities of a relationship in its heady early days of romance and desire. Imbued with an infectious sense of hope, this fascinating time capsule suffuses with the atmosphere of a time and place now passed. Facts Australia, 2011 Colour, B / W, HD Videofile 9 min Original Title Letter Tape Original L anguage English Produced by Mitzi Goldman Looking Glass Pictures, Australia www.lookingglasspictures.com.au PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Sydney Film Festival, Australia 6 / 2012 Edinburgh IFF, United Kingdom 7 / 2012 East End Film Festival, United Kingdom 10 / 2012 Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Australia Sales Contact Rowena Crowe Planciusplein 6C 4812 SG Breda, Netherlands [email protected] 195 FILM ID 3233 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Human Interest The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus 1796 Section Genre Focus Latin America Author’s Point of View Ethnology / Religion Human Interest The Lifeguard by Alexandre Philippe The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus tells the official and exclusive story of the world’s most beloved and scorned cephalopod, whose remarkable string of eight correct ‘predictions’ during the 2010 Soccer World Cup made him a worldwide superstar. Whether Paul is an honest-to-goodness 21st century oracle, or a tentacled sham, remains a hotly debated topic. What is certain, though, is that Paul’s unmatched string of correct predictions has affected us, made us dream, and impacted popular culture. The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus is a biopic of tentacular proportions – one that explores celebrity mania at its most outrageous, the science of probabilities, and the possibility of higher powers. FILM ID by Maite Alberdi Facts USA, Switzerland, 2012 Colour, HDcam 58 min Original Title The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus Original L anguage English, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish Produced by Alexandre Philippe Cinema Vertige, USA www.cinemavertige.com in co-production with Robert Muratore Exhibit A Pictures, USA PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Edinburgh IFF, United Kingdom 6 / 2012 Sheffield Doc / Fest, United Kingdom Mauricio is a scrupulous lifeguard, punctual and meticulous almost to the point of obsession, in running his tower and making the rules respected on the largest and most famous beach in Chile. The Sunday trippers often cannot stand his attitude, like his colleague/rival, but the small aspiring lifeguard has chosen him to learn the job. Many wonder why Mauricio never goes into the water. Until there is a drama. Oscillating between the pure observation of reality and the suspense of fiction, the documentary by the young director Maite Alberdi cleverly questions the theme of responsibility. Facts Chile, 2011 Colour, HDcam 64 min Original Title El Salvavidas Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Paola Castillo Errante Productions, Chile www.errante.cl Sales Contact Catherine Le Clef CAT&Docs 18 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, France [email protected] www.catndocs.com Sales Contact Youn Ji Autlook Filmsales Trappelgasse 4 / 17 1040 Wien, Austria [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com 196 197 FILM ID 708 Section Genre DOK International Competition Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs Like Stone Lions at the Gateway Into Night 2717 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Human Interest Portrait Lisa, Go Home ! by Olivier Zuchuat Between 1947 and 1950, more than 80,000 Greek citizens were imprisoned on the isle of Makronisos (Greece) in re-education camps created to ‘fight the spread of communism’. Among these exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Livaditis. Despite the deprivation and torture, these prisoners succeeded in composing poems, which describe their struggle for survival in this world of internment. These texts, some of them buried in the camps, were later found. Like Lions of Stone at the Gateway of Night blends these poetic writings with the re-education propaganda constantly piped through the camps’ loudspeakers. Long tracking shots take us on a trance-like journey through the camp ruins, interrupted along the way by segments from photographic archives. A cinematic essay, which revives the memory of forgotten ruins and a battle lost. FILM ID by Oksana Buraja Facts Switzerland, Greece, France, 2012 Colour, B / W, DCP 87 min Original Title Comme des lions de pierre à l’entrée de la nuit Original L anguage French, Greek Produced by Pierre-Alain Meier prince Film SA, Switzerland www.princefilms.ch in co-production with Olivier Zuchuat, Switzerland www.olivierzuchuat.net Xavier Carniaux AMIP, France www.amip-multimedia.fr The soul of the child does not want to reconcile with her surroundings. The film-makers made the effort to record what reflects the generation gap between the little girl Lisa and the world of adults in her family. Parts of the continuing conflicts that were recorded occur because of Lisa’s running away from home. ‘Why are you always running away ? What are you missing ?’ The little girl hears these questions relentlessly. However, how is it possible to explain, what is only clear to her own soul – what is within the indescribably fragile existence of a child ? This is a world that is surrounded by coarse and brutal realities … How long will the child be able to resist this environment and safeguard her own dream ? Facts Lithuania, Estonia, 2012 Colour, DCP 27 min Original Title Liza, namo ! Original L anguage Russian Produced by Uljana Kim Studio Uljana Kim, Lithuania in co-production with Arko Okk Acuba Film, Estonia Sales Contact Uljana Kim Studio Uljana Kim Antakalnio 94 –25 LT10202 Vilnius, Lithuania [email protected] involved Broadcasters TSR, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4/2012 Visions du Réel, France Sales Contact Daniela Elstner Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris, France [email protected] www.docandfilm.com 198 199 FILM ID 1745 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Little Afghanistan Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait by Bernhard Pötscher Facts Afghanistan, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 28 min Original Title Petite Afghanistan Original L anguage Persian Produced by Stéphane Jourdain La Huit Production, France www.lahuit.com Shailo Djekshenbaev is a photographer living in Bishkek. For years, he has documented in his work the changes in his country, Kyrgystan. The little known republic in Central Asia, its tradition interwoven with the legacy of Genghis Khan and the mystique of the Silk Road, was under Soviet rule until 1991. Following a revolution in April 2010, Kyrgystan became the first country in Central Asia to introduce a parliamentary democracy. But the road to democracy has proved long and treacherous. Ethnic conflicts between Usbeks and Kyrgyz led to terrible riots in June 2010. We join Shailo on a journey to the turbulent South. Facts Austria, 2012 Colour, HDcam 90 min Original Title Kleine Perestrojka Original L anguage Kirghiz, Russian Produced by Bernhard Pötscher sixpackfilm, Austria PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 Festival indo-persan Marseille, France 6 / 2012 Festival des 3 continents, France 3 / 2012 Diagonale Graz, Austria 4 / 2012 Crossing Europe, Austria 8 / 2012 5seenfestival, Germany 9 / 2012 One World Human Rights ff, Kyrgyzstan Sales Contact Sales Contact Julien Beaunay La Huit Production 218 bis rue de Charenton 75012 Paris, France [email protected] www.lahuit.com Bernhard Pötscher sixpackfilm Neubaugasse 45 1070 Wien, Austria [email protected] PUBLIC SCREENINGS 200 1515 Little Perestrojka by Basir Seerat Vintage horse-drawn carriages used as taxis mingle with heavy automobile traffic down a very long street. The coachmen attempt to resist the pressing urban planning desires of the riverbank inhabitants, a modernization which would make them disappear. FILM ID 201 FILM ID 2240 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs 2677 Section Genre DOK International Programme Ethnology / Religion Portrait Loden – The Little Monk Live or Die in Entebbe by Eyal Boers ‘Operation Entebbe’ is considered one of the most brilliant rescue missions in military history. However, Israel’s most heroic myth is the Mimouni family’s greatest tragedy because 35 years later, the mysterious death of 19 year old French hostage Jean – Jacques Mimouni during the raid remains an unsolved mystery. In this emotionally charged documentary, Yonathan, the spitting image of his uncle Jean – Jacques, wishes to gather all the testimonies and reconstitute the scenario that would explain his uncle’s death. FILM ID by André Hörmann Facts Israel, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 52 min Original Title Lichyot O Lamut Be Entebbe Original L anguage English, French, Hebrew Produced by Eyal Boers Dynamic Flash, Israel in co-production with Jean-Michel Trèves J. M. T. Films Distribution & Worldwide Sales, Israel www.jmtfilms.com Two years ago, the then 10 year old farmer’s son Sanjaya moved from his parents' farm to the far away monastery Manang high up in the mountains of Nepal. Ever since then he has been called Karma Loden. At first he had a hard time adjusting to his new life but now he likes the strictly organized daily routine. Karma is one of the most ambitious students at the monastery and in April he will have to pass very important exams in all subjects, if he wants to reach his big dream: Karma wants to become a big Lama. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 25 min Original Title Loden – Der kleine Mönch Original L anguage Nepali Produced by Heike Kunze Telekult Film- und Medien‑ produktion GmbH, Germany www.telekult.de involved Broadcasters RBB, Germany Sales Contact involved Broadcasters SRC, Canada Sales Contact Michael Treves JMT Films Distribution, co-productions & world sales 20 Bialik Street 63324 Tel Aviv, Israel [email protected] 202 Heike Kunze Telekult Film- und Medien‑ produktion GmbH Kremmener Str. 6 10435 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.telekult.de 203 FILM ID 2578 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Long Vacation 2366 Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition Ethnology / Religion Human Interest Losing Sonia by Damjan Kozole Thirteen year-old Alex went on vacation to Serbia. For four years, he was unable to return home to the country where he was born. He stayed on ‘vacation’ for twenty years. Nisveta arrived from Bosnia thirty years ago. After the independence, she gave birth to a daughter who did not officially exist for the first two years of her life. When she was a teenager, Katarina lost her parents, her flat, and her documents … Three stories of young people who the state of Slovenia erased from all records in February 1992, just over half a year after it gained independence. They became the so-called ‘erased’. So did approximately 20,000 others. FILM ID by Radka Franczak Facts Slovenia, 2012 Colour, B / W, DCP 34 min Original Title Dolge pocitnice Original L anguage Slovene Produced by Danijel Hocevar Vertigo Emotionfilm, Slovenia www.emotionfilm.si in co-production with Peter Povh RTV, Slovenia www.rtvslo.si involved Broadcasters RTV, Slovenia PUBLIC SCREENINGS 7 / 2012 Sarajevo FF, Bosnia 7 / 2012 DokuFest Prizren, Serbia 9 / 2012 Festival of Slovenian Films, Slovenia Losing Sonia shows how a seemingly rigid monastery can be a place full of life, beauty and artistic expression. Sonia, a young nun, paints icons at night and then sleeps until noon. She has a dog, cats, exotic birds, and a body that rebelled against the strict rigour of the monks. Trying to understand her and the meaning of her life choices, we come to Sonia’s family, marked with the history of Russia. At the same time, the film is a journey inside the Orthodox church, showing that the deep spirituality of the nation is being reborn. Losing Sonia tells the story of an unusual woman who, within the walls of the monastery, is trying to rebuild the values that Russian society has lost under successive political regimes. Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, HDcam 50 min Original Title Gdzie jest Sonia Original L anguage Russian Produced by Katarzyna Slesicka Wajda Studio, Poland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland Sales Contact Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow Poland, 122946945 [email protected] www.kff.com.pl Sales Contact Damjan Kozole Vertigo Emotionfilm Kersnikova 4 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia [email protected] www.emotionfilm.si 204 205 FILM ID 3102 Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition and DOK.Incubator Arts / Culture / M usic Author’s Point of View The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear 3215 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait Mad. A World of Fashion by Tinatin Gurchiani A film director returns to her home country after a long break. She wants to shoot a film and is in search of a main character – a modern day hero. She announces a casting for 15–23 year old youths in order to find him. This search brings her to different locations: villages and cities, mountains and plains, fields and upscale clubs. There are a lot of people who come to the casting on their own and they all have different motivations: some are interested in becoming part of a film, some want to be like Jean-Claude Van Damme, others are ready to share their sentimental stories or seek for strength to carry out their major resolutions … Those who prove to be interested enough are followed through various dramatic situations. One more chance to think about the meaning of life and destiny, about wars, dreams and happiness. Intense and authentic. FILM ID by Anna Di Francisca Facts Georgia, Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 95 min Original Title Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobs Original L anguage Georgian Maddalena Sisto – Mad’s sketches for Armani, Fiorucci and Ferré recount 30 years of Italian fashion. Her drawings reflect the influence that fashion had on women and how it was then reinterpreted. Using Mad’s work as a visual reference, the famous fashion designers in Milano tell the story of Italian fashion in the golden years of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Mad left 12,000 drawings which were animated specifically for the film ! Facts Switzerland, Italy, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 52 min Original Title Il Mondo Di Mad Original L anguage Italian Produced by Tamar Gurchiani TTFilms, Georgia Elena Filippini Stefilm International, Italy www.stefilm.it in co-production with in co-production with Kakha Macharashvili Kamachi, Georgia Nicolas Burlet Nadasdyfilm, Switzerland www.nadasdyfilm.ch Produced by Sales Contact Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.deckert-distribution.com involved Broadcasters TSR, Switzerland AVRO, Netherlands YLE, Finland SVT, Sweden Sales Contact Elena Filippini Stefilm International Via Galliari 5b 10125 Torino, Italy [email protected] www.stefilm.it 206 207 FILM ID 3157 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs Magic Skies – A History of Fireworks 208 2781 Section Genre Focus Latin America Arts / Culture / M usic Human Interest Magic Words (to Break a Spell) by Henrike Sandner Fireworks enchant our senses – for a short but wonderful moment. Old family businesses have saved the tradition of fireworks to the present day. The film shows how this art form has developed over the centuries: Starting in China over a thousand years ago, we journey through the opulent Baroque era in Italy, Germany and France, experience Japanese hanabi artists in action and are also on hand to experience Guy Fawkes’ Night in the UK. We see how fireworks were democratised, becoming something that everyone could enjoy and have access to – before arriving in the present where the art of fireworks is again what it was in its heyday, a celebration of money, power and beauty. Each era is interwoven with contemporary stories and artists from Asia to the United States, because anyone in the 21st century who has dedicated himself to pyrotechnics is working in many similar ways to the artists of several hundred years ago. The film combines gorgeous firework displays of today with the past explaining how the makers are aiming to reconnect with the traditions of their art. Fireworks are and have always been a passion and a lifestyle. FILM ID by Mercedes Moncada Rodríguez Facts Germany, United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HDcam 52 min Original Title Magic Skies – A History of Fireworks This story starts from a child’s imagination where death is romantic and heroic, then grows with the deepest love and beauty, the pain of loss and through betrayal and finally up into space. Magic Words (to break a spell) is my emotional perspective of the revolution in Nicaragua. Facts Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, 2012 Colour, HDcam 82 min Original Title Palabras Mágicas (para romper un encantamiento) Original L anguage English Original L anguage Spanish Sales Contact Bettina Oebel Looks Distribution GmbH Escherstraße 22 30159 Hannover, Germany [email protected] www.looksfilm.tv Produced by Jorge Sánchez Sosa Amaranta SA de CV, Mexico Sales Contact Jorge Sánchez Sosa Amaranta SA de CV Atletas No.2 Col: Contry Club 04220 Distrito Federal, Mexico [email protected] 209 FILM ID 982 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Mama Illegal Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Ethnology / Religion by Christoph Hübner, Gabriele Voss Facts Austria, 2011 Colour, HDcam 95 min Original Title Mama Illegal Original L anguage German, Italian, Romanian, Russian involved Broadcasters ORF, Austria PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 3 / 2012 One World, Czech Republic 5 / 2012 Aye Aye IFF, France 4 / 2012 DocsDF, Mexico Sales Contact Hwa-Seon Choi Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris, France [email protected] 210 2613 Mandala by Ed Moschitz They gave the smugglers all their money and risked their lives on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years. FILM ID Six monks from Bhutan. For most of them it is their first trip abroad. The monks have come to Germany to create something extraordinary in the ‘Jahrhunderthalle’ in Bochum: a traditional sand mandala measuring five by five meters. It is thought to be the largest sandmandala ever created so far. It will take the monks ten days to strew the Chakrasamvara-Mandala, working from morning until dawn in extreme concentration. Images from divinities, palaces, walls, spirits and many symbols of astonishing subtilety, diversity and color will arise. They make us be astonished at the diversity of the representation and its numerous colours. And then, almost like a shock, as soon as the Mandala is created it will be dismanteled in a ritual ceremony. The sand is swept up to a grey mass and then it is poured into a river near by so that it can return to the cycle of nature. We watch and and try to give our images the concentration, calm and precision of the monks' work. Ist strangeness as well. Now and again one of the monks explains what we are seeing, what is happening, and how it relates to the sand and the motifs of the mandala. The film dispenses with any other explanations or commentaries by third parties. As a result the film itself is a kind of visual meditation, not esoteric or superficial but rather calm, quiet, concentrated. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 70 min Original Title Mandala Original L anguage English Produced by Christoph Hübner Christoph Hübner Filmproduktion, Germany in co-production with Gabriele Voss, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 9 / 2012 Docu.Arts, Germany Sales Contact Christoph Hübner Christoph Hübner Filmproduktion In der Lake 12 58456 Witten, Germany [email protected] 211 FILM ID 1736 Section Genre DOK German Competition Ethnology / Religion Human Interest The Man’s Field Section Genre DOK International Programme Human Interest Portrait by Marc Schmidt Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, DCP 98 min Original Title MansFeld Original L anguage German Produced by Director Marc Schmidt films his childhood friend Matthew, who, due to his autistic disorder, desperately tries to create order in the chaos around him. Schmidt follows him close to the heart. Explosive confrontations with the outside world are alternated with stylized observations and personal confessions. Little by little, the film unravels Matthew’s complex way of thinking and shows the catastrophic consequences it eventually has for him. Facts Netherlands, 2012 Colour, HDcam 72 min Original Title De Regels van Matthijs Original L anguage Dutch Produced by Mario Schneider 42film GmbH, Germany www.42film.de Simone van den Broek Basaltfilm, Netherlands www.basaltfilm.nl involved Broadcasters involved Broadcasters MDR, Germany NCRV, Netherlands PUBLIC SCREENINGS PUBLIC SCREENINGS 9 / 2012 TIFF, Canada 10 / 2012 Warsaw IFF, Poland 9 / 2012 Locarno, Switzerland 10 / 2012 Philadelphia IFF, USA 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland Sales Contact Mario Schneider 42film GmbH Geiststr. 49 06108 Halle, Germany [email protected] www.42film.de 212 944 Matthew’s Laws by Mario Schneider A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and a thousand-year-old custom. Tom, Sebastian and Paul are three children from very different families. They live in a small village in Mansfelder Land, an area where the demise of mining has left its scars. Despite the changing times, the villagers have retained an archaic custom over the centuries. Just once a year, the younger ones are able to triumph over their elders, and this is the first hint at the changing of generations: springtime drives out winter, and thus the young drive out the old. That’s the way it’s always been, and how it will always be – and once a year, this old magic returns to hearts of the villagers. The Man’s field is a film that takes us back to our own childhoods. All of a sudden we find ourselves back sitting on the school bench, wandering through the woods, or being afraid of the dark. FILM ID Sales Contact Salma Abdalla Autlook Filmsales Trappelgasse 4 / 17 1040 Vienna, Austria [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com 213 FILM ID 3275 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Men’s Lust Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Madina Mustafina Facts Austria, 2012 Colour, HDcam 65 min Original Title Die Lust der Männer Original L anguage German Milana is about a mother and a daughter who live in the woods near the outskirts of an anonymous large city in Russia. They live on the edge of civilization, making money by selling stolen scrap metal. They are a long way from that existence that other people call ‘everyday life’. The film tells the story of what is left when people have lost everything – family and family values, good friends, their job, property, and home. Facts Russia, 2011 Colour, Beta SP 58 min Original Title Milana Original L anguage Russian Produced by Produced by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Michael Kitzberger, Markus Glaser Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, Austria www.geyrhalterfilm.com Julia Mishkinene Vita Aktiva, Russia Sales Contact Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Trappelgasse 4 / 17 1040 Wien, Austria [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com 214 1820 Milana by Gabi Schweiger Five extremely different men over the age of 60 talk about themselves and their lives when they were younger, when their egos and their sex drive dominated their thoughts and behaviour. They reflect on how a man’s life changes after his hormones settle down, and on failed relationships, pain, feelings of guilt and the never-ending search for love. FILM ID PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 ArtDokFest Moscow, Russia 7 / 2012 Dokufest Prizren, Kosovo 9 / 2012 Message To Man IFF, Russia Sales Contact Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.deckert-distribution.com 215 FILM ID 3296 Section Genre Best of TV – POV History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 3231 Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs Ethnology / Religion Human Interest Mother 24 / 7 by Marcin Janos Krawczyk by Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America’s role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg and a who’s-who of Vietnam-era movers and shakers give a riveting account of those world-changing events in POV’s The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers by award-winning filmmakers Judith Ehrlich (The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It) and Rick Goldsmith (Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press). FILM ID Facts USA, 2009 Colour, HDcam 94 min Original Title The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Film is a journey into human hearts. It takes its origins in the copy of the picture of Black Madonna of Częstochowa that for the last 55 years has been traveling accross Poland visiting cities and small villages. Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 50 min Original Title Matka 24h Original L anguage Polish Original L anguage English Produced by Marcin Janos Krawczyk, Poland Produced by Judith Ehrlich Kovno Communications Inc., USA www.mostdangerousman.org Rick Goldsmith involved Broadcasters American Documentary | POV, USA Sales Contact Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 216 217 FILM ID 2642 Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition Author’s Point of View Human Interest 3171 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest Mountain Love Story Mother’s Day by Bin Chuen Choi At 11, I met my mother for the first time; then she vanished again. Later, I recognized her in a magazine article. I wasn’t sure if she was really my mother, so I looked up her birth certificate to compare my mother’s name with the person’s in the magazine. Only then I learned that my mother was Yeh Su Nee, one of the most popular Hong Kong writers whose novels fill entire shelves in any bookstore. So far, I have successfully repressed my mother from my life: wouldn’t it be better to continue like that ? Is it not too late for a 44-year-old who has a child of his own to search for his 65-year-old mother whom he doesn’t even know and flood her with questions ? I am sure to find her and try to imagine her voice. How nervous will I be calling her ? I’ll probably say something like, ‘Hello, it’s me, Bin Chuen Choi, your son. Long time no see. Shall we meet ?’ But how will she react ? Perhaps she’ll refuse to see me or say, ‘It did take you very long to call. Let’s go eat Dim Sum. I know a good spot downtown.’ FILM ID by Eliza Kubarska Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 80 min Original Title Mother’s Day Original L anguage Chinese, German Produced by Gunter Hanfgarn, Andrea Ufer Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion, Germany www.hu-film.de PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2012 Locarno, Switzerland Sales Contact Gunter Hanfgarn Hanfgarn & Ufer Filmproduktion Apostel-Paulus-Straße 6a 10823 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.hu-film.de A TV launch of the extraordinary romance where Polish alpinists Eliza Kubarska and David Kaszlikowski take a journey inside the fjords of southern Greenland to reach the world’s highest sea cliff. The huge granite wall is reachable only by Kayak across an eerie, stormridden and freezing sea. Capsizing in this area means hypothermia and death within minutes. Several days of risky cliff climbing follow – all for a kiss at 1500 metres. An extraordinary romance in one of the most beautiful landscapes you have ever seen. TV release of the 63’ festival version called What Happened on Pam Island ?, which has been shown and awarded at a large number of festivals around the world. Facts Poland, 2011 Colour, Beta SP 52 min / 63 min Original Title Mountain Love Story Original L anguage Polish Produced by Eliza Kubarska Vertical Vision Film Studio, Poland www.studiowspin.com.pl PUBLIC SCREENINGS 2 / 2012 Vancouver Mountain IFF, Canada 6 / 2012 Open City London Doc FF, United Kingdom 11 / 2012 Berg & Abenteuer IFF Graz, Austria 5 / 2012 Mountainfilm Telluride, USA Sales Contact Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com 218 219 FILM ID 2658 Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs Arts / Culture / M usic 485 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Author’s Point of View Human Interest Portrait My Father and The Man In Black Musics by Agnieszka Gonczarek, Patryk Kizny Muzyki (Musics) is a creative documentary about the stimulative process of making music, materialized in an artistic collaboration of the musician Michał Zygmunt and filmmakers Aga Gonczarek & Patryk Kizny. It explores the inspirations, the quest for one’s roots, the artistic meetings and the musical journey into the unknown, which all lead to the creation of a unique music album and a series of exceptional live music performances. It reveals a modern interpretation of Polish roots culture by means of music and imagery. FILM ID by Jonathan Holiff Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 36 min Original Title Muzyki Original L anguage Polish Produced by Patryk Kizny, Poland Sales Contact Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl Before there was Johnny and June, there was Johnny and Saul. In a secret storage locker a son searches for clues to his father’s suicide – and discovers his father’s audio diaries. Imagine finding 60 hours of audio diaries and telephone calls between your father and Johnny Cash recorded when you were a child: during the 1960s and 1970s – the singer’s most talked about but least examined years. That’s exactly what happened to Jonathan Holiff after his father, Cash’s former manager, Saul Holiff, committed suicide – without leaving a note. This is no ordinary music documentary. What if the father you rejected was not the man you thought he was ? An explosive new talent meets the man who will take him to the top, in a story about a cold and distant father whose suicide brings about reconciliation in a most unexpected and remarkable way. My Father and The Man In Black tells the inside story of ‘bad boy’ Johnny Cash, his talented and troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for his father in the shadow of a legend. Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, DCP 90 min Original Title My Father and The Man In Black Original L anguage English Produced by Jeff Paikin New Chapter Productions Inc., Canada www.tiny.cc / Johnny_and_Saul involved Broadcasters Rogers Media Inc., Canada PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2012 Vancouver IFF, Canada 10 / 2012 Raindance, United Kingdom Sales Contact Jonathan Holiff New Chapter Productions Inc. 50 Charles Street E., #123 M4Y 2L4 Toronto, Canada [email protected] www.tiny.cc / Johnny_and_Saul 220 221 FILM ID 2253 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Human Interest My First Mountain – A Rigi Film 222 2368 Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait My House Without Me by Erich Langjahr ‘Of all the mountain films I have made, the film My First Mountain marks the conclusion of my cinematic reflections on rural and Alpine Switzerland. I grew up at the gateway to Central Switzerland with a view of Mt. Rigi. Since my childhood, the sweeping backdrop of this mountain has never ceased to impress me. Mt. Rigi is also the first mountain for the Alpine herdsman Märtel Schindler. Just like his ancestors, he grew up on it and lives and works on this mountain, a popular tourist and recreation destination. In this film I attempt to probe the heart – the heart of a magnificent landscape and the heart of a personal account, to capture an image of time from the heart of Switzerland.’ FILM ID by Magdalena Szymkow Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, DCP 97 min Original Title Mein erster Berg – Ein Rigi Film Original L anguage German Produced by Erich Langjahr Langjahr Film GmbH, Switzerland www.langjahr-film.ch Two women, one house. An intimate story about a Pole and a German placed by war on enemy sides and their parallel lives accidentally brought together. The film reflects on the concepts of invader, victim, guilt and forgiveness. It confronts different experiences and their paradoxical similarities. It deals with the controversial subject of the post-war accounts. The visual narration is flowing, guided by memories and archives. Traditional documentation confronts experimental use of archival footage in this cinematic impression about displacement. Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 28 min Original Title Moj dom Original L anguage German, Polish Produced by Katarzyna Slesicka Wajda Studio, Poland PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sales Contact Erich Langjahr Langjahr Film GmbH Luzernerstraße 16 6037 Root, Switzerland [email protected] www.langjahr-film.ch 6 / 2012 Krakow FF, Poland Sales Contact Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl 223 FILM ID 3308 Section Genre DOK.Incubator Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Petri Luukkainen 224 2686 Section Genre Animadoc History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest The Night of the Bear My Stuff What are the things we really need in life – and what about all that stuff ? In order to find out, a young man makes himself the subject of a one year human experiment. The concept: Put all of your stuff into storage, and bring back only one item per day. The result ? An everyday adventure driving him deeper and deeper into the empty spot in his heart. You’re right: this would be borderline insane even without his decision of constantly filming himself. Meet Petri, 26. Amidst an existential crisis, he arrives at the idea that his happiness might be found by rebuilding his everyday existence. Buck naked at his flat, it’s another story – not a pretty one but damn fun to watch. As this film is part of the DOK.Incubator workshop 2012 and still in post-production, DOK Market presents only a trailer. FILM ID by Sam Guillaume, Fred Guillaume Facts Finland, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 85 min A night at the Bears’ where animals talk about their lives. Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, DCP 22 min Original Title Original Title Tavarataivas La Nuit de l'Ours Original L anguage Original L anguage Finnish French Produced by Produced by Petri Luukkainen, Anssi Perttala Unifilm Oy, Finland www.unifilm.fi Sam Guillaume Cine3d, Switzerland www.cine3d.ch involved Broadcasters Sales Contact Anssi Perttala Unifilm Oy Eurantie 12–14 LH1 Helsinki, Finland [email protected] www.unifilm.fi RTS, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 9 / 2012 fantoche, Switzerland Sales Contact Fred Guillaume Sam Guillaume Cine3d rte du petit moncor 1c 1752 Villars-s-glâne, Switzerland [email protected] www.cine3d.ch, 225 FILM ID 2798 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs 105 Section Genre DOK International Programme Arts / Culture / M usic Human Interest Portrait No Business like Showbusiness Night’s Drifters by Bijan Anquetil The story of a friendship. Soban and Hamid, two young Afghans, after several years of wandering, have ended up in Paris. By the light of a camp fire on a canal, they meet again. It’s here, by the light of a rough fire on the canal, that they meet again. Night’s Drifters is a film about passengers crossing Europe by night. It is about young Afghans living in exile and writing their own clandestine stories by acts, words and cell phones. FILM ID by Martin Schilt, Bernhard Weber Facts France, 2012 Colour, DCP 45 min Original Title La Nuit Remue Original L anguage Persian Produced by Joanna Sitowska LE GREC, France PUBLIC SCREENINGS 7 / 2012 FID Marseille, France Sales Contact Joanna Sitkowska G. R. E. C. 14 rue Alexandre Parodi 75010 Paris, France [email protected] www.grec-info.com Twenty Farmers get famous. Until a short time ago, the rituals of the Wiesenbergers were simple. The singing mountain dwellers met once a week in the chapel in order to rehearse together, and they would yodel for weddings and birthdays. Now, their whole world has been turned on its head. Their CDs are storming the hit parades and they are overwhelmed by concert requests – show business is calling them. Now they are about to appear at the World Exhibition in Shanghai. The enticing offer became a potential rift. A film about yodelling mountain dwellers who attempt to remain authentic between tradition and show business. Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, DCP 85 min Original Title Die Wiesenberger Original L anguage Swiss German Produced by Martin Schilt Luckyfilm GmbH, Switzerland www.luckyfilm.tv in co-production with Robert Müller Zeitraum Film GmbH, Switzerland www.zeitraumfilm.ch involved Broadcasters SRF, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 1 / 2012 Solothurner Filmtage Switzerland Sales Contact Cyril Thurston Xenix Filmdistribution Langstrasse 64 CH-8026 Zürich, Switzerland [email protected] www.xenix.ch 226 227 FILM ID 570 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Ethnology / Religion by Nadia El Fani, Alina Isabel Perèz Section Genre Animadoc History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Barbara Hlali Facts France, 2012 Colour, HDcam 66 min Original Title Même pas mal Original L anguage Arabic, French Produced by Jan Vasak K'ien Productions, France www.kien.fr Sales Contact Jan Vasak K'ien Productions 24, rue Meslay 75003 Paris, France [email protected] www.kien.fr 228 1337 Nurse Gretel #2 – Escape No Harm Done My rebelliousness grows trough my family history, it is not trivial to be a daughter of Communists, I feel a deep need and desire for freedom. I always thought that my films only spoke of it: ‘The Freedom’. During the filming of Laicité Inch’Allah ! I have no choice. I confront the Islamists: war is declared ! In parallel, I discovered the corridors of the Tenon Hospital in November, in Paris. I must therefore face a second enemy: my Cancer. Why should I have made a film ? I wanted to explain the ‘repercussions of my previous movie’ ? It allows me to continue the fight and saying, once again, that ‘those who live are those who fight’. (Victor Hugo) FILM ID Being on the run involuntarily. Standing next to the street at dusk, not knowing where to go. Waiting at the station for days for the next train to come. Being robbed of the little possessions that were left. Hiding from assaults by enemy soldiers. Being scared for the life of one’s own child. But also: getting help from strangers again and again. Having a roof over one’s head thanks to lucky circumstances. Discovering humanity in strangers. Unexpectedly experiencing moments of peace and quiet. As an elderly woman, nurse Gretel tells her story of her escape from Silesia to West Germany at the end of World War II. The personal fate of one woman that today still is suffered by thousands in the same manner every day. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, HD Videofile 24 min Original Title Schwester Gretel #2 – Flucht Original L anguage German Produced by Barbara Hlali, Germany www.barbara-hlali.de Sales Contact Barbara Hlali Deutsch-Luxemburger-Str. 151 44225 Dortmund, Germany [email protected] www.barbara-hlali.de 229 FILM ID 1889 Section Genre Animadoc History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Nyosha 230 3295 Section Genre Best of TV – POV History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait The Oath by Liran Kapel, Yael Dekel A true story based on a testimony of Holocaust survivor, the late Nomi Kapel. Nyosha is a ten year old girl that lives with her mother in a small village in Poland. Nyosha has a seemingly naive and simple dream, to buy herself a pair of shoes. But a ruthless war is arriving, and her dream is put aside. In the midst of a terrible action, when she stands face to face with death and the fatal moment she is torn from her mother and taken to the truck, Nyosha believes that her shoes are the ones that convinced the Nazi soldier who held her to spare her life. A range of animation techniques brings together the dream and the reality and tells Nyosha’s story. FILM ID by Laura Poitras Facts Israel, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 12 min Original Title Nyosha Original L anguage Hebrew Produced by Filmed in Yemen and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, The Oath interweaves the stories of Abu Jandal, Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard, and Salim Hamdan, a prisoner at Guantánamo facing war crimes charges. Directed by Laura Poitras (Flag Wars, POV 2003; the Oscar-nominated My Country, My Country, POV 2006), The Oath unfolds via a narrative rife with plot reversals and betrayals that ultimately leads to Osama bin Laden, 9 / 11, Guantánamo and the U. S. Supreme Court. Facts USA, 2010 Colour, DigiBeta 96 min Original Title The Oath Original L anguage Arabic, English Produced by Liran Kapel Sapir Academic College, Israel Laura Poitras Praxis Films, USA PUBLIC SCREENINGS in co-production with 8 / 2012 Asif Animation Festival, Israel 9 / 2012 Stoptrik, Poland Jonathan Oppenheim, Nasser Arrabyee, Aliza Kaplan, USA Sales Contact involved Broadcasters Michael Treves JMT Films Distribution, co-productions & world sales 20 Bialik Street 63324 Tel Aviv, Israel [email protected] American Documentary | POV, USA Sales Contact Catherine Le Clef CAT & Docs 18 rue Quincampoix 75004 Paris, France [email protected] www.catndocs.com 231 FILM ID 2364 Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs Human Interest Portrait One Meter Above Ground Section Genre ChileDoc Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Ignacio Agüero Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 42 min Original Title Metr nad ziemia Original L anguage Russian Produced by Henryk Dedo Fundacja Głos Ewangelii, Poland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Krakow FF, Poland Sales Contact Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl 232 2659 The Other Day by Tomasz Wiszniewski Sergey, who is Ukrainian, was a soldier of the Soviet fleet until both his feet and his fingers were amputated due to frostbite. Over 10 years, he underwent 29 operations and lived with severe disability. Suffering deprived him of his will to live. One day, thanks to a spiritual transformation, Sergey completely changed his attitude. Today, he is dreaming of building a house for those who suffered a similar fate. He sees the world from the perspective of one meter above the ground and thinks it is more beautiful than ever. FILM ID The filmmaker’s house in Santiago has a door that leads to the sidewalk, which separates two spaces: the inner space, the house itself and the outer space; the city. There is a corridor in the inner space which has a large window that leads to a small patio. The wisteria, the bougainvillea and the old vine trunk struggle among them, co-existing with a variety of birds that drink water from a fountain and bathe in it, plus one cat that belongs to the adjacent houses. Sunlight comes through the window as it moves during the changing seasons. Inside the house, there are many objects from which the director takes stories that he tells with his own voice. These stories are interrupted when acquaintances and strangers ring the bell. The director opens the door. He asks about their address and goes to their houses to knock on their doors, creating a net of links between his house and the strangers’ houses. This net is drawn on a large map of the city found inside the house. This way, a braid of characters, spaces, time and stories is built. Facts Chile, 2012 Colour, DCP 120 min Original Title El Otro Dia Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Ignacio Agüero Ignacio Agüero & asoc., Chile in co-production with Cristian Aspee Suricato, Chile PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2012 VALDIVA, Chile 11 / 2012 Festival Dei Popoli, Italy Sales Contact Amalric de Pontcharra Avda Carlos Antunez 2329, Providencia 7510347 Santiago, Chile [email protected] 233 FILM ID 345 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened 1142 Section Genre Hot Docs Arts / Culture / M usic Human Interest Over My Dead Body by Jean-Gabriel Périot 28th May, 2011, Orléans. Inmates gave a concert inside the prison. The sound was broadcasted outside for the audience. FILM ID by Brigitte Poupart Facts France, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 22 min Original Title Nos Jours, Absolument, Doivent être Illuminés Original L anguage French Produced by Cécile Lestrade Alter Ego Production, France www.alterego-prod.com in co-production with Paul Laurent Association Mixar, France PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland 3 / 2012 Timishort, Romania 7 / 2012 Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic 8 / 2012 Festival Silhouette, France Dancer and choreographer Dave St-Pierre is adored by critics and audiences alike. His subversive, innovative works are taking Europe by storm. But his own body is failing him. Dave is 34 and has cystic fibrosis. The average life expectancy for sufferers is 37. His doctors have given him two years to live unless he has a lung transplant. With the sense of urgency growing, his best friend and creative partner, director and actress Brigitte Poupart, turns her camera on the daily life of a man who is waiting for a life-or-death call from the doctor. A call that could come at any moment. United by art and friendship, the two create a space in which creativity emerges as a vital act. Over My Dead Body is an engrossing private diary that accepts neither taboos nor fate. It features testimonials from Dave’s friends, loved ones and collaborators, as well as excerpts from his works. Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, HDcam 80 min Original Title Over My Dead Body Original L anguage French Produced by Virginie Dubois Coop Video de Montréal, Canada www.coopvideo.ca PUBLIC SCREENINGS 2 / 2012 Rendez-vous du Cinéma Québécois, Canada 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 5 / 2012 MoMa, USA Sales Contact Anne Paré Les Films du 3 Mars 2065, rue Parthenais Bureau 277 H2K 3T1 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.f3m.ca Sales Contact Cécile Lestrade Alter Ego Production 48 Rue de Bourgogne 45000 Orléans, France [email protected] www.alterego-prod.com 234 235 FILM ID 1857 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Human Interest Portrait Overtime Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Chico Peirera Facts Turkey, 2012 B / W, HDcam 20 min Original Title Fazlamesai Original L anguage Kurdish, Turkish Produced by Gürcan Keltek 29P, Turkey www.cargocollective.com/ 29p-films Pablo needs to stop smoking. Why ? Because his wife, family and doctor say he should. But Pablo is a stubborn man. He’s worked in the mercury mines of Almaden, Spain, risking his life daily. He’s had five severe heart attacks and smoked 20 Fortuna’s a day since he was 12. Surely this simple divine pleasure can’t be killing him, but could his wife’s firm, persistent words be the key to finally quitting ? Pablo’s Winter captures the comical essence of everyday life in a small town that strives to survive after the closure of the most productive mercury mines in history. Facts United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HDcam 76 min Original Title Pablo’s Winter Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Finlay Pretsell Scottish Documentary Institute, United Kingdom www.scottishdocinstitute.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sales Contact 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland Finlay Pretsell Scottish Documentary Institute 74 Lauriston Place EH3 9DF Edinburgh, United Kingdom [email protected], [email protected] www.scottishdocinstitute.com Sales Contact Gürcan Keltek 29P Evliya Celebi Mah. Mesrutiyet Cad Ersoy Han No:102 / 4 Sishane – Beyoglu 34430 Istanbul, Turkey [email protected] www.cargocollective. com/29p-films 236 121 Pablo’s Winter by Gürcan Keltek Istanbul, the present. The city is one big machine where we listen to the voices of young male and female workers. A Kurdish girl rebels against the family tradition. The last young member of a diminished clan remembers the past. A child worker turns into his family’s leader. A young male sells himself in front of The Blue Mosque. Shot entirely on Super 8, Fazlamesai chronicles the desperation and hope in the economically / culturally marginalized Muslim working class. FILM ID 237 FILM ID 1115 Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait The Palace Section Genre Animadoc Author’s Point of View Portrait by Zbigniew Czapla Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, HDcam 82 min Original Title Palac Original L anguage Polish Produced by Anna Gawlita Kijora, Poland In May 2010, after record rainfall, flash floods broke embankments of the Vistula near Wilków. Catastrophic flooding deprived thousands of people of all their possessions and roofs over their heads. A few weeks later, Zbigniew Czapla found a box of old photographs in his family house also ravaged by the elements. The unique family mementoes left were destroyed by water, mud and mould. This film is a desperate attempt to keep memories, reconstruct people and events of the past. An impression on the transitory nature of memory, inevitability of fading and the destructive force of the elements. Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 9 min Original Title Papierowe pudełko Original L anguage Polish Produced by Zbigniew Czapla, Poland www.zbigniewczapla.pl PUBLIC SCREENINGS PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 Planete+ DOC FF, Poland 6 / 2012 Krakow FF, Poland 5 / 2012 Krakow IFF, Poland 8 / 2012 Hiroshima Animation IFF, Japan 9 / 2012 Message to Man IFF, Russia 10 / 2012 London Animation IFF, United Kingdom Sales Contact Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl 238 818 Paperbox by Tomasz Wolski The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw was a despised gift from Stalin. After the system transformation in Poland some suggested pulling it down. But the palace is still standing and doing fine, pulsating with the life of hundreds of offices, hosting a theatre, concert hall, cinema and even a swimming pool as well as a city council room. Having already visited a clinic, hospital and registry office, this time Wolski, with his camera, enters the building that is a reflection of Poland’s everyday life and history. The nooks and crannies of the building make a backdrop for apt and witty observations as well as an inspiration to more general diagnoses. FILM ID Sales Contact Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl 239 FILM ID 2758 Section Genre Focus Latin America History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Papirosen 3252 Section Genre Hot Docs History / Politics / Current Affairs Science Peace Out by Gastón Solnicki Flight, a new beginning and the social rise of a Jewish family in Argentina. The home movie genre transcended in a gripping family epic that encompasses four generations. FILM ID by Charles Wilkinson Facts Argentina, 2012 (none), HD Videofile 74 min Original Title Papirosen Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Pablo Chernov Filmy Wiktoria, Argentina Peace Out asks and answers the question: are we ripping up our back yard for energy – or not ? The film seeks to engage those of us who do not connect our daily decisions with global land use issues. It focuses on the North Western Canadian wilderness, however the issues are universal. The film pits energy executives, Tar Sands reps, nuclear spokesmen against academics and activists in an intelligent debate that leaves the viewer to decide what to believe. The film presents a beautiful, thought provoking look at a rapidly transforming landscape. Facts Canada, 2011 Colour, HDcam 81 min Original Title Peace Out Original L anguage English Produced by Tina Schliessler Apple Pie Pictures Inc., Canada www.tina-schliessler.com Sales Contact Gastón Solnicki Filmy Wiktoria O'Higgins 1665 1426 Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] 240 PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada Sales Contact Charles Wilkinson Shore Films Inc. 617 Beachview Drive V7G1P8 North Vancouver, Canada [email protected] www.charleswilkinson.com 241 FILM ID 3070 Section Genre DOK Market Ethnology / Religion Human Interest A People Uncounted 242 3307 Section Genre Best of TV – POV History / Politics / Current Affairs A Perfect Candidate by Aaron Yeger The Roma, commonly referred to as Gypsies, are outsiders who have been both romanticised and vilified in popular culture. Lacking the kind of social hierarchy and political power that could otherwise advocate collectively for their rights and tell their history, the Roma struggle with chronic poverty and disenfranchisement. They have endured centuries of intolerance and persecution in Europe – an estimated 500,000 were murdered during World War II. Shot in 11 countries and featuring dozens of Roma – including Holocaust survivors, historians, activists and musicians. A People Uncounted documents their culturally rich yet often difficult lives and demonstrates how their present state has been shaped by the tragedies of the past. As ethnic intolerance flares across Europe again, the film sheds light on this unique culture, placing the Romani story within a larger context of racism and genocide. FILM ID by R. J. Cutler, David van Taylor Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, B / W, DigiBeta 57 min Original Title A People Uncounted Original L anguage English Produced by Marc Swenker Urbinder Films, Canada Disproving the adage that there are no second acts in American life, Iran/Contra legend Oliver North re-emerged to challenge incumbent Charles Robb in a hotly contested 1994 Virginia senatorial race. R. J. Cutler and David Van Taylor weave a modern-day parable about leadership in America and campaign culture in a cynical age. The result is a clear-eyed examination of the electoral process, where issues take a back seat to the machinations of spin doctors, and voter interests are lost in a media hall of mirrors. Facts USA, 1996 B / W, HDcam 105 min Original Title A Perfect Candidate Original L anguage English Produced by R. J. Cutler, Actual Reality Pictures, USA David van Taylor, USA PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2012 RTV, Slovenia Sales Contact Tim Sparke Mercury Media 7 Baseline Studios Whitchurch Road W11 4AT London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.mercurymedia.org in co-production with Dan Partland, Ted Skillman, USA involved Broadcasters American Documentary | POV, USA Sales Contact Andrew Catauro American Documentary | POV 32 Broadway 14th Floor NY 10004, USA [email protected] www.pov.org 243 FILM ID 402 Section Genre Animadoc Human Interest by Shira Avni 244 404 Section Genre Animadoc Author’s Point of View Portrait Places Other People Have Lived Petra’s Poem In this visually compelling, colourful short, Toronto artist Petra Tolley performs a candid soliloquy about what it feels like to be ‘in the middle.’ Petra has Down syndrome, and draws from her emotional experiences of living and working in the flux between societal order and personal chaos to produce a distinctive take on the social self. Award-winning director Shira Avni (Tying Your Own Shoes, John and Michael) employs rotoscopy and hand-drawn animation techniques to enhance and interact with Petra’s performance. But Petra is not alone – a troupe of adults with Down syndrome rallies around Petra in a theatrical movement that explores the dynamics of seclusion, societal expectations and social support. In subtle stereoscopic 3D, Petra engages the camera with unflinching and tender directness, heightening our sense of intimacy, alienation, bonding and innately, dignity. FILM ID by Laura Yilmaz Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 4 min Original Title Petra’s Poem Original L anguage English Produced by Roddy McManus, David Verrall National Film Board of Canada, Canada PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada Sales Contact Élise Labbé National Film Board of Canada 3155, Cote-de-Liesse Road H4N 2N4 Saint-Laurent, Canada [email protected] www.nfb.ca Places Other People Have Lived is a mixed media exploration of the relationship between memory and place, as examined through the sale of a childhood home. Using old photographs, recorded interviews with family members, and multiple animation techniques, the film deconstructs room-by-room a house that was a family home for more than 25 years. What begins as a biography of a house, told through bittersweet and sometimes humorous personal anecdotes, ultimately raises larger questions about the emotional content of physical spaces, and what happens to our histories when we leave those places behind. Facts USA, 2011 Colour, HD Videofile 7 min Original Title Places Other People Have Lived Original L anguage English Produced by Laura Yilmaz, USA PUBLIC SCREENINGS 2 / 2012 Black Maria Film & Video Festival, USA 5 / 2012 Seattle IFF, USA 7 / 2012 Toronto Animation Arts Festival International, Croatia 9 / 2012 Animafest Zagreb Panorama, Canada Sales Contact Laura Yilmaz 735 E Kensington Road 90026 Los Angeles, USA [email protected] 245 FILM ID 3182 Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Playback 1094 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Polish Illusions by Antoine Cattin, Pavel Kostomarov Director Alexey German has spent almost 7 years shooting a film based on the story by the Strugatsky brothers, Trudno Byt’ Bogom (It’s Difficult to Be God). The film tells the story of a man who is sent to a planet which bears a strong resemblance to Earth during the Middle Ages. There he must monitor events. Meanwhile, the film crew has also been monitored during their epic film project – by a director from Switzerland. For him, Russia is another planet. In his eyes, life on the great director’s film set is a mirror of Russian reality. FILM ID by Jacob Dammas, Helge Renner Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, B / W, DigiBeta 67 min Original Title Playback Original L anguage Russian involved Broadcasters TSR, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic 8 / 2012 Locarno, Czech Republic Retired U. S. Army helicopter pilot, Mark Buller has settled in small-town Poland to find a new home for his growing collection of military vehicles and his final missing piece … a wife. He finds help in the young local admirer of ‘America’, Michał Niewczas, who accompanies the American on his pursuit as the friend, driver and translator. At the other end of town Jan Konstantynow, the aging magician, must fight for his place in the spotlight when the local Culture Centre appoints a new director looking to bring the cultural program into the 21st century. While Mark, Mike and Jan are struggling to find their place in the town, Darłowo is going through a time of modernization. New ways of tourism have replaced fishing and farming as the main source of income. Facts Germany, Poland, France, Denmark, 2012 Colour, HDcam 79 min / 52 min Original Title Pommersche Illusionen Original L anguage English, German, Polish Produced by Helge Renner Graniza, Germany Jacob Dammas graniza, Poland www.graniza.net Sales Contact involved Broadcasters Elena Hill Les Films Hors-Champ L'Epignau 1 1373 Chavorney, Switzerland [email protected] www.hors-champ.ch MDR, Germany ARTE G. E. I. E. Germany / France TVP S. A. Channel 1, Poland YLE TV 1, Finland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 7 / 2012 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic Sales Contact Jacob Dammas graniza polska, Warszawa, Polen [email protected] Helge Renner graniza deutschland Berlin, Germany [email protected] 246 247 FILM ID 599 Section Genre Animadoc Human Interest Portrait Pondering 1744 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest The Postman by Collective: XX children (François d'Assise Ouedraogo, Arzouma Mahamadou Dieni, Moumouni Jupiter Sodré) To leave or to stay ? Citizens from Ouagadougou express themselves. Between those who dream of leaving for the West and those who want to stay, a pattern emerges: a strong will to leave poverty behind, but also a fear of failing to find a job ‘over there’, or of being made to feel unwelcome. Beyond the image of the West as an El Dorado, their thoughts reflect one common aspiration: to find a better life. FILM ID by Wahid Nazir Facts Belgium, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 9 min The mailman’s inextricable difficulties as he does his rounds in the streets of Kabul, where addresses are often mysterious and deliveries akin to treasure hunts. Facts Afghanistan, 2011 Colour, Beta SP 19 min Original Title Original Title Cogitations Une Journée du facteur Khan Agha Original L anguage French Original L anguage Persian Produced by Jean-Luc Slock Camera-etc, Belgium www.camera-etc.be Produced by Stéphane Jourdain La Huit Production, France www.lahuit.com Sales Contact Dimitri Kimplaire Camera-etc Rue de Visé, 490 B-4020 Liège, Belgium [email protected] www.camera-etc.be 248 PUBLIC SCREENINGS 12 / 2011 Festival des 3 continents, France Sales Contact Julien Beaunay La Huit Production 218 bis rue de Charenton 75012 Paris, France [email protected] www.lahuit.com 249 FILM ID 2419 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Author’s Point of View Human Interest Presence Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Helena Třeštíková Facts India, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 18 min Original Title Presence Original L anguage Hindi Produced by Ekta Mittal Maraa, India www.tinsheets.in Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana’s divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began writing a family chronicle and he has continued to do so for 37 years. ‘Family Diary’ shows not only the life of one ordinary family but also how Czech society has changed in the last four decades. Who are we, where do we come from and where are we going ? Facts Czech Republic, 2012 Colour, B / W, DCP 83 min Original Title Soukromy Vesmir Original L anguage Czech Produced by Katerina Cerna, Pavel Strnad Negativ Film Productions Czech Republic www.negativ.cz in co-production with Yashaswini Raghunandan CCTV, India www.tinsheets.in involved Broadcasters Czech TV, Czech Republic PUBLIC SCREENINGS PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Le Triennale- Intense proximity, France 6 / 2012 London Indian Film Festival, United Kingdom Sales Contact Yashaswini Raghunandan CCTV II floor, No.3, 4th Cross, Michaelpalya 2nd Stage 560075 Bangalore, India [email protected] www.tinsheets.in 250 1304 Private Universe by Yashaswini Raghunandan, Ekta Mittal Presence is a film that explores haunting phenomenon through the nightmares and ghostly encounters of migrant workers in a city that is transforming rapidly. The ghost is not simply a dead or a missing person, but a social figure, and investigating lead[s] to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life. The way of the ghost is haunting and haunting is a very particular way of knowing what has happened or is happening. The workers’ presence in the city is a ghostly matter as he enters and leaves the city invisibly. As they carry these stories in and out of many cities, the cities bear witness to these fragments positing an unsettling feeling between what we see and what we know. The film navigates through the here and now, with a quaint reference to the past and an uncertainty of the future. In the midst of this transformation is where our film is located to delve into the subconscious of the city and the worker who’s seething presence continues to linger in the air. FILM ID 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada Sales Contact Zuzana Bielikova Negativ, s. r. o. Ostrovní 30 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic [email protected] www.negativ.cz 251 FILM ID 2382 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs Project Z: The Final Global Event 252 2242 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Protect everyone i love by Phillip Gara At once a road-trip, detective story, and zombie flic, Project Z presents startling evidence that the world is heading toward a final global event. Combining rare footage from inside the war machine with corrosive commentary by leading critics of global violence, the film imaginatively envisions an event to end all events. Project Z is an experimental collaboration by James Der Derian (Human Terrain, After 9 / 11, VY2K), Phillip Gara (first-time filmmaker) and the Global Media Project (Watson Institute, Brown University). FILM ID by Franziska Schönenberger, Anne M. Hilliges Facts USA, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 70 min Original Title Project Z: The Final Global Event Original L anguage English Produced by What does it mean to have a child, if you’re completely physically handicapped ? Luis’ favourite thing is to ride on his mummy’s electric wheel chair. The three-year-old screams happily while he sits on her lap. Sabrina (28), Luis’ mother, suffers from Friedreich ataxy, an incurable neuropathic disease. Her health condition deteriorates constantly and her life expectancy is not very high. Protect Everyone I Love is a film about a little boy who makes his mother’s life liveable. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 54 min Original Title Schütze alle, die ich lieb Original L anguage German Produced by James Der Derian Global Media Project, USA www.globalmediaproject.net Ferdinand Freising HFF München, Germany www.hff-muc.de Sales Contact in co-production with Phillip Gara Global Media Project Watson Institute for International Studies Brown University/1970 111 Thayer Street 02912 Providence, USA [email protected] www.globalmediaproject.net Franziska Schönenberger, Germany Sales Contact Franziska Schönenberger Haberstr. 2a 80999 München, Germany franzi.schoenenberger@gmail. com 253 FILM ID 702 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Human Interest The Punk Syndrome 3238 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait Pushwagner by Jukka Kärkkäinen, J-P Passi The Punk Syndrome is a documentary film about Finnish punk-rock band Pertti Kurikka’s Name Day, formed in 2009 by four developmentally disabled guys. The film follows the band’s journey from their rehearsal room to cult success. It shows the love and hate between the guys, the crying and the laughter. FILM ID by Even G. Benestad, Auguat B. Hanssen Facts Finland, Norway, Sweden, 2012 Colour, HDcam 58 min Original Title Kovasikajuttu Original L anguage Finnish, Swedish Produced by Sami Jahnukainen Mouka Filmi Oy, Finland www.mouka.fi Sales Contact Andrea Hock Autlook Filmsales Trappelgasse 4 / 17 1040 Wien, Austria [email protected] www.autlookfilms.com Pushwagner is a personal portrait of a small man with a great personality. Pop agitator, whip smart renegade and celebrated graphic artist Hariton Pushwagner lives life on the edge. ‘There’s a difference in living like life was real and deep like a thousand kisses.’ Pushwagner grabs you and doesn’t let go, his puzzling and profound statements keep you glued, hanging on his every word. Meaningful or meaningless, maybe there’s no difference, especially since he thinks ‘words are like viruses.’ The man infects the screen with his paranoia and need for control until you realize that it’s not all inside his head. As Pushwagner faces a former assistant in court, fighting for legal control of his career, image and art work, it all begins to make sense. Facts Norway, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 68 min / 49 min Original Title Pushwagner Original L anguage Norwegian Produced by Carsten Aanonsen Indie Film, Norway www.indiefilm.no in co-production with Torstein Grude, Piraya Film AS, Norway www.piraya.no Lise Lense-Möller, Cecilia Valsted Magic Hour Films, Denmark www.magichourfilms.dk Klara Björk Filmkreatörerna, Sweden, www.filmkreatorerna.com Jessica Ask Film i Väst, Sweden www.filmivast.se involved Broadcasters SVT, Sweden DR, Denmark NRK, Norway DR, Denmark PUBLIC SCREENINGS 9 / 2011 Haugesund IFF, Norway 4 / 2012 Norwegian IDFF, Norway 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada Sales Contact Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com 254 255 FILM ID 1901 Section Genre DOK German Competition History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Randland 2741 Section Genre Animadoc Author’s Point of View Human Interest Reality 2.0 by Leopold Grün, Dirk Uhlig A small one-street village in the open landscape of East Germany, marked by the political changes of the past decade and long forgotten by the rest of society. Dream of Wischershausen is a trip to the periphery of society. How do people like Maxe the farmer, mother-of-five Gabi or technician Harry, who dreams of travelling to Norway’s North Cape in his camper van and experiencing one white night there, actually live ? Wealth and jobs are scarce around here, but people want to stay regardless. With stubbornness and a sense of humour, they make the best of their situation. Dream of Wischershausen is a film about work and love, your garden as your pub, ashes in the snow and slaughtering pigs … FILM ID by Victor Orozco Ramirez Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 93 min Original Title Randland It was autumn when I arrived in Germany. I thought that in this exotic country I could distance myself a little bit from Mexico, but I was wrong. Drug traffickers managed to take me back in a ruthless way. A short animated documentary about the drug-related violence in Mexico. Facts Germany, Mexico, 2012 Colour, DCP 11 min Original Title Reality 2.0 Original L anguage Original L anguage German Spanish Produced by PUBLIC SCREENINGS Benny Drechsel, Karsten Stoeter Rohfilm GmbH, Germany www.rohfilm.de 11 / 2010 Lisbon & Estoril FF, Portugal 3 / 2012 Guadalajara IFF, Mexico 4 / 2012 Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg, Germany 4 / 2012 European Media Art Festival, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Toronto IFF, Canada 6 / 2012 Locarno, Switzerland 9 / 2012 Zürich IFF, Switzerland Sales Contact Sales Contact Benny Drechsel Rohfilm GmbH Schwedenstr. 14 13357 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.rohfilm.de 256 Victor Orozco Ramirez Winterhuder Weg 47b 22085 Hamburg, Germany [email protected] www.orozcovictor.com 257 FILM ID 1853 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs The Red Dream Factory 258 241 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Human Interest Red Hair and Black Coffee by Alexander Schwarz Soviet film avant-garde flourished in the West while the Russians rushed to watch German films. East and West joined forces in the unique German-Russian film studio Meshrabpom-Film, under the roof of the workers’ relief organisation IAH (Internationale Arbeiterhilfe). The vision of its founders, the red media tsar Willi Muenzenberg and Moisei Aleinikov, the last independent Russian entrepreneur: To establish a new way of filmmaking. Entertainment, political enlightenment and social consciousness, presented with a new film language and with international distribution. Among the masters of the studios were Yakov Protasanov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Boris Barnet, Dziga Vertow and Joris Ivens. The ZDF/ARTE & MDR documentary includes statements by film historians and critics Naum Kleiman, Yekaterina Khokhlova and Andrei Plakhov, as well as prominent filmmakers and contemporary film entrepreneurs from Russia like Aleksei Popogrebsky, Andrei Sviagintsev, Igor Tolstunov and Ilya Bachurin. The film connects fascinating film history of the 1920s and 30s and contemporary Russian film. Many film excerpts and photos are shown for the first time. Just like many of the historical films portrayed, this documentary is a joint GermanRussian effort: cinematography by Andrei Pitinov, original musical composition by Bernd Schultheis, graphics/ CGI by Fabian Harmanus. FILM ID by Milena Bochet Facts Germany, 2011 Colour, B / W, HD Videofile 56 min Original Title Die Rote Traumfabrik Hermanovce, Slovak Republic. A Romany village located deep down in the valley, with old shacks and newer concrete ones. Four Romany women tell us about their day-to-day life through ancient habits, along with words that travel near borders of different worlds … Facts Belgium, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 56 min Original Title Cheveux rouges et café noir (Dames blanches et esprits noirs) Original L anguage German, Russian Original L anguage Romanian Produced by Ilona Grundmann Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction, Germany www.ilona-grundmannfilmproduction.de Produced by Isabelle Truc Iota Production, Belgium www.iotaproduction.com involved Broadcasters in co-production with Thomas Radler Thora-Film, Germany www.thorafilm.de involved Broadcasters MDR, Germany ZDF/ ARTE, Germany GSARA, Belgium Sales Contact Isabelle Truc Iota Production, Belgium [email protected] www.iotaproduction.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS ARTE, Germany Sales Contact Ilona Grundmann Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction Unter den Eichen 5 65195 Wiesbaden, Germany [email protected] www.ilona-grundmannfilmproduction.de 259 FILM ID 1187 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Ethnology / Religion Regilaul – Songs of the Ancient Sea 379 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Portrait The River People by Ulrike Koch In ancient Estonia, there originated a singing tradition of mysterious power: the Regilaul. Based on the continuous repetition of eight-syllable verses, Regi songs produce a haunting sound able to connect the present to the eternal circle of life. FILM ID by Martin Benchimol, Pablo Aparo Facts Switzerland, Estonia, 2011 Colour, DCP 104 min Original Title Regilaul – Lieder aus der Luft Original L anguage Estonian Produced by Rose-Marie Schneider Doc Productions GmbH, Switzerland www.docproductions.ch Ernestina is a small town with 150 inhabitants, the stage of this documentary that has the tension and the suspense of a fiction film. The strange characters that live in the town introduce us to the crimes committed by the people who visit the river. Nowadays, the neighbours hire private security and this seems to have ended the problem. However, while the documentary makers are shooting the movie, new strange events occur. What is really happening in Ernestina ? The film invites us to approach, with humour, the bizarre world of this town, the particular life of its inhabitants and the mystery of the river people. Facts Argentina, 2012 Colour, HDcam 70 min Original Title La Gente del Río Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Martin Benchimol, Pablo Aparo CaravanaCine, Argentina www.caravanacine.com.ar in co-production with Sales Contact Erik Norkroos Rühm Pluss Null, Estonia www.plussnull.ee Martin Benchimol, Pablo Aparo CaravanaCine Miguel Cane 1286 1704 Ramos Mejía – Buenos Aires, Argentina [email protected] [email protected] www.caravanacine.com.ar involved Broadcasters ERR, Estonia SRF, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 Worldfilmfestival Tartu, Estonia Sales Contact Rose-Marie Schneider Doc Productions GmbH Dienerstr. 7 8004 Zürich, Switzerland [email protected] www.docproductions.ch 260 261 FILM ID 582 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Portrait The Road Uphill Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs Author’s Point of View Human Interest Portrait by Pawel Ziemilski Facts Luxembourg, 2011 Colour, DCP 89 min Original Title Travelling among people and objects we discover a world usually considered as ugly and unattractive. This dreamlike journey is not a dream. Who are the people in this ‘big aquarium’ ? And what is our position towards them ? Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, HDcam 15 min Original Title The Road Uphill Rogalik Original L anguage Original L anguage English, French, German, Luxembourgish Polish Produced by Paul Thiltges, David Grumbach Paul Thiltges Distributions, Luxembourg www.ptd.lu Marcin Malatyński, Magdalena Kondrakowicz Polish National Film School, Poland www.filmschool.lodz.pl PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sales Contact 4 / 2012 Houston IFF, USA 6 / 2012 Gdansk IFF, 2012, Poland 8 / 2012 Melbourne IFF, Australia 11 / 2012 CPH:DOX, Denmark Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl Produced by Sales Contact Paul Thiltges Paul Thiltges Distributions 45, Boulevard Pierre Frieden 1543 Luxembourg, Luxembourg [email protected] www.ptd.lu 262 1613 Rogalik by Jean-Louis Schuller Luxembourg. One of the world’s smallest countries, a green and peaceful place bordered by Belgium, France and Germany. The birthplace of two brothers, Andy and Fränk Schleck, two of the world’s best professional cyclists. Following Team Leopard Trek and the Schleck Brothers, this film focuses upon the team’s participation in the prestigious 2011 Tour de France. It is an intimate cinematic portrait of two brothers and a team under pressure to live up to the expectations of their country. The Road Uphill documents the relationships, motivations and belief systems integral to Leopard Trek – core aspects of the team which are not usually exposed by television reportage. This documentary investigates the day-to-day life of a professional cycling team and the physical, mental and emotional thresholds that they need to overcome to win the greatest race on earth. FILM ID 263 FILM ID 3185 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs by Christian Schulz, Jan N. Lorenzen, Carsten Günther, Nina Koshofer by Alina Teodorescu, Dmitri Popov 264 3242 Russia’s History Revealed – Part I, II and III Russian Girls How can I ‘hunt down’ the man of my dreams ? Or any man at all ? How should I glance, how should I move, how should I bend down and obey – to attract male attention ? For all these matters, there are special women’s courses and exercises available in post-communist Moscow. In a country where there are 5 millions more women than men, the ‘battle’ to find a man can sometimes assume existential proportions. They all have one basic insight in common, however: For a woman to find a good man, she has to start by working on herself … FILM ID Facts Germany, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 58 min / 70 min Original Title Russian Girls Original L anguage Russian Sales Contact Heino Deckert Deckert Distribution Marienplatz 1 04103 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.deckert-distribution.com The focus lies on the key events that defined the various epochs of this huge realm and which still resonate to this very day. The story is told through the history of three major Russian cities: St. Petersburg, Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad and Moscow. This is where everything comes together: key turning points in politics and war, tales of heroes, world-changing inventions and discoveries. In short these are snapshots of human happiness and boundless energy as well as huge tragedies affecting entire peoples and dramas on a historic scale. Russia’s History Revealed is a docudrama set against the backdrop of impressive landscapes and historic locations, combined with a wealth of fascinating and previously unseen archive material and exciting, emotive re-enactments, which bring to life the various Russian eras in opulent detail. Facts Germany, 2011 Colour, HDcam 45 min Original Title Die Geschichte Russlands – Teil I, II und III Original L anguage German Sales Contact Andrea Seibert Global Screen Sonnenstraße 21 80331 München, Germany [email protected] www.globalscreen.de 265 FILM ID 450 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest San Agustin – Low Tide in the Plastic Sea 266 962 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Seduced And Blackmailed by Alexander Hick, Gudrun Gruber, Michael Schmitt In the midst of the world’s biggest fruit and vegetable garden, the so called‚ ‘Mar del plástico’, lies the Andalusian village of San Agustín. For the local planters this season’s atmosphere is prophesying crisis: A mysterious virus threatens the harvest, bacteria attack the plants and the authorities are after the illegal workforce in the greenhouses. Planter José Maria would rather choose to live among vegetables than people anyway, while the Crespo family, who seems to belong to a different era, tries to get by with vegetables, breeding goats and a giant compost pile. This is all part of the daily routine for Paco, the village tavern’s barman, who knows all of his customers’ problems. San Agustín takes an out of the ordinary look at the ‘Mar del plástico’ – Europe’s most important producer and vendor of fruit and vegetables – as it fights with its own existence once more during the cucumber crisis of 2011. Two families, a village tavern and a lot of vegetables. One harvest season in nine chapters. FILM ID by Aldo Gugolz Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 72 min Original Title San Agustin – Ebbe im Plastikmeer Original L anguage Spanish Helg Sgarbi, a charming Swiss man, tries to extort 14 million Euro from BMW’s major shareholder Susanne Klatten by threatening to publish intimate photos. She contacts the police, Sgarbi is arrested. But this case is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg: Several gullible women were blackmailed by Sgarbi. The money probably went to an Italian miracle healer and his sect. Is he the mastermind behind the crime ? Facts Switzerland, 2011 Colour, Beta SP 51 min Original Title Verführt und erpresst Original L anguage German, Italian Produced by Sales Contact Tina Janker HFF München Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1 80333 München, Germany [email protected] www.hff-muenchen.de Lina Geissmann pret a tourner film, Switzerland involved Broadcasters SRF, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 12 / 2011 SRF 1, Switzerland Sales Contact Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com 267 FILM ID 2228 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Shenandoah 22 Section Genre ChileDoc History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Sibila by David Turnley An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a proud immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution and today in decline and struggling to survive and retain its identity, soul and values – all of which were dramatically challenged when four of the town’s white, star football players were charged in the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Luis Ramirez. Pulitzer Prizewinning photographer David Turnley’s most personal work, Shenandoah creates a deeply felt portrait of a working class community, and the American Dream on trial. FILM ID by Teresa Arredondo Facts USA, 2012 Colour, HDcam 97 min Original Title Shenandoah Original L anguage English Produced by Billy Peterson Epic Match Media, USA www.epicmatchmedia.com I remember the night when the history of my family changed. We received a phone call from Peru saying that my aunt Sibila was in prison accused of forming part of the Shining Path. I was seven years old and my parent’s protective silence made me transform her image into a great mystery. She was kept in prison for 15 years. Today she is free and I want to get close to her, to listen and to understand. Sibila is a journey that builds the present by looking at the past. It is also an encounter between two generations looking for dialogue. Facts Chile, Spain, 2012 Colour, HDcam 94 min Original Title Sibila Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Teresa Arredondo Casimusicos Cine, Chile www.sibiladocumental.com in co-production with PUBLIC SCREENINGS David Turnley, USA 3 / 2012 Toulouse Film Festival, France 4 / 2012 BAFICI, Argentina 4 / 2012 Malaga Film Festival, Spain 6 / 2012 FIDOCS, Chile Sales Contact Billy Peterson Epic Match Media, USA [email protected] www.epicmatchmedia.com Sales Contact Teresa Arredondo Casimusicos Cine Los coligues 1518 Vitacura 7630000 Santiago, Chile [email protected] www.sibiladocumental.com 268 269 FILM ID 1633 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait 429 Section Genre DOK International Competition Author’s Point of View Human Interest Sofia’s Last Ambulance The Sky over here by Selim Harbi After 25 years of career in Syrian civil aviation, Habib loses inequitably his pilot’s job. This professional crash is followed by a family explosion and by social decay. His German wife quits him and his children too, except Maher, his eldest son. Today, 56-year-old Habib has lost everything, or almost everything. He lives in Berlin and earns his living by collecting empty bottles. The street is his universe and at night his refuge. He survives thanks to the poetry which allows him to take up with the sky while protecting his identity and his pride. Habib is the living memory of a period to which he clings stubbornly so as not to lose his ultimate marks. In a dedication to Hafiz al Assad that he frequented in the past lies an admiration and an unlimited respect he puts above the importance of his own life. Habib: still faithful to the political model which caused his setbacks. FILM ID by Ilian Metev Facts Germany, Tunisia, 2012 Colour, HDcam 52 min Original Title Min Houna Essama Original L anguage Arabic, German Produced by Selim Harbi, Germany www.slimharbi.com Sales Contact Selim Harbi Leuschnerdamm 19 10999 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.slimharbi.com In a city where 13 ambulances struggle to serve 2 million people, Krassi, Mila and Plamen are our unlikely heroes: chain-smoking, filled with humour, relentlessly saving lives against all odds. Yet, the strain of a broken system is taking a human toll: how long can they keep fixing society’s injured until they loose their empathy ? The film uses an unorthodox creative form which dodges sensationalism. We are captivated by the faces of our protagonists and the sounds surrounding one of Sofia’s Last Ambulances. Facts Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia, 2012 Colour, HDcam 75 min Original Title Poslednata Lineika na Sofia Original L anguage Bulgarian Produced by Ingmar Trost Sutor Kolonko Filmproduktion, Germany www.sutorkolonko.de in co-production with Dimitar Gotchev SIA Ltd, Bulgaria www.sia.bg, Siniša Juričić Nukleus film d. o. o., Croatia www.nukleus-film.hr involved Broadcasters WDR/ARTE, Germany WDR, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Karlovy Vary IFF, Spain 6 / 2012 Moscow IFF, Russia 9 / 2012 San Sebastián, Czech Republic 9 / 2012 Toronto IFF, Canada Sales Contact Valeska Neu Films Boutique Köpenicker Strasse 184 10997 Berlin, Germany [email protected] 270 271 FILM ID 2138 Section Genre DOK German Competition Human Interest Portrait by Dirk Schäfer 272 1597 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Sounds from the Fog A Sort Of Love For a year filmmaker Dirk Schäfer accompanied thirty year old Nevzat through his disordered life. Nevzat, who grew up in the bosom of a Kurdish tribe at Turkey’s border to Iran, had been forced into a marriage at the age of fifteen in order to pacify a smoldering blood feud with another clan. Yet the marriage was never consummated and again and again Nevzat chose to stay away from village life by hiring himself out as a construction worker in the mega metropolis Istanbul, a job that almost claimed his life. Caught between the traditional codes of honour in his community, and his status as a member of the Kurdish minority in Turkey, Nevzat has been forced to use his wits to forge his way and has had a hard time planning a future. An observational documentary, A Sort of Love is also both the source and reflection of an unusual friendship. FILM ID by Klaus Stanjek Facts Germany, Turkey, 2012 Colour, DCP 70 min Original Title Eine Art Liebe Original L anguage Kurdish, Turkish Produced by Dirk Schäfer, Turkey www.orientme.eu Sales Contact Dirk Schäfer Kumrulu Yokuşu 4 34000 Istanbul, Turkey [email protected] www.orientme.eu ‘Active forgetting’ is a common process of coping with history in Germany. In a radical personal approach, the film follows the complex turns and twists of feelings, when they try to deal with threatening knowledge. My cheerful uncle lived with my family unless he was touring as an entertainment musician across Germany. Only at his age of 90, I detected what my whole family had hidden: that he had spent 8 years in Nazi camps and that he was gay. During the following research I found out that my hometown, which presented itself as a liberal town, had been a major stronghold of the early Nazi-Party. I found out that even in brutal concentration camps turbulent festivities took place where my uncle was part of; that my mother enjoyed her career in the Hitler-Youth although knowing about her brothers captivity. Because of several taboos, the story of my beloved uncle was hardly accessible. By means of animation and image compositing, we revitalized the available photos. My surprising encounters in several countries and my reflections lead the audience through the burdened social history of Germany – with a humorous undertone. Facts Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 90 min Original Title Klänge des Verschweigens Original L anguage Czech, English, German Produced by Klaus Stanjek Cinetarium Babelsberg, Germany www.cinetarium.de in co-production with Beate Schlanstein WDR, Germany www.wdr.de involved Broadcasters WDR, Germany Sales Contact Klaus Stanjek Cinetarium Babelsberg Alt Nowawes 50 14482 Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany [email protected] www.cinetarium.de 273 FILM ID 3350 Section Genre Leipzig Screening History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Florian Opitz 274 3247 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs The Spies of Scientology – Office of Special Affairs O.S.A. Speed – In Search of Lost Time ‘My experience with time by now is limited to the one feeling – I don’t have enough.’ It’s a paradox. Never before in history we have worked more efficiently. Never before we have saved time with more sophisticated technologies. Anyway, nearly all of us are feeling an increasing pressure of time. It seems that the same technology that has been invented to make our life better and easier, is now enslaving us. Florian Opitz tries to track down the reasons of our shortage of time and for the constant acceleration of our lives. In his search of lost time he not only questions his own hectic lifestile, but also visits several people, to find out how they deal with time. The pacemakers of the constant acceleration of society as well as dropouts. In Speed. In search of lost time step by step he reveals the disturbing picture of a civilisation, that has disposed of all brake systems and, run by autopilot, goes blindly for unlimited and eternal growth, no matter what the consequences are. But Opitz also tries to find the good life. In the nishes of the global capitalism he discovers alternatives to the rat race. FILM ID by Frank Nordhausen, Markus Thöß Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 96 min Original Title Speed – Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit Original L anguage English, German Produced by Oliver Stoltz Dreamer Joint Venture Filmproduktion GmbH, Germany www.dreamerjointventure.de involved Broadcasters WDR/ARTE, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 1 / 2012 Max Ophüls Preis, Germany Sales Contact Wekas Gaba Dreamer Joint Venture GmbH Regensburger Str. 25 10777 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.dreamerjointventure.de Scientology is one of the world’s most controversial sects. Yet even though we are aware that international stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta are among the followers of the sect founded by Ron Hubbard. What is less known is that Scientology has its own secret service: the ‘Office of Special Affairs’ – O.S.A. for short – which is run by Scientology boss David Miscavige in Los Angeles. It is the oldest private secret service in the world, and bigger and more influential than the secret service agencies of many countries. But why does a religious community need a secret service ? What methods are used by this mysterious organization and to what ends ? Who are the people who work for this ‘service’ ? In order to find answers to these questions, Frank Nordhausen and Markus Thöss spent more than a year researching with their camera in Europe and the U. S. The O.S.A. zeroes in on rebels and critics. Scientology agents have already been accused of espionage, breaking and entering, coercion and other criminal acts. In their research, the filmmakers uncovered trails leading to the top ranks of political life – including the State Department in Washington. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 58 min / 90 min Original Title Die Spitzel von Scientology – Sektengeheimdienst O. S. A. Original L anguage German Sales Contact Andrea Seibert Global Screen Sonnenstraße 21 80331 München, Germany [email protected] www.globalscreen.de 275 FILM ID 3245 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs The Spy from the Pariser Platz 276 3301 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Portrait Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview by Scott Christianson, Egmont R. Koch On the 3rd of September, 1941 the SS carried out a top-secret experiment in the Auschwitz concentration camp, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust: several hundred war prisoners were murdered with Zyklon B, a granulate that releases extremely toxic hydrogen cyanide. A few weeks later, the representative of Germany’s IG Farben corporation received American couriers in his villa on the banks of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, gave them top-secret documents about Hitler’s toxic gas production as well as about Zyklon B, produced by IG Farben. Did information about the planned ‘final solution’ reach the U. S. at an early stage through these channels ? This documentary by the American journalist Scott Christianson and his German colleague Egmont R. Koch makes use of recent archival findings to explore this matter in depth. The film tells the amazing story of the German economic consultant Erwin Respondek, who was initially a participant in the cartel agreements between IG Farben and the American chemical corporation Du Pont before mutating into a spy and providing the Americans with secrets on Hitler’s toxic-gas production. Respondek worked in an office on the Pariser Platz in Berlin … FILM ID by John Gau, Robert Cringley, Paul Sen Facts Germany, 2011 Colour, HDcam 52 min Original Title The Spy from the Pariser Platz Original L anguage German Sales Contact Andrea Seibert Global Screen Sonnenstraße 21 80331 München, Germany [email protected] www.globalscreen.de In 1995, during the making of his TV series Triumph of the Nerds about the birth of the PC, Bob Cringely did a memorable, long interview with Steve Jobs. At the time of the interview he was running Next, the niche computer company he had founded after leaving Apple. During the interview, Jobs was witty, outspoken and visionary – a pioneer at the peak of his powers, already anticipating the digital future that one day he would do so much to make possible. Only a part of the interview was used in the series and the rest was thought lost. But recently a copy was found in the director’s garage. There are surprising few filmed interviews with Steve Jobs, and even fewer good ones. So the producers decided to clean this one up to give today’s audiences a chance to see Jobs at his charismatic best looking into the future then. A future which is now ! Facts USA, 201 Colour, HDcam 70 min Original Title Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview Original L anguage English Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 277 FILM ID 408 Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait A Story for the Modlins 3169 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Science Stradivari’s Heirs by Sergio Oksman After appearing in the film Rosemary’s Baby, by Roman Polanski, Elmer Modlin ran away with his family to a distant land, where they shut themselves inside a dark apartment for thirty years. FILM ID by Corinna Engelhardt Facts Spain, 2012 Colour, DCP 26 min Original Title A Story for the Modlins Original L anguage English This film is a fascinating journey into the world of the Stradivari violin, known for its incomparable resonance. International scientists, luthiers and musicians such as Matthew Trusler collaborate to recreate the sound of the famous instrument, which is believed to be linked to the density of the wood. They try to find it back using a special fungi. Will they succeed ? Will they get to the bottom of it ? Facts Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, 2011 Colour 52 min Original Title Stradivaris Erben involved Broadcasters Deutsche Welle, Germany Produced by Sergio Oksman Dok Films, Spain www.dokfilms.es PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 Documenta Madrid, Spain Sales Contact Pauline Mazenod Windrose SAS 7, rue Civiale 75010 Paris, France [email protected] www.windrose.fr Sales Contact Sergio Oksman Dok Films Rodriguez San pedro 72 – 5 º 28015 Madrid, Spain [email protected] www.dokfilms.es 278 279 FILM ID 2261 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Stremt 89 3180 Section Genre Focus Latin America Author’s Point of View Portrait Stretcher by Anda Pușcaș, Dragoș Dulea In 1989, in Romania, the anti-communist revolution was taking place on the streets of the big cities. But all around the country, people were waiting, in fear, in doubt, with contained excitement, in their trained paranoia, for something to change. In the small hunters’ village of Stremt, news travelled slowly. So slow in fact, that only after they saw Ceausescu flee on television, did they decide to start their own revolution. Each man had a rifle and a theory, but most importantly, a cellar stacked with homemade alcohol. So it was no surprise that soon enough, every neighbour behind a fence was a terrorist. 22 years later, the documentary follows what people thought they did, what they think they should have done, and how they would have been better off if they had done it differently. FILM ID by Marcel Beltrán Facts Romania, 2012 Colour, DCP 14 min Original Title Stremt 89 Original L anguage Romanian Produced by Anda Pușcaș UNATC, Romania in co-production with Dragoș Dulea Eat Us Alive Films, Romania www.facebook.com / hellopixels PUBLIC SCREENINGS 1 / 2012 Filmul de Piatra, Romania 3 / 2012 Tampere FF, Finland 4 / 2012 goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Germany Mejengue lives all alone on a mountain in Cuba. He takes his stuff like plates and cups and goes down to a village. Mejengue’s daily life is bartering or selling his stuff to get rice. One day, Mejengue comes all the way down and takes a bus to the village. But the bus breaks down on the way, and he decides to walk the long way. He tries very hard to get rice going from house to house, but it is never easy. Mejengue does not give up on getting rice, and he decides to participate on Parihuela. Parihuela means the traditional way to carry sick people in a mountainous region, which is an inconvenient mode of transportation in Sierra Maestra, Cuba. The film not only holds firm to the basic principle of ‘direct cinema’ but has a view of sincerity and completion. The production crew shot Cuban natives and Mejengue’s personal problems in their lives along with an anthropological view of an existence in a community around a mountainous region. They made a film of two episodes (The Breaking Down of the Bus, Parihuela) on mise en scene with an almost perfect level of shooting skill. Facts Cuba, 2010 Colour, DigiBeta 13 min Original Title Parihuela Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Marcel Beltrán, Cuba Sales Contact Marcel Beltrán Fca San Tranquilino 32500 San Ant Baños, Cuba promocioninternacional@ eictv.co.cu Sales Contact Anda Pușcaș UNATC Estacadei 1 062225 Bucharest, Romania [email protected] 280 281 FILM ID 453 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Portrait The Stripper Section Genre DOK.Incubator Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs by Vladislava Planciková Facts Sweden, 2012 Colour, HDcam 72 min Original Title Strippan Original L anguage Swedish Produced by Stefan Berg Berg Images, Sweden www.bergimages.se involved Broadcasters Sveriges Television AB, Sweden My identity as a taboo of two nations. Hungarian for Slovaks, Slovaks for Hungarian. My personal journey into the past of my family to heal the future of two neighbours. This is my personal story. My grandma and all her family came to Slovakia from Hungary a long time ago. They were forced to live in a house of evicted Hungarians. How can the result of a chess game of a few politicians after the Second World War change the destiny of thousands of families ? I want to find out what happened. I let old pictures, maps, letters, shoes and memories tell the story of two nations. As this film is part of the DOK.Incubator workshop 2012 and still in post-production, DOK Market presents only a trailer. Facts Slovakia, 2013 Colour, DigiBeta 75 min Original Title Felvidek. Horna Zem Original L anguage Hungarian, Slovak Produced by Tomáš Kaminský Mandala Pictures, Slovakia www.mandalapictures.eu involved Broadcasters RTVS, Slovakia PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sales Contact 3 / 2012 Silver Docs, USA Tomáš Kaminský Mandala Pictures Mariánska 18 900 31 Stupava, Slovakia [email protected] www.mandalapictures.eu Sales Contact Stefan Berg Berg Images Västra Rönneholmsvägen 33 21741 Malmö, Sweden [email protected] www.bergimages.se 282 3340 Stuck in the middle by Stefan Berg Calista is a young girl who dreams of a life as a dancer. The future looks bright and when she is 16-years old, she is selected for a dance school in New York. But the journey and her dance career is interrupted when she finds out that she is pregnant. The father of the child is a Mormon and she is forced into a marriage. No more dancing. After eight years, Calista is in such a deep depression that she leaves the family and ends up sleeping on a park bench. By chance she meets a girl who introduces her to the stripper profession. This becomes her temporary salvation. FILM ID 283 FILM ID 2214 Section Genre ChileDoc Author’s Point of View Human Interest Tales About The Future 284 85 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Human Interest Tea or Electricity by Patricia Bustos They are four Chileans under thirty years of age who have known each other since childhood. They grew up in the same poor neighbourhood and formed part of a children’s news programme called Chinoticias. They acted as journalists, asking their neighbours about the problems in the local area. Although many of those problems still exist, those times seem like long ago. Now adults, today they are building their lives and forming families in a country that does little to make things easy for them. A lack of opportunities is a part of their landscape, and the passing of their days is a genuine portrait of Chile in 2010. Tales about the future is an observational documentary about their lives over the course of a year. It is a film about the dreams and dignity of four young people who, like many in Chile, were born and grew up on the edge of the city. FILM ID by Jérôme Le Maire Facts Chile, 2012 Colour, HDcam 68 min Original Title Cuentos sobre el futuro Original L anguage Spanish Tea or electricity tells the epic story of the implementation of electricity in a tiny isolated village enclosed in the middle of the Moroccan High Atlas. Over more than three years and season after season, the director patiently reveals the outlines of the net that will inevitably end up closing on the people of Ifri. Before our eyes is drafted the image of the merciless modernity that the small village will now be connected to. Facts Belgium, France, Morocco, 2012 Colour, DCP 90 min Original Title Le Thé ou l’électricité Original L anguage Arabic Produced by Produced by Paula Talloni Palenque Producciones, Chile www.palenque.cl Isabelle Truc Iota Production, Belgium www.iotaproduction.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS involved Broadcasters 8 / 2012 SANFIC, Chile 9 / 2012 PINTACANES, Chile RTBF, Belgium Arte G. E. I. E., France Sales Contact PUBLIC SCREENINGS Paula Talloni Palenque Producciones Gerona 3450 7790767 Santiago, Chile [email protected] www.palenque.cl 4 / 2012 Vision du Réel Switzerland 1 / 2012 Cinéma Flagey Belgium Sales Contact Sandrine Perrin Merci qui ? Distribution 200 av de Tervueren 1150 Brussels, Belgium [email protected] www.merciqui.org 285 FILM ID 315 Section Genre DOK Market Ethnology / Religion History / Politics / Current Affairs The Tears of the Afghan Lord 1063 Section Genre Focus Saxony History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait TelH78 by Pascale Bourgaux During ten years, I filmed Mamour Hasan, a Northern Afghan warlord, his family and his village. In 2001, Hasan used his personal army to serve the famous Commander Massoud in his battle against the Taliban. Now, ten years later, the village is about to fall completely in the hands of the Taliban. A big part of the old soldiers as well as some of Mamour Hasan’s family and even his oldest son are refusing occidental presence and support the Taliban Regime. How, in this stronghold of anti-taliban résistance, did we get to this ? FILM ID by Alina Cyranek, Eike Goreczka Facts Belgium, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 58 min Original Title Les Larmes du seigneur Afghan It has almost vanished from our urban horizons, that rotting dinosaur, the post office’s telephone booth. There were times when the booth was a vital place. The film searched for – and found – one of the last of this dying breed, and had them divulge stories now threatened by oblivion. Facts Germany, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 6 min Original Title TelH78 Original L anguage Original L anguage Uzbek German Produced by Produced by Isabelle Truc Iota Production, Belgium www.iotaproduction.com Peter Zorn PMMC / Werkleitz Zentrum für Medienkunst, Germany pmmc.werkleitz.de involved Broadcasters RTBF, Belgium Sales Contact Daniela Elstner Doc & Film International 13 rue Portefoin 75003 Paris, France [email protected] www.docandfilm.com 286 PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Filmfest Dresden, Germany Sales Contact Alina Cyranek Schnorrstr. 6 04229 Leipzig, Germany [email protected] www.alinacyranek.com 287 FILM ID 415 Section Genre DOK Market Author’s Point of View Human Interest A Thousand Trees 1759 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Portrait Tomorrow by Edward Lawrenson In the late 1940s, the modern town of Glenrothes in Scotland was built from scratch on empty farmland to house workers for a nearby coal mine. With the pit long closed, the original residents reflect on their memories of the community that emerged. Mixing archive footage charting the construction of the first buildings with evocative present-day images of the town, A Thousand Trees contrasts the bright promise of those early days with the lived-in reality of today. FILM ID by Andrey Gryazev Facts United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HD Videofile 20 min Original Title A Thousand Trees Original L anguage English Produced by Edward Lawrenson, Pia Borg Marker, United Kingdom This film is about the most striking occurrence in contemporary art in Russia, the art-group Voina (War). Their founders — Vor (Thief) and Koza (Goat) live underground, raise their one-year old son Kasper and carry out art actions on the fine edge between art and criminal code. Their courageous political statements leave nobody indifferent (and disturb absolutely everybody). They live in the present, hoping that tomorrow, they can change everything. Facts Russia, 2012 Colour, HDcam 52 min / 90 min Original Title Zavtra Original L anguage Russian Produced by Andrey Gryazev, Russia PUBLIC SCREENINGS 1 / 2012 London Short Film Festival, United Kingdom 6 / 2012 Open City Docs FF, United Kingdom 2 / 2012 Berlinale, Forum, Germany 4 / 2012 BAFICI, Argentina 6 / 2012 Moscow IFF, Russia 7 / 2012 New Horizons, Poland Sales Contact Sales Contact Edward Lawrenson Marker 88 Heddington Grove N7 9SZ London, United Kingdom [email protected] Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshineberlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 288 289 FILM ID 1023 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Tomorrow You Will Leave 290 2692 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs Tour Du Faso by Martin Nguyen In the 80s in a small Austrian village an old man, Mr. Karlhofer, saw a TV report about the struggle of Vietnamese Boat People. He decided to do something. He brought a young Vietnamese couple with a baby to his village, organised a home and work. This family were my parents and I. In the past there was another helper: Ali, a former Malaysian police officer. Ali supported them with food and stuff my father could sell. When they left the refugee camp Pulau Bidong, my parents promised Ali to write, but my father lost the address. He was never able to say ‘Thank you’, never able to say that all went fine. ‘Let’s go back to Malaysia and look for him’, my father suggests to me. The film tells the story of my family who fled Vietnam in the 1980s and settled down in a small Austrian village to build up a new life. After all, they return for the first time to Malaysia to find Ali and the former refugee camp Pulau Bidong where I was born. The past meets the present. FILM ID by Wilm Huygen Facts Austria, 2012 Colour, HDcam 83 min Original Title Tomorrow You Will Leave Original L anguage German, Vietnamese involved Broadcasters ORF, Austria PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 London IFF, United Kingdom Sales Contact Arash T. Riahi Golden Girls Filmproduktion Seidengasse 15 / 3 / 20 1070 Vienna, Austria [email protected] www.goldengirls.at www.everydayrebellion.com The ‘Tour du Faso’: Africa’s biggest cycling race – An event attracting fortune seekers and dreamers of great variety. The film puts its focus on those who are standing outside the spotlight, always revealing their admirable energy. Amid this clash of European perfectionism and African realities we follow hobby adventurers, ex-pros and local heroes in their passionate fight for making their dreams come true. The quest of our protagonists goes far beyond the question of who will win – instead, our attention is also drawn towards their experiences and inner journey. Just like the German Benjamin Hoeber, who is fighting for more than this year’s overall victory. He has reached a point in his life where he has to make a final decision: finally taking a regular job and living a normal life or keeping to a struggle for a dream that might never come true – Tour du Faso is his last chance to become a real cycling pro. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 89 min Original Title Tour Du Faso Original L anguage English, French, German Produced by Jonas Katzenstein, Maximilian Leo Augenschein Filmproduktion, Germany www.augenscheinfilmproduktion.de PUBLIC SCREENINGS 9 / 2012 Toronto IFF, Canada Sales Contact Joachim Kühn Real Fiction Filmverleih Hansring 98 50670 Köln, Germany [email protected] www.realfictionfilme.de 291 FILM ID 2685 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Tournesols – Al Rastan 2892 Section Genre East Silver & IDF Arts / Culture / M usic Human Interest Trains of Thoughts by Anonymous With a Syrian lens, and in one of the few films released in Syria during the revolution, we visit Al-Rastan, a town in the city of Homs that witnessed military clashes before other cities, and which after the huge brave uprising of its people by the beginning of the Syrian spring, Al-Rastan has been and still is facing a brutal war against its civilians day and night. The martyr’s funeral is not only songs and cheering for freedom, there are faces hiding behind the crowds, eyes filled with tears and agony, crying the last good-bye to the son or brother. The storyteller is anonymous, so is the filmmaker; while the dissident soldier reveals his identity, speaks with his face uncovered after seeing death, seeing himself a criminal against his family and deciding to disobey his commander’s orders. FILM ID by Timo Novotny Facts Syria, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 25 min Original Title Tournesols – Al Rastan نتسرلا Original L anguage Arabic Produced by Anonymous, Syria PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2011 Doha Tribeca FF, Qatar Trains of Thoughts is an audio-visual essay, which reflects upon and compares metro-systems around the world. It is an exploration of a world inside the world as well as the feelings fascination, obsession, fear and themes of survival, control and silence that make it revolve. The film will take you through New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Vienna, Tokyo and Hong Kong unleashing the imagination at every destination with its distinctive palette of visuals and selection of sounds from Sofa Surfers. Facts Austria, 2012 Colour, DCP 80 min Original Title Trains of Thoughts Original L anguage Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Russian Produced by Ulrich Gehmacher Orbrock Filmproduktion, Austria involved Broadcasters Sales Contact Iman al Jundi Syrians Within Boarders Baghdad str. 5542 Damascus, Syria [email protected] ORF, Austria MDR / ARTE, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 7 / 2012 Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic 9 / 2012 Sarajevo FF, Bosnia Sales Contact Ulrich Gehmacher Orbrock Filmproduktion Schottenfeldgasse 56 / 2 3 1070 Vienna, Austria [email protected] 292 293 FILM ID 490 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest The Tree Workers Case Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest by Gerald Igor Hauzenberger Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, HDcam 52 min / 30 min Original Title The Tree Workers Case Original L anguage Czech, English, Vietnamese Produced by Uwe von Schumann, Jürgen Knoll Interaktion Gmbh, Germany in co-production with Daniela Agostini, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10/2012 18 / 18 – IFF about Human Trafficking, Czech Republic Sales Contact Andrea Seibert Global Screen Sonnenstraße 21 80331 München, Germany [email protected] www.globalscreen.de 294 1938 The Trial by Daniela Agostini The Tree Workers Case is the biggest case of human trafficking to be uncovered in the EU in the past two decades. Approx. 2000 workers, mostly Vietnamese, but also from new EU countries like Romania and Slovakia, were systematically exploited in the Czech Republic between 2009 and 2010. The workers need every cent, often going into debt at home to pay their traffickers that abuse them. Police and government seem unable or unwilling to do anything about it. Despite the extensive documentation by lawyers and human rights activists in Prague, not a single case has yet been brought to court. In this moving doc, the Vietnamese woodsmen that were lured to Europe and enslaved tell their stories for the first time, stories of forged documents, inhuman working conditions, bad equipment, no pay, poor food and housing, and violent threats. FILM ID Anti-terrorist squads descend upon animal rights activists as if they were the most dangerous enemies of the state. Although there is no concrete evidence against them, they are imprisoned for an alleged conspiracy and malicious injury of property. International media sarcastically report on this judicial farce, which would become one of the longest trials in Austrian history. The special authority granted by the so-called Mafia Paragraph 278a is still used against hundreds of individuals who take part in political rallies. The film follows the case as closely as possible from different angles – members of the police force were not allowed to speak about the proceedings while the trial still lasted – but its main focus lies on the fate of some of the defendants from pre-trial custody release to the extremely financially and psychologically challenging trial itself. Facts Austria, 2012 Colour, DCP 112 min Original Title Der Prozess Original L anguage German Produced by Michael Seeber Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH., Austria www.goldengirls.at involved Broadcasters ORF, Austria PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2011 Viennale, Austria Sales Contact Gerald Igor Hauzenberger framelab filmproduktion Sechshauser Strasse 13 / 29 1150 Wien, Austria [email protected] www.derprozess.at 295 FILM ID 3346 Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Portrait Twilight of the Yakuza 296 2942 Section Genre East Silver & IDF Author’s Point of View Human Interest Two Nil by Sebastian Stein The Yakuza, Japan’s organised crime syndicates, are a dying breed. Their members are aging and the government of Japan has launched a large-scale crackdown on them to eradicate them once and for all. But who are the Yakuza ? Undoubtedly the Yakuza are involved in crimes including extortion, fraud, murder, drugs & gambling. However, Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the industrialised world, with crimes related to drugs or street gangs strikingly low, a fact that many contribute to the presence of the Yakuza. The Yakuza is a legal, public group making them easy to check on. Their offices are public, their members registered by the police and Yakuza members went as far as freely admitting their guilt in cases of crime investigations, as a part of their code of honour. In reaction to strict government measures against them, the Yakuza has ceased all cooperation with the law. This documentary deals with the struggle of the Yakuza for its survival. Furthermore, unprecedented access to the secret world of the Yakuza gives you an insight on who the Yakuza really are: criminals, outcasts, but also family men and a part of Japanese society. FILM ID by Pavel Abraham Facts Germany, Japan, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 104 min Original Title Twilight of the Yakuza Original L anguage English, Japanese Produced by Sebastian Stein, United Kingdom Sales Contact Kazz Basma Sideways Film 7 Bouverie Mews, Bouverie Road. N16 0AL London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.sidewaysfilm.com At a football stadium in the very heart of Prague the biggest Czech football match of the year is about to take place. The live broadcast begins. This time however, the twenty-two film cameras are not aimed at the pitch, but at the stands. They record how various people experience this one shared event. An astonished kid from the football prep team, a bettor who has put thousands of crowns on the match result, or a member of the security service who is there to assure a smooth running of the event: they all experience it differently. A distinguished literary critic, who is not really interested in football, a lady who takes care of what goes on in the VIP lounge, or disoriented Italian tourists who just stare disbelievingly at it all: they each have a different attitude too. Each camera presents a unique and authentic insight into the different levels of the stands, as well as the different levels of today’s society. Each character represents a unique version of the same match. Facts Czech Republic, 2012 Colour, DCP 108 min Original Title Dva nula Original L anguage Czech Produced by Tomas Bojar, Pavel Abraham Cinema Arsenal, Czech Republic www.cinemaarsenal.cz in co-production with Jordi Niubo i / o post, Czech Republic www.iopost.cz PUBLIC SCREENINGS 7 / 2012 Karlovy Vary FF, Czech Republic 10 / 2012 Jihlava IFF, Czech Republic Sales Contact Tomas Bojar Cinema Arsenal Na vršku 8 150 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic [email protected] www.cinemaarsenal.cz 297 FILM ID 1267 Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition Human Interest Portrait Tzvetanka 2108 Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition Ethnology / Religion Portrait Ub Lama by Youlian Tabakov Born in a wealthy family, Tzvetanka passionately dreamed of becoming an actress as a child, but the history of her country completely changed her destiny. The 20th century was historically unique for Bulgaria; it survived the change of three epochs: monarchy, communism and democracy. The epochs were changing and along with them the country and the people living in it. Tzvetanka is the story of my grandmother who outlived these three epochs. Her life represents the stories of many others, of the society and the country itself. FILM ID by Egle Vertelyte Facts Sweden, Bulgaria, 2012 Colour, DCP 69 min / 58 min Original Title Tzvetanka Original L anguage Bulgarian Produced by Mårten Nilsson Gnufilm, Sweden in co-production with Martichka Bozhilova Agitprop, Bulgaria www.agitprop.bg www.bdcwebsite.com A problematic 12 year-old Mongolian kid Galbadrakh (Galaa), who has no father, tries to survive in a Mongolian ger (Mongolian house) district by selling goods on the black market and skipping school. However, one day his mother decides that Galaa should try becoming a lama, a Buddhist monk. This becomes the boy’s dream and a plan of survival. Galaa visits Pethub, one of the most disciplined Buddhist monasteries in Mongolia, and tries to be accepted. In order to achieve this aim, he needs to study hard, get permission from different high lamas and pass through the complicated bureaucracy of the monastery. Will he succeed ? Facts Mongolia, Lithuania, United Kingdom, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 52 min Original Title Ub Lama Original L anguage Mongolian, Tibetan Produced by Lukas Trimonis Wostok Ltd., United Kingdom www.wostok.co.uk Arunas Matelis Studio Nominum, Lithuania www.nominum.lt PUBLIC SCREENINGS involved Broadcasters Sveriges Television AB, Sweden PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2011 Way Out West, Sweden Sales Contact Mårten Nilsson Gnufilm Högbergsgatan 31c 11620 Stockholm, Sweden [email protected] 298 5 / 2012 Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi Buddhist IFF, Sri Lanka 5 / 2012 Krakow IFF, Poland 8 / 2012 XVIII Film Festival della Lessinia, Italy 9 / 2012 Mediterranean Video Festival, Croatia Sales Contact Emma Simpson Journeyman Pictures Ltd. United Kingdom [email protected] www.journeyman.tv 299 FILM ID 3080 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Under Fire: Journalists in Combat Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic by Alysa Nahmias Facts Canada, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 57 min Original Title Under Fire: Journalists in Combat Original L anguage English Produced by Laura Morton JUF Pictures, United Kingdom www.underfirejournalistsincombat.webs.com involved Broadcasters ERR, Estonia PUBLIC SCREENINGS 2 / 2012 Acedemy Award Shortlisted, United Kingdom 2 / 2012 ERR, Estonia Sales Contact Tim Sparke Mercury Media 7 Baseline Studios Whitchurch Road W11 4AT London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.mercurymedia.org 300 3082 Unfinished Spaces by Martyn Burke Only two journalists were killed in World War I. Iraq has so far claimed 120. The recent Libyan uprising has already claimed the lives of four and global conflict looks set to continue … War journalism has become an increasingly lethal endeavour. Not only are correspondents viewed as targets, they are often subject to kidnappings, torture and even beheadings. Under Fire weaves together portraits of these journalists and photographers; those who have survived physically, but have succumbed emotionally to what they have witnessed. Inspired by the work of Dr Anthony Feinstein, the psychiatrist who has been on retainer to many of the world’s major news networks and publications, Under Fire looks at the psychological cost of war as seen through the eyes of combat journalists whose stories make up this powerful and unique film. FILM ID In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to build Cuba’s National Art Schools. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school’s first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country revelled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted. The architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant to the Revolution. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has since invited the exiled architects back to Cuba to finish their unrealised dream. Composed primarily of archival footage and candid interviews with the architects themselves, Unfinished Spaces illustrates a nation’s evolution through the life of a single architectural project. Facts USA, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 56 min Original Title Unfinished Spaces Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Benjamin Murray Ajna Film, USA PUBLIC SCREENINGS 2 / 2012 Independent Spirit Awards, USA 2 / 2012 Montreal FF on Art, Canada 3 / 2012 San Diego Latino FF, USA 6 / 2012 Miami IFF, USA Sales Contact Tim Sparke Mercury Media 7 Baseline Studios Whitchurch Road W11 4AT London, United Kingdom [email protected] www.mercurymedia.org 301 FILM ID 3237 Section Genre DOK Market Arts / Culture / M usic Ethnology / Religion The United States of Hoodoo 1812 Section Genre DOK German Competition and Leipzig Screening Human Interest The Venice Syndrome by Oliver Hardt The documentary explores how African-based spirituality has informed America´s popular culture. The old African gods have taken on new forms since their arrival on North America’s shores. Their spirit now manifests in turntable wizardry, improvisational skills and mindblowing collages, performances and rituals. The film shakes up traditional and stereotypical ways of thinking about race, religion and rationality. Through meetings with musicians, writers and artists, healers, gumbo cooks and Mississippi Blues men, the documentary draws a picture of a culture which has always drawn on a unique mix of different ethnic influences to produce its cultural diversity, allure and vitality. FILM ID by Andreas Pichler Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 99 min / 52 min Original Title The United States of Hoodoo Original L anguage English Produced by Sebastian Popp, Robert Malzahn Stoked Film, Germany www.stokedfilm.com in co-production with Oliver Hardt Signature Films, Germany www.oliver-hardt.com Christel Brunn tvt Postproduction GmbH, Germany www.tvtfilm.com involved Broadcasters ZDF, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 7 / 2012 Theatrical Release, Germany Venice is pure romance; that which all Europeans yearn for, the dream of all Americans, the wish of all Japanese. But the world’s most beautiful city turns into a ghost town at nightfall. Entire quarters, long since abandoned by their inhabitants, stand empty, their structures merely providing a myth to serve business interests. Twenty million foreigners visited the city last year. That’s an average of 60,000 a day. And this year it will be more still. By comparison, there are only 58,000 inhabitants, the same amount as there were after the Great Plague of 1438. And next year it will be fewer still, for the city is becoming uninhabitable. Venice’s own urban life has almost collapsed; it scarcely still exists. The film shows what remains of Venetian life: a subculture of tourist service industries; a port for monstrous cruisers which is waiting to be expanded; Venetians who are moving to the mainland as there are no longer affordable apartments to be found; an aged noblewoman who treats the municipal council with scorn; a realtor who is considering abandoning the sinking ship. A Requiem for a still grand city. An illustration of how common property becomes the prey of few. An elegy to the last Venetians, their humour and their hearts. Facts Germany, Austria, Italy, 2012 Colour, 35 mm 80 min Original Title Das Venedig Prinzip Original L anguage Italian Produced by Thomas Tielsch Filmtank GmbH, Germany www.filmtank.de in co-production with Michael Seeber Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH., Austria www.goldengirls.at Valerio B. Moser Miramonte Film OHG, Italy www.miramontefilm.com Sales Contact Thomas Tielsch Filmtank GmbH Lippmannstr. 53 22769 Hamburg, Germany [email protected] Sales Contact Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com 302 303 FILM ID 655 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait Vera Gran 1527 Section Genre DOK German Competition Arts / Culture / M usic History / Politics / Current Affairs Video Vertov by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz A portrait of Vera Gran – a Jewish singer, very popular in Poland just before the outbreak of the WW2. Her later lots, overshadowed by the Holocaust and accusations of collaboration with the Nazists, spread by some Jewish intellectuals, are tactfully presented in the documentary based on a book by Agata Tuszynska, who researched the topic for almost 10 years. Numerous photographies, posters and interviews with the singer present an exceptional life of an individual trying to find a place in a world dominated by group behavior. FILM ID by Gerd Conradt Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, B / W, DigiBeta 67 min Original Title Wiera Gran Original L anguage Polish Produced by Agnieszka Traczewska Largo Film Studio, Poland www.studiolargo.com.pl The medium video has fascinated filmmaker Gerd Conradt from the beginning, since 1969. As a result he not only became the video pioneer but also a chronicler of this novel too. For Video Vertov Conradt dug deep into his videotape archives to unearth a wide variety of film shots. His travels took him from the Italian lifestyle of the 60s to the communist Berlin and Peking to the Indian ashram in Poona. Life and death, delays and revolutions – Conradt has seen and filmed them all. His role model: Russian film pioneer Dziga Vertov. Video Vertov is Conradt’s trans-media testament to generation 2.0. Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 88 min Original Title Video Vertov Original L anguage German, English Produced by Daniela Schulz kinoglas-films GbR, Germany www.kinoglas-films.com in co-production with Sales Contact Jerzy Kapuscinski TVP2, Poland www.tvp.pl Daniela Schulz kinoglas-films GbR Schenkendorfstr. 3 10965 Berlin, Germany [email protected] www.kinoglas-films.com involved Broadcasters TVP2, Poland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Krakow IDFF Poland, 9 / 2012 Prix Italia FF, Italy 10 / 2012 Prix Europa FF – Berlin, Germany Sales Contact Agnieszka Traczewska Largo Film Studio ul. Szwedzka 74 / 4 30 315 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.studiolargo.com.pl 304 305 FILM ID 1668 Section Genre DOK International Programme Ethnology / Religion History / Politics / Current Affairs Virgin Tales Section Genre DOK International Competition Short Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Inka Achté Facts Switzerland, Germany, France, 2012 Colour, DCP 87 min Original Title Virgin Tales Original L anguage English The Wait is a cinematic journey into the lives of three Finnish families whose loved ones have disappeared mysteriously. Suspended in a limbo of not being able to let go or embrace the ones they have lost, the ones left behind go about their mundane activities, talking to those they miss in an intimate voice over. The absence around them is all pervasive, each moment and action heavy with anticipation. Facts Finland, United Kingdom, 2012 Colour, HDcam 25 min Original Title Odottajat Original L anguage Finnish Produced by Produced by Mirjam von Arx ican films gmbh, Switzerland www.ican-films.com involved Broadcasters ARTE G. E. I. E., France SRF, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland 6 / 2012 Silverdocs, USA Sales Contact Jan Rofekamp Films Transit International 252 Gouin Boulevard East H3L 1A8 Montreal, Canada [email protected] www.filmstransit.com 306 364 The Wait by Mirjam von Arx Evangelical Christians are calling out for a second sexual revolution: chastity ! As a counter-movement to the attitudes and practices of today’s culture, today, one in eight girls in the U. S. has vowed to remain ‘unsoiled’ until marriage. But the seven children of the Wilson family, founders of the Purity Ball, take this concept of purity of body and mind one step further; even their first kiss will be at the altar. For two years the filmmakers follow the Wilson’s as some of their children prepare for their fairytale vision of romance and marriage and seek out their own prince and princess spouses. In the process, a broader theme emerges: how the religious right is grooming a young generation of virgins to embody an Evangelically-grounded Utopia in America. FILM ID Inka Achté, Finland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 Sheffield Doc / Fest, United Kingdom 6 / 2012 Edinburgh FF, United Kingdom 8 / 2012 Fresh Film Festival, Czech Republic 9 / 2012 Nordisk Panorama, Norway Sales Contact Inka Achté 102 Howard Road E17 4SQ London, Finland [email protected] 307 FILM ID 2236 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Warmzeit 1046 Section Genre DOK International Programme Author’s Point of View Science The Way to Mecca by Knut Karger Warmzeit (i. e. warm period) connects people around the world whose every-day lives are affected by globalwarming. From Greenland to Namibia it portrays individuals experiencing the impact of climatic change, as well as scientists and engineers of alternative energy technologies. In Africa, a mere two degrees of warming are going to destroy the foundation of people’s lives. In Greenland today, farmers can grow vegetables in areas where the ground was permanently frozen just decades ago. Major contributors to global climate warming are the industrialized, Western countries and the CO2 emissions they produce. Human actions have become a decisive global parameter and are going to change the face of the world, if we don’t reconsider our choices. FILM ID by Asel Zhuraeva Facts Germany, 2012 Colour, DCP 80 min Original Title Warmzeit 80-year-old Sulaiman Turdubaev is the villager of Alga in Kadamjay district. He has been raising money for Muslim duty to go to Hajj in the holy land of Mecca. He decided to spend all of his money for erecting a monument in honour of the fallen in the Great Patriotic War. Facts Kyrgyzstan, 2012 Colour, HDcam 19 min Original Title Mekkege karai jol Original L anguage Original L anguage Danish, English, German Kirghiz Produced by Produced by Maren Luethje, Florian Schneider, Andreas Hörl Luethje, Schneider, Hörl Produktion, Germany www.luethje-schneider-hoerl.de Asel Zhuraeva Tazar cinemacompany, Kyrgyzstan involved Broadcasters BR, Germany PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 Cinema du Réel, Kyrgyzstan 3 / 2012 Cinema du Réel, France Sales Contact PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 DOK.Fest, Germany 9 / 2012 European Environment Festival, Bulgaria 10 / 2012 CineEco, Portugal Asel Zhuraeva Tazar cinemacompany Dinara Asanova 1 Tazar cinemacompany 720030 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan [email protected] Sales Contact Maren Luethje Luethje, Schneider, Hörl Produktion Landwehrstr. 2 80336 München, Germany [email protected] www.luethje-schneider-hoerl.de 308 309 FILM ID 2011 Section Genre Animadoc Author’s Point of View Human Interest What’s your job ? 2762 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs When Bubbles Burst by François Dufour Interviewees talk about being distracted at work. The film illustrates their remarks in an offbeat and light-hearted manner. FILM ID by Hans Petter Moland Facts France, 2012 B / W, HD Videofile 4 min Original Title Tu fais quoi comme boulot ? Original L anguage French Produced by Aymeric Hays-Narbonne Ecole Emile Cohl, France Sales Contact Aymeric Hays-Narbonne Ecole Emile Cohl 232 rue Paul Bert 69003 Lyon, France [email protected] When Bubbles Burst is the story behind the story: In a globalized economy it becomes increasingly difficult for nations, companies and individuals to protect themselves from today’s extreme financial volatility. The economic ‘butterfly effect’ makes us all equally vulnerable. In this documentary we will travel from Norway out into the world in order to examine the mechanics behind bubbles and crashes, and discuss trends and visions for the future. We will meet Nobel laureates, worldclass economists, players in the global economic casino and ‘the little man’. Together they will give an unflinching account of today’s situation, draw fascinating historical parallels and provide insight needed to better understand the world’s present financial crisis. Facts Norway, 2012 Colour, B / W, HDcam 90 min Original Title Når boblene brister Original L anguage English, Norwegian Produced by Odd Arvid Strømstad Eyeworks Dinamo AS, Norway www.dinamo.no / enheter / eyeworks PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 Filmfest Oslo, Norway 6 / 2012 Silverdocs, USA 6 / 2012 Norway Short FF, Spain 9 / 2012 San Sebastián, Norway Sales Contact Odd Arvid Strømstad Eyeworks Dinamo AS P. O. Box 442 1327 Lysaker, Norway [email protected] www.dinamo.no / enheter / eyeworks 310 311 FILM ID 1400 Section Genre DOK International Programme Ethnology / Religion Human Interest When Hari Got Married Section Genre DOK Market Human Interest Portrait by Maasja Ooms, Ingrid Wender Facts India, United Kingdom, USA, Norway, 2012 Colour, HDcam 75 min / 52 min Original Title When Hari Got Married Getting a complete overview of your life in a single moment; leaving your body; experiencing an indescribable lightness and gentleness; being welcomed by the deceased you loved in your life: Near Death Experiences. Meet three very different people with their experiences in the moment between life and death. Facts Netherlands, 2011 Colour, Beta SP 51 min / 59 min Original Title Retourtje Hiernamaals Original L anguage Original L anguage Hindi Dutch Produced by Produced by Ritu Sarin White Crane Films, India www.whitecranefilms.com Frank van den Engel Zeppers Film, Netherlands www.zeppers.nl PUBLIC SCREENINGS PUBLIC SCREENINGS 10 / 2012 Films From the South, Norway Sales Contact Charles Schuerhoff PBS Distribution, USA [email protected] www.wgbhinternational.org 312 1079 When I Was Dead by Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam Hari, a 30-year-old taxi driver, lives in a small town in the Himalayan foothills of India. He is getting married to Suman, a girl he has never met. Tradition dictates that Hari and Suman will only see each other on the day of their wedding. But Hari has found another way to get to know her: on the mobile phone. Over the past few months they have spoken to each other every day and have fallen in love. Hari knows that for a girl, marriage is a traumatic event when she must abandon the comfort and security of her home and step into a new life with a stranger. He worries about how it will be when they finally meet. Hari and Suman see each other properly for the first time during the wedding ceremony. Will their telephone love prove strong enough to overcome the awkward obstacles of an arranged marriage ? FILM ID 11 / 2011 IDFA, Netherlands Sales Contact Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com 313 FILM ID 434 Section Genre DOK Market Ethnology / Religion Human Interest Portrait Where Heaven Meets Hell 3173 Section Genre DOK Market Ethnology / Religion History / Politics / Current Affairs Where My Heart Beats by Sasha Friedlander Deep in the rain forests of Eastern Java, Indonesia, lies the active volcano, Kawah Ijen, where 500 sulphur miners carrying backbreaking loads, traverse treacherous terrain amidst spectacular vistas and toxic gases. Where Heaven Meets Hell relays the stories of four of these miners, who risk their lives and health daily in an industry we rely on for sugar, matches and cosmetics. This visually stunning and intimate film chronicles their attempts to escape the endemic poverty and lack of education that haunts their community. Drawing strength from their families and Muslim faith, these miners inspire us as they search for meaning in their daily struggles and triumphs. FILM ID by Khazar Fatemi Facts USA, 2012 Colour, HDcam 80 min Original Title Where Heaven Meets Hell Journalist and former refugee Khazar Fatemi returns to her childhood country of Afghanistan for the first time in 20 years. Behind the shadow of war and devastation, Khazar shows us a window into a nation with unimaginable struggles, and an unwavering will to survive. Facts Sweden, 2012 Colour, Beta SP 58 min / 94 min Original Title Where My Heart Beats Original L anguage Original L anguage Indonesian Swedish Produced by Produced by Sally Jo Fifer ITVS, USA www.itvs.org Klara Björk Filmkreatörerna, Sweden www.filmkreatorerna.com in co-production with PUBLIC SCREENINGS Sasha Friedlander Sasha Films, LLC, USA www.whereheavenmeetshell.com 9 / 2012 Raindance, United Kingdom 10 / 2012 La Femme IFF, USA involved Broadcasters Sales Contact ITVS, USA Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 3 / 2012 Hong Kong IFF, Hong Kong 4 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 5 / 2013 Asian Pacific Film Festival, USA 10 / 2012 Hawaii IFF, USA Sales Contact Sasha Friedlander Sasha Films, LLC 658 Warren St. #3 11217 Brooklyn, USA [email protected] www.whereheavenmeetshell.com 314 315 FILM ID 882 Section Genre ChileDoc Arts / Culture / M usic Author’s Point of View Where the Condors Fly 142 Section Genre DOK Young Cinema Competition Author’s Point of View Ethnology / Religion White Men by Carlos Klein Where the Condors Fly is a personal, critical and deeply humorous reflection about filmmaking and its possibilities and limitations. Like a matrouchka doll, it tells the story of a filmmaker making a film about another filmmaker who is himself making a film. FILM ID by Alessandro Baltera, Matteo Tortone Facts Switzerland, Germany, Chile, 2012 Colour, DCP 90 min Original Title Where the Condors Fly Original L anguage English, German, Russian, Spanish Produced by Vadim Jendreyko Mira Film, Switzerland www.mirafilm.ch Maneno is looking for a cure for his wounds. Samson works as gardener in the town acqueduct. Alfred is following the case of a man who has been mutilated in an assault. Mr. White is working at his next concert. These men live near Lake Victoria, an area abundant with stories of sudden richness and miraculous potions, or empty graves and immortality. It is in this region that white men, albinos like the four main characters, are often hunted to become tools of witchcraft. Facts Italy, 2011 Colour, B / W, Beta SP 65 min Original Title White Men Original L anguage Swahili Produced by Enrico Giovannone Babydocfilm, Italy www.whitemen.it PUBLIC SCREENINGS Carlos Klein CKFilms, Chile Hartmut Homolka TM Film, Germany www.tmfilm.de 3 / 2012 Ankara IFF, Turkey 3 / 2012 Festival del cinema Africano, Asia e America Latina, Italy 5 / 2012 Planet Doc Festival, Poland 11 / 2011 Festival dei Popoli, Italy involved Broadcasters Sales Contact SRF, Switzerland BR, Germany Enrico Giovannone Babydocfilm Via Artisti 30 10124 Torino, Italy [email protected] www.whitemen.it in co-production with PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, Switzerland 6 / 2012 FIDOCS, Chile 8 / 2012 Etats Généraux du Film Documentaire, France 9 / 2012 Message to Man, Russia Sales Contact Vadim Jendreyko Mira Film Weststrasse 182 8003 Zürich, Switzerland [email protected] www.mirafilm.ch 316 317 FILM ID 1492 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest 3234 Section Genre ChileDoc History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Why In My Back Yard – Hidroaysen White Night by Irit Gal Night after night a group of Palestinian women go on a border-crossing journey from their village, crawling on the ground through a hole in the fence and into Jerusalem. Here they pretend to be Israeli, blend into their surroundings, and go to work in order to support their children. On these nightly journeys they share with each other their lives, pain, hopes and dreams. These women manoeuvre their lives between the men who forbid them to work and the Israeli soldiers who pursue them. They risk capture and arrest every night to work as cleaning ladies in Jerusalem. FILM ID by Rafael Valdeavellano Facts Israel, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 48 min Original Title Layla Lavan Original L anguage Arabic, Hebrew Produced by Nurit Kedar Inosan Productions, Israel PUBLIC SCREENINGS 6 / 2012 DocAviv, Israel Every morning Maria Irene Soto wakes up convinced she works for the best energetic project in the world: Hidroaysen. She has spent years going over Chilean Patagonia trying to convince the locals, the authorities and even her children of the benefits this project will bring to Chile. Claudia Torres, a volunteer for the internationally renowned NGO ‘Patagonia Without Dams’, organizes protests and campaigns to try to avoid Hidroaysen’s intervention of her life and the nature she lives in. As the day of the final voting of the project approaches, both women will be confronted and will see the final result of their efforts. Facts Chile, 2011 Colour, HD Videofile 50 min Original Title Por Qué En Mi Jardín – Hidroaysén Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Rafael Valdeavellano La Ventana Cine, Chile www.laventanacine.com in co-production with Sales Contact Nurit Kedar Inosan Productions 18 Yosef Karo Tel Aviv, Israel [email protected] Claudia Godoy TVN, Chile www.tvn.cl involved Broadcasters TVN, Chile Sales Contact Rafael Valdeavellano La Ventana Cine Rebeca Matte 2143, La Reina 7860475 Santiago, Chile [email protected] www.laventanacine.com 318 319 FILM ID 2887 Section Genre Doc Alliance History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest The Will Section Genre Visions du Réel & Swiss Films Author’s Point of View Human Interest by Manuel von Stürler Facts Denmark, 2011 Colour, HDcam 87 min / 58 min Original Title Testamentet Original L anguage Danish Produced by Sarita Christensen Copenhagen Bombay, Denmark www.copenhagenbombay.com PUBLIC SCREENINGS 11 / 2011 Copenhagen IFF, Denmark 11 / 2011 IDFA, Netherlands 5 / 2012 Warsaw IFF, Poland 7 / 2012 Marseille IFF, France Sales Contact Esther van Messel First Hand Films Neunbrunnenstrasse 50 8050 Zürich, Switzerland esther.van.messel@ firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com 320 878 Winter Nomads by Christian Sonderby Jepsen Henrik’s ass is in a tight corner. His girlfriend has split up with him, drug and alcohol abuse have gotten the upper hand, and he’s deeply in debt. When everything is most dire and his woes seem wholly insurmountable, a door to new life is opened when Henrik’s wealthy grandfather dies, leaving behind a huge fortune. But at the promise of money, family war breaks out, and years of failure and betrayal are revealed. FILM ID Pascal and Carole are shepherds. In November 2010, they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which they will have to cover 600 km in the Swiss-French region, accompanied by three donkeys, four dogs and eight hundred sheep. They will brave the cold and the bad weather day in day out, with a canvas cover and animal skins as their only shelter at night. An odyssey through a region undergoing profound changes that render this kind of expedition more difficult every year, particularly when the grass for the sheep has to be found between villas, railroad tracks and industrial areas. A film dominated by the strong personalities of Pascal and Carole, whose relationship and joie de vivre transform this transhumance into a magnificent hymn to freedom, at opposite extremes of our comfortable reality. Winter Nomads is an adventure film, a contemporary road movie, a reflection on our current world which takes us back to our roots and our inner questions. Facts Switzerland, 2012 Colour, DCP 90 min Original Title Hiver Nomade Original L anguage French Produced by Heinz Dill Louise Productions Sàrl, Switzerland www.louiseproductions.ch in co-production with Manuel von Stürler, Switzerland PUBLIC SCREENINGS 2 / 2012 Berlinale, Germany 4 / 2012 Visions du Réel, France 4 / 2012 San Francisco, USA 5 / 2012 DokFest München, Germany Sales Contact Heinz Dill Louise Productions Sàrl Avenue de France 60 1004 Lausanne, Switzerland [email protected] www.louiseproductions.ch 321 FILM ID 3077 Section Genre DOK International Programme History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Portrait 250 Section Genre Focus Latin America Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs With my Heart in Yambo Winter, Go Away ! by Elena Khoreva, Denis Klebleev, Dmitry Kubasov, Askold Kurov, Nadezhda Leonteva, Anna Moiseenko, Madina Mustafina, Sofia Rodkevich, Anton Seregin, Alexey Zhiryakov Winter, Go Away ! was filmed by the graduates of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s Documentary Filmmaking and Theater School, on the initiative of Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper. Ten young directors did not part from their cameras for two months. The result was a chronicle of Russia’s winter protests – a chronicle of those who make the political climate and those who are dissatisfied with the makers. We see people, their faces, their conversations, rallies, victories and defeats ahead of the presidential election. A living camera interacts with living heroes. Winter Go Away is funny in places – and yet contains an overall sadness. Its nearly 80 minutes go by very quickly – so quickly, that one immediately wonders; what comes next. FILM ID by Fernanda Restrepo Facts Russia, 2012 Colour, HDcam 79 min Original Title Zima, ukhodi Original L anguage Russian Produced by Marina Razbezhkina Risk Film Studio, Russia PUBLIC SCREENINGS 8 / 2012 Locarno, Switzerland Sales Contact Diana Karklin Rise and Shine World Sales Schlesische Straße 29 / 3 0 10997 Berlin, Germany diana.karklin@ riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.com On January 8, 1988, when I was 10 years old, my parents decided to go on vacation and leave me with my brothers Santiago and Andrés who were 17 and 14 years old. That day I went to a friend’s birthday party and they were to pick me up in the afternoon. Night fell and dawn found me still waiting and watching at the window. They never arrived. After one year of uncertainty and anguish, we discovered that on that very same day my brothers had been kidnapped, tortured, murdered and kidnapped by the Ecuadorian police for no reason at all. Their bodies were thrown into Lake Yambo, a 2-hour drive from Quito, but we have never found them. More than 20 years after their disappearance a new search is carried out in Lake Yambo and my personal rediscovery of the story I had only partially experienced earlier begins to unravel. This documentary emphasizes the power memory has in keeping us alive. Facts Ecuador, 2011 Colour, DCP 136 min Original Title Con mi Corazon en yambo Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Fernanda Restrepo, Ecuador www.conmicorazonenyambo.com involved Broadcasters Ecuavisa, Ecuador PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2011 Festival Encuentros del Otro Cine, Ecuador 10 / 2011 Cinemark, Ecuador 11 / 2011 IDFA, Netherlands 2 / 2012 Festival De Cine De Cartagena, Colombia Sales Contact Isabel Carrasco La Republica Invisible, Ecuador direccion@ conmicorazonenyambo.com 322 323 FILM ID 753 Section Genre DOK Market History / Politics / Current Affairs Human Interest Within The Eye of The Storm 324 899 Section Genre Animadoc Author’s Point of View History / Politics / Current Affairs Within Within by Shelley Hermon Bassam and Rami, a Palestinian and an Israeli, were once dedicated fighters willing to kill and be killed by one another for the sake of their nations. Yet each one of them came face to face with the price of war when their daughters were killed in the conflict. Left with the excruciating pain of bereavement, they chose to do the unexpected. They set out on a joint journey to humanize the very enemy, which took the dearest thing from them and prevent the vicious cycle of retaliation in themselves and their societies. Along the way they reveal the friendship and humour that keeps them alive. The film follows their two parallel stories and the moments where they converge, both in their personal experiences and peace work as they face their shattered families, confused communities and opposing societies. This is a critical junction in both their lives, as their life mission and personal agenda clash and they stand the biggest test to their friendship. FILM ID by Sharon Liu Facts Israel, 2012 Colour, HDcam 68 min Original Title Bein Hasara Original L anguage Arabic, Hebrew ‘There are many things we cannot choose in life, no one can choose their parents. You have to learn to love them before knowing them.’ My graduation film is about my personal feelings to Hong Kong and its complicated relationship with China. It expresses what I really want to say and feel at the age of 23, that I love not just my birth place Hong Kong but my country as well. Facts United Kingdom, 2011 Colour, B / W, HD Videofile 4 min Original Title Within Within Original L anguage English Produced by Produced by Shelley Hermon Firefly Pictures, Israel Sharon Liu, United Kingdom PUBLIC SCREENINGS TV5, France 3 / 2012 Independant Short Film and Video Awards, Hong Kong 3 / 2012 Tricky Women Festival, Austria 4 / 2012 AniFest, Czech Republic 4 / 2012 IFF Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sales Contact Sales Contact Jean-Michel Trèves J. M. T. Films Distribution & Worldwide Sales 20 Bialik Street 63324 Tel Aviv, Israel [email protected] www.jmtfilms.com Sharon Liu Flat 2, 358 Edgware road, W2 1EB London, United Kingdom [email protected] in co-production with Nisan Katz Nisansun Productions, Israel www.nisansun.com involved Broadcasters 325 FILM ID 231 Section Genre ChileDoc Author’s Point of View Portrait The Woman And the Passenger 2886 Section Genre Doc Alliance Author’s Point of View Ethnology / Religion Human Interest Work Hard – Play Hard by Patricia Correa, Valentina Mac-Pherson A documentary that reflects on love through the experiences of 4 women, maids of an emblematic Santiago motel, Marin 014, which will let us peek into the radiography of its passengers. FILM ID by Carmen Losmann Facts Chile, 2012 Colour, HDcam 45 min Original Title Las Mujeres del Pasajero Original L anguage Spanish Produced by Patricia Correa, Valentina Mac-Pherson El Paseodigital / Juana Films Chile www.juanafilms.com A documentary about the removal of boundaries in the workplace. Man, as the most important motor of growth in our highly skilled Western service society, has become the focus of modern management practices. By following these different procedures, the film explores companies’ efforts to motivate their employees so that they give their maximum performance. From innovative office architecture that is supposed to create a whole world of emotions for employees, to the complete digital registration of employees’ personality traits, the workingman has now entered the matrix of a total working world. Facts Germany, 2011 Colour, DigiBeta 90 min Original Title Work Hard – Play Hard Original L anguage German Produced by Erik Winker Hupe Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Germany www.hupefilm.de PUBLIC SCREENINGS PUBLIC SCREENINGS 5 / 2012 FIDOCS, Chile 8 / 2012 FEDOCS, Chile 10 / 2012 Marbella IFF, Spain Sales Contact Valentina Mac-Pherson El Paseodigital / Juana Films Huelén 265, Depto. 21, Providencia. 7500658 Santiago, Chile valentina.macpherson@ gmail.com www.juanafilms.com 326 10 / 2011 Dok Leipzig, Germany 11 / 2011 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany 12 / 2011 It’s All True, Germany 4 / 2012 Visions du Rèel, Switzerland Sales Contact Irena Taskovski Taskovski Films Korunovacni 32 170 00 Prague 7, Czech Republic [email protected] www.taskovskifilms.com 327 FILM ID 1719 Section Genre Hot Docs Ethnology / Religion History / Politics / Current Affairs Portrait The World Before Her 2670 Section Genre Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs Ethnology / Religion Portrait Yorzeit by Nisha Pahuja Twenty young women from across India arrive for an intense, month-long beauty boot camp – they are the hand-picked contestants for the Miss India pageant. Winning the coveted title means instant stardom, a lucrative career path and freedom from the constraints of a patriarchal society. In another corner of India we visit a camp for young girls run by the militant fundamentalist movement. Through lectures and physical combat training, the girls learn what it means to be good Hindu women. Moving between the transformative action at both camps and the characters’ private lives, The World Before Her creates a lively, provocative portrait of the world’s largest democracy at a critical transitional moment. FILM ID by Zuzanna Solakiewicz Facts Canada, 2012 Colour, HDcam 90 min Original Title The World Before Her Original L anguage English, Hindi Produced by Ed Barreveld, Andy Cohen Storyline Entertainment, Canada www.storylineentertainment.com in co-production with Mike Chamberlain Stampede, Canada Nisha Pahuja, Canada PUBLIC SCREENINGS 4 / 2012 Tribeca,USA 5 / 2012 Hot Docs, Canada 5 / 2012 Little Rock,USA 6 / 2012 Sydney FF, Australia In the ruined cemetery in Gorlice, in Southern Poland there is the grave of the tzaddik, a holy master, forgotten years ago by the world. For 30 years now, devout Meir Moszkowicz climbs on the top of a quiet provincial town cemetery from crowded Bnei Brak in Israel. Gorlice is a place where the meaning of life was revealed to Meir along with the mystic presence of his beloved master. So he takes care of master’s grave and the cemetery, he befriends the locals and when he returns to Israel wakes up each day thinking about its holy place. Yortzeit tells the miraculous story of the sage, who embarks with love, faith and joy on a difficult trip to Poland. Facts Poland, 2012 Colour, DigiBeta 52 min Original Title Jorcajt Original L anguage Polish Produced by Barbara Lawska Kronika Film Studio, Poland Sales Contact Katarzyna Wilk Krakow Film Foundation Ul. Basztowa 15 / 8a 31-143 Krakow, Poland [email protected] www.kff.com.pl Sales Contact Ed Barreveld Storyline Entertainment 115 Palmerston Ave. M6J 2J2 Toronto, Canada [email protected] www.storylineentertainment.com 328 329 DOK Leipzig Team DOK Market Diana Arnold Katharina Bergfeld Florian Fischl Dominique Raack Franziska Schmidt Paula Schumann Guest Reception Christiane Wilhelm Ilo von SeckendorffWitzleben Britta Senn Friederike Christoph Katharina Günther Cristina Gutu Benjamin Heine Lea Inselmann Alissa Imsirović Financial Department Press Office Drivers Steffen Schmidt Sylvia Schweitzer Rafael Barth Peer Vorderwülbecke Annika Szott Sascha Ackermann Phillip Boos Christian Hill György Szilagyi Julia Thiele Festival Director, Managing Director Claas Danielsen Head of Administr ation DOK Tr aining Office Angela Pacher Sylvia de Toro-Garland Cur ators Dr. Günter Agde Paulo de Carvalho Dr. Grit Lemke Annegret Richter Dr. Alexander Schwarz Public Rel ations Roland Löbner Luisa Männel Dörthe Winter Catalogue Editor Ina Deicke Nicolaus Schröder Sponsoring Selection and Progr amme Commit tee Documentary Claas Danielsen Ralph Eue Matthias Heeder Cornelia Klauß Dr. Grit Lemke Antje Stamer Selection and Progr amme Commit tee Animationfilm Ingo Linde Lars Meyer Annegret Richter Progr amme Dr. Grit Lemke Documentary Programme Annegret Richter Animation Programme Kim Busch Lina Dinkla Katrin Haucke Marcel Maïga Doc Alliance Lina Dinkla Tina Leeb Events Karina Weisheit Jenny Winkler Alex Wöckel Advisors to the Festival Paulo de Carvalho Barbara Ciesielski Elizabeth Marschan Sirkka Möller Tue Steen Müller Rada Šešiċ Barbara Wurm Felix Endruweit Detlef Fluch Jana Fuchs Frauke Knappke Matthias Mai Sebastian Mandla Silke Mühl Beate Maschke-Spittler Janna Steenfatt Kristina Strauss Lars Tuncay Kaya de Wolff Kids Presenters Oskar Lemke Linus Maschke Lina Märtens DOK Industry Christine Hille Klaus Franzheld Mila Kiratzova Eva Rink Brigid O’Shea 330 Nikola Basler Irina Bondas Anne-Kathrin Ende Dr. Hannelore Lenk Peggy Plötz-Steger Georg Siebert Martina Utpott Bernhard Weisemann Wolfram Wiessner Dr. Miriam Zeh-Glöckler Tr ansl ator Kuros Ghaffari Heinz Hentschel Sabine Niewalda Film Print Administr ation Martin Kiebeler Béla Kovács Johannes Pelka Print Control Cinema Assistants Presenters DOK macht Schule Sophie Hellriegel Katja Schmidt Luc-Carolin Ziemann Interpreter Jury Assistants Jette Blümler Helena Matschiner Claudia Max Felix Rößger Anna Baranowski Melanie Jilg Stefan Trampe Technical Department Digitalisation René Blümel Danko Dolch Paul Müller-Hahl Nadja Kühn Wolfgang Samlowski Cinema and Video Equipment Projectionists Anna Baranowski Johannes Bernstein Dietmar Ils Ralph Nünthel Andreas Schönwies Team CineStar Team Passage Kinos Team Cinémathèque Leipzig Team Schaubühne Lindenfels Team Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig Volunteers Marcio Arend Franziska Barth Lina Bartnik Sophie Bauer Paula Baumgärtner Benjamin Bernard Rafael Bies Merit Binder Leonore Blume Anne-Coralie Bonnaire Lea Bork Anja Bretzer Christin Büchele Ariane Busse Lisa Dannapfel Christina Demenshina Laura Droll Petra Ertl Theresa Faber Maximilian Fleischer Katharina Frohnapfel Pamela Gómez Hanna Günther Claudia Hammermüller Marie Hartung Timothy Jones Isabel Hindersin Sandra Kamphake Maria Ketzmerick Kati Kietzmann Maxi Klaut Vicky Klug Natalie Kohler Sylvio Konkol Tilman Kootz Stefan Kutschera Melissa Lampe Erik Laube Nina Lechthoff Philipp Lemmerich Annika Lenz Grit Lichtenecker Felix Lindner Beatrice Loske Max Mantell Carlo Märzke Katharina Meyer Aurore Montaut José Carlos de Moraes Silva Vanessa Müller Katia Aiko Murata Claudia Naumann Pablo Navarete Sabine Netz Kristin Noack Lena Philipp Janina Puder Pia Rauschenberger Lisa Rechenberg Laura Rehkuh Christin Richter Julika Ruf Sebastian Runge Luisa Sancelean Gonzalo Serce Laura Schorcht Anna Schüler Susann Schumann Moritz Schurer Lisa Schurrer Rebecca Schweier Stephanie Schweigert Katharina Simowitsch Christine Stein Elisabeth Struck Michelle Toussaint Eva Vadamootoo Maria Venne Sabrina Viereckel Viola Vollmer Robert Wehner Pola Weiß Franziska Werner Gr aphics and Design Visionauten Hug & Eberlein Festival Photogr apher Martin Jehnichen DOK Digital Department Computer Leipzig Database Kalenda Systems System Administr ator Computer Leipzig Video Technics Big Cinema Ils Medientechnik 331 Index English Titles p. 334 Original Titles p. 336 Directors p. 338 Countries p. 341 Genres p. 344 SALES companies and agents p. 348 sections p. 353 333 English Titles No 11 Images of a Human 24 1712 Battle of the Baltic 25 24 Buckets, 7 Mice, 18 Years 26 300 Tons of Gold 27 The 5th Season 28 74 m2 29 A About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now 30 Addiction 31 AG Geige – An Amateur Film 32 All Happy Mornings 33 Ameer Got His Gun 34 Among Men – Gay in East Germany 35 The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images 36 Anatomy of a Departure 37 And Italy Took Flight 38 And Who Taught You to Drive 39 Another Night on Earth 40 Appassionata 41 Arbeit Heimat Opel 42 Are You Listening ! 43 The Art Of Yodeling 44 As You Like It 45 B The Basketball Game 46 Battery Man 47 Beautiful Faces 48 Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy 49 Beerland 50 The Bella Vista 51 Bells of Happiness 52 Benghazi: Beyond The Front Line 53 Bert Stern: Original Madman 54 A Better Life is Elsewhere 55 Better This World 56 Between Two-Spirit 57 Beyond Wriezen – A movie about life after serving time in jail 58 Big Boys Gone Bananas !* 59 Birders, The Central Park Effect 60 Bitter Seeds 61 Blender 62 The Blockade 63 Borderline, An Unsetting Journey Along The World’s Longest UN-Defended Border 64 334 Bouchbennersch Otto / how to treat differentness 65 Breathing Earth – Susumu Shingu’s Dream 66 The Brussels Business 67 Bury my Heart in Dresden 68 Buzkashi! 69 C The Calm 70 Camp 14 – Total Control Zone 71 The Captain and His Pirate 72 Captain Thomas Sankara 73 The Carbon Rush 74 Castles and Palaces of Europe 75 Centrefold 76 Check Point 77 Chronicle of a Forgotten Death 78 Chronicles of the Last Temple 79 Closed Sea 80 Cloudy Mountains 81 Colombianos 82 Colors of Math 83 Comparing Now and Then 84 Corta 85 Crackle of time – Christoph Schlingensief and his opera village in Burkina Faso 86 Crimson Mask 87 Crulic – The Path to Beyond 88 Cuba – Mafia’s Paradise – The History of a Gangster Domain 89 Cult Witness 90 D Damascus, My First Kiss 91 Dance For Me 92 Dancing Alone 93 Danube Hospital 94 Daughter 95 Death of a Cemetery 96 Defending Karadzic 97 Demokratia, The Way Of The Cross 98 Disease of the Third Power 99 Documentarian 100 Downeast 101 Dragan Wende – How the Trabant invaded West-Berlin and ruined my Uncle’s Kingdom 102 Drawing for Memory 103 Dream Jobs 104 Dream of San Juan 105 Dress to Impress 106 Drivers Wanted 107 Drought 108 Dublin’s Trap: Another Side Of The Greek Crisis 109 Duck Beach To Eternity 110 E Eames: The Architect And The Painter 111 Earth 112 Emperor’s Toys 113 The Employment 114 End of The Road 115 The End of Time 116 Entangled 117 Erwin Wurm – The artist who swallowed the world 118 Escape from Paradise 119 Everything will not be fine 120 Exit Point 121 F Family Meals 122 Fidaï 123 The Field of Magic 124 The Final Member 125 Fire in the Blood 126 Fists Of Pride 127 The Flowers of my Family 128 For You Naked 129 Forbidden Voices 130 Forget me not 131 Fouad’s Dream 132 The Four Year Plan 133 Freestyle life 134 From Hollywood To Nuremberg – John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens 135 The Future’s Past 136 G The Gang 137 Generation SMS 138 Gilad And All That Jazz 139 The Girl Behind the Camera (WT) 140 Global Home 141 Going Up The Stairs 142 The Great Book Robbery 143 The Great Fallacy 144 The Gypsy Vote 145 H Happy Birthday Emily 146 Happy Serious Sad 147 Hava Nagila – The Movie 148 He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes 149 Heino Jaeger – Look Before You Kuck 150 Herman’s House 151 Herstory 152 History Shorts 153 A Home Far Away 154 The House I Live In 155 How Ping Pong Saved the World 156 El Huaso 157 Huerfano Valley 158 The Human Zoo 159 Hungry Minds 160 I I Am Louisa Jules 161 I Want My Country Back 162 I Was Born In Delhi 163 Icebound: The Story of the 1925 Alaska Serum Run 164 Iceland Year Zero 165 If I Wasn’t Born 166 I’ll Stop Crying if You Stop Crying 167 Impenetrable 168 In Between – The British Artist Richard Deacon 169 The Incredibles 170 Indie Game: The Movie 171 Infiltrados 172 Intimatta 173 The Invisible String 174 Irish Folk Furniture 175 Isqat al Nizam – At The Regime Border 176 Italy, Love it or Leave it 177 J Jakarta Disorder 178 Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet 179 Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears 180 The Joy Down There 181 K Keep Up The Good Work 182 Kern 183 The Khmer Rouge and the Man of Non-Violence 184 The Kid and The Clown 185 Kiran 186 L The Land Beneath the Fog 187 Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 188 Lapsus 189 The Last Black Sea Pirates 190 The Last Catch 191 The Last Station 192 Legends for Beginners 193 Leontina 194 Letter Tape 195 The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus 196 The Lifeguard 197 Like Stone Lions at the Gateway Into Night 198 Lisa, Go Home! 199 Little Afghanistan 200 Little Perestrojka 201 Live or Die in Entebbe 202 Loden – The Little Monk 203 Long Vacation 204 Losing Sonia 205 M The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear 206 Mad. A World of Fashion 207 Magic Skies – A History of Fireworks 208 Magic Words (to Break a Spell) 209 Mama Illegal 210 Mandala 211 The Man’s Field 212 Matthew’s Laws 213 Men’s Lust 214 Milana 215 The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 216 Mother 24/ 7 217 Mother’s Day 218 Mountain Love Story 219 Musics 220 My Father and The Man In Black 221 My First Mountain – A Rigi Film 222 My House Without Me 223 My Stuff 224 Peace Out 241 A People Uncounted 242 A Perfect Candidate 243 Petra’s Poem 244 Places Other People Have Lived 245 Playback 246 Polish Illusions 247 Pondering 248 The Postman 249 Presence 250 Private Universe 251 Project Z: The Final Global Event 252 Protect everyone i love 253 The Punk Syndrome 254 Pushwagner 255 R Randland 256 Reality 2.0 257 The Red Dream Factory 258 Red Hair and Black Coffee 259 Regilaul – Songs of the Ancient Sea 260 The River People 261 The Road Uphill 262 Rogalik 263 Russian Girls 264 Russia’s History Revealed – Part I, II and III 265 O The Oath 231 One Meter Above Ground 232 The Other Day 233 Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened 234 Over My Dead Body 235 Overtime 236 S San Agustin – Low Tide in the Plastic Sea 266 Seduced And Blackmailed 267 Shenandoah 268 Sibila 269 The Sky over here 270 Sofia’s Last Ambulance 271 A Sort Of Love 272 Sounds from the Fog 273 Speed – In Search of Lost Time 274 The Spies of Scientology – Office of Special Affairs O.S.A. 275 The Spy from the Pariser Platz 276 Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview 277 A Story for the Modlins 278 Stradivari’s Heirs 279 Stremt 89 280 Stretcher 281 The Stripper 282 Stuck in the middle 283 P Pablo’s Winter 237 The Palace 238 Paperbox 239 Papirosen 240 T Tales About The Future 284 Tea or Electricity 285 The Tears of the Afghan Lord 286 N The Night of the Bear 225 Night’s Drifters 226 No Business like Showbusiness 227 No Harm Done 228 Nurse Gretel # 2 – Escape 229 Nyosha 230 335 TelH78 287 A Thousand Trees 288 Tomorrow 289 Tomorrow You Will Leave 290 Tour Du Faso 291 Tournesols – Al Rastan 292 Trains of Thoughts 293 The Tree Workers Case 294 The Trial 295 Twilight of the Yakuza 296 Two Nil 297 Tzvetanka 298 U Ub Lama 299 Under Fire: Journalists in Combat 300 Unfinished Spaces 301 The United States of Hoodoo 302 V The Venice Syndrome 303 Vera Gran 304 Video Vertov 305 Virgin Tales 306 W The Wait 307 Warmzeit 308 The Way to Mecca 309 What’s your job? 310 When Bubbles Burst 311 When Hari Got Married 312 When I Was Dead 313 Where Heaven Meets Hell 314 Where My Heart Beats 315 Where the Condors Fly 316 White Men 317 White Night 318 Why In My Back Yard – Hidroaysen 319 The Will 320 Winter Nomads 321 Winter, Go Away ! 322 With my Heart in Yambo 323 Within The Eye of The Storm 324 Within Within 325 The Woman And the Passenger 326 Work Hard – Play Hard 327 The World Before Her 328 Y Yorzeit 329 336 Original Titles No 1712 Battle of the Baltic 25 24 Galeti, 7 Soareci, 18 Ani 26 300 Tonna Arany 27 Die 5te Jahreszeit 28 74m2 29 A About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now 30 AG Geige – Ein Amateurfilm 32 Alleine Tanzen 93 L’ Anabase de May et Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi et 27 années sans images 36 Anatomie des Weggehens 37 And Who Taught You to Drive 39 appassionata 41 Arbeit Heimat Opel 42 Eine Art Liebe 272 The Art Of Yodeling 44 B Die Bande 137 The Basketball Game 46 Beautiful Faces 48 Beer is Cheaper than Therapy 49 Beerland 50 Begrabt mein Herz in Dresden 68 Bein Hasara 324 El Bella Vista 51 Benghazi: Beyond The Front Line 53 Bert Stern: Original Madman 54 Das Bessere Leben ist Anderswo 55 Better This World 56 Biba Struja 47 Big Boys Gone Bananas !* 59 Birders, The Central Park Effect 60 Bitter Seeds 61 Blender 62 Blokada 63 Bnei and not B’nei 34 Borderline, An Unsetting Journey Along The World’s Longest UN-Defended Border 64 Bouchbennersch Otto / vom Umgang mit Andersartigkeit 65 Breathing Earth – Susumu Shingu’s Dream 66 The Brussels Business 67 Buzkashi ! 69 C La Calma 70 Camp 14 – Total Control Zone 71 Capitaine Thomas Sankara 73 The Carbon Rush 74 Centrefold 76 C’était un Géant aux Yeux Bruns 149 Check Point 77 Cheveux rouges et café noir (Dames blanches et esprits noirs) 259 La Chica detras la Camera (WT) 140 Chronique d’une Mort Oubliée 78 Cigáni idú do volieb 145 Cloudy Mountains 81 Cogitations 248 Colombianos 82 Colors of Math 83 Comme des lions de pierre à l’entrée de la nuit 198 Comparing Now and Then 84 Con mi Corazon en yambo 323 Corta 85 Crimson Mask 87 Crulic – Drumul spre dincolo 88 Cuates de Australia 108 Cuba – Mafia’s Paradise – The History of a Gangster Domain 89 Cuentos sobre el futuro 284 Cult Witness 90 D Dans For Mig 92 De Regels van Matthijs 213 Death of a Cemetery 96 Defending Karadzic 97 Demokratia, o Dromos tou Stavrou 98 Dimashq Qublati Al-ula 91 Dokumentālists 100 Dolge pocitnice 204 Donauspital 94 Downeast 101 Dragan Wende – How the Trabant invaded West-Berlin and ruined my Uncle’s Kingdom 102 Drawing for Memory 103 Dream Jobs 104 Drivers Wanted 107 Dublin’s Trap: Another Side Of The Greek Crisis 109 Duck Beach To Eternity 110 După FEL și CHIP 45 Dva nula 297 E E L’Italia Volo 38 Eames: The Architect And The Painter 111 El impenetrable 168 El Sueno de San Juan 105 Elf Freunde Sollst Du Sein 193 El Empleo 114 End of The Road 115 The End of Time 116 Entre il et ailes 57 Erlesene Welten 160 Erwin Wurm – Der Künstler der die Welt verschluckt 118 F Fazlamesai 236 Feliz Cumpleaños Emily 146 Felvidek. Horna Zem 283 Fidaï 123 The Final Member 125 Fire in the Blood 126 Las Flores de mi familia 128 För dig naken 129 Forbidden Voices 130 Fouad’s Dream 132 The Four Year Plan 133 Frohes Schaffen – Ein Film zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral 182 From Hollywood To Nuremberg – John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens 135 G Gdzie jest Sonia 205 Generation SMS 138 La Gente del Río 261 Die Geschichte Russlands – Teil I, II und III 265 Gilad And All That Jazz 139 Global Home 141 Das Glück da unten 181 Going Up The Stairs 142 The Great Book Robbery 143 Der Große Irrtum 144 H Happy Serious Sad 147 Hava Nagila – The Movie 148 Heino Jaeger – Look Before You Kuck 150 Herman’s House 151 Herstory 152 Hija 95 History Shorts 153 Hiver Nomade 321 A Home Far Away 154 The House I Live In 155 How Ping Pong Saved the World 156 El Huaso 157 Huerfano Valley 158 The Human Zoo 159 I I Want My Country Back 162 I Was Born In Delhi 163 Icebound: The Story of the 1925 Alaska Serum Run 164 Iceland année zéro 165 Ich Bin Louisa Jules 161 I’ll Stop Crying if You Stop Crying 167 In Between – Der britische Künstler Richard Deacon 169 Los Increibles 170 Indie Game: The Movie 171 Infiltrados 172 Intimatta 173 The Invisible String 174 Irish Folk Furniture 175 Isqat al Nizam – viaggio ai confini del regime 176 Italy, Love it or Leave it 177 J Jakarta Disorder 178 Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet 179 Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears 180 Jorcajt 329 Une Journée du facteur Khan Agha 249 K Der Kapitän und sein Pirat 72 Kern 183 Le Khmer rouge et le non violent 184 Kiran 186 Klänge des Verschweigens 273 Kleider machen Freunde 106 Kleine Perestrojka 201 Klovn For Livet 185 Knistern der Zeit – Christoph Schlingensief und sein Operndorf in Burkina Faso 86 Kol Habkarim Ha’smechim 33 Kovasikajuttu 254 L Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 188 Lapsus 189 Les Larmes du seigneur Afghan 286 Layla Lavan 318 Leontina 194 Letter Tape 195 Der Letzte Fang 191 Lichyot O Lamut Be Entebbe 202 The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus 196 Liza, namo ! 199 Loden – Der kleine Mönch 203 M Die Lust der Männer 214 Magic Skies – A History of Fireworks 208 Mama Illegal 210 Mandala 211 Manqana, romelic kvelafers gaaqrobs 206 MansFeld 212 Mare Chiuso 80 Matka 24h 217 Mein erster Berg – Ein Rigi Film 222 Mekkege karai jol 309 Même pas mal 228 Metr nad ziemia 232 Milana 215 Min Houna Essama 270 Moj dom 223 Il Mondo Di Mad 207 The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 216 Mother’s Day 218 Mountain Love Story 219 Las Mujeres del Pasajero 326 Muzyki 220 My Father and The Man In Black 221 N Nach Wriezen – Ein Film über das Leben nach der Haft 58 Når boblene brister 311 Negeri di Bawah Kabut 187 Nemoc tretej moci 99 Nerven Bruch Zusammen 120 Nije ti život pjesma Havaja 122 Nos Jours, Absolument, Doivent être Illuminés 234 La Nuit de l’Ours 225 La Nuit Remue 226 Nyosha 230 O The Oath 231 Odottajat 307 Otra Noche en la Tierra 40 El Otro Dia 233 Over My Dead Body 235 P Pablo’s Winter 237 Palabras Mágicas para romper un encantamiento 209 337 Palac 238 Papierowe pudełko 239 Papirosen 240 Parihuela 281 Peace Out 241 Pedeja temple hronikas 79 A People Uncounted 242 A Perfect Candidate 243 Petite Afghanistan 200 Petra’s Poem 244 Places Other People Have Lived 245 Playback 246 Les Poings de la Fierté 127 Pommersche Illusionen 247 Por Qué En Mi Jardín – Hidroaysén 319 Poslednata Lineika na Sofia 271 Poslednite chernomorski pirati 190 Presence 250 Project Z: The Final Global Event 252 Der Prozess 295 Punkt wyjscia 121 Pushwagner 255 R Randland 256 Reality 2.0 257 Regilaul – Lieder aus der Luft 260 Retourtje Hiernamaals 313 The Road Uphill 262 Rogalik 263 Die Rote Traumfabrik 258 Russian Girls 264 S El Salvavidas 197 San Agustin – Ebbe im Plastikmeer 266 Schlösserwelt Europa 75 Schütze alle, die ich lieb 253 Schwester Gretel # 2 – Flucht 229 Shenandoah 268 Shunte Ki Pao! 43 Sibila 269 Soukromy Vesmir 251 Speed – Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit 274 Die Spitzel von Scientology – Sektengeheimdienst O.S.A. 275 The Spy from the Pariser Platz 276 Stebuklų laukas 124 Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview 277 A Story for the Modlins 278 Stradivaris Erben 279 Stremt 89 280 Strippan 282 Sucht 31 338 T Tavarataivas 224 TelH78 287 Testamentet 320 The Future’s Past 136 Le Thé ou l’électricité 285 A Thousand Trees 288 Tomorrow You Will Leave 290 Tour Du Faso 291 Tournesols – Al Rastan 292 Trains of Thoughts 293 The Tree Workers Case 294 Tu fais quoi comme boulot? 310 Twilight of the Yakuza 296 Tzvetanka 298 U Ub Lama 299 Ucieczka z raju 119 La Última Estación 192 Under Fire: Journalists in Combat 300 Unfinished Spaces 301 The United States of Hoodoo 302 Unter Männern – Schwul in der DDR 35 Uwiklani 117 V Das Venedig Prinzip 303 Verführt und erpresst 267 Vergiss mein nicht 131 Video Vertov 305 Virgin Tales 306 W Warmzeit 308 Wenn ich nicht geboren wäre 166 When Hari Got Married 312 Where Heaven Meets Hell 314 Where My Heart Beats 315 Where the Condors Fly 316 White Men 317 Wiera Gran 304 Die Wiesenberger 227 Within Within 325 Work Hard – Play Hard 327 The World Before Her 328 Y Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa 24 Z Zabawki cesarza 113 Zavtra 289 Ziamlia 112 Zima, ukhodi 322 Zvonky šťastia 52 Zycie stylem dowolnym 134 Directors A Abma, Daniel 58 Abraham, Pavel 297 Achté, Inka 307 Agostini, Daniela 294 Agüero, Ignacio 233 Ahmad Simon, Kamar 43 Al Abed, Lina 91 Alberdi, Maite 197 Alizadeh , Hamed 77 Anker, Daniel 164 Anonymous 292 Anquetil, Bijan 226 Aparo, Pablo 261 Arnst, Hadleigh 110 Arredondo, Teresa 269 Arx, Mirjam von 306 Asliuk, Victor 112 Avni, Shira 244 B B. Hanssen, Auguat 255 Bäss, Jan 174 Baltera, Alessandro 317 Baudelaire, Eric 36 Bekhor, Jonah 125 Beltrán, Marcel 281 Benchimol , Martin 261 Berg, Stefan 282 Bezinović, Igor 63 Bhalla, Angad 151 Bochet, Milena 259 Boers, Eyal 202 Borchert, Dagmar 181 Bourgaux, Pascale 286 Brandstätter, Susanne 136 Breuer, Ascan 178 Broos , Sara 129 Brunner, Benny 143 Bucka, Jana 52 Budisavljevic, Dana 122 Buraja, Oksana 199 Bustos, Patricia 284 C Cano, Alicia 51 Carter, Bryan 109 Castillo, Paola 29 Cattin, Antoine 246 Cavic, Dusan 47 Choi, Bin Chuen 218 Choquette, Helene 127 Christianson, Scott 276 Cohn, Jason 111 Colla, Rolando 55 Collective: XX children 248 Conradt, Gerd 305 Correa, Patricia 326 Couturié, Bill 138 Cringley, Robert 277 Crowe, Rowena 195 Cupelin, Christophe 73 Cutler, R.J. 243 Cyranek, Alina 287 Czapla, Zbigniew 239 D Dahrendorf, Sibylle 86 Damian, Dr. Anca 88 Dammas, Jacob 247 de Vries, Simone 49 Dedio, Florian 25 Dekel, Yael 230 Del Paso, Joaquin 105 Delage, Christian 135 Delmastro, Tim 115 Dev Halder, Bishnu 163 Di Francisca, Anna 207 Dieni, Arzouma Mahamadou 248 Ditscherlein, Matthias 181 Dizon , Jeanie 96 Donoghue, Tony 175 Duane de la Vega, Kelly 56 Duckworth, Martin 132 Duda, Lidia 117 Dufour, François 310 Dulea, Dragoș 280 E Ehrlich, Judith 216 Eisenbarth, Marco 87 El Fani, Nadia 228 Engelhardt, Corinna 279 Entell, Peter 154 Eremenko, Ekaterina 83 F Faigle, Konstantin 182 Fatemi, Khazar 315 Fekete, Jeremy J.P. 75 Fiala, Severin 183 Franczak, Radka 205 Frandsen, Stephen 110 Franke, Ulrike 42 Franz, Veronika 183 Friedlander, Sasha 314 G G. Benestad, Even 255 Gal, Irit 318 Galloway, Katie 56 Gara, Phillip 252 Gastine, Marco 98 Gau, John 277 Gebhardt, Carsten 32 Gertten, Fredrik 59 Geyrhalter, Nikolaus 94 Ghaemmmaghami, Rokhsareh 142 Glynne, Andy 103, 167 Godfryd, Tomasz 113 Goldsmith, Rick 216 Gonczarek, Agnieszka 220 González, Everardo 108 González, María Paz 95 Goreczka, Eike 287 Grasso, Santiago ‘Bou’ 114 Gray, Dylan Mohan 126 Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy 30 Grøn, Ida 185 Grossmann, Roberta 148 Grube, Thomas 188 Gruber, Gudrun 266 Grün, Leopold 256 Gryazev, Andrey 289 Günther, Carsten 265 Guerrero, Felipe 85 Gugolz, Aldo 267 Guillaume, Fred 225 Guillaume, Sam 225 Gurchiani, Tinatin 206 H Harbi, Selim 270 Hardt, Oliver 302 Hauzenberger, Gerald Igor 295 Hentze, Claudia 153 Hermon, Shelley 324 Heth, Dirk 144 Hick, Alexander 266 Hilliges, Anne M. 253 Hlali, Barbara 229 Hodgson, Mat 133 Hörmann, André 203 Hofer, Eileen 149 Hofer, Gustav 177 Holiff, Jonathan 221 Hoppe, Fernández 128 Hübner, Christoph 211 Huygen, Wilm 291 I Iacob, Marius 26 Ignacio, Juan 128 Incalterra, Daniele 168 J Jarecki, Eugene 155 Jersey, Bill 111 Jung, Janina 65 K Kärkkäinen, Jukka 254 Kapel, Liran 230 Karger, Knut 308 Keltek, Gürcan 236 Khoreva, Elena 322 Kim, Jun-Ki 152 Kimball, Jeff 60 Kiwi, Marcelo 146 Kizny, Patryk 220 Klava, Inese 100 Klebleev, Denis 322 Klein, Carlos 316 Koch, Egmont R. 276 Koch, Ulrike 260 Kocsis, Tibor 27 Königs, Torsten 31 Kolahi, Golriz 139 Koshofer, Nina 265 Kostomarov, Pavel 246 Kozole, Damjan 204 Krawczyk, Marcin Janos 217 Kroske, Gerd 150 Kubarska, Eliza 219 Kubasov, Dmitry 322 Kurov, Askold 322 L Labhart, Christian 41 Land, Ellie 76 Langjahr, Erich 222 Lapsui, Anastasia 24 Larvego, Elisa 158 Laumeister, Shannah 54 Lawrenson, Edward 288 Le Maire, Jérôme 285 Lehmuskallio, Markku 24 Leonteva, Nadezhda 322 Levari, Naomi 34 Liberti, Stefano 80 Lietaert, Matthieu 67 Liu, Sharon 325 Loeken, Michael 42 Lorenzen, Jan N. 265 Losmann, Carmen 327 Luukkainen, Petri 224 M Mabe, Ed 156 Mac-Pherson, Valentina 326 Magnússon, Sigurður Hallmar 165 Mangiante, Bernard 184 Manhães Reis, Roberto 161 Mårtens, Tora 82 Martin, Russell 48 Martino, Antonio 176 Math, Zach 125 Matta, Ramuntcho 173 McLaren, Ian 132 Merz, Gunther 28 Merz, Laurin 118 Metev, Ilian 271 Mettler, Peter 116 Miller, Amy 74 Miller, Barbara 130 Mittal, Ekta 250 Moiseenko, Anna 322 Moland, Hans Petter 311 Moncada Rodríguez, Mercedes 209 Morath, Pierre 78 Moschitz, Ed 210 Moser, Friedrich 67 Mozdzierz, Jaroslaw 113 Müller, Lena 102 Mulchi, Hans 159 Muñoz, David 40 Mustafina, Madina 215, 322 N Nahmias, Alysa 301 Najeeb, Mirza 69 Naylor , Laura 110 Nazir, Wahid 249 Nguyen, Martin 290 Nikolic, Aleksandar 97 339 Nordhausen, Frank 275 Novotny, Timo 293 O Oakley, Nick 90 Oksman, Sergio 278 Oneț, Paula 45 Ooms, Maasja 313 Opitz, Florian 274 Orozco, Natalia 53 Orozco Ramirez, Victor 257 Ouedraogo, François d’Assise 248 Ounouri, Damien 123 P Pahuja, Nisha 328 Pajot, Lisanne 171 Palenta, Adam 134 Passi, J-P 254 Peirera, Chico 237 Peled, Micha X. 61 Perèz, Alina Isabel 228 Périgaud, Laurence 57 Périot, Jean-Gabriel 234 Peters, Boris 194 Petrovic, Dragan von 102 Pfletschinger, Bernhard 89 Philippe, Alexandre 196 Philp, Katrine 92 Pichler, Andreas 303 Pilavci, Biene 93 Piussi, Zuzana 99 Planciková, Vladislava 283 Pötscher, Bernhard 201 Poitras, Laura 231 Poupart, Brigitte 235 Proto, Carlo Guillermo 157 Pușcaș, Anda 280 Q Quattrini, Fausta 168 R Ragazzi, Luca 177 Raghunandan, Yashaswini 250 Reck, Susann 62 Redmon, David 101 Rendon, Juan 172 Renner, Bettina 68 Renner, Helge 247 Restrepo, Fernanda 323 Riahi, Arash T. 120 Riedel, Alexander 186 Riedelsheimer, Thomas 66 Rodkevich, Sofia 322 Rösener, Ringo 35 Rusinek, Joanna 113 S Sabin, Ashley 101 Saj, Ernest 119 Sandner, Henrike 208 Saponja, Dusan 47 Sarin, Ritu 312 Schäfer, Dirk 272 340 Schäfer, Hendrik 166 Schargorodsky, Paula 140 Scheuerer, Viola 161 Schilt, Martin 227 Schleitzer, Karsten 193 Schmid, Claudia 169 Schmidt, Marc 213 Schmidt, Markus 191 Schmitt, Michael 266 Schneider, Mario 212 Schönenberger, Franziska 253 Schuller, Jean-Louis 262 Schult, Astrid 162 Schulz, Christian 265 Schulz, Susanne 137 Schuster, Falk 106 Schwarz, Alexander 258 Schwehm, Beatrix 160 Schweiger , Gabi 214 Seerat, Basir 200 Segre, Andrea 80 Sekulich, Daniel 64 Sen, Paul 277 Seregin, Anton 322 Sieveking, David 131 Simanis, Davis 79 Siregar, Shalahuddin 187 Snider, Hart 46 Sodré, Moumouni Jupiter 248 Solakiewicz, Zuzanna 329 Solnicki, Gastón 240 Sonam, Tenzing 312 Sonderby Jepsen, Christian 320 Soto, Cristian 192 Stanjek, Klaus 273 Stefan , Samuel 90 Stein, Markus 35 Stein, Sebastian 296 Stotz, Eva 141 Stoyanov, Svetoslav 190 Sulik, Marek 52 Suntasiri, Gail Piyanan 104 Suntasiri, Piyanan 104 Survila, Mindaugas 124 Sweetwood, Matt 50 Swirsky, James 171 Szelc, Jagoda 121 Szymkow, Magdalena 223 T Tabakov, Youlian 298 Tataru, Oliver 37 Taylor, David van 243 Tealdi, Stefano 38 Thiele, Andrea 39 Thöß, Markus 275 Timm, Bettina 186 Todd, Mike 180 Tölle, Christoph 31 Tolas, Eivind 44 Tortone, Matteo 317 Třeštíková, Helena 251 Trzaska, Jan Paweł 105 Turnley, David 268 U Uhlig, Dirk 256 V Valdeavellano, Rafael 319 Valero, David 170 Vergara, Catalina 192 Vertelyte, Egle 299 Vílchez Rodríguez, Fernando 70 Vile, Jesse 179 Vojtek, Jaroslav 145 von Boehm, Gero 75 von Malsen-Ponickau, Franziska 147 von Stürler, Manuel 321 Voss, Gabriele 211 W Weber, Bernhard 227 Weinstein, Joshua Z. 107 Wender, Ingrid 313 Wierzchowski, Grzegorz 113 Wiese, Marc 71 Wiesnagrotzki, Nina 84 Wilkinson, Charles 241 Winkler, Olaf 144 Wiszniewski, Tomasz 232 Wojcik, Joanna 113 Wolff, Andy 72 Wolski, Tomasz 238 Y Yefman, Omer 33 Yeger, Aaron 242 Yilmaz, Laura 245 Yu, Zhu 81 Z Zaramella, Juan Pablo 189 Zhiryakov, Alexey 322 Zhuraeva, Asel 309 Ziemilski, Pawel 263 Zmarz-Koczanowicz, Maria 304 Zuchuat, Olivier 198 Zviedris, Ivars 100 Countries Afghanistan Little Afghanistan 200 The Postman 249 Algeria Fidaï 123 Argentina Corta 85 The Employment 114 The Girl Behind the Camera (WT) 140 Impenetrable 168 Lapsus 189 Papirosen 240 The River People 261 Australia End of The Road 115 Letter Tape 195 Austria The Brussels Business 67 Crackle of time – Christoph Schlingensief and his opera village in Burkina Faso 86 Danube Hospital 94 Erwin Wurm – The artist who swallowed the world 118 Everything will not be fine 120 The Future’s Past 136 Jakarta Disorder 178 Kern 183 Little Perestrojka 201 Mama Illegal 210 Men’s Lust 214 Sounds from the Fog 273 Tomorrow You Will Leave 290 Trains of Thoughts 293 The Trial 295 The Venice Syndrome 303 Bangladesh Are You Listening ! 43 Belarus Earth 112 Belgium The Brussels Business 67 Dublin’s Trap: Another Side Of The Greek Crisis 109 Pondering 248 Red Hair and Black Coffee 259 Tea or Electricity 285 The Tears of the Afghan Lord 286 Bulgaria The Last Black Sea Pirates 190 Sofia’s Last Ambulance 271 Tzvetanka 298 Cambodia The Khmer Rouge and the Man of Non-Violence 184 Canada The Basketball Game 46 Borderline, An Unsetting Journey Along The World’s Longest UN-Defended Border 64 Buzkashi! 69 The End of Time 116 The Final Member 125 Fists Of Pride 127 Fouad’s Dream 132 Herman’s House 151 El Huaso 157 Indie Game: The Movie 171 My Father and The Man In Black 221 Over My Dead Body 235 Peace Out 241 A People Uncounted 242 Petra’s Poem 244 Under Fire: Journalists in Combat 300 The World Before Her 328 Chile 74m2 29 Daughter 95 Happy Birthday Emily 146 El Huaso 157 The Human Zoo 159 Intimatta 173 The Last Station 192 Leontina 194 The Lifeguard 197 The Other Day 233 Sibila 269 Tales About The Future 284 Where the Condors Fly 316 Why In My Back Yard – Hidroaysen 319 The Woman And the Passenger 326 China Cloudy Mountains 81 Fidaï 123 Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 188 Colombia Benghazi: Beyond The Front Line 53 Corta 85 Croatia The Blockade 63 Family Meals 122 Sofia’s Last Ambulance 271 Cuba Stretcher 281 Czech Republic Iceland Year Zero 165 Private Universe 251 Sounds from the Fog 273 Two Nil 297 Denmark 1712 Battle of the Baltic 25 Dance For Me 92 The Kid and The Clown 185 Polish Illusions 247 The Will 320 Ecuador With my Heart in Yambo 323 Estonia Lisa, Go Home ! 199 Regilaul – Songs of the Ancient Sea 260 Finland 11 Images of a Human 24 My Stuff 224 The Punk Syndrome 254 The Wait 307 France The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images 36 Benghazi: Beyond The Front Line 53 341 Castles and Palaces of Europe 75 Corta 85 Cult Witness 90 Fidaï 123 From Hollywood To Nuremberg – John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens 135 Iceland Year Zero 165 Impenetrable 168 Intimatta 173 The Khmer Rouge and the Man of Non-Violence 184 Like Stone Lions at the Gateway Into Night 198 Night’s Drifters 226 No Harm Done 228 Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened 234 Polish Illusions 247 Tea or Electricity 285 Virgin Tales 306 What’s your job? 310 Georgia The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear 206 Germany 1712 Battle of the Baltic 25 The 5th Season 28 Addiction 31 AG Geige – An Amateur Film 32 Among Men – Gay in East Germany 35 Anatomy of a Departure 37 And Who Taught You to Drive 39 Arbeit Heimat Opel 42 Beerland 50 The Bella Vista 51 Beyond Wriezen – A movie about life after serving time in jail 58 Blender 62 Bouchbennersch Otto / how to treat differentness 65 Breathing Earth – Susumu Shingu’s Dream 66 Bury my Heart in Dresden 68 Camp 14 – Total Control Zone 71 The Captain and His Pirate 72 Castles and Palaces of Europe 75 Check Point 77 Colors of Math 83 Comparing Now and Then 84 Crackle of time – Christoph Schlingensief and his opera village in Burkina Faso 86 342 Crimson Mask 87 Cuba – Mafia’s Paradise – The History of a Gangster Domain 89 Cult Witness 90 Dancing Alone 93 Defending Karadzic 97 Dragan Wende – How the Trabant invaded West-Berlin and ruined my Uncle’s Kingdom 102 Dress to Impress 106 Erwin Wurm – The artist who swallowed the world 118 Forget me not 131 The Gang 137 Global Home 141 The Great Fallacy 144 Happy Serious Sad 147 Heino Jaeger – Look Before You Kuck 150 History Shorts 153 Hungry Minds 160 I Am Louisa Jules 161 I Want My Country Back 162 If I Wasn’t Born 166 In Between – The British Artist Richard Deacon 169 The Incredibles 170 The Invisible String 174 Italy, Love it or Leave it 177 The Joy Down There 181 Keep Up The Good Work 182 Kiran 186 The Land Beneath the Fog 187 Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 188 The Last Catch 191 Legends for Beginners 193 Loden – The Little Monk 203 The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear 206 Magic Skies – A History of Fireworks 208 Mandala 211 The Man’s Field 212 Mother’s Day 218 Nurse Gretel # 2 – Escape 229 Polish Illusions 247 Protect everyone i love 253 Randland 256 Reality 2.0 257 The Red Dream Factory 258 Russian Girls 264 Russia’s History Revealed – Part I, II and III 265 San Agustin – Low Tide in the Plastic Sea 266 The Sky over here 270 Sofia’s Last Ambulance 271 A Sort Of Love 272 Sounds from the Fog 273 Speed – In Search of Lost Time 274 The Spies of Scientology – Office of Special Affairs O.S.A. 275 The Spy from the Pariser Platz 276 Stradivari’s Heirs 279 TelH78 287 Tour Du Faso 291 The Tree Workers Case 294 Twilight of the Yakuza 296 The United States of Hoodoo 302 The Venice Syndrome 303 Video Vertov 305 Virgin Tales 306 Warmzeit 308 Where the Condors Fly 316 Work Hard – Play Hard 327 Greece Demokratia, The Way Of The Cross 98 Like Stone Lions at the Gateway Into Night 198 Guatemala Magic Words (to Break a Spell) 209 Hungary 300 Tons of Gold 27 Iceland Iceland Year Zero 165 India Fire in the Blood 126 I Was Born In Delhi 163 Presence 250 When Hari Got Married 312 Indonesia The Land Beneath the Fog 187 Iran Going Up The Stairs 142 Ireland Irish Folk Furniture 175 Israel All Happy Mornings 33 Ameer Got His Gun 34 The Great Book Robbery 143 Live or Die in Entebbe 202 Nyosha 230 White Night 318 Within The Eye of The Storm 324 Mongolia Ub Lama 299 Italy And Italy Took Flight 38 Castles and Palaces of Europe 75 Closed Sea 80 Isqat al Nizam – At The Regime Border 176 Italy, Love it or Leave it 177 Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 188 Mad. A World of Fashion 207 Stradivari’s Heirs 279 The Venice Syndrome 303 White Men 317 Netherlands Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy 49 The Great Book Robbery 143 Matthew’s Laws 213 Stradivari’s Heirs 279 When I Was Dead 313 Japan Twilight of the Yakuza 296 Korea, South Herstory 152 Kyrgyzstan The Way to Mecca 309 Latvia Chronicles of the Last Temple 79 Documentarian 100 Lebanon Damascus, My First Kiss 91 Lithuania The Field of Magic 124 Lisa, Go Home ! 199 Ub Lama 299 Luxembourg The Future’s Past 136 The Road Uphill 262 Mexico Beautiful Faces 48 Benghazi: Beyond The Front Line 53 Drought 108 Magic Words (to Break a Spell) 209 Reality 2.0 257 Morocco Tea or Electricity 285 Nicaragua Magic Words (to Break a Spell) 209 Romania 24 Buckets, 7 Mice, 18 Years 26 As You Like It 45 Crulic – The Path to Beyond 88 Stremt 89 280 Russia Colors of Math 83 Milana 215 Tomorrow 289 Winter, Go Away ! 322 Serbia Battery Man 47 Dragan Wende – How the Trabant invaded West-Berlin and ruined my Uncle’s Kingdom 102 Norway The Art Of Yodeling 44 The Punk Syndrome 254 Pushwagner 255 When Bubbles Burst 311 When Hari Got Married 312 Slovakia Bells of Happiness 52 Disease of the Third Power 99 The Gypsy Vote 145 Stuck in the middle 283 Peru The Calm 70 Slovenia Long Vacation 204 Philippines Death of a Cemetery 96 Spain Another Night on Earth 40 The Girl Behind the Camera (WT) 140 The Incredibles 170 Sibila 269 A Story for the Modlins 278 Poland Crulic – The Path to Beyond 88 Dream of San Juan 105 Emperor’s Toys 113 Entangled 117 Escape from Paradise 119 Exit Point 121 Freestyle life 134 Losing Sonia 205 Mother 24/ 7 217 Mountain Love Story 219 Musics 220 My House Without Me 223 One Meter Above Ground 232 The Palace 238 Paperbox 239 Polish Illusions 247 Rogalik 263 Vera Gran 304 Yorzeit 329 Qatar Damascus, My First Kiss 91 Sweden 1712 Battle of the Baltic 25 Big Boys Gone Bananas !* 59 Colombianos 82 For You Naked 129 The Punk Syndrome 254 The Stripper 282 Tzvetanka 298 Where My Heart Beats 315 Switzerland Appassionata 41 A Better Life is Elsewhere 55 Between Two-Spirit 57 Captain Thomas Sankara 73 Chronicle of a Forgotten Death 78 Cult Witness 90 The End of Time 116 Erwin Wurm – The artist who swallowed the world 118 343 Forbidden Voices 130 He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes 149 A Home Far Away 154 Huerfano Valley 158 The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus 196 Like Stone Lions at the Gateway Into Night 198 Mad. A World of Fashion 207 My First Mountain – A Rigi Film 222 The Night of the Bear 225 No Business like Showbusiness 227 Playback 246 Regilaul – Songs of the Ancient Sea 260 Seduced And Blackmailed 267 Stradivari’s Heirs 279 Virgin Tales 306 Where the Condors Fly 316 Winter Nomads 321 Syria Damascus, My First Kiss 91 Tournesols – Al Rastan 292 Tunisia The Sky over here 270 Turkey Overtime 236 A Sort Of Love 272 United Kingdom Breathing Earth – Susumu Shingu’s Dream 66 Centrefold 76 Cult Witness 90 Defending Karadzic 97 Drawing for Memory 103 Dream Jobs 104 Fire in the Blood 126 The Four Year Plan 133 Gilad And All That Jazz 139 Happy Serious Sad 147 History Shorts 153 I’ll Stop Crying if You Stop Crying 167 Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet 179 Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears 180 Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 188 Magic Skies – A History of Fireworks 208 344 Pablo’s Winter 237 A Thousand Trees 288 Ub Lama 299 The Wait 307 When Hari Got Married 312 Within Within 325 Uruguay The Bella Vista 51 The Flowers of my Family 128 USA 74m2 29 About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now 30 Beautiful Faces 48 Bert Stern: Original Madman 54 Better This World 56 Birders, The Central Park Effect 60 Bitter Seeds 61 The Carbon Rush 74 Crimson Mask 87 Cult Witness 90 Death of a Cemetery 96 Downeast 101 Drivers Wanted 107 Duck Beach To Eternity 110 Eames: The Architect And The Painter 111 Generation SMS 138 Hava Nagila – The Movie 148 The House I Live In 155 How Ping Pong Saved the World 156 Icebound: The Story of the 1925 Alaska Serum Run 164 Infiltrados 172 Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 188 The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus 196 The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 216 The Oath 231 A Perfect Candidate 243 Places Other People Have Lived 245 Project Z: The Final Global Event 252 Shenandoah 268 Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview 277 Unfinished Spaces 301 When Hari Got Married 312 Where Heaven Meets Hell 314 Genres Arts Culture Music The 5th Season 28 AG Geige – An Amateur Film 32 And Italy Took Flight 38 The Art Of Yodeling 44 Bells of Happiness 52 Bert Stern: Original Madman 54 Breathing Earth – Susumu Shingu’s Dream 66 Castles and Palaces of Europe 75 Check Point 77 Chronicles of the Last Temple 79 Comparing Now and Then 84 Crackle of time – Christoph Schlingensief and his opera village in Burkina Faso 86 Dance For Me 92 Eames: The Architect And The Painter 111 Emperor’s Toys 113 Erwin Wurm – The artist who swallowed the world 118 For You Naked 129 From Hollywood To Nuremberg – John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens 135 Gilad And All That Jazz 139 The Girl Behind the Camera (WT) 140 Going Up The Stairs 142 Hava Nagila – The Movie 148 Heino Jaeger – Look Before You Kuck 150 Herman’s House 151 History Shorts 153 I Am Louisa Jules 161 If I Wasn’t Born 166 In Between – The British Artist Richard Deacon 169 Indie Game: The Movie 171 Intimatta 173 The Invisible String 174 Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet 179 Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 188 The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus 196 Like Stone Lions at the Gateway Into Night 198 The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear 206 Mad. A World of Fashion 207 Magic Skies – A History of Fireworks 208 Magic Words (to Break a Spell) 209 Mandala 211 Musics 220 My Father and The Man In Black 221 No Business like Showbusiness 227 Our Days, Absolutely, Have to Be Enlightened 234 Over My Dead Body 235 The Punk Syndrome 254 Pushwagner 255 The Red Dream Factory 258 Regilaul – Songs of the Ancient Sea 260 A Story for the Modlins 278 Stradivari’s Heirs 279 Tomorrow 289 Tour Du Faso 291 Trains of Thoughts 293 Unfinished Spaces 301 The United States of Hoodoo 302 Video Vertov 305 Where the Condors Fly 316 Author's Point of View All Happy Mornings 33 Beerland 50 Better This World 56 Big Boys Gone Bananas!* 59 Blender 62 Chronicles of the Last Temple 79 Cloudy Mountains 81 Corta 85 Damascus, My First Kiss 91 Dance For Me 92 Dancing Alone 93 Daughter 95 Documentarian 100 Dragan Wende – How the Trabant invaded West-Berlin and ruined my Uncle’s Kingdom 102 Dream Jobs 104 Drought 108 Earth 112 The Employment 114 The End of Time 116 Everything will not be fine 120 Family Meals 122 The Field of Magic 124 The Gang 137 The Girl Behind the Camera (WT) 140 Global Home 141 The Great Book Robbery 143 The Great Fallacy 144 Happy Birthday Emily 146 He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes 149 Herstory 152 Impenetrable 168 The Incredibles 170 Kern 183 Kiran 186 The Last Station 192 Leontina 194 The Lifeguard 197 The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear 206 Milana 215 Mother’s Day 218 Mountain Love Story 219 My Father and The Man In Black 221 My First Mountain – A Rigi Film 222 My Stuff 224 Night’s Drifters 226 No Harm Done 228 The Other Day 233 Paperbox 239 Places Other People Have Lived 245 Presence 250 Private Universe 251 Project Z: The Final Global Event 252 Reality 2.0 257 Red Hair and Black Coffee 259 The River People 261 The Road Uphill 262 Rogalik 263 Russian Girls 264 Sofia’s Last Ambulance 271 Stretcher 281 Stuck in the middle 283 Tales About The Future 284 Tea or Electricity 285 A Thousand Trees 288 Two Nil 297 The Wait 307 The Way to Mecca 309 What’s your job? 310 Where the Condors Fly 316 White Men 317 Winter Nomads 321 With my Heart in Yambo 323 Within Within 325 The Woman And the Passenger 326 Work Hard – Play Hard 327 Ethnology Religion 11 Images of a Human 24 74m2 29 And Who Taught You to Drive 39 The Basketball Game 46 Between Two-Spirit 57 Bury my Heart in Dresden 68 Crulic – The Path to Beyond 88 Cult Witness 90 Drawing for Memory 103 Dress to Impress 106 Duck Beach To Eternity 110 Fists Of Pride 127 El Huaso 157 Hungry Minds 160 I Was Born In Delhi 163 I’ll Stop Crying if You Stop Crying 167 Irish Folk Furniture 175 The Lifeguard 197 Loden – The Little Monk 203 Losing Sonia 205 Mandala 211 The Man’s Field 212 Mother 24/7 217 No Harm Done 228 A People Uncounted 242 Regilaul – Songs of the Ancient Sea 260 The Tears of the Afghan Lord 286 Ub Lama 299 The United States of Hoodoo 302 Virgin Tales 306 When Hari Got Married 312 Where Heaven Meets Hell 314 Where My Heart Beats 315 White Men 317 Work Hard – Play Hard 327 The World Before Her 328 Yorzeit 329 History Politics Current Affairs 11 Images of a Human 24 1712 Battle of the Baltic 25 300 Tons of Gold 27 AG Geige – An Amateur Film 32 Ameer Got His Gun 34 Among Men – Gay in East Germany 35 The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images 36 Anatomy of a Departure 37 And Italy Took Flight 38 Another Night on Earth 40 Arbeit Heimat Opel 42 Are You Listening ! 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322 DOK Market 1712 Battle of the Baltic 25 The 5th Season 28 About Face: Supermodels, Then and Now 30 Addiction 31 All Happy Mornings 33 Ameer Got His Gun 34 Among Men – Gay in East Germany 35 And Italy Took Flight 38 The Art Of Yodeling 44 Beautiful Faces 48 Beer Is Cheaper Than Therapy 49 The Bella Vista 51 Benghazi: Beyond The Front Line 53 Bert Stern: Original Madman 54 Between Two-Spirit 57 Birders, The Central Park Effect 60 Bitter Seeds 61 Blender 62 Borderline, An Unsetting Journey Along The World’s Longest UN-Defended Border 64 The Brussels Business 67 The Carbon Rush 74 Castles and Palaces of Europe 75 Check Point 77 Chronicles of the Last Temple 79 Closed Sea 80 Crackle of time – Christoph Schlingensief and his opera village in Burkina Faso 86 Crimson Mask 87 Cuba – Mafia’s Paradise – The History of a Gangster Domain 89 Cult Witness 90 Danube Hospital 94 Death of a Cemetery 96 Dublin’s Trap: Another Side Of The Greek Crisis 109 Duck Beach To Eternity 110 Eames: The Architect And The Painter 111 End of The Road 115 Erwin Wurm – The artist who swallowed the world 118 Escape from Paradise 119 Everything will not be fine 120 The Field of Magic 124 Fire in the Blood 126 For You Naked 129 Fouad’s Dream 132 The Four Year Plan 133 From Hollywood To Nuremberg – John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens 135 The Future’s Past 136 Generation SMS 138 Gilad And All That Jazz 139 Global Home 141 Going Up The Stairs 142 The Great Book Robbery 143 Happy Birthday Emily 146 Happy Serious Sad 147 Hava Nagila – The Movie 148 History Shorts 153 The House I Live In 155 How Ping Pong Saved the World 156 The Human Zoo 159 Hungry Minds 160 I Am Louisa Jules 161 I Want My Country Back 162 I Was Born In Delhi 163 Icebound: The Story of the 1925 Alaska Serum Run 164 Impenetrable 168 In Between – The British Artist Richard Deacon 169 The Incredibles 170 Infiltrados 172 The Invisible String 174 Italy, Love it or Leave it 177 Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet 179 The Joy Down There 181 Keep Up The Good Work 182 The Kid and The Clown 185 Lang Lang – The Art of Being a Virtuoso 188 Legends for Beginners 193 The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus 196 Little Perestrojka 201 Live or Die in Entebbe 202 Long Vacation 204 Mad. A World of Fashion 207 Magic Skies – A History of Fireworks 208 Mandala 211 Men’s Lust 214 Mountain Love Story 219 My Father and The Man In Black 221 A People Uncounted 242 Polish Illusions 247 Protect everyone i love 253 The Punk Syndrome 254 Pushwagner 255 The Red Dream Factory 258 Regilaul – Songs of the Ancient Sea 260 The Road Uphill 262 Russian Girls 264 Russia’s History Revealed – Part I, II and III 265 Seduced And Blackmailed 267 Shenandoah 268 The Sky over here 270 Sounds from the Fog 273 The Spies of Scientology – Office of Special Affairs O.S.A. 275 The Spy from the Pariser Platz 276 Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview 277 Stradivari’s Heirs 279 The Stripper 282 The Tears of the Afghan Lord 286 A Thousand Trees 288 Tomorrow 289 Tomorrow You Will Leave 290 Tour Du Faso 291 The Tree Workers Case 294 Twilight of the Yakuza 296 Under Fire: Journalists in Combat 300 Unfinished Spaces 301 The United States of Hoodoo 302 Vera Gran 304 Warmzeit 308 When I Was Dead 313 Where Heaven Meets Hell 314 Where My Heart Beats 315 Within The Eye of The Storm 324 DOK Young Cinema Competition Beerland 50 Kern 183 The Land Beneath the Fog 187 Losing Sonia 205 The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear 206 Milana 215 Mother’s Day 218 Pablo’s Winter 237 Tzvetanka 298 Ub Lama 299 White Men 317 East Silver & IDF Battery Man 47 Bells of Happiness 52 Colors of Math 83 Disease of the Third Power 99 Family Meals 122 The Gypsy Vote 145 Iceland Year Zero 165 Jakarta Disorder 178 Trains of Thoughts 293 Two Nil 297 Hot Docs Buzkashi ! 69 The Final Member 125 Fists Of Pride 127 Herman’s House 151 Indie Game: The Movie 171 Over My Dead Body 235 Peace Out 241 The World Before Her 328 Krakow Film Foundation & Polish Docs Dream of San Juan 105 Exit Point 121 Freestyle life 134 Mother 24 / 7 217 Musics 220 My House Without Me 223 One Meter Above Ground 232 The Palace 238 Rogalik 263 Yorzeit 329 Leipzig Screening FilmFestival Cottbus Beerland 50 The Last Catch 191 Speed – In Search of Lost Time 274 The Venice Syndrome 303 Crulic – The Path to Beyond 88 StoryDoc Focus Latin America The Calm 70 Corta 85 Daughter 95 Drought 108 The Employment 114 The Flowers of my Family 128 Lapsus 189 The Lifeguard 197 Magic Words (to Break a Spell) 209 Papirosen 240 Stretcher 281 With my Heart in Yambo 323 Focus Saxony As You Like It 45 Demokratia, The Way Of The Cross 98 Visions du Réel & Swiss Films Appassionata 41 A Better Life is Elsewhere 55 Captain Thomas Sankara 73 Chronicle of a Forgotten Death 78 Forbidden Voices 130 He Was a Giant with Brown Eyes 149 A Home Far Away 154 Huerfano Valley 158 Playback 246 Winter Nomads 321 AG Geige – An Amateur Film 32 Dress to Impress 106 TelH78 287 355 Notes Notes Notes Notes Notes Notes Notes Notes Notes Notes Notes Notes 1-11 NOV 2012 CPH:DOX CPH:FORUM FINANCING FORUM 7-9 NOV 2012 M U N D U S IMAGE BY: RICHIE DIESTERHEFT INTERNATIONAL FINANCING F O R U M building a strong story clever distribution strategies based on the nature of the lm cost effective, targeted marketing fresh approach to digital media and new business models THE WORLD’s MOST EXCITING DOCUMENTARY & DIGITAL MEDIA FESTIVAL Register Now... 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