SELECTED FILMS
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Title:Collective
Dreams
Format: Betacam digital
Length: 60 min
Country: England/Lithuania/Austria
Director: Sepp R. Brudermann
Producer: R. Puisyte / Sepp R. Brudermann
Synopsis: A portrait of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in
Eastern Europe . A look at the past and the lifes of the inhabitants and
a present that is very different from what they have imagined. What will
their future bring? A small village representing one part of the European
continent.
Title: Milagros Concedidos
Format: Digital
Length: 54 min
Country: Mexico
Director: Andrea Alvarez and Luciana Kaplan
Producer: Andrea Alvarez and Luciana Kaplan
Synopsis: Stories of life, faith and popular religiosity
are shown through the work of altarpiece painter Alfredo Vilchis, who
is one of the last artists making votive offerings (traditional craftwork
paintings on metal that are requested by order to thank for miracles).
We learn about traditional México and all the histories that are
hidden in these altarpieces.
Title: La Osa Mayor Menos Dos
Format: 16mm. Projection in betacam
Length: 115 min
Country: Spain
Director: David Reznak
Producer: David Reznak
Synopsis: Madness has a simple force of revelation: the
dream is real, the tenuous surface of the illusion does not have limits.
The reality is reabsorb by the fantastic image. This documentary has been
filmed throughout a year portraying the events of each ward, the cycles
of the youngest patients, the improvement or rehabilitation of the healthiest
and irreversibility of the oldest.
Title: The twisted dream of a fixed
rider
Format: DV
Length: 53 min
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Rafael Benito Haertl
Producter: Rafael Benito Haertl
Synopsis: Jean Marie has been a cycle courier for the
past ten years. Already notorious for organizing vicious alleycats (courier-races)
in London he and his sidekick Mike set out to bring the first ever alleycat
to the traffic stricken boulevards of Paris... The film describes the
intention of Jean Marie to make his life sensefull. In essence, they are
part of an urban subculture that celebrates independence, risk and freedom
in contemporary city life.
Title: Of cherries and other things
Format: Betacam SP
Length: 60 min
Country: Germany
Director: Simon Assmann
Producer: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Synopsis: This film is about four mentally disabled individuals
who live and work in "Hoehenberg", an anthroposophic community.
This film focuses on Bastian, who desperately is looking for love and
companionship in his daily life.
Title: Visa for Sarajevo
Format: DV
Length:52 min
Country: Switzerland
Director: Matthias Solenthler-Alexandre Lachavanne
Producer: Matthias Solenthler-Alexandre Lachavanne
Synopsis: Early in the morning a small bus passes the
frontier and enters an unknown country at the end of the way, at the end
of the tunnel: Sarajevo. The first acquaintance is a friendly old man
who show us around during the trip. Eventually, we meet five young Bosnians
between 23 and 30 years: Amir, Cazim, Masa, Belma y Bojana. Day by day
we get to know them a little better, and share moments of their private
life as we learn about their story.
Title: Cirlot, la mirada de Bronwyn
Format: DVcam
Length: 50 min
Country: Spain
Director: Gerard Gil
Producer: Mallerich Audiovisual, Lamola
Synopsis: A summer day in 1966, in a film Juan Eduardo
Cirlot, sees Lady Browyn leaving the waters of a reservoir. This image
will change his life and his work as poet, compositor, art- reviewer,
semiologist and collector, forever. By the testimonies of those who have
known him personally (artist like Joan Guinjoan, Antoni Tàpies,
Modest Cuixart o Josep Maria Subirachs) the documentary shows one of the
most influential and wrongly forgotten catalonian creatives of 20th century.
A unique relation between poetry and cinema.
Title: Passages & Puzzles
Format: DV
Length: 30 min
Country: France
Director: Sarah Shamash
Synopsis: With an experimental style this film explores
the difficulties of immigration. We get to know the life of three main
characters: Diana, a young Colombian artist; Elena, a middle-aged intellectual
from Brazil; and Lorenzo, an old Cuban painter.
Title: La Tierra Prometida
Format: DV
Length: 64 min
Country: Spain/Brazil
Director: Susana Collantes and Antonio Palomares
Producer: Susana Collantes and Antonio Palomares
Synopsis: In Brazil, the peasents disinherited of land,
organise themselves to fight against unproductive real estates causing
hunger, unemployment and under-development. With Lula, the hopes of those
who try to democratize the land have grown. Employment increases but also
the violence.
Title: Manolo recicla, el señor
de los carros
Format: Mini DV
Length: 59 min
Country: Spain
Director: Manuel González
Producer: Manuel González
Synopsis: Manolo is a homeless in the streets of Madrid.
A camara follows him during the last three years of his life to show the
reasons, that made him life on the streets.
Title: Awaiting
Format: Betacam Sp
Length: 47 min
Country: Israel
Director: Oren Hadara
Productor: Oren Hadara
Synopsis: Due to the economic crisis and continous terrorist
attacks in the city of Tel Aviv, the filmmaker roams the streets during
a period of three years, documenting what the people of Tel Aviv experienced:
alienation, anxiety and sadness. This film is a poetic observation, attempting
to express these feelings alongside the hope for something or someone
from the outside to step in and change the unbearable situation that exists.
Title: The Mountain
Village
Format: Betacam Sp
Length: 29 min
Country: Inglaterra/China
Director: Yuying Cui
Producer: Yawei Ma
Synopsis: Some peasants fight for surviving in their
village, located in the plain zone of the mountains. The other side of
the chinese economy and the distance between poverty and affluence.