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Split Watercolour

Split Watercolour
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Žnjan, one of the beaches in Split, was created by filling the coastline with the sand and soil from the sea. It's not organized like a proper beach therefore is used also as a parking lot which characterizes it as a city beach for not so wealthy citizens. The people are filmed on one of the beaches in Split, Žnjan, with a powerful telephoto lens in everyday situations that are typical for the beach life. The swimmers, the sea, the cars and boats vibrate in the hotness of a summer day like a moving pointilistic painting. It is as if their slow rhythm creates a picture of their bare existence.

Breaking the Circle

Breaking the Circle
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Short documentary film about a MSF (Doctors without Borders) mission in Guatemala. The mission deals with sexual violence in the capital.

Death of the Poet

Death of the Poet
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« Death of the Poet » is about a Laz poet, Hasan Helimisi. This is a documentary film in Laz language. Laz language is one of the very old and indigenous languages spoken in Turkey and Georgia, which is actually in danger to disappear. In the Film, the life story of the Poet told in his own voice is embroidered onto the life of his daughter, her longings and regrets in her relationship with her father. She could never really know him before his death. The film constitutes a mutual language beyond time between the father and his daughter who doesn't speak the same language with him: the Laz, a language of a profound feeling of abandonment towards a country or a father...

Family of Exiles

Family of Exiles
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This is a story about a family which gathered a variety of experiences throughout the 20th century including displacement, expulsion, and being deprived of one's roots. Despite the generation gaps and varying motivations, the members of each generation seem to follow a similar pattern, leave their homes around certain age. The oldest family member was sent to Siberia during WWII, his son left Poland for Israel in 1969; while his granddaughter decided to leave from Israel in order to study in the U.S. Farewells and returns intertwine as a constant motif in the family's history. What effects can such accumulation of experience have? How did the family adjust to constant changes? What is worth taking with you if one is leaving home forever?

Happy Jews

Happy Jews
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March of 1968 signifies a special moment in Poland's post-war history. Thousands of Polish Jews were forced to leave their country of birth as a result of an anti-Semitic campaign launched by the communist authorities. Among them was the film director's father, who, for many years, was not allowed to go back. Rozenbaum uses archival materials and tells the story of his family in a personal as well as perverse and amusing way. The starting point is a meeting of 1968 emigrants in the Israeli town of Ashkelon, where the director stayed with his parents when he was a child and where he had his first encounter with alcohol. The film was made during the documentary workshops entitled March 1968. Farewells and Returns organized as a part of the Polish Year in Israel 2008-2009.

Hunting the Hunters

Hunting the Hunters
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Many people dream of fighting for their ideals and for a better world. Few have the courage to actually do it, as it entails high risks. Relationships, survival and wellbeing might be at stake, and the fight could even turn out to be in vain... There are 37 "idealists" aboard the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza. They travel to the southernmost stretches of the globe, trying to track down the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica. Japan plans to kill more than 1,000 of the peaceful marine mammals in a whale sanctuary in the Southern Ocean. They claim this is for the sake of science, but the truth is that the dead whales will end up in Japanese restaurants.Ther is one question, that becomes more probing as events take an unexpected turn: Is it really worthwhile to fight for ones ideals?

Chasm

Chasm
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An intimate portrait of gold fever. The gold-bearing mountains of Northen Siberia are the background for the Jack London style story: A Lonely Gold Seeker is looking for his Treasure. He is sur­rounded by unfriendly nature and by people he can’t trust. Being chased by his own fears, he breaks up with the whole world and shuts himself in the trap of his great passion/desire. In this ana­lytical, unusually beautiful and almost wordless film, solitude and everyday pains make up the portrait of a man who knows the simplest and the most important truths.

Little Miss Roma

Little Miss Roma
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Set in a Roma settlement deep in rural Croatia, Little Miss Roma paints an intimate portrait of Roma womanhood, and highlights the conflict between women's dreams and lack of opportunities. The story is set against the backdrop of a hot weekend in July, when the Roma community celebrates its annual Roma Ball and beauty pageant, and where only one woman can be crowned Miss Roma.

Marriages Are Made in Heaven

Marriages Are Made in Heaven
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Karthik, a young Indian student at Harvard in the USA, suddenly returns to India for a traditionally arranged marriage. We meet his new bride and his family. What is it like to suddenly live with a partner whom you have only seen five times before? Will love arise from this partnership? The film evokes universal feelings arising from the search for a partner for love and the effort to make sense of life.„In the West you try to marry the person you love. In India you love the person you marry."

Minor Apocalypse

Minor Apocalypse
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The film is neither a documentary nor a fiction. Paradoxically, it could be defined as a "science-fiction documentary", for it is based on a true story - the death of a village. Cisgne is (was) a small settlement in the Nadiža / Natisone Valleys which, similarly to many other mountain or remote settlements, was left to abandonment and ruin by the economic reasoning of our modern lifestyle. The last inhabitants left Cisgne after the earthquake in 1976. The story is a patchwork of testimonies and memories of the village's daily life and its destiny, with deeply involving and even painful memories awoken by images as persistent as nightmares and almost corroded by the very substance of the memory itself, combined with intuitive reflections on the meaning of time in a village in ruin which may arise in an "outsider", uninfluenced by the life stories of those involved.

 

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