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Stone Silence

Stone Silence
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25-year old woman suspected of adultery was killed in Spingul village in the high mountains of northern Afghanistan. Information, which spread all over the world on April 23rd, 2005, has become the incipience of this story. The documentary presents the history of two lovers in the eyes of witnesses, reconstructing the tragic occurrence. The author of the film tries to answer what happened on the day of Amina’s death. Amina was killed in circumstances that have been described in varying versions. The investigation defends a thesis that the main cause of the death was heart attack. The main characters of the movie present totally different approaches to the event. The film shows how difficult it is for outsiders to understand the Muslim hierarchy of values. A world, in which nothing is worth less than man’s life.

Rocking the Nation

Rocking the Nation
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A concert tour with the rock band “Romantic Violence” and its fans to get insight into the Hungarian radical right-wing youth subculture. Folk musicians and skinheads, football supporters and college students speak of their radical nationalistic views. The slogans are rocking: freedom, anti-Communism, Trianon, the Jews, 100% Hungarian, to arms! But what happens when words turn to action?

Light Denied

Light Denied
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A search for "the Dionysian light" and a battle for the meaning of life with one fictitious philosopher's descent into madness triggered by his study of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Rublyovka - A Road to Bliss

Rublyovka - A Road to Bliss
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Rublyovka Road is the traffic artery connecting the powerhouse Moscow with the Russian outback. At all times this region has had a magnetic attraction for the ruling elite. In Putin's Russia, Rublyovka has become synonymous with wealth, social ascent and decadent lifestyles. Capitalism has created a bizarre microcosm there.

Shell

Shell
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"Shell" is a popular name for a collapsible metallic garage for a single vehicle. They have become quite popular in Russia after 1991. The advantage of "shells" is their low price and the ability to install one close to home. The disadvantages are unattractive appearance and big size. More than a third of "shells" are used not for their original purpose.Retirees Karasevs have lived in a "shell" for 79 days with a nearly fatal outcome. What exactly was happening in downtown Moscow at the end of 2006?

Blind Loves

Blind Loves
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It is very often difficult for us, those who can see, to find our true fulfillment and happiness in the world. The more complicated, but maybe the more interesting this journey might be for the blind. Their perspective of the world is much more essential and sincere in many ways, and it often uncovers the invisible dimensions of the world. This film is about love amongst the blind and about the different forms it can take. The main protagonists are people who were born blind and they have been living in a world of their own since ever. This world is often filled with unusual visions, perceptions and dreams. It is through the lives of four different characters in the film, through which we are presented different kinds of love experience. Zuzka, a blind teenager, is in search of her first love. Blind young Roma, Miro, falls in love with a blind white girl. Blind Elena happily raises her 5-year-old sighted daughter. Peter, a blind music teacher, wants to fulfill his wife’s dream and takes her to ‚see‘ the sea for the first time in their life. The cinematography we intend to apply should be artistic and visiualy attractive in the surrealistic aesthetics but at the same time its content will consist of real and true moments from the lives of the characters. The screenplay was awarded the Tibor Vichta Award for the best documentary script in Slovakia.

Marina and Sasha, Coalshippers

Marina and Sasha, Coalshippers
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Waiting "as if for God," two Russian sailors, Marina and Sascha, look forward to the ice-free season on Lake Baikal, where they transport coal on their barge. They take loads on board in Kultuk, and unload them in Barguzin, where they live. This is a precarious business, and they depend on the orders they receive, of which there are fewer and fewer. This would however be the perfect job for Sascha, the silent captain, and Marina, who's occasionally compared to a seal. She loves the lake, she even loves the storms. During their trips the two work together without quarreling. Story of two individuals who don't have an easy life, though they don't complain.

Lord of the Rims

Lord of the Rims
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An old man has been fixing rims for all his life. He’s the one of a few people doing this job in the constantly changing Warsaw. Cheerful and humorous film presents the man who is devoted to his passion.

Probes

Probes
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Lobotomy is Yuri Khashchavatski's personal indictment of the Russian media's brainwashing tactics. Taking the recent war between Russia and Georgia as a point of departure, he illustrates how far removed actual events were from the conflict as it was reported on Russian state television. The director's own voice drives the argument, but journalists, military experts and politicians also have their say. The film intersperses interviews (live or via Skype) with archive footage that is, in turn, contrasted with amateur clips found on the Internet. Khashchavatski contends that "Montage is a powerful and insidious weapon." And he would be the one to know, because in addition to directing the film, he also edited it and its highly effective audio mix. He is a master of the art of irony as well. This personal account by the director suggests that the Russian state is not being governed according to democratic principles, but by a Mafia-style hierarchy.

PRL de Luxe

PRL de Luxe
  • Director
    Edyta Wróblewska
  • Country
    Poland
  • Related to film
    PRL de Luxe
  • Language
    Polish
  • Category
    Docu Series, Society, Youth Documentary
  • Length
    1' 00''
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Crazy Mike from Krakow specializes in organizing guided tours that are anything but typical. He drives the tourists to Nowa Huta in a dilapidated Vee Dub and allows the relics of the past - the "Stylowa" restaurant, the former site of the Lenin monument, the giant steelworks, a typical worker's flat - to unfold their charms. During the sightseeing, he talks about the joys of life in the People's Republic of Poland and the absurdities of real socialism. Will the memory of the trip stay with the tourists a little longer?

 

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