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Talking with Nature, Talking with Tesla

Talking with Nature, Talking with Tesla
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The film deals with the approaches of today's inventors influenced directly by Nikola Tesla. Difficulties, lack of understanding by the society and the establishment refract through their life experiences equalling them with the destiny of Nikola Tesla. The film deals with questions: does the path in which are engaged inventors, who should bring responses to crucial questions of the civilisation, always carry with itself the incomprehension of the society? Is the society still not ready for inventions that lead to a completely new level of the civilisation? Have the reserves of useful energetic resources that man takes out of the nature reached their final stage?Has the man of today forgotten how to talk to the nature?

Sidetrack

Sidetrack
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„Bocznica" is a film about people united by a specific and a bit forgotten form of spending free time - train holidays. We meet people of different age - a child, youth and also elderly people.Scenes of their holidays form a mosaic of different characters and memoirs. Situations and dialogues which seem to be insignificant, illustrate a human being's struggle in life. The pictures were taken in Hel - the last wagon town of this kind in Poland. The motif of road in this document is a metaphor of life and passing of time.„Bocznica" is a cordial, sometimes funny and touching film. It's a film about the colours of life, which turns out to be only a short stop, a moment, a side track…

New Wave of Romanian Cinema

New Wave of Romanian Cinema
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This documentary is a dive into the new Romanian cinema produced since 2001.An effervescence due to a new generation of filmmakers which set the basis of a percussive production whose films inflamed, year after year, the international film festivals, winning numerous prizes, until the supreme coronation: the Palm d'Or in Cannes, May 2007.

Poste Restante

Poste Restante
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Church bells ring over a beautiful world of harmony which is under­pinned with emptiness. Something is missing here. Is it sense? Or an aim? Or bonding? This documentary, which seemingly resembles an educational movie about the post, shows what happens to the letters without address sent to the persons who do not exist. Among them there is one on which a child’s hand has written ‘God. Heaven.’ The letters end up in the Department of Unsent Mail in Koluszki.

Flies and Angels

Flies and Angels
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Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and Gorbatschow he left the country in the 80s. He lives and works in New York together with his wife Emilia.In his Installations and his numerous paintings Kabakov digests the traumatic experiences of his life in poverty and under constraints of a degenerated political system which has not lost its dictatorial structures fully until now. Using his subtle jewish humour he creates in his work a world of its own, which leaves the heaviness of socialist and postsocialist life far behind. The film links Ilya Kabakovs artistic spaces with insights into russian everday life, which itself sometimes appears like an istallation by the artist. A narrative by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov interlinks biographical and political aspects of the film.

Window an Eye of Heart, Into an Eye Window of, a Soul

Window an Eye of Heart, Into an Eye Window of, a Soul
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Abroad a human perception is, ... again the human perception, but the point of view determinate its subsequent interpretation. The number of people, the number of diferent results for one particular situation. The human, the space. The space surrounding the life. Svarov.

Sky too high, soil too hard

Sky too high, soil too hard
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The film is the testimony of the four young people from eastern Bosnia, who survived the genocide in Srebrenica. Being pupils and students now, they try to find the purpose and direction in their lives. The confessions of the characters go back to their childhood, which they spent in the besieged Srebrenica. Their memories are connected to the seemingly trivial events (searching for food, waiting for the humanitarian help, going to school, playing…), which under the given circumstances had totally different connotations. Through their everyday struggle for survival, on the one hand the tragedy of common people could be seen, and on the other Europe's and the World 's inertia and reluctance in solving that desperate situation.

Tearing Down the Iron Curtain - Lithuania: The Girl and the Tanks

Tearing Down the Iron Curtain - Lithuania: The Girl and the Tanks
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At the end of the 1980s, the Soviet empire is in upheaval. Communist leaders start to feel the heat as the most powerful among them, Mikhail Gorbachev, makes it clear that the Red Army will no longer bolster the satellite regimes of Eastern Europe. Many regard him as a hero for his willingness to let go of the Soviet empire. His willingness to concede does not, however, include the states that comprise his own country, the Soviet Union, which he wants to keep intact at all cost. And in spite of the fact that the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were forced to become part of the Soviet Union. It is still vivid in the peoples’ memories that they never joined the union out of their own free will but rather as a result of Hitler’s agreement with Stalin. The people in the Baltic states want nothing more than to to sever their ties with the Soviets. The Berlin wall has not yet fallen when on 23 August, 1989, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians unite in a huge rally to express their will to break away from: more than one million citizens of the Baltic republics form the longest human chain of all times, stretching out for more than 600km. Among the protesters is Loreta Asanaviciute. A young girl, full of hopes and dreams.

Living Room of the Nation

Living Room of the Nation
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The Living Room of the Nation opens a poetic, portrait-like view into six Finnish living rooms. The film is a story of changes, loneliness, responsibilities and the unavoidable passing of time. The main characters are common Finnish people in different phases of life. Each of them is looking for something: human closeness, understanding or acceptance. The scale of events varies, but even as small and familiar they position the characters into dramatic situations. These individual everyday experiences converge into a sensitive and momentarily surreal story of human life.

Beautiful Misunderstanding

Beautiful Misunderstanding
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A funny story about three contact-improvisation dancers: Danya from Israel, Renata from Poland and Marcus from Germany who arrive to Jerusalem wanting to express their views on the most important issues by dancing. They perform anywhere - in the streets, in parks and gardens. Will the inhabitants of this multicultural and colorful city appreciate their efforts? Do they need them? The dancers will learn this - but only if they learn to communicate between themselves.

 

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