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Pharao Bipolar

Pharao Bipolar
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Werner Ludvig Buchmayer is suffering of a bipolar disorder since he is 15. The film makers accompany him during his work on his own "Pharao film". PHARAO BIPOLAR documents his mental ups and downs.The inner diremption of a man caught between two extremes is the centre point of PHARAO BIPOLAR. The film follows the different states of Buchmayer's alternating psychosis. It shows fragments of an artist's biography and a story of illness at the same time. Also the reactions of his environment and the society in general are in main focus. Questions like "Who is crazy and who is normal?" are coming up constantly.

PianoMania

PianoMania
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What do Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel and Pierre-Laurent Aimard have in common? All three star pianists swear by the same piano tuner. Stefan Knüpfer is responsible for the fine, almost imperceptible nuances of sound that separate a good concert from a virtuoso one. PianoMania follows this perfectionist's unusual routine, and takes a look behind the scenes of the classical music business. A film about the love of perfection and the rare moments when it can almost be attained, at least musically.

Polar Explorer

Polar Explorer
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Protagonists of the film are polar explorer Tomash Petrovsky, the chief of a floating station "Northern Pole SP-33" and his mother Romualda Flyorovna, waiting for his son in a small Byelorussian village Petrovskaya. Eternal story of a son, who leaves the house for dangerous and exhausting scientific work in the deep of the North and his mother, waiting and praying for him in warm land with flourishing garden and bumbling bees.

Redemption Attempt of a TV Repairman Josef Lávička in Nine Scenes

Redemption Attempt of a TV Repairman Josef Lávička in Nine Scenes
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The short film recounts the pursuit of redemption of Josef Lávička, a village alcoholic. In its course, Lávička tries to get to grips with the Catholic tenets of a text given to him by a local pastor. Making use of staging and re-enactment, the film goes beyond the trivial day-to-day existence of the main character. In the contextof Christian rhetoric and symbolism present in the film, Lávička's persona is virtually drinking itself towards a spiritual order.

Unknown Soldiers

Unknown Soldiers
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One sunny summer morning whole region of Kartly was bombed and civilians had to run away to survive. Only soldiers left to guard their land. They had to fight as it is their "job". They spent three days in occupied territories beeing bombed by Russian air forces. When at last Georgians had an opportunity to take the dead bodies of their soldiers out from the region, half of them were buried as Unknown Soldiers. Some consider it was done to hide the real number of dead soldiers as "we won the war" and we had very miser lost comparing to Russians. Soldier - Gurchiani, refugee from Abkhazia joined Army to support his family, like most of the others. For months he was trained and at last he got his first salary and first vacation, but on that day war started. Alarm was announced and all soldiers were sent to guard their country. In three days 175 soldiers were dead and a lot of them were wounded.

User's Manual

User's Manual
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This piece of art was created as a special order for Creatures of the Planet Perelandra that made a contact with creators of this movie in October 2007. It is an instructional video made solely for their use and any other sharing and public broadcasting is illegal and punishable by appliacable law.

till it Hurts

till it Hurts
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The story of a lonely, 53-year-old psychiatrist living with his severely overprotective mother. When a woman steps into the picture, a bad conflict breaks out. After years of sexual abstinence, Ewa brings out the man in him. His mother yells, 'Wake up, you're fifty- three!". He answers in St. Paul's words, 'Children obey your parents, honour thy father and thy mother and ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Czech Hump

Czech Hump
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Several years ago, dry rot destroyed the house on top of the Czech Republic's highest mountain. This gave rise to heated debates over the future plans for the location. Should it remain bare or should there be a new building? The result of these debates is surprising: Mrs. Skrbková, a former post office manager, decided to renew the tradition of Czech post office on Mt. Snezka. An experimental wooden house, a new post office by architects Rajniš and Hoffman was built in a matter of a few months. The house has its own ZIP code and a small halo, and can be adapted to changing weather conditions. The documentary records the construction carried out in extremely difficult conditions, its changes and the reactions of various people. Can this small house on four legs last till the next spring?

Sevdah

Sevdah
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Sevdah is a feeling about life imbued with melancholy, yearning and beautiful sorrow. In Bosnia it is expressed through their traditional sad song - sevdalinka. The death of their mutual friend and lover of sevdalinka, Farah, has brought musician Damir and director Marina together. Trying to deal with their own loss and grief, they decide to create a film about sevdah. They create it as an emotional, musical, lyrical and visual journey through the soul of Bosnia, through their own emotions and memories. Sevdah Pictionary is film that aspires to capture and transfer “sevdah”, feeling of life, which is expressed in most precise manner and in its purest form through sevdalinka. It is unique song, which was born and has been living for 400 years only in one, really small place in the world – Bosnia. In Bosnia, sevdah is as important as life, love, death, happiness, sorrow… and probably because it is so familiar and close to everyone. Sevdah expresses feeling of live, imbued with melancholy, yearning, beautiful sorrow. And sevdalinka is song expressing that emotion. After the war, Damir Imamovic, musician from Sarajevo, and Farah Tahirbegovic, writer, started their journey of researching and performing sevdalinka. Last year Farah passed away. Damir decided to continue the journey. As she was one of my best friends, I felt I have to follow him, making this film, as emotional, musical, lyrical and visual journey through souls of Bosnian people, dedicated to Farah. Instead of sevdah definition, this film is going to offer sevdah vizual dictionary - pictionary. Terms trying to “capture” sevdah will be brought to film by different people and their stories. We visit sevdalinka singers, today forgotten, but huge stars during the fifties’, discuss the old times with them, meet some of the new interpreters. We meet "ordinary" people: a woman in the grocery shop, a man in the barbery shop, taxist... and listen to them singing sevdalinka songs. We try to find out how has that musical form evolved over time, how come that it remained so alive and present among people, what does it say about Bosnia, which way of life and feeling of life is expressed in sevdalinka in the best possible way. Whether we call it Bosnian fado, or Bosnian blues, the fact remains that sevdalinka is truly Bosnian only; it was born and it spread within borders of a small country. However, its beauty, what it sings about, and emotion it conveys, exceeds those borders; they belong to human spirit.

Sonbol

Sonbol
  • Director
    Niko Apel
  • Producer
    Jochen Laube
  • Country
    Germany
  • Related to film
    Sonbol
  • Language
    Persian
  • Category
    Gender, Religion, Society
  • Length
    1' 00''
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"Why can't you actually find a man?" Sonbol is asked by her mother. The answer is silence. Sonbol Fatemi is 35; she is single, owns her own dental practice, and likes to compete against men in rally races. Sonbol lives in the holy city of Mashad in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Living a life like her´s in Iran means she has to fight everyday: against her mother, who would love to arrange a marriage for her, aganist the sports administrators that want to exclude her from the rally races, and against her own doubts about God and if he is on her side.

 

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