SELECTED DOCUMENTARIES
TV3 AWARD TO THE BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Title: La Pachamama es Nuestra
Format: DV Cam
Length: 29 min
Country: Spain-Bolivia
Director: Anna Soldevila
Producer: Anna Soldevila
Synopsis: Analyses the consequences of privatisation
of natural resources in Bolivia, especially of gas and petrol, as well
as the social effects that this process has provoked.
Title: Paradise Island
Format: Mini DV
Length: 25 min
Country: Germany- USA
Director: Andrea Thiele
Producer: Justyna Kahl
Synopsis: Willie, a Puerto Rican hippie, has created
a picturesque hideaway called “Paradise Island” for him and
many Latinos in Miami.
Title: Good Times - Bei Tempi
Format: Mini DV
Length: 33 min
Country: Italy
Director: Alessandro Cassigoli and Dalia Castel
Producer: Alessandro Cassigoli and Dalia Castel
Synopsis: Abu Dis is an Arab village close to Jerusalem.
Following the start of the second Palestinian Intifada, the Israeli government
has decided to build a two-meter wall right in the middle of the village
that divides Abu Dis into two parts. Many people find themselves living
on one side of the town, while their shop or business is on the other.
Title: Herders' Calling
Format: DV
Length: 25 min
Country: Canada
Director: Najeeb Mirza
Producer: Najeeb Mirza
Synopsis: In the beautiful land of the “Kyrgyz”
Republic, Central Asia, a young woman is ready to leave behind a traditional
and isolated life. For 22 years her daily routine was herding animals
and living a rural life. However, now the city is calling.
Title: La guerra de los niños
Format: DV CAM
Length: 23 min
Country: Spain
Director: Unai Aranzadi
Producer: Unai Aranzadi
Synopsis: In the last five years, more than 30.000 children
have been kidnapped in the North of Uganda. Due to the shortage of petrol,
diamonds and no strategical interests, the international community has
closed it’s eyes to this tragical situation. However, for this pity
not to be forgotten a Spanish missionary denunciates, a local musician
sings and a professor explains, what for the UNO , USA and Europe is a
deprived conflict.
Title: La Gabi
Format: DV Cam
Length: 25 min
Country: Nicaragua-Spain
Director: Neus Ballús
Producer: Neus Ballús
Synopsis: La Gabi strolls around looking for alcohol
and company. Homosexual, sensitive, exhibitionist, unpredictable and emotionally
very instable, she lives between euphoria and desperation.
Title: Sigrid and Franz
Format: Betacam
Length: 37 min
Country: Germany- Switzerland
Director: Pawel Siczek
Producer: Raik R. Boettcher
Synopsis: For the first time in her life Sigrid picks
up an old video camera and starts to film the last weeks of her husband
Franz, swears at him and tries to keep him alive. Franz keeps silent,
yet in his eyes death is reflected. Many years before he wrote about it
in wonderful, sad poems, in which he anticipated the moment to say goodbye.
Title: TV o la morada de mis imágenes
Format: DV
Length: 26 min
Country: Colombia
Director: Diana Giraldo
Producer: Diana Giraldo
Synopsis: Autobiographic documentary in which the author
meets herself to explore her memories and to talk about those experiences
that she shares with her generation: to grow up in front of the T.V.
Title: Shewula
Format: Mini DV
Length: 30 min
Country: Italy
Director: Samuele Malfatti and Tommaso Biondi
Synopsis: In a rural community in South Africa (Shewula)
orphans, infected of AIDS, show us their sensations and emotions through
their daily life, their popular songs, games, the earth and their human
values.
Title: Puerto Punk
Format: DV
Length: 30 min
Country: Chile
Director: Ricardo Salazar
Producer: Francisco Valdivia
Synopsis: Chronicle of tracking about the punk culture
in Valparaíso, Chile , made by a member of the movement between
’99 and 2000.
Title: Nablus, la ciudad fantasma
Format: Mini DV
Length: 30 min
Country: Palestina/Spain
Director: Alberto Arce and María Moreno
Producer: Alberto Arce and María Moreno
Synopsis: The Israeli army has invaded the Palestinian
city Nablus in August of 2004. A group of International activist of the
ISM (International Solidarity Movement) occupies the space of impunity
and the lack of witnesses who testimony how the military habitually acts.
Title: La vida con síndrome
de Down
Format: Dvd
Length: 25 min
Country: Spain
Director: Xavier Perez
Producer: Invest for Children
Synopsis: Pablo Pineda tells the lifestory of 12 people
with the Down Syndrome between 0 and 55 years in Spain.