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Mangle Press

Mangle Press
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Playing with the Time

Playing with the Time
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In 1999 the world prepared itself for the approaching 21st century. My friends and I were finishing our philology studies and made amateur videos that documented how we were and what we expected from life. Later, we went our separate ways. After 10 years I decided to find my old friends. „Playing with time” is the effect of these quests. On the one hand it’s a story of accidental choices/ On the other, is about the destiny that cannot pass us by... The film searches for answers to the most important questions and attempts to describe the fundamental issues pertaining to all of us - who we are and what are we doing here... Through its characters, the film shows the complexity of life and the choices people make. In the background it is also a story about the reality of the East and about the people who were born and grew up under socialism, but later they had stand face to face against the capitalist transformations. It is a story about X Generation. Generation who does not exist.

Basketball Nation

Basketball Nation
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Celebration in a country of basketball. Lithuania – probably the only country in the world where basketball is routinely described as a religion – host the most important basketball event of the year – the European basketball championship or EuroBasket 2011. As the nation‘s biggest pride, Lithuania's national basketball team has a big winning tradition. And all Lithuania is waiting only for gold. But this time, the team‘s star player Linas Kleiza has suffered a serious injury and will not be playing for the championship. The players attempt to contervail the absence of the leader with a dedicated coach, who encourages believing in team spirit, a will to win and securing a place at the London Olympics. In the documentary viewers will witness the intense preparation for EuroBasket 2011 with exclusive footage from the locker room and follow all the challenges encountered by players in sometimes dramatic and sometimes comical situations. At last, the moment arrives – it's match day and the energy is high. The crowd is waiting for the winning team. And after months of preparation, tension, and enormous pressure, the fate of 3 million are now in the hands of twelve... But fate has brought a twist. And the team will need to rise again to become heroes of their nation...

Private Universe

Private Universe
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Honza was born in 1974 into the cheerless era of socialism in Czechoslovakia. At that time, his parents Jana and Petr lived in one room in the apartment of Jana's divorced mother and her widowed grandmother. A few years later, the family moved from Prague to Liberec where Petr found a job and a little house for the family. When Honza was born, his father began writing a family chronicle and he has continued to do so for 37 years. Private Universe shows not only the life of one ordinary family but also how the Czech society has changed in the last four decades. Who are we, where do we come from and where do we go?

Borderline Effect

Borderline Effect
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20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union several young directors come to the borders of previously united countries. Their personal stories are dedicated to people who look for the way to unity despite of the newly raised borders. 3 novellas about Russian-Ukrainian, Russian-Georgian and Russian-Estonian borders are presented as one full-length documentary depicting local stories in global history.

Under (the) Construction

Under (the) Construction
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The final stretch of the D8 highway across the České středohoří national park is the last project for a 72-year-old engineer. He would like to see it finished, to show it to his grandsons as his legacy and to finally retire. However, the 16-kilometer stretch of highway between Prague and Berlin takes forever to complete. Lawsuits follow one after another and the national park is crossed not by a stretch of concrete but only by a dotted line in the map. The national park thus becomes the playing field for a fundamental clash of opinions with the highway torso in the background – a torso which nobody wanted in the first place. In set-up situations, the film analyses the reasons why and how our living space is being filled with an engineering project that will stay there forever, and what this has to say about the rules of our world.

The Bloody Sands of Libya

The Bloody Sands of Libya
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Slovak nurse Luba El Malaheg came to Libya 20 years ago. She fell in love and married a Libyan surgeon and converted to Islam. When he suddenly died two years ago, she decided to stay.The armed conflict changed the life of the Misurata hospital head nurse. She couldn’t leave the injured and dying. She sends her son and daughter back to Slovakia and then lives through hell on earth. After two months she decides to escape on a fishing boat and manages to organize transport for a seriously wounded British war photographer. Her son-in-law Nasri transports him under heavy fire to the Misurata port. Nasri and Donka decide to return to Misurata where there is no food, no medicaments, water or electricity. Luba follows them as well. In the middle of the conflict she faces horrors of the war, as well as her own conscience and dramas in her own family.

Velvet Terrorists

Velvet Terrorists
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Velvet Terrorists is a film about minor and foiled terrorist plots in former Czechoslovakia. The film focuses on three protagonists. The first one wanted to blow up a decorated stage during the May 1 celebrations in the 1970s. The second one planned to assassinate the President and start an anticommunist revolution. Sadly, his letter to the CIA was so naive that nobody cared to reply. The third one blew up communist billboards. Acts that were once considered criminal are now viewed as acts of heroism. The film is about our relative views of history and about the various perspectives which can be used to assess these individuals and their actions.

Blueberry Spirits

Blueberry Spirits
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A Gypsy family is forced to make their living in a Latvian forest by picking berries. These people might seem happy, humorous and a bit wild. But when the night falls, the noisy crowd gets silent. The Gypsies confess that the forest is inhabited by ghosts and spirits who turn their lives into nightmares. The leader of the camp Bruno has seen a ghost as a man with no face. His granddaughter Sindija as an animal with red eyes and Bruno's aunt Irma claims that a ghost blew out her campfire. Bruno has all the responsibility. They need the money to survive. To feel safer and to pick a sufficient amount of berries, they move their camp. Haunted by vicious ghosts and spooky events, this freedom-loving family has no time to waste.

UB Lama

UB Lama
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A problematic 12 year-old Mongolian kid Galbatrakh (Galaa), who has no father, tries to survive in Mongolian ger (Mongolian house) district by selling goods at a black market, while skipping his school. However, one day his mother decides that Galaa should give it a try to became a lama, a Buddhist monk. This becomes boy’s dream and a plan for survival. Galaa visits Pethub, one of the most disciplined Buddhist monasteries in Mongolia, and tries to be accepted. In order to achieve this, he needs to study hard, get a permission from different high lamas and pass through complicated bureaucracy of the monastery. Will he succeed?

 

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