SELLECTED FILMS
DOCÚPOLIS AWARD TO THE BEST DOCUMENTARY
Title: Buscarselavida
Format: DVD
Length: 48 min
Country: Belgium
Director: Bart Van Wanzeele and Filip Lenaerts
Producer: Paul Peyskens
Synopsis: Buscarlavida is a journey in and around the
spanish enclave Ceuta, near the Maroccan border. The protagonist is Abdelkader,
a spanish arab who works in a supermarket and who, fifteen years earlier,
has tried to emigrate to Antwerp, Belgium.
Title: Watermarks
Format: Betacam digital
Length: 77 min
Country: Israel/ France/ USA
Director: Yaron Zilberman
Producer: Yonatan Israel/Yaron Zilberman
Synopsis: Watermarks' is the intriguing story of the
legendary Jewish sports club: Hakoah Vienna, formed in 1909 and destroyed
by the Nazis in March 1938. The story is told through the eyes of seven
women, 81-85 years old, who are all former champions of the club. They
recall and revive their youth, early femininity, lost memories and lifelong
bonds.
Title: Entre dos tierras
Length: 28 min
Country: Sweden
Director: Rodrigo Zárate Moedano
Producer: Rodrigo Zárate Moedano
Synopsis: Marie and Lena Groenlund are twins, they are
28 years old and for the first time, after they have been adopted as babies
by a Swedish family, return to the country of their origin: Etiopia. Even
though they grew up in Sweden, they never lost contact to their biological
family. Marie and Lena have created their own image of Etiopia, but the
doubt always existed: what is Etiopia like in reality?
Title: Big Enough
Format: 16mm
Length: 53 min
Country: USA
Director: Jan Krawitz
Producer: Jan Krawitz
Synopsis: In this intimate portrait, several dwarfs who
appeared in the director's 1982 film "Little People" welcome
the camera into their lives once again. Through a prism of "then
and now" the characters confront physical and emotional challenges
with humor, grace, and sometimes frustration. Big Enough provides a unique
perspective on a proud and active community that many people know only
from cultural stereotypes.
Title: Paris Marseille
Format: Betacam digital
Length: 70 min
Country: France
Director: Martínez Pinero
Producer: Zorn Production International
Synopsis: May 1982, the Argentinian writer Julio Cortàzar
wrote “Los autonautas de la cosmopista”, a log-book of a trip
from Paris to Marseille. The documentalist makes the same trip, using
the original concept to create a new, free, independent experience. This
very personal film looks at our society from a different point of view.
Title: Hermanos Oligor
Format: Digital
Length: 85 min
Country: Spain
Director: Joan López Lloret
Producer: Frame Zero Producciones S.L. and Morlanda Produccions
Cinamatogràfiques
Synopsis: The brothers Oligor are two young men, who
lock themselves into a cellar to create a world of mechanical gadgets
and puppets made of recycled objects. The reality and the fiction of life
and art take us to the permanent funambolism of the puppets.
Title: Wonderful World
Format: Betacam digital
Length: 46 min
Country: Netherlands
Director: Coco Schrijber
Producer: JB Macrander
Synopsis: A city without homeless people is not really
a city... Jan Dominique lives everyday as a beautiful day, even when he
is chased out of his ‘home’ by bulldozers. Saskia is homeless
for 15 years and a former physician. A visual and musical tribute to those
individuals who dangle on the edge of oblivion.
Title: The Curse of the Hedgehog
Format: DvCam
Length: 93 min
Country: Romania
Director: Dumitru Budrala
Producer: Csilla Kato
Synopsis: Turica and her relatives wander from village
to village, carrying on their backs handmade brooms and baskets, which
they try to trade for food. By the use of the Cine Verité
style, the filmmaker goes beyond stereotypes, following an extremely poor
Gypsy family their winter trips of survival.
Title: Georgi and the Butterflies
Format: 35 mm
Length: 60 min
Country: Bulgaria
Director: Andrey Paounov
Producer: Martichka Bozhilova
Synopsis: Dr. Georgi Lulchev is a psychiatrist, neurologist,
administrator, amateur chef, entrepeneur and director of the Home for
Psychologically Challenged Men. His dream is to organise a farm in the
yard of the Home, situated in a former 16th century monastry, 20 km away
from Sofia, where the patients can raise snails, ostriches and pheasants,
produce silk fibres and soy bread. A story full of optimism, misery and
compassion.
Title: Journeys
Format: Betacam
Length: 38 min
Country: India
Director: Vinayan Kodoth
Producer: Anab jain
Synopsis: Nearly non - verbal and poetic. The film is
about the nature of urban journeys in over-crowded cities like Bombay.
As jam-packed sub urban train journeys become hell; nearly four thousand
people die in accidents every year.
Title: The Amateurs And The General
Format: Betacam digital
Length: 103 min
Country: Germany
Director: Helge Cramer
Producer: Helge Cramer Filmproduktion
Synopsis: Before the war, Croatian, Catholics and Bosnian
Muslims in the town of Mostar lived in peaceful neighbourhood. Ten years
later, three former friends: the oldest Muslim trader at the bridge, the
head of the famous bridge-divers Mostari, and the catholic General attend
the reconstruction of the Old Bridge - the most important Muslim monument
in the Balkans.
Title: La Strada
Format: Betacam digital
Length: 29 min
Country: Croatia
Director: Damir Cucic
Producer: Vera Robic Skarica / Hrvatski Filmski Savez
/ Croatian Film Clubs Association
Synopsis: This film depicts the atmosphere of the via
Strada at different times of day, over a thousand meters long, the main
street of the Istrian town of Vodnjan has been a showroom of crafts and
trades for centuries, a stage for processions and carnivals, and a meeting
point of various languages, traditions and cultures.
Title: Le père de Gracile
Format: 16mm
Length: 80 min
Country: Canada
Director: Lucile Lambert
Producer: Les filmes du tricycle
Synopsis: After a dream, a young girl named Gracile leaves
her mother to look for her father in northern Quebec. On the way, she
meets various men who share with her their social, ecological and cultural
concerns.
Title: Retrats de l'ànima
- Retratos del alma
Format: Betacam digital
Length: 74 min
Country: Spain
Director: Àngel Leiro
Producer: Josep Clanchet - Clarafilms
Synopsis: A re-union of the photojournalist Sandra Balsell
with the protagonists of those photographies she took during the conflict
in the Balcans. Through their testomonies we get a chronicle about the
reality, the present and the future of the victims of the war.
Title: Meän kesä
(Our summer)
Length: 57 min
Country: Finland
Director: Mika Ronkainen
Producer: Kimmo Paananen / Klaffi Productions Ltd.
Synopsis: The phases of a family and the cycle
of generations. A story about a middle-aged woman who decides to change
the direction of development - even just for one summer.
Title: No tan nuestras
Format: DvCam
Length: 73 min
Country: Argentina
Director: Ramiro Longo
Producer: Ramiro Longo / Martín Indihar
Synopsis: Discribes the human odysse of the war of the
Falkland Islands, from the point of view of the dure reality that a veteran
of the argentinian war faces. A history full of uncertanties, that co-exist
with the scars of the cold, hunger and death.