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2008 EURODOC 2008 ORGANISED WITH THE SUPPORT OF PROGRAMME MEDIA PLUS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA CINÉMATOGRAPHIE, PROCIREP, FRANCE SESSION 1 MARCH 1- 8 NOUAN LE FUZELIER, FRANCE WITH THE SUPPORT OF RÉGION CENTRE, CENTRE IMAGES SESSION 2 MAI 30 - JUNE 6 BIELLA, ITALY WITH THE SUPPORT OF REGIONE PIEMONTE, PROVINCIA DOCUMENTARY IN EUROPE SESSION 3 SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 5 SINTRA, PORTUGAL WITH THE SUPPORT OF ICA, LX FILMES DI BIELLA, 9 EURODOC 2008 PARTICIPANTS & EXPERTS 28 FILMS 74 PRODUCTIONS 85 EURODOC 87 INDEX PARTICIPANTS EXPERTS & GUESTS 2008 Chapter EDITO 5 Another group of producers and commissioning editors will join the EURODOC network after the completion of our three sessions – successively held in Nouan-le-Fuzelier, France, with the support of the French Centre Region and Centre Images, in Biella, with the support of the Piedmont Region, the Province of Biella and Documentary in Europe and here in Sintra, where we are meeting again for our last session, thanks to our partnership with ICA and LX Filmes. Year after year, ever since the creation of the programme in 1999, EURODODC has established a true network. Today, our network includes: 200 independent producers 53 commissioning editors 50 scriptwriters over 180 experts leading to a total of 480 experts professionals from 37 European and Mediterranean countries. Thanks to the loyal support of our partners – the MEDIA programme of the European Community, the French Centre National de la Cinématographie and Procirep, along with all the institutions which have teamed up over the years to finance the programme in 20 different cities in 10 European countries, Thanks to the generosity of experts, producers, filmmakers and commissioning editors who have shared their experience and passed on their expertise to younger professionals so as to succeed in transnational cooperation and allow films to better circulate within Europe and beyond, The network is active and a sense of solidarity is shared among all members, Over 120 films have been produced and almost 40 are currently in production. We are happy to announce that our contact has been extended for a four-year period by the European Community. We have set up a new initiative – a “think tank” – specifically designed for commissioning editors to meet and reflect on changes in the profession, the documentary genre and to prepare for future upheavals. As of 2009, we will also have the opportunity to welcome participants in our training sessions from third countries, both producers and commissioning editors, as we did within the framework of EURODOCmed. The EURODOC network will broaden its horizons with EURODOC International. We are now gearing up to celebrate EURODOC’s 10th anniversary next year. We are couting on all of you ! Anne-Marie Luccioni This catalogue includes : - profile of all participants in the EURODOC 2008 programme, together with a description of their projects, - description of all the films produced by EURODOC participants from previous years and those currently in production. To mark our 10th anniversary, we plan to analyze how these films have circulated : number of broadcasting territories, films selected for festivals and award-winning films. Head of Programme 6 Chapter EDITO Une nouvelle promotion de producteurs et de chargés de programme rejoint le réseau EURODOC à l’issue de ce cycle de 3 sessions, à Nouan-le-Fuzelier, avec le soutien de la Région Centre et de Centre Images, à Biella, avec celui de la Région Piémont, de la Province de Biella et de Documentary in Europe, et à Sintra où nous nous retrouvons pour la dernière session, grâce au partenariat avec l’ICA et LX Filmes. Le réseau EURODOC s’est constitué année après année depuis la création du programme en 1999. Il réunit aujourd’hui : 200 producteurs indépendants 53 chargés de programme 50 auteurs plus de180 experts au total 480 professionnels de 37 pays Européens & Méditerranéens. Grâce au soutien et à la fidélité de nos partenaires, le programme MEDIA de la Communauté européenne, le Centre National de la Cinématographie et la Procirep et de toutes les institutions qui se sont associées à son financement dans 20 villes de 10 pays européens, Grâce à la générosité des experts, producteurs, réalisateurs et responsables de programme qui partagent leurs expériences et transmettent leurs compétences aux plus jeunes professionnels, pour réussir des coopérations transnationales et permettre aux films de mieux circuler en Europe et au-delà, Le réseau est actif et solidaire. Plus de 120 films ont été produits, près de 40 sont en cours de production. Nous avons le plaisir de voir notre contrat prolongé de 4 années par la Commission Européenne. Une nouvelle initiative, un « think tank », réunira spécifiquement des chargés de programme pour réfléchir à l’évolution du métier, du genre et tenter de se préparer à ces bouleversements. Dès 2009, nous aurons également la chance d’accueillir au sein des formations des participants de pays tiers, producteurs et chargés de programme. EURODOCmed a tissé des liens avec les professionnels des pays Méditerranéens. Le réseau EURODOC va encore grandir avec EURODOC International. Nous fêterons les 10 ans d’EURODOC l’an prochain. Nous comptons sur vous tous ! Anne-Marie Luccioni Vous trouverez dans ce catalogue : - tous les participants au cycle EURODOC 2008 et une présentation de leurs projets, - les films qui sont issus des formations précédentes et les productions en cours. Nous allons profiter des 10 ans du programme pour analyser la circulation de ces films : nombre de territoires de diffusion, sélection et prix dans les festivals. Chapter EDITO 7 Once again, we meet in Sintra - which over time has become the meeting place for all those who share the same commitment and the same passion for the documentary genre. This year, we meet at a time when the audiovisual landscape is becoming more and more complex. The documentary is alive everywhere in Europe, but situations differ greatly. Germany, France, Belgium and Scandinavian countries as a whole, dominate the market, the United Kingdom has lost its position as a leader and Southern European countries are clearly emerging after a long period of silence. Global phenomena remain the same. Documentaries are mainly financed by public broadcasters and by the different funding support systems in the different countries. The market is still dominated by “domestic” productions. Smaller countries with minority languages find it difficult to export, however, because of their subtitling tradition they are able to import a wide variety of films, and the bigger countries with a “dubbing” tradition tend to be more inward-looking, with Britain and the United States, for example, hardly importing any films that aren’t shot in English. In such a context, ARTE still plays a key role in structuring the sector, not through its share of audience ratings, but through its impact, its constant commitment to the genre and the influence of its creative work on the sector as a whole, with the complicity, of course, of a few major public service channels. It is important to remember that for fifteen years now, ARTE, Channel 4 more so in the beginning, the German and Belgian public broadcasters, as well as Danish and Dutch broadcasters have all literally re-launched what we will call here, for the sake of simplicity, the “creative documentary”: cinema generated by filmmakers and produced by independent production companies. Thanks to the consistent faith shown in creative filmmakers, the documentary has regained considerable ground in programme schedules, as well as, although to a lesser degree, in cinemas. Documentaries have even benefited from exceptional circulation between European countries in comparison with other television productions. This spectacular success (in France, for example, more than 1,500 hours of documentaries were produced in 2000) has raised other issues. Broadcasters are thinking in terms of developing greater loyalty among their viewers which is inciting them to adopt policies turned towards simply reproducing films for their national audiences. This has led to programmes which are more and more formatted and generally speaking, to more and more productions with a national or parochial outlook, rather than an investment in creativity. In due course, this will be detrimental to the genre. To conclude, major trends in the media industry are threatening the “creative documentary”. On one hand, the genre runs the risk of becoming excessively formatted or rigid - which could lead to its own demise - and on the other hand, documentary filmmakers face ever-increasing pressure to simplify, to produce magazine, “reportage” style work more easily accessible to the general public. However, documentary filmmakers, producers and their few remaining allies are often highly competent, totally devoted to the form - and expend such phenomenal energy - that the situation is far from dramatic. The association of these qualities through effective networking offers such potential, in terms of choice, that the genre does not seem at risk of becoming marginalized. The existence of Eurodoc is based on the desire to remain solidly attached to the economy of European documentary film whilst avoiding being sucked into a subsidised economy. This is possible through the development of a network of highly competent filmmakers who have the ability to adapt quickly, enabling them to cope with new situations and to work together in Europe, and in so doing ensuring that films and ideas circulate. Jacques Bidou Head of Studies 8 Chapter EDITO Un fois encore nous nous retrouvons à Sintra, devenu au fil du temps le lieu incontournable de tous ceux qui partagent un même engagement et une même passion pour le documentaire, à un moment où le paysage professionnel se durcit et se complexifie. Certes le genre est vivant partout en Europe, mais il y a 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 santé 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. L’existence d’EURODOC est basée sur la volonté de rester solidement arrimé à l’économie du cinéma documentaire en Europe, en évitant de se laisser entraîner dans une économie de subvention et donc en développant le réseau de compétence et une rapidité d’adaptation qui donnent aux professionnels la force d’affronter la situation, de travailler ensemble en Europe, et d’ainsi faire circuler les oeuvres et les idées. Jacques Bidou EURODOC 2008 NOUAN LE FUZELIER BIELLA SINTRA 10 Chapter GRADUATES Cycle 2008 Rodrigo AREIAS PERIFERIA FILMES Portugal Joonas BERGHÄLL OKTOBER Finland Ludovic BERTHELOT CNC France Alessandro CARROLI KINÉ Italy Valérie DUPIN LES PRODUCTIONS DU LAGON France Philippe FREVILLE CRRAV France Olivier GALLAIS AMIP France Alec HERRMANN ARTE France France Jouni HILTUNEN KATHARSIS FILMS Finland Aline HOUDY TGA France Claire ISAMBERT ARTE GEIE France Daniel KHAMDAMOV ARTE France France Jiri KONECNY ENDORFILM Czech Cécile LESTRADE ALTER EGO France Joëlle LONJON NEON ROUGE PRODUCTION Belgium Isabel MACHADO C.R.I.M. Portugal Monika MACK BILDERSTURM FILMPRODUKTION German Gúdula MEINZOLT AUTENTIKA FILMS German Douglas NEILSON KELPIE FILMS UK Judith NORA AD VITAM PRODUCTION France Luisella PALLADINO LUIFILM INDIVIDUAL Italy Fred PREMEL TITA PRODUCTIONS France Tancrède RAMONET TEMPS NOIR France Anthony REY HELICOTRONC France Farid REZKALLAH 24 IMAGES France Nicolas ROVERE SEP & SAN FILM PRODUCTION Switzerland Antonella SIGNORE KINOETIKA Italy Wiktoria SZYMANSKA LUNA FILMS Poland Montserrat TARRÉS FERNANDEZ TELEVISIO DE CATALUNYA Spain Maria Teresa TRINGALI MY MAX EDUTAINMENT Italy Barbara VALENTINA DAVID & GOLIAS Portugal Samantha ZARZOSA ODD GIRL OUT PRODUCTIONS UK SESSION 1 - NOUAN LE FUZELIER, France, MARCH 2008 (EXPERTS) Jacques BIDOU JBA PRODUCTION France Xavier CARNIAUX AMIP France Heino DECKERT MA.JA.DE. FILMPRODUKTION Germany Michel GYORY Belgium Sergei LOZNITSA Russia Kristiina PERVILÄ-ANDERSSON MILLENNIUM FILM Finland Emmanuel PORCHER CENTRE IMAGES France Colette QUESSON CENTRE IMAGES France Carl-Ludwig RETTINGER LICHTBLICK FILM Germany Stefano TEALDI STEFILM Italy Cycle 2008 Chapter EXPERTS & GUESTS SESSION 2 – BIELLA, Italy, JUNE 2008 Massimo ARVAT ZENIT ARTI AUDIOVISIVE Alessandro BERNARD Italy Italy Jacques BIDOU JBA PRODUCTION France Carlo CRESTO-DINA FELTRINELLI Italy Heino DECKERT MA.JA.DE. FILMPRODUKTION Germany Marianne DUMOULIN JBA PRODUCTION France Alessandro GROPPLERO FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA FILM COMMISSION Italy Sibylle KURZ Germany Paolo MANERA FILM COMMISSION TORINO PIEMONTE Italy Leena PASANEN EDN Denmark Silvia SANDRONE ANTENNA MEDIA Torino Italy Stefano TEALDI STEFILM Italy Nathalie VERDIER ARTE France France SESSION 3 – SINTRA, Portugal, SEPTEMBER- OCTOBER 2008 Erkki ASTALA YLE Finland Jacques BIDOU JBA PRODUCTION France Vera BONNIER SVT Sweden Pascal BRUNIER ADAV France Gabriela BUSSMANN FESTIVAL VISIONS DU REEL Switzerland Heino DECKERT MA.JA.DE. FILMPRODUKTION Germany Uta CAPPEL ARTE G.E.I.E France Xavier CARNIAUX AMIP France Claire COLART RTBF Belgium Vianney DELOURME EDITIONS MONTPARNASSE France Francine DUPRAZ CANAL+ France Kinga GALUSZKA POLISH FILM INSTITUTE Poland Flemming GRENZ DR TV Denmark Lorenzo HENDEL RAI Italy Doris HEPP ZDF / ARTE Germany Barbara HUREL FRANCE 5 France Christoph JÖRG ARTE France France Silvia LAJ NATIXIS – COFICINÉ France Serge LALOU LES FILMS D’ICI France Rasa MISKINYTE ERA FILM Lithuania Anne-Laure NÉGRIN ARTE G.E.I.E France Michéal O MEALLAIGH TG4 Ireland Jean PERRET FESTIVAL VISIONS DU REEL Switzerland Muriel ROSÉ FRANCE 3 France Anne ROUCAN FRANCE 2 France Valentine ROULET CNC France Jorge WEMANS RTP Portugal Nadine ZWICK ARTE G.E.I.E France 11 12 Chapter PARTICIPANTS 24 IMAGES Cycle 2008 FARID REZKALLAH POETIC DISSIDENTS DIRECTORS : PIERRE ANDRÉ SAUVAGEOT & BERTRAND SCHMITT 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. Prokop Voskovec still lives in Paris, whereas Jan Vladislav returned to Prague in 2003. Both men undertook the task of writing their “memoirs”. Through their writings, they revisit what used to be their lives. They see each other regularly in Prague. Their words, memories and impressions sometimes blend into each other and sometimes complete one another. Their subjective and uncommon vision of the dissidence and of clandestine pamphlet and magazine editing plunges us into a reality, which is both terrible and absurd, but which was the reality of the daily lives of people in a totalitarian regime. We see this world, first from the inside and then from outside. A number of archival images illustrate their accounts. These pictures come together with scenes from the past that we will re-film, poetically, as in a dream, to make for fugacious visions, unrealistic, as if resurgent from memory. LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 52 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY Pierre André Sauvageot JEAN-FRANÇOIS VILAR, 95% DE RÉEL, 50mn, 1997, Planète 1999 DIDIER DAENINCKX, L'ÉTAT DES LIEUX, 49mn, 1999, Planète 2001 CESARE BATTISTI, RÉSISTANCES, 53mn, 2003, Planète 2004 YVES LE BECHENNEC, UN ARCHÉOLOGUE EN SEINE-SAINT-DENIS, 51mn, 2003, France 5, 2004 Prix Jules Vernes - Amiens Métropole. Festival du film d’archéologie d’Amiens, 2005 TARDI EN NOIR ET BLANC, 50mn, 2006, France 3 Corse, TVM Est parisien, 2006 L’OEIL DE WILLEM, 51mn, 2006, Télésonne, RTBF, 2007 CHANTAL MONTELLIER, LA PART D’ENFANCE, 55 mn, 2007, TL7 Télévision Loire, 2008 Bertrand Schmitt Autor and director L’Exil de la dormeuse, Documentaire (52 mn) sur la vie et l’oeuvre en France de la peintre tchèque Toyen, 2008. Les Chimères des Svankmajer, Documentaire (58 mn) sur l'oeuvre de Jan et Eva Svankmajer. Coproduction 24 Images / France 2, 2000. AD VITAM PRODUCTION J UDITH NORA AN AMERICAN JOURNEY DIRECTOR : PHILIPPE SÉCLIER 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 Séclier 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. 1958-2008. Dans l’histoire de l’art contemporain, tout le monde s’accorde à dire qu’il y a un “avant “ et un “après”, The Americans, le livre-manifeste du photographe Robert Frank publié en 1958. Cinquante ans plus tard, le réalisateur Philippe Séclier décide de repartir sur les traces de Robert Frank, d’explorer l’esprit de la “beat-generation” et l’impact de ce livre non seulement dans le monde de la photographie et de l’édition, mais également sur la culture américaine en général. Du Texas au Montana, du Nebraska à la Louisiane et de New York à San Francisco, AN AMERICAN JOURNEY relate une odyssée de près de 20 000 Km, oscillant entre passé et présent, entre photographie et cinéma. Entre deux Amériques, seulement séparées par le temps. 1958-2008. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Philippe Séclier, 49, is a former magazine journalist and editor. Freelance since 2000, he has edited two photographics books Hôtel Puerto and La Longue Route de Sable (Pier Paolo Pasolini). Since 1999 he has made researched on Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain, for an upcoming book and exhibition. In 2003, using archive images, he made a 52-minutes documentary about Marc Riboud called Instants d’annee (2004). In 2006 he has collaborated with Magnum on Magnum, 60 ans a book. Since Spring 2007 Philippe has been working with photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon on a variety of book, film and exhibition projects. Cycle 2008 ALTER EGO PRODUCTION Chapter PARTICIPANTS 13 CÉCILE LESTRADE THE VIRGIN MARY, THE COPTS AND ME DIRECTOR : NAMIR ABDEL MESSEEH While watching a videotape supposed to show the recording of a miraculous apparition of the Virgin in Egypt, the director realizes that his mother, an Egyptian Christian, can see the Virgin and that he can’t. An atheist himself but wishing to perceive something of this miraculous Egypt that was omnipresent throughout his childhood, he decides to go and question the Copts about the apparitions. Alternating between the subjective quest of the director and an investigation about the Egypt of the apparitions- through some accounts, archives pictures and films extracts- the film immerses us into this country of myth and history whose religion can’t be dissociated from its identity. COPYRIGHT NABIL BOUTROS LENGTH : 90 MIN LENGTH : 52 MIN Au cours du visionnage d’une cassette vidéo sur laquelle aurait été filmée une apparition miraculeuse de la Vierge en Egypte, le réalisateur constate que sa mère, chrétienne d’Egypte, voit la Vierge et que lui ne la voit pas. Athée mais désirant, lui aussi, apercevoir quelque chose de cette Egypte miraculeuse, omniprésente dans son enfance, il décide d’aller interroger les Coptes sur les apparitions. Alternant entre quête subjective du réalisateur et enquête sur l’Egypte des apparitions - par le biais de témoignages, d'images d'archives et d'extraits de films -, le film nous plonge dans ce pays de mythe et d’histoire, dont la religion est indissociable de l’identité. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Namir Abdel Messeeh was born in 1974 from an egyptian and french nationality. After studying at the Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies (La Femis), he directed short fiction films. In 2005, “Toi, Waguih” is his first documentary film about his father being a communist in Egypt, film which has been shown at a number of international festivals. AMIP OLIVIER GALLAIS NO FASTER THAN LIFE.... OR THE STORY OF AN ACCIDENTAL PRINCESS DIRECTOR : ALTINAÏ PETROVITCH NJEGOSH A young girl, born and raised in Paris learns one day at the age of twelve that she is the descendent of the royal family of Montenegro, a small country in the heart of the Balkans. She goes on to discover a people and a culture and finds herself torn between two opposing worlds. Eighteen years later, this same girl has become a filmmaker and decides to undertake a journey to her homeland on the trail of her ancestors in an attempt to unravel the mystery of her identity. For this “accidental princess”, this eventful trip into the surprising and disturbing depths of the Black Mountain is not only a chance to meet the Montenegrin people, but also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover the story of a country, her family and her life. Une jeune fille, née et vivant à Paris, apprend à l'âge de douze ans qu'elle est la descendante de la dernière famille royale du Monténégro, petit pays au coeur des Balkans. Elle découvre alors un peuple, une culture et se retrouve partagée entre deux mondes aux antipodes. Dix-huit ans plus tard cette fille devenue cinéaste entreprend un voyage dans son pays d’origine sur les traces de ses ancêtres pour tenter de percer le mystère de son identité. Ce voyage dans les étonnantes et troublantes profondeurs de la Montagne noire est, pour cette princesse accidentelle, l'occasion d'aller à la rencontre des Monténégrins, mais aussi le moment ou jamais de s'expliquer l'histoire d’un pays, l’histoire de sa famille et de sa vie. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Director. Born in 1977. Architecture school Paris La Villette. Graduate school Le Fresnoy (National Studio for Contemporary Arts). 2008 “ Strictement en mesure sans ralentir “ Hdv, 21’. 2007 “ Side by side “ fiction HD, 17’. 2005 “ L’art de la fugue “ fiction 16mm, 15’ (selected in Locarno films festival). She directed some shorts fashion, danse, music and architecture videos. 14 Chapter PARTICIPANTS Cycle 2008 ARTE FRANCE The ambition of ARTE today is to promote strong and diverse creations: from the experimental La Lucarne which has just celebrated its tenth birthday, to historical, cultural and investigation documentaries. ARTE also accompanies the evolution of the documentary film by giving it more visibility. With Docu soaps, long 90 minutes formats, documentary series, ARTE supports the great authors of the genre. ARTE aims to promote recognized films and authors, to provide clues to understand the present and the geopolitical challenges we are faced with, to analyze great human and scientific issues. This documentary policy is prolonged by ARTE Video which gives a new life to the cultural diversity. ALEC H ERRMANN COMMISSIONING EXECUTIVE Since 2007 : In charge of the production of ARTE France video editions 2005-2006 : In charge of Multimedia Editions, development of www.artevod.com, ARTE France 2000-2005 : DVD Product manager (documentaries), ARTE France 1998-2000 : In Charge of documentary production, DUNE 2000 : Interactive Television : Development of a project of interactivity applied to documentary programs with NPTV company in collaboration with Canal +. 1997-1999 : Reader of projects of documentaries and feature-length films: ARTE GEIE, Le Studio Canal +, Odessa Films, Telfrance 1997-1998 : Various training courses in production: Forum Planète, Compagnie des Phares et Balises, Les films du Village DANIEL KHAMDAMOV COMMISSIONING E DITOR 2000-2007 : ARTE FRANCE DEVELOPPEMENT – dvd publisher Participation in the acquisition of feature films and building-up of ARTE France video catalogue. Complete follow-up of DVD production at the editorial, financial, artistic and technical levels. Edition of more than one hundred feature films in collaboration with, Alain Cavalier, William Klein, Amos Gitaï, Chris Marker, Marcel Ophuls, Avi Mograbi. Collaboration with the communication and marketing services and the press service. ARTE GEIE The public-service television channel ARTE acts as a showcase for the rich cultural diversity of Europe. Its purpose is « to conceive and produce television programmes which, in a broad sense, are cultural and international in character and conducive to promoting understanding and rapprochement among Europe’s nations ». ARTE’s policy is to broadcast high-quality national and international coproductions in cinema, drama and documentaries as well as news, live and performing arts. Based on an Agreement between France and Germany, ARTE is composed of three entities, the headquarters in Strasburg and two members, ARTE France in Paris and ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH in Baden-Baden. C LAIRE ISAMBERT H EAD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sept. 2001 - ARTE G.E.I.E. - Head of management of the Board of Directors (Strasbourg - France). Dec. 98 - Sept 2001- Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace, Saint-Louis agency (France) Journalist for the Regional and Economic sections, in charge of French-German-Swiss transnational relations. Coordinator for a weekly page covering topics on these three countries. July 97- Nov. 98 - L’Est Républicain, General, Regional and Local agencies. Journalist in Writing and Editing Department. Summer 98 - German TV Premiere (Paris, Nice, Lens). Production and Editorial Assistant for the 1998 Soccer World Cup games, live transmissions. April 97- Canal J, « Cajou », magazine for teenagers (Paris). Production and Redaction Assistant for « Cajou Europe ». Autumn 96- Le Nouvel Observateur (Berlin). Free-lance journalist. Cycle 2008 B ILDERSTURM FILMPRODUKTION Chapter PARTICIPANTS 15 MONIKA MACK BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE - HELEN ZILLE MAYOR OF CAPE TOWN DIRECTOR : BIRGIT SCHULZ She is white, of German descent, with Jewish forebears and raised a Christian –now she is Mayor of Cape Town. Helen Zille has always fought against apartheid; now she is fighting against all types of racism, injustice and corruption in the young South African democracy – and hence, also against certain representatives of the ANC. She must win the confidence of the black population and keep in check those white citizens who would prefer to reintroduce apartheid… A film about a remarkable personality and her role in a complex yet fascinating city – on the eve of the presidential elections in South Africa and of the first football World Cup on African soil. LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 60 & 90 MIN Elle est blanche et d’origine allemande. Elle a des grands-parents juifs mais a reçu une éducation chrétienne - et elle est Maire de la ville du Cap en Afrique du Sud. Elle a toujours milité contre l´apartheid. A présent, elle se bat contre toutes les formes de racisme, d’injustice et de corruption dans cette jeune démocratie. Et donc aussi contre bon nombre de représentants du Congrès national africain (ANC). Etre maire du Cap, c´est gagner la confiance des Noirs et garder celle des Blancs dont certains pourraient préférer retourner au temps de l´apartheid… Un film sur une femme remarquable et sur son rôle à la tête d´une ville complexe et fascinante, à la veille des élections présidentielles et de la première Coupe du monde de football en Afrique. BIOFILMOGRAPHY After completing her studies in German Language and Literature, Biology and Philosophy at the University of Bonn (state examinations in 1986) she worked as an editorial journalist at Stadtrevue, one of the largest magazines in Cologne, and subsequently for the ballet magazine “Ballett International”. In 1989 she started working as a freelance writer and director for various editorial departments of the German public TV broadcaster WDR. From 1999 to 2000, she was a commissioning editor in the “Women’s TV” department of WDR. In 1993 she set up the film production company Bildersturm. She has written and produced many documentaries for WDR and ARTE. She also participated in the EAVE programme in 2006. Her award-winning films include: A Right to Live – Aids Medication for Millions, ARTE/WDR 2006, 45’ Presence of Mind - the Psychoanalyst Margarete Mitscherlich, ARTE/WDR 2005, 45’ Liebesversuche / Attempts at Love – A Portrait of Werner Schroeter, WDR/ARTE 70’ C.R.I.M. ISABEL MACHADO EDEN’S ARK DIRECTOR : MARCELO FELIX Eden’s Ark inscribes the witnessing of film in that area of temporal suspension between a past to keep and an uncertain future; and turns our attention towards the exile of reserves and collections in which botany and film share the statu quo of endangered species. The insight of the similarities between botany and film protection encourages a deep and fascinating reflection about memory and preservation both of nature and images. L'Arche d'Eden place le témoignage du film dans cette zone de suspension temporelle entre un passé à garder et un futur incertain. Il attire notre attention vers l'exil des réserves et des collections où la botanique et le cinéma partagent le statu quo des espèces en danger. La perception des similitudes entre la protection de la botanique et la protection du cinéma encourage une réflexion profonde et fascinante sur la nature et les images. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Marcelo Felix graduated in Cinema at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisboa. He has completed the Advanced Course on Conservation, Restoration, Archives and Collections from the Program Archimedia, organised by the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique and the University of Paris (workshops in Paris, Bologna, Brussels, London and Amsterdam during 1997 and 1998). Since 2004 he attends Classical Studies at the Open University (OU). He has a 15-year experience in film and television editing, having worked on documentary and fiction features. He writes articles about film, contemporary art, classical music and opera for TV programs and several magazines. As a director he has worked in documentaries about musical instruments, video installations for theatre and experimental films. THE TIME WE ARE IN SHORT (in development) · HOW’S LIFE TO GO ESSAY (in development) · O VIOLONCELO; O OBOÉ; O CRAVO 3 x DOC · BUENAS NOCHES MI AMOR VIDEO INSTALLATION · AD LIBITUM EXPERIMENTAL FILM · IMPRINTING SOIUZ EXPERIMENTAL FILM · EM TRÂNSITO MEDIUM-LENGTH FILM · AMANHÃ O RESCALDO SHORT. 16 Chapter PARTICIPANTS Cycle 2008 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. LUDOVIC B ERTHELOT DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR AUDIOVISUAL Since October 2007 Deputy director for audiovisual - Centre national de la cinématographie Financial support to the television industry (creation, development, production) via automatic and selective mechanisms – Audiovisual regulation – Representation of the CNC towards French audiovisual industry (authors, producers, broadcasters, distributers) and partners (financial institutions , lobbies, “civil societies”). Management of 30 people – Financial responsibility for a budget over 200 M Euros. 2006-2007: Head of audiovisual and multimedia unit - French ministry of industry / General directorate for enterprises. Technical and economic investigation of audiovisual (DTT, mobile TV, HDTV, digital radio) and multimedia (video game industry) issues – Audiovisual regulation – Financial support to R&D (competitiveness clusters: national correspondent of “Cap Digital” and “Imaginove” clusters) – French video game tax credit: parameters setting and notification to the European Commission. In charge of the unit from its creation in April 2006: development of the strategy, definition of orientations and objectives, organization of the work and management of 5 people. 2003-2006 : Project manager for audiovisual and multimedia - French ministry of industry / General directorate for enterprises. CRRAV Founded in 1985, the Centre Régional de Ressources AudioVisuelles (Regional Center for Audiovisual Resources) is an independent body funded principally by the Regional Council of Nord-Pas de Calais. The CRRAV aims at developing audiovisual and movie production in the Nord-Pas de Calais region. The CRRAV team accompanies the projects for films (documentary films, feature-length films, short films and TV films) from the writing of the screenplay to the preview, as well as with the financing. The CRRAV co-produces the films and had at its disposal in 2006 funds of 2.5 million euros. Located in Tourcoing, the CRRAV is developing cross-border partnerships with its Belgian neighbours: Wallimage, Hainaut Cinéma and Vlaams Audiovisual Fund. PHILIPPE FREVILLE FUND MANAGER Until 2005 : CRRAV (NORTH PAS DE CALAIS AUDIOVISUEL AND CINEMA AGENCY) In charge of creative works and autors developpement (fiction, no fiction films), documentary training, ... 1990 – 2005 : NORTH PAS DE CALAIS REGIONAL COUNCIL – Cultural policies – In charge of plastic arts, cinéma and télévision policies, setting up of North Pas de Calais Régional fund (2,5 M? in 2007), relationship with CNC, producers, directors,... 1989 – 1990 : JAZZ DIFFUSION (Lille) – Management of jazz concerts organization 1988 - 1989 : Cultural developpement in Valenciennes Suburbs (France) 1985 – 1987 : NORTH PAS DE CALAIS CONTEMPORARY ART FUND – Curator, educative policies Cycle 2008 DAVID & GOLIAS Chapter PARTICIPANTS 17 BARBARA VALENTINA JOSHUA’S CITY DIRECTOR : DANIEL BLAUFUKS JOSHUA’S CITY is a documentary that takes a vital moment of XX century Portuguese history (1908): the violent assassination of King Dom Carlos and of the Crown Prince in front of a crowd and the royal family, which would lead to the establishing of a republic two years later. In 1914 the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife sets off a chain reaction of war declarations that leads to First World War. The film sets up comparisons between both events and leads us in a journey through history until the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, showing how a war can lead to another war, often just by accident. JOSHUA’S CITY is a journey through some violent moments in World History. LENGTH : 70 MIN LENGTH : 80 & 52 MIN LA VILLE DE JOSHUA revient sur un épisode crucial de l’histoire portugaise du XXe siècle (1908), le violent assassinat du roi D. Carlos et du prince héritier qui s’est déroulé sous les yeux de la foule et de leur famille. Cet événement a conduit à l’instauration de la République deux ans plus tard. En 1914 a lieu l’attentat de Sarajevo qui coûtera la vie à l’archiduc François-Ferdinand et à sa femme, et conduira à la Ire Guerre mondiale. La comparaison entre ces deux événements nous amène à faire un voyage dans l’histoire et jusqu’à aujourd’hui, au conflit israélo-palestinien, en montrant comment certaines guerres conduisent à d’autres guerres et résultent très souvent de concours de circonstances. LA VILLE DE JOSHUA est un voyage au coeur de certains épisodes violents de l’histoire mondiale. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Daniel Blaufuks was born in Lisbon in 1963 in a family of Jewish German refugees. He studied at at Royal College of Art in London and at the Watermill Foundation in New York. Since My Tangier (1991), in which he collaborated with the writer Paul Bowles, he has been working on the relation between photography and literature. His first documentary Under Strange Skies (2002) chronicles the Jewish immigration, which included his own grandparents, through Lisbon during the Second World War. The recent film Slightly Smaller than Indiana (2006) is an essay on landscape and collective memory in Portugal. His films have been shown at festivals in Toronto, São Paulo, Montpellier and at the Lincoln Center in New York. E NDORFILM J IRI KONECNY GRANDPA’S SECRETS, A LIFE BEHIND THE SCENES DIRECTORS : JAKUB HEIJNA & LUCIE KRALOVA “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). I grew up in a house of a man who was a brilliant stage designer, but who also was my grandfather to whom I did not talk much. I was 25 when he died and I realized I did not know almost anything about him. Darkness and emptiness he would often talk about as his materials filled up my head. I decided to explore the darkness and the emptiness through a film: and search for things that outlive us. The basic line of the film deals with Jakub’s searching for his deceased grandfather, a famous stage designer Josef Svoboda. The objective of this searching is to present this extraordinary man as not many people know him. The film will deal with Josef Svoboda’s life and work in a comprehensive and profound way and it will be the only film to show archive materials related to Svoboda’s work and private life that have not been published yet. « Le noir est ma matière première. Comme le menuisier utilisant le burin, j’essaie de tailler mon théâtre dans le noir » (Josef Svoboda). J’ai grandi dans la maison d’un homme qui était vraisemblablement un scénographe exceptionnel, mais aussi mon grand-père avec lequel je ne parlais pas beaucoup. J’avais 25 ans quand il est mort et je me suis rendu compte que je ne connaissais presque rien de lui. L’obscurité et l’espace vide, dont il parlait si souvent comme du matériel avec lequel il travaillait, ont envahi mon esprit. J’ai décidé d’examiner cette obscurité et cet espace par un film et d’enquêter ainsi sur les choses et les pensées qui nous survivent. L’histoire de base raconte l’enquête personnelle du petit-fils Jakub sur son grand-père décédé, le fameux scénographe Josef Svoboda. Le but de cette recherche est de présenter cette personnalité exceptionnelle comme peu de personnes la connaissent. Le film va aborder la personnalité et l’oeuvre de Josef Svoboda avec complexité et profondeur. Dans le film vont apparaître des archives uniques jamais publiées concernant le travail ainsi que la vie privée de Svoboda. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Lucie Králová was born in 1978. Selected filmography : Normal Tony Dvorak And The Others (2001) – FITES Award ; The Ill-Fated Child (2003) – Best Czech Documentary (IDFF Jihlava) ; The Superdwarf (2003) ; Aqua Fosilot Medica (2004) ; Kids From Hartmanice (2005) – Best Documentary (Finale Plzen) ; Sold (2005) – Best Czech Documentary (IDFF Jihlava) ; Border Of The Smell (2006) ; Lost Holiday (2007) – Best Documentary (IFF Karlovy Vary) 18 Chapter PARTICIPANTS H ELICOTRONC Cycle 2008 ANTHONY REY WOUNDED MEMORY DIRECTOR : NIMETULLA PARLAKU It’s the story of a human being snatched from his roots just because he was black. It’s the story of a country, which built itself on the devastation of a revolting business. It’s the story of a continent whose memory floats on words. It’s our story, all of us. The intransigents comments of a man forgotten by History of Haïti on the events which gave substance to the Haitian identity. Under this look of fire, artists in Haïti and in Quebec produce everyday works which are as many fruits of the invisible tree of memory. C’est l’histoire d’un être arraché à ses racines simplement parce qu’il était noir. C’est l’histoire d’un pays qui s’est forgé sur les ravages d’un commerce révoltant. C’est l’histoire d’un continent dont la mémoire flotte sur des mots. C’est notre histoire à tous. Les commentaires intransigeants d'un oublié de l'histoire d'Haïti sur les événements qui ont donné corps à l'identité haïtienne. Sous ce regard de feu, des artistes en Haïti et au Québec produisent au quotidien des oeuvres qui sont autant de fruits de l'arbre invisible de la mémoire. LENGTH : 80 MIN LENGTH : 52 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY Nimetulla Parlaku was born on September 1th, 1965. Productions finished : 2007 : « Jail House Rap » - short documentary – 26' – DVCam 2001 : « Le tango des anges » - short film – 35mm 1998 : « Les affres du navetteur » - short film – 35mm In production : « Folia de Reis » - feature documentary Works in progress : « Ombre du temps, ou le souffle de Makandal » - feature film « La mémoire meurtrie » - feature documentary KATHARSIS FILMS JOUNI H ILTUNEN TAGIKAKS - THE WHALE HUNTER DIRECTOR : KIRA JÄÄSKELÄINEN 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. Kolya et Sacha représentent la jeune génération des Eskimos Yupiks de Sibérie. Eux et les autres jeunes de leur communauté vivent à la fois au bout du monde et en plein coeur de ce monde, du fait des moyens de communication modernes et de la globalisation. Une grande partie de l’année, leur vie ressemble à celle des autres Russes ; mais dès que l’été gagne la Tchoukotka, les jeunes gens prennent la mer et se font chasseurs de baleines : l’espace d’une saison, ils deviennent alors des « Tagikaks ». BIOFILMOGRAPHY Kira Jääskeläinen is a filmmaker, festival organizer and translator. She is born in 1979 in Warsaw into a Polish-Finnish family. Since 1998 Jääskeläinen has been living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark. Besides working with documentaries, she is program director for Polish Film Weeks in Finland, and works as program coordinator for Nordic film festivals, among others Tampere Film Festival in Finland and Odense Film Festival in Denmark. In 2005 Jääskeläinen traveled to Northeast Siberia together with a Danish expedition group. The purpose of the trip was to collect information for a MA thesis. For three months she made fieldwork among the Siberian Yupik and the Chukchi including filming hours of material with the whale hunters. Under her stay she established good contacts among the local population and administration. Jääskeläinen is fluent in Russian, which is the main language of Chukotka. Cycle 2008 KELPIE FILMS Chapter PARTICIPANTS 19 DOUGLAS N EILSON THE TWO LIVES OF THE TOMABOV DIRECTOR : TOMAS LEACH This is the story of the destruction and re-birth of a once great ship, proving that in this era of recycling an object can be more than the sum of its now tired and rusting parts. It is about how to turn an old oil tanker in to a thousand useful things with new lives in new places. Until now the Tomabov was an important cog in the western economy travelling thousands of miles every year with its cargo of black gold, now it is time for that life to end and for a new one to begin. This film will follow the trail of the Tomabov as it is torn apart on the ship breaking beaches of Bangladesh and becomes a thousand new things in a thousand new homes. Voici l'histoire de la destruction et de la renaissance de ce qui fût un grand navire, preuve qu’à l’ère du recyclage dans laquelle nous vivons, un objet peut être plus que la somme de ses composants usés et attaqués par la rouille. Il s'agit de montrer la transformation d’un vieux pétrolier en un millier de choses utiles ayant de nouvelles vies dans de nouveaux lieux. Jusqu'à présent le Tomabov et sa cargaison d’or noir était un rouage important de l’économie occidentale, parcourant des milliers de kilomètres chaque année. Désormais le Tomabov est en fin de vie et une nouvelle peut commencer. Ce film suivra la trace du Tomabov, de son démantèlement sur les plages de désassemblage du Bengladesh, à sa décomposition en un millier d’objets dans autant de nouveaux foyers. LENGTH : 70 MIN LENGTH : 52 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY Tomas Leach is an award-winning young director with a strong visual style. He has directed work for broadcasters, commercial clients and NGO’s across Europe. His film Beekeeping After War has recently been shortlisted for the Bloomberg Best Newcomer award at the 2008 Grierson Documentary Awards. Recents credits includes : ‘‘All The Drunken Horsemen’. (RTSi Switzerland, DigiBeta – 52’), ‘Micro Credit’ (HD – 4 x60”, Benetton), ’I Am Amazon’ (Century Films for Channel 4, DigiBeta – 4x3’), ‘Beekeeping After War – stories from the former Yugoslavia’ (Fabrica for RTSi, DVC – 52’). KINÉ ALESSANDRO CARROLI A JOURNEY WITH FELLINI - ON THE TRAIL OF AN UNREALIZED MASTERPIECE DIRECTOR : LUCA MAGI There is a film Fellini wrote before La Dolce Vita, which very few people know about, also because he never made it : A Journey with Anita. The biographically inspired film tells the journey of a writer, travelling by Cadillac, from Rome to the Adriatic Sea in order to reach his father’s deathbed. It is the most intimate story by Fellini, a return to the origins narrated in the form of a road-movie, an initiation accomplished through confrontation with the landscapes and the traditions of central Italy. A young director, enchanted by this wonderful story, decides - fifty years on – to retake that journey. In a Cadillac, guided by Fellini’s text, he will go deep into the countryside of Lazio and Tuscany trying to solve the mysterious charms of this unrealized masterpiece. Fellini écrivit un film avant La dolce vita que peu de gens connaissent, sans doute aussi parce que Fellini ne le réalisa jamais : Voyage avec Anita. Ce film, d’inspiration autobiographique, raconte le voyage initiatique d’un écrivain, de Rome à la mer adriatique, à bord d’une Cadillac, pour rejoindre son père gravement malade. C’est l’histoire la plus intime de Fellini, un retour aux sources raconté sous la forme d’un road-movie, une initiation qui se réalise à travers la confrontation aux paysages et aux traditions de l’Italie du centre. Un jeune réalisateur, séduit par cette histoire extraordinaire, décide – cinquante ans après – de refaire ce voyage. A bord d’une Cadillac, guidé par le texte de Fellini, il parcourra les campagnes du Latium et de la Toscane pour tenter de mettre au jour le charme mystérieux de ce chef d’oeuvre jamais réalisé. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Luca Magi (1976) got his degree in Multimedia Design and Direction at the Fine Arts Academy in Urbino. As a drawer, animator and illustrator, he worked for several companies and many important Italians publishing houses (Rainbow, Clementoni, Giunti, Mondadori, Eli, Raffaello). He followed his artistic path mainly in the video art field. His creations has been exposed in many nationals and internationals festivals, and artistic manifestations , just like the Torino Film Festival, the Flash Art Museum in Trevi, the Transmedia Festival in Berlin and the collective expo After Urban in New York. Since 2006, he cooperates with the Oldrado da Ponte gallery in Milan. In 2007 he realised the videos for the Grand Retour, an event linked to the international manifestation, “Turin, Books World Capital”. Main works: Sovrappensiero (2003); IOOI (2004); Passi A Tempo (2005); Il Buco (2005); Urbino/Paesaggio umano (2007); Almeisan (2007) 20 Chapter PARTICIPANTS KINOETIKA Cycle 2008 ANTONELLA SIGNORE THE GOLD FROM BELGRADE This film is about one of the greatest and most amazing robberies in the 20th century: the plundering of 62 tons of gold from the Yugoslav National Bank, looted by the Italian Secret Service in 1941. From Montenegro to Mar de la Plata, the plot will bring us to the discovery - in the early years of the Cold War - of a vast international conspiracy led by Anglo-American Services and the Black International to control Mediterranean and South American countries. A hitherto untold spy story, a documentary on secrets that involved Churchill and Peron, J. J. Angleton and Licio Gelli, Tito and Truman, as well as a raft of war criminals, secret agents, partisans, bankers, mystics and plotters... Voici l’histoire d’un des vols les plus spectaculaire du 20ème siècle: la soustraction de 62 tonnes d’or de la Banque Nationale de Yougoslavie par les services secrets italiens en 1941. Du Monténégro à Mar de la Plata, cette aventure conduit à une grande intrigue internationale durant les premières années de la Guerre Froide, orchestrée par les services secrets angloaméricains et par l’Internationale Noire, pour le contrôle de la Méditerranée et de l’Amérique du Sud. Un événement avéré mais jamais raconté, un documentaire et un thriller tournant autour de secrets impliquant aussi bien Churchill, Peron, J.J. Angleton, Licio Gelli, Tito, Truman que des partisans, des criminels de guerre, des directeurs de banque, et des mouvements sectaires … LES PRODUCTIONS DU LAGON LENGTH : 60 & 90 MIN LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN VALÉRIE DUPIN LIFE OR DEBT IN CONGO KINSHASA DIRECTOR : JEAN-PIERRE CARLON Thirty-two years of dictatorship and two wars later, the Democratic Republic of Congo is still paying back its debt from its colonial past. With “Life or debt in Congo Kinshasa” we are plunged into the daily struggle of peasant farmer, Victor, a former university lecturer, who has been fighting for years for the illegitimacy of the debt to be recognised. Indeed, an audit would enable possible corruption and the responsibilities of creditors in this embezzlement to be revealed. Therefore, the Mobutu years are a textbook case. The “white elephants” are only an illustration of this: enormous sums are lent to pharaonic works which will never be profitable and by doing so, the country becomes indebted, presenting a major and structural obstacle in its development. After having followed Victor on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the film takes on a truly investigative slant, transporting us to the behind-the-scenes of the IMF, the World Bank and the Club of Paris to explain and dissect this harsh mechanism, which seems to condemn the poorest countries to an economic dependency through which the countries of the North subjugate the countries of the South, without giving them any choice in the matter. Après 32 ans de dictature et deux guerres, la RDC continue de rembourser la dette contractée depuis son passé colonial. "Life or debt in Congo Kinshasa" nous plongera dans le combat quotidien de Victor, un ancien professeur d’université devenu paysan, qui se bat depuis des années pour que soit reconnue l’illégitimité de la dette. Un audit permettrait en effet de mettre en évidence d’éventuelles pratiques de corruption ainsi que les responsabilités des créanciers dans ces détournements. A ce titre, les années Mobutu constituent un cas d’école. Les "éléphants blancs" ne sont que l'illustration de ce phénomène: on prête des sommes colossales pour des ouvrages pharaoniques qui ne seront jamais rentables et par là même, on endette un pays, ce qui constitue un obstacle majeur et structurel à son développement. Après avoir suivi Victor sur le terrain, en RDC, le film deviendra une véritable enquête qui nous fera voyager dans les arcanes du FMI, de la Banque Mondiale, du Club de Paris pour expliquer et décortiquer le mécanisme implacable par lequel les pays du Nord assujettissent les pays du Sud sans leur laisser le moindre choix. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Jean-Pierre Carlon has been making documentaries for about 15 years. Following many years at the Foundation of Archives of the Audiovisual History of the Holocaust (founded by Steven Spielberg), Carlon then focused on the history of WWII making three films: “Operation Sultan” on the January 1943 raids in Marseille and the bombing of the Vieux-Port, “Auschwitz, words to describe it” about survivors’ difficulties in talking about the Holocaust. In “Shorn in 44” he deals with an episode of the Liberation that had long remained taboo. He has also been interested in the French colonisation of Algeria and the subsequent decolonisation (“Words of Pieds-Noirs”). Another part of his work is characterised by films of a social and geopolitical nature which analyse the situation of certain developing countries, in particular Sri Lanka (“Ratnapura or the stone mirage”, “Of islands and men…”). Cycle 2008 LUIFILM I NDIVIDUAL Chapter PARTICIPANTS 21 LUISELLA PALLADINO MAY’S SECRETS DIRECTOR : LUISELLA PALLADINO A film to give a voice and a life to two forgotten women: Fusako Shigenobu, 65 yrs old, founder and leader of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) in 1972 and her daughter May Shigenobu, 35, born in Lebanon, stateless for 28 yrs and now living in Japan. May is the daughter of a terrorist in Japan but the daughter of a hero in Lebanon. A universal human story behind the idealism of revolution and the realism of war set in two complex countries like Japan and Lebanon. The inner secrets of a mother and her daughter who had to make though choices in order to survive. LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 52 & 80 MIN Le portrait d'une jeune femme japonaise dans les annés 60 et de sa fille aujourd'hui : deux femmes japonaises exceptionelles dans deux pays complexes : le Japon et le Liban. Fusako Shigenobu, 60 ans, est fondatrice et leader de l’Armée rouge Japonaise en 1972. Sa fille May Shigenobu, est née au Liban d'un père palestinien. Sans nationalité durant 28 ans, elle est désormais à la recherche de son identité au Japon. Au Liban, elle était considerée comme la fille d’une héroïne, tandis qu’au Japon comme la fille d’une femme terroriste. Cette double identité créée un conflit qui sera au coeur du film. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Born in Turin, Italy, 1961. Studied Japanese Language and Literature. In Japan from 1987 to 1997, worked as producer for a docu-entertainment program of Fuji Television. In 1998 in Italy, she continued working with Japanese media as an international producer specializing in Japan & Italy. She worked on many UK projects as TV researcher/line producer for BBC, Channel 4 and other UK programmes. LUNA W WIKTORIA SZYMANSKA THEMERSON AND THEMERSON DIRECTOR : WIKTORIA SZYMANSKA In the spring of 1975, after giving an interview for German TV, Stefan Theme son 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. Though they don’t remember how they met in 1929, they made a film together. Her lines often gave life to his imagination. Working together they inspired one another as well as other collaborators. In 1938, the Themersons left Warsaw for Paris to continue their work at the centre of avant-garde. During the War time contact between Franciszka and Stefan was lost. Their physical separation but eternal connection is the epitome of their creative union. In summer, miraculously reunited, they make more films. They traversed the various languages of speech and images. Her images married his words till the end. She died in June 1988, he shortly after. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Film director and producer of Luna W. Born in Poland, lives in London. A graduate from the National Polish Film School in Lodz. In Paris she joined La Luna Productions, where she was responsable for the development and post production on features, documentaries and shorts films. At the same time she worked as production manager on many film projects and TV projects (Kien Productions, Les Films du Poisson, Les Films du Cygne and La Luna Productions). Currently, colaborates also with Channel 4 and Viasat, Arte programme Chic. Wiktoria is the author of the following films: La Bobine, The portrait of an artist – Brygida Mrozek, Fall. Archie. 22 Chapter PARTICIPANTS Cycle MIL COLORES MEDIA / AUTENTIKA FILMS 2008 GUDULA MEINZOLT DAVID AND THE MIGHTY RIVER DIRECTOR : RUBÉN PLATANEO David Bangoura, a young, passionate rapper from Conakry in Guinea, once again tried to escape on a cargo ship, looking for freedom and better perspectives. Three weeks later and half dead, David arrived in Rosario, Argentina on the shore of the Paraná river in one of the largest soy exportation ports. David is among the first Africans in Argentina for 140 years. He is now recognised as refugee. David tells us about his experiences, his friends and his dreams in the striking rhythm of his multilingual rap. He has two clear objectives: To record an album with his songs so he will also become famous in Guinea and to reconnect with his family and country. David Bangoura, jeune Guinéen de Conakry, chanteur passionné de hip-hop, a tenté à plusieurs reprises de s’enfuir à bord d’un cargo à la recherche de liberté et de nouvelles perspectives. Un jour, il y est parvenu. À demi-mort, il est arrivé en Argentine dans l’immense port d’exportation de soja de Rosario, au bord du fleuve Paraná. David est alors un des premiers Africains à arriver en Argentine. Aujourd’hui, il a obtenu le statut de refugié et veut raconter sa vie et ses rêves au rythme de son rap, multilingue. Ses deux objectifs: enregistrer la musique qui le rendra, un jour, célèbre aussi en Guinée et rependre contact avec sa famille et son pays. LENGTH : 90 MIN LENGTH : 52 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY Rubén Plataneo started his training at the Cinema Club’s school in Santa Fe, Argentina, with filmmakers as Fernando Birri. He has been working as director of fiction and documentary shorts (e.g. La extinction de la especie, Waterfront) and music videos, screened internationally too. As scholar he was in charge of the Youth Film and Video workshop for years. In Rosario he co-founded the independent production company Calanda Producciones working as camera, photographer and producer for own projects as well as for colleagues and film critic. His first creative feature documentary, Muertes Indebidas/Unlawful Deaths (2005), has been selected and awarded at numerous national and international festivals. His fiction feature film project, Yo me llamo/They Call Me, was awarded the Hubert Bals Fund 2007. Rubén Plataneo is currently working on several documentaries on artists and “marginal princes” as Tanke Papii, Dante and David and the Mighty River. MY MAX E DUTAINMENT MARIA TERESA TRINGALI THE TRAIN OF THE GODS DIRECTOR : MASSIMO MY What happens in a city like Rome when a project of urbanization becomes an utmost urgent need to treat traffic, pollution, and to turn archaeology into a living object? How could the severe preservation attitude of archaeologists venture to destroy relics of the glorious past to build the new subway line, passing beneath the historic centre? As construction on the subway begins, many historical finds are discovered in the subsoil, impeding the work’s progress. Archaeologists, architects and citizens agree the city needs to evolve, but how to reconcile Archaeology, Conservation and the Future? A virtual journey underground, in the history of the Eternal City projected toward the future. Que se passe t-il dans une ville comme Rome quand un projet d'urbanisation devient une nécessité extrême à gérer le trafic, la pollution et à transformer l'archéologie en objet vivant ? La tendance des archéologues à la conservation pourrait se voir contredite par la destruction de reliques appartenant à un passé glorieux, pour construire la nouvelle ligne de métro, passant en-dessous du centre historique. Dés le début de la construction du métro, de nombreuses reliques historiques ont été découvertes dans le sous-sol, et ces dernières empêchent le développement des travaux. Archéologues, architectes et citoyens reconnaissent que la ville doit se développer. Mais comment peut-on réconcilier l'archéologie, la conservation et le futur ? Un voyage virtuel et souterrain dans l'histoire de la Ville Éternelle, projetée vers l'avenir. BIOFILMOGRAPHY After having worked as a graphic video designer, in post-production, writing and directing cultural and multi-media production, He directed: ‘PADRE PIO OF PIETRELCINA, CRUCIFIXION WITHOUT A CROSS’, ‘IN THE LAND OF THE KING OF KINGS’ and ‘NEMI, THE MYSTERY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE’, ‘THE TOWER OF POWER’, and the on-line Virtual Museum of Caprai Textile Arts. In 2004 he founded MyMax Edutainment Ltd, specialized in graphic visual effects and documentaries for the Italian and international market; at the moment he is developing and producing several films for the Italian Ministry of Culture focused on the preservation of the Italian archaeological heritage, for RAI and other private institutions, among which ‘LIVING BIBBIA’. Cycle 2008 N EON ROUGE PRODUCTION Chapter PARTICIPANTS 23 JOËLLE LONJON WARM GREETINGS FROM THE COLONY DIRECTOR : NATHALIE BORGERS “When I was 49, a woman knocked at my door. She told me she was working for a Rwandan association and asked me to confirm my name: Suzanne B. Then she said: Madam, your mother has been looking for you for years now...” Born in Rwanda in 1926, Suzanne is the daughter of the Belgian Ruanda-Urundi District Supervisor of the time and an indigenous woman. «A half-breed saved from a negro destiny», as is then commonly said in Europe, Suzanne is 4 years old when she travels to Belgium with her father and the young white woman he has just married. She doesn’t know that she will never see her mother and her two brothers again. Her mother doesn’t know that her daughter will not come back. Why did her father so carefully hide the existence of Suzanne’s mother? Why did he choose to bring her half-breed daughter back to Belgium, leaving his two sons behind in Rwanda, and setting their destinies onto divergent paths? Haunted by this lie and the taboo which confined her life, at 82 years old, Suzanne is rediscovering the past. «Warm greetings from the Colony» tells the story of Suzanne’s life, piecing together the missing parts like a puzzle. LENGTH : 52 MIN LENGTH : 60 & 90 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY In Paris since 1993, she has been writing and directing documentaries for various production companies (Lapsus, Artline, Cinétévé, Zeugma). Her recent filmography includes : Dealing with destiny, ( 52’ – documentary, ARTE, 2005); Citizen Krone, documentary; When the self hurts, (83’documentary, « Hors Série », France 3, 2000); Zero-casualty war, (40’-documentary, ARTE, June 1999); Greyhound, one-way ticket, (52’-documentary, La Cinquième/RTBF, 1998); We are family, (49’-documentary, ARTE 1997); Citizen Krone (documentary, Arte 2002); Where Are the Women? (52’-documentary, Arte, March 2006). She prepares her first feature-length documentary for theatrical release (90'/35mm), Winds of sand, Women of rock, the tale of a tradition carried by Tubu women in the Sahara. Entre Chien et Loup (B)/ Lotus Film (A) coproduction. ODD GIRL OUT PRODUCTIONS SAMANTHA ZARZOSA FAIRIES AT THE MAGIC KINGDOM DIRECTOR : EVA WEBER Disney World in Florida, visited by millions every year, is a synonym for good clean family fun, wholesomeness and the American Way. Yet, every year in June, thousand-upon-thousands of gay and lesbian visitors gather for an alternative ‘family outing’ at Walt’s surreal little kingdom. It’s Gay Day at Disney World! Taking Gay Day at its starting point, ‘Fairies at the Magic Kingdom’ is a humorous look at the changing nature of family values and will examine the accidental and deliberate embrace of gay consumers by America's most calculating purveyor of "family values" entertainment. Visité par des millions de touristes chaque année, Disneyland en Floride est synonyme de divertissement sain et bon enfant, de vie à l’américaine (le fameux American Way of Life). Pourtant, chaque année en juin, des milliers de gays et de lesbiennes se rassemblent pour une « sortie en famille » alternative dans le petit monde surréaliste de Walt. Il s’agit de la Journée Gay à Disneyland ! Cette journée sera le point de départ au film. Aperçu humoristique des valeurs familiales en pleine mutation, « Fairies at the Magic Kingdom » examine comment le plus calculateur des fournisseurs américains de divertissement (autour de « valeurs familiales ») s’est accidentellement et délibérément emparé des consommateurs gays. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Originally from Germany, Eva Weber is a London-based director working in both documentary and fiction. Eva began her career making several award-winning short fiction films, before joining the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1998. Since leaving the BBC, Eva has directed a number of award-winning documentary films that have competed at numerous film festivals worldwide. Her film ‘The Intimacy of Strangers’ was premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival and won, amongst others, the President's Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In 2007, she directed the short documentary ‘City of Cranes’ for Channel 4. ‘City of Cranes’ has screened, amongst others, at SXSW, Cinequest, Sheffield Doc/Fest and MoMA; and won only recently the Award for Best Documentary Short at Los Angeles Film Festival, the Hellenic Red Cross Audience Award at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival and the Jury Award for Best Short at Full Frame. Her latest film ‘The Solitary Life of Cranes’ is being premiered at BRITDOC this year. Filmography: Eva Weber - Director The Solitary Life of Cranes 2008 - Steel Homes 2008 - City of Cranes 2007 - The Intimacy of Strangers 2005 - Makings of a Queen 2000 - Dyke Blend 1996 - Disgraceful Conduct 1995 Stealing Desire 1994 Cycle 2008 SEP & SAN FILM PRODUCTION Chapter PARTICIPANTS 25 N ICOLAS ROVERE C’EST UNE FILLE DIRECTOR : FRANZ JOSEF HOLZER In 1977, NASA launched into space the Golden Record, a disk carried by the twin Voyager spacecrafts. Intended to draw the portrait of humanity for any possible extraterrestrial intelligence, this message appears to be a concentrate of our school-years nightmares: anatomical charts, views of the Earth, DNA structure schemes... Thirty years later, Franz Josef Holzer intends to draw an alternative picture of NASA message: a cinematographic letter to aliens, that will follow a concrete example of a human being: four-yearsold Zora, from her conception to the first years of her life... En 1977, la NASA lance le Golden Record, un disque embarqué dans les sondes spatiales Voyager. Conçu pour devenir le portrait de l’humanité à l’usage des extraterrestres, il apparaît surtout comme un concentré de nos cauchemars d’écoliers : planches anatomiques, vues de la Terre, coupes d’ADN… Trente ans plus tard, Franz Josef Holzer entend proposer aux aliens une version alternative du message de la NASA : une lettre cinématographique aux extraterrestres, qui suivrait un exemple concret de l’humanité sous les traits de la petite Zora, 4 ans, filmée de sa conception aux premières années de sa vie… BIOFILMOGRAPHY Franz Josef Holzer is the only director-neurologist in activity at the present time. Born in 1967 in Eastern Switzerland, he began making films in the mid-80’s with his friend Peter Merk. He then worked as a cameraman and coproducer. The three films made by the friends were shown in international festivals and broadcasted by Swiss television. Back to the cinema after his medical studies, Franz Josef wrote and directed two fictions: short film Deux (2000) – Pardino d’Oro for the best short at Locarno Film Festival in 2001 – and feature film The Gap (2007), official selection at Montréal World Film Festival. TELEVISIO DE CATALUNYA MONTSERRAT TARRÉS FERNANDEZ COMMISSIONING EXECUTIVE As producer of the weekly current affairs program “30 Minuts”, Muntsa Tarrés is responsible for the production and budget control of the program’s weekly report. She also produces "60 Minuts", a weekly current affairs program offering a selection of the best reports produced by other television networks. She has coordinated several of “30 Minuts’” international coproductions (i.e., “Hurricane Chávez” with RTSR, “African Exodus” with Al Jazeera, etc.) and has participated in UNESCO’s last three biannual TV Environment projects in which approximately 30 different television networks from around the world analyze the changing role of women. Since 2006, she has been teaching a course on the production of news reports as part of the Master’s program on Innovation and Quality in Television organized by Barcelona’s Universitat Autonoma, Pompeu Fabra University and TV3. She began her career at TVC as news reporter for the Evening News, for the program “33 News” directed by Josep Cuní, and for “International Headlines,” a daily newscast for foreigners spending the summer in Catalonia. She was also producer for the program “El Cangur” from TVC’s New Formats Department. FILMOGRAPHY : 2002 – Passionate about Gaudi // Franco’s forgotten children 2003 – The Spanish Holocaust; Cuba, message from Havana; Casablanca, a portarit of terrorist 2004 – Walls; 927 on the train to hell; Balseros (feature film) - 2005 – Ravensbruck, the women’s hell; The kurdish dilemma - 2006 – An african exodus; Juarez, unanswered crimes; Depleted Uranium - 2007 – Guernica, portrait of war; Septembers (feature film) - 2008 – Mined lives; Argentina, the wheels of justice. LENGTH : 90 MIN 26 Chapter PARTICIPANTS TEMPS NOIR Cycle 2008 TANCRÈDE RAMONET ARTS AND DRUGS - ARTISTS UNDER INFLUENCE DIRECTOR : PATRICK BARBÉRIS Art and Drugs, artists under influence questions the close relationship between imagination and narcotics; and it shows how and why for two thousand years drugs have been a source of inspiration and creation for these artists. It's a means of experimenting new forms of expression that go beyond rationality, private trips into disturbed consciousness. Far from a vindicatory speech on psychotropics, Arts & Drugs artists, under influence tells the story often tragic of these creators and spectators who thought they have found in their disturbed consciousness a new way to genius. Many found the way to death. Art & drugs, des artistes sous influence interroge la relation intime qu’entretiennent depuis toujours imaginaire et narcotiques, et montre comment et pourquoi, depuis deux millénaires, les drogues sont pour les artistes à la fois source d’inspiration et thème de création, moyen d’expérimentation de nouvelles formes d’expression au-delà de la rationalité et récit de voyages intimes dans l’altération de la conscience. Loin d’un discours apologétique sur les psychotropes, Art & drugs, des artistes sous influence raconte l’histoire souvent tragique de ces créateurs qui ont cru trouver dans l’altération de leur conscience une nouvelle forme de génie. Beaucoup ont fini par y trouver la mort. LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN LENGTH : 52 MIN BIOFILMOGRAPHY Ancien élève de l'Idhec, section réalisation et montage, lauréat de la Villa Médicis Hors les Murs, Patrick Barbéris a réalisé des documentaires sur des thématiques historiques et culturelles. Il est l'un des grands spécialistes du travail sur les archives. Parmi ses nombreuses réalisations à l'international : Vietnam : La Trahison des medias, Le Siècle de Verdun, Les Ombres du bagne, La Foi du siècle : une histoire du communisme, Roman Karmen : un cinéaste au service de la révolution, Avignon passions publiques, ainsi qu'une collection de films d'art sur les ateliers des artistes contemporains, et la série La Mémoire en chantant, qui revisitait le XXe siècle en chansons. Son travail a été de nombreuses fois primé à travers les festivals les plus prestigieux (FIPA, Input, Toronto, IDFA, Nyon, Bilbao, Cinéma du réel, Chicago…). TGA ALINE HOUDY THE WOLDEBA, THE LAND OF MONKS DIRECTOR : JEAN-LOUIS SAPORITO The Woldeba is a region in the North-West of Ethiopia that extends over 400km2. About one thousand monks and hermits live in this unaccesible place. “The Woldeba, or the valley of hyenas, is a land exclusively inhabited by monks who are inclined to mortification and have voluntarily retired in this sweltering, unhealthy and dangerous land to live a life of penitence, meditation and prayer.” This is how, in 1770, the Scotsman James Bruce described this region. Today, at the break of the 21st century, the Woldeba still remains largely unknown, even among Ethiopians. The object of the film is simple : to travel all over and bring back the first filmed testimony of this "land of monks". Le Woldeba est une région de 400 km2 qui se situe au Nord-Ouest de l’Ethiopie. Près d’un millier de moines et d’ermites vivent dans ce lieu inaccessible. « Le Woldeba, ou vallée des hyènes, est un territoire exclusivement occupé par des moines qui, enclins à la mortification, se sont volontairement retirés dans ce pays torride, malsain et dangereux, afin d’y mener une vie de pénitence, de méditation et de prière ». C’est ainsi que l’Écossais James Bruce, un des grands écrivains voyageurs, décrit en 1770 cette région. Aujourd’hui au début du XXIème siècle, le Woldeba reste toujours largement méconnu, même parmi les Ethiopiens. L’intention de ce film est simple : rapporter le premier témoignage filmé de cette « terre des moines ». BIOFILMOGRAPHY Jean-Louis Saporito discovered Ethiopia in 1966 and had since visited this country over thirty times. He has produced and directed several documentaries about Ethiopia. In 1967, he joined Antenne 2, first as a cameraman to then become the current affair magazine’s editor-in-chief and director of documentaries. In 1987, he founded the production company ‘Point du Jour’. Over a period of thirteen years, he produced magazines for French television and more than 200 feature documentaries (F2, F3, F5, Canal +, Arte, M6…). In 2001 he founded ‘Contrechamps’, an NGO that provides support for journalistes working in Niger. He has since directed several documentaries about Africa, such as “Nothing is too beautiful for God” (France5-RTBF-CFRT), a film on the Christians of Ethiopia produced by TGA in 2007. Cycle 2008 TITA PRODUCTIONS Chapter PARTICIPANTS 27 FRED PREMEL TARR BELÀ, CINÉASTE ET AU-DELÀ DIRECTOR : JEAN-MARC LAMOURE When the film-fleuve Satantango is released in 1994, the Hungarian Béla Tarr establishes himself as an old master in cinematography. Each new opus is waited as an event : “His films are so much closer to the daily life rhythms, that it appears we witness the birth of a new cinema”, Gus Van Sant. Between two filmings of the director, Jean-Marc Lamoure invites us to Budapest and in the wide hungarian plain, to meet sensitively Béla Tarr and his close collaborators, where fiction and real confront. Avec la sortie du film fleuve Satantago en 1994, le Hongrois Béla Tarr s’est imposé comme un des grands maîtres du cinématographe, dont chaque nouvel opus est attendu comme un évènement : « Ils sont si proches du rythme de la vie que l’on a l’impression d’assister à la naissance d’un nouveau cinéma », Gus Van Sant. Entre deux tournages du cinéaste, le réalisateur Jean-Marc Lamoure nous convie à Budapest puis dans la grande plaine hongroise, à une rencontre sensible avec Béla Tarr et sa famille de création, où se confrontent le réel et la fiction. BIOFILMOGRAPHY Jean-Marc Lamoure lives and works in Marseilles, and sees himself as a “franc-filmeur” (“straightup” film maker). His last movie, “Farenji”, written for a “ciné-concert”, fully investigates his personal search. It is a mix of digital and silver images (super8); it is a whirlwind of sounds, a humanist speech which seeks to exceed borders and nationalist preaching (Farenji tells the story of a journey, an escape, taking us from Marseilles to Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia). With “Tarr Béla, Cinéaste et au-delà”, he takes us right to the heart of the Hungarian cinematographer’s work. LENGTH : 60 MIN FILMS 2008 Chapter 29 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) 30 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 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) 31 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 32 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 : Le Parti Pris 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) 33 FILMS Partner : ZDF / Arte, Doris Hepp 34 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) 35 36 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 37 38 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 39 40 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 41 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 42 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) 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) In the late 1990s, Antonio Checa, a lawyer and underwater fishing amateur, discovered the remains of C-3, a submarine of the Republican Spanish fleet, off the coast of Malaga, sunk in December 1936. This submarine was the forgotten vestige of the Nazi German fleet’s first naval battle: Operation Ursula, a secret mission during which 37 members of the Republican crew perished. It was a rehearsal, in real conditions, for the use of “U-Boots,” which would earn a sinister reputation during World War Two. 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 Partner : Canal Sur TV (Spain) Festivals : Oficial competition in 2007: Festival de Cine Español de Málaga DocumentaMadrid Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo Istanbul LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-Screening 2005 DIRECTOR : LAURE BUDIN PRODUCER : JÉRÔME AMIMER COMPANY : LEITMOTIV PRODUCTION (FRANCE) 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 43 44 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 45 46 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 47 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 48 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 49 50 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 51 52 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 53 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 54 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 55 56 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 57 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 58 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 59 60 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 61 62 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 63 64 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 ? 65 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. 66 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 67 68 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 69 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 Partners : ARTE France LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : NEETA JAIN-DUHAUT PRODUCER : CÉLINE MAUGIS COMPANY : LA VIE EST BELLE (FRANCE) DANSE TAUREAU, DANSE ! 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 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 70 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 71 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 MARIAGES ARRANGÉS DIRECTOR : BERNARD DEBORD PARTNER : FRANCE 5, RTBF LENGTH : 52 MIN DIRECTOR : CAROL EQUER-HAMY PRODUCER : LAURENT BOCAHUT COMPANY : DOMINANT 7 (FRANCE) ¿ DONDE ESTAN ? DIRECTOR : AURINE CRÉMIEU PARTNER : ODYSSÉE, RTBF, HISTOIRE 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 72 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 73 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 75 PRODUCTION THE FOUR SEASONS OF TOTO AND SIMON AVANT DE PARTIR LENGTH : 90 MIN DIRECTOR : MOHAMED ZRAN PRODUCER : MOHAMED ZRAN COMPANY : SANGHO FILMS (TUNESIA) EURODOCmed Simon is of jewish faith and is the keeper of a hardware shop. His shop is a meeting place for many of the inhabitants of Zarzis. Trought the men and women who come and shop for mulitiple products, the film shows the upheaval and extensive changes undergone in Zarzis, a middle-sized town affected by globalization. LENGTH : 60 MIN DIRECTOR : REINE MITRI PRODUCER : ANNE-MARIE LUCCIONI COMPANY : DJINN HOUSE (LEBANON) EURODOCmed Au début du film une phrase sur noir annonce ce qui est à venir : « je vis chaque instant comme si je gagnais du temps avant qu’il ne se passe quelque chose de grave, avant la prochaine guerre, avant que la vie ne s’arrête ». Ce film est un chemin, un segment de vie. Il débute par des images en 2003, « les beaux jours » où il était encore possible de danser dans les rues de Beyrouth, et continue par le récit des temps tourmentés qui durent depuis 2005. C’est une chronique qui raconte les séquelles d’une guerre dévastatrice, et décrit les journées d’attente et d’angoisse face aux risques d’attentats à la bombe et la menace d’une nouvelle guerre qui se prépare, dans une ville en état de siège où la présence militaire dans les rues est omniprésente. Alors que j’accompagne les préparatifs de départ de mes amis qui expriment leurs états d’âme et ce qui les pousse à partir, je reste au pays, je réalise ce film. Partners : ZDF/ARTE (Germany) RTBF (Belgium) Partners : YLE (Finland) Tunisian Television & Ministry of Culture (Tunisia) Fonds francophone de production audiovisuelle du Sud (France) Delivery : November 2008 Delivery : November 2008 THE ONE-MAN VILLAGE LENGTH : 60 MIN DIRECTOR : SIMON EL-HABRE PRODUCER : JAD ABI KHALIL COMPANY : BEIRUT DC (LEBANON) EURODOCmed The film follows the revival of the Christian village Aïn el-Halazoun in the Lebanese Mountains that was emptied in combats during the civil war in Lebanon, 1975-1990. It will take us into the daily life of the peasant Semaan. From dusk till dawn, we will follow him around and learn how this 21st century Lebanese was able to leave his urban life and return to his deserted village Aïn El Halazoun. Partner : Mec Film, Irit Neidhardt (Germany) The project was awarded at the Dubai Film Connections 2007 THE LAST LADY OF THE MELLAH IN FEZ 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 : 2009 Delivery : 2009 EURODOCmed 76 Chapter PRODUCTIONS DOUBLE TAKE LENGTH : 80 MIN DIRECTOR : JOHAN GRIMONPREZ PRODUCER : EMMY OOST COMPANY : ZAP-O-MATIK (BELGIUM) FIERCE PEOPLE EURODOC 2007 In the form of a murder plot featuring Alfred Hitchcock and his double, this essay film explores our fear - and image - driven politics of the past 50 years. Together with the rise of television in the early 1960’s, Hitchcock’s “The Birds” becomes a prophetic symbol for systems as the Cold War, the current War on Terror and the true power of the media. LENGTH : 90 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : JOSE PADHILA PRODUCERS : MIKE CHAMBERLAIN & CAROL NAHRA COMPANY : STAMPEDE LIMITED / ZAZEN (UNITED KINGDOM) IN ASSOCIATION WITH AVENUE B (FRANCE) This is the story of the war between anthropologists who are studying the origins of ‘war’. The American, French and British anthropologists fight in and amongst their subject of study: the Yanomami tribes in the Amazon rain forest, who have become the most exhaustively studied and filmed tribe on the planet. Coproducers : Volya Films, Denis Vaslin (The Netherlands) Niko Film, Hanneke Van der Tas (Germany) Novak, Olivier Dubois (Belgium) Les Films du Présent, Patrice Nézan (France) Partners : BBC ARTE YLE SBS Partners : ZDF/Arte (Germany) YLE (Finland) Raisat (Italie) With the participation of : The French Ministry of Culture and Communication Image Mouvement The City of Paris and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs La Cité Internationale des Arts Le Plateau / FRAC Ile de France The Hammer Museum’s artist in residency program Delivery : 2009 Delivery : February 2009 LUZ OBSCURA LENGTH : 70 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2002-2003 DIRECTOR : SUSANA DE SOUSA DIAS PRODUCER : ANSGAR SCHAEFER COMPANY : KINTOP (PORTUGAL) 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? Coproducer : François d’Artemarre, Les Films de l’Après-Midi (France) Delivery : 2009 Chapter PRODUCTIONS LUCIEN H ERVÉ : BUILDING IMAGES HANA, DUL, SED … LENGTH : 52 MIN EURODOC-SCRIPT 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : GERRIT MESSIAEN PRODUCER : MARTINE BARBÉ COMPANY : IMAGE CRÉATION.COM (BELGIUM) FOOTBALL AND THE DPR-KOREA The documentary “Lucien Hervé” traces the eventful life of Lucien Hervé, a multi-talented painter and photographer. Between 1949 and 1965, Lucien Hervé was Le Corbusier’s photographer of choice. It was thanks to this long collaboration with the world-renowned French architect that Hervé came to be one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. A Hungarian Jew who emigrated to France in 1929, he was a fanatical artist with a passion for life. Photography was a later vocation. He was successively a fashion designer, pianist, wrestling champion, trade union leader, director, journalist and painter. When he achieved fame as a photographer after the Second World War, it was rather in spite of himself. Partners : Ministry of the French Community of Belgium Flemish Film Fond (VAF) U.J.-I.S. Media ( Hungary) LENGTH : 80 MIN DIRECTOR : BRIGITTE WEICH PRODUCER : BRIGITTE WEICH COMPANY : RI FILME (AUSTRIA) EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005 North Korea seen through the eyes and the legs of the players of its National Women’s Soccer Team. The author makes use of the cultural gap and gets close to a bunch of tough, sweet women athletes, citizens of what is known to the rest of the world as a bizarre and horrific leader-cult-operetta. What does life look like in the last reclusive communist regime on earth? What has become of the daughters of the revolutions? Delivery : October 2008 Partners : Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fund THE LITTLE ALIEN LENGTH : 90 MIN DIRECTOR : NINA KUSTURICA PRODUCER : CARMEN WEINGARTSHOFER COMPANY : MOBILEFILM PRODUKTION (AUSTRIA) EURODOC 2007 They are teenagers who escaped from war-torn regions around the world, alone and without their parents or relatives, hoping for only one thing - to live their lives. Longing for their families, chased by fear and bad memories of pain and blood, they now have to deal with their new lives here, in a strange land. “Little Alien” tells us about their struggles through observations from the characters’ points of view, about the dreams and wishes that fill their everyday lives, in a borderline state between the horrors of the past and the uncertainty of the future. Partners : ORF (Austria) Austrian Film Institute, The Future Fund of the Republic, The State of Lower Austria Delivery : November 2008 PLAYING ADULTS LENGTH : 52 & 80 MIN DIRECTOR : PIA ANDELL PRODUCER : PIA ANDELL COMPANY : OF COURSE MY FILMS (FINLAND) EURODOC 2006 Playing Adults is a creative documentary on adults and their relationship to play and playfulness in Finland ... that is the starting point. The film draws a picture of the around-fortygeneration in the rush hour of their lives. What consumes the time at home? Play, relaxation, idle closeness with the family? Or work that never ends after the invention of mobile phones and e-mails? Free time taken over by kid’s hobbies? What space is left for play and playfulness. Or, maybe it is the grim Finnish culture with protestant ethics that prohibits us having fun after a certain age? Eventually the film is a portrait of this generation and how the world is different to their generation and to the next – or to the ones before them. This is achieved by using interviews (parent’s and children’s), a massive amount of 8mm films, photographs and archive material from the 70’s and 80’s, direct cinema scenes and by a subjective narration by the filmmaker which will interweave this all together. The style of the narration will be funny, even laconic. Partners : YLE AVEK Delivery : October 2008 OF COURSE MY FILMS 77 78 Chapter PRODUCTIONS MOON I NSIDE YOU LENGTH : 52 & 75 MIN DIRECTOR : DIANA FABIANOVA PRODUCER : JERO MOLERO COMPANY : UBAK PRODUCCIONES (SPAIN) CONVERSATION TARDIVE EURODOC 2007 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 healthy? What starts off as innocent curiosity, becomes an emotional voyage to the very roots of femininity and life. This story full of unconventional questions challenges our notion of how it feels to inhabit a woman’s body. Moon inside you is a director personal journey into the world of menstruation showing very diverse standpoints, ranging from established academics to more prosaic scopes. A fresh look at a taboo that defines the reality of both women and men in a more profound way than society might be willing to admit. An unusual story full of humour and gentle self irony in which the subject of “women“ is approached through the most elementary and obvious aspect of womanhood. 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) LENGTH : 90 MIN EURODOC-SCRIPT 2003-2004 DIRECTOR : JOANNA GRUDZINSKA PRODUCER : V.L.R. PRODUCTIONS (FRANCE) During a journey back to Poland, her native land, the film director inquires the first communist regime opposition movement that had preceded the creation of SOLIDARNOSC. A confrontation between the conversations and the landscapes, the past and the present gives the insight into Polish politics. Partner : ARTE (to be confirmed) I BERIAN U NION LENGTH : 90 MIN DIRECTOR : MIGUEL GONÇALVES MENDES PRODUCER : MIGUEL GONÇALVES MENDES COMPANY : JUMPCUT (PORTUGAL) EURODOC 2006 “Iberian Union” is the love story between the couple José Saramago (Portuguese Literature Nobel Prize) and Pilar del Rio (famous Spanish journalist). Based on intimate interviews and on the shooting of their daily life in Lanzarote - their home, and on their endless journeys throughout the world; the main idea of this documentary is to achieve an intimate/personal record, aiming to create on the viewers the sense of personally knowing the couple. Delivery : February 2009 Coproducer : El Deseo (Spain) Partners : RTP (Portugal) YLE (Finland) SVT (Sweden) Delivery : October 2008 Chapter SUPER MOM LENGTH : 70 MIN DIRECTOR : SARAH KLEIN PRODUCER : ANNE LABRO COMPANY : LA COMPAGNIE PRODUCTIONS GLIMPSED ON THE ROAD 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. From a tough Midwestern farmer’s wife with five kids to a wealthy East Coast mother of two to a working mother in Iowa, we will explore these women’s different worlds attempting to understand their hopes and dreams, pressures and fears. The film will mix verite footage of the contest with archive, photographs and interviews to paint an intimate picture of the high-octane culture of motherhood in America today. THROUGH THE EDGE OF THE WOODS LENGTH : 52 MIN DIRECTOR : JOÃO TRABULO PRODUCER : JOÃO TRABULO COMPANY : PERIFERIA FILMES (PORTUGAL) EURODOC 2006 “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… Coproducers : Dry Valleys, Benoit Gryspeerdt (France) Speakeasy Docs (USA) Partners : ARTE, Nathalie Verdier (France) RTBF, Claire Colart (Belgium) YLE, Jenny Westegaard (Finland) TSR, Gaspard Lamunière (Suisse) NOGA (Israel) Delivery : 2009 Partners : ICAM (Portugal) Fondation Edison (Italy) PERIFERIA FILMES Delivery : 2008 RADIATION C ITY LENGTH : 52 MIN DIRECTOR : ANTHONY BUTTS PRODUCER : SARAH TIERNEY COMPANY : CLARITY PRODUCTIONS (UK) EURODOC 2006 Hiroshima. Bikini Atoll. Chernobyl. Nevada. All nuclear landmarks towards which memory and imagination need no signpost. But shockingly the Cold War’s most callous experiment has remained hidden from public knowledge for nearly 60 years… Constructed in 1945 in a remote corner of Kazakhstan, Kurchatov - one of Stalin’s ‘secret cities’ – formed the epicentre of a massive nuclear testing which, over four decades, released the equivalent of more than 20,000 times the radiation of the Hiroshima bomb. Kurchatov’s grandiose Soviet architecture is now crumbling: the city an eerie ghost town now dubbed ‘Radiation City’. But the areas atomic legacy lives on… The inhabitants of this desolate region remain hostages of their history and their homeland, medically and financially crippled and forgotten. Delivery : October 2007 79 80 Chapter PRODUCTIONS JACK LENGTH : 75 & 52 MIN DIRECTOR : SERGEJ KRESO PRODUCER : DENIS VASLIN COMPANY : VOLYA FILMS (THE NETHERLANDS) C UBATON EURODOC 2007 In 1974, after moving to Yugoslavia, Belgian-Congolese pop star Jack Roskam becomes guitarist in one of the most popular bands of that country: Galija. At the time of the outbreak of Balkan war, Jack’s pacifist convictions are sorely tested. He is forced to change his Fender guitar for a Kalashnikov and fight in the Croatian army. In this musical film, Jack travels with Bosnian director Sergej Kreso through former Yugoslavia visiting places and people that counted in his life. The film tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary man in exceptional historical circumstances. The questions still confronting Jack are the dilemmas Sergej has to face up too. Is it possible in time of war to hold firm to your personal axioms? Is it possible to maintain a neutral position? Will it be interpreted as indifference in the middle of a conflict? Coproducer : Serendipity Film, Ellen de Waele (Belgium) Partner : IKON TV, Martin Fröberg (The Netherlands) Delivery : October 2008 THE CHILDREN OF BUENA VISTA LENGTH : 58 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : DANIEL FRIDELL PRODUCER : MARGUS OUNAPUU COMPANY : FILM TOWER KUUBIS (ESTONIA) Can a capitalist music producer and a communist doctor and artist work together? In Cuba they can! Michel Miglis – a Swedish music producer, known for his provocative ideas and El Medico – a doctor and a singer, born and raised in the midst of the Cuban Revolution and who’s values are in total contrast to the cynical Western music industry. It all started from a mix tape, where Michael suddenly heard a fantastic voice. After long-lasting 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 to trust Michel and the song “Chupa Chupa” was recorded. The song became a worldwide hit! Then the trouble began! The film is based on paradoxes of Cuba. It’s a prison for its nation but also an oasis of very emphatic people. It’s a country of poverty but where you look after your own. It’s an island where state owns its subjects from cradle to grave but where people still manage to live the day and enjoy the moment. Cuban Reggaeton is an underground musical movement in this archaic society; a commercial music as a subversive force in a cultural reactionary but social revolutionary society. We are fascinated by this contradiction. We believe we have something to show to the world: To have nothing but still enjoy life. Carpe Diem! Coproducer : Röde Orm Film (Sweden) Partners : New Danes Production (Denmark) Filmpool Nord (Sweden) SVT (Sweden) Delivery : 2008 Chapter PRODUCTIONS COOKING H ISTORY SEX THEREFORE I AM LENGTH : 90 MIN EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : PETER KEREKES PRODUCER : RALPH WIESER COMPANY : MISCHIEF-FILMS (AUSTRIA) LENGTH : 52 MIN DIRECTOR : TOMMASO LUSENA PRODUCER : GIUSEPPE SCHILLACI COMPANY : DOWNTOWN PICTURES (ITALY) The main characters of “Cooking History“ are cooks in the army. They are ordinary men in aprons worn over their uniforms, whose task is to feed the army. They take care of the operation of a giant stomach, a big hungry child with its moods – the Army. At first sight their function is not as significant as that of tank brigades, airforce units or paratroopers. But it is on their field kitchens (there is a reason why they are nicknamed “goulash-canons“) that the success of “armed stomachs“ – the soldiers, depends on. Without its cooks the army loses its strength and thus, its sense. The army cooks had the ability of influencing the moods and performance of the soldiers. They made an impact on history by their pots and pans. The film is going to be based on personal stories of a variety of army cooks. Together with them, we are going to watch “Grand History“ from behind the stoves. Antoine d’Agata is an Italian-French photographer for the Magnum Agency who works in contexts of social alienation and degradation. Like glimpses into a private diary, his images give us a sense of the artist’s fragility, constantly searching out the beauty and poetry hidden within the dark side of humanity. This documentary examines the life and art of Antoine D’Agata and the reality which inspires his images, following the journalist Philippe Azoury’s journey in Cambodia, where the photographer is currently working. “Too much but not enough” is a journey, a dizzying descent to the obsessions of an artist who lives his life in extreme and desperate way, to the desolation of the remoter districts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in a context of exploitation, desire and perdition. A poetic progression into the depths of humanity such as have inspired so many cineastes, artists and writers in contemporary culture, from Celine to Pasolini, Miller to Bataille. Partners : ORF, Austria YLE, Finland RAIsat, Italy Czech TV Coproducers : Peter Kerekes S.R.O., Slovakia Pavel Strnad, Negativ S.R.O, Czech Republic Delivery : January 2009 EURODOC 2007 81 82 Chapter PRODUCTIONS ONE WAY KIDS LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN DIRECTOR : MARCO GASTINE PRODUCER : ALEXANDRE CORNU COMPANY : LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR OUT OF CORDOBA EURODOC-SCREENING 2007 DE SOIE (FRANCE) During the Greek civil war (1946-1949) 25.000 children, ages 3 to 14, were transferred by the Greek communist partisans to socialist countries, in order to “protect them until the victory”. The victory never came, the children never came back. Nikos was one of them. In 1948, aged 12, he was sent with 250 children of his village to Hungary. In 1956, after the Soviet invasion, he escaped to France and lost the tracks of the other village children. Now retired, Nikos has decided to find out what happened to them. Through his quest, we will learn about this major political issue of the early Cold War which changed the entire course of so many lives. LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN DIRECTOR : JACOB BENDER PRODUCER : JOSÉ ANTONIO HERGUETA COMPANY : MLK PRODUCCIONES (SPAIN) In the first decade of our new millennium, “religion”, “intolerance” and “terrorism” seem to have become related terms. Out of Cordoba asks whether this has always been the case, not only in the Middle East, but world-wide? Or, on the contrary, can religion be a positive influence for peace and progress around the globe? Out of Cordoba will take us from New York after the 9/11 attacks, to Spain, Morocco, Paris, Berlin, Qatar, Cairo, and Jerusalem, along the way looking for evidence of dialogue and the mythic convivencia (coexistence) where Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in mutual tolerance and peace. In this search, we follow the footsteps of Maimonides and Averroes, two medieval geniuses who, both born in the city of Cordoba in Muslim Spain, and each one from within his own faith, courageously attempted to harmonize faith and science, reason and revelation. While their controversial ideas caused their own communities to burn the books of Averroes and Maimonides, their writings form a crucial link between classic Greece philosophy and Western thinking, and thus helped chart the path from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Coproducer : Minimal Films, Marco Gastine (Greece) Delivery : 2009 MOLINO N UEVO ONE STREET B EYOND H ELL LENGTH : 58 MIN DIRECTOR : JOSÉ SANCHEZ MONTÉS PRODUCER : JOSÉ SANCHEZ MONTÉS COMPANY : ATICO SIETE (SPAIN) EURODOC 2003-2004 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 enourmous 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) Delivery : October 2008 EURODOC-SCREENING 2007 Coproducer : Jacob Bender (USA) Partner : Canal Sur TV (Spain) Delivery : January 2009 Chapter C HANDANI EYES WIDE OPEN THE DAUGHTER OF THE E LEPHANT WHISPERER LENGTH : 80 MIN DIRECTOR : JACQUELINE ZÜND PRODUCER : PATRICK MÜLLER COMPANY : CONDOR FILMS (GERMANY) LENGTH : 52 & 90 MIN EURODOC-SCREENING 2006 DIRECTOR : ARNE BIRKENSTOCK PRODUCER : ARNE BIRKENSTOCK COMPANY : FRUITMARKET FILMPRODUKTION (GERMANY) The 16-year-old Chandani is Sunamabanda’s eldest daughter. The legendary mahout (“elephant handler”) knows all the secrets of dealing with elephants. He talks to them, knows how to tame them without using force, uses ancient natural recipes to heal their wounds, and can interpret every gesture and move they make. He is the head mahout in the elephant orphanage in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka. Whenever there is a problem with elephants anywhere in the country, Sunamabanda is called to help. In his family, the valuable knowledge and experience of how humans should handle elephants has for centuries been passed on from father to son. Sunamabanda would like to pass on his knowledge, but he does not have a son. When he was 48, his fourth child was born: another daughter. If his family’s tradition is to be saved, Sunamabanda must break with his profession’s tradition and fulfil his daughter’s wish: Chandani wants to be trained by her father. When gamekeepers find a baby elephant orphan in the southern part of the country and send it to Pinnawala, Sunamabanda has an idea: Chandani should take care of the baby elephant, train it to drink from the bottle, reduce its fear of humans, and help to integrate it into the herd. Only then will the elephant baby survive, and only then will Chandani be able to prove that she is mature enough to be initiated into the secrets of her father’s profession… Partners : WRD (Germany) SWR (Germany) ARTE YLE (Finland) Delivery : January 2009 H EAD COLD EURODOC-PRODUCTION 2004-2005 DIRECTOR : GAMMA BAK PRODUCER : GAMMA BAK COMPANY : GAMMA BAK FILMPRODUKTION (GERMANY) First person documentary using interviews taken over 4 years about living with diagnosed schizophrenia. Addresses the issues of the illness itself, hospital stays and use of medication as well as the question of stigmatization. Video letters from family members fill in background information about the filmmaker and her illness. Delivery : 2009 83 PRODUCTION EURODOC 2006 What happens, if the set rule is broken? If sleep cannot be domesticated? Neglecting medical aspects, the film focuses on insomnia itself, the deep fatigue of mind and body that contrasts with the awakeness of the nervous system. From midnight until sunrise, we follow six insomniacs from six different countries. Their stories reveal unexpectedly different faces of insomnia. “Eyes wide open“ is a film about philosophical thoughts gathered when skating at night, about flashes of inspirations, about the tranquillising chorals and the desperate search for quietness. Coproducer : SF Schweizer Fernsehen (Switzerland) Delivery : Spring 2009 WARM THANKS TO ALL OUR PARTNERS EURODOC 2008 AND TO ALL THE EXPERTS & THE PARTICIPANTS ! Chapter 85 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. 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VÉRONIQUE MALDERA EMILIE RAIMBAULT 86 Chapter EURODOC STEERING COMMITTEE / COMITÉ DE PILOTAGE Jacques BIDOU, JBA PRODUCTION, HEAD OF Anne-Marie LUCCIONI, EURODOC, HEAD STUDIES, FRANCE, OF PROGRAMME, FRANCE Jordi AMBROS, TV3, SPAIN Erkki ASTALA, YLE, FINLAND Christian BAUTE, CELLULOÏD DREAMS, FRANCE 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 Francesc ESCRIBANO, TV3, SPAIN Denis FREYD, ARCHIPEL 33, FRANCE Thierry GARREL, FRANCE Doris HEPP, ZDF-ARTE, GERMANY Thomas KUFUS, ZERO ONE FILM, GERMANY Luca MACCIOCCA, RAI SAT, ITALY Pierre MERLE, ARTE-FRANCE 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 Hartmut BITOMSKY, GERMANY Alexandre CORNU, LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR Luis CORREIA – LX FILMES, PORTUGAL Edgardo COZARINSKY, FRANCE/ARGENTINA Carlo CRESTO-DINA, FELTRINELLI, ITALY Harun FAROCKI, GERMANY Patrizio GUZMAN, FRANCE/CHILE Hugues LE PAIGE, BELGIUM Joaquim PINTO, PORTUGAL Anne REEVELL - MOONBEAM FILMS, UK Joan UBEDA - MEDIA 3.14, SPAIN DE SOIE, FRANCE INDEX PARTICIPANTS 88 Chapter INDEX Participants 24 IMAGES ARTE GEIE DAVID & GOLIAS Farid Rezkallah Claire Isambert Barbara Valentina 73, rue du Docteur Calmette 4, quai du Chanoine Winterer Largo Adelino Amaro da Costa, 8 FR-72100 Le Mans FR-67000 Strasbourg 3° dto Phone 33 2 43 78 18 45 Phone 33 3 88 14 25 04 PT-1100-006 Lisbonne Fax 33 2 43 78 02 79 Fax 33 3 88 14 20 00 Phone 351 21 888 2028 [email protected] [email protected] Fax 351 21 888 2046 www.24images.fr www.artefrance.fr [email protected] AD VITAM PRODUCTION AUTENTIKA FILMS Judith Nora Gudula MEINZOLT ENDORFILM 6, rue de l'Ecole de Médecine cf MIL COLORES MEDIA Jiri Konecny www.david-golias.com FR-75006 Paris Primeticka 4 Phone 33 1 46 34 70 49 BILDERSTURM FILMPRODUKTION CZ-140 00 Praha 4 Fax 33 1 46 34 75 74 [email protected] Monika Mack Phone & Fax 420 241 730 780 Flandrische Str. 2 [email protected] www.advitamdistribution.com DE-50674 Cologne www.endorfilm.cz Phone 49 221 2585 701 ALTER EGO Fax 49 221 2585 702 HELICOTRONC Cécile Lestrade [email protected] Anthony Rey 24, rue de Limare www.bildersturm-film.de Av. Jef Lambeaux, 23 FR-45000 Orléans BE-1060 Bruxelles Phone & Fax 33 2 38 62 56 64 CNC Phone 32 2 539 23 57 [email protected] Ludovic Berthelot Fax 32 2 537 47 95 www.alterego-prod.com 3 rue Boissière [email protected] FR-75116 Paris www.helicotronc.com AMIP Phone 33 1 44 34 34 47 Olivier Gallais Fax 33 1 44 34 34 52 KATHARSIS FILMS 52, rue Charlot [email protected] Jouni Hiltunen FR-75003 Paris www.cnc.fr Pohjoinen Hesperiankatu, 37B31 Phone 33 1 48 87 45 13 FI-00260 Helsinki Fax 33 1 48 87 40 10 C.R.I.M. Phone 358 9 342 2121 [email protected] Isabel Machado Fax 358 4 072 57 707 www.amip-multimedia.fr Av. Almirante Reis, 221 - 1° esq [email protected] PT-1000-049 Lisbonne ARTE FRANCE Phone 351 21 844 6102 KELPIE FILMS 8, rue Marceau Fax 351 21 846 3284 Douglas Neilson FR-92785 Issy-les-Moulineaux [email protected] Mansion House Daniel Khamdamov http://web.mac.com/c.r.i.m 1 Ardgowan Square Phone 33 1 55 00 70 97 UK-PA16 8NG Greenock / Glasgow [email protected] CRRAV Phone 44 871 874 0328 Alec Herrmann Philippe Freville Fax 44 871 522 7635 Phone 33 1 55 00 73 22 21, rue Edgar Quinet [email protected] Fax 33 1 55 00 73 90 BP 152 www.kelpiefilms.com [email protected] FR-59333 Tourcoing Cedex www.artefrance.fr Phone 33 3 20 28 26 45 [email protected] www.crrav.com Participants Chapter INDEX KINÉ MY MAX EDUTAINMENT TELEVISIO DE CATALUNYA Alessandro Carroli Maria Teresa Tringali Montserrat Tarres Fernandez Via Cesare Battisti, 9/11 Via A. Riboty, 28 C/ TV3 S/N IT-53034 Colle di Val d'Elsa IT-00195 Roma ES-08970 Sant Joan Despi Phone & Fax 39 05 77 92 43 38 Phone 39 06 434 125 20 Phone 34 93 499 96 75 [email protected] Fax 39 06 532 705 76 Fax 34 93 473 36 26 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.kine.it [email protected] www.tvcatalunya.com www.mymax.it KINOETIKA TEMPS NOIR Antonella Signore NEON ROUGE PRODUCTION Tancrède Ramonet Galleria Umberto I, n°10 Joëlle Lonjon 154, rue Oberkampf IT-10122 Torino Petite rue des secours 3 FR-75011 Paris Phone & Fax 39 011 19 710 221 B-1030 Bruxelles Phone 33 1 55 28 33 87 [email protected] Phone 32 2 219 35 75 Fax 33 1 55 28 33 91 www.kinoetika.org Fax 32 2 219 35 55 [email protected] [email protected] www.tempsnoir.com LES PRODUCTIONS DU LAGON [email protected] Valérie Dupin www.neonrouge.com Av. Guillaume Dulac 39 TGA Aline Houdy Les Ombelles 1 & 2 ODD GIRL OUT PRODUCTIONS 19, rue des Granges Galand FR-13600 La Ciotat Samantha Zarzosa FR-37550 Tours - St Avertin Phone & Fax 33 4 42 98 11 60 10 Kemp House, Sewardstone Road Phone 33 820 821 200 [email protected] UK- E2 9JL London Fax 33 2 47 27 95 64 www.productionsdulagon.com Phone 44 208 980 3834 [email protected] [email protected] www.tga.fr LUIFILM INDIVIDUAL www.oddgirlout.co.uk Luisella Palladino TITA PRODUCTIONS Via San Giacomo 16 OKTOBER Fred Premel Frabosa Sottana Joonas Berghäll 47, rue d’Aubagne IT-12083 Cuneo Oulunkyläntori 2a FR-13001 Marseille Phone & Fax 39 01 74 34 52 78 FI-00640 Helsinki Phone 33 4 91 33 44 63 [email protected] Phone & Fax 358 40 709 33 31 Fax 33 4 91 90 75 12 www.luifilm.com [email protected] [email protected] www.oktober.fi www.titaprod.com LUNA W Wiktoria Szymanska PERIFERIA FILMES 5 Bourlet Close Rodrigo Areias UK-W1W 7BL London Av. Afonso III, 89 r/c dt. Phone 44 793 908 79 71 PT-1900-042 Lisbon Fax 44 207 580 88 40 Phone & Fax 351 218 121 571 [email protected] [email protected] www.periferiafilmes.com MIL COLORES MEDIA Gudula MEINZOLT SEP & SAN FILM PRODUCTION Kreuzweg 6 Nicolas Rovere DE-82131 Stockdorf/Munich Av. des Tilleuls 15 Phone 49 160 90 200 454 CH-1203 Genève Fax 49 89 89 50 16 20 [email protected] Phone & Fax 41 22 340 37 63 www.milcolores.info www.sep-san.ch [email protected] 89 INDEX EXPERTS & GUESTS 2008 Experts & Guests 2008 Chapter INDEX ADAV CANAL + ERA FILM Pascal Brunier Francine Dupraz Rasa Miskinyte 41, rue des Envierges 5-13 boulevard de la République K. Ladygos g. 1-119 F-75020 Paris F-92100 Boulogne Billancourt LT-09001 Vilnius Tel : 01 43 49 10 02 Phone 33 1 71 35 25 58 Phone & Fax +370 5 2788187 Fax : 01 43 49 25 70 Fax 33 1 71 35 23 26 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.erafilm.lt www.adav-assoc.com www.canalplus.com AMIP CENTRE IMAGES Carlo Cresto-Dina Xavier Carniaux 24 rue Renan via Andegari 6 52, rue Charlot F-37110 Château-Renault IT-20121 Milano F-75003 Paris Phone 33 2 47 56 08 08 Phone 39 02 72 57 25 1 Phone 33 1 48 87 45 13 Fax 33 2 47 56 08 92 Fax 39 02 72 57 25 00 Fax 33 1 48 87 40 10 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Emmanuel Porcher www.lafeltrinelli.it www.amip-multimedia.fr [email protected] FELTRINELLI Colette Quesson FILM COMMISSION TORINO PIEMONTE ANTENNA MEDIA TORINO [email protected] Paolo Manera Silvia Sandrone Aurélia Behr Via Monte di Pièta 1 Via Monte di Pietà 1 [email protected] IT-10122 Turin IT-10121 Torino www.centreimages.fr Phone 39 011 562 37 03 Phone 39 011 539 853 [email protected] Fax 39 011 53 14 90 [email protected] CNC www.fctp.it www.antennamediatorino.eu 11 rue Galilée FRANCE 2 F-75116 Paris Anne Roucan ARTE Phone +33 1 44 34 34 30 7, Esplanade Henri de France 4, Quai du Chanoine Winterer Fax +33 1 44 34 38 64 FR-75907 Paris Cedex 15 FR-67080 Strasbourg cedex [email protected] Phone 33 1 56 22 37 28 www.artepro.com www.cnc.fr Fax 33 1 55 00 74 04 Valentine Roulet Uta Cappel [email protected] Phone 33 3 88 14 24 73 EDITIONS MONTPARNASSE Fax 33 3 88 14 25 10 Vianney Delourme [email protected] 12 Villa Coeur de Vey FRANCE 3 Anne-Laure Negrin FR-75014 Paris Muriel Rosé Phone 33 3 88 14 21 08 Phone 33 1 56 53 56 53 7 Esplanade Henri de France Fax 33 3 88 14 23 70 [email protected] FR-75907 Paris Cedex 15 [email protected] www.editionsmontparnasse.fr Phone 33 1 56 22 72 59 Nadine Zwick www.france2.fr Fax 33 1 56 22 72 62 Phone 33 3 88 14 22 15 EDN [email protected] Fax 33 3 88 14 22 20 Leena Pasanen www.france3.fr [email protected] Vognmagergade 10 DK – 1120 Copenhagen K FRANCE 5 ARTE France Phone 49 (6062) 91 25 08 Barbara Hurel 8, rue Marceau Fax 49 (6062) 91 25 09 2-4 rue Marceau F-92785 Issy-Les-Moulineaux cedex 9 [email protected] FR-92785 Issy-les-Moulineaux cedex 9 Christoph Jorg www.edn.dk Phone 33 1 56 22 94 72 Phone 33 1 55 00 72 42 Fax 33 1 56 22 95 35 [email protected] [email protected] www.france5.fr 91 92 Chapter INDEX Experts & Guests 2008 FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA Sergei Loznitsa RTBF - UNITÉ DOCUMENTAIRE FILM COMMISSION [email protected] Claire Colart Alessandro Gropplero [email protected] Boulevard Reyers, 52 Via Asquini 33 www.loznitsa.com Bureau 7M36 IT- 33100 Udine BE-1044 Bruxelles Phone 39 0432 500322 MA.JA.DE. FILMPRODUKTION Phone 32 2 737 27 36 Fax 39 0432 200825 Heino Deckert Fax 32 2 737 45 74 [email protected] Pohlstr.44 [email protected] [email protected] DE-10785 Berlin www.rtbf.be www.fvgfilmcommission.com Phone 49 30 84 30 61 66 Fax 49 30 84 30 61 67 RTP Michel Gyory [email protected] Jorge Wemans 59, avenue Everard www.majade.de Av. Marechal Gomes de Costa, 37 B-1190 Bruxelles PT-1849-030 Lisboa Phone 322 345 39 73 MILLENNIUM FILM Phone 351 217 947 187 Fax 322 344 57 80 Kristiina Pervilä-Andersson [email protected] [email protected] Koskikartanontie 12 www.rtp.pt FI-75530 Nurmes JBA PRODUCTION Phone 358 13 5110 100 / 101 STEFILM Jacques Bidou Fax 358 13 5110 111 Stefano Tealdi Marianne Dumoulin [email protected] Via Berthollet,44 52, rue Charlot www.millenniumfilm.fi IT-10125 Torino F-75003 Paris Phone 39 011 66 800 17 Phone 33 (0)1 48 04 84 60 NATIXIS-COFICINÉ Fax 39 011 66 800 03 Fax 33 (0)1 42 76 09 67 Silvia Laj [email protected] [email protected] 6 rue de l'Amiral Hamelin www.stefilm.it www.jbaproduction.com F-75016 Paris Phone 33 1 40 72 22 00 SVT Documentaries Sibylle Kurz Fax 33 1 401 72 22 01 Vera Bonnier Alter Weg 24a [email protected] SE-105 10 Stockholm D-64711 Erbach-Günterfürst Phone 46 8 781 8442 Phone 49 6062 91 25 08 POLISH FILM INSTITUTE [email protected] [email protected] Kinga Galuszka www.svt.se www.pitching.de ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 21/23 PL-00-071 Warsaw TG4 LES FILMS D'ICI Phone +48 22 42 10 386 Micheal O’Meallaigh Serge Lalou [email protected] Baile Na Habnann Co 62, Boulevard Davout www.pisf.pl IE-Na Gaillimhe (Galway) FR-75020 Paris Phone 351 91 50 50 71 Phone 33 1 44 52 23 23 RAI 3 [email protected] Fax 331 44 52 23 24 Lorenzo Hendel www.tg4.ie [email protected] Viale Mazzini 14 - Room 130 IT-00195 Roma LICHTBLICK FILM Phone + 39 34 63 77 65 26 Carl-Ludwig Rettinger [email protected] Apostelnstrasse11 www.rai.it DE-50667 Köln Phone 49 221 925 75 20 Fax 49 221 925 75 29 [email protected] www.lichtblick-film.de Experts & Guests 2008 VISIONS DU REEL TO BE CONFIRMED Jean Perret Gabriela Bussmann MORE 4 18, rue Juste-Olivier Sandra Wipham CH-1260 Nyon 1 Phone +44 207 306 8676 Phone + 41 22 365 44 55 [email protected] Fax + 41 22 365 44 50 www.channel4.com/more4 [email protected] www.visionsdureel.ch NATIONAL FILM BOARD CANADA Yves Bisaillon YLE Phone +1 51 44 96 11 71 Erkki Astala [email protected] YLE Television – Box 96 www.onf.ca FI-00024 Yleisradio www.nfb.ca Phone 358 9 1480 5392 Fax 358 9 146 2495 NOGA COMMUNICATIONS [email protected] Sinai Abt www.yle.fi/d-projekti Phone 972 3 684 99 99 [email protected] ZDF - Redaktion Fernsehfilm ARTE Doris Hepp Sendezentrum 2, 2209 DE-55100 Mainz Phone 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 Turin Phone 39 011 521 79 64 Fax 39 011 436 97 65 [email protected] www.zenit.to.it www.noga.co.il/new/shmone.asp Chapter INDEX 93 94 Ce catalogue a été réalisé avec l'aide de l'Union européenne. 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