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Director: Jani Peltonen
Title in English: A Tall Man
Original title: Pitkä mies
2010/ Finland/ Digital Beta/ 19’/ Documentary/ Colour-B&W
CREDITS
Script: Jani Peltonen; Photography: Heikki Färm F.S.C; Editing: Okku Nuutilainen;
Music: Pietu Korhonen; Sound: Pietu Korhonen, Kimmo Vänttinen; Producer: Sami Jahnukainen
Synopsis:
Väinö Myllyrinne was one of the first internationally known Finnish celebrities, thanks to his height of nearly 2,5 meters. After his death, Väinö, or rather his figure, became immortal. His journey continues in our collective memory, best reprised by a life-size puppet, which tours the World much like Väinö did when he was still alive. “A Tall Man” pictures Väinö’s endless journey from the glittering European metropolises of the 1930’s to the local supermarkets and museums of today.
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Director: Rainer Ludwings
Title in English: Leonids Story
Original title: Istoriya Leonida
2011/ Germany& Ukraine/ HD/ 18’53’’/ Documentary/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Rainer Ludwings; Photography: Rainer Ludwigs, Ruediger Lubricht; Editing: Rainer Ludwings; Animation: Rainer Ludwings; Music: Andre Feldhaus; Sound: Sven Bien; Leading actors: Leonid Korzh, Lyudmilla Korzh; Producer: Tetyana Chernyavska
Synopsis:
A Soviet family searching for a modest paradise is swept into an immense disaster. This magically animated film combines drawing, photography and documentary video to capture the surreal emotions of the too-real tragedy: Chernobyl 1986. Leonid grew up in the village next to the reactor. The catastrophe broke his life, ruined his health, and threatened his unborn child. Yet his work takes him right into the contaminated zone. This animated film tells his story.
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Director: Piotr Sułkowski
Title in English: The Conversation
Original title: Rozmowa
2011/ Poland/ MiniDv/ 16’/ Documentary/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Piotr Sułkowski; Photography: Michał Gruszczyński; Editing: Piotr Sułkowski, Joanna Więckowska; Sound: Ewa Bogusz; Producer: Andrzej Bednarek, Piotr Sułkowski
Synopsis:
He is serving life imprisonment. She was sentenced to 25 years in prison.Agnieszka and Janusz had met eight years ago writing letters. Until this film they have never seen each other before.
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Director: Spyros Amiropoulos
Title in English: Ethos Process Part II
Original title: Ethos Process Part II
2011/ Greece/ HD/ 17’/ Documentary/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Sotiris Zikos; Photography: Enzo Karanasios; Editing: Giorgos Angeludis;
Music: Haris Capetanakis; Sound: Enzo Karanasios; Leading actors: Emmy Kontogianidou, Sotiris Zikos; Producer: Spyros Amiropoulos
Synopsis:
An actress, a performance and a psychotherapy session. The vanishing point between a theatrical part and real life.
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Director: Lucas Bonolo
Title in English: Puerta De Golpe
Original title: Puerta De Golpe
2011/ Cuba/ HD/ 13’/ Documentary/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Lucas Bonolo; Photography: Camilio Soratti; Editing: Tiago Therien; Sound: Sergio F. Borros; Producer: Camelia Farfán
Synopsis:
In a Cuban village called Puerta de Golpe, the documental camera assumes the eye of a stranger, finding a humble community devastated by the last hurricane which passed through two years ago. Among faces, houses and landscapes, another side of the island of Cuba is revealed, filled with silence and solitude. A narrator describes this reality and suggests new meanings for what he sees, while a strange cold wind blows through the town, bringing perhaps another hurricane.
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Director: David Munoz
Title in English: The Infinite Jest
Original title: La broma infinita
2011/ Spain/ HD/ 18’/ Documentary/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: David Munoz; Photography: David Munoz; Editing: David Munoz; Music: Ry Cooder, Fran Simon; Sound: Beltran Rengifo; Leading actors: Haroon Sheikh, Lucas Galan, Masayuki Fujita, Ertugrul Bozkurtz, Jason Murrison, Omarou Idrissa; Producer: David Munoz
Synopsis:
The economy conditions our lives. Scarcity is a restriction imposed by nature itself. It is not a human invention. It is an unresolved dilemma. An endless fight for survival.
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Director: Benet Roman
Title in English: Femei
Original title: Femei
2010/ Romania& Spain/ HD/ 12’/ Documentary/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Alejandra Musi, Benet Roman; Photography: Benet Román; Editing: Benet Roman; Music: Frank Rudow; Sound: Roman Benet; Producer: Penélope Cristóbal Casado, María del Puy Alvarado
Synopsis:
Femei is a short documentary that responds, through the testimonies of women representing different ages and social classes, how these new European look at the world, what is their daily struggle and what they expect of the future. A look at the current Romanian women and their main challenges.
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Director: Zohar Elefant
Title in English: Sivan
Original title: Sivan
2010/ Israel/ HD/ 13’/ Documentary/ Colour
CREDITS
Photography: Zohar Elelfant; Producer: Zohar Elelfant;
Synopsis:
Sivan is a documentary which diverge the gaze away from the players' movements on a soccer field, focusing instead on the facial expressions of a single viewer. Zohar Elefant turns the camera away from the football match and fixing it on an individual character amidst the crowd serves to lure the viewer into the real drama of the event, which takes place discretely inside the mind of every fan in the gallery.
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Director: Lendita Zeqiraj
Title in English: We're Not In Paradise
Original title: On est pas au paradis
2011/ France/ HD/ 30’/ Documentary/ Colour
CREDITS
Script: Lendita Zeqiraj; Photography: Remi Mazet; Editing: Amir Hamdani, Nidham Farah, Lendita Zeqiraj; Sound: Pellumb Ballata; Leading actors: Fouad Chengui, Retbi, Krucial; Producer: Lendita Zeqiraj;
Synopsis:
Blurred and forgotten identity as the pervasive French culture absorbs their North African heritage, growing up in the concrete wastelands of France’s low-income in the suburbs (banlieues), wounded by rejection, the only way left of expressing their rage and pain is rap.
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