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Couv Cat 2011_Couv Cat Marc 2006 10/09/11 11:12 Page1 EURODOC 2011 ORganisED with thE sUppORt Of MEDia plUs & MEDia MUnDUs pROgRaMMEs Of thE EUROpEan COMMUnity CEntRE natiOnal DU CinéMa Et DE l’iMagE aniMéE, pROCiREp, fRanCE sEssiOn 1 BUDapEst, hUngaRy MinistRy Of natiOnal REsOURCEs - CUltURal DEpaRtMEnt, hUngaRian natiOnal CUltURal fUnD - nKa sEssiOn 2 MaRija BistRiCa, CROatia with thE sUppORt Of thE CROatian aUDiOvisUal CEntRE sEssiOn 3 niMEs, fRanCE with thE sUppORt Of RégiOn langUEDOC-ROUssillOn, COllECtivité tERRitORialE DE CORsE 9 EURODOC 2011 paRtiCipants & ExpERts EURODOC ExECUtivEs sEMinaR DOCMED pROgaMME 33 filMs 98 pRODUCtiOns 108 EURODOC tEaM stEERing COMMittEE 111 inDEx 2011 paRtiCipants ExpERts & gUEsts Chapter within the past 12 years, EURODOC has established a producers’ network that is able to coproduce creative documentaries on an international scale. More than 660 professionals from 52 countries are members of this network. EURODOC would not exist without the uninterrupted support of the MEDia programme of the European Union, of the Centre national du Cinéma et de l’image animée and of procirep in france, as well as the assistance of all partners that have participated in the 49 sessions set up within the past 12 years in over 13 countries. thanks to the preparatory action MEDia international and to the MEDia Mundus programme, we are lucky enough to host non-European participants in the workshops. and we have been able to launch, thanks to these supportive organizations, the EURODOC Executives seminar that aims at creating a new space for encounters, exchanges, transmission and for reflection about the missions of the Commissioning Editors of Documentary programmes, about the changes occurring in the film genre, as well as in all trade-related jobs. two prestigious heads of programmes are supervising the seminar: Erkki astala and thierry garrel. this seminar is bringing together executives who are either in charge of the programming for tv documentary units, or project managers for documentary films in European or international support funding, or executives in the organizations in charge of financing documentary projects. launched this year, DOCmed is a new training program which works on a project basis, on international co-production of creative documentaries. it is addressed to producers and directors/producers of Mediterranean arab countries who are developing a project of international ambition. this program allows them to optimize all the fields of documentary production, the creation, the financing, and the technologies. this program is implemented by Beirut DC (lebanon), EURODOC (france), Doc à tunis (tunisia), in association with arte france. we find it important to experiment and develop the possibilities of networking between these arab countries, and furthermore, establish cooperation between these countries and Europe. all these initiatives, as we hope, will contribute to defend the genre, as well as filmmakers, producers and financers, and to somehow reach a better understanding of the world, of its deep changes, and of the diversity of its cultures. this work could only be completed thanks to the generosity and the supporting commitment of the head of studies of the programme, jacques Bidou, heino Deckert, of all experts and guests, and of the EURODOC team: Marie-sophie Decout, Maïna waezi, véronique Duclos, as well as previously isabelle lohier, Emilie Raimbault, véronique Maldéra, laurent aït Benalla, Maija Miikkola, lucile gueguen. Anne-Marie Luccioni This catalogue includes: - presentation of the participants projects participants in the EURODOC 2011 programme, - description of all the films produced by EURODOC participants from previous years and those currently in production. EDitO 5 head of programme 6 Chapter EDitO En 12 ans, EURODOC a tissé un réseau de producteurs en capacité de coproduire des documentaires de création au niveau international. plus de 660 professionnels de 52 pays sont membres de ce réseau. EURODOC n’existerait pas sans le soutien ininterrompu du programme MEDia de l’Union Européenne, du Centre national du Cinéma et de l’image animée et de la procirep, en france, et de tous les partenaires qui se sont associés aux 49 sessions organisées en 12 ans dans plus de 13 pays. grâce à l’action préparatoire MEDia international puis au programme MEDia Mundus, nous avons la chance de pouvoir accueillir des participants non-européens. Et nous avons pu initier, grâce à ces soutiens, EURODOC Executives seminar qui a pour ambition d’ouvrir un nouvel espace de rencontres, d’échanges, de transmission et de réflexions sur les missions de Chargé de programme documentaire, sur l’évolution du genre et de ses métiers. Deux prestigieux responsables de programmes encadrent cet atelier, Erkki astala et thierry garrel. Ce séminaire réunit des chargés de programme d’unité documentaire de télévision et chargés de projets documentaires dans les fonds de soutien nationaux et européens, en charge du financement de projets documentaires. lancée cette année, DOCmed est une nouvelle formation sur la base de projets, à la coproduction internationale de documentaires de création. Elle s'adresse à des producteurs et réalisateurs/ producteurs des pays arabes du bassin méditerranéen qui développent un projet d'ambition internationale, afin de leur permettre d'optimiser tous les champs de la production documentaire, de la création, du financement et des technologies. Ce programme est mis en œuvre par Beirut DC (liban), EURODOC (france), Doc à tunis (tunisie), en association avec arte france. il nous semble important d'expérimenter et de développer les possibilités de mise en réseau des pays arabes concernés, mais plus encore d'ouvrir les possibilités de coopération entre ces pays et l'Europe. toutes ces initiatives, nous l’espérons, concourent à la défense du genre, des cinéastes, des producteurs et des financeurs, pour contribuer – un peu – à la compréhension du monde, de ses mutations, de la diversité de ses cultures. Ce travail n’a pu être mené que grâce à la générosité et à l’engagement à nos côtés, du directeur des études du programme, jacques Bidou, d’heino Deckert et de tous les experts et invités, et de l’équipe d’EURODOC, Marie sophie Decout, Maïna waezi, véronique Duclos, et auparavant, isabelle lohier, Emilie Raimbault, véronique Maldéra, laurent aït Benalla, Maija Miikkola, lucile gueguen. Anne-Marie Luccioni Vous trouverez dans ce catalogue : - la présentation des projets de tous les participants au cycle EURODOC 2011, - les films qui sont issus des formations précédentes et les productions en cours. Chapter EDitO 7 we will get together in nîmes, to share our common commitment and passion for documentary cinema, at a time when, for our industry, the scene has become harsher, more complex, and confronted with a deep transformation. we have to tackle the job of understanding and anticipating the revolution going on in our field of activity. all forms of usual tv, be it non-specialized or thematic, cinema and many other traditional media of cultural expression are being disrupted by new ways of consuming pictures, sound, music and, more generally, communication. the younger generation hardly ever watches tv, so the public is getting older, the diversity of cinema is progressively vanishing and we are all wondering what our jobs will be like tomorrow. Most expression attempts through these new media are not convincing enough, as they often are not sufficiently financed, and they mostly value technology over creation, but we should not skip attentively analyzing these emerging productions. it is true, though, that this film genre, produced in the traditional way, is still very much alive everywhere in Europe, even if the situation differs from country to country. germany, france, Belgium, and the scandinavian countries are in the lead on the market, while the United Kingdom has lost its leading position; southern and Eastern European countries are slowly emerging after a long period of silence. the global phenomena have remained the same. Documentary cinema is mainly financed by public tv channels and by different funding systems set up by governments. “Domestic” productions prevail in each country, smaller countries with minority languages have a hard time exporting, but on the other hand their subtitling tradition enables them to import a large variety of films, whereas the larger countries used to dubbing tend to withdrawal: great Britain and the United states now hardly import any film not directly shot in English. within this scene, aRtE has kept a structuring role, not due to its real audience but due to its impact, its steady commitment to the genre and the influence of its creative work on the scene as a whole, of course with the assistance of several major public tv channels. we should not forget that for the past twenty years, aRtE, Channel 4 the way it was at first, the public tv channels in germany and Belgium, in finland, Denmark and the netherlands have literally revived the “creative documentary”, which means a kind of cinema entrusted to genuine filmmakers and produced by independent producers. Because creative artists have continuously been granted such trust, documentary films have been able to regain a significant position in the programme schedules, although a less obvious one on theatre screens, and have experienced exceptional circulation among the European countries, as compared to other tv productions. new issues, generated by such success, are now at stake. the broadcasters have set themselves objectives related to increasing audiences, so that they tend to develop reproduction rather than creative products, mainly dedicated to their domestic markets; but this type of policy will in the long term show how contradictory it is to the true development of the film genre. to make it short, these heavy trends in the media industry jeopardize the “creative documentary”, a genre that might become excessively formatted and in the end deny itself, because it is subjected to simplified writing styles as used in in-depth coverage or magazines, the styles that reach the public more directly and more effectively. But filmmakers and producers of documentary films, as well as their remaining allies, all have so much energy, so much passion and often such proficiency that the situation is far from dramatic: the networks set up to share these virtues are pro-active, thus preventing the genre from becoming marginalized. But the major unknown remains the ongoing mutation. EURODOC should choose to be one of the observatories of such mutations, while still stating a firm link with the economy of documentary cinema in Europe and in the world, trying to avoid financing via subsidies only, developing both proficiency networks and quick adjustment devices that enable professionals to face the situation, work together and thus easily exchange works and ideas. Jacques Bidou head of studies 8 Chapter EDitO nous allons nous retrouver à nîmes, pour partager cet engagement, cette passion pour le documentaire qui nous unit, à un moment où le paysage professionnel se durcit, se complexifie, un paysage confronté à une profonde mutation. nous devons nous atteler à comprendre et anticiper la révolution qui est en cours dans le secteur qui nous occupe. la télévision classique dans toutes ses formes, généraliste, thématique, le cinéma et bien d’autres formes traditionnelles d’expression culturelles sont bousculés par de nouveaux modes de consommation d’images, de son, de musique et plus généralement de communication. la nouvelle génération ne regarde pratiquement plus la télévision, le public vieillit, le cinéma perd une part de sa diversité et nous sommes tous à nous demander ce que sera notre métier demain. la plupart des tentatives d’expression issues de ces nouveaux supports ne sont pas convaincantes, souvent mal financées, privilégiant presque toujours la technologie à la création, mais il serait bien irresponsable de ne pas analyser avec attention ces productions émergentes. Certes le genre, dans ses modes de production traditionnels, reste vivant partout en Europe, même si l’on constate de grandes disparités de situation. l’allemagne, la france, la Belgique, les pays scandinaves dans leur ensemble dominent le marché, le Royaume-Uni a perdu son rôle de leader, les pays du sud et de l’Est de l’Europe émergent difficilement après un long silence. les phénomènes globaux demeurent les mêmes. le documentaire est financé principalement par la télévision publique et par les divers systèmes de soutien financier mis en place selon les pays. le marché reste dominé par la production “nationale”, les petits pays de langues minoritaires exportent difficilement, mais en revanche leur tradition de sous-titrage permet l’importation d’une réelle diversité de films, les grands pays de “doublage” ont tendance au repli, l’angleterre et les Etats-Unis n’importent pratiquement plus de films qui ne soient pas tournés en anglais. Dans ce paysage, aRtE conserve un rôle structurant, non par son audience réelle mais par son impact, son investissement constant dans le genre et l’influence de son travail créateur sur l’ensemble du paysage, avec la complicité bien sûr de quelques grandes chaînes de service public. il est bon de rappeler que depuis une vingtaine d’années, aRtE, Channel 4 dans sa première époque, les chaînes publiques allemandes et belges, les finlandais, les danois, les hollandais ont littéralement relancé le “documentaire de création”, soit un cinéma confié à des cinéastes et produit par des indépendants. par une confiance constante faite à des créateurs, le documentaire a reconquis une place non négligeable dans les grilles de programme, plus contrastée sur les écrans de cinéma et a même connu une circulation exceptionnelle entre les pays d’Europe en regard des autres productions de télévision. Ce succès a fait naître de nouveaux enjeux. les diffuseurs se fixent des objectifs de fidélisation qui les incitent à une politique de reproduction plutôt que de création, toujours plus consacrée au national, politique qui s’avérera à terme en contradiction avec la vitalité du genre. En résumé, les tendances lourdes de l’industrie des médias font peser une menace sur le “documentaire de création”, genre qui risque de se formater de façon excessive et donc à terme de se nier, genre qui subit le retour à des écritures simplifiées de la tradition du grand reportage, du magazine, écritures qui permettent un accès plus direct et efficace au public. Mais les créateurs et producteurs de documentaires et les alliés qui leur restent dépensent une telle énergie, une telle passion et souvent une telle compétence que la situation est loin d’être dramatique et que la mise en réseau de ces qualités offre une force de proposition qui évite la marginalisation du genre. Mais la grande inconnue demeure la mutation en cours. EURODOC devrait proposer d’être l’un des observatoires de ces mutations, tout en gardant la ferme volonté de rester solidement arrimé à l’économie du cinéma documentaire en Europe et dans le Monde, en évitant de se laisser entraîner dans une économie de subvention et donc en développant le réseau de compétences et une rapidité d’adaptation qui donnent aux professionnels la force d’affronter la situation, de travailler ensemble et d’ainsi faire circuler les oeuvres et les idées. Jacques Bidou Directeur des études EURODOC 2011 BUDapEst MaRija BistRiCa niMEs 10 Chapter gRaDUatEs Cycle 2011 Bruno BEttati jiRafa Chile giuseppe BianCO littlE filM ROMa italy David BOhUn MisChiEf filMs austria simone Catania inDyCa italy angele DiaBang KaROninKa senegal Olivier DUBOis nOvaK pROD Belgium Kerry fUltOn OUt Of thE BOx fEatUREs new Zealand fanny glissant pROgRaM33 france Zdenka gOlD spiRitUs MOvEns Croatia idrissa gUiRO siMBaD filMs france gaëlle gUyaDER DOC En stOCK france David hERDiEs MOMEntO filM sweden Delphine lanDEs MOnKEy Bay france philippe lang CnC france annabelle langlOis CnC france sára lÁsZlÓ CaMpfilM pRODUCtiOn hungary Kaizer MatsUMUnyanE BlaCK staR pRODUxiOns Canada vicky Miha BOO pRODUCtiOns greece annabella nEZRi EKlEKtiK pRODUCtiOns Belgium frederik niCOlai Off wORlD Belgium janne nisKala vasKi filMi finland Martha OROZCO MaRtfilMs Mexico virginie RisCh CnC france johanna st MiChaEls jOhanna st MiChaEls pRODUCtiOns sweden ingmar tROst sUtOR KOlOnKO germany gert van BERCKElaER visUalantiCs Belgium timo viERiMaa OKtOBER finland Marta ZaCCaROn QUasaR MUltiMEDia italy sEssiOn 1 – BUDapEst, hungary, MaRCh 2011 (ExpERts) pierre-Olivier BaRDEt iDEalE aUDiEnCE france Csaba BERECZKi MOtiOn piCtURE pUBliC fOUnDatiOn hungary jacques BiDOU jBa pRODUCtiOn france attila BOKOR MinistRy Of natiOnal REsOURCEs hungary Martichka BOZhilOva agitpROp Bulgaria heino DECKERt Ma.ja.DE. filMpRODUKtiOn germany Zoltán fÛREDi DOCUaRt hungary Eniko Kiss MEDia DEsK hUngaRy hungary Carl-ludwig REttingER liChtBliCK filM germany Michel gyORy Belgium Cycle 2011 Chapter ExpERts & gUEsts sEssiOn 2 – MaRija BistRiCa, CROatia, jUnE 2011 Maher aBi saMRa lebanon jacques BiDOU jBa pRODUCtiOn france heino DECKERt Ma.ja.DE. filMpRODUKtiOn germany Marianne DUMOUlin jBa pRODUCtiOn france alessandro gROpplERO fRiUli vEnEZia giUlia aUDiOvisUal REgiOnal fUnD italy hrvoje hRiBaR CROatian aUDiOvisUal CEntRE Croatia ivana ivisiC CROatian aUDiOvisUal CEntRE Croatia sibylle KURZ germany Kristiina pERvilÄ-anDERssOn MillEnniUM filM paolo viDali fRiUli vEnEZia giUlia aUDiOvisUal REgiOnal fUnD finland italy sEssiOn 3 – nÎMEs, fRanCE, sEptEMBER 2011 jad aBi Khalil BEiRUt DC lebanon isabel aRRatE jan vRijMan fUnD the netherlands Massimo aRvat ZEnit aRti aUDiOvisivE italy Madeleine avRaMOUssis aRtE g.E.i.E. france paolo BEnZi faBER filM italy jacques BiDOU jBa pRODUCtiOn france sophie ChEgaRay fRanCE tElEvisiOns france heino DECKERt Ma.ja.DE. filMpRODUKtiOn germany silvia DE fEliCE Rai EDUCatiOnal italy vianney DElOURME lEs EDitiOns MOntpaRnassE france Emmanuel fEUlié REgiOn langUEDOC ROUssillOn france Karim ghiyati langUEDOC ROUssillOn CinEMa france lorenzo hEnDEl Rai 3 italy Doris hEpp ZDf / aRtE germany alec hERRMann aRtE fRanCE france anita hUgi sChwEiZER fERnsEhEn switzerland Daniel KhaMDaMOv aRtE fRanCE france franz KUttER MDR germany serge lalOU lEs filMs D’iCi france gaspard laMUniERE Rts switzerland wilbur lEgUEBE RtBf Belgium fabrice ManUEl REgiOn langUEDOC ROUssillOn france Karen MiChaEl aRtE fRanCE france anne-laure nEgRin aRtE g.E.i.E. france aurelian niCa hBO ROMania Romania isabelle nOBiO antEnnE MEDia MaRsEillE france Michael O’MEallaigh tg4 ireland sabine ROllBERg wDR / aRtE germany valentine ROUlEt CnC france jean-françois vinCEnti COllECtivitE tERRitORialE DE CORsE france 11 12 Chapter paRtiCipants B LACK STAR PRODUXIONS Cycle 2011 KAIZER MATSUMUNYANE THE SMILING PIRATE DiRECtOR : KaiZER MatsUMUnyanE the smiling pirate is a feature length documentary that will explore somali piracy through the story of a somali teenager, abduwale abdukhadir Muse, who hijacked an american ship in 2009 off the coast of somalia. Muse became the first person to be convicted of piracy in the U.s in more than a 100 years. he has been sentenced to nearly 34 years in prison. the documentary will explore his life, being recruited into piracy, motives behind piracy and his american dream that has now turned into a nightmare. the story is about a somali teenager who was raised in a lawless country and who at the age of 7 took responsibility for the well being of his family after his mother was divorced by his father. it is about his dream for a better life and how he became a pirate to achieve it. it is also about a mother's plight to get her son back home and living each day with the possibility of never seeing him again. Being in somalia made me realise the desperation of the situation. it amazes me how someone could live a "normal" life and be "normal" in that place." we live in a culture of labels and we lose people behind the labels. with the smiling pirate, i want to give a face and story to somali piracy. By knowing each other’s stories, we are able to move forward and create a dialogue that can diffuse problems. LENGTH : 90 MIN LENGTH : 53 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY the smiling pirate (producer/Director) Documentary (in development) Mapule’s Choice (Director/writer) short film series phEla (Director/writer) 13 documentary series Untitled (producer/Director/writer) short film Red (Bono) fashion show (hiv/aiDs project in lesotho) (Director) Know your status (w.h.O) Documentary (Director) Cultural assimilation programme - Documentary (producer/Director) soul of my feet short - film (Director/writer) BOO PRODUCTIONS VICKY MIHA LONGEVITY, WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOR EVER ? DiRECtOR : haRis RaftOgiannis ikaria is a greek island, which was recently included in the top five places for optimum life expectancy. steep terrain, geographic isolation, poor health services and severe poverty have been no obstacle for its residents to live long and healthy lives. Mrs. Elpiniki, ‘girly’ as her friends call her is 86 years old. she drives an old car every day, taking quickly the most dangerous turns on the mountains. On the seat next to her Mr. stamatis, her 96year-old husband, is enjoying the ride. Mr. stamatis, after having managed to beat cancer in spite of his doctors’ dire predictions, not he survived for thirty years, while some of his doctors have passed away. still the wine he had stored for his funeral is in his house waiting to be served. they are just two of many inhabitants of this 99square-mile greek island to live longer than the rest of the western average. who wants to live forever? and how can this be achieved? Do these people posses the true secret of longevity? BIOFILMOGRAPHY haris Raftogiannis (athens / 1977) studied sociology at the University of Crete and directing at the new york College, athens. he has been working as a director for television documentaries since 2003, having directed several episodes for the documentary series tRaffiC, MUsiC Of thE wORlD, wEDDing REhEaRsal and ECO DiaRiEs for the greek national tv, while he was a member of the director’s team of the acclaimed documentary series thE nEw fOlDERs for skai Channel. he also directed and produced the shorts thE lOng hall (experimental, 2005), On thE BUtChER’s BEnCh (short, 2007). his films were selected in numerous European film festivals and awarded in greece. he is in the the last stages of post-production for two feature documentaries aiRlanD about aera patera an open, unconventional group of musicians and artists and R-eject: BERlin BRiDEs. Cycle 2011 CAMPFILM PRODUCTION Chapter paRtiCipants 13 SÁRA LÁSZLÓ CAIN’S CHILDREN DiRECtOR : MaRCEll gERő six teenagers between 15 and 18 years of age are sentenced to 8 to 15 years in prison for murder. they are at the height of suffering and are sent to hell, to the prison of tököl in central hungary, during the communist era. when they are released, the wall has fallen, they are “free”. But how can one survive with this legacy of suffering? in 1984, they were listened to and filmed, though not judged, by Monory-Mész andrás whose impartial view on them has incredible strength. 27 years later, i wish to let them express themselves. My country seen through the eyes of Cain’s children, a voyage (or simply a life) in hell. ils sont 6 jeunes adolescents entre 15 et 18 ans à être condamnés de 8 à 15 ans pour meurtre. ils sont à l'extrême de la souffrance et sont conduits en enfer dans la prison de tököl au centre de la hongrie durant la période communiste. Quand ils sortent le mur est tombé, ils sont "libres". Mais comment surviton à cette souffrance accumulée? ils ont été écoutés et filmés et non jugés par Monory-Mész andrás en 1984, regard juste d'une incroyable force. 27 ans plus tard, je dois leur rendre la parole. Regard sur mon pays par les enfants de Caïn, voyage (ou plus simplement une vie) en enfer. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Marcell gERő graduated as a film director at the University of theatre and film of Budapest in 2007. During his directing studies he worked in shorts, features and commercials as 1st aD, which gave him relevant experience in motion picture production. shot on 16-mm film, his 22 minutes graduation project shock won numerous prizes both in and outside hungary (eg: short film Cathegory prize at the 39. hungarian film week, Best feature under 25 min. at the 38. sehsuechte festival 2009, podsdam, germany). his previous works are characterized by their strength of visual quality and an intense focus on characters and small details. as a co-founder of Campfilm he has worked on several documentary projects over the past few years mainly as a creative producer. Most of these productions have dealt with minority issues and/or marginalized people.production company piR squared in 2002. LENGTH : 90 MIN 14 Chapter paRtiCipants Cycle 2011 CNC Created by the act of 25 October 1946, the Centre national de la cinématographie (CnC – national center for cinema) is a french public administrative organization, set up as a separate and financially independent entity. the Centre comes under the authority of the ministry of culture and communication and véronique Cayla is its director general. the main missions of the CnC are: - regulation, - support to the film, broadcast, video, multimedia and technical industries, - promotion of film and television for distribution to all audiences, - preservation and development of the film heritage. PHILIPPE LANG REPRESENTATIVE AT THE CINEMA DEPARTMENT working at the CnC (national Center of Cinematography) since 1983: 1997-2001: project manager – television Department Examination of grant applications for fiction and documentary projects that have received financial backing from a french tv channel since 2002: project manager – film Department Examination of automatic grant applications for fiction and documentary films ANNABELLE LANGLOIS ASSISTANTE CHARGÉE DE MISSION SPECTACLE VIVANT since 2004 : Management producer account and payment subvention of different kind (documentary, music, magazine and live performance) 2002/2004 : loaded of financial and juridical analysis th subvention dossier and producer account in CnC (national Centre of Cinematography) - paris 2002 : production secretary to auteurs et associés (production society to fiction)- paris 2001 : Course of production assistant to l’ina (national institut of audiovisual) 2000 : Course to CnDp (national Centre of pedagogical Documentation) participation to court film for the Channel tv5 world 1999: initiation course ton broadcaster Ciné Cité tv - lyon VIRGINIE RICH C HARGÉE DE MISSION SÉCRETARIAT DE COMMISSION ET ACCUEIL DES NOUVEAUX PROJETS since 2010 project manager – audiovisual selective fund (COsip) for documentaries, fictions, animations and cultural magazines. information desk for new producers. pilot fiction programmes comitee. television directorate – C.n.C. (national center of cinematography) 2007 – 2010 administration and instruction files for grant applications – Documentary and fiction television directorate – C.n.C. (national center of cinematography) 2005 2007 Bookseller la hune, l’Escalier and Chantelivre bookshops 2004 2006 Continuity supervisor on several short films 2005 press office assistant Kinémafilm / françois frey 2004 production assistant Ostinato production short films and documentaries Cycle 2011 DOC E N STOCK Chapter paRtiCipants 15 GAËLLE GUYADER I WAS A CHILD SLAVE DiRECtOR : CéCilE allEgRa in india, 60 million children work in slavery conditions. in Delhi, a man decided to fight in order to put an end to this situation. with his ngO and his team, Kailash sathyarthi launched commando operations to liberate minors from their life conditions. Once they are emancipated from their bondage, they are relocated to an ashram in the heart of Rajasthan. this is where they, for the first time in their lives, learn to live normally and to heal the physical and psychological stigma of their ordeals before they are sent back home to their parents. this documentary tells the story of a renaissance; one of children who have only known one life - slavery. we will be in the middle of the ashram to observe and film the rebuild of these children, their come back to a normal life and the way the pedagogical team learn them to defend themselves in the labour world, in an adult world. En inde, 60 millions d’enfants travaillent dans des conditions d’esclavage. a Dehli, un homme a décidé de se battre pour mettre un terme à cette situation. avec son Ong et ses équipes, Kailash sathyarti lance des opérations commando pour sortir ces mineurs de ces conditions de vie. Une fois délivrés de leur esclavage, ils les installent dans un ashram au cœur du Rajasthan, où, parfois pour la première fois de leur vie, ils apprennent à vivre normalement et à guérir de leurs stigmates, physiques et psychiques avant d’être rendus à leurs parents. Ce documentaire raconte une reconstruction. son ambition est de s’immerger au cœur de l’ashram pour filmer tout en retenue la renaissance de ces enfants, le chemin vers la normalité, et leur encadrement pédagogique dont l’enjeu prioritaire est de leur permettre de se défendre dans le monde du travail, et dans un monde d’adultes. LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 52 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY Born in 1976 in Roma, Cécile allegra directed dozen of documentaries. she has a particular interest for society topics, and mainly for the conditions of women and children around the world. she was selected to numerous festivals for her last film "haïti, la blessure de l’âme" about the traumatism of haïti after the earthquake. she is ending a documentary about the fight against the “camorra” in napoli for which she was nominated to the albert londres prize. E KLEKTIK PRODUCTIONS ANNABELLA N EZRI OF MOUSTACHES AND MEN DiRECtOR : Mathias DEsMaRREs the moustache is in grave danger! let us dare say that the moustache is dying! in the 19th century, it was the incontestable sign of virility and authority. today the symbolic perception of the moustache is changing. in the manner of an investigation, accompanied by numerous testimonies of specialists and stock footage, the film proposes an itinerant journey across Europe to discover the destiny of the moustache and its evolution. with seriousness and humour, he proposes an offbeat and original look on male virility and identity in the 21st century. la moustache est en grand péril! Osons le dire la moustache se meurt ! a la fin xix siècle elle était le signe incontestable de la virilité et de l’autorité. aujourd’hui elle est en pleine crise symbolique. a la manière d’une enquête agrémentée de nombreux témoignages et d’images d’archives, le réalisateur effectue un parcours itinérant eu Europe pour explorer la destinée de la moustache. avec sérieux et humour il propose un regard décalé et original sur l’identité masculine au xxi siècle. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Mathias Desmarres lives in Brussels and has been working there as a director on various documentaries since 2005. he likes to approach topical subjects in an off-key and unusual way. his documentary, « the words of Ms. jacquot » (“les Mots de Madame jacquot”) which describes alzheimer through rounds of a surrealistic scrabble game which he plays with a 100 year-old woman, has won many prices. since then he has been working on several productions. in 2009, he directed a documentary about the journey of a priest who became a monk while living in social housing cities in Marseille « far away from Rome » (“loin de Rome”). in 2010 he took part with Eklektik productions in a series of documentaries about the independence of the Congo « Kongo », and also in the writing of a film which traces back the pre-colonial history of Burundi. Recently, he is working on a new feature documentary about the humorous and serious history of the moustache in the documentary ‘Of moustaches and men’. 16 Chapter paRtiCipants I NDYCA Cycle 2011 SIMONE CATANIA SMOKINGS DiRECtOR : MiChElE fORnasERO Messina brothers are yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in turin, italy, today. Originally yesmoke was an online store for cigarettes selling its products all over the world. Every day millions of people used to buy online cheap packets of Marlboro, Camels and lucky strikes. when sales reached a hundred million, the “Big tobacco” started to fight the “little guys” and sued them for 550 Million dollars, obliging them to close their website down. then, the two brothers decided to build their own brand cigarette manufactory up near turin, italy, starting to fight against philip Morris on their same field. their goal is to take revenge and to attack tobacco multinationals with every mean they have. But today also the italian government wants them abroad. so the two brothers are now more annoyed and they are trying to fight against the system too. it’s like a gangster movie: there are not good guys, just small bad guys fighting big bad guys. who’s going to win this unfair battle? Bad David or Bad goliath? LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 75 MIN les frères Messina ont fondé yesmoke, une petite usine de tabac située aujourd’hui à turin, en italie. À l’origine yesmoke était une boutique online de cigarettes qui vendait ses produits dans le monde entier. tous les jours des millions de personnes achetaient sur le web, à bon prix, des paquets de Marlboro, Camels et lucky strikes. Quand les ventes atteignirent une centaine de millions de dollars, le “Big tobacco” commença à lutter contre les “little guys” et à leur réclamer 550 Millions de dollars, les obligeant ainsi à fermer leur site. les deux frères décidèrent alors de créer leur propre manufacture de cigarettes près de turin, en italie, s’opposant ainsi à philip Morris sur son propre terrain. leur but étant de prendre leur revanche et d’attaquer les multinationales de tabac par tous les moyens dont ils disposaient. Mais, aujourd’hui, même le gouvernement italien veut les renvoyer. les deux frères sont de plus en plus contrariés et ils entreprennent de se battre contre le système lui-même. Comme dans un film de gangsters, il n’y a pas de bons gars mais seulement de petits méchants luttant contre de grands méchants. Qui sortira vainqueur de cette lutte inégale ? le méchant David ou le méchant goliath? BIOFILMOGRAPHY Michele fornasero was born in turin in 1980. he graduated in Business and Economy from the University of turin. with a passionate experience as producer, editor and director with indyca, he has worked on several shorts and documentaries, including 'frontline is Everywhere', 'a scrap of paradise', (special event at turin film festival 2008, awarded at the annecy Cinema italien 2009) 'the legend of the Blue fish', 'la paura siCura', collaborating with gabriele vacis, peter greenaway and others. J IRAFA B RUNO B ETTATI TERRA INCOGNITA DiRECtOR : lUis alaRCÓn the journey of the ship De liefde from the netherlands in 1599-1601 marks a turning point in history. it hallmarks the start of a new economical and technological era of exchange between East and west, but it also carries a darker side: before making it to japan, De liefde navigates through the strait of Magellan, passing by terra del fuego. the crew comes in touch with the inhabitants of the area and their meetings end in massacres and the abduction of native children. these events and the sighting of the ship give birth among the natives to the legend of El CalEUChE, a ghost ship that wanders in the channels of the strait, used in campfire stories for children who are warned for El CalEUChE as it will abduct them when they look at it. BIOFILMOGRAPHY lucho alarcón studied sociology, film and television at Chile and the netherlands between 19861998. since then he has directer several audiovisual projects on videoart, performance and theater. he has also created interdisciplinary shows. On 2003 he achieved the development aid for fdocumentary at the Rotterdam film fund and the Embassy of the netherlands for the video art Estas caras, estos ojos’. On 2004 he achieved the fondart price at Chile to do an audiovisual essay called ‘santiago: ni Civitas Dei, ni Civitas terrena’. this last work provides a very personal gaze of santiago de Chile, revealing the psycho-social structure of the country, using as a start point a painting from the xix century by the german artist johann Moritz Rugendas.On may 2007, this videoart was exposed at the national art Museum at santiago. terra incognita is his first documentary. Cycle 2011 Chapter paRtiCipants 17 JOHANNA ST MICHAELS PRODUCTIONS JOHANNA ST MICHAELS PENTHOUSE NORTH DiRECtOR : jOhanna st MiChaEls a film about a survivor from the rollercoaster existence of celebrity. a woman who is living in the shadow of her own image. an image strongly connected to a successful past and a fabulous apartment. now she has to let go of the past to have a future Born in sweden, agneta has lived a life that many dream of - a life in the limelight. she moved to new york City in the late 60’s and became a sought after model and actress. she then managed to start her own successful clothing line, as well as being a fashion photographer. agneta is at a crossroads in her life. for a long time her landlord has been trying to evict her because she has a rent controlled lease. Despite paying a low rent her income is scare. will she manage to get back up on top or does she have to leave her beloved penthouse north? LENGTH : 58 & 74 MIN LENGTH : 70 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY johanna st Michaels has mostly produced and directed documentary films, but also art films and art installations. she has produced and directed films such as Best wishes, Bernhard that got the prized with the swedish film institute’s Dokumentär¬films premium 2003, snap shots from Reality received special Mention at nordic panorama as well as nominated for Best international film at Bird Eye view film festival. about Dina was nominated to Best short at tempo film festival.. her most resent art film the islands amid the worlds got prized with gothenburg City’s culture grant 2010. johanna st Michaels has a pervious back round as an actress and still photographer. KARONINKA ANGELE DIABANG THEY WILL BURN IN HELL DiRECtOR : angElE DiaBang homosexuality was not subject to any oppression in ancient senegal, and roles were foreseen for the so-called goorjigeen (woman-man) in numerous ceremonies. as of today, things have changed, and it becomes increasingly difficult and even dangerous to be homosexual in senegal. some of them, like Morgan, prefer to hide in the shadow, even getting married, for his own protection’s sake, while others such as vieux faye don’t hide the fact that they are different, yet they are forced to live a secret life. this film wants to give them the floor; well beyond individual testimonies, it will show the evolution of morals in senegal as well as the problem one faces to be just oneself in a society where a group’s cohesion takes priority over the individual. le sénégal ancien ne réprimait pas l’homosexualité et accordait même une place aux goorjigeen (homme-femme) dans de nombreuses cérémonies. aujourd’hui, les choses ont changé et il est devenu très difficile et même dangereux d’être homosexuel au sénégal. Certains, comme Morgan préfèrent rester à l’ombre et même se marier pour mieux se protéger et d’autres, comme vieux faye, ne cachent pas leur différence mais sont contraints à une vie nocturne. Ce film leur donne la parole et, au-delà des témoignages singuliers, montre l’évolution des moeurs au sénégal et les difficultés à être soi-même dans une culture où la cohésion du groupe prime sur l’individu. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Born in 1979, angèle Diabang worked as an editor before directing her first documentary short film, My Beautiful smile, 2005. since then, she has set up her own production company named Karoninka and produced senegalese women and islam in 2007 as well as yandé Codou, the griot of senghor in 2008. in addition to her own films, angèle also produced Benjamin gronau’s short film jakob (2010, germany) and the documentaries the rite, the lunatic and me by assih gentille (2011-togo); waliden, children of others by awa traoré (2009, Mali), the silent Monologue by Khady sylla (2007, senegal) and Electro for ever (2008, france), directed by sixth-formers of a high school in apt, france. 18 Chapter paRtiCipants LITTLE FILM ROMA Cycle 2011 GIUSEPPE B IANCO THE PHOTO-NOVEL, THEN AND NOW DiRECtOR : giUsEppE BianCO Born in italy in 1947, the photo-novel made the fortune of those who first launched it on the market, be it in italy or in france. sixty years later, these photo-illustrated romantic stories can still be found at newsstands all around these countries, although meanwhile came television, internet and the digital revolution. so, are today’s stories the same as they were then? what do they tell us about their readers and their makers, both yesterday and today? when photos actually talk, what are they saying? né en italie en 1947, le roman-photo a fait la fortune de ses promoteurs, aussi bien en italie qu’en france. plus de 60 ans plus tard, le roman-photo existe toujours : entre-temps, la télévision est arrivée, puis internet et la révolution numérique, mais ces récits romantiques en images continuent à se faire et à se vendre. au passé et au présent, que racontent-ils de ceux qui les font et ceux qui les lisent ? lorsque les photos parlent, que nous racontent-elles ? BIOFILMOGRAPHY swiss-italian, giuseppe Bianco graduates from the University of geneva with a licence ès lettres (Majors: English and art history, minor: photography). as a postgraduate bursar at Cornell University (ithaca, ny/Usa), he directs his first short film in 16 mm and learns to edit on avid. after returning to geneva, he alternates teaching and directing/editing, and shoots his second short film. in 2000/01, he attends a film school in Rome and graduates from the directing of photography department, thus completing his filmmaking training. from 2001 to 2006, he shoots and directs various behind-the-scenes documentaries of feature films like “i’m not scared”, “Don’t Move” and “Crime novel”. he collaborates with little film Roma since 2006 and, from 2009, becomes involved in its project development sector, including in the various projects two of his own (a documentary and an internet-based narrative plateform). MARTFILMS LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 90 MIN MARTHA OROZCO DROUGHT DiRECtOR : EvERaRDO gOnZÁlEZ Desert cowboys "Cuates de australia" face death every year, avoiding the drought that threatens the ranch. while the community is forced into an exodus, the place is abandoned and eventually the desert animals take over the place. they wait for the first drops of rain in order to return. Chaque année, les habitants de los cuates de australia, un ajido situé dans la région du nord-est du Mexique, se voient contraints de se déplacer pour trouver de l'eau, une eau qui leur manque cruellement en saison sèche. au cours de cet exil forcé, hommes, femmes, vieillards et enfants attendent impatiemment les premières gouttes de pluie qui sont le signe qu'ils peuvent rentrer chez eux. Cet exode est la métaphore de la fuite de toute population devant la mort. BIOFILMOGRAPHY graduated from “Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica” in the Bachelor of Cinematography. Documentary Maker and independent producer, he made the documental sectors for the fiction feature film “Backyard: el traspatio”, directed by Carlos Carrera, work for which he received the Mexican award silver ariel for Best Cinematography in 2010. in 2011 he finished his third feature documentary El cielo abierto. in 2007 his second documentary film los ladrones viejos, received many awards and honourable mentions such as the silver arieles for Best Mexican film Documentary and for Best Mexican film Editing, the nomination to the golden ariel for Best film and Best Director, the award Mayahuel for Best Mexican feature Documentary in the 22nd international film festival in guadalajara, the honourable Mention for Best iberoamerican feature Documentary in the 12th international film festival in guadalajara, the special Mention of the award latin Union for Best latin american Documentary in the 16th festival de Biarritz d´amérique latine and the award josé Rovirosa for Best Mexican Documentary. it has been shown in more than 40 countries. in 2003 his first documentary work la Canción del pulque, received the silver ariel for Best feature Documentary and the nomination for Best first work, the awards Mayahuel for Best Cinematography and Mexican feature film and the special Mention of the international Catholic film Organization for Best Mexican film in the 18th Mexican film festival in guadalajara; and the special Mention made by the judges in the 1st international film festival in Morelia. it has been shown in more than 30 international film festivals. nowadays, he is a member of the national system of artistic Creators in Mexico. Cycle 2011 MISCHIEF FILMS Chapter paRtiCipants 19 DAVID BOHUN EUPHORIC NIGHTS IN VIENNA DiRECtOR : aZZa El-hassan asmahan – syrian Druze princess, film diva, music icon and femme fatale of the arab world in the 40ies. when vienna was heavily bombed by the allies during world war ii, she sang „Euphoric nights in vienna“ and created a myth of vienna that until today affects desires and hopes of travellers and immigrants from the Middle East. just a few weeks after her performance she dies under mysterious circumstances. the film traces the promises of the song, visits important sights of asmahan’s life and meets protagonists that are searching for their identity between the East and the west, between dreams and reality. asmahan est une princesse druze syrienne, diva, vedette et femme fatale du monde arabe des années 40. Quand vienne est fortement bombardée par les alliés lors de la seconde guerre mondiale, elle chante « Euphoric nights in vienna » (nuits euphoriques à vienne) et crée ainsi un mythe viennois qui anime jusqu’à présent les désirs et espoirs des voyageurs et migrants provenant du proche-Orient. seulement quelques semaines après la création de cette chanson, elle décède dans des circonstances mystérieuses. Ce film retrace les promesses de cette chanson, visite les endroits qui ont joué un rôle important dans la vie de asmahan et va à la rencontre de gens, qui cherchent leur identité entre l’est et l’ouest, entre rêve et réalité. LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN LENGTH : 58 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY azza El-hassan’s work has been produced and shown by various international tv networks such as BBC, arte, ylE, aRD and many others. it has also been screened in film festivals and art venues around the world like, yamagata Documentary film festival (japan), international film festival iDfa (holland), leipzig (germany) and many others. El-hassan is the winner of the 2006 luchino visconti award - the silver hydrangea “Mediterranean sensibilities," italy for her film “Kings & Extras”; the 2002 grierson award for Best new Comer (the British Documentaries awards, BBC) for her film “news time”. azza El-hassan holds an Ma in television Documentary, from gold-smiths College, University of london (1995) and a Ba in film and television studies and sociology from glasgow University, scotland (1994). MOMENTO FILM DAVID H ERDIES TO DIVORCE DiRECtOR : KaRin EKBERg Karin doesn't have many memories of her parents being happy or in love. they slept in different rooms, voted for different political parties and had separate friends. But they had somehow all gotten used to it. then one summer day Karin's mum wants to divorce, after 38 years. and she is in a hurry. all of a sudden the house is for sale and has to be emptied, fast. Karin starts filming to catch the interiors of her childhood home before it all disappears into boxes. One year later the parents have continued into their new lives, but Karin is left with lots of questions. with piles of old photos, videos and the material shot turning the separation she now puts pieces together trying to understand her past. as well as reflecting over which family patterns that are likely to reappear in the future. "to Divorce" is a personal documentary following a process we seldom get to see. But it is also aiming at a wider context and relevance to the audience by looking at family structures, gender roles, family patterns, family secrets and perhaps foremost: the struggle of the individual to give love a chance, build a family, make sacrifices – without losing dreams and yourself on the way. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Karin Ekberg has a background within photography and journalism. she graduated from the photography department of the Dutch art school artEZ in 2003. During 2005-2006 she completed a masters of journalism at the stockholm University. an internship at the swedish television pointed the direction to continued work within the tv and film sector. after some years working professionally as a reporter, journalist and project manager, she found her way back to more personal expression through a one year study in documentary film, during which she began the project ”to Divorce”, which is Karin’s debut documentary film. 20 Chapter paRtiCipants MONKEY BAY Cycle 2011 DELPHINE LANDES REVOLUTION RELOAD DiRECtOR : MOhanaD yaQUBi 1977: in the middle of the lebanese Civil war, a group of filmmakers managed to smuggle 30,000 meters of negatives from Beirut to Rome within exceptional conditions. Based on the diary of one of the filmmakers who joined the trip, palEstinE, shOt anD REvERsE reveals the practices of the palestinian revolutionary filmmakers and their relationships with the various underground networks of militant cinemas around the world. 1977 : alors que la guerre civile libanaise fait rage, un groupe de réalisateurs parvient à transférer clandestinement 30.000 mètres de pellicules de Beyrouth à Rome dans des conditions exceptionnelles. Basé sur le journal intime de l’un des réalisateurs qui s’embarqua dans cette aventure, palEstinE, ChaMp, COntREChaMp explore les pratiques des cinéastes révolutionnaires palestiniens et les relations qu’ils entretenaient avec les divers réseaux souterrains des cinémas militants dans le monde. LENGTH : 80 MIN LENGTH : 52 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY graduated from Birzeit University with a degree in mechanical engineering (2004), and from goldsmiths College, london, with a Masters in feature film in 2009. he is one of the founders of idioms film, a filmmakers’ collective based in Ramallah. he has directed several short fiction and documentary films. his work deals with realities of boredom and emptiness expressed through people’s relationships and their interaction with space. his work stands between video art, documentary and fiction, creating a visual narrative that is not entirely abstract. he is currently working on his first feature film. NOVAK PROD OLIVIER DUBOIS DREAMCATCHEURS DiRECtORs : xaviER sEROn & CéDRiC BOURgEOis a group of trainee wrestlers spurred on by the energy of salvatore Bellomo (age 60) trains relentlessly in the back room of a café in the Borinage district (former mining region in Belgium). tarzan, the gigolo, andynamite, priscilla, la Rage, Eddie Dark... they all dream of becoming professional wrestlers, like their teacher. salvatore fought with top wrestlers for more than 30 years, particularly within the prestigious wwf. today, he has decided to bring his students to the U.s to follow the traces of his past. waiting for the big day, they live out their passion together, sometimes taking foolish risks to satisfy the local audience and lay out their future. Un groupe d’apprentis catcheurs mus par l’énergie de salvatore Bellomo (60 ans) s’entraine avec acharnement dans l’arrière salle d’un café du Borinage, ancienne région minière de Belgique. le gigolo, tarzan, andynamite, priscilla, la Rage, Eddie Dark ... rêvent tous de devenir professionnels, comme leur professeur. pendant plus de trente ans, salvatore a catché avec les plus grands notamment au sein de la prestigieuse wwf. aujourd’hui, il a décidé d’emmener ses élèves aux EtatsUnis sur les traces de son passé. En attendant le grand jour, ils vivent ensemble leur passion prenant parfois des risques insensés pour satisfaire le public local et forcer l’avenir. BIOFILMOGRAPHY xavier seron, graduated from the Belgian film school iaD in 2005. Rien d’insoluble, his senior film project has been selected by more than 50 festivals around the world, including the venice film festival. le Crabe, a short film he co-directed in 2007 with Christophe hermans, won the Best film prize at the international film festival of namur. his last project Mauvaise lune, a short film as well, is co-directed with Meryl fortunat-Rossi. the shooting of his first long feature film je me tue à le dire, coproduced by tobina films (fR)- novak prod (BE) – savage films (BE) is planned for 2012. Cedric Bourgeois, is a young french filmmaker based in Brussels. he has directed little ones (videoclip, super 8, 5mn, 2009) and il n’y a pas d’ailleurs (short film, 12 mn, 2008). his next short film la mort du loup is funded by france 3 and auvergne film Commission. Cycle 2011 OFF WORLD Chapter paRtiCipants 21 FREDERIK N ICOLAI OUVERTURE DiRECtORs : iBBE Daniëls & KOEn viDal serge Kakudji is a twenty-year-old Congolese counter tenor who fell in love with opera as a young boy, listening to cassette tapes of opera recordings in his room in lumubashi. he later travelled to Europe to achieve his dream of becoming a top opera singer. although serge’s artistic ambitions are pure and uncomplicated, the reactions among his environment and audiences are often ambiguous and divided. while some people respect and acknowledge his artistic vocation, others see him as an exotic oddity, or complain that that his african timbre jars with classical opera. serge refuses to be discouraged by any of this. On the contrary, he wants to hold up a mirror to western culture and confront it with its underlying beliefs. he also wants to use his story and experiences in the west to bring opera to Congo. together with his countrymen and women, he wants to found a Congolese opera tradition based on african stories that will inspire people to follow their dreams. LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY ibbe Daniels Documenatry is her great passion. she may plenty of documentary films for the flemish broadcasting company Canvas, like Belpop, a series about the relation between famous people and their mother, and many others. futur simple, a short film about the dreams and wishes of the Congolese children, was her first collaboration with Koen vidal. ibbe also directed many commercials and music videos. Koen vidal after studying law, a Master in communications and postgraduate practical journalism, Koen vidal became an editor/journalist in political issues. some years later he is the responsible editor for foreign news at one of the major intellectual newspapers in Belgium, De Morgen. he leads a group of journalists and he is the pre-eminently africa-expert and -correspondent for the newspaper. he travelled many times into the heart of all major conflict areas in central-africa and beyond. he's a professor/lecturer at ghent University and the European Erasmus school for journalism, especially on foreign politics and journalism. he wrote several successful books on central-african political conflicts and refugee policy between africa and Europe. for his work on this matter he received different important awards. OKTOBER TIMO VIERIMAA LIMITS OF LOVE DiRECtOR : jOOnas BERghÄll limits of love is an episodic documentary film that portrays different kinds of women and their stories around the world. together through the combining themes and poetic storytelling, these episodes create an emotional entity. Emphasis is in three different themes that are repeated in the stories: human rights, motherhood and love. it is a collection of intimate and touching stories, but through the personal experiences of characters it also handles the women’s rights issues still existing today. BIOFILMOGRAPHY joonas Berghäll is a director, producer and owner of the Oktober production Company. joonas' latest work as director, documentary film steam of life, premiered in january 2010 and has been contracted to broadcasters all over the world and for theatrical distribution in 5 different countries. film has been screened in over 60 international festivals and it has won many awards from all around the world. the film was also finnish contestant for foreign language Oscar award and also nominated for European film awards pRix aRtE. 22 Chapter paRtiCipants OUT OF THE BOX FEATURES Cycle 2011 KERRY FULTON ANA AND I DiRECtOR : pRiMavERa M. RUiZ for as long as i can remember i thought my mother was god, and i always trusted her choices. she did everything for us eight children. My two younger sisters are adopted from Equatorial guinea and i was made responsible for them from the beginning. we grew up in a bubble, training to be Equestrian vaulting champions, and had little time to concern ourselves with what was going on around us. now i can see that my mother created the team to protect us from her problems. the family secrets that kept us together have taken a toll on our relationships, and i need to understand them before moving on with my own life. now my mother is ready to reveal the truths she kept hidden to protect us for all these years. LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 60 MIN D’aussi loin que je m’en souvienne, j’ai toujours pensé que ma mère était Dieu. j’ai toujours eu confiance en ses choix, elle qui a tout fait pour ses huit enfants. Mes deux plus jeunes sœurs, guinéennes, ont été adoptées. je me suis toujours sentie responsable d’elles. nous avons grandi dans une bulle, nous entraînant avec l’objectif d’être champions de voltige équestre et avions peu de temps pour nous préoccuper de ce qui se passait autour de nous. Désormais, je me rends compte que ma mère a crée cette équipe pour nous protéger de ses problèmes. les secrets autour de notre famille ont eu des répercussions sur nos relations, et j'ai besoin de les connaître avant de partir vivre ma vie. aujourd’hui, ma mère est prête à révéler ces vérités, cachées pendant toutes ces années afin de nous protéger. BIOFILMOGRAPHY primavera has studied Communication and Digital Cinema in Madrid as well as production at new york University - tisch school of the arts. primavera has directed five shorts - she won best short film for Olas De Corazon. she has directed several music videos. Recently she has line produced a number of award winnings shorts including 'nadie tiene la Culpa' directed by Esteban Crespo, as well as on Miguel aguirre's shortrilm' 6 Contra 6'. from 1997- 2002 she was Captain of the spanish vaulting team and attended the world championships in several countries. PROGRAM33 FANNY GLISSANT MONDOGUSTO, IN SEARCH OF THE LOST TASTE DiRECtORs : REMy BURKEl & sylviE DElEUlE fifteen years from now, will we still be able to choose what we eat? Eating has become as much an industrial business as a specialist culinary pursuit. a multinational food giant allying with pharmaceutical laboratories is no longer unusual and many countries are sacrificing their gastronomic heritage in favour of the far more profitable standardised taste. Unknowingly, we have become "hooked" on these products. it is bad enough that their ingredients are present in our babies' food, but this addiction actually starts right back in the womb. Our film will reveal the workings of the implacable machine that is determining global tastes, as well as the means that exist to turn it off. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Remy Burkel Rémy is a french-american director whose work is based on his own wide and varied experience. he has been a visual artist, a journalist, an actor and a screenwriter, and has worked on both television drama (true Csi) and commercials, as well as on french tv’s current affairs satire les guignols de l’info. his infatuation with playing around with audiovisual references led him to start making documentaries. a documentary series, sin City law (sundance Channel, arte), as well as Oil for fraud, allowed him to perfect his cinematic technique; the latter, a documentary co-directed with Denis poncet, won the award for Best investigative Documentary at Canada’s Banff festival. sylvie Deleule sylvie came to directing through journalism. strangely enough, it was through portraiture that she first chose to sharpen her documentary skills (people of Europe, arte; hubert nyssen; luis sepulvéda); it was only later that she returned to her first love, the investigative documentary, the best example being her film asbestos: a slow Death which has been shown in over thirty countries and selected for several international festivals (grand prize at the international festival of Environmental Cinema, Brazil; france; switzerland; germany; israel). Cycle 2011 Chapter QUASAR MULTIMEDIA paRtiCipants 23 MARTA ZACCARON MOHAMED AND THE FISHERMAN DiRECtOR : MaRCO lEOpaRDi it's the story of a miracle: Mohamed, a young african, is the only survivor of the 47 persons who left lybia with him, on a rubber boat. he had been clinging to a piece of wood for almost a week in the middle of the Mediterranean sea. when he had lost all his hope, he saw the captain vito Cittadino's boat approaching him. the corageous and lively captain from Mazara del vallo saved Mohamed when he was almost dead. Captain vito remembers this rescue as something very special, he often thinks about that guy: he says that it was the most special of all the rescues, that guy is like a son for him. for this reason the captain, after having heard that Mohamed lives in a difficult situation in paris, invited him to go to Mazara (sicily), with the promise to help him to find a job. LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 90 MIN C'est l'histoire d'un miracle: Mohamed, un jeune africain, est le seul survivant parmi le groupe de 47 personnes parties avec lui sur un zodiaque. il est resté 6 jours agrippé à une planche en bois au milieu de la mer, entre la lybie et la sicile, et au moment où il avait perdu tout espoir, il a vu s’approcher le bateau de pêche de vito Cittadino, un capitaine de Mazara énergique et courageux, qui l’a sauvé alors qu’il était en fin de vie. vito repense souvent à ce jeune homme trouvé au milieu de la mer et en parle comme il parle de sa famille: il dit que ça a été le plus particulier des sauvetages. pour lui, ce jeune est comme un cinquième fils. C’est pour cette raison que maintenant le capitaine, après avoir appris la situation difficile de Mohamed à paris, l’a invité à le rejoindre à Mazara de vallo, en lui promettant de l’aider à trouver un travail. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Marco leopardi was born in Rome (italy) in 1961. he studied photography at the European Design institute of Rome and started to make artistic, anthropological and environmental reportages in italy and abroad for several italian magazines. he started to work as a documentary-maker in 1991. Until now he has directed many documentaries that have been broadcasted by Rai, Rtsi, nDR, arte, ylE, national geographic Channel, aljazeera among others. since the beginning of his activity he has mainly focused its experience on natural, environmental, social and anthropological documentaries, carrying the direction, the photography and the authorial aspects. SIMBAD FILMS ASHES DiRECtORs : iDRissa gUiRO lUCCiOni & MélaniE I DRISSA GUIRO LUCCIONI pavy En 2011, Kyôko Kosaka meurt à paris d’un cancer. Elle avait 71 ans. akiko, sa fille, est revenue d’urgence de tokyo pour l’accompagner dans ses derniers instants. après sa mort, elle trouve dans l’appartement de sa mère deux carnets laissés à son attention. 300 pages d’un journal intime qu’elle a tenu depuis 1994. Dotée de cet étrange héritage, akiko décide de repartir au japon, en quête du lieu où disperser les cendres de sa mère. akiko remonte alors le fil du temps et le chemin qu’avait accompli sa mère. Celui d’une enfant marquée à jamais par les bombardement d’hiroshima, celui d’une miss Butterfly des années soixante, aperçue dans le cinéma de la nouvelle vague à paris. Celui d’une mère aussi qui confie à sa fille une « leçon de vie » post-mortem. Entre la génération hiroshima et la génération fukushima, en reconstuisant la mémoire de Kyoko, le film cherchera à interroger sur la douloureuse épreuve du deuil et sur la construction de la mémoire qu’elle soit intime ou collective. BIOFILMOGRAPHY idrissa guiro luccioni went round the world as a very young man and got bitten by the photography bug. after studies in journalism, plastic arts and Cinema, he began work as a photographer, first in paris then in the United states. On his return to france he worked as a cameraman, then directed a dozen magazine programmes for television. after setting up his own production company, simbad films, he turned his energies towards documentary cinema. his first documentary, Barcelone ou la mort, (prix louis Marcorelles, Cinéma du Réel 2008), won awards at many international festivals. in 2011, he and Mélanie pavy, co-writer of the film Cendres (‘ashes’), were awarded a residency at the prestigious villa Kujoyama (asian equivalent of the villa Medici) in the audio-visual category. they will both be in residence in Kyoto for seven months starting from january 2012. idrissa guiro luccioni also won the 2011 Beaumarchais foundation prize for his feature-film script currently in development. 24 Chapter paRtiCipants SPIRITUS MOVENS Cycle 2011 ZDENKA GOLD SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM DiRECtOR : MaRKO stanić parallel story about two men who chose very exotic careers. Both of them are belonging to the same region and climate – adriatic. the first one is observing it from perspective that is extremely calm and slow, that even seems like a kind of nirvana state, and the other one is observing it from perpetual movement. from two different points of view of our main characters, film is describing how adriatic sea and its environment, are determining rhythm of life, and in our case also rhythm of the film itself. film is reviewing the notion of the time and in which dimension time flow is depending on the perception of the observer. this is a film about the rhythm of life and its transience observed by two diametrically opposed views on life. the first one is tallying life according to the change of the seasons; the other one is tallying it according to the seconds that could be of life importance. first one is anchored in the middle of open sea for week, and the other one is flying into new challenges every day. first one is the lighthouse keeper on deserted island, and the other one is a pilot of Canadair plane. LENGTH : 75-85 MIN LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN il s'agit d'une histoire mettant en parallèle la vie de deux hommes ayant choisi des carrières très insolites. ils appartiennent tous deux à la même région et au même climat l'adriatique. le premier perçoit ces lieux sous une perspective extrêmement calme et lente, et l'autre sous celle du mouvement perpétuel. le film explore la notion du temps où la façon dont il s'écoule dépend de la perception de l'observateur. C'est un film sur le rythme de vie et sa brièveté, présenté sous deux points de vue diamétralement opposés. le premier appréhende la vie selon le changement des saisons, alors que ce qui compte pour l'autre, ce sont les secondes qui passent et qui pourraient être d'une importance vitale. le premier a une vie ancrée au milieu de la pleine mer pour plusieurs semaines ; l'autre se lance vers de nouveaux défis chaque jour. le premier est gardien de phare ; l'autre est pilote de Canadair. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Marko stanić was working as a photographer and designer at the beginning of his career. he had two individual (‘faces’ and ‘slow’) and six group exhibitions. in the year 1997 he started to work as cinematographer on Croatian national television and was engaged on many tv projects, sport events, concert and live coverings. from year 2004 he is a freelance director and cinematographer. he directed many music videos, and commercials, and he drew big number of storyboards. in the year 2009 he made his first documentary film ‘Marija walks in silence’, 43min. at the moment he is in postproduction with his second documentary (feature length this time) ‘see you in One year’, in production (as a co author) in documentary «lost in transition» and he is also developing another feature length documentary «Mediterranean trilogy» which is part of EURODOC 2011. SUTOR KOLONKO I NGMAR TROST THE PUNCH DiRECtOR : anDRé höRMann the punch tells the story of a fateful relationship of a father and his son and their shared fragile dream. it is a tale about failure and hope - and what it means to live with dignity. Coach sims sacrifices everything for one goal: to make his 17 year old son Kenny a boxing champion and thus break the vicious circle of poverty and violence that has held his family back for generations. with Kenny’s first big fight lying ahead, their lives are at a crossroads. it‘s a fight against the odds. But regardless of whether Kenny wins or loses, every hour spent at the boxing gym is one less on the murderous streets of Chicago‘s black ghetto. the film accompanies Coach sims and his son Kenny jr. over the course of one year leading up to the 2012 summer Olympics in london. BIOFILMOGRAPHY andré hörmann, born on 8th november 1975 in Bremen, germany 1996 a-levels, schubart-gymnasium Ulm; 1997-2000 social sciences and Economics, humboldt University, Berlin (intermediate examination 2000); 2000-2006 Degree course in film Direction, hff potsdam-Babelsberg (degree 2006). freelance director since 2006. since 2009 working on phD dissertation in Media sciences, hff potsdam-Babelsberg. andré hörmann lives in Berlin. Cycle 2011 VASKI FILMI Chapter paRtiCipants 25 JANNE N ISKALA WANNA BE A BADASS ? SAY SING ! DiRECtOR : KUang-ChOng yU four youngsters in Kunming, China, form a band and start calling themselves west hill, after their childhood hip hop heroes Cypress hill, with a great ambition to become China’s baddest hiphop legend ever without knowing the harsh reality awaiting to betray them. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Kuang-Chong yu is a renowned a&R (artists and Repertoire) person, a producer and a lyricist in the Mandarin pop music industry. he owns the taipei-based pop music production company, propapanda productions. the meeting with the band xi-shan (west hill) has not only been a chance to progress his musical career but also a chance to turn himself into a first time filmmaker. he has worked on several documentary projects since 2007, with say sing being his directorial debut. VISUALANTICS LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN LENGTH : 52 & 75 MIN GERT VAN B ERCKELAER STATE OF PLAY DiRECtOR : stEvEn DhOEDt Every year thousands of south-Koreans flock to one of the many game stadiums in seoul to watch the pro league Competition. Over there they compete to be the best at one single video game: starcraft. the stars of the starcraft league are national celebrities, participating on all levels of popular culture. they pop up in tv-commercials, appear on the cover of magazines and have a major cult following. On the surface, these young gamers seem to have achieved success at a very young age. they are envied and admired because they do what they love and make a lot of money doing so. Behind the scenes however, we see a different picture: the e-sports world is tough, competitive and stressful. lots of players find themselves stuck in a golden cage. what price are we willing to pay to be the best? in this story, we follow 4 characters in different stages of their career as a pro-gamer in south Korea, and this during the time span of one season. for some it will be a struggle to stay on top of their game, for others it might be the turning point of their lives. ils sont des milliers, en Corée du sud, à s’entasser chaque année dans des stades dédiés au jeu vidéo, pour y suivre le championnat de la ligue pro. le temps d’une saison - l’équivalent d’une saison de football - de jeunes Coréens s’affrontent pour le titre suprême. il leur faut pour cela être le meilleur dans un seul et unique jeu : starcraft. les vedettes de ce championnat sont de vraies stars nationales, objets d’un véritable culte. Elles sont présentes dans toutes les couches de la culture populaire (spots publicitaires, couverture de magazines). En apparence, ces jeunes semblent avoir réussi à un âge précoce. En plus de faire ce qu’ils aiment, ils en tirent d’énormes bénéfices, et cela crée des vocations... Mais il ne faut pas se leurrer, car la réalité est toute autre : le monde des cyber sports se montre impitoyable, l’esprit decompétition y règne en maître, et la pression est constante. De nombreux joueurs se retrouvent ainsi piégés dans une cage dorée. Quel prix sommes-nous prêts à payer pour être les meilleurs ? située dans le cadre temporel d’une saison de championnat, notre histoire s’articule autour de quatre personnages, tous approchés à un moment précis de leur carrière de joueur pro. pour certains ce sera la lutte pour rester au sommet et pour d’autres, le moment charnière de leur vie. BIOFILMOGRAPHY steven Dhoedt (°1980, gent) studied film at the Rits film academy in Brussels and graduated as a Master in audiovisual arts. after his studies he settled in hong Kong for several years where he gained experience as a freelancer producer and director in the local video- and tv commercial industry. in 2003 he founded the Belgian based production company visUalantiCs. at the time a collective of filmmakers and new media artists, it developed over the years to an up and coming production house focusing on creative documentaries, fiction films and new media projects. he has directed and produced several short films, for himself as well as for other young Belgian directors. he recently finished his first creative documentary, ‘inside the Metaverse’. as a producer for visualantics, he currently has several feature documentaries and short films in development and production. Most of the time, steven lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. waRM thanKs tO all OUR paRtnERs EURODOC 2011 anD tO all thE ExpERts & thE paRtiCipants ! EURODOC ExECUtivEs sEMinaR 28 Chapter ExECUtivEs Cycle 2011 EURODOC Executives seminar aims to open a new meeting platform to enable exchange, transmission and reflection on the tasks of commissioning executives, and furthermore to expand on the developments of the documentary world and its developing professions. public television plays a paramount role in documentary films in Europe and in the world. for many years, the annual meetings of "inpUt" ensured creative and productive exchange between commissioning editors for documentaries and independent producers and deeply influenced the entireworld of creation where the documentary plays a crucial role. today a number of documentary markets all around the world mostly emphasize business and therefore sacrifice sharing of experiences and reflection. the seminar takes place in two complementary sessions: the first session is oriented towards the commissioning of films, the relationship with producers and authors, from project to broadcasting. the second session focuses specifically on programming and, more generally, on distribution of creative documentaries. Erkki astala Questioning the world, with all its complexity, on tv channels that are not keen on scheduling uncommon films, unexpected writing styles, new ways of looking at things, points of view that differ: these issues, i.e. what is at stake when deciding what the programmes will be made of, apart from the mere repetition of forms and simplified writing styles destined to open up to the various publics’ new ways of consuming, these major issues are the core of the brainstorming that the EURODOC Executives seminar intends to cope with. EURODOC Executives seminar a pour ambition d'offrir un espace de rencontres, d'échanges, de transmission et de réflexions sur les missions de Chargé de programme documentaire, sur l évolution du genre et de ses métiers. le secteur public de télévision est déterminant pour le genre documentaire en Europe et dans le monde. Durant de nombreuses années, les réunions annuelles d'« inpUt » ont permis des échanges créatifs et fructueux entre les chargés de programmes de ce secteur et les producteurs indépendants. Une génération s'est nourrie de ces échanges qui ont irrigué tout le secteur de la création, le documentaire y occupant une place prépondérante. puis les « marchés » plus classiques se sont développés, le commerce y a fleuri positivement. Mais la réflexion, la transmission des expériences et surtout les échanges entre producteurs et financeurs tendent aujourd'hui à disparaître. le programme est constitué de deux volets complémentaires. le premier, tourné vers la production des oeuvres, la relation avec les producteurs et les auteurs, depuis la naissance d'un film jusqu'à sa mise à l'antenne. le deuxième volet, plus spécifiquement consacré à la programmation et plus généralement à la diffusion et à la circulation des oeuvres. toutes les nouvelles formes de diffusion des programmes et des films sont examinées pour se préparer aux mutations de l'ensemble du tissu de production. interroger le monde, dans sa complexité, dans des télévisions qui hésitent à programmer des films singuliers, des écritures inattendues, des regards neufs, des points de vue différents, ces questions, les enjeux de programmation en dehors de la simple répétition des formes et de la simplification des écritures, en s’ouvrant aux nouveaux modes de consommations des publics, toutes ces grandes questions sont au cœur de la réflexion que l’atelier EURODOC Executives seminar a l’ambition de mener. thierry garrel Cycle 2011 Chapter ExECUtivEs paRtiCipants Mohammed BElhaj al jaZEERa Documentary Channel Quatar paz Egana tvn Chile Cynthia KanE itvs Usa Elvira KaURin laCOUR pROCiREp france Elina KivihalME thE finnish filM fOUnDatiOn finland timo KORhOnEn avEK finland susanne MERtEns ZDf/arte germany astrid OhlsEn svERigEs tElEvisiOn sweden Mariama sylla senegal agnès tRiCOt CnC france petra vERMEUlEn vpRO the netherlands nadine ZwiCK aRtE gEiE france sEssiOn 1 – MaRija BistRiCa, Croatia, jUnE 2011 (Experts) niels pagh anDERsEn Denmark Erkki astala ylE finland pierre-Olivier BaRDEt iDEalE aUDiEnCE france laurent BECUE-REnaRD aliCE filMs france Enrica COlUssO italy / UK thierry gaRREl france Enrico ghEZZi Rai italy serge lalOU lEs filMs D’iCi france sEssiOn 2 – nÎMEs, france, sEptEMBER 2011 Erkki astala ylE thierry gaRREl finland france hengameh panahi CEllUlOÏD DREaMs france Catherine OlsEn CBC Canada Charles sChUERhOff pBs intERnatiOnal Usa agnès vaRDa CinE-taMaRis france iikka vEhKalahti ylE finland 29 DOCMED pROgRaMME Cycle 2011 Chapter DOCMED 31 DOCmed was conceived to provide documentary producers with a specialized training in order to acquire skills and competencies which are necessary to appropriately undertake projects of arab filmmakers and have access to the international market of documentaries. these films will contribute to get cultures closer, enrich the debates within the civil societies. DOCmed has the ambition to: consolidate the development and the financing of innovative documentary projects in the arab world; exchange experiences and compare knowledge from different Mediterranean and European countries; set up, within three years, a network of documentary producers in arab countries, which is able to support creative initiatives of arab filmmakers, in cooperation with international producers and partners, co-production films meant to be distributed on the international level. DOCmed would not have existed without the support of EUROMED audiovisuel iii and without the partnership with aRtE france. DOCmed a été conçu pour offrir aux producteurs de documentaire une formation spécialisée afin d’acquérir les compétences nécessaires pour mener à bien les projets de cinéastes du monde arabe et accéder au marché international du documentaire. Ces films contribueront à rapprocher les cultures et à enrichir les débats au sein des sociétés civiles. DOCmed a pour ambition de consolider le développement et le financement des projets documentaires innovants du monde arabe ; d’échanger des expériences et croiser des connaissances issues des différents pays méditerranéens et d'Europe ; de tisser en 3 ans, un réseau de producteurs de documentaires dans les pays arabes en capacité d’accompagner les initiatives de création des cinéastes du sud, en coopération avec des producteurs et des partenaires internationaux permettant à ces films de circuler au niveau international par la mise en œuvre de ces coproductions. DOCmed n’existerait pas sans le soutien du programme EUROMED audiovisuel iii , ni sans le partenariat avec aRtE france. Anne-Marie Luccioni - Jad Abi-Khalil DOCMED 2011 jad abi-Khalil 32 Chapter DOCMED Cycle 2011 paRtiCipants hazem alhaMwi haZEM alhaMwi filMs Bahïa BEnChEiKh El-fEgOUn syria algeria Rachid BOUtOUnEs filMs DU passagE Morocco hala galal sEMat pRODUCtiOn & DistRiBUtiOn Egypt abir hashEM sOlO filMs lebanon Bahraa hijaZi BlUE DaR syria Madj hijjawi RED CaRBOn pRODUCtiOn jordan sandra MaDi RED CaRBOn pRODUCtiOn jordan nagham OsMan QUDaRat piCtUREs Egypt walid saBaBa light wavE palestine Myriam sassinE aBBOUt pRODUCtiOns lebanon sEssiOn 1 – BEiRUt, lebanon, MaRCh 2011 (Experts) sEssiOn 2 – MaRija BistRiCa, Croatia, jUnE 2011 Maher aBi saMRa lebanon hala alaBDalla RaMaD filM france isabel aRRatE jan vRijMan fUnD the netherlands paul BaBOUDjian sCREEn institUtE BEiRUt lebanon jacques BiDOU jBa pRODUCtiOn france Marianne DUMOUlin Ba pRODUCtiOn france Marianne KhOURy MisR intERnatiOnal filMs Egypt Martial KnaEBEl visiOn sUD Est switzerland sibylle KURZ germany serge lalOU lEs filMs D’iCi france nader OBEiD alEM & assOCiatEs lebanon Rasha salah thE aRaB fUnD jane williaMs fOR aRts anD CUltURE lebanon Diff UaE filMs 34 Chapter filMs 2011 GOODNIGHT NOBODY lEngth : 77 Min DIRECTOR : jaCQUElinE ZünD PRODUCER : patRiCK MüllER COMPANY : DOCMinE pRODUCtiOns (gERMany) TINGUELY EURODOC 2006 lEngth : 88 Min DIRECTOR : thOMas thüMEna PRODUCER : ChRistian Davi COMPANY : hUgOfilM pRODUCtiOns (switZERlanD) EURODOC 2007 "goodnight nobody" takes us on a journey through night, space and time. four protagonists from four different continents share the same handicap: they can´t sleep. with varying tactics, they resign themselves to the fact that they must live around the clock without interruption. four ways of killing time. their stories follow the rhythm of the night, like flickering dreams in calm REM sleep. narrations become fragments, the transition between reality and fantasy begins to flow and develop suction, making the feeling of sleeplessness palpable. a hypnotic journey through the most beautiful of all film settings: the night. Partners : sf schweizer fernsehen (switzerland) federal Department of Cultural affairs (switzerland) Zurich film fund (switzerland) Cultural foundation of suissimage (switzerland) Migros Kulturprozent (switzerland) alexis thalberg stiftung (switzerland) aargauer Kuratorium (switzerland) sUisa (switzerland) MEDia program of the European Union Festival : Cannes 2011, sélection à la 50ème semaine de la Critique «there is no stillstand!» jean tinguely (1925 – 1991) fascinated people during his lifetime and beyond. in the film the so called “bande à jean” share their memories of the man who brought movement into the world of art of the 20th century. today his old friends repair tinquely's machines, organise exhibitions and catalogues, found new museums and archive old photographs. however, they are fighting a somehow futile and almost tragic battle against oblivion and decay, and the merciless rust attacking tinguely's machines shows that without sturm and drang, even with a huge effort, perpetual motion cannot be sustained forever. his former girlfriends, colleagues, mechanics and companions recount the exemplary life and fate of the artist. their wild youth and their sense of infinite possibilities comes back to life once more. Partners : swiss federal Office of Culture and television, MEDia programme Festival : visions du Réel 2009 2011 Chapter FANTASIA LUSITANA lEngth : 65 Min DIRECTOR : jOaO CanijO PRODUCER : jOaO tRaBUlO COMPANY : C.R.i.M. (pORtUgal) 35 filMs MODIGLIANI’S GENUINE FAKE H EADS EURODOC 2006 lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : giOvanni DOnfRanCEsCO PRODUCER : giOvanni DOnfRanCEsCO COMPANY : altaRa filMs (italy) EURODOC 2007 the imagined and imaginary propaganda from salazarism during world war ii, which claimed the absence of war in the midst of war. portugal was a paradise of peace and tranquility, a “peaceful oasis” totally oblivious to war that only concerned the others. Partners : iCa (portugal), Câmara Municipal de Cascais (portuga Festivals : 2011 nododoc international Documentary film festival – trieste, italy, 2011 Montevideu international film festival – Montevideu, Uruguaya, 2011 BafiCi – Buenos aires international film festival, argentina, 2010 Caminhos do Cinema português, Coimbra, portugal – Best Editing award, 2010 screening at the örökmozgó Cinema, Budapest, hungary (an indielisboa’10 extension), 2010 visões do sul – portimão international film festival, algarve, portugal, 2010 Dockanema 2010 – Documentary film festival, Maputo, Mozambique, 2010 provincetown international film festival, United states of america, 2010 indielisboa’10 – international independent film festival, lisbon, portugal – national Competition and Opening film awards : 2011 Montevideu international film festival – Montevideu, Uruguaya, 2010 Caminhos do Cinema português, Coimbra, portugal – Best Editing award, 2010 visões do sul – portimão international film festival, algarve, portugal, 2010 indielisboa’10 – international independent film festival, lisbon, portugal – national Competition and Opening film livorno, summer 1984. in the birthplace of amedeo Modigliani, famous for the merciless irony of its inhabitants, the innocent joke of four young students turns into the hoax of the century. in a single night, the teenagers carve a “Modigliani style” head with an electric drill. the next day, the find of the sculpture is recognized by critics and art historians as a fantastic discovery that sheds a new light on the work of the Master. the news reverberates everywhere, attracting visitors, journalists and tv crews from around the world... the harmless joke unleashes an absurd comedy of errors, destined to provoke an earthquake in the entire art world Partners : Co-produced by les films du poissons & arte france, in association with: tg4 (ireland), ylE, svt, sf, DR, noga, with the support of: MEDia tv Broadcasting, tuscany film Commission, CnC, procirep 36 Chapter filMs 2011 L’ÉTÉ DE GIACOMO lEngth : 78 Min DIRECTOR : alEssanDRO COMODin PRODUCER : paOlO BEnZi COMPANY : faBER filM (italy) with lEs filMs filMs D'iCi (fRanCE) PLANET OF SNAIL EURODOC 2009 nUs (BElgiQUE) anD lEs it’s summer in the countryside of northeastern italy. giacomo, nineteen, deaf since childhood and stephanie, his childhood friend, sixteen, go to the river for a picnic. like in an enchanted fairy tale they get lost in the woods and find themselves in a heavenly place, alone and free, during an afternoon that seems to last a whole summer. an apprenticeship of senses: there is no touching, yet it is all skin, breath and sighs. the sensuality accompanies their childrens games until stephanie and giacomo feel the adventure that they have just experienced is nothing more than a bittersweet memory of a lost time. a story of love and initiation into adulthood where the present is mixed with memory and the past rises with the clarity and amazement of the first time. the memories are not only those that each of us carry within ourselves and suddenly remember, they are also real discoveries. we have to know that we never see things the first time, but always the second. so we discover them and remember them together lEngth : 87 & 52 Min DIRECTOR : sEUng-jUn yi PRODUCER : Min-ChUl KiM COMPANY : CREativE East (sOUth KOREa) EURODOC 2010 i come from planet of snail where people communicate by touching each other’s fingers because they cannot hear or see. now i live on earth where time runs so fast which makes me hard to follow the life of the earthmen. when i first came to the earth, i was desperate because there was nothing i could do. One day an angel came into my life and everything started changing. she brought me a beautiful world that i began opening my heart to. now my heart is full of hope and i know there will be so much more i can do in this world: the reason for my life. Coproducers : vaski filmi (finland), nhK (japan) Coproducer : tucker film (italy) wallpaper (france) Partners : BCpf (south Korea), finnish film (finland), CinEREaCh (Usa), sundance (Usa), ylE (finland), nRK (norway) Partners : in co-production with: Centre de l'audiovisuel à Bruxelles (CBa), produced with the support of Centre du Cinéma et de l'audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique et de tv-nEt-tEl. Developped and realized with the support of fondo Regionale per l'audiovisivo - friuli venezia-giulia Regione autonoma fruli venezia giulia Festival : EiDf (EBs international Documentary festival, Korea) jiff (jeonju international film festival, Korea) Festivals : festival locarno (switzerland) section "Cinéastes du présent" festival lussas (france) herzegovina); split international film festival (Croatia) awards : audience award (EiDf), Unicef award (EiDf) 2011 Chapter E DEN’S ARK lEngth : 80 Min DIRECTOR : MaRCElO fElix PRODUCER : isaBEl MaChaDO COMPANY : C.R.i.M. (pORtUgal) 37 filMs THEATRE SVOBODA EURODOC 2008 lEngth : 98 Min DIRECTOR : jaKUB hEijna PRODUCER : jiRi KOnECny COMPANY : EnDORfilM (CZECh REpUBliC) EURODOC 2008 Eden's ark is a film poem about memory and preservation. through a permanent, if discrete, analogy between the conservation of botany and cinema, and by following the footsteps of an ever wandering traveller, the film links the past and future, both mythical, of our efforts to preserve Coproducers : KinE, REfinaRia Partners : iCa, Rtp, home Movies archivio nazionale del film di famiglia Royal norwegian Embassy, videoteca de lisboa the art and life of world-known stage designer from a country behind the iron courtain. “Darkness is my raw material. just as the sculptor needs his clay, the carver his wood, i carve my theatre out of darkness…” josef svoboda. thEatRE svOBODa portraits the life and work of the director’s grandfather, world-famous stage designer josef svoboda, who tried to juggle creative freedom, family life and political allegiances during the times of a communist regime. svoboda was able to work for the top of world theatres, such as the Old vic in london, the Metropolitan Opera in new york and la scala in Milano and designed more than 750 stages overall. the film takes the viewer literally behind the scenes and reveals some of the secrets of svoboda’s fascinating lifework through archive materials that have not been published yet. Partners : Ceska televize, Moravek petr (Czech Republic), young film, hejna jakub & Krejcar Milos (Czech Republic), MEDia program 38 Chapter filMs 2011 BAD WEATHER lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : giOvanni giOMMi PRODUCER : CaRlOtta MastROjanni COMPANY : CORnBREaD filMs (italy) RAMIN EURODOC 2009 lEngth : 58 Min DIRECTOR : aUDRiUs stOnys PRODUCER : aija BERZina, UlDis CEKUlis COMPANY : viDEs filMU stUDija. (lithUania) EURODOC 2009 Banishanta island is made up of a community of sex workers. living on a tiny sliver of land 100 meters long and only ten meters wide in the Bay of Bengal, south Bangladesh, this community survives at the frontline of climate change. the rising river, soil erosion and frequent cyclones are slowly destroying what is left of the island. Razia, Khadija, shefali and her daughter, amongst the last 65 women left living there, are in a battle for their homes, the future of their families, and even their quest for true love. as they strive to hold onto their livelihood, time is running out. soon the whole of Banishanta will be totally submerged under water, making it one of the first real casualties of the shifting global environment. Partners : CEntURy filMs, Majade filmproduktion, ZDf aRtE, MEDia Development and MEDia tv Broadcast BONS BAISERS DE LA COLONIE lEngth : 74 Min DIRECTOR : nathaliE BORgERs PRODUCER : CyRil BiBas COMPANY : CEntRE viDéO DE BRUxEllEs (BElgiUM) EURODOC 2007 the daughter of a Belgian territorial agent and a Rwandan woman, suzanne was born in 1926. at the age of 4, her father takes her away from africa to give her a European education. she is what people in the colonial time call “a mulatto child saved from a negro destiny”. suzanne’s father is also the director’s grandfather, who discovered only at 27 that she had a mixed race aunt. this film breaks the silence that has shrouded suzanne's origins, crossing family history and the history of colonialism Partners : CaRgO filMs (france) liMitED aDvEntUREs (Belgique) RtBf-télévision (Belgique) aRtE Belgique (Belgique) aRtE gEiE (france) Ramin lomsadze, a 75-years old georgian wrestler who once won seven matches in 55 seconds, is getting ready for the fight with his last and most formidable opponent – loneliness. he gets on the train and sets off for a remote georgian village to seek out the girl he loved and lost fifty years ago. Coproducers : David gogilashvili, filmMaKERs ltd Partners : taskovski films (london), latvian georgian cooproduction, georgian national film Center, nacionalais Kino Centrs, ltv, lRt ERR Festival : visions du Réel, nyons (2011) 2011 Chapter THE LAND OF MONKS lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : jEan-lOUis sapORitO PRODUCER : alinE hOUDyi COMPANY : tga pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) 39 filMs H EAD COLD EURODOC 2008 in thé tigre province, in thé north of Ethiopia, lies a remote and closed territory known as thé woldeba, entirely dedicated to monastic life. there, far from prying eyes and away from worldly matters, a thousand or so monks and hermits live a life of abstinence, fasting and perpétuai prayer. for thèse religious peuple, dying in thé woldeba means that they will directly enter paradise. no film has ever been made on this vast and virtually unknown territory. for thé first time, françois le Cadre, researcher at thé Centre d'études des Mondes africains (Center for african world studies), will travel to thé woldeba in order to observe thé monks' religious practices and find out about saint samuel, who founded thé most important monastery of this "land of monks" in thé 14th century. saint samuel is highly celebrated in Ethiopia and his teachings were inspired from those of saint antony, one of thé fathers of thé désert. nearly half of thé 80 million Ethiopiens are Christians. they consider that their church, thé Ethiopien Orthodox Church, is thé closest to original Christianity. lEngth : 92 Min DIRECTOR : gaMMa BaK PRODUCER : gaMMa BaK COMPANY : gaMMa BaK filMpRODUKtiOn (gERMany) EURODOC 2005 hEaD COlD is a personal long-term observational documentary about psychosis, still a tabooed topic. it follows my attempt to return to a "normal" life - since the mid-90s i had several psychotic breakdowns, which were treated in mental hospitals. the film was shot over 5 years and also uses my archives since 1992. what happened to me is not just relevant on an individual level. it reveals at which point the emancipation from the stigma caused by this illness can occur. My own story is both the point of departure and the example, though at first i found it hard to out myself. Using filmic means, it recounts the struggle of being confronted by a psychic illness right up to the stage when one has reached normalcy once again and the loneliness of being solely responsible for one's condition. Coproducers : Edit Koszegi, andràs suranyi - Digipost Kft Partners : Berliner Kulturverwaltung - Künstlerinnenprogramm, ffa, Medienboard Festivals : Berlin international film festival 2010 (wp), Kos health film festival 2010 (greece), Cinepécs 2010, hungary Partners : aRtE, CEntRE iMagEs, CfRt, CnRs, aRtE DistRiBUtiOn, pROCiREp 40 Chapter filMs 2010 B EYOND B LACK AND WHITE lEngth : 45 & 52 Min DIRECTOR : BiRgit sChUlZ PRODUCER : MOniKa MaCK COMPANY : BilDERstURM filMpRODUKtiOn (gERMany) OFF THE B EATEN TRACK EURODOC 2008 Beyond Black and white helen Zille – south africa’s opposition leader. she is white, of german descent, has jewish ancestors and was raised as a Christian. her name is helen Zille, and she has been battling apartheid and its consequences all her life. now she fights at the head of a liberal south african party against racism, poverty and corruption in all their forms. for three years she was the only white mayor on the entire continent, in a city where the legacy of apartheid was particularly strongly felt: Cape town. in april of 2009 she was elected to the office of premier of the western Cape province – a sensation, since it puts the 58-year-old at the head of the only region in the country which is not in the hands of the african national Congress (anC) and makes her the strongest opponent of the controversial new president, jacob Zuma. thus it is hardly surprising that Ms. Zille's enemies call her "the godZille monster", while her supporters celebrate her as "helen of hope". the film closely accompanies helen Zille in her everyday struggle. the result is an intensive and intimate look at the private context for Ms. Zille's public political battle and an exciting look at south africa's hopeful but still fragile young democracy. lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : DiEtER aUnER PRODUCER : DiEtER aUnER & ní Raghallaigh siún COMPANY : iKanDi pRODUCtiOns (iRlanD) EURODOC 2007 albin, and Mirel Creta, two young Romanian shepherd brothers are torn between their traditional village life and modern life. Milking sheep and guiding horses is part of their daily work. technology is encroaching. Old status symbols are replaced by flashy mobile phones. in direct cinema style, the film accompanies albin and Mirel through one year of shepherding. Reflecting upon changes in the village, through them and their family, we question the price of progress. Coproducer : Mobra films (Romania) Partners : tg4 ireland, Realitatea tv Partners : nDR/aRtE: commissioning editors: Monika schäfer, Maren niemeyer, United Docs gmbh: film sold to hRt Croatian television, nhK Enterprises inc., japan), RtE (Radio telefís Eirann) ireland Festivals : 2010: galway film fleadh, galway (ireland) transilvania international film festival, Cluj (Romania) 2011: Rotterdam international film festival (the netherlands) Berlinale – international film Market, Berlin (germany) jameson international film festival, Dublin (ireland) Belsfat film festival (northern ireland) Crossing Eruope film festival (linz, austria) Dokfest, Munich (germany) Edinburgh international film festival (scotland) guth gata international Documentary film festival, Donegal, (ireland) 2010 Chapter THE WAGES OF DEBT lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : jEan-piERRE CaRlOn PRODUCER : valéRiE DUpin COMPANY : lEs pRODUCtiOns DU lagOn (fRanCE) 41 filMs IMAMS GO TO SCHOOL EURODOC 2008 at the end of world war ii, many economists tried to understand how to help poor countries to reach the same standard of living as developed countries in Europe and north america. for that purpose, the Bretton woods agreements in 1944 set up the world Bank and the international Monetary fund. however, we are forced to observe that today all these efforts have not enabled the allied nations to keep their promises. in the eighties, trapped by the amount of debt, third world governments were forced to reimburse their loans with interest rates five to six times higher than those practised on financial markets. these countries then had forced upon them structural adjustment plans by the iMf, which led to the privatisation of public services and the massive export of resources, with disastrous consequences for their development. in their wake, came corruption and subtle networking which left a long-lasting legacy. why today do countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo and Mali so rich in natural resources remain the poorest on the planet? why is an important share of their budget still used to service debt? Based on clear state of affairs, and thanks to the analysis of renowned experts, politicians, heads of major international institutions, as well as militants, the men and women on the ground, « the wages of debt » explores the reasons for these failures and deciphers the workings at play. lEngth : 75 Min DIRECTOR : BEn hania KaOUthER PRODUCER : BEn hania KaOUthER COMPANY : faMilia pRODUCtiOn (tUnisia) EURODOC 2009 they are apprentice imams at the paris great Mosque. from now on, they are also required to train in secularity, in conformity to the policy of modernisation of islam set up by the public powers. yet, among all universities, only one volunteered to give this training: the Catholic institute of paris… for the first time in the history of the Republic, in addition to the lessons they follow at the great mosque, our apprentice imams, are trained to secularity by the Catholics during one year. this film will give an account of their apprenticeship and of the weakening of their certainties in the face of a pluralistic and secular society, which forces them to renew their convictions. Coproducers : Eric Borg, who'Z prod (france), ismael fadi, 03 production (UaE) Partners : alarabyia news Channel, tsR, international film festival (UaE) Festivals : iDfa 2010 first apparence competition Coproducers : aRtE france et Claposud Partners : Other broadcasts: ylE, tv5MOnDE, Cfi. with the support of the MEDia programme, the CnC, the paCa region, the pROCiREp, the angOa, the EED (germany), the Belgian Development Cooperation, the Catholic Committee against hunger and for Development, with the participation of the tsR Festivals : selected at DOK leipzig co-production meeting 2008. selected at the pessac historical film festival 2010, the figRa 2011, the festival of saint-Martin de valamas 2011, the international pan african film festival of Cannes 2011 and the addis international film festival (Ethiopia) 2011. Official selection at the ishia festival 2011 (italy). Randya shivani, Dubaï 42 Chapter filMs 2010 OUT OF CORDOBA lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : jaCOB BEnDER PRODUCER : jOsé antOniO hERgUEta COMPANY : MlK pRODUCCiOnEs (spain) KURDISH LOVER EURODOC-sCREEning 2007 Out of Cordoba: averroes and Maimonides in their time and Ours is the story of the film's director, jacob Bender, an american jew and peace activist, who, after the attacks sept. 11, 2001, attempts to recover hope and his belief in the possibility of interfaith dialogue and reconciliation. following in the footsteps of two of the leading personalities of medieval spain, averroes and Maimonides, one a Muslim, the other a jew, he undertakes a journey around the Mediterranean, visiting spain, Morocco, france, Egypt, palestine, and israel. along the way, jacob meets Muslims, jews, and Christians, who — inspired by the two "wise men of Cordoba" and their advocacy of reason over superstition — are utilizing their religious traditions as sources of tolerance, democracy, and human rights. lEngth : 95 Min DIRECTOR : ClaRissE hahn PRODUCER : patRiCE nEZan COMPANY : lEs filMs DU pRésEnt (fRanCE) EURODOC 2007 «the Kurdish lover is Oktay, a man of Kurdish origin with whom i share my life. we have been drifting through a devastated region, brought to a standstill by war and economic misery, lost between tradition and modernity. this is also a land where paganism is still alive and where, every day, the magical world mingles with the most trivial. that is Kurdistan. how do people manage to co-exist in this place? that is the question asked by this film» a shaman goes into trance in front of the television, a sex-starved hermit dreams of getting married, a ewe is sacrificed and eaten, an old woman prevents her daughterin-law from learning to read, a shepherdess lives at the top of the mountain and would like to come back down, the military watch over the village, a man who came from Europe goes off to request the hand in marriage of a young girl living with her mother. through relationships involving control, money, rivalry and love, each seeks his place among the others. Coproducer : jacob Bender (Usa) Partners : Canal sur tv (spain), 03 (Middle East Channels al-jazeera & alarabiya), deals, ZwEitE DOCUlanD associated Media gmbh & Co, Christian lehmann-feddersen (germany) Festivals : fEZ saCRED MUsiC fEstival fEstival CinE jUDiO BaRCElOna REligiOn tODay filM fEstival iBn aRaBí filM fEstival jERUsalEM jEwish filM fEstival Awards : iMagEnERa (Centro de Estudios andaluces) sevilla, nov. 2010 Religion today film festival, italy Oct. 2010 Coproducers : 24 images, farid Rezkallah avanton productions, sonja linden Partners : CnC french film fund, ÎlE-DE-fRanCE regional film fund, pays DE la lOiRE, regional film fund, Cnap national center for visual art, sCaM french documentary documentarists' society, "Brouillon d'un rêve", finnish film foundation, Ministry for foreign affairs of finland, Media development, Media i2i, Brent Kinklum transat video 2010 Chapter THE BATTLE FOR JOHANNESBURG SECRETS OF THE TRIBE lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : REhaD DEsai PRODUCER : REhaD DEsai, BhEKisiZwE pEtERsOn COMPANY : UhURU pRODUCtiOns (sOUth afRiCa) lEngth : 100 Min DIRECTOR : jOsé paDilha PRODUCER : MiKE ChaMBERlain COMPANY : staMpEDE (UK) EURODOC 2009 the central organising question of the documentary is ‘Do the poor have a place in the new johannesburg’. johannesburg has gone from economic bust to boom since the advent of democracy. in the run up to the 2010 fifa world Cup, the poor are being driven out, the city metro find themselves hostage to the power of real estate capital, but the poor fight resist with often violent means. the Battle of johannesburg looks at how big money is refashioning the city in their own image more, often than not, at the end of a barrel of a gun. the are poor resisting sometimes with their own firepower. we show how the 2010 world Cup plays into it all. in this road movie, jack and the Bosnian moviemaker travel through former yugoslavia, reflecting on the choices they both made in the war. 43 filMs EURODOC 2004 what happens when western anthropologists descend on the amazon and proceed to make one of the last "unaccultured tribes" on the planet, the yanomami indians, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet. the film is an acute study of the clashing of these two tribes, the wars amongst them and uncovers horrendous secrets long buried. Coproducers : produced by stampede and Zazen (Brasil) Coproduced by avenue B (france) Partners : BBC 2011, arte (tx date to be announced), DR-tv 2011 pre-sale: ylE 2011, hBO, DR2, sBs australia in association with: sCREEn East, iMpaCt paRtnERs, DER Festivals : sundance film festival - world première, hOt DOCs, stranger than fiction, Dublin, it's all true, Rio de janeiro – Opening film, latin american première, international film festival of Boston, seattle international film festival, los angeles film festival, silverdocs, new Zealand film festival, Bergen international film festival, sheffield Doc/fest, leeds international film festival, sevilla European film festival, havana film festival of new latin american Cinema - fest internacional del nuevo Cine la, hawaii film festival, split, Croatia, vancouver international film festival, Denver, Margaret Mead, Unaff, United nations association film festival, sarajevo human Rights festival, Cleveland film festival, Revelation: perth international film festival, istanbul Documentary Days – DOCUMEntaRist festival, 360 Dok – the Russian Documentary film festival, Rai international festival Of Ethnographic film, london, taiwan international Ethnographic film festival Partners : saBC, iKOn, pREss tv, ylE, DRtv; nfvf, gauteng film Commission, Urban landmark Awards : 2011. MayslEs BROthERs awaRD for BEst DOCUMEntaRy 2010. nominated, wORlD DOCUMEntaRy pRiZE, sUnDanCE filM fEstival 2010. nominated, spECial jURy awaRD, shEffiElD DOCfEst Official selection, los angeles film festival Official selection, Boston film festival Official selection, Margaret Mead film festival, new york Official selection, sevilla film festival Official selection, hotDocs, toronto 44 Chapter filMs 2009 U N VOYAGE AMÉRICAIN lEngth : 58 Min DIRECTOR : philippE séCliER PRODUCER : jUDith nORa COMPANY : aD vitaM pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) AFTER THE APOCALYPSE EURODOC 2008 in contemporary art, everybody agrees there is a “before” and an “after” the americans, Robert frank’s 1958 photographic manifesto. half a century later, french director philippe seclier decided to follow Robert frank’s footsteps to explore the spirit of the « Beat generation », and the impact of his book, the americans, not only on the art of photography, but also on american culture. from texas to Montana, from nebraska to louisiana, from new york to san francisco, an american journey is a 15,000 miles-odyssey through contemporary america, moving between past and present, photography and cinema, and two americas, separated by time. lEngth : 65 Min DIRECTOR : anthOny BUtts PRODUCER : saRah tiERnEy, natasCha DaCK COMPANY : tigERlily filMs (UK) EURODOC 2006 During the soviet era, the people of semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan were used as human guinea pigs in the testing of nuclear weapons. today they live with the consequences: sheep graze in radioactive giant bomb craters and one in twenty children are born with birth defects. Dr toleukhan nurmagambetov, the boss of the city’s maternity clinic, wants to introduce a genetic passport which will prevent those with suspect genes from giving birth. Bibigul Balargazinova – a local woman from the test-site – is pregnant and her “defected and frightful” face arouses the suspicion of local medical staff. nurmagambetov labels her a genetic failure. he implores Bibigul to get tested and abort the child who he fears will be born disabled, but Bibigul refuses to give up her dream of becoming a mother. Coproducers : hugh williams Executive producers : Christopher hird and george Carey film Editor : hugh williams Partners : selenium films, george fondation, Muse film and television Festival : visions du Réel 2009 Partners : with the support of world view Broadcast Media scheme Festivals : nominated for the Documentary award at the One world Media awards: 10 May thEatRiCal RElEasE – 11 May 2011 5th & 6th May – hotDocs film festival 11th May – london world premiere & special Q&a 2009 Chapter C HANDANI THE DAY THE PLAGUE COMES THE DAUGHTER OF THE E LEPHANT WHISPERER lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : jill EMERy PRODUCER : DOMiniQUE tiBERi COMPANY : stElla pRODUCtiOns (fRanCE) lEngth : 43 & 52 & 90 Min EURODOC-sCREEning 2006 DIRECTOR : aRnE BiRKEnstOCK PRODUCER : aRnE BiRKEnstOCK COMPANY : fRUitMaRKEt filMpRODUCtiOn (gERMany) Chandani wants to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a mahout. her father does not have a son to which he could pass on the family knowledge from many generations. against the other mahouts‘ will, he decides to give his daughter a chance. he gives her responsibility for the young elephant calf Kandula. Chandani must demonstrate that she is serious about her wish. Because she is the first girl in a male profession, everyone doubts her abilities and the ranger Mohammed becomes her only supporter. he takes her into the jungle, shows her the world of elephants in the wilderness. On one of these trips, Mohammed and her save a little elephant baby from its certain death. strengthened by this experience and her mentor’s support, she makes tremendous progress in the work with ‚her‘ little elephant Kandula, and develops a real emotional attachment to this animal. But when Kandula is taken away from her, also Chandani’s path changes… 45 filMs EURODOC 2006 in february 2003, Dr CaBaU arrived in hanoï for a three- week stay. he did’nt know that a few days later he would be brought face-to-face with “the beast”. On 10 th March, to avoid the propagation of saRs (severe acute Respiratory syndrome) he and all the hospital staff and patients went into quarantine in the hospital. this film will tell the story of this quarantine and of the work of these men and women who avoided 100 000 deaths. Partners : tradewind, swR / aRtE / aRD (france), swR (germany), wDR (germany). in association with: ylE tema (finland). with the support of: filmstiftung nRw, BKM – Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für die Kultur und die Medien, Dr Bach (private investor), Deutscher filmförderfonds (germany), filmförderungsanstalt (germany) Festivals : the film was released in 25 german cinemas in november 2010 and received the german film academy award (“lOla in gold”) as best Children’s feature in 2011. the film was also screened at numerous festivals worldwide and received an award as “Best Documentary” at Chicago international Children’s film festival 2010. Coproducer : Mat filMs, Marie Mouchel-Blaisot Partners : EBU-UER, france télévision, pROCiREp, CnC, Conseil Régional de franche-Comté, Collectivité territoriale de Corse, Ministère de la santé et des sports 46 Chapter filMs 2009 THEMERSON & THEMERSON lEngth : 70 Min DIRECTOR : wiKtORia sZyMansKa PRODUCER : wiKtORia sZyMansKa COMPANY : lUna w (pOlanD) E L MEDICO, THE C UBATON STORY EURODOC 2008 in the spring of 1975, after giving an interview for german tv, stefan themerson lost his memory. he rather enjoyed this freedom. he was a philosopher, his wife franciszka bi-abstract painter. this is their love story. franciszka and stefan themerson lived and worked together for almost sixty years. first in poland, then in france to eventually settled in England. the only time when they were separated was the outbreak of the second war but even then they remained connected. the film is retracing the story of this unusual and unique union. lEngth : 104 Min DIRECTOR : DaniEl fRiDEll PRODUCER : MaRgUs OUnapUU COMPANY : filM tOwER (EstOnia) EURODOC 2005 Can a capitalist music producer and a communist doctor and artist work together? in Cuba they can! Michel Miglis is a swedish music producer, known for his provocative ideas and El Medico is a doctor and a singer, born and raised in the midst of the Cuban Revolution, whose values are in total contrast to the cynical, western music industry. it all started with a mix tape, where Michael suddenly heard a fantastic voice. after a long search, Michael found the owner of the voice high up in the sierra Madre Mountains. Michael was met with great suspicion – "another tourist who wants to steal a slice of Cuban culture". But after a while, El Medico started trusting Michel and the song "Chupa Chupa" was recorded. the song became a worldwide hit! But then, the trouble began! the film reveals the paradoxes of Cuba. it's a prison as a nation, but also an oasis of very emphatic people. it's a country of poverty, but one where you look after your own. it's an island where the state owns its subjects from cradle to grave, but where people still manage to live for the day and enjoy the moment. Partners : aRtE, tvp, avRO, tvKUltURa, planète, tg4 THE CAMBODIAN ROOM SITUATIONS WITH ANTOINE D’AGATA lEngth : 60 Min DIRECTOR : tOMMasO lUsEna PRODUCER : giUsEppE sChillaCi COMPANY : DOwntOwn piCtUREs (italy) EURODOC 2007 antoine d'agata, a photograph from Magnum agency, is in phom pehn (Cambodia) where his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point. after devoting his art to picture desolated landscapes and borderline realities, antoine d'agata focuses his art on his intimate human relations. his latest work concentrates on body and flesh, in a narrow room. this film catches the hidden part of his art making; his choise of living at edges and living sex as extreme vitalism. an apocalyptic and sublime course, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of contemporary culture, from Kerouac to artaud, from Bacon to pasolini. Coproducers : allercranz thomas, Röde Orm film (sweden) johansson ingemar, Elvfik film (sweden) Rossi petri, Cine works (finland) Partners : swedish film institute, filmpool nord, Estonian film foundation, Estonian Culture Ministery, finnish film foundation, svt, ylE, Etv Festivals : Docpoint tallinn 2011 (opening film) guthemburg iff 2011 (Dragon award nomination) selected so far: plata del Mar 2011, Busan 2011 Partner : Kolam (italy) 2009 Chapter festival (Canada) THE ONE-MAN VILLAGE lEngth : 87 Min DIRECTOR : siMOn El-haBRE PRODUCER : jaD aBi Khalil COMPANY : BEiRUt DC (lEBanOn) 47 filMs EURODOCmed semaan is leading a quiet life on his farm in the small village of ain al-halazoun in the lebanese mountains. the hamlet was completely emptied and destroyed in combats during the civil war in lebanon between 1975 and 1990. today, many years after an official reconciliation, its inhabitants, who are all from one family, regularly go back to the village to cultivate their plots of land or visit their houses and always leave before sunset. in his comforting and humorous film simon El habre observes the life in his quasi ghost village and tries to reflect on the collective and individual memory in a country that seems to live in a collective amnesia and is vulnerable to a new civil war. HANA, DUL, SED … FOOTBALL AND THE DPR-KOREA lEngth : 98 Min DIRECTOR : BRigittE wEiCh PRODUCER : BRigittE wEiCh COMPANY : Ri filME (aUstRia) EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 Ri jong hi, Ra Mi ae, jin pyol hi and Ri hyang Ok live in pyongyang. their job is football. it grants them a living and high reputation. they are very good at it and they love it. the four starters of the national team were essential for the stellar ascent of the people’s Republic’s women’s football to international top level. when they failed to qualify for the Olympic games however, their career came to a sudden end. today best friends Mi ae and hyang Ok don’t see each other that frequently anymore, because new relationships are part of the new life. But when they do have a night out, the old intimacy is right back. hand in hand they stroll through the ostentatious unlit boulevards, exchange memories of the good old days, chat about the current challenges and about life without the beloved sport. an essay on life of women in the last reclusive communist regime on earth. Partners : austrian film institute, vienna film fund Partner : Mec film, irit neidhardt (germany) Festivals : 2008 : ayam Beirut al Cinema’yia (lebanon); international film festival Dubai 2009: Berlinale; DOK.fest Munich (germany); Dox-Box, Damascus (syria); arabesque – Kennedy Center washington DC (Usa); One world human Rights film festival prague; international film festival of Mediterranean Cinema tétouan (Morocco); Doc à tunis; visions du Réel (switzerland); hot Docs toronto (Canada); Minneapolis - st. paul international film festival (Usa); jeonju international film festival (Korea); Documenta Madrid (spain); arab film festival Rotterdam (netherlands); Dokufest (Kosovo); yerevan international film festival (armenia); limesos international film festival (Cyprus); film festival Della lessinia Competition (italy); Mediterranean film festival in siroki Brijeg - Competitio (Bosnia and herzegovina); split international film festival (Croatia) awards : special jury prize Documentary, Muhr award (UaE) 2008, Dubai international film festival; special Mention from the grand jury (Czech Republic) 2009, One world human Rights film festival; Best international feature award at hot Docs Documentary film Festival : locarno film festival 2009 (switzerland) 48 Chapter filMs 2009 SUPER MOM lEngth : 68 Min DIRECTOR : saRah KlEin PRODUCER : annE laBRO COMPANY : la COMpagniE COOKING H ISTORY EURODOC 2007 DEs phaREs & BalisEs (fRanCE) Every year, young mothers from all over america leave their children behind and set out to the heartland of the United states to compete for the title of Mother of the year. One of these hopeful candidates will go on to impress the judges and become the reigning national representative of mothers all over the country. this feature-length documentary film will follow five women as they leave their crucial roles at home and go on the journey of a lifetime. lEngth : 88 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : pEtER KEREKEs PRODUCER : Ralph wiEsER COMPANY : MisChiEf-filMs (aUstRia) a portrait of different military cooks from all over Europe who served in various armies and have witnessed the European wars of the 20th century. their recollections tap into a subjective view of historical events and one that diverges in some respects from conventional history. they take us behind the scenes of dates, facts, declarations of war, battles, and peace agreements. Cooking history shows the little secrets of these people, opens up a dimension of history one won’t find in textbooks or archives. the directness of the anecdotes and destinies of the people in this film conveys a sense of life and death in the “war apparatus,” a sense of hope, longing, and survival strategies in the midst of destruction and despair. Coproducers : Redglass / speakeasy Docs (Usa) aRtE, nathalie verdier (france) Partners : RtBf, Claire Colart (Belgium) ylE, jenny westegaard (finland) tsR, gaspard lamunière (suisse) nOga (israel), svt (sweden) sBs (australia), vpRO (the netherlands) Partners : ORf, austria; ylE, finland; Raisat, italy; Czech tv; slovak tv Coproducer : peter Kerekes negativ s.R.O., slovakia Festivals : visions du Réel 2009 (switzerland) jury prize at hot Docs Documentary film festival (Canada) Karlovy vary film festival (Czech Republic) 2009 Chapter DOUBLE TAKE lEngth : 81 Min DIRECTOR : jOhan gRiMOnpREZ PRODUCER : EMMy OOst COMPANY : Zap-O-MatiK (BElgiUM) 49 filMs VULNERABLE EURODOC 2007 “Double take” targets the global political rise of ‘fear as a commodity’, in a tale of odd couples and double deals. as television hijacks cinema, and the Krushchev and nixon debate rattles on, sexual politics quietly take off and alfred himself emerges in a dandy new role on the tv, blackmailing housewives with brands they can't refuse. lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : REinE MitRi PRODUCER : annE-MaRiE lUCCiOni COMPANY : Djinn hOUsE (lEBanOn) EURODOCmed this film is a chronicle of anxiety and malaise. from 2006 to 2009, i filmed inside my intimate space, on the tv screen, a daily violence, and on the editing screen, another film that remains suspended – a film on the july 2006 war. i also filmed my friends; those who left the country and those who remained. all along, many questions arisen: what space is left for the individual’s freedom, for hope, creativity and love? is it possible for personal happiness to exists amidst collective pain? how can we live with the defeat? the novelist tom McCarthy writes a plot of personal paranoia to mirror the political intrigue, in which hitchcock and his elusive double increasingly obsess over the perfect murder – of each other! subverting a meticulous array of tv footage and using 'the Birds' as an essential metaphor, grimonprez traces catastrophe culture's relentless assault on the home, from moving images’ inception to the present day. Director johan grimonprez casts alfred hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. the master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately clammer to say the right things, live on tv. Partners : ZDf/aRtE, Doris hepp (germany) RtBf, Claire Colart (Belgium) VIVRE ICI lEngth : 120 Min DIRECTOR : MOhaMED ZRan PRODUCER : MOhaMED ZRan COMPANY : sanghO filMs (tUnEsia) Coproducers : volya films, Denis vaslin (the netherlands) nikovantastic film, hanneke van der tas (germany) EURODOCmed simon, le « célèbre » droguiste, de confession juive incarne l’attachement infaillible à la mémoire collective locale. son magasin est le lieu de croisement et de rencontre entre tous les protagonistes, l’occasion propice d’échanger leurs points de vue ou de confier leurs intimes secrets. autour de simon, une constellation de portraits: tahar l’instituteur, le progressiste qui s’enflamme joyeusement à commenter la situation dans le monde et les maux qui rongent l’homme victime de la mondialisation; hadi, le peintre; fatma, la marieuse, l’entremetteuse et la messagère; Bechir, le chauffeur de taxi, ami de tous… ils fréquentent le magasin de simon, pour s’approvisionner en produits multiples mais aussi pour discuter entre eux et parler d’eux-mêmes, de leur ville et du monde. Partners : ZDf/arte, Doris hepp (germany) ylE, Outi saarikoski (finland) Rai sat, luca Macciocca (italy) with the participation of : the hammer Museum’s artist in residency program james irvine fundation Festivals : Berlinale 2009 visions du Réel 2009 (switzerland) Partners : ylE (finland) tunisian television & Ministry of Culture, Canal 7, CCf (tunisia) 50 Chapter filMs 2009 MOON I NSIDE YOU lEngth : 52 & 75 Min DIRECTOR : Diana faBianOva PRODUCER : jERO MOlERO COMPANY : UBaK pRODUCCiOnEs (spain) TODAY IS BETTER THAN TWO TOMORROWS EURODOC 2007 lEngth : 75 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : anna RODgERs PRODUCERS : jOhn MURRay, siOBhan waRD COMPANY : CROssing thE linE filMs (iRElanD) Diana has been suffering from problematic periods for years. with every new cycle, the same question arises: why the pain and annoyance if i am healthy? her initial innocent curiosity sparks off an emotional voyage to the very roots of femininity and life. Moon inside you is a fresh look at a taboo that defines the political and social reality of both women and men in a more profound way than society might be willing to admit. in a remote part of laos, south East asia, two boys must leave their village to undergo a rite of passage. One will go to school, the other will become a monk. somewhere between Buddhist wishlessness and western dreams their paths will join again. today is a good day to come of age. today is better than two tomorrows. Festivals : galway film fleadh, jameson Dublin international film festival, guth gafa (ireland), Canberra film festival (australia) KOR lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : jOanna gRUDZinsKa PRODUCER : jEan-piERRE DaRDEnnE, DéRivEs (BElgiUM) Coproducer : avenue B, julie paratian (france) Partners : aRtE ORf (austria) RtBf (Belgium) tsR (switzerland) noga-Channel 8 (israel) Czech tv (Czech Republic) Duna tv (hungary) tg4 (ireland) tvp (poland) hRt (Croatia) varsovie, pologne, fin des années 70. Création du KOR, Comité de défense des ouvriers. héritage des révoltes contre le système depuis la fin de la guerre, investi des courants de l’opposition depuis les années 20, le Comité compte : des personnes passionnées et investies, des méthodes à la fois précises et artisanales, une éthique singulière, la volonté de briser le monopole de l’information de l’état, la nécessité d’une organisation autonome des ouvriers. Retour au gestes et aux mots du KOR par trois des acteurs d’une des histoires de la fin du Communisme en Europe. Festival : locarno film festival 2009 (switzerland) Partners : RtBf (Belgium), Camera Obscura (poland) 2008 Chapter JOSÉ & PILAR lEngth : 128 Min DIRECTOR : MigUEl gOnçalvEs MEnDEs PRODUCER : MigUEl gOnçalvEs MEnDEs COMPANY : jUMpCUt (pORtUgal) 51 filMs MOLINO N UEVO EURODOC 2006 the Elephant’s journey, in which saramago narrates the adventures and antics of an elephant transported from the court of King john iii of por¬tugal to that of the austrian archduke Maximilian, is the starting point for josé and pilar. this film by Miguel gonçalves Mendes tells of the relation¬ship between josé saramago and his wife pilar del Río. it shows us their day-to-day life in lanzarote, at home and on work trips around the globe. josé and pilar is a surprising portrayal of an author throughout the creative process and of the relationship of a couple dedi¬cated to changing the world, or at least trying to make it a better place. josé and pilar shows us the hidden saramago, unravels any preconceived ideas we may have about the man and proves that genius and simplicity are indeed compatible. josé and pilar is a glimpse into the life of one of the great creators of the twentieth Century and shows us that, as saramago says, “there is always another way to say everything.” ONE STREET B EYOND H ELL lEngth : 58 Min DIRECTOR : jOsé sanChEZ MOntés PRODUCERS : jOsé sanChEZ MOntés COMPANY : atiCO siEtE (spain) During ten years Molino nuevo, a street at the border between the countryside and the slums of granada has been rebuilt. inhabited by gipsies, with enormous problems with drugs and violence the life of these 156 families changed completely because of the intelligence and open mind of institutions and workers. Partner : Canal sur tv (spain) Coproducer : El DEsEO (spain) anD O2 filMEs (BRaZil) associate producers: aBEl RiBEiRO ChavEs / OptEC, ltD Partners : iCa _instituto do Cinema e do audiovisual Ministério da Cultura, agencia nacional do Cinema (Brasil) iC _ instituto Camões fundação Calouste gulbenkian antena 1 associated television Channels: siC (pORtUgal) ylE (finlanD) svt (swEDEn) EURODOC 2004 52 Chapter filMs 2008 JACK lEngth : 58 & 67 Min DIRECTOR : sERgEj KREsO PRODUCER : DEnis vaslin COMPANY : vOlya filMs (thE nEthERlanDs) THE LITTLE ALIEN EURODOC 2007 lEngth : 94 Min DIRECTOR : nina KUstURiCa PRODUCERS : CaRMEn wEingaRtshOfER, Eva tEstOR COMPANY : MOBilEfilM pRODUKtiOn (aUstRia) EURODOC 2007 in 1972, Congolese-Belgian pop star jack Roskam moves to yugoslavia, where he meets and marries his Croatian wife. he becomes the guitarist of one of the most popular local rock bands, galija. tall, black and adorned with dreadlocks, jack stands out on stage amongst his mostly serbian colleagues. they’re teenagers who fled crisis regions and undertook an extremely dangerous journey to Europe, all alone, hoping for one thing: to live. after arriving here, they fight to live normal lives, struggling against a system that demands they sacrifice their youth to an uncertain future. Being a convinced pacifist, jack had escaped service in the Belgium army, but at the time of the outbreak of the yugoslavian war his convictions are sorely tested. as galija’s songs become more serb orientated, jack decides to leave the band. while yugoslavian people are forced to choose sides, jack faces the dilemma to either return to Belgium or to stay, thus sharing the fate of his new country, his family and friends. the war will force him to change his fender stratocaster for a Kalashnikov and to fight in the Croatian army. Partners : ORf (austria) austrian film institute, the future fund of the Republic, the state of lower austria, vienna film fund Festival : Diagonale 2009, austria in this road movie, jack and the Bosnian moviemaker travel through former yugoslavia, reflecting on the choices they both made in the war. Coproducer : serendipity film, Ellen de waele (Belgium) PLAYING ADULTS lEngth : 50 Min DIRECTOR : pia anDEll PRODUCER : pia anDEll COMPANY : Of COURsE My filMs (finlanD) Partner : iKOn tv, Margje de Koning (the netherlands) Festivals : premiere at iDfa 2008, section 'premieres from the lowlands' Bergamo film Meeting 2009 Beldocs 2009, Belgrado honorable mention at gdánsk Docfilm festival 2009 lOw festival 2009, Budapest EURODOC 2006 playing adults is a creative documentary on adults and their relationship to play and playfulness in finland . it draws a picture of the around-forty-generation in the rush hour of their lives - and it ain't relaxed! the film uses heavily 8 mm film, family footage as well as contemporary 8 mm material shot in the present time to compare the lives now and then. it is constructed in the form of a scientific study, a questionnaire to be precise, and also so plays with the concept of maybe we have gone too far in taking things seriously... Partners : ylE avEK Festivals : world’s greatest film festival, helsinki 2008 Chapter 53 filMs THE I NFAMOUS AND HIS B ROTHER BAM, RAILROAD TO NOWHERE lEngth : 92 Min DIRECTOR : lUigi MaRia pEROtti PRODUCER : lUigi MaRia pEROtti COMPANY : staMEn filM (italy) lEngth : 73 Min DIRECTOR : jOUni hiltUnEn PRODUCER : KaaRlE ahO COMPANY : MaKing MOviEs (finlanD) EURODOC 2006 the documentary is the human story of patrizio and Roberto peci. in the 1980 patrizio is one of the most wanted terrorist of Brigate Rosse. Roberto, his smaller brother, is fascinated by the ideas of the brother but he didn’t want to follow him in terroristic activity. On february 18th patrizio is arrested and after few months he began to co-operate with the state. it was the first time that a leader of terroristic group decided to do it. Brigate Rosse nicknamend patrizio thE infaMOUs, the vile. On june 10th 1981, Roberto was kidnapped by Brigate Rosse. the terrorists forced Roberto to say in front of a camera that he was a traitor and that patrizio was arrested because of him. they never touched an innocent worker, like Roberto was. the documentary is the story of what happened in the 54 days of the kidnapping, from the news of the kidnapping to the tragic death, trough the voice of ida peci, the sister of patrizio and Roberto, friends of the brothers, secret agents and members of Brigate Rosse. Partners : nDR, Erich friedler (germany) Rai, piero Corzini (italy) EURODOC-sCRipt 2003-2004 BaM – Railroad to nowhere is a documentary about the pioneering spirit, about people who built the future with their own hands, and how today they are trying to hold on to it, even if the rest of world would like to forget them. BaM (Baikal-amur Magistral) was leonid Brezhnev’s plan to build more than 3500 kilometres of railroad in five years in southern siberia, as well as 200 new stations and communities. the work was supposed to be done mainly by Komsomol elite youth. we will meet people who moved to siberia – as young idealistic communists – in the 1970’s to build BaM and who have stayed there until today. the same people who starred – as strong and beautiful communists – dozens of soviet propaganda films made on the builders of BaM 30 years ago and who still seem to have some of that pioneering spirit left. Or do they? the historical back story will be told with the old soviet archive films. But in BaM – Railroad to nowhere stars of those films will tell their stories - and a story of a remote siberian community – also from today’s perspective Coproducer : piret tibbo, allfilm (Estonia) Partners : ylE2 (finland) Etv (Estonia) svt (sweden) DR (Denmark) ltR (lithuania) tsR (switzerland) 54 Chapter filMs 2008 THE BUG TRAINER IMMORTALITY lEngth : 53 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTORS : linas aUgUtis, DOnatas UlvyDas, MaREK sKROBECKi PRODUCER : Rasa MisKinytE COMPANY : ERa filM (lithUania) lEngth : 48 Min DIRECTOR : géRaRD Caillat PRODUCER : sOphiE gERMain COMPANY : KaléO filMs (fRanCE) ladislas starewitch (1882 – 1965), European Disney, a pioneer of puppet animation is one of the most forgotten film geniuses. he was named as a true wizard and an alchemist of animation, whose wizardry was born in lithuania; he got his fame in Russia and flourished in his full power in france. Unique methods of animation, never disclosed to others, - who was he? this film will be an effort to “decode” starewitch by using the means of his own artistic thinking, and tiding together the biographical facts, memoirs, factual information, films made by starewtich himself driven by the love story of puppets. why do we die? nature has not organized immortality. nor Reproduction nor species continuity need immortality but it may be possible. today the question of an almost immortal man is made accurate by the latest scientific researchs about ageing process, genomics, or nanotechnologies. in the most prestigious universities, we will meet the leading scientists, in their laboratories, during international conferences or arguing with their collegues. they will tell us their wildest dreams. EURODOC 2006 Partner : aRtE france Coproducer : stella productions, Dominique tiberi SYLT, A PERTE DE VUE lEngth : 50 Min DIRECTOR : saMUEl BEstER PRODUCER : sOphiE-ChaRlOttE gaUtiER COMPANY : lEs EDitiOns DU RéEl (fRanCE) Coproducers : produkcja filmowa sE-Ma-fOR (poland) gerbrueder Beetz production (germany) Partners : DR-tv, flemming grenz (Denmark) svt, vera Bonnier (sweden) nhK, takahiro hamano (japan) avRO, Marijke huijbregts (the netherlands) ylE Outi saarikoski (finland) nRK (norway) tsR (switzerland) Etv (Estonia) lRt (lithuania) Festival : Karlovy vary iff, award for best script, music, director and producer’s work at silver Crane (lituania) EURODOC-sCRipt 2002 l'île de sylt, en allemagne du nord, est en sursis. Chaque année, les tempêtes de la Mer du nord grignotent un peu plus les morceaux d'un paysage austère mais précieux comme un joyau. au drame de la disparition annoncée de l’île répondent alors les gestes frénétiques et obsessionnels des hommes. habitants et scientifiques mènent un combat acharné pour protéger l’île contre les vents et marées : les falaises sont renforcées, les plages reconstituées, les digues rehaussées,... tout est tenté pour freiner le déchaînement de la nature et préserver cet environnement, devenu avec le temps, de moins en moins “naturel”, de plus en plus interdit (les terrains sont clôturés, les dunes sont inaccessibles,...). Malgré toutes les technologies sophistiquées employées pour préserver ce site, le combat mène invariablement au même constat : les forces du climat se jouent de l'homme et de ses efforts pour le contenir. la nature poursuit son évolution et l'homme, tel sisyphe, sa lutte ancestrale pour la domination des forces de la nature. 2008 Chapter 5 MINUTES FROM MY HOME lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : nahED awwaD PRODUCER : BERtanD glOssEt COMPANY : KaRavan filM (tURKEy) 55 filMs LA C HINE EST ENCORE LOIN EURODOCmed jerusalem airport is laying along the road that links Ramallah to jerusalem. Under occupation by the israeli army since 1967, 5 km away from Ramallah and 10 km from jerusalem, the dusty runway saw growing at its eastern extremity, one of the biggest checkpoints to access west bank. nevertheless, it didn’t use to be so, and this abandoned place today lived, as many international air terminals of the 50’s-60’s, the pompous life and freedom of traveling. the happy pictures and luminous testimony of the past bitterly contrast with those of the present where the air field access is forbidden, abandoned behind barber wires and soon, behind the israelis separation wall. this film meets this place, and so calls the past to grasp better the present: a palestinian society marked by abandonment. Coproducers : nicolas wadimoff - akka films (switzerland) nahed awwad - Manara films (palestine) Partners : tsR (switzerland) fonds français de coopération de jerusalem palestinian authority - Ministry of Culture Festival : festival visions du Réel, “Regards neufs” (switzerland) lEngth : 120 Min DIRECTOR : MalEK BEnsMaÏl PRODUCER : haChEMi ZERtal COMPANY : CiRta filMs (algERia) EURODOCmed le 1er novembre 1954, près de ghassira, un petit village perdu dans les aurès, un couple d’instituteurs français et un Caïd algérien sont les premières victimes civiles d’une guerre de sept ans qui mènera l’algérie à l’indépendance. plus de cinquante ans après, Malek Bensmaïl revient dans ce village chaoui, devenu « le berceau de la révolution algérienne », pour y filmer au fil des saisons ses habitants, entre présent et mémoire, mais aussi son école et ses enfants… Chronique d’une algérie profonde dont la Chine, terre symbolique, semble encore lointaine. Coproducers : Unlimited, philippe avril (france) ina (france) 3B productions (france) Entv (algérie) avec la participation de france 2 et france 5 56 Chapter filMs 2008 BACK TO GWADELOUPE lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : sylvainE DaMpiERRE PRODUCER : stéphanE sansOnEtti COMPANIES : atlan filMs (fRanCE) LE JOUR SE LÈVE EURODOC 2006 Born on guadeloupe, but having spent most of her life in france, the director leaves to rediscover her roots and her own, personal history. along the way, she initiates herself to her birthplace as the people she meets blend with the stories her father recounts. she hopes that as she uncovers this island’s fascinating story and the tragedy of its past connections with the slave trade, she’ll also unveil the origins of her surname. ET SUR MOI LA N UIT TOMBE lEngth : 74 Min DIRECTOR : flOREnCE llOREt PRODUCERS : alExanDRE CORnU COMPANY : lEs filMs DU taMBOUR Festival : Etats généraux du Documentaire 2008 Partner : images plus (france) U NE COLLECTION PARTICULIÈRE lEngth : 56 Min EURODOC 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : siMOn BaCKès PRODUCER : aURéliEn BODinaUx COMPANIES : néOn ROUgE pRODUCtiOn (BElgiUM) as he investigates a mysterious collection of stolen art exhibited in 1978 at a new york gallery by Czech artist pavel novak, the author invites us to share his questioning about art viewed as property, both material and intellectual. Can there be works of art without artists? Can there be beauty without a copyright? Partners : la parti production (Belgium) CBa (Belgium) Festival : Etats généraux du Documentaire 2008 DE sOiE (fRanCE) Marseille - district of la joliette: along the port, in front of the sea, a new world emerges and bit by bit covers the old one. i am the anxious witness of this slow slide. what is going to happen to those who live there? how do they perceive the transformation of their neighbourhood? what will their life be like in the new joliette? and what will la joliette be like? what is the imaginery of those who orchestrate this change? what are their ethics, their vision of the future and of mankind? Partner : yumi productions (france) STOLEN ART EURODOC-sCREEning 2005 2007 Chapter IMPRISONED IN PERU lEngth : 50 Min DIRECTOR : annE gUllBjORg DigRanEs GEORG EURODOC-sCRipt 2002 in 1999 the norwegian woman tove (39) is arrested at the airport in lima after an attempt to smuggle 8 kilos of cocaine. she is given a 15 years sentence. at first tove tries to be extradicted to norway, to serve her sentence in Bergen to be close her daughter who has been in a fosterfamily since 1996. then tove in 2003 fells in love with a well off peruvian man, « pepe », who visits the prison every saturday. pepe engages his lawyers to look into tove’s case, and in March 2006 she is released on parole. she is living with pepe in lima in his mothers house. pepe is a very possive fiancé and tove feels to be in another kind of prison untill pepe dies of an heartattack in june 2007. when pepe’s family gets to know that tove has inherited his real estate, they put a price on her head and she decides to flee from peru via Equador back to norway. the film follows tove in her everyday life inside the prison walls and the first weeks in freedom, her inmates and her friends, especially the friendship with helen(76), her translator. helen is an intellectual who has been living in peru since 1953 when she married a peruvian professor of philosophy. A STORY OF LOSS, IDYLLS, ILLUSIONS georg is part of a series of autobiographical films by Caterina Klusemann, who was born in italy to a jewish mother and german father. as a member of the third generation, she deals, in a highly personal way, with the holocaust and its consequences today. in breaking down the family history, so steeped in silence and taboos, and shedding light on the rituals of memory and processing thereof, she gradually moves closer to her own ambivalent place in a story full of pain, anger, suppression and hope. in “georg", Caterina Klusemann focuses on her german-born father, who died in italy in 1981 at the age of just 38. she was just eight years old at the time. in her film, the director tries to confront her lack of memories and win back a part of her own personal history. who was he? how can his behaviour towards his wife and motherin-law be interpreted? this conflict drives the film forward, connecting the father's biography with the questions and opinions of a member of the third generation. MARIA’S GROTTO EURODOCmed a gripping portrait of women, whose lives were dictated by a moral code, Maria’s grotto is a painfully true film about the issue of honor killings in palestine. Khoury explores the issue through the stories of four women: one is wrongly accused of dishonoring her family and then murdered; the second dies after being forced by her brothers to swallow poison; the third survives repeated stabbings inflicted by her brother; and the fourth is a hip-hop singer who dares speak out about honor killings, and faces death threats. through these stories, Khoury exposes the magnitude of honor killings in palestine. Partners : swiss Corporation, Unifem org (United nations Development fund for wormen), RtBf (Belgium) Festivals : Dubai's film festival 2007, silver Muhr award thessaloniki film festival, greece 2008 Encounter fest, south africa 2008 tatwan fest, Morroco 2008 jury Mention layoon fest, Morroco 2008 Rotterdam fest, nederland 2008, golden hawk Doc à tunis 2008 (tunisia). nominated for ahmad atia award in sitges (spain) & LONGING lEngth : 72 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : CatERina KlUsEMann PRODUCER : REinhilD fElDhaUs COMPANY : Ma.ja.DE. filMpRODUKtiOn (gERMany) Partner : tv2 (norway) lEngth : 53 Min DIRECTOR : BUthina KhOURy PRODUCER : BUthina KhOURy COMPANY : MajD pRODUCtiOn (palEstinE) 57 filMs Partner : ZDf / arte, Doris hepp 58 Chapter filMs 2007 B LOODY SUNDAY, A DERRY DIARY CORRIDOR #8 lEngth : 86 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2000-2001 DIRECTOR : MaRgO haRKin COMPANY : BEsOM pRODUCtiOns (nORthERn iRElanD) lEngth : 52 & 70 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : BORis DEspODOv PRODUCER : MaRtiChKa BOZhilOva COMPANY : agitpROp (BUlgaRia) On 30th january 1972 the British army shot dead thirteen unarmed civilians on a civil rights march in Derry, northern ireland. at the subsequent tribunal of inquiry, lord Chief justice widgery exonerated the soldiers and blighted the reputation of those who were killed and wounded by describing them as gunmen and bombers. in 1998 a new tribunal of inquiry was announced into the day that has become known as `Bloody sunday’. this documentary follows the course of the inquiry from the point of view of the families of the victims as they attended the inquiry in Derry and london over a six year period. the filmmaker Margo harkin was a witness to Bloody sunday and gave evidence to the tribunal of inquiry which is expected to report in late 2007. when the inquiry Report is published a final footnote will be recorded in order to complete the film. the distance between sofia and tirana is exactly 324 km. the road linking Bulgaria, Macedonia and albania corresponds to the site of a huge infrastructure project, called Corridor #8. Currently the entire trip is hardly possible due to the lack of communication and the long-time isolation and prejudices of the people living in these small Balkan countries. the infrastructure project is only an excuse to embark in complicated relations, tragicomic situations and human stories. it turns out that on the Balkans short distances are sometimes the longest. Partners : national film Center, Bulgaria swiss agency for development ylE, Erkki astala, finland tsR, gaspard lamunière, irène Challand (switzerland) Media programme : Distribution television support Festivals : Berlinale - Ecumenical award hotDocs - hBO Documentary film Emerging artist award visions du Réel - nyon warszaw, Buenos aires, silverDocs, Bratislava Best Documentary - sarajevo film festival 2008 Partners : lichtblick films (germany) ZDf / arte RtE (ireland) irish films Board (ireland) niftC 2007 Chapter filMs ICE PEOPLE NOVELA A LA SANTA CASA lEngth : 90 & 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : annE aghiOn PRODUCER : BEnOit gRyspEERDt COMPANY : DRy vallEys pRODUCtiOns (fRanCE) lEngth : 52 & 85 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : CathiE lEvy PRODUCER : alExanDRE CORnU COMPANY : lEs filMs DU taMBOUR DE sOiE (fRanCE) “ice people” will be a feature-length exploration of the human experience of being a scientist today in the extreme environment of antarctica. intended for a wide non-professional audience, the film will examine the personal and emotional challenges that researchers meet on the frozen continent as they pursue their scientific quest. Rio de janeiro. it is dawn, but already over 100 apparently healthy women are waiting outside santa Casa de Misericordia, one of the oldest benevolent hospitals in Brazil. in a city where one in two women over 50 has undergone cosmetic surgery, these women do not see why their low income should keep them from the scalpel. in Brazil, physical beauty and youth are all-important and the fact that only the richest can afford cosmetic surgery makes it all more alluring to the poor. these women are waiting for professor ivo pitanguy’s plastic surgery consultation to open. the professor is a world famous high priest of cosmetic surgery. he heads one of the most famous and most expensive plastic surgery clinics in Rio de janeiro, but he has also vowed to treat the poorest members of society. from March to june, the professor’s staff, most of whom are volunteers, handle the request of 3,000 women. they come to this unique centre of cosmetic surgery – facelifts, liposuction, silicon implants and so on – at a very low price which just covers the cost of the equipment used during the operation. Over four months of waiting, appointments and shared dreams, Edna, iolanda and teresa meet there and tell each other their stories, without embarrassment, sometimes laughing at themselves. will the promise of hapiness really be kept at the end of the long wait ? Partners : aRtE france sundance Channel, Usa itvs, Usa European Commission - Dg research sBs, australia RtBf, Belgium CnC, france Conseil Régional Rhône-alpes Conseil général de l'ardèche Developed with support from the MEDia programme Partners : france 5, sophie Chégaray france 3, anna glogowski RtBf, Claire Colart (Belgium) tsR, gaspard lamunière (switzerland) Coproducers : arnaud de Mezamat, abacaris films (france) 59 60 Chapter filMs 2007 ZUOZ lEngth : 71 Min DIRECTOR : DaniElla MaRxER PRODUCER : MiChEl DaviD COMPANY : ZEUgMa filMs (fRanCE) MAGIC RADIO EURODOC-sCRipt 2003-2004 lEngth : 83 & 54 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 DIRECTORS : lUC pEtER & stEphaniE BaRBEy PRODUCER : lUC pEtER COMPANY : intERMEZZO filMs (switZERlanD) Zuoz is a boarding school in the swiss snowy mountains, where youngsters coming from the most fortunate and influent families in the world live a life apart. the life of the boarding school is held by old and traditional values trying to prevent any overflow within this gilded microcosm. in niger, where more than 80% of the population is illiterate, radio is the main means of mass communication. simple yet reliable, the radio is everywhere, in the streets, homes and the bush. it entertains, educates, informs and helps provide a check on power. today, through the radio waves, the citizens of niger seize the microphone and taste democracy. it is revolution fM. Partner : aRtE france Coproducer : navigator film, austria Partners : ssR-sRg idée suisse tsR aRtE g.E.i.E. tv5 Monde Canal + horizons Coproducer : nord Ouest Documentaires, sylvie Randonneix 2007 Chapter filMs CAMPO SANTO LE BLUES DE L’ORIENT lEngth : 60 Min EURODOC nEtwORK DIRECTOR : sOnia pastECChia PRODUCERS : isaBEllE tRUC, BElgiUM & sERgE gUEZ, fRanCE COMPANIES : iOta pRODUCtiOns & CREsCEnDO filMs lEngth : 90 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : flOEnCE stRaUss PRODUCERS : xaviER DUBOis, fRançOis DUplat COMPANY : BEl aiR MEDia (fRanCE) to emigrate implies the loss of a homeland which witnessed our birth and which, once left behind, becomes a sacred place in our memory. we attach ourselves to this memory. in the fifties, my parents left their native village of Esanatoglia, situated in the Marches in italy to work in Belgium. in the last thirty years, new immigrants from Europe and from the world over have come to work in this resurgent region of italy, and some have settled in the village. following the path of one family, a polyphonic narrative will be woven to bring out the truth of this process of loss and rebirth, which little by little deeply transforms our identity. i would like to reach out to the emotional experience of the spectator and shed light on this experience of losing one’s motherland that, to a greater or lesser extent, affects us all. Cairo, alexandria, tel aviv, Beirut, Damascus, aleppo, palmyra… in a troubled world, these cities share a common inheritance, that of classical arab music. florence leaves paris for the Middle East to discover an unknown and hidden part of her past – she is of jewish and arab descent – carried along by her love of the oriental music that guides her footsteps. le Caire, alexandrie, tel aviv, Beyrouth, Damas, alep, palmyre… Dans un monde déchiré, ces cités ont un héritage commun en partage, la musique arabe classique. De paris, florence part en Orient à la rencontre de la part ignorée et occultée de son histoire – elle est d’origine juive et arabe – portée par son amour de la musique orientale qui guide ses pas. la route et la quête se transforment au gré des rencontres qui la ponctuent : des musiciens surtout, qui sont aussi des poètes et des visionnaires de cette histoire de l’Orient qu’ils ont véhiculée dans les sonorités de leurs voix, les mélodies de leurs chants et les rythmes de leurs mains. Partners : aRtE g.E.i.E., anne Baumann RtBf, wilbur leguebe (Belgium) wallonie image production Co-Producers : les films d’ici, serge lalou (france) amythos, amit Breuer (Canada) Partners : Onf, Colette loumède (Canada) tv 5 61 62 Chapter filMs 2007 DES N UAGES POUR SEUL TOIT THE TWO FACES OF WAR lEngth : 51 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : yvEs sChMitt PRODUCER : lillian stiRling COMPANY : BalthaZaR filMs (fRanCE) lEngth : 100 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTORS : Diana anDRinga & flORa gOMEs PRODUCER : lUis CORREia COMPANY : lx filMEs (pORtUgal) Once upon a time there was a director who wanted to make a film about the gypsies in alsace. a people who don’t want to speak about themselves or be spoken about. they form a closed community with a specific way of life, still based on oral tradition and nomadism. things become even more complicated when the director falls in love with one of the women of the community. yves schmitt’s personal point of view interwoven with that of Bilda, his youngest sister-in-law, invites us on an immersion into this world, sometimes « raw », often tender. in 1963, paigC – african party for the independence of guineaBissau and Cape vert – started a liberation struggle against portuguese rule. paigC’s leader amílcar Cabral made always clear that they were fighting colonialism, not the portuguese people. and it was in guinea-Bissau that was born the army Movement that lead to the Carnation Revolution in portugal, in april 74. the conflict brought no hate, but friendship. why? we tried to find it out, through different characters scattered through guinea, Cape vert and portugal. Partners : Rtp iCaM Partner : france 3 alsace LOTTO S, IN THE NAME OF JESUS THE KING lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : italO tODDE PRODUCER : italO tODDE COMPANY : CRE-aCtiOn (italy) EURODOC-sCRipt 2003-2004 lotto s is a block in the district of scampia, the greatestr drug dealing zones of naples. this district was ignored till, when a cruel war of gangs brought more the 60 murders in four months.in such a place Massimo, 35 years old, works with children in need. this activity is volunteer and is tolerated by the Camorra the local mafia. after all he’s the leader of a catholic association and the church is the last institution recognized by these Barbarians.in such an environment, even the simple idea of setting up a Drama for Christmas looks like a challenge. Once Massimo told me: "you know, you’re not the first film-maker who came here, everybody looking for stories of drugs and murders... well, i'd like people to know that there are positive examples here too, and not for you but for the people who live here: we need to see something beautiful in our everyday life too". 2007 Chapter AVANTI POPOLO ! lEngth : 45 Min DIRECTORS : yanniCK BOvy & MathiEU sOnCK PRODUCER : MathiEU sOnCK COMPANY : ZOgMa (BElgiUM) filMs A MASSACRE FORETOLD EURODOC-sCRipt 2003 lEngth : 58 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2002 DIRECTORS : niCK higgins PRODUCER : niCK higgins COMPANY : lansDOwnE pRODUCtiOns (sCOtlanD UK) le capitalisme, les cancres et les premiers de classe sur l’estrade, derrière leur grand bureau, les maîtres d’école. les précepteurs du libre marché, de la finance et du capitalisme globalisé. au fond de la classe, les mauvais élèves de la « mondialisation heureuse », les réfractaires aux dogmes néolibéraux, les rêveurs d’autres mondes possibles. De mauvais élèves qui s’agitent, dénoncent, s’insurgent, de plus en plus nombreux, de plus en plus bruyants. au nord, au sud, d’Est en Ouest, ils chahutent. ils disent que le capitalisme c’est la guerre, le pillage de la planète, la contamination et la privatisation de l’air, de la terre, de l’eau. ils disent que le capitalisme, c’est nous résigner à voir nos enfants vivre moins bien que nous. alors, du fond de la classe, au nez et à la barbe des maîtres d’école, ils organisent la résistance. là-bas, devant, dans les tout premiers rangs, nos « camarades de gauche ». les délégués de classe. les élus. nOs élus de gauche. Ceux que nous avons choisis pour nous représenter devant les précepteurs... et qui ont pris place à leurs côtés. nos camarades de gauche qui ont un peu oublié pourquoi leurs copains du fond de la classe les ont élus. nous, en douce, on prend quelques images. Des images et des mots en vrac sur le capitalisme, sur l’offensive néolibérale, sur ceux qui résistent au fond de la classe. Et puis aussi sur ceux qui, devant, font semblant. On observe, en compagnie de quelques chahuteurs professionnels. Et on se demande, avec eux, comment on fait pour « changer la vie ». On 22 December 1997, forty-five indigenous residents of the small southern Mexican village of acteal were attending a prayer meeting in their village church when they were slaughtered by unknown paramilitary forces. they were members of the pacifist group las abejas (the Bees), who were supporters of the revolutionary Zapatistas but renounced their violent methods. the investigation into their deaths quickly went suspiciously cold... scottish documentary maker nick higgins, attains unprecedented access to the place, the people, and the story behind a barelyreported atrocity. Partners : vpRO & holland Doc (the netherlands) Festivals : Edinburgh international film festival 2007 Morelia festival de Cine, Mexico 2007 festival international du film Des Droits de l'homme – paris 2008 Kosmorama trondheim international film festival – norway 2008 first peoples festival – Montreal 2008 waCC/signis prize, Best human Rights Documentary 2007 sky Movies Best Documentary award 2007 63 64 Chapter filMs 2007 L’HOMME AUX CELLULES D’OR lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : flOREnCE MaRtin-KEsslER PRODUCER : viRginiE gUiBBaUD COMPANY : 13 pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) MONTAGNARDS OUBLIÉS EURODOC 2006 los angeles, 1984: john Moore, a cancer patient, finds out that his doctor has cultivated and patented his unique “golden” cells, without his awareness. he decides to take him to court. after a lengthy legal process, the questions asked are: does john Moore have rights over his own cells? Can private companies own a stake in our bodies? where do we draw the line between the « thing » and the « person »? in 1990, the California supreme Court decides that, where the University’s patent on Moore’s cells is indeed valid, Moore’s claim to sovereign ownership over his own body is, in fact, groundless. since then, patents on life have come to number in the thousands and are crucial for the biotechnological industries, and for the advancement of biomedical research in general. a landmark case, the Moore story serves as the starting point for this film which will explore, through equally troubling instances, the current state of the global trade around the human body, its use as raw material for medical research, its privatisation as intellectual property and its commercial exploitation by biotech companies. lEngth : 85 Min DIRECTOR : fRanCK CUvElliER PRODUCER : jEan-lUC Millan COMPANY : gRanD anglE (fRanCE) Between the years ’71 to ’75, about twenty children native from the highlands of the deep vietnam have been removed from their family to french voluntaries family, on different places of the territory. in five, maybe six travels, we don’t know any longer, one by one or in small groups, brothers and sisters, or sometimes children from the same village, those renegades, about 12 years old, are gone with the agreement of their parents and under the authority of “foreign Mission of paris” priests, with a mission assigned to them. thirteen years later, what did they become? what kind of memory did they keep of this epic? and, above all, did they fulfil their mission? in order that this episode of the history, this episode of their story, does not pass over in silence, i wanted to rebuild with them the narrative of this humanitarian interference before the age. a story in which one the protagonists, step after step, yesterday like today, wonder: have i been wrong? Partners : france 5 KtO Partners : aRtE france Onf (Canada) CBC EURODOC 2006 2007 Chapter 65 filMs AIGI UTOPIA 79 lEngth : 26 & 52 Min EURODOC 2006 DIRECTOR : Dainis Klava PRODUCER : RihO vastRiK & UlDis CEKUlis COMPANIES : vEsilinD (EstOnia), viDEs filMU stUDija (latvia) lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : jOan llOREt PRODUCER : sévERinE ROinssaRD COMPANY : paRati filMs (fRanCE) Man, time and place forms the conceptual triangle of this film, with the social and economic reality as the inevitable background. the film reveals the present confusion in which the saamis have found themselves as a result of the conflict between traditional nomadism and modernity. what is the saami identity today? are the saamis by definition reindeer people? and are they ready to define themselves differently? the revolutionary dreams of the 20th century died after the nicaraguan sandinista revolution of 1979. Based on the diaries of several nicaraguan revolutionaries and 'children of the revolution', we experience their hopes and disillusionment. Partners : national film Centre of latvia Estonian film foundation Estonian Cultural Endowment Etv ltv lRt svt MEDia Broadcasting Coproducer : frame Zero EURODOC 2006 66 Chapter filMs 2007 DIVORCE ALBANIAN STYLE LE B EURRE ET L’ARGENT DU B EURRE lEngth : 66 & 59 Min EURODOC-sCREEning 2003 DIRECTOR : aDEla pEEva PRODUCER : aDEla pEEva COMPANIES : aDEla MEDia filM & tv pRODUCtiOn (BUlgaRia) lEngth : 62 Min EURODOC-sCREEning 2005 DIRECTORS : philippE BaQUé & aliDOU BaDini PRODUCER : jEan-fRançOis haUtin COMPANY : sMaC (fRanCE) this is a story about love and separation. it happened in albania, a small poor country in the Balkans in the sixties of the past century. through the eyes of a few of the many thousands of people who experienced this extraordinary period, our film tells the story of the families that were forcefully separated by the Communist regime of Enver hodja - the longest lasting European dictator of the 20th century. when in 1961 albania broke off relations with soviet Union, albanian men married to non-albanian women were forced to split up with their wives and drive them from their houses. the official reason: fear of espionage. those who did not obey spent years in prisons. Our film tells the stories of three couples - only three of the many couples of albanian men married to foreign women.this was their only crime. the executioners of these outrages against them also participate in the film: the prosecutor pandi Konomi, the investigator Dolores veliay and the officer of the albanian secret police “sigurimi” - yuli hilla. fair trading is very much in fashion today. the concept is to help the most underprivileged populations on our planet to emerge from this state thanks to a fairer distribution of revenues. shea butter is more and more appreciated in Europe. it is used in the cosmetic industry and as a cocoa substitute. who profits from the money of the butter? several experimenting fair traders are trying to break away from the dominating market. in sharing the lives of the producers in Burkina faso, the film carries us to the heart of the problems of survival in africa. Coproducer : sekou traoré (Burkina faso) Partners : studio Kalejdoskop (poland) wDR (germany) Bulgarian national tv Festivals : nomination of the European film academy for “the Best Documentary 2007 - prix arte” special award of the jury national non-fiction film festival "golden Rython" 2007 grand prix for the Best Documentary international tv festival "golden Chest" 2007 “Best Bulgarian Documentary 2007” award of the Bulgarian national film Centre “Best Documentary 2006 - 2007” award of the Union of Bulgarian film makers sRg ssR idée suisse, prize of the swiss Broadcasting Corporation human Rights award, sarajevo international film festival 2008 Partners : tElEsOnnE (france) tv5 Monde (france) RtBf (Belgium) Festivals : fespaco - Ouagadougou (Burkina faso) 2007 Résistances – foix 2007 Etats généraux du Documentaire – lussas 2007 nuits atypiques – langon 2007 Utopies du quotidien – paris 2007 international du film – amiens 2007 Escales documentaires – libreville (gabon) 2007 lumières d’afrique – Besançon 2007 Quintescence – Ouidah (Bénin) 2008 Cine africano – tarifa (Espagne) 2008 arrêts sur images – Charleroi (Belgique) 2008 figRa – le touquet 2008 panafricain – Cannes 2008 plein sud – Cozes 2008 vue d’afrique – Montréal (Canada) 2008 girafe d’or, festival de niamey 2008 2006 Chapter OPERACION URSULA lEngth : 100 Min DIRECTOR : jOsé antOniO hERgUEta PRODUCER : jOsé antOniO hERgUEta COMPANIES : MlK pRODUCCiOnEs (spain) filMs GAGARIN’S PIONEERS EURODOC-sCREEning 2005 lEngth : 100 Min EURODOC-sCREEning 2003 DIRECTOR : vitalij MansKij PRODUCERS : hEinO DECKERt & MEiKE MaRtEns COMPANY : Ma.ja.DE (gERMany) for decades, a sunken submarine has been jealously keeping all its secrets under the bay of Malaga (spain). Only at the late 90s antonio Checa, a local lawyer, discovered some oily bubbles coming from the bottom of the sea and found out its source: the wreck of the C-3, a spanish Republican submarine, was lying in the seabed near the Costa del sol beaches since the beginning of the spanish Civil war (1936). in the meantime, willard frank, an american historian acknowledged as the main expert in naval operations of such event, had been researching in archives world-wide following the track of a mission successfully kept in total secrecy by the Kriegsmarine, the german nazi navy, since 1936: the Operation Ursula. witnesses, historians, veterans of the spanish and german navies, support the research of frank and Checa to reveal the truth of this submerged story: the first combat mission of hitler’s navy, a rehearsal in spanish waters of the u-boots that would soon become famous in world war ii. and, above all of them, with their untouched memories, the relatives of those 37 crewmembers who “disappeared” on December 12th 1936 and whose story was never talked again… till now. anti-semitism at the hands of the soviet Union state made many families in the 70s emigrate. vitalij Manskij makes for israel and other countries in search of those he once knew so well, for their mutual past and for discussions about dreams and disappointments, discrimination and dominance, homeland and happiness. Coproducer : vertov studio (Russia) Partners : ylE tv2 iikka vehkalahti (finland) ZDf/aRtE Doris hepp (germany) LA MALADIE SILENCIEUSE lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-screening 2005 DIRECTOR : laURE BUDin PRODUCER : jéRôME aMiMER COMPANY : lEitMOtiv pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) Partners : Canal sur tv (spain) graffiti Doc, Enrica Capra (italy) Festivals : Oficial competition in 2007: festival de Cine Español de Málaga DocumentaMadrid sevilla festival de Cine Europeo istanbul Upon my return from three months in africa, it turned out i had contracted hepatitis C. ahead of me, lay a year of heavy treatment. how was i going to live through this time-lapse? from the very first day of the bitherapy, i started a diary. i took photos. and then one day, i had a video camera. to film, what was within reach of my fatigue and seclusion. i felt that shooting would help me ear the treatment, help me not to stop it. to go on living, and eventually to leave my flat for more images. a chance for a 'third therapy' at hand. Partner : Cityzen télévision (france) Distributor : andana films 67 68 Chapter filMs 2006 LETTERS TO A DICTATOR IRAN, A CINEMATOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION lEngth : 55 Min DIRECTOR : inEs DE MEDEiROs PRODUCER : sERgE tRéfaUt COMPANY : faUx (pORtUgal) EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 lEngth : 98 / 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : naDER t. hOMayOUn PRODUCER : CaROlinE BOnMaRChanD COMPANY : avEnUE B pRODUCtiOns (fRanCE) a women’s support Movement defending the dictatorship was set up in 1958. the portuguese dictator, salazar, had been in power for more than 30 years by then. from the thousands of letters we discovered, it is clear that salazar had strong popular support. he was loved and respected almost like a religious leader. Bought from a second-hand book dealer, these letters are now in our hands. they portray a country seen through the eyes of the greatest devotees of the regime. they express a blind adherence to fascist values and show the way fascism affected the intimate lives of women of all social classes. some precious archive show these women screaming under the dictator window like adolescents in a rock concert. But salazar was an austere man, celibate and apparently sexless. what did this love signify then ? throughout the twentieth century, iranian filmmakers have been involved in a constant struggle, first against the monarchy and then against islamic power. this confrontation gave rise to an innovative and unique cinematography, exported today around the world. this film tells the story of the unexpected success of iranian cinema, from the era of the shah (1925), through the revolution and the iran – iraq war up to contemporary life. the crossed destiny of cinema with power is told through archive footage, extracts of pre and post revolution films and through interviews with the main protagonists of iranian film industry. tout au long du xxe siècle, les cinéastes iraniens n’ont cessé de se battre contre le pouvoir monarchique puis islamique. De cette confrontation est née une cinématographie originale qui s’exporte aujourd’hui dans le monde entier. Ce film est l’histoire de la réussite inespérée d’un cinéma iranien, de la période du shah (1925), jusqu’à nos jours en passant par la révolution et la guerre iran-irak. Destins croisés de cinéma et de pouvoir à travers des images d’archives, des extraits de films d’avant et d’après la révolution et des entretiens avec les principaux protagonistes du cinéma iranien. Partners : france : aDR productions (pascal verroust), image plus Belgium : néon Rouge productions (aurélien Bodinaux), RtBf portugal : Rtp Festival : Eurodoc-screening 2006 Partners : arte france ylE, tsR, Rai sat, Ciné Cinéma foreign affairs Ministry, tv 5, MEDia new talent, pROCiREp, CnC Distributor : Doc & CO – Catherine le Clef Festival : Eurodoc-screening 2006 2006 Chapter filMs THE BAD GUY’S FACE US AND THEM lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : DaviDE tOsCO PRODUCER : EnRiCa CapRa COMPANY : gRaffitiDOC (italy) EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 lEngth : 60 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : antRa CilinsKa PRODUCER : antRa CilinsKa COMPANY : jURis pODniEKs stUDiO (latvia) Berlin, 1943: Bruno lüdke, a young man of the suburbs, is accused of 81 murders. his whole body is an accusation, starting from his face: the “bad guy’s face”, one of a true brutish lout. his name is still associated today to the image of an appalling serial killer. yet in fact how would one define the “bad guy’s face”? has this typical criminal’s portrait evolved through the years? which logics provided the parameters for a “bad guy’s face”? to our great surprise these questions propel us into a journey backwards to some of the most respectable places of 19th century, as the temples of science, on the tracks of the researchers animated by one common obsession: discover the laws which determine the individual’s future actions starting from their bodies. the existence of the two parallel communities - one latvian, the other Russian, is the reality of the present day latvia. Out of a total population of 2.5 million people in latvia, nearly 1 million is Russian speaking, the majority of which has settled here since the soviet invasion in 1941. how does this new “minority”, which hitherto has always had the privileges of a majority, feel today in this new European state? why are so many younger generation Russians out on the streets today? why did so many Russian speaking people, and those who had recently gained citizenship, vote against the European Union and why do they still support the left wing and pro-Moscow politicians? is it a question of grand politics, of big issues; is it the external workings of very complicated political cogs in a number of different political systems? Or is it simply that the idea of integration, for both the sides, does not work properly? Partners : aRtE, Claudia Bucher, Olaf grünert RtBf, Claire Colart, Belgium tsR, irène Challand, switzerland sBs, Mark atkin history Channel Partners : latvian tv Coproducers : serge lalou, les films d’ici (france) aurélien Bodinaux, néon Rouge (Belgium) Festival : Eurodoc-screening 2006 69 70 Chapter filMs 2006 SHOAH AND PIN-UPS SECRETOS DE LUCHA lEngth : 88 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : REinhilD DEttMER-finKE PRODUCER : REinhilD DEttMER-finKE COMPANY : DEfi-filMpRODUKtiOn (gERMany) lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : Maiana BiDEgain PRODUCER : jEan-fRançOis haUtin COMPANY : la s.M.a.C. (fRanCE) shOah and pin-Ups is a film about breaking a taboo. in his art the 80-year old new york nO! artist, Boris lurie, brings together what doesn’t belong together: the gassed corpses and the naked, the shoah and pin-ups. it’s not perverted art, but a comment on a perverted society, says lurie, and he draws a line from the shoah to the war in iraq. and he would have so liked to have painted comfortable, comforting things, like the impressionists did. But something kept him from doing that. and that something is what this film searches. the search takes us via Riga and Buchenwald to the new york of the 50s and 60s, when nO! art developed as an obstinate reaction to pop art. Boris lurie’s nO! is his motto: nO! to the expectations of the art market. nO! to bourgeois decorum! nO! to victim mentality. a film about the timeless timely questions of remembering and about coping with the extermination of the jews through art. secrets of the struggle: the journey of a young woman, who travels to Uruguay in search of the what really happened to her family during the darkest years of the Uruguayan dictatorship. through her father’s eyes and her seven aunts and uncles’ confessions, she tries to understand why they kept their memories silent for so long. from the french Bask country to south america, she follows their steps and explores their individual struggles, whether these were through union or legal political actions, or through clandestine activities within an urban guerrilla organisation called the tupamaros, many of their actions in these events they have kept silent about, even to their immediate families. Partners : france 3 aquitaine Euskaltelebista Partner : wDR, sabine Rollberg Coproducers : alberto Rojo, iDEM (spain) jean-Marie Bertineau, Zangra productions (france) CORE DI ROMA Festivals : Cinéma et Culture d’amérique latine, Biarritz 2007 - prix du meilleur documentaire festival du film d’histoire, pessac 2007 - prix du public festival de cinéma latino américain, sydney 2008 - prix du public fipa 2008 - nominé au prix Michel Mitrani lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : gwyn sannia PRODUCER : EManUElE pianO COMPANY : OyiBO pRODUCtiOns (italy) …another football season of joy and anguish awaits sergio Rosi, alfredo Bragaglia and the testaccio Roma Club regulars. as another season of hostilities and bitter rivalry kicks off between as Roma and ss lazio, the two teams of the italian capital, stay with us for the four months between the first and second leg capitoline derby and discover the real Rome. Made up of a special kind of Roman: ‘il testaccino’ or the testaccio people. food, football, passion, culture and a hefty dose of sarcastic comedy will be the recurring theme for this story, as we learn all about this special place and these special people. this is “Core de’ Roma”, the heart of Rome. 2006 Chapter 71 filMs MANDY’S C HOICE LE SOLEIL ET LA MORT lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : lUisa pREtOlani COMPANY : pahni pRODUCtiOns (UK) COPRODUCER : MiKE ChaMBERlain, staMpEDE (UK) lEngth : 82 Min DIRECTOR : BERnaRD DEBORD PRODUCER : MaRiE MOUChEl-BlaisEt COMPANY : Mat filMs (fRanCE) On October 2003, Mandy, 22 years old, faced the death of her husband josh, after a motorcycle accident. while he was in a coma, she asked the doctors at the hospital in littleton, Colorado, to harvest josh’s sperm for future conception. Mandy’ had to fight in order to have the doctors carry on this simple but extraordinary medical procedure which eventually has changed Mandy’s life forever. in spring ‘04 she decided to proceed with the in vitro fertilization and become pregnant with josh’s baby. the documentary follows Mandy, her family and her closest friends for 18 months in this incredible journey: from her decision to have josh’s baby, though her maternity, and everybody’s painful coping with the everyday memories of josh’s loss and eventually the birth of Kaven: the Child of hope and happiness. On april 26, 1986, a nuclear explosion released a toxic cloud at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine. in the following days, this plume spewed 70% of its radioactive fall-out over Belarus, whose border is just seven kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power station. the world-at-large was unsuspecting, and it quickly forget that the remainder of the fatal deposit was released over the northern hemisphere. this film concentrates entirely on Belarus, whose population in the twenty years since the disaster have been condemned by the effects of the ingestion of small doses of radioactivity. EURODOC-sCREEning 2005 the ambition of this film is to give witness to the process of slow death, to reveal the imminence of the genetic catastrophe, and to untie the threads of the international conspiracy of silence, all of which threaten this country. it also aims to alert the world to the danger that this organized disinformation represents for the immediate future. its actors are human beings full of humanity - the neglected victims of the contamination, doctors and scientists, and scientific activists - not willing to abandon themselves to a worst-possiblescenario. their subject matter, the atom, is invisible and indescribable; their wager is to show its materiality, and to say something of its meaning. what they have to say often flies in the face of established truths, in the same way as does this film. their adversaries are the nuclear lobby and the comfort of ignorance. their weapon is reality: that of a world that one strives to make more palatable. Partners : france 5 RtBf (Belgium) tsR (switzerland) ERt (greece) lRt (latvia) CBC, Radio-Canada 72 Chapter filMs 2005 FOREVER LENIN AN OPEN WINDOW lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : xaviER villEtaRD PRODUCER : jéRôME aMiMER COMPANY : lEitMOtiv pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : KhaDy sylla PRODUCERS : MaRiaMa sylla, sOphiE salBOt COMPANIES : gUiss gUiss COMMUniCatiOn (sEnEgal), athEnaÏsE (fRanCE) it was stalin’s suggestion to make lenin immortal. the mummification of the Bolshevik leader was the very first act of theatrical deception by an ideology that was giving itself a living god. the adventures of lenin’s mummy are in a direct sense a reflection of the history of the soviet Union. Mixing both visible history and the dark secrets that were brought to the surface by the disintegration of the UssR, “forever lenin”, is a sort of autopsy of vladimir ilitch’s mummy. at the same time, among gangsters and “new Russian”, the temptation of immortally continues to stimulate emulation within Russia today. in 1994, filmmaker and auteur Khady sylla attempted to film a documentary about homeless psychiatric patients who roam the streets of Dakar, but the images were overexposed and appeared to be unusable. some of them now form the beginning of another attempt by sylla to portray insanity. in the past years, the director herself has also suffered the pain of a deeply troubled mind - she has crossed over "to the other side." sylla feels drawn to her main subject, the expressive aminta ngom, who spends her days confined to the courtyard of her family's house. Despite the simplistic use of camera, the film is complex and layered, and sylla relates to ngom in different ways: as a director who is aware of her film crew, as an equal beside her neurotic friend, and as a narrator who looks into the camera and describes the mental state of her subject with stylised, powerful words. the intimacy of the shared experiences is disturbed by the intrinsically unequal relationship between director and psychiatric patient. Une fenêtre ouverte is simultaneously a portrait, a self-portrait and a lucid illustration of damaged self-awareness in which no sense of time, but only moments exist. Partners : france 5 : Muriel Rosé tsR-tsi : irène Challand sBs : Mark atkin DRtv RtBf : Bill Binnemans ylE : leena pasanen Festival : festival du film d’histoire de pessac 2005 Partners : aRtE france, luciano Rigolini tsR, irène Challand MaE, france agence de la francophonie Centre national de la Cinématographie films pour un seul monde (switzerland) jan vrijman fund Festivals : fiD Marseille 2005 Etats généraux du Documentaire 2005 iDfa 2005 Eurodoc-screening 2006 2005 Chapter filMs THE DESTINY OF C LARA B. FOREVER lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : alExanDRU sOlOMOn PRODUCER : BOnin CEDRiC COMPANY : sEppia (fRanCE) EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : alina MaRaZZi PRODUCER : gaia giani COMPANY : MiR CinEMatOgRafiCa (italy) the film – a fictional documentary which is mostly made up of reel archives ; films and photos – tells the fictional story of Clara B, a photo-journalist born in 1900 in strasbourg. nowadays, her life is reconstructed by another fictional character, jonas, young man living in Berlin-Est whom she came to know late in life and whose own family history echoes the life of our heroine. jonas's subjective reconstruction of Clara B.'s story highlights the destiny of a free woman in the 20th century and provides an alternative insight into recent events in Europe's history, some of which have had a veil cast over them. per sempre probes the motivations that lead some women to choose a secluded life inside religious communities. the film originated from a basic question that compelled the director to take a look inside these communities: how can it be possible for a woman today to make such an extreme and irrevocable choice, one that lasts forever? this question raises issues that perhaps cannot be described or explained in words, but that enable us to catch the essential aspirations behind this choice: the value of community, the attempt to transcend the ego in a perspective of faith and love, the sense of discipline as the constant reference point of an “extra-ordinary” way of life. Partners : arte - nDR; france 3 alsace DJAMEL ALLAM, MINERAL B IRD lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : philippE EtiEnnE PRODUCER : RaphaEl viOn COMPANY : lEs filMs DU safRan (fRanCE) EURODOC-sCRipt 2002 né à Bejaia, capitale de la petite Kabylie, Djamel allam appartient à cette jeunesse enthousiasmée par l'indépendance mais également imprégnée de culture occidentale. il arrive en france à 21 ans. il a dans ses bagages les chants traditionnels algériens, arabes et kabyles, mais aussi les poètes français comme prévert et les surréalistes. Des petits boulots au théâtre du gymnase à Marseille, jusqu'à ses premiers succès sur scène à paris, Djamel deviendra en france un des plus importants chanteurs algériens. le film dresse le portrait du chanteur en le suivant dans son intimité et dans sa vie d'artiste à paris, à alger et Béjaia et sur scène à toulouse. Partner : Cityzen tv (france) Partners : tsi (switzerland) fox Channel, Cult (italy) Rai tre (italy) yle 1 (finland) Cinema release : Cineteca of Milano Rome at fandango politecnico Festivals : 58° international film festival locarno turin film festival festival dei popoli florende it’s all true san paolo 73 74 Chapter filMs 2005 SEPARACION lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : saManta yEpEZ PRODUCER : jEan-MaRiE BERtinEaU COMPANY : ZangRa pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) WHITE TERROR EURODOC-sCRipt 2002 lEngth : 90 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : DaniEl sChwEiZER PRODUCER : DaniEl sChwEiZER COMPANY : hORiZOn filMs (switZERlanD) pepin, fausto and fabian migrated from Ecuador to spain because of the economical crisis that began in 1999 in their country. the film is exploring the experience of forced exile and the loss of roots threw day to day life of these migrants. white terror is a documentary film asking the question: who are hiding behind the "white power" slogan? starting with the content of a neonazi video tape seized in switzerland, this film tries to go up the extremist connections so as to trace these people in European countries and north america who are at the source of this propaganda encouraging segregation, hate an racial war. Partner : voi senart, linda Ortholan (france) Festivals : festival internacional d’amiens; Encuentros del otro cine, Equateur; Reflets du Cinéma ibérique et ibéro-américain de villeurbanne; Quinzaine Culturamérica de pau; 23e Rencontres avec le Cinéma d’amérique latine de Bordeaux GRAZIE B ERLUSCONI ! lEngth : 83 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : fUlvia alBERti PRODUCER : patRiCE BaRRat - aRtiClE Z (fRanCE) On the eve of the 2001 general elections, fulvia, an italian woman having lived in france for twenty years, decides to buy herself a camera and go film the “changes” talked about by her former italian friends who sound more and more worried. as she meets them - former activists having given up any political activity and newer ones having grown up in the midst of various associations - fulvia is reminded of her own story and that of her old country. she also gets to know better today’s italy, a very controversial and ill-treated country, especially by those who run it. Berlusconi wins the elections and an opposition reorganises itself, first led by the anti-globalisation movement in genoa. Other events and other disappointments were to come up until the latest European elections. history with a capital h, and history with a small one : they look alike and need one another to make progress. this is the reason why fulvia agreed to run as a candidate in the local elections in her hometown together with the people that she filmed over four years. Coproducers : little Bear, Matthieu Belghiti (france) Dschoint ventschr filmproduktion (switzerland) Cameo films (germany) Making Movies (finland) Partners : aRtE g.E.i.E tsR / sRg ssR irène Challand ylE, finland avec le soutien du CnC france et l’Office de la Culture suisse et du fond régional nord Rhein-westfallen allemagne Partner : tv10 angers (france) Festival : les Z’engagés la Ciotat 2005 Chapter filMs EXILE FAMILY MOVIE PREMIER NOËL DANS LES TRANCHÉES lEngth : 60 & 94 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : aRash PRODUCER : gEZa hORvat COMPANY : gOlDEn giRls filMpRODUKtiOn (aUstRia) lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-sCREEning 2005 DIRECTOR : MiChaël gaUMnitZ PRODUCER : sylviE RanDOnnEix COMPANY : nORD OUEst DOCUMEntaiREs (fRanCE) an iranian family living in political exile in Europe and america decides to organise a secret meeting with the rest of the family, which still lives in iran and which they haven’t seen for more than 20 years. the only place that proves to be possible for this meeting is saudi arabia. Despite all the dangers, the family members living in exile pretend to be Muslim pilgrims in order to be allowed to enter the holy cities of Medina and Mekka. there, in a small hotel, room the long awaited, tearful reunion takes place after 20 years of separation. it proves to be a huge culture clash between the Muslim world and the western societies of Europe and america. in December 1914, an unheard of event occurred. soldiers from germany, france and England came out of their trenches and fraternized with the enemy. they sang together, exchanged food, and showed each other photographs of their families. in some places, it lasted nearly a fortnight and entailed the passive complicity of officers. according to the military code of the day fraternizing was a war crime, a failure of duty and a cowardly act, guilty soldiers should have been shot. today then, fraternization is to be commemorated. why ? it is interesting to question the topic and put it in its historical context. in recounting these events which in retrospect appear somehow unreal, the film tries to understand the mind set of those times. while fraternization remained marginal, what it reveals about the soldiers involved is far more telling than the ‘official’ version, history has accustomed us to. Besides recounting these events and the ensuing commotion brought upon military staff, we will look at the reasons as to why fraternization happened, and also why it was not more frequent. through archives, and photographs but also soldiers’ letters from germany and france, we will try to get closer to the mentalities and views of those times... Partners : france 5 france 3 nord-pas-de-Calais-picardie ina productions Editions Montparnasse Partners : financed by aRtE france, ORf, filmfonds vienna, BKa world sales : first hand films/ Esther van Messel Festivals : Diagonale, austria 2006 festival de nyon, switzerland 2006 Etats généraux du Documentaire 2006 75 76 Chapter filMs 2005 BARNEY WILEN, THE REST OF YOUR LIFE ANATOMY OF A MASSACRE lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : stEphanE sinDE PRODUCER : sylviE RanDOnnEix (EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2000-2001) COMPANY : nORD OUEst DOCUMEntaiREs (fRanCE) lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2002 DIRECTOR : anDREa pRanDstRallER PRODUCER : agnEsE fOntana (EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000) COMPANY : BROOKlyn filMs (italy) the life and times of Barney wilen, the legendary jazz musician who at age 18 was already playing with Miles Davis, and whom many called the "greatest European saxophonist." Exiled to Zanzibar in the 70s where he lives among the impoverished nobility, hero of loustal's cult comic strip, the Blue note, wilen was as famous for his brilliant appearances as for his inexplicable disappearances. this film essay reconstitutes his rich, mysterious life even as it attempts to distinguish the man from the myth. with the participation of laurent de wilde, philippe garrel and archie shepp. On april 30th, 1945 at pedascala, a small mountain community in north-east italy, a retreating german platoon massacred 82 innocent civilians, among them women and children. the reasons behind this retaliation remain unknown. in 1994 documents were uncovered containing the anglo-american investigations on nazi war crimes, labeled "temporarily archived", a prefectly executed shelving. the impossibility of finding and punishing a guilty party shifts the emphasis of the question who? to the question why? is someone guilty for having provoked this wild reaction in the german soldiers? several versions of the event, gathered by the surviving members, become the tracks to follow in order to confront this contoversial and uncomfortable memory. a personal and rigourous research completed through italy, the naRa of washington D.C., and germany. the project was developed at Eurodoc-script 2002 by andrea prandstraller. Brooklyn films assisted Mr. prandstraller in developing the project. the project was pitched in Bologna during the workshop organized by DOC/it : "national geographics/fox international Channels/Meetings of Documentary filmmakers ", also gaining the interests of the present commissioning editors. shooting took place in italy (pedescala), germany, and at the naRa in washington D.C. produced by Brooklyn films srl in co-production with agER 3 srl and istituto luce italnoleggio. pay tv world wide rights pre-sold fox international Channels italy. Partners : aRtE CnC Mezzo saCEM Festivals : fipa 2006 festival Cinéma du Réel 2006 Etats généraux du Documentaire 2006 2005 Chapter MEMORIES OF DREAMS lEngth : 70 Min DIRECTOR : tOni stRasBURg 77 filMs ARLIT, DEUXIÈME PARIS EURODOC-sCRipt 2002 Memories of dreams is a feature length documentary that crosses time and continents to chart the fascinating history of three generations of one family who played a role in some of the major political upheavals of the last century – the Bolshevik Revolution, world war ii and the end of apartheid in south africa. through letters and interviews this emotionally charged film recalls the dilemmas made by many when faced by political events; the dilemmas that attempt to resolve the moral imperative of revolutionary change without sacrificing the emotional needs of family. the author embarks on a personal journey in an attempt to find out how history came to repeat itself in so many ways. it explores why some people choose to look beyond their own self-interest to work for a better future for all. it asks how they came to the choices that they did. Choices between family and political beliefs ? Choices that echo through the years with the repeating themes, passion and politics; exile, and return; love and country and belonging. journeying from Russia to south africa, via England, this intimate exploration draws on the migrations and conflict of the 20th Century, to reconcile the personal wounds left by all-consuming need to a fight for a dream. Producers : Big world Cinema Ebano Multimedia Coproducer : jBa production Partners : national film and video foundation of south africa saBC European Commission lEngth : 78 Min DIRECTOR : iDRissOU MORa Kpai PRODUCERS : MKj filMs, nOBlE filMs EURODOC-sCRipt 2002-2003 arlit sprang up through uranium mines and immigration, and in the 70s was the equivalent of 19th century new york for that part of africa. it was a kind of land of adventure where everything seemed possible, where everyone could better their situation. the touareg rebellion and the collapse of the price of uranium changed everything.?while filming his most recent work, the Director met up with the ageing issa, who put him up in arlit in niger when he was about to leave for Europe. that was 17 years ago. he has decided to follow the old man on his last trip back to arlit to see his son and old friends, allowing the director to introduce us to this desert frontier town.?Back in the 70s, arlit was the Eldorado and fulcrum of the region due to COgEMa’s uranium mining operation. arlit has become a ghost town since the touareg rebellion and the french company’s withdrawal, and has now been transformed into a stop-off point for illegal immigrants heading for algeria. this film also focuses on the surprising ethnic mix found there as a result of the continous migrations, and which has made it such a unique and fantastic place. Partners : CnC Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED) hubert Bals fund agence intergouvernementale de la francophonie & Cirtef Commission Européenne fonds sud Cinema fonds images d’afrique (Ministère des affaires Etrangères) Festivals : internationale filmfestspiele Berlin 2005 festival international de films de fribourg 2005 fespaco 2005 Milan:15° festival Cinéma africano d’asia e america latina 2005, award Best Documentary freiburger film forum 2005 Durban international film festival 2005 international film festival Munich 2005 international film festival innsbruck 2005, award prix du public festival Résistances de foix 2005 xviii. fernsehworkshop Entwicklunspolitik 78 Chapter filMs 2005 OPERATION SPRING L’HÔTEL DE MES RÊVES lEngth : 94 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2002-2003 DIRECTORS : angEliKa sChUstER, tRistan sinDElgRUBER, PRODUCERS : angEliKa sChUstER, tRistan sinDElgRUBER, COMPANY : sChnittpUnKt – sinDElgRUBER tRistan, filM -& MUltiMEDiapRODUKtiOn (aUstRia) lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : hEllE tOft jEnsEn PRODUCER : signE ByRgE søREnsEn COMPANY : spOR MEDia (DEnMaRK) Operation spring is a suspenseful thriller of a documentary about a police investigation and court proceedings against africans suspected of belonging to a nigerian drug ring. new laws were implemented and new methods of investigation were put to the test for the first time. the film poses the question of whether the defendants ever stood a chance of receiving a fair trial. in Operation spring we pose the question of how much value is attached to basic democratic rights when new laws and investigative methods are to be implemented at all costs, regardless of the consequences for the rule of law. Partners : sundance institute Documentary fund (Usa) the Documentary Channel (Canada) Media plus film fund vienna ORf (film - tv-agreement) federal Chancellery of austria – Division for the arts Festivals : first appearance: Diagonale – austrian film festival, graz international premiere & special mention : visions du reel, nyon 2005 Cinema : austrian wide cinema release in autumn 2005 European cinema release is planned for the end of 2005 Rome. www.operation-spring.com Many years ago, a 10-year old boy stood on the windswept beach at popenguine, a fishing village on the coast of senegal. it was whitsun, and he was on the first pilgrimage of his life. a band was playing at a small hotel. he wanted to dance to the music, but the owner refused to let him in. the boy vowed that one day he would return to buy the hotel. after 27 years in Belgium, the senegalese artist and businessman jeannot Da sylva returns to africa to realise his dream. he builds a hotel at the heart of popenguine. his dream-project kick-starts a new kind of development in this tiny community. tourists will soon arrive in the village. the question is, if jeannot understands the importance of the village for the success of his project? has he been away for so long that he has forgotten the african ways? and how do the villagers react to the prospect of becoming tourist attractions? Partners : nDR arte - Christiane hinz tv 2 Denmark - Mette hoffmann Meyer RtBf - Claire Colart E-tv - Marje jurtshenko ylE - Erkki astala tsR - irène Challand Media+ 2005 Chapter filMs MITUMBA, THE SECOND-HAND ROAD 12 TANGOS RETURN TICKET TO BUENOS AIRES lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : RaffaElE BRUnEtti PRODUCER : RaffaElE BRUnEtti COMPANY : B&B filM (italy) lEngth : 52 & 90 Min EURODOC-sCRipt 2002 DIRECTOR : aRnE BiRKEnstOCK PRODUCERS : tRaDEwinD piCtUREs (hElMUt g. wEBER, thOMas spRingER) & aRnE BiRKEnstOCK vOCaCiOn sRl (EnRiQUE MaRMOnti, MaRiO lEvit). COMPANIES : fRUitMaRKEt aRts anD MEDia & tRaDEwinD piCtUREs (gERMany) EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 the story of a t-shirt’s journey from the north to the south of the world. the story of what goes on in between and underneath the garments’ first and second lives told through personal tales and unusual situations which create the patchwork of “second hand road”. the offstage voice of a traveller unravels the story l’historie du voyage d’un t-shirt du nord au sud de notre planète. l’histoire de ce qui passe entre la première et la deuxième vie des vêtements ; les histoires personnelles et les endroits inhabituels créent le patchwork de " second-hand Road ". le récit est raconté par la voix off d’un voyageur. “12 tangos – Return ticket to Buenos aires” tells the story of several tangueros in crisis-ridden Buenos aires. when the tango was created, their grandparents, who had come from italy and spain, were among the millions of immigrants, stranded at the Rio de la plata. today, their grandchildren are heading in the opposite direction: back to Europe. in 12 tangos, recorded live in the hottest tango hall in town and performed by some of argentina’s finest musicians, the film narrates the story of crisis and immigration – and connects the sentiments of its protagonists are with the music, the lyrics and the dance steps of the tango. the soundtrack includes 16 exclusively arranged and recorded tangos, performed by 25 of the best argentinian musicians under the direction of luis Borda. the CD accompanying the film will presumably be released in fall 2005. Partners : nDR arte - Christiane hinz ylE teema - leena pasanen planet italia (pre-sale) ltv latvia (pre-sale) Media+ Festivals : Eurodoc-screening 2005 Partners : ZDf / aRtE - Christopher janssen. tradewind pictures vocacion sRl peter Bach MEDia programme of the EU instituto nacional de Cine y artes audiovisuales (inCaa). www.12tangos.com 79 80 Chapter filMs 2005 CLEJANI HISTOIRES, STORIES, POVESTI L’APOTHÉOSE D’ARTHUR BISPO DO ROSARIO lEngth : 59 & 114 Min EURODOC nEtwORK DIRECTORS : MaRta BERgMan & fRéDéRiC fiChEfEt PRODUCERS : CyRil BiBas & valéRiannE BOUé COMPANIES : EntRE ChiEn Et lOUp (BElgiUM) & ts pRODUCtiOns (fRanCE) lEngth : 26 Min DIRECTOR : MaiOnE DE QUEiROZ silva PRODUCER : philippE BUffOn COMPANY : i.synChRO pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) young musicians without work chase away their depression with drugs and dreams of the west. Marius grabs his accordion and plays some gypsy blues to charm the moneylenders who demand their due, to seduce a beautiful chick or maybe even attract johnny Depp who, it seems, promised to be godfather to his youngest child. vie et œuvre d’arthur Bispo do Rosario, marin, noir et pauvre, né en 1911 dans le nordeste brésilien. a l'âge de 27 ans Bispo a une vision mystique : 7 anges descendent du ciel et lui commandent une mission "faire le compte rendu du monde pour apporter à Dieu le jour de sa mort". interné dans un hôpital psychiatrique d'une banlieue de Rio 50 ans durant jusqu’à sa mort, arthur Bispo do Rosario a créé, contre les misères d’un système psychiatrique abandonné et obsolète, une œuvre majeure acclamée par les critiques de l’art contemporain. Ce film conçu sous forme d'une lettre adressée à l’artiste évoque sa vie et visite son œuvre dans les lieux de l’hôpital psychiatrique. won, stolen, borrowed or exchanged, money is the only way to thwart the fate that dogs this small gypsy community. Clejani is a chasm at the end of a road. some are willing to do anything to get away. Partners : RtBf CBa - Centre du Cinéma et de l’audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique et des télédistributeurs wallons Centre national de la Cinématographie (f) Festivals : festival Cinéma du Réel 2005 EURODOC-sCRipt 2002 Partners : Délégation aux arts plastiques – Ministère de la Culture. Chantal soyer 2004 Chapter 81 filMs THE LOST HERITAGE THE ROAD TO KERBALA lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : MaRtin BiEBEl PRODUCER : CaRl-a. fEChnER COMPANY : fEChnERMEDia (gERMany) lEngth : 69 Min DIRECTOR : Katia jaRjOURa PRODUCER : ChRistinE DOUBlEt COMPANY : pROgRaM33 (fRanCE) the german ‘grand Canyon’ - a bizarre landscape; what used to be an opencast mining field covers a territory ten times larger than Europe’s biggest airport. this region in the former gDR, was powered by a vital industry with thousands of miners ploughing the grounds for brown coal up until twelve years ago. today the workers have lost their jobs and the ripped-open mining landscape has literally petrified into a vast, empty desert. a desert that has a beauty of its own; a unique moonlike landscape that triggers contrasting feelings; it is a surreal surrounding – awesome and extreme. and it is doomed. laUBag, a semi-federal organization is determined to ‘domesticate’ this wild area through a massive "back-to-nature"-program, intending to turn the impressive remnants of human history into picturesque, innocent lakes. in opposition to this plan there is a renowned institute, the "iBa fürst pückler". what they strive for has the potential to integrate not only the people, but also their identity and the pride they take in it. what they see is the unique and fantastic chances, which this manmade landscape holds for them. Baghdad, april 2004. as iraq is daily shaken by current violence, members of the religious shiite community prepare to brave the road to Kerbala to carry out their annual pilgrimage, which was banned under saddam’s dictatorship. this ritual ends the 40 dayperiod of mourning which commemorates the death of Mohammed’s grandson, imam hussein, who was beheaded in 680 aD. Despite the risk and dangers of the situation, a young lebanese Canadian woman impassioned by shiism, accompanies the pilgrims on the road. the Road to Kerbala captures her investigative journey on the 110 kilometre-walk from the iraqi capital to the shiite capital. through her vision and the narrative of her main character, a shiite poet and former political prisoner, we penetrate into the heart of the long-oppressed shiite community of iraq. along the road, we experience religious and social rituals, political demonstrations, encounters with american soldiers and the peaceful countryside of iraq. this personal journey reveals an intimate view of this community, which both embraces death and celebrates life in their new-found freedom. Partners : ZDf/arte - Martin pieper publishing on vhs and DvD in german and english subtitled. we own all rights for world distribution except germany and france and are open for broadcasting proposals. Partners : arte france RtBf tsR Umam production Festivals : fipa 2005 EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2003-2004 82 Chapter filMs 2004 ALGÉRIENNES COACH lEngth : 56 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : DjaMEl sEllani PRODUCER : wally s. taÏBi COMPANY : lEs filMs DU CyClOpE (fRanCE) lEngth : 5x26 & 53 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : liaM MCgRath PRODUCER : tRisha Canning COMPANY : sEtanta tElEvisiOn (iRElanD) the algerian war broke out back in 1st november 1954. louisette, Eliette and fatma, go back to where it all happened in algiers and tell us their story of their commitment to put an end to social injustice. hunted down by french paratroopers, they were arrested in 1957 and tortured. they ended the war in prisons and in camps. the solidarity borne of their imprisonment was a lesson in humanity and has led to lasting friendships. forty years later, louisette ighilahriz reaches the end of a long quest to pay tribute to the man who saved her from torture. this quest for the facts to be acknowledged is also a way for these women to pay tribute to a few french military officers who had an exemplary and noble attitude. Our film is also a quest to understand the identity of a generation of women and men who have never spoken out about this war. sport in school is more than just a subject, for teachers it is more than just a class. for some students it is the only thing they are good at. it is their hope for college, for success, for recognition. Coaches are more than trainers, they are parent figures, role models and guardians. “Coach” is a 5 x 25” series looking at the lives of three new york high school coaches, their schools and their students. we see the students strive for victory and what it means to them. soccer : Martin jacobson, ex-heroin addict and soccer coach, he takes african kids into his school to teach them life lessons as well as soccer lessons. Basketball : larry Major, single father to a three year old boy, he also minds a school full of afro-american kids. a quiet, intelligent man, he is the opposite of his new employee, todd Myles. todd is a young hot-headed coach. he swears all the time, and tries to get his students motivated by yelling. he feels they are not trying hard enough. athletics : natasha hastings is a talented young athlete with a bright future. already she has broken high school records. this winter she has to chose between running for her school team and running for her country. Partners : nDR arte - Christiane hinz Zero film - thomas Kufus Festivals : Cork film festival Chicago irish film festival Eurodoc-screening 2005 Partners : image Creation.Com - Martine Barbé RtBf - Claire Colart Canal+ horizons - azibi Boualem nMO - Malika amzourou C9 télévision - françois taverniez CRRav - Catherine Droubaix Festivals : 2ème prix festival du Cinéma africain, d’asie et d’amérique du sud - Milan 2005 Eurodoc-screening 2005 2004 Chapter filMs FRANÇOIS MAURIAC, UN JOURNALISTE ENGAGÉ DREAM LAND lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : gilBERt BalavOinE PRODUCER : jEan MaRiE BERtinEaU COMPANY : ZangRa pRODUCtiOns (fRanCE) EURODOC nEtwORK lEngth : 35 & 43 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : laila paKalnina PRODUCER : UlDis CEKUlis COMPANY : viDEs filMU stUDija (latvia) l’apparition du " Bloc- notes " de françois Mauriac dans les années 50, d’abord dans l’Express puis dans le figaro littéraire, va profondément marquer le journalisme. Durant toute sa vie publique et journalistique, le prix nobel de littérature françois Mauriac se place sous le signe de la contradiction entre les influences bourgeoises catholiques les plus réactionnaires et l'éveil d'une conscience chrétienne humaniste, passionnément éprise de justice et de liberté. au travers d'articles extraits du Bloc- notes lus par Claude Rich et de témoignages d'historiens et philosophes, ce film traite de l'évolution d'une pensée politique confrontée à l’épreuve des évènements du 20éme siècle : guerre d'Espagne, occupation et résistance, décolonisation et guerre d'algérie, avènement de la 5éme République… avec la participation de : Claude Rich, pour les interviews de jean lacouture, jean touzot, René Rémond, jean Daniel, francis jeanson. there are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend donít exist at all. One such place is a dumpsite. from the humansí point of view, it is a ghastly place, a stinking desert of trash. But itís a desert that is teaming with life. the astounding profusion of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, all intertwined in an existential life-death relationship imparts to it with some strangely alluring dream-like quality. Partners : in co-production with nDR/arte (co-producer Christiane hinz) in association with ylE teema, sBs tv australia, the Cultural Capital foundation of latvia and the latvian national film Centre. sales: studio hamburg fernseh allianz. Partners : france 3 aquitaine RtBf M.M.M. Euskal télébista Région aquitaine iOta production (Belgique) iDEM (pays Basque - Espagne) Direction du livre et de la lecture Festivals : festival international du film d'histoire de pessac 2004 Eurodoc-screening 2005 Festivals : pusan iff, iDfa, leipzig filmwochen, luebeck ff, Chicago iDff, Docpoint. Eurodoc-screening 2005 83 84 Chapter filMs 2004 THE DALÍ DIMENSION THE COLONIAL MISUNDERSTANDING lEngth : 53 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : sUsi MaRQUès PRODUCER : jOan UBEDa COMPANY : MEDiapRO - MEDia 3.14 (spain) lEngth : 78 & 60 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 DIRECTOR : jEan-MaRiE tEnO PRODUCERS : BÄRBEl MaUCh - jEan-MaRiE tEnO COMPANIES : BÄRBEl MaUCh filM (gERMany) - lEs filMs DU Raphia (fRanCE) salvador Dalí had an obsession for science that lasted his entire life. this can be seen in his paintings, which reflect every major discovery of the 20th Century. his signature is directly influenced by a scientific image. Dalí read scientific literature compulsively, from psychoanalysis to quantum mechanics, and mathematics to genetics. he befriended researchers in physics, mathematics, biology and other disciplines. scientists were surprised to discover that beyond the façade of a clownish showman was a brilliant artist with whom they could have meaningful discussions at the crossroads of art and science. the film features interviews with Dalí in which he speaks about his passion for science together with previously unseen footage of Dalí with scientists. thE Dali DiMEnsiOn reveals a completely unknown aspect of one of the most important figures of the 20th Century, and gives new insight to interpret some of Dalí’s masterpieces. in the Colonial Misunderstanding jean-Marie teno sheds light on the complex and problematic relationship between colonization and European missionaries on the african continent. through an examination of the work of german missionary societies in africa whose vocation was to bring Christianity – and by extension, European culture and European rule – to the heathens, jean-Marie teno reveals the Colonial Misunderstanding. En suivant les traces des premiers missionnaires en afrique, jeanMarie teno met en lumière la relation ambiguë entre les missions chrétiennes et l’entreprise coloniale. il confronte les analyses d’historiens africains et européens avec celles du personnel des missions, et livre un témoignage bouleversant sur la mission " civilisatrice " de la colonisation. Partners : ZDf/aRtE - Olaf grunert with the support of CEE/aCp, EZEf/EED, KEM, agence intergouvernementale de la francophonie, CnC, pROCiREp/angOa,ORtn (niger) and Ministère de la Culture (Cameroun). Partners : televisio de Catalunya fundacio gala-salvador Dali institut Ramon llull avRO in collaboration with ylE teema RtBf tvE temáticos with the support of the institut Català de les indústries Culturals and the MEDia programme of the European Union Festivals : prix festival telesciencia (portugal) Best tv program-art film festival Montréal Canada Eurodoc-screening 2005 Festivals : Competition fEspaCO 2005 iDfa 2004 Etats généraux du documentaire - lussas 2004 2004 Chapter filMs THE AMAZING STORY OF FATHER HIMALAYA THE GUGGENHEIM AND THE BARONESS lEngth : 51 Min DIRECTOR : jORgE antÓniO PRODUCER : lUís CORREia. COMPANY : lx filMEs (pORtUgal) EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2000-2001 lEngth : 73 & 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : sigRiD faltin PRODUCER : sigRiD faltin COMPANY : whitE pEppER filMs (gERMany) in 1904, a crowd gathered at the entry of the st. louis Exhibition, in Missouri, U.s.a. Many people went to admire the enormous steel structure, where thousands of mirrors reflected the sunlight. it was the pyrhelióphero, a revolutionary solar device which was awarded the 1st prize at exhibition, although it was not even included in the portuguese oficial section. this film is a tribute to the life and work of this genius and visionary inventor that history seems to have forgotten. the story of hilla rebay is told with film footage, photographs, and letters from and to hilla. hilla’s relatives and friends, artists and art critics tell us how they remember this unusual woman and artist. roland von rebay, hilla's nephew, an architect and apprentice to frank lloyd wright, and two of the curators of the rebay exhibition lead us to the warehouses in germany and the u.s., where hilla's artworks are kept, and through the main stations of hilla's life. lending a lighter note to her story, animations that are little artworks themselves, bring us closer to hilla. the film documents the preparations for the rebay exhibition and the rediscovery of one of the earliest abstract women artists. Partners : Rtp iCaM - instituto do Cinema, audiovisual e Multimédia, programa “Ciência viva” - Ministério da Ciência e da tecnologia, Câmara Municipal de arcos de valdevez, Câmara Municipal de viana do Castelo Festivals : Eurodoc-screening 2005 Partners : ZDf arte avRO ylE guggenheim / Rebay foundation Mfg film foundation Baden-württemberg Media plus Festivals : Bronze Medal at the new york festival szolnok festival (hungary) film festival of fine arts (Montréal) www.the-baroness.com 85 86 Chapter filMs 2004 SEDA PEOPLE OF THE MARSH MA VIE DANS UNE VALISE lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : KaspaRs gOBa PRODUCER : UlDis CEKUlis COMPANY : viDEs filMU stUDija (latvia) EURODOC nEtwORK lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 DIRECTOR : sylvia CallE PRODUCERS : valéRiannE BOUé COMPANY : ts pRODUCtiOns (fRanCE) in seda, a remote peat minersí town of latvia, the time seems to be frozen in the soviet era. Built in 1952 and inhabited by a multiethnic workforce from different parts of the former UssR, it still preserves intact the signs of the inflated style of a stalinís ìshock workî construction project. Culturally sedaís people feel like a community apart. their lingua franca is the Russian, and their social life is a mixture of soviet and Russian Orthodox traditions. they donít want the European Union, they want to live in their own state ñ the Marshland. today, Colombia is experiencing a critical moment of its history, torn apart by a confused war against drug and armed irregular groups. Running away from violence, but also from the economical crisis it has entailed, six million Colombians have been forced to move abroad. this is a true silent exodus that affects the country. "Des valises pleines" in an intimate conversation with some Colombians living in exile in new york, ironically called "the second Colombian city". those characters tell us what they have gone through in Colombia, tell us in what way violence has forced them o decide to flee their country. "what did you bring in your bag when you left Colombia?" is the starting question of the project. in the place they are living, their place of refuge as exiles, these people unpack for the second time their bags in front of the camera an old pull-over, a blanket, a pair of sleepers…these objects have become "fetishes", sanctuaries of the past, full of suggestive power. little by little, the whole of those tales, of those suitcases, outlines the contours of the drama experienced by millions of Colombians. Partners : in association with nDR/arte (co-producer Christiane hinz) filmtank hamburg - thomas tielsch national film Centre of latvia Partners : voi sénart (france) ylE teema et ylE tv1 (finland) 2004 Chapter filMs CHECK MATE, STRATEGY OF A REVOLUTION AN ABSENT WORLD lEngth : 52 & 60 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 DIRECTOR : sUsannE BRanDstÄttER PRODUCER : gUnnaR DEDiO COMPANY : lOOKs (gERMany) lEngth : 56 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 DIRECTOR : ROnniE RaMiREZ PRODUCER : CyRil BiBas COMPANY : EntRE ChiEn Et lOUp (BElgiUM) a case history of U.s. foreign policy, propaganda and secret operations: why the Romanian Revolution had to take place before america could win the Cold war. a new and startling story of international intrigue, involving the reunification of germany and the collapse of the soviet Union. Checkmate analyses the events surrounding the Romanian Revolution, revealing for the first time how the superpowers were involved and above all, why. when Ceausescu refused to accept the reforms sweeping Eastern Europe in 1989, the ruthless Romanian dictator unwittingly rushed headlong into his own destruction. little did he know of the agreements reached concerning Europe’s destiny: though both Bush and gorbachev pursued their own aims, the two statesmen had come to terms on this question. But then there was the problem of germany. Mitterand and thatcher made a simple stipulation. first western and Eastern Europe mist be united, before the reunification of germany could take place. as the last of the hard-liners in the warsaw pact, only Ceausescu stood in the way… if Europe’s division should end and germany was to be reunited, Romania’s dictator had to be overthrown. Upon the backdrop of the one of the most exiting and moving episodes of history – the Romanian Revolution and Ceausescu’s overthrow – this documentary revels and exemplifies the working of power politics. at the heart of Chilean patagonia, the economic activity – especially stock breeding and forestry development- exploits the local natural resources knowing no limit.these days, a new threat is looming for the aisen province: the setting up of a huge industrial complex, of which the site work is planned to begin in 2003. Meeting some of the inhabitants of this southern region, some of these pioneers’ and indians’ sons, it will be their turn to speak so we can better understand what are the stakes and contradictions of this country which has been described as an “economical model” in latin america since the end of the 80s. Partners : RtBf CBa ylE (pre-sale) Festivals : Cinemas d’Espagne et d’amérique latine (Bruxelles) Partners : ZDf / arte - Martin piepper 3sat ORf (austria) parallel.40 (spain) tvR (hungaria) Festivals : iDfa 2003 Diagonale 2004 (austria) inpUt 2004 Eurodoc-screening 2004 87 88 Chapter filMs LIFE RUNNING OUT OF CONTROL lEngth : 3x60 & 95 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2000-2001 DIRECTORS : BERtRaM vERhaag & gaBRiElE KRöBER PRODUCER : BERtRaM vERhaag COMPANY : DEnKMal-filM (gERMany) in the mid-eighties science, with the help of genetic technology, finds the key to mastering the earth and especially its creatures. suddenly, everything seems possible! twenty years later we embark on a global journey to explore the progressive and continual genetic manipulation of plants, animals and human beings: Due to a disastrous crop with genetically modified cotton many indian farmers face ruin, have to sell one of their kidneys or resort to committing suicide. in Canada genetically modified canola seeds blow onto the fields of neighbouring organic farms, thus making ecological farming impossible. the icelandic parliament sells the entire pool of genes of its population to a private company that, in turn, intends to turn over the data at a profit to the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies. a research project is designated as "vampire project” in which blood, hair and saliva samples are taken from 700 so-called ethnic groups on the verge of extinction on the pretext of preventive health. the gene samples wander into the laboratories of industry to provide the basis for valuable patents. worldwide only a handful of idealistic scientists are defying industry, doing independent – without the financial support of industry – research on the effects of transgenic animals and plants on the environment and our health when we consume genetically modified food. 2004 Awards: "1.price for best long production (the Carmo Bernardes trophy)" 6th fiCa – international Environmental film festival, goias / Brazil "nominee for natiOnal filM BOaRD Of CanaDa awaRD" 23rd vancouver international film festival 2004 "nominee for iDa award"international Documentary association iDa’s 20th annual awards Competition 2004, los angeles / Usa ökomedia award "golden lynx" for the best journalistic achievement 21st international Environmental film festival OPERNFIEBER lEngth : 70 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : KathaRina RUpp PRODUCER : jORg KOBEl COMPANY : BaRBaROssafilM (gERMany) it sounds like a relic from a time long forgotten but they still exist, people hired to be the life and soul of the opera. their reputation is notorious, entwined with flamboyant and colourful stories and myths. Regarded by many as influential and dangerous, for others they are nothing more than a burdensome parasite whose days are numbered. the `claqueurs´ see themselves almost as artists whose work support the singers and is of importance to the opera. Even so, the ´claqueurs´ guild is threatened with extinction due to the lack of up and coming young professionals. an insight into the working days of the ´claqueurs´ in the italian opera. Partners : ZDf/aRtE, sf DRs ylE tEEMa filmstiftung nRw BUON VIAGGIO, MICHELANGELO lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : MattEO DElBO PRODUCER : anastasia plaZZOtta COMPANY : fanDangO (italy) Partners : swR/aRtE Festivals : the 21st international Environmental film festival "öKOMEDia" 2004 in freiburg, germany awarded to " life Running Out Of Control " the "golden lynx" for Best journalistic achievement. Meanwhile also the list of festival- invitations is getting longer: 19th international Documentary film festival Munich, germany-05.2004 6th fiCa – international Environmental film festival, goias/Brazil-06.2004 2nd Ecology-festival irkutsk, irkutsk / Russia - 09.2004 naturvision - international nature- and animalfilmfestival, neuschönau / germany - 09.2004 23rd vancouver international film festival, vancouver/Canada-09.2004 49th Cork film festival, Cork / ireland - 10.2004 ökomedia – 21. international Environmental film festival, freiburg, germany - 10.2004 nanookfest- "il silenzioso Richiamo della terra", palermo/ italy - 11.2004 EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 Memory stimulated by the atlantic crossing, a documentary-like an atlantic crossing, re-evocation of an atlantic crossing. in the last century, at the end of the 60s, the great ocean liners stopped connecting Europe and the United states. the barmen in the first class cocktail lounges had learned their trade with the none too easy-to-please american clientele, mixing martinis for Rock hudson and humphrey Bogart, stealing secrets from the professionals they spied on over the counters of Manhattan bars, when the crews went ashore for a day before going back on board to return to italy. we will meet quite a few barmen who have spent a good amount of their life on ocean liners. they are in their sixties and seventies. we will meet with these “salts” to discover something… Partners : les films d’ici instituto luce aRtE france archivio ansaldo 2004 Chapter CASABLANCA (SOUVENIR) C INÉMA, DALI lEngth : 51 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : BERnaRD MOnsigny PRODUCER : fRéDéRiC fERaUD COMPANY : lEs pRODUCtiOns DE l’OEil saUvagE (fRanCE) lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTORS : jOsEp ROviRa PRODUCER : viCtOR CaRRERa COMPANIES : tElEvisiO DE CatalUnya (spain) aRtiClE Z (fRanCE) jean-Michel, a blind man, returns to his native Morocco with powerful memories of his childhood days. he records the sounds encountered along the way in order to make a radio broadcast on his return. his son jean-Marc, who is ten and visually unimpaired, acts as his guide. he is eager to discover the places that gave his blind father his first impressions of the world. father and son spend several days in Casablanca with Rachid, an old school-mate of jean-Michel's, at an institute for the young blind. Rachid shows us how a blind man introduces another blind man to his culture and a big Moroccan city. they will be our escorts between the world of the sighted and the world of the blind on a journey through different fields of perception. how a blind man teach us to see ? 89 filMs EURODOC nEtwORK salvador Dalí was a celebrated surrealist painter with an excessive creative ambition in regards to what was usual in the mid-20th Century. among many other artistic disciplines, he did various and known contributions to the Cinema with capital letter, but he also invented a new form of cinema. he discovered that he could realise his dream by showing himself in front of the camera. it's been a surrealist cinema, made out of short scenes, with a sole actor and director of scene, the famous salvador Dalí acting out all sorts of eccentric roles. Cinema, Dalí brings about a completely new perspective on salvador Dalí. its investigation work has brought back into light and put back in order more than forty hours of images of archives from around the world. as new images appeared, the documentation team discovered links between them that threw a new light on Dalí's cinematographic ideas. the end result is a film approved by the gala and salvador Dali foundation, the heir of the painter. if up until now we only knew about Dalí's work with the great film-directors Buñuel, Disney or hitchcock, historians will now have to open a new chapter and a new genre dedicated to the cinema of Dalí. Partners : france 3 2M (Maroc) ylE tEEMa (pre-sale) RtBf (pre-sale) Partners : france 5 fundació gala-salvador Dalí Festivals : finalist of international Emmy awards, new york 2004 as best arts programming finalist on the URti prix, parís 2004 Malaga film festival, 2004 fipa in Biarritz 2004. 90 Chapter filMs LES PASSEURS lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : laEtitia MOREaU PRODUCER : MatthiEU BElghiti COMPANY : littlE BEaR (fRanCE) 2003 J USTICE, IN TIME OF WAR EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 in the last five years, almost 4 000 illegal immigrants, most of them Maroccan, have drowned while attempting to cross the strait of gibraltar. Moved by the terrible fate of these men and women, two brothers, Martin and angel Zamora, have put their undertaking business at the service of the victims and their families. without them, the clandestine voyager’s journey ends in a communal fosse in algéciras. in addition to the transportation, the Zamoras take charge of identifying the bodies, notifying the next of kin; accompanying them through the legal formalities of repatriation, finally assisting with the funerals at the other end, sometimes in the most remote villages of Marocco. lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : faBRiZiO laZZaREtti PRODUCER : vanni ganDOlfO COMPANY : DOClaB (italy) EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 a man fights for justice in a foreign land -justice for his murdered son. One man against all. when his son was killed by the Colombian military police and the verdict was cocaine overdose, the italian doctor sisto turra understood that it was not the truth, and he began to fight back. though only one of the 24 000 similar cases per year in Colombia. this one reached a trial. and the justice is now coming. Partners : Meike Martens - MajaDE BBC : nick fraser ZDf arte : anne Even Rai3 : Ricardo scottoni tElEpiU : fabrizio grosoli tv OntaRiO : Rudy Buttignol Distributors : D.nEt salEs : heino Deckert MiKaDO/EMiK : francesco Melzi Eurodoc-Screening 2004 SIZA, THE ARCHITECT AND THE OLD CITY Partners : france 5 tsR RtBf Festivals: Mention spéciale au prix Michel Mitrani (fipa 2004) Eurodoc-Screening 2004 lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2000-2001 DIRECTOR : CataRina alvEs COsta PRODUCER : CataRina MOURaO COMPANY : laRanja aZUl (pORtUgal) Álvaro siza vieira, a famous visionary portuguese architect, is called to coordinate the rehabilitation of the monuments and architectonic heritage of Cidade velha (Old village), in santiago, one of the african islands of Cape vert. this project creates great expectations amongst the local population, who envisages it as a way of improving their life quality. the film shows the relationship and conflict between these two worlds, two cultures, with different life concepts and ideas of what modernity and progress are... Partners : jOUR j pRODUCtiOn : sylvie Randonneix Rtp : nuno Brandao / helena torref Rai sat : luca Macciocca voi senart (france) Eurodoc-Screening 2003 2003 Chapter filMs THROUGH H ELL & H IGH WATERS C HANTZ, L’ENFANT JAZZ lEngth : 90 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2000-2001 DIRECTOR : Elly taylOR PRODUCER : Elly taylOR COMPANY : taylORED pRODUCtiOns (UnitED KingDOM) lEngth : 90 & 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 DIRECTOR : MOhaMMED KOUnDa PRODUCER : DOMiniQUE lE pivERt COMPANY : gREnaDE pRODUCtiOns (fRanCE) this is a real life drama about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. it is a saga of hope in the face of despair, of love flowering out of tragedy. a film told through a poignant love story that will merge the past with the present, bringing survivors from a long-forgotten world war ii rescue together again for the first time since 1944, and showing the consequences of war on people like you and me. this is the story of a relationship between a mother, glinda, and her son, Chantz. it is a relationship that is ambiguous, but full of tenderness and complicity, that presents itself as a fabulous story. Chantz, the 'chance', was given the name because he should never have been born. glinda, a black american 'fat woman', comes from Mississippi, the land where the legend of gospel music emerged from the terrible poverty. he has been playing the trumpet since the age of five. he has exceptional talent that fascinates the public and arouses the interest of well known artists. Chantz and his mother live their life on the road, in shabby hotels and fantastic palaces, depending on the invites they receive. without being absolutely poor, they have no fixed address. Chantz plays in the street, but also in the most prestigious places. he does not go to school because everyday he is attending the 'school of life'. with his humour and charm, he has a gift when it comes to extraordinary meetings. Chantz is not only the child prodigy of a pygmalion mother. he is also the only hope for a woman who has pulled herself out of misery, determined to do something with her life. Over a two year period, under the critical and curious eye of a director, they continue on their path which is sometimes dangerous and uncertain. the story will be given rhythm, with accelerations and pauses, joy and pain, like a blues song or an improvised piece of jazz. Partners : liChtBliCK filMs : Carl-ludwig Rettinger ZDf-aRtE (DE) : anne Even, nRK : tore tomter BBC scotland, history Channel UK Eurodoc-Screening 2003 Festivals : silver world medal ny festival 2005 DO YOU REMEMBER LAURIE ZIMMER ? lEngth : 54 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 DIRECTOR : ChaRlOttE sZlOvaK PRODUCER : DaviD BERDah COMPANY : ZEUgMa filMs (fRanCE) Do you remember laurie Zimmer? tells the story of a search. the search for an actress, laurie Zimmer, who played in a film that Charlotte szlovak directed in 1977 in los angeles. laurie was gifted and beautiful but after this shooting, she disappeared. the people who knew her at that time have not heard from her since. Do you remember laurie Zimmer? is an answer to questions Charlotte and other people who knew laurie have kept asking themselves during those past 25 years: why did laurie disappear? what happened in her life? and what may become a young actress in hollywood when she does not succeed? Do you remember laurie Zimmer? is an investigation. Do you remember laurie Zimmer? is a detective story without any murder nor blood, just a fascinating and mysterious figure. the story of a life as well as a road-movie in a real or imaginary land: hollywood. Partners : aRtE france : luciano Rigolini Rai sat : luca Macciocca ylE teema : pasanen Eurodoc-Screening 2003 Partners : BBC arte france Odyssée Cityzen tv Eurodoc-Screening 2004 91 92 Chapter filMs 2003 WHOSE IS THIS SONG ? THE TRAVELS OF MONA LISA lEngth : 55 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2000-2001 DIRECTOR : aDEla pEEva PRODUCER : aDEla pEEva COMPANY : aDEla MEDia filM & tv (BUlgaRia) lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 DIRECTOR : MaRia DOlORs gEnOvEs PRODUCER : jOan aRanO COMPANY : la pRODUCtORa (spain) the Balkans are said to be a place for wars and for scandals. a maxim reads: „De mortuis aut nihil aut bene". the Balkans are always held in bad repute. i wonder whether their ill fame is all to the good because nevertheless it means that we are alive. with this film i would like to show the Balkans from a different standpoint - the standpoint of a person who being unable to change his birthplace and doesn't want to emigrate to west, is trying to get to know the Balkans and understand them. the song, which the people in different Balkan countries claim to be theirs, will be used to create an absurd situation. a situation in which nobody will ever miss an opportunity to play down the other man, to make fun of him, to bring forward his shortcomings. "whose is this song" is a unique opportunity to make a film with a sense of humour about all us that live as neighbours in the Balkans. about that common trait of ours, which make us certain that all that is good is ours and all that is bad is our neighbour's. Each and everyone in the Balkans claims what is good is only his and discounts the possibility that it can belong to the neighbour. that’s the way it is even when it comes to a song. 500 years later, leonardo’s gioconda remains probably the most famous painting in the world. from the chaste and young wife of giocondo, a florentine civil servant, she became a madonna secluded within the walls of palaces, under the vigilance of kings and aristocrats. vincenzo peruggia, a keeper at the louvre, kidnapped her in 1911, and nothing of her whereabouts was known until two years later. she even suffered an attack in 1956, when an insane Bolivian man hurled her a stone. in 1963 she made her first transatlantic journey : in washington she met jfK and jacqueline. ten years later (1974), she flew to tokyo and Moscow. and now, the kind japanese are arranging a 200 square-meter flat only fo her. she has hundreds of sites on the web, and her face on an infinity of objects. it is the monalisamania, an icon of the culture of the masses. and despite all the fame, even now we ignore so much about the identity of this florentine lady, when it was painted, who ordered it… Partners : Erik loetch - lOOKs ZDf arte : Olaf grunert avRO : Marijke Rawie tv3 : jordi ambros aRtE distribution : adrienne fréjacques history Channel iberia : anna Marqués Eurodoc-Screening 2003 WILLY RONIS PARIS-PROVENCE lEngth : 55 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000 DIRECTOR : MiChEl tOUtain PRODUCER : patRiCK sERaUDiE COMPANY : pyRaMiDE pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) Partners : periscope productions nv ORB/aRtE : Dr. geri nasarski ylE : Eila werning / tv1 Danmarks radio : flemming grenz / tv facta Carre noir RtBf liège : Christiane philippe liChtpUnt / nps Festivals : prize of the jury “golden Rython” 2003 national Documentary film festival prize of the jury “golden Chest” international tv film festival - 2003 “silver Conch” prize and fipREsCi award, Mumbai international film festival - 2004 “prix Bartok” Ethnographic film festival, paris - 2004 “gibson impact of Music” award nashville film festival - 2004 prize of the jury” Motovun international film festival Croatia 2004 annual award of the City of sofia - 2004 second award and award of the student jury "Crossroad Europe" international Documentary film festival lublin, poland - 2005 award "silver Knight" & "golden Knight" international film festival, Russia - 2005 “human Rights and Respect of Diversity” award, Documentary & short film festival, prizren, Kosova - 2006 award “the Best film” and “award for innovation” sardinia international Ethnographic film festival - 2006 audience award at “Roving Eye” Documentary film festival providence, Usa - 2007 Even if he started in photography almost despite himself, willy Ronis finds naturally his place among the great french realist photographers of the 20th century, next to Doisneau and CartierBresson. for more than 70 years, he has been pacing up and down the streets of paris, his favourite city, especially in the Belleville-Ménilmontant neighbourhood, capturing in the act instants from daily life. in provence, his second homeland and place of rest and family happiness, he let himself be guided and inspired by the light, the landscape and the colourful ambience of the south of france. today, aged 90, in paris as well as in provence, we start with him a reflection on what has determined his whole existence: photographic creation. Partners : france 3 limoges : Marc wilmart france 3 Méditerranée : Eric Ollivier Rai sat : luca Macciocca Eurodoc-Screening 2003 prix au 28ème festival film d’art, UnEsCO paris 2003 Chapter 93 filMs KINGS AND EXTRAS ON N’EST PAS DES MARQUES DE VÉLO DIGGING FOR A PALESTINIAN IMAGE lEngth : 190 Min DIRECTOR : jEan-piERRE thORn PRODUCER : MaRiE MOUChEl-BlaisOt COMPANY : Mat filM (fRanCE) lEngth : 58 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 DIRECTOR : aZZa El hassan PRODUCER : MEiKE MaRtEns COMPANY : Ma.ja.DE. filMpRODUKtiOn (gERMany) the filmmaker azza tries to trace the fate of the lost archives of the plO Media Unit - and therefore she meets eccentric old revolutionaries, telling her contradictory stories about what has happened to the missing films. they only agree on that the israelis did not get hold of them… the search for the lost archives leads her to gaza, syria, jordan and lebanon, meeting the different protagonists, and it allows her to have a look at their way of remembering the past, their “good old days”. how they are dealing with the march of time, up to the presence, the feeling of defeat and loss. thus the quest for the archives becomes an attempt to review an image of palestinian identity, from azza’s personal point of view. and this perspective includes both the insider’s proximity and the distance of a young woman to this older generation; intelligent, sometimes ironic, without being destructive. EURODOC-sCREEning 2002 Bouda, a 30 year-old hip-hop dancer, has been an illegal immigrant since the age of three, when he arrived in france with his parents. today, he is the victim of the "double condemnation", a law by whitch the children of immigrants who have served prison terms are sent back to their contry of origin upon their release. this musical film, whitch blends hip-hop dancing and rap music, examines the discriminatory pratices of the french government in applying this law. it also deals with the collective and individual adventure of hip-hop movement, which first emerged in france in the northem suburbs of paris in the 80s. Partners : yamama BBC wDR in association with aRtE ylE tv2 03 productions with the support of Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and the Media plus programme (Distribution) AU HASARD DES MARIAGES lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : nEEta jain-DUhaUt PRODUCER : CélinE MaUgis COMPANY : la viE Est BEllE (fRanCE) in spite of ideal of love marriage, education and western influences, 90% of all marriages in india are “arranged”. we shall accompany a young woman in her early twenties, a Master’s degree holder, who has agreed that her parents find a suitable match for her. parallel to her story will be presented the experiences of my collegue friends who took the same decision in the past, and have lived a married life for around fifteen years. these friends who rebelled against arranged marriages during our University years, will talk about the evolution of their marriage and their concept of love, from the moment they were confronted with the problem of finding a partner, till the present day. a comparaison between love and arranged marriages will be brought in without bias towards any of them. Partners : lEs filMs D’iCi aRtE : nathaliE vERDiER RtBf : ClaiRE COlaRt Partners : aRtE france DANSE TAUREAU, DANSE ! lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 DIRECTOR : ChRistian alvaREZ PRODUCER : MURiEl ORtMans COMPANY : Clap D'ORt filMs (BElgiUM) an island in the middle of the amazonian forest and on this island, a town called parintins. a little township, insignificant in appearance… only in appearance. the truth is elsewhere, in a hundred year old tradition which has transformed the destiny of this town. parintins is divided into two. parintins has two faces, one red and the other blue. these are the colours of two groups of antagonists : the garantido and the Caprichoso. the director went to parintins to breathe in this strange obsession which unites and divides a whole town. But mostly, between the silence of the river and the rhythm of the drums, there, he found a true lesson in happiness. Partners : filMs DU villagE pOlO DE iMagEM RtBf Canvas Canal + Belgique ylE Cityzen tv 94 Chapter filMs 2003 THE SOUND OF RUSSIA WITH IVAN lEngth : 59 & 71 Min EURODOC-sCREEning 2002 DIRECTOR : EKatERina EREMEnKO PRODUCERS : MEiKE MaRtEns & hEinO DECKERt COMPANY : Ma.ja.DE (gERMany) lEngth : 58 Min EURODOC-sCREEning 2002 DIRECTOR : philippE CRnOgORaC PRODUCER : patRiCK sERaUDiE COMPANY : pyRaMiDE pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) all the members of the Russian "society of amateur Canary Bird singing" are men. they belong to different social groups and come from all over the country. One cold winter day, they arrive in Moscow, unified only in the burning desire to win the annual contest. they have been training their students - exclusively male too - for a whole year. Only the male bird of the species "serinus canaria canaria" is able to produce the admirable heavenly tunes. it is a rigid men's world, as most women in Russia unfortunately are completely busy with their daily chores and they have no time to care about these "real essentials of life"… a film full of pathos and humour, about an outstanding bond between men and birds, exploring Russian society and a passionate confrontation of genders. D’origine yougoslave par mon père, j’ai longtemps cherché un lien fort avec ce pays qu’il avait fui pour des raisons politiques. Mon père était persuadé que je ne pourrais jamais comprendre et moi, je me persuadais qu’il refusait de me parler, de me transmettre. C’est le regard intime d’un français, issu de l’immigration, sur ses origines, sur sa relation toute particulière avec son père. il y est question d’identité, de déracinement, d’appartenance, de filiation. interrogations personnelles qui croisent l’histoire tragique de la yougoslavie. Partners : yumi (france) tv 10 angers (france) Festival : les Ecrans Documentaires Partners : ZDf/arte: sabine Bubeck-paaz (germany) ylE teema: leena pasanen (finland) Distribution : Deckert Distribution Eurodoc-Screening 2002 Festivals : iDfa amsterdam 2003, silver wolf Competition festivals e.g. new york, Moscow, Belgrad, auckland, Zagreb Russian national award (lavt) “Branch of laurel” 2003 2002 Chapter 95 filMs MEMORIES OF HUMAN RIGHTS CENTURY LETTRES DU TRAIN FANTÔME lEngth : 4x52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000 DIRECTOR OF THE SERIES : BERnaRD DEBORD PRODUCER : MaRiE MOUChEl-BlaisOt COMPANY : MatfilMs (fRanCE) lEngth : 85 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000 DIRECTOR : laUREnt lUtaUD PRODUCER : MaRiE BERthEliUs & ROgER naRBOnnE COMPANY : saME filMs (fRanCE) historical and geographical overview of human Rights in the 20th century, based on amnesty international archives, with the critical eye of salima ghezali -an algerian militant journalist - , and the evidence of the implied actors (the defenders) or the unwilling (the victims) from all around the world. the ambition of this documentary series was to report the main strokes that were blown against individual and human groups rights all around the world and during this century. But also to report the efforts, actions, reflections carried out by men of good will to make barbarity no longer an inevitability. june1944 ; in the midst of the liberation, 800 deportees were transported from french camps to germany. Due to the allies’ bombing and the Resistants’ attacks, the railway was in such bad shape that the journey across france took 54 days. sometimes the deportees even had to walk and were seen in every place.this story is unique, because of the incredibly long voyage that made many people witness the deportations towards german camps, usually made "invisible". the film, based on the eye witnesses’ evidence and on the deportees’ own letters, asks us: what would we have done in a similar situation today? Partners : france 3 sud ZDf/aRtE history television DES ENFANTS EN LUTTE DIRECTOR : laUREnt CiBiEn PARTNER : fRanCE 5, RtBf, iMagE CRéatiOn.COM Eurodoc-Screening 2002 LA SOLITUDE DE LA COÉPOUSE DIRECTOR : BERnaRD DEBORD PARTNER : fRanCE 5, RtBf ¿ DONDE ESTAN ? DIRECTOR : aURinE CRéMiEU PARTNER : ODysséE, RtBf, histOiRE MARIAGES ARRANGÉS lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : CaROl EQUER-haMy PRODUCER : laUREnt BOCahUt COMPANY : DOMinant 7 (fRanCE) in india, most marriages are arranged. love is not necessarily taken into account. it is neither something to which one aspires, nor a necessary condition for happiness. One must follow one’s destiny. love marriages are still an exception. arranged marriages serve for the best the interests of the families, safeguard the values from one generation to the other. But how can love, how can whole lives be the business of families and not of oneself ? in this first person narrative documentary, the director tries, as she encounters her indian friends, to approach and define what love can be like when one is not given a choice. Partners : france 5, tv 10 angers Eurodoc-Screening 2002 AU CARREFOUR DES DROITS DE L’HOMME DIRECTOR : pasCal CaRCanaDE PARTNER : fRanCE 5 Eurodoc-Screening 2002 EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000 96 Chapter filMs 2002 SI-GUÉRIKI LA REINE- MÈRE THE I DLE ONES 2002 EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000 lEngth : 62 & 90 Min DIRECTOR : iDRissOU MORa Kpai PRODUCER : jEan-MaRiE tEnO COMPANY : lEs filMs DU Raphia (fRanCE) 2001 EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000 lEngth : 82 Min DIRECTOR : sUsanna hElKE & viRpi sUUtaRi PRODUCER : Ulla siMOnEn COMPANY : KinOtaR (finlanD) Director idrissou Mora Kpai, 33, is a member of the wassangari tribe of northern Benin. Once a tribe of fierce warriors ruled by rigid traditions, the wassangari people have abandoned their battles, but have maintened their strict patriarchy to this day. following the death of his father, the director return to his village after a ten-year absence. he is disheartened to see his sisters and nieces suffering from the wassangari’s enduring traditions of female oppression. But he is surprised to find his mother liberated. when Mora Kpai was a child, his mother, a stranger to him, was simply one of his father’s wives, a mere shadow in the family compound… today, she has received a title, si-gueriki (the Queen Mother), the female equivalent of a king. si-gueriki "the Queen Mother" is the story of a young man’s confrontation with his culture and traditions. it’s an intimate, personal film… an insider’s view of this ancient culture. the film is also the belated meeting between a son and his two "mothers". summer with old friends. Experiencing the end of childhood together. fishing at a beautiful lake, driving around the town, hanging out at the gas station… not because they want to, but because there is absolutely nothing else to do. "the idle Ones" is a touching and revealing, yet funny documentary about three young men, lötkö, hapa and Bodi, who live in an emptying area in northern finland. Partners : ylE/tv1 aRtE Partners : france 5 lichtblick film arouna sacca Mora Kpai Festivals : the film won several prizes including : Best scandinavian Documentary award in the nordisk panorama festival Best Documentary award in the Milano festival internazionale Best Documentary film award in the finnish academy awards Eurodoc-Screening 2002 Eurodoc-Screening 2002 GENERATION 0 2001 EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000 lEngth : 69 Min DIRECTORS : annE hjORt & ClaUs laDERgaaRD PRODUCER : ClaUs laDEgaaRD COMPANY : Easy filM (DEnMaRK) "generation 0" is a documentary series that tells the story of five children who were born and grew up after the turn of the millennium. the series focuses on the upbringing of the children, and its framework is the everyday life of the families. the children and their parents will be filmed regularly and a number of documentaries will be made showing the children as they grow up. Partners : tv 2 Denmark L’HOMME AUX SEMELLES D’OR 2000 EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000 lEngth : 54 Min DIRECTOR : OMaR aMiRalay PRODUCER : ElisaBEth MaRliangEas COMPANY : aMip (fRanCE) Rafiq hariri, a lebanese entrepreneur and multi-billionaire, has made his fortune in saudi arabia before being shot off onto the political scene of his country. Being now prime Minister for a third mandate, he confided in the camera of the filmmaker Omar amiralay a couple of months ago. On a play background, a discrete and strange game is beginning between the author and the main character of his film. Partners : ylE/tv1 aRtE Maram Ctv Eurodoc-Screening 2002 2002 Chapter 97 filMs AFGHANISTAN, AN IMPOSSIBLE STATE VICTOR H UGO EXIL lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2000-2001 DIRECTOR : atiQ RahiMi PRODUCER : MahMOUD ChOKROllahi COMPANY : play filM (fRanCE) lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : axEl ClEvEnOt PRODUCER : MiChEl RagER COMPANY : ExMaChina (fRanCE) through the analysis of the “loya jerga” and the testimonies of political personalities who are part of it, this film provides us with some explanations of the impossible afghan stability, according to afghans themselves. the project “Orphelins et sans pays”, developed within EURODOC, has not been totally abandoned but was delayed sine die because of political reasons. however, all the work that had been done with the director for this project, especially with aRtE, has lead to a new film: “afghanistan, an impossible state?” that we were previously referring to. On the one side, the hunters, and on the other, the prey. a tracked man. But a man who refuses to give in. a man who denounces, rises up and accuses. for nearly twenty years, between 1851 and 1870, victor hugo personified all of Europe's democratic ideas by nearly singly standing up to napoleon the third’s despotism. for twenty years, he paid for this struggle for freedom by an exile at first forced then voluntary. for twenty years, because of his ideas and writings, he was the object of unending police persecution and espionage. it seemed to us timely, upon the occasion of the commemorations to accompany the bicentennial of victor hugo's birth in 2002, to relate these twenty years of headstrong struggle of a man alone against the arbitrary of absolute power. twenty years of rupture in the life and work of one of the monumental figures of french literature and the 19th century. Partners : aRtE (f) : pierre Merle nMO (pays Bas) EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2001-2002 Eurodoc-Screening 2003 Partners : france 5, ina Memento production RtBf sCEREn/CnDp SUR LES TOITS DE PARIS lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : OliviER lassU PRODUCER : faBRiCE EstèvE COMPANY : aMpERsanD (fRanCE) EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 2000-2001 “On the Rooftops of paris” offers to take its spectators to the discovery of a dimension as mythical as unexplored of the french capital, between the city and the sky. from one roof to another, we discover this universe by meeting a gallery of characters who have the privilege to be intimate with this place. “On the Rooftops of paris”, we take an urban and human tour, a poetic stroll revealing entire unknown sections of the city architecture, recounting the story of its life and inviting to reverie and to the meeting of those who live between the zinc and the azure. Partners : aRtE (f) : Christine Reisen, alain wieder france 5 : Muriel Rosé RtBf (B) : Claire Colart aRtv (Canada) Rai sat : lucca Macciocca Eurodoc-Screening 2003 HANGMEN lEngth : 80 Min EURODOC-pRODUCtiOn 1999-2000 DIRECTORS : jEns BECKER & gUnnaR DEDiO PRODUCER : gUnnaR DEDiO COMPANY : lOOKs (gERMany) they are the only men who are allowed to kill. Each in his own way. always at the break of day. they carry out a sentence pronounced by rule of law. hangmen. they now reveal themselves. tell us about their lives. tell us about their "trade". after five years of research and shooting, this unique film is now completed. the last executioners of germany, the former East germany, france, hungary, yugoslavia and Romania have faced the camera. they are living eye-witnesses of the end of an era: 800 years of the death penalty in Europe. the film provides the viewer with a close-up biographical look at the lives of the enforcers of this penalty and of their personal fates. the careers and personalities of the individual hangmen mesh into an inconsistent whole. Partners : aRtE ORB BR sfp Eurodoc-Screening 2002 pRODUCtiOns Chapter ODESSA lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : flORin iEpan PRODUCER : flORin iEpan COMPANY : sUB-CUlt-URa (ROMania) THE SHARK’S EYE EURODOC 2010 Based on the darkest moment in the recent history of his country, the massacre from October 1941 when Romanian soldiers burned alive more than 22.000 jews in the occupied town of Odessa, film director florin iepan starts the first public debate about the fascist past of Romania. “ODEssa“ approaches a historical topic in an unconventional fashion as an investigation documentary which follows, with a certain amount of self-irony, the painful and convoluted process through which iepan discovers the web of complicities and the initial mechanisms which eventually led to the ethnic cleansing carried out by Romanians during the war and inquires to what extent those prejudices and mechanisms of thought can still be found in today’s Romania. Using with ability the internet, the media, politicians, declarations from the staff of the the Romanian Royal house, European officials, far-right activists and high-profile authors of nationalist propaganda campaigns during the Ceausescu regime, the director wants to break the wall of indifference and hostility raised by his conationals. Delivery : 2011 pRODUCtiOns lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : alEjO hOijMan PRODUCER : gEMa jUÁREZ allEn COMPANY : gEMa filMs (aRgEntina) EURODOC 2010 this is a coming of age film. Maycol and Bryan are two inseparable friends from greytown, nicaragua, a small village on the Caribbean sea. isolated from the rest of the country by a dense jungle, Maycol and Bryan spend their days hunting and playing in the jungle, river or on the beach. But the age of games is coming to an end. this will be their first summer learning to hunt sharks, their families’ trade. juan, a fierce and tender hunter, soldier during the revolution, will initiate them into this dangerous profession. Maykol and Bryan are two of the last shark hunters, a disappearing trade due to dwindling shark numbers, as well as the rise of drug trafficking as a better way to make a living. Coproducers : astronauta films, luis angel RaMiREZ (spain) arcoarte, Rogelio ChaCOn (Costa Rica) Partners : inCaa tv Awards : 2 postproduction awards at wip Bafici Cinereach grant finalist gucci tribeca Doc fund women Make Movies fiscal sponsorship Delivery : september 2011 99 100 Chapter pRODUCtiOns VALENTINO’S GIFT lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : piERpaOlO giaROlO PRODUCER : ERiCa BaRBiani COMPANY : viDEOMantE (italy) THE LAST LADY OF THE MELLAH IN FEZ EURODOC 2010 when valentino, a retired mechanic of a little italian village, offered thirty antique roses to his wife Eleonora to celebrate thirty years of marriage, he had not foreseen the effects of his gift. today, his backyard – that borders with the highway, the railway and the soccer field – hosts more than two thousands bushes of roses, each different from the other. Eleonora, a curious housewife, has learned the story of each of them: “the rose is not just the symbol of love! “- she tells to the visitors who come to see the garden as bees from far away “but of many, many kinds of love!”. Eleven months of pruning among stingy thorns, valentino on the higher ladder, Eleonora on the lower bushes, for just a month of bliss: antique roses bloom only in May. in the biggest rose garden of Europe love is mostly an act of daily care. lEngth : 45 Min DIRECTOR : aZiZ DaiRi PRODUCER : aZiZ DaiRi COMPANY : gaMa C (MOROCCO) from the 15 th century, jewish Moroccan citizens lived peacefully and fraternally together with their Muslim compatriots in the jewish area of fes.. with jewish – Moroccan music in the background, the documentary relates how the communities enriched each other in various ways. But the 20th century of all the centuries, dispersed the community towards israel, to Europe and america deserting a neighbourhood where the stones are the sole witness to history, witch is slowly fading away. Partners : 2M television (Morocco) Musée du judaïsme Marocain (Belgium) Delivery : 2012 Coproducer : aRtE strasbourg, anne-laure nEgRin, france Partner : MEDia Development and MEDia tv Broadcasting Delivery : november 2011 EURODOCmed 2006 Chapter 74 SQUARE MEETERS lEngth : 52 & 70 Min DIRECTOR : paOla CastillO, tiZiana paniZZa PRODUCERS : paOla CastillO COMPANY : ERRantE pRODUCtiOns (ChilE) pRODUCtiOns LUZ OBSCURA EURODOC 2009 iselsa and Catty were selected along with 150 other families, to become part of a middle class neighborhood in valparaiso, Chile. as political leaders and friends they have worked together on this project and to integrate themselves into a neighborhood that rejected them. today they face the biggest challenge, to overcome the differences, inherited through this long process. if unable to do so, they will put at risk the neighborhood they have fought for over six years. lEngth : 72 Min DIRECTOR : sUsana DE sOUsa Dias PRODUCER : ansgaR sChaEfER COMPANY : KintOp (pORtUgal) EURODOC 2003 throughout forty-eight years portugal lived under a dictatorial regime. During that time there were women and men who put up resistance, swapping their normal lives for an ideal. Many were arrested, tortured, or lived life underground. Many had children, the product of better times and the opportunity to develop and enjoy a relationship. soon, however, they would have to give up those children, as a true family did not correspond to the realities experienced. Contacts were scarce and made under a dense security blanket: informers and spies were a real danger. Many children were only reunited with their parents after the fall of the dictatorship. Others lost their faces in the depths of their memories. while some would never forgive their parents for having abandoned them for the sake of an ideology, others would follow their path embracing similar ideals. who are these boys and girls, today? what place do they have in the world? how do they deal with their own identity? Partners : itvs (Usa) ylE (finland) CORfO (Chile) Colectivo la tribu (Chile) Docufilms (Chile) Delivery : 2011 Coproducer : les films de l’après-Midi (france), françois d’artemarre Delivery : 2012 101 102 Chapter pRODUCtiOns THE BOY WHO WAS A KING lEngth : 88 Min DIRECTOR : anDREy paOUnOv PRODUCER : MaRtiChKa BOZhilOva COMPANY : agitpROp (BUlgaRia) CASA MastER-Class 2006 the Boy who was a King will tell the story of one of the most fascinating monarch figures in contemporary history. simeon ii of Bulgaria, cousin to the house of windsor and a descendant of william the Conqueror. from his adventurous life as an exiled boy king who became a symbol of hope for a small European country, to his glorious return as prime Minister of Bulgaria after half a century of Communist dictatorship. this “happy-end” Balkan version of princess anastasia’s story will tell the real life fairy-tale of one of the greatest experiments of democracy today. the image of the King will appear as a balance between the biography of a real living person and the image that people create about it. the film will tell its story through the people - by discussing a single contemporary historical figure, they will tell us about themselves, their dreams and hopes, the dreams of a whole generation. a portrait of a kingdom – maybe not existing as a monarchy but existing in the hearts, dreams… without taking sides or making propaganda we will be making a group portrait–biography and examining the lessons of post-communist transformation meditating on the peculiarities of the Bulgarian case – King as a prime Minister – in a film about hope, faith, myths, reality, history, social anthropology and the long journey of democracy back home in Eastern Europe lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : DaniEla DE fEliCE PRODUCER : géRalD lEROUx COMPANY : taRMaK filMs (fRanCE) One day my mother informed us that she wanted to sell the house, the family house in santo stefano ticino where my brother and i grew up and my father died ten years ago. the following summer, my mother, my brother and i got together again in the house to talk it over. very quickly, putting the house up for sale regenerated the group dynamic and led us each to assert or question our place in the family, and revisit our relationship with our father. Casa is a film that looks at that house as a place where a family’s shared memories are stored, and as the final unifying structure for a family dispersed throughout Europe. it also looks at the way people emerge from a period of mourning. Coproducers : novanima (france), Marc faye Moviala films (france), gérald leroux Partners : Région Basse-normandie Région Bretagne périphérie (france), MEDia Development Delivery : december 2011 Coproducer : Zero One film (germany), thomas Kufus Partners : Bayerischer Rundfunk (germany), hubert von spreti, sonja scheider Channel 4 (UK), anna Miralis tsR (switzerland), irene Challand ylE Co-productions (finland), Erkki astala national film Center – Bulgaria MEDia tv Broadcasting Delivery : august 2011 EURODOC 2009 Chapter CANNED DREAMS lEngth : 52 & 90 Min DIRECTOR : Katja gaURilOff PRODUCER : jOOnas BERghÄll COMPANY : OKtOBER (finlanD) pRODUCtiOns LE ROI DEBOUT EURODOC 2008 in our film, we build a portrait of ordinary workers, through their own, personal stories. we hear them tell about the most important moments in their life, and the dreams that would make their own world a better place. and all this happens in a frame of following an energy-consuming and polluting route of a food product, which starts its journey from other side of the world and travels all accross Europe. all these people work along this route. lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : jEan-MaRiE tEnO PRODUCER : jEan-MaRiE tEnO COMPANY : lEs filMs DU Raphia (fRanCE) EURODOC 2006 la démocratie est-t-elle envisageable dans un contexte où, en même temps qu’on parle d’égalité des citoyens, on réaffirme avec force le pouvoir symbolique du roi, qui réinscrit la notion de hiérarchie dans la société ? C’est la question que pose l’intronisation du nouveau roi des bandjoun, honoré Djomo Kamga, 52 ans docteur en chimie et directeur d’un laboratoire de recherche, qui a tout abandoné pour revenir s’installer dans le village et devenir roi : gardien de rites et traditions ancestrales. Quelle est la nature de ce pouvoir, pourtant officiellement en perte d’influence par rapport au pouvoir central, administratif et religieux, pour qu’un homme nourri et éduqué dans la culture occidentale réponde favorablement à cette nomination ? partant de cette situation paradoxale, je retournerai dans mon village natal, Bandjoun pour essayer de dénouer les fils de cette situation complexe qui naît de la superposition d’une culture hégémonique sur une autre culture conquise, et de revèler les enjeux derrière ce nouvel engouement vers le pouvoir symbolique du roi. Coproducers : Blinker filmproduktion (germany), Meike Martens Röde Orm film (sweden), adel Kjellström Partners : ylE tv2 aRtE Rtp nRK tg4 noga Communications MEDia development and MEDia tv broadcasting Delivery : august 2011 Partners : Région languedoc Roussillon CnC MEDia Organisation intergouvernementale de la francophonie (Oif) sundance institut (EU) fond image afrique Ministère des affaires étrangères (france) Delivery : 2011 103 104 Chapter pRODUCtiOns GOLDRUSH lEngth : 90 Min DIRECTOR : DiRK laaBs PRODUCER : ann CaROlin REnningER COMPANY : ZERO OnE filM gMBh (gERMany) THE MIGHTY RIVER EURODOC 2009 gOlDRUsh tells the controversial story of the treuhand-agency, the holding that was responsible for the privatisiation of the economy of the former gDR. the treuhand was supposed to sell factories, companies and real estate in an orderly fashion, thus privatising an entire country in one tour de force. a unique experiment that had never taken place anywhere else in the world. the dramatic story of the trust agency experiment proves what happens when market economy crashes into an economically underdeveloped nation without any safety hatch. Many of the players instinctively understood that even a bankrupt state offers opportunities to earn money – for those without any scruples. in the end the trust agency collected 250 Million Marks of debt on every single day of the three and a half year of its existence. Criminals defrauded 20 Billion Marks. Many former gDR citizens still consider the trust agency the “gravedigger” of East germany. a film about one of the most exciting chapters of german post war history. Partners : aRD/swR, nDR, MDR, ffaDfff, MBB, ffhsh, MEDia Development Delivery : october 2011 A JOURNEY WITH FELLINI lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : lUCa Magi PRODUCER : alEssanDRO CaRROli COMPANY : Kiné sOCiEtÀ COOpERativa (italy) EURODOC 2008 a journey with anita is a treatment of un unrealized film based on biographical events fellini wrote 50 years ago with the collaboration of pier paolo pasolini. the film tells the story of guido, a writer in a deep wedding crisis, receiving a phone call from his sister telling that his father is seriously sick. in the middle of the night with a Cadillac, he goes to anita’s house, his lover, and he pushes her to leave with him. On the way there they stop in some of the most beautiful places of the central part of italy, like sutri, Civita di Bagnoregio and Monterchi, where they visit the piero della francesca’s Madonna del parto. they spend the night (june the 24th, saint john’s night) in a country-house nearby, where some young girl initiates anita to some sort of pagan observance. Crossed the furlo pass, they get in the end to fano, where guido will see his dad for the last time. he spends the night next to his mother having a long and touching talk that forces him to settle with his past. Delivery : october 2011 lEngth : 92-95 Min DIRECTOR : RUBén platanEO PRODUCER : gUDUla MEinZOlt COMPANY : Mil COlOREs MEDia filMs (gERMany) EURODOC 2008 David, 21, a young guinean who arrived four years ago as a stowaway in argentina, a country without black people, and now lives there as a refugee, tells his extraordinary story. a passionate rapper, he is struggling to survive and to realize his dreams: to study, to record an album with his songs and to reconnect with his family and country. Coproducers : Calanda producciones (argentina) ts productions (france) Partners : inCaa Concurso R. gleyzer MlyC provincia de santa fé heinrich-Böll-stiftung Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst EED Delivery : 2011 Chapter pRODUCtiOns POETIC DISSIDENTS TAGIKAKS lEngth : 52 Min EURODOC 2008 DIRECTOR : piERRE-anDRé saUvagEOt, BERtRanD sChMitt PRODUCER : faRiD REZKallah COMPANY : 24 iMagEs (CZECh REpUBliC) lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : KiRa jÄÄsKElÄinEn PRODUCER : jOUni hiltUnEn COMPANY : KathaRsis filMs (finlanD) poetic Dissidents is a testimonial as to what dissidence was in Czechoslovakia under the Communist regime, through accounts and writings of two friends, poets and dissidents, who lived the Resistance from within the closed circle of revolutionaries and who, as victims of incessant harassment, had to seek exile in france. Kolya and sasha are the young generation of siberian whale hunting yupik eskimos. a generation living on the edge of the world, but at the same time in the middle of it -thanks to the modern media and globalization. Most of the year, their lives resemble those of other Russians. But when the summer comes to Chukotka, the young lads draw to sea, as whale hunters. for a while, they become tagikaks. Partner : MEDia Development single project Delivery : 2011 Partners : ylE2 avEK nRK2 the finnish film foundation H EARTBREAKERS lEngth : 80 Min DIRECTOR : anja salOMOnOwitZ PRODUCER : KaRin BERghaMMER COMPANY : aMOUR fOU filMpRODUKtiOn (aUtRia) EURODOC 2009 heartbreakers will be an angry film, a documentary about people who married someone from a completely different cultural background, partners from a “third state”. a film about couples who are confronted with prejudice, problems and clichés. people who become enmeshed in legal problems (laws relating to foreigners, affecting their partners) because of their love. watching heartbreakers you will experience hell but feel a hint of heaven too. Partners : ORf MEDia program Delivery : september 2012 Delivery : february 2012 EURODOC 2008 105 106 Chapter pRODUCtiOns WIRELESS WORLD lEngth : 70-80 Min DIRECTOR : sOnja linDén PRODUCER : sOnja linDén COMPANY : avantOn pRODUCtiOns (finlanD) APPLE, THE TYRANNY OF COOL ? EURODOC 2007 During the past couple of decades the amount of artificial radiation has risen exponentially in our environment. One of the main reasons for this growth is wireless technology. Many studies show that the biological effects of this technology are harmful for human beings. in ‘wireless game’ director sonja lindén starts her Odyssey to find out if using her beloved mobile phone and extremely indispensable computer are safe or not. she will also look around with irony and humor to discover how the finnish society has changed together with this technological revolution. By confronting questions that are painfully acute to all of us, her intimate voyage will grow into an exploration of the finnish society. lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : sylvain BERgèRE PRODUCER : alExanDRE halliER COMPANY : la généRalE DE pRODUCtiOn (fRanCE) this is a story of a “Mac addict”, who believes that he is cool, different, and hip. suddenly he realizes that he has become totally dependent to apple products. he decides to see specialists to cure his apple - addiction. his therapy is a pretext to discover the hidden side of the brand: the power of marketing, the conformism of fashion, all in all the tyranny of cool. this ironic portrait tackles the modern consumerism and individualism with an original angle, which challenges every one of us on the impact of technology upon our lives. Partners : aRtE tv5 RtBf Rts al arabiya noga 8 Delivery : december 2011 Coproducer : Mantaray films Partner : MEDia Development Delivery : october 2011 EURODOC 2009 Chapter THE C LASS lEngth : 52 & 70 Min DIRECTOR : vEsna CUDiC PRODUCER : sinisha jURiCiC COMPANY : nUKlEUs filM CROatia (CRaOtia) pRODUCtiOns GLIMPSED ON THE ROAD EURODOC 2009 lEngth : 52 Min DIRECTOR : jOãO tRaBUlO PRODUCER : jOãO tRaBUlO COMPANY : pERifERia filMEs (pORtUgal) EURODOC 2006 they are young, bright, and ambitious. in their free time they practice folk dancing, watch tv soaps, and follow fashion trends. they dream of finishing school, acquiring a driving license, finding a job, leaving the village and moving to the city. their dreams are not unusual; in fact they are pretty ordinary for girls of their age. But the problem is they belong to a Roma minority, and what’s standard fare for non-Roma teenagers is out of reach for them. these girls simply can’t escape the fact that only 10% of Roma students are likely to complete elementary school, and only a tiny proportion of those go onto high school. instead, most marry at 17, and never stand a chance of entering the work place. thE Class follows a group of Roma girls in rural Croatia who hope to break the mould, and be the first members of their family to enrol into high school. will they persevere, or will they abandon their dreams just like their mothers did? Does the education of women hold a key to the progress of their society? “glimpsed on the road…” – film – is a guide to a journey, a journey that a group of artists (directors, writers, actors, musicians…) want to repeat throughout one month on the roads of Europe, and during which, in encounters with places and people, the outlines and the content of the proposed film are defined. the themes the project aims at dealing with are already well defined: cinema, literature, dramaturgy, architecture, politics, and the idea of a Europe that is becoming increasingly complex in all domains… Partners : MEDia havC (Croatian audiovisual center) Partners : iCa (portugal) fondation Edison (italy) Delivery : 2012 Delivery : 2012 periferia filmes 107 EURODOC tEaM stEERing COMMittEE Chapter 109 EURODOC the EURODOC team is at your disposal for the duration of the programme to answer your questions, help you with applications and administrative tasks, and to facilitate contacts with the members of the EURODOC network. ANNE-MARIE LUCCIONI hEaD Of assistED pROgRaMME By MARIE-SOPHIE DECOUT Information and promotion : Reception of the projects and applicants information Selection : follow-up of applications and projects, preparation of selection Programme : finalisation of the courses with the head of studies, organisation of the sessions Network : animation of the EURODOC network l’équipe D’EURODOC est à votre disposition pendant toute la durée du programme pour répondre à vos questions, vous aider dans vos démarches administratives, vous guider dans la constitution de vos dossiers et faciliter vos contacts avec les membres du réseau EURODOC. Information et promotion : Réception des projets et information des candidats Sélection : suivi des candidatures et des projets, préparation de la sélection Programme : Mise en place des modules pédagogiques avec la Direction des études, organisation des sessions Network : animation du réseau EURODOC MAÏNA WAEZI VÉRONIQUE DUCLOS 110 Chapter EURODOC STEERING COMMITTEE / COMITÉ DE PILOTAGE jacques BiDOU, jBa pRODUCtiOn, hEaD Of anne-Marie lUCCiOni, EURODOC, hEaD stUDiEs, fRanCE, Of pROgRaMME, fRanCE ClaiRE agUilaR, itvs, Usa jordi aMBROs, tv3, spain Erkki astala, ylE, finlanD xavier CaRniaUx – aMip, fRanCE, pRésiDEnt irène ChallanD, tsR, switZERlanD Claire COlaRt, RtBf, BElgiUM heino DECKERt, Ma.ja.DE filMpRODUKtiOn, gERMany Marie-pierre DUhaMEl-MUllER, fRanCE Diana ElBaUM, EntRE ChiEn Et lOUp, BElgiUM Denis fREyD, aRChipEl 33, fRanCE thierry gaRREl, fRanCE Doris hEpp, ZDf-aRtE, gERMany thomas KUfUs, ZERO OnE filM, gERMany serge lalOU, lEs filMs D’iCi, fRanCE luca MaCCiOCCa, Rai sat, italy pierre MERlE, fRanCE 3 Kristiina pERvilÄ-anDERssOn, MillEnniUM filM, finlanD Carl-ludwig REttingER, liChtBliCK filM, gERMany Muriel ROsé, fRanCE 3 Rod stOnEMan, iRElanD Esther van MEssEl, fiRst hanD filMs, switZERlanD & hala alaBDalla, syRia/fRanCE Massimo aRvat – ZEnit aRti aUDiOvisivE, italy Martichka BOZhilOva, agitpROp, BUlgaRia hartmut BitOMsKy, gERMany paola CastillO, ERRantE pRODUCCiOnEs, Chili alexandre CORnU, lEs filMs DU taMBOUR luis CORREia – lx filMEs, pORtUgal Edgardo COZaRinsKy, fRanCE/aRgEntina Carlo CREstO-Dina, tEMpEsta filMs, italy harun faROCKi, gERMany patrizio gUZMan, fRanCE/ChilE hugues lE paigE, BElgiUM joaquim pintO, pORtUgal isabelle tRUC, iOta pRODUCtiOn, BElgiUM anne REEvEll - MOOnBEaM filMs, UK joan UBEDa - MEDia 3.14, spain DE sOiE, fRanCE inDEx paRtiCipants 112 Chapter inDEx Participants BLACK STAR PRODUXIONS DOC EN STOCK LITTLE FILM ROMA Kaizer MATSUMUNYANE Gaëlle GUYADER Giuseppe BIANCO 1290 King Street West 79, rue du temple Via Ripi 11, int. 12/B CA-M6K1G8 Toronto FR-75003 Paris IT-00171 Roma Tel: +416 5 70 55 78 Tel: +33 1 44 54 25 81 Tel: +39 06 89 56 13 24 [email protected] Fax: +33 1 42 74 18 21 Fax: +39 17 82 20 46 63 [email protected] [email protected] www.docenstock.fr www.littlefilmroma.com 26 Ierou Lohou Str. 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Syria Tel: + 963 955 218 586 [email protected] Bahïa BENCHEIKH EL FEGOUN Constantine - Algeria Tel: +213 770 944 244 [email protected] Rachid BOUTOUNES FILMS DU PASSAGE Bugeaud Mers Sultan Street Casablanca -Morocco Tel & Fax: +212 022 26 08 47 [email protected] Hala GALAL SEMAT PRODUCTIONS & DISTRIBUTION 7, Mohamed Al Ganah El-Bergas, Garden City Cairo - Egypt Tel & Fax: +20 2 27 92 65 61 [email protected] www.sematcairo.com Abir HASHEM SOLO FILMS Hamra Beirut - Lebanon Tel & Fax: +961 1 35 22 56 Tel & Fax: +961 1 97 66 88 [email protected] www.solofilms.net Bahraa HIJAZI BLUE DAR Damascus - Syria Tel: +963 933 43 02 85 [email protected] Majd HIJJAWI RED CARBON PRODUCTION Jabal Al Hussein Amman - Jordan Tel: +962 79 57 068 19 Tel : +962 79 67 084 08 [email protected] Sandra MADI RED CARBON PRODUCTION Jabal Al Hussein Amman Jordan Tel : +962 79 57 068 19 Tel : +962 79 67 084 08 [email protected] Nagham OSMAN QUDARAT PICTURES Corniche el Nil, Maadi Cairo - Egypt Tel: +201 62 99 43 57 [email protected] Walid SABABA LIGHT WAVE Ramallah - Palestine Tel: +972 598 95 56 00 Fax: +972 22 41 06 42 [email protected] Myriam SASSINE ABBOUT PRODUCTIONS Bldg. 699 Saïfi Lebanon Street Beirut - Lebanon Tel & Fax: +961 1 44 78 24 [email protected] www.abboutproductions.com Chapter inDEx 117 inDEx ExpERts & gUEsts Experts & Guests Chapter inDEx Maher ABI SAMRA ARTE FRANCE ARTE G.E.I.E. Tel: +33 6 15 01 93 36 (France) Daniel KHAMDAMOV Madeleine AVRAMOUSSIS Tel: +961 3 91 68 96 (Lebanon) 8 rue Marceau Anne-Laure NÉGRIN [email protected] FR-92785 Issy-les-Moulineaux cedex 9 4, Quai du Chanoine Winterer Tel : +33 1 55 00 70 97 FR-67080 Strasbourg cedex AGITPROP [email protected] www.artepro.com Martichka BOZHILOVA www.arte.tv / www.artefrance.fr Tel: +33 3 88 14 21 08 68, Budapesta str. Ap.1 -1202 Fax: +33 3 88 14 23 70 BG–1202 Sofia ARTE FRANCE [email protected] Tel: +359 2 983 14 11 Karen MICHAEL [email protected] Fax: +359 2 983 19 29 8 rue Marceau [email protected] FR-92785 Issy-les-Moulineaux cedex 9 CBC NEWS NETWORK www.agitprop.bg Tel: +33 1 55 00 73 32 Catherine OLSEN Fax: +33 1 55 00 74 13 205 Wellington St. West, #5A300 ALICE FILMS [email protected] CA-M5V 3G7 Toronto Laurent BECUE-RENARD www.arte.tv / www.artefrance.fr Tel: +1 416 2052 527 108, rue du Bac [email protected] FR-75007 Paris ARTE G.E.I.E. 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FABER FILM IDEALE AUDIENCE Valentine ROULET Paolo BENZI Pierre-Olivier BARDET 11 rue Galilée Via Ramuscellutto, 80 6 rue de l’Agent Bailly FR-75116 Paris IT-33079 Sesto al Reghena FR-75009 Paris Tel: +33 1 44 34 34 30 Tel: +39 2 231 99 16 Tel: +33 1 53 20 14 00 Fax: +33 1 44 34 38 64 [email protected] Fax: +33 1 53 20 14 01 www.cnc.fr Fax: +39 2 36 68 23 05 [email protected] www.faberfilm.it Enrica COLUSSO FRANCE TELEVISIONS 58 Wickesteed House Sophie CHEGARAY County Street 2-4 rue Marceau UK-SE1 6RQ London FR-92785 Issy-Les-Moulineaux Cedex 9 Tel: +44 77 10 29 35 51 CONSEIL REGIONAL LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON Fabrice MANUEL Emmanuel FEULIÉ Tel: +33 1 56 22 94 76 Fax: +33 1 56 22 95 35 [email protected] www.francetelevisions.fr [email protected] www.ideale-audience.fr JAN VRIJAM FUND Isabel ARRATE Frederiksplein 52 NL-1017 XN Amsterdam Tel: +31 20 62 73 329 Fax: +31 20 63 85 388 [email protected] JBA PRODUCTION 201 avenue de la Pompignane FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA AUDIOVISUAL REGIONAL FUND Jacques BIDOU FR-34064 Montpellier cedex 02 Alessandro GROPPLERO Tel: +33 4 67 22 93 68 Paolo VIDALI 52, rue Charlot Fax: +33 4 67 22 90 98 Via Asquini, 33 [email protected] Tel: +33 1 48 04 84 60 IT- 33100 Udine www.laregion.fr Fax: +33 1 42 76 09 67 Tel: +39 0432 500322 [email protected] Fax: +39 0432 200825 CROATIAN AUDIOVISUAL [email protected] [email protected] CENTRE www.jbaproduction.com [email protected] Ivana IVISIC www.audiovisivofvg.it Vanja SREMAC Nova Ves 18 Thierry GARREL HR-10 000 Zagreb [email protected] Tel: +385 1 6041 080 Fax: +385 1 4667 819 Michel GYORY [email protected] 59, avenue Everard www.havc.hr B-1190 Bruxelles Marianne DUMOULIN F-75003 Paris Sibylle KURZ Alter Weg 24a DE-64711 Erbach-Günterfürst Tel: +49 6062 91 25 08 [email protected] www.pitching.de Tel: +322 45 39 73 LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON CINEMA EDITIONS MONTPARNASSE Fax: +322 344 57 80 Karim GHIYATI Vianney DELOURME [email protected] 6, rue Embouque d'Or 10-12 Villa Coeur de Vey FR-34000 Montpellier FR-75014 Paris HBO ROMANIA Tel: +33 4 67 64 92 56 Tel: +33 1 56 53 56 53 Aurelian NICA Fax: +33 4 67 64 92 55 Fax: +33 1 56 53 56 59 vianney.delourme@editionsmontparna sse.fr 1 Buzesti 62-64 Romania [email protected] Tel: +40 21 307 77 77 www.languedoc-roussillon-cinema.fr www.editionsmontparnasse.fr Fax: +40 21 307 77 88 www.hbo.ro Experts & Guests LES FILMS D'ICI Chapter inDEx RTS Serge LALOU MOTION PICTURE PUBLIC FOUNDATION OF HUNGARY 62, Boulevard Davout Csaba BERECZKI Quai Ernest-Ansermet 20 FR-75020 Paris Városliget fasor 38 Case postale 234 Tel: +33 1 44 52 23 23 HR-1068 Budapest CH-1211 Genève 8 Fax: +33 1 44 52 23 24 Tel: +36 1 4611 332 Tel: +41 58 236 89 36 [email protected] [email protected] www.english.mmka.hu Fax: +41 58 236 89 21 LICHTBLICK FILM Carl-Ludwig RETTINGER Apostelnstrasse11 DE-50667 Köln Tel: +49 221 925 75 20 Fax: +49 221 925 75 29 [email protected] www.lichtblick-film.de MA.JA.DA. FILMPRODUKTION Heino DECKERT Pohlstr.44 DE-10785 Berlin Tel: +49 30 84 30 61 66 Fax: +49 30 84 30 61 67 [email protected] www.majade.de MDR Frank KUTTER Kantsrt. 71-73 DE-04275 Leipzig Tel: +49 341 300 72 07 [email protected] www.mdr.de MILLENNIUM FILM Kristiina PERVILÄ-ANDERSSON Koskikartanontie 12 FI-75530 Nurmes Tel: +358 50 5110 740 Fax: +358 13 5110 111 [email protected] www.milleniumfilm.fi MINISTRY OF NATIONAL RESOURCES Attila BOKOR Arany János u. 6-8 HR-1051 Budapest Tel: +36 1 795 4633 [email protected] www.nefmi.gov.hu/english PBS INTERNATIONAL Charles SCHUERHOFF 10 Guest Street USA-MA02135 Boston Tel: +1 617 208 0743 Fax: +1 617 208 0783 [email protected] www.wgbhinternational.org RAI 3 Enrico GHEZZI Viale Mazzini 14 - Room 130 IT-00195 Roma [email protected] www.rai.it RAI 3 Lorenzo HENDEL Viale Mazzini 14 - Room 130 IT-00195 Roma Tel: + 39 34 63 77 65 26 [email protected] www.rai.it RAI EDUCATIONAL Silvia DE FELICE Gaspard LAMUNIÉRE www.rts.ch SCHWEIZER FERNSEHEN Anita HUGI Fernsehstrasse 1-4 CH-8052 Zurich Tel: + 41 44 305 58 4 [email protected] www.sf.tv TG4 Michael O'MEALLAIGH Baile Na Habnann Co Na Gaillimhe Galway Ireland Tel: +353 91 50 50 71 [email protected] www.tg4.ie Iikka VEHKALAHTI [email protected] WDR / ARTE Sabine ROLLBERG Appelhofplatz DE-50667 Köln Tel: +49 221 220 5752 Via Ettore Romanogli 3 Fax: +49 221 220 23 09 [email protected] IT-00137 - Roma www.wdr.de Tel: +39 06 36 86 29 08 Fax: +39 06 82 76 225 YLE [email protected] Erkki ASTALA www.educational.rai.it YLE Coproductions – Box 96 FI-00024 Yleisradio RTBF Tel: +358 9 1480 5392 Wilbur LEGUEBE Fax 358 9 146 2495 52 bd Reyess [email protected] Boîte BRR058 www.yle.fi BE-1044 Brussels Tel: +32 2 737 22 09 Fax: +32 71 20 93 50 [email protected] www.rtbf.de 121 122 Chapter inDEx ZDF / ARTE Doris HEPP Redaktion Fernsehfilm ARTE Sendezentrum 2 DE-55100 Mainz Tel: +49 61 31 70 22 30 Fax: +49 61 31 70 94 88 [email protected] www.zdf.de / www.artepro.com ZENIT ARTI AUDIOVISIVE Massimo ARVAT Strada del Fortino,26 IT-10152 Torino Tel: +39 011 521 7964 Fax: +39 011 436 9765 [email protected] www.zenit.to.it Ce catalogue a été réalisé avec l'aide de l'Union européenne. son contenu relève de la seule responsabilité d’EURODOC et ne peut en aucun cas être considéré comme reflétant la position de l'Union européenne. this publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. the contents of this publication is the sole responsibility of EURODOC and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. édition: anne-Marie luccioni, Maïna waezi, Marie-sophie Decout Mise en pages: Marc schmidt Crédits photos: Marie-sophie Decout, lucile gueguen, aMl, Riham assi nous nous excusons par avance de toutes erreurs ou omissions qui pourraient être constatées. 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